In the course of nature, even their bones and their memories would enter into the fabric.

The new country filled their eyes; the new town was their opportunity, its destiny their fate.

They were altogether occupied with its affairs, and the affairs of the growing Dominion, yet obscure in the heart of each of them ran the undercurrent of the old allegiance.

They had gone the length of their tether, but the tether was always there.

Thus, before a congregation that always stood in the early days, had the minister every Sunday morning for thirty years besought the Almighty, with ardour and humility, on behalf of the Royal Family.