e 18th of March, he left home to be absent a few days, partly with
the hope that being more in the open air might prove beneficial. On
Friday of the following week, though scarcely able to be moved, he was
brought home, having been prostrated by what appeared to be a violent
attack of pleurisy, which terminated his earthly existence, on Tuesday,
March 28, 1859.

In many minds the question will naturally arise: What should induce such
an apparently violent disease, in a person who so rigidly obeyed the
laws of health? A satisfactory answer to this can be given only by
supposing the acute disease to have been merely a finishing up or
termination of that disease which for years had been held in check. His
own views on the subject were in accordance with this conclusion, and
the condition of the lungs, as shown by a post mortem examination,
served to confirm it. The amount of disease found in the lungs was so
great that the examination could not be as careful and satisfactory as
would have been desirable.

The hand that wrote this volume, and that would have drawn important
lessons from this page of life, now moulders in the dust. To the reader
it is left to gather from it instruction and motive and courage, for a
like battle against evil, for a like victory over self, until he, too,
shall accomplish his mission upon earth.

FOOTNOTES:

[N] See Chapter LXIX.

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