[AskSensei] ***SPAM*** From one frame of mind and spirits to another. She

[Stinger Densford]

 could no longer hear the great
truths of Christianity uttered by one who had drunk so deep of the
waters of the river of life. But the rising murmur was checked by the
animating thought, "She is gone to eternal rest--could I wish her back
again in this vale of tears?" At that moment the
first sound of a tolling bell struck my ear. It proceeded from a
village church in the valley directly beneath the
ridge of a high hill, over which I had taken my way. It was
Elizabeth's funeral knell. The sound was solemn; and, in

ascending to the elevated spot over which I rode, it acquired a
peculiar tone and character. Tolling at slow and regular intervals,
(as was customary for a considerable time

previous to the hour of burial,) the bell, as it were, proclaimed the
blessedness of the dead who die in the Lord,
and also the necessity of the living pondering these things, and
laying them to heart. It seemed to say, "Hear my warning voice, thou
son of man. There is but a step between thee and death. Arise, prepare
thine house;

for thou shalt die, and not live." The scenery was i
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