The love o' God, dear, the love o' God--that is the best o' all." Yes, he had a sair struggle with his lower nature to the very last, but he was constantly strengthened by the conviction of a "Power closer to him than breathing, nearer than hands or feet." Nine weeks after the dominie's death they found him sitting in his chair, fallen on that sleep whose waking is eternal day.

His death was like Tallisker's--a perfectly natural one.

He had been reading.

The Bible lay open at that grand peroration of St.Paul's on faith, in the twelfth of Hebrews.

The "great cloud of witnesses," "the sin which doth so easily beset us," "Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith"-- these were probably his last earthly thoughts, and with them he passed into "That perfect presence of His face Which we, for want of words, call heaven." James Blackie's Revenge.
JAMES BLACKIE'S REVENGE..