No false and selfish prejudice here.

Come! Let the neighbors of the dead come in to do the last sad offices to the casket.

For the soul of this disciple is in the mansions of glory, and it shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the darkness of death ever again smite it; for it shall live forever in the light of that Lamb of God who gave Himself for the remission of sins and the life everlasting.
Philip did what he could on such an occasion.

It was not an unusual event altogether; he had prayed by many a poor creature in the clutch of the last enemy, and he was familiar with his face in the tenements.

But this particular scene had a meaning and left an impression different from any he had known before.