THE SILENCE OF THE DEAD, 119

V.

THE REDEMPTION OF THE BODY, 144





CATHARINE




I.

MORE THAN CONQUEROR.

Is that a death-bed where the Christian lies?
Yes,--but not his: 'Tis death itself there dies.

COLERIDGE.


She was not an infant--an unconscious subject of grace. But the Saviour
has led through a long sickness, and through death, a daughter of
nineteen years, and has made her, and those who loved and watched her,
say, We are more than conquerors. To speak of Him, and not to gratify
the fondness of parental love, to commend the Saviour of my child to