After that Heer Roosten was advised to write to the minister of the parish, and so addressed these lines to Mr.Glennie.
This was the gist of the letter which Mr.Glennie read, and you may easily guess how such news moved me, and how we sat far into the night talking and considering what steps it was best to take, for we feared lest so long an interval as eight years having elapsed, the lawyers might have made some other disposition of the money.

It was midnight when Mr.
Glennie left.

The candle had long burnt out, but the fire was bright, and he knelt a moment by the trestle-table before he went out.
'He made a good end, John,' he said, rising from his knees, 'and I pray that our end may be in as good cause when it comes.

For with the best of us the hour of death is an awful hour, and we may well pray, as every Sunday, to be delivered in it.

But there is another time which those who wrote this Litany thought no less perilous, and bade us pray to be delivered in all time of our wealth.