burden of the flesh, has realized that Gordon’s anticipations were right when he wrote:  “The future world must be much more amusing, more enticing, more to be desired, than this world,—­putting aside its absence of sorrow and sin.  The future world has been somehow painted to our minds as a place of continuous praise, and, though we may not say it, yet we cannot help feeling that, if thus, it would prove monotonous.  It cannot be thus.  It must be a life of activity, for happiness is dependent on activity:  death is cessation of movement; life is all movement.”

If Archbishop Trench, too, was right in saying;

    The tasks, the joys of earth, the same in heaven will be;
    Only the little brook has widen’d to a sea,

have we not cause to trust that Julie still ministers to the good and happiness of the young and old whom she served so well whilst she was seen amongst them?  Let her, at any rate, be to us one of those who shine as the stars to lead us unto God: 

    God’s saints are shining lights:  who stays
      Here long must passe
    O’er dark hills, swift streames, and steep ways
      As smooth as glasse;
    But these all night,
      Like Candles, shed
    Their beams, and light
      Us into bed.

    They are, indeed, our pillar-fires,
      Seen as we go;
    They are that Citie’s shining spires
      We travel to. 
    A sword-like gleame
      Kept man for sin—­
    First out, this beame
      Will guide him In.

[Illustration:  Memorial.]

“If we still love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love?”

“The Newcomes,” Chap. vii.

(The last entry in J.H.E.’s Commonplace Book.)

LIST OF MRS. EWING’S WORKS.

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|     TITLE.        |  FIRST PUBLISHED IN:    |  SUBSEQUENTLY.    | PUBLISHER. |
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|A Bit of Green     |_Monthly Packet_,       |"Melchior’s Dream, |Bell & Sons,|
|                   |July, 1861              | and other Tales”  |   1862     |
|                   |                        |                   |            |
|The Blackbird’s    |--August, 1861          |       "           |    "       |
|  Nest             |                        |                   |            |
|                   |                        |                   |            |
|Melchior’s Dream   |--December, 1861        |       "           |    "       |
|                   |                        |                   |            |
|Friedrich’s Ballad |        ----            |       "           |    "       |
|                   |                        |                   |            |
|The Viscount’s     |        ----            |       "           |    "       |