uition spoken of above, or cease to
draw our several inferences. Continuity in Nature faces us at every turn.
All things work together for the final perfection of the whole--for the
final transcendent beauty and completeness of the whole. There is unity
in all. Of that most are certain; and men walk therefore in good hope.
There is mystery at every turn. There is no escape from it. There is ever
the demand for the making of a good fight in the face of it. And there is
promise of victory in the end on the part of One

"Who by low creatures leads to heights of love."

We are not all willing to accept such things. We do not all, in our march
in life, require the same tools to win our way. Neither do we all look in
the same direction--not for help, merely, but for those common daily aids
that we gather, or that are gatherable, from the simple and the great,
from the animate and the inanimate, from the stained as from the
beautiful and the pure.

In writing of the death of an animal second only to the dog,
Whyte-Melville asks this:

"There are men both good and wise who hold that, in a future state,
Dumb creatures we have cherished here below
Will give us joyous greeting as we pass the golden gate.
Is it folly if I hope it may be so?"

It may be folly. Yet the writer of these pages does not doubt it. And
therefore, in the quiet corner of the beautiful home, when Murphy was
laid to rest close by Dan, these words were cut upon his headstone, in
faith and in good hope:

MURPHY
DEAR BOY
1906-1911
"Thou, Lord, shalt save both man and beast."

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