Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1886 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. LETTERS FROM THE NILE. "Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home--Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene,--one step enough for me. ' So long Thy power hath blest me, sure it still Will lead me on, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till The night is gone; And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile." /. H. Newman. AND now the end was drawing near, and he seems at times to have had a presentiment of it. Those who knew him best were indeed aware that he had always felt a conviction he would be killed in battle, and he liked the idea of dying in the discharge of his duty. It is a curious circumstance, well remembered by his sisters, that, while still a child in the nursery, before he had learnt to write, he made several copies of two water-colour pictures painted for him by his cousin, the late Sir Henry Clifford, after his return from the Crimea, representing horrible scenes of carnage on the battlefield, and used to show them with delight to every one he saw, and distribute copies among his friends. During these last months of toil and harassing suspense, when death, never long absent from his thoughts, was almost staring him in the face, his nobility of soul shone forth, like fine gold tried in the furnace, with a yet purer lustre, as the shadows darkened round him which did but herald the dawning of the everlasting day. He is sparing in the use of religious phraseology in his letters, but the general tone often reminds us of what Gordon wrote from Khartoum, March 3rd, 1884:--" I am comforted here in my weakness by the reflection that our Lord rules all things; and it is dire rebellion to dislike ...
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