comfort and happiness he had toiled and sacrificed himself
without stint.
It was a surprise to find him here, as care-free and joyful as
the rest.

The lives of others in the company were revealed in brief
glimpses
as they talked together--a mother, early widowed, who had kept
her little flock of children together and labored through hard
and heavy
years to bring them up in purity and knowledge--a Sister of
Charity
who had devoted herself to the nursing of poor folk who were
being
eaten to death by cancer--a schoolmaster whose heart and life
had been poured into his quiet work of training boys for a clean
and
thoughtful manhood--a medical missionary who had given up
a brilliant career in science to take the charge of a hospital in

darkest Africa--a beautiful woman with silver hair who had
resigned her dreams of love and marriage to care for an invalid
father,
and after his death had made her life a long, steady search for
ways of
doing kindnesses to others--a poet who had walked among the
crowded
tenements of the great city, bringing cheer and comfort not only
by
his songs, but by his wise and patient works of practical aid--a