but about the time young Wilberforce took orders these two had a bitter
and hopeless falling out. They never got over the disunion, and fell
utterly apart. The chum became an extensive landowner, and was master of
a charming house in the South of England.

Time passed on, and he grew elderly. He thought of making his will.
Being a great man, not only his solicitor but the solicitor's son
arrived on the scene for the event. All three gentlemen were assembled
in the library, a long room, with many windows running down almost to
the ground. Suddenly the young man present saw a gentleman go by the
first of these windows. The elder lawyer raised his head as the figure
went by the second opening. Last of all the master of the house looked
up.

"Why, that is Wilberforce," he exclaimed. "How many years it is since we
fell out, and I dared him ever again to seek me out."

So saying, he ran to the hall-door to welcome his guest, towards whom no
bitter feeling now remained in his mind. Strange to say, the Bishop was
not at the door, nor could he be found within the grounds. At the moment
of his appearance he had fallen from his horse in this neighbourhood and
had been instantly killed.




ENLIGHTENMENT.


It was not in the lovely morning time