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1 9 o LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP T AIT [CH. vm.
Churchyard. 1 Is it wonderful that when the parents came
forth from the awful cloud of those spring days their life
was lived thenceforward under wholly new conditions,
and that through all the chequered and busy years that
followed, whether at Fulham or at Lambeth, they carried
consciously upon them the consecration-mark of the sorrow they had known ?
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The last entry which has been quoted from the diary
was dated March 2, 1856. The entry which immediately
succeeds it is as follows :
"
HALLSTEADS, Thursday, SM May 1856. I have not had the
heart to make any entry in my journal now for above nine weeks.
When last I wrote I had six daughters on earth now I have ;
one,
an infant. O God, Thou hast dealt very mysteriously with us.
We have been passing through deep waters : our feet were wellnigh
gone. But though Thou slay us, yet will we trust in Thee. . . .
They are gone from us, all but my beloved Craufurd and the
babe. Thou hast re-claimed the lent jewels. Yet, O Lord, shall
I not thank Thee now ? I will thank Thee not only for the chil
dren Thou hast left to us, but for those Thou hast re-claimed. I
thank Thee for the blessing of the last ten years, and for all the
sweet memories of their little lives memories how fragrant with
every blissful, happy thought. I thank Thee for the full assur
ance that each has gone to the arms of the Good Shepherd,
whom each loved according to the capacity of her years. I thank
Thee for the bright hopes of a happy reunion, when we shall
meet to part no more. O Lord, for Jesus Christ s sake, comfort
our desolate hearts. May we be a united family still in heart
through the communion of saints - - through Jesus
Lord."
1 The names and ages of the children were as follows :
Christ our
Catharine Anna born Mar. ("Catty"), 15, 1846, died Mar. 25, 1856.
Mary Susan (" May "),
. ,, June 20, 1847, ,, April 8, ,,
Craufurd, . . . ,, June 22, 1849, ,, May 29, 1878.
Charlotte ("Chatty"),
. ,, Sept. 7,1850, ,, Mar. 6,1856.
Frances Alice Marion, . ,, June 29, 1852, ,, Mar. 20, ,,
Susan Elizabeth Campbell, ,, Aug. 1,1854, ,, Mar. 11, ,,
Lucy Sydney Murray, . ,, Feb. n, 1856.
For the whole narrative, see Catharine and Craufurd Tail, pp. 159-243.