Give me that lowest place, or if for me
That lowest place too high
Make one more low, where I may sit
And see my God; and love Thee so."

He recognised "that pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is
this, to visit the fatherless, and the widows in their affliction, and to
keep unspotted from the world." This kindled his enthusiasm, influenced
his chivalrous character, and we think had largely to do with his
success. To know him was to know a Christian, a Christlike man--God's
man.

With Job (ch. 29, verses 11, 12, etc.) he could say truly--

"When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; when the eye saw me, it
gave witness to me. Because I delivered the poor that cried and the
fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him
that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart
to sing for joy. I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame.
I was a father to the poor, and the cause which I knew not I searched
out."

He could truly say

"I live for those that love me:
For those that know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me
And waits my coming too.
For the cause that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance.
For the future in the distance,
And for the good that I can do."

Upon his removal from Gravesend in 1873 a local newspaper writing of his
removal, and deploring his loss, said--"Our readers will hear with regret
of the departure of Colonel Gordon from the town, in which he has resided
for six years; gaining a name for the most exquisite charity that will
long be remembered. Nor will he be less missed than remembered, for in
the lowest walks of life he has been so unwearied in well-doing that his
departure will be felt as a terrible calamity. His charity was essential
charity, having its root in deep philanthropic feeling and goodness, and
always shunning the light of publicity." Many were the friends who
grieved over his departure from Gravesend, for they ne'er would look upon
his like again.

CHAPTER V.

"If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb e'er he dies, he shall
live no longer in monuments than the bell rings and his widow
weeps."--SHAKESPEARE.

A new chapter now opens in our story of Gordon. Sir Samuel Baker had
resigned the honoured position of Governor General of the Soudan. Gordon
was selected as the man who, of all others, was mo