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MEMORIAL DISCOURSE 
REUBEN ALDRI0GE^ GUILD
 A. M., LL. D  , . .
Librarian of Brown University

MEMORIAL DISCOURSE

ON

IReuben HibribQe (3uilb,H.flD.,XX.2).
Librarian of Brown University
DELIVERED IN
Zbc jFtrst Baptist /fDeeting«?House
SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1899

Henry Melville King
Pastor

Pbess of F. H. Townsend,
95 Pine Stbeet, Providence, R. I.

" The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance."
—Psalm 112 : 6.

It is fitting on this Commencement Sunday, when the
thoughts of this congregation and of this entire com
munity will converge on the University which is located
here, that some place should be given in our public ser
vice to a recognition of the life and labors of one who
has recently been removed from us by death, and who
for a half century had been identified with the life of
Brown University. Many sincere tributes have already
been paid to his memory by those who had been asso
ciated vsrith him in college work, by members of Associa
tions with which he was connected, and by the secular
and religious press. This service this morning is not
intended to take the place of a more elaborate service
in memory of its faithful servant, which the College may
wish to appoint in the near future. But this Church of
Christ, of which the departed for two periods in his
life was a beloved and honored member, and in whose
sacred fellowship he died, cannot permit this occasion
to pass by without giving expression to its high appre
ciation of his character and service, and its desire to
keep his name in everlasting remembrance. That our

simple memorial service should occur on Commence
ment Sunday is but a fresh illustration of the fact that
the life of this ancient University and the life of this
ancient Church have flowed side by side in closest fel
lowship, ay, have mingled their waters in a single
stream of quickening and blessed influence on the gen
erations of the past.
Reuben Aldridge Guild was born in West Dedham,
Mass., on May 4, 1822. He died in this city on May 13,
1899, having just entered upon his seventy-eighth year.
He was the second child, in a family of eleven children,
of Eeuben and Olive (Morse) Guild. He traced his
lineage to a Scotch-Puritan ancestry. His grandparents'
names were Joel and Hannah. His generation was the
seventh in descent from John Guild, who migrated to
this country from Scotland about the year 1636. From
the vivid picture which he himself has given to us in
two pamphlets relating to his father's character and the
life of the Dedham home, the elements that went into
the Puritan character and gave to it its strength, its in
tegrity, and its beauty, are seen to linger still in active
force in the later generation, softened and sweetened by
the influences of a less strenuous time and a more tol
erant faith.
The father was a man of sterling worth, and highly
esteemed in the quiet community down to the end of a
long and industrious and frugal life. Although his
"public offices were not many or onerous," he served as
ensign, and lieutenant, and captain of the militia, and
frequently as " committee-man " for the distritit school.

an evidence in those days, even if it is not always at the
present time, of superior personal intelligence and gen
uine interest in educational matters. The mother was
of bright, cheerful and engaging manners, of amiable
disposition, and of marked refinement, and had for suc
cessive summers before her marriage been the teacher
of the district schooL The home-life into which the
eleven children were born, was happy, wholesome, and
in every way conducive to the formation of strong and
tender ties, and the cultivation of right purposes and
views of life.
Moreover, it was a religious home. The family was
closely and actively identified with the parish church,
which at that time, like many other churches in Massa
chusetts of the standing order, had become moderately
Unitarian. Mr. Guild was elected deacon of this church
about the year 1840, and held the office for nearly forty
years. His early title, "Captain," was changed to the
more spiritual one of " Deacon," and subsequently as
the years passed over him with mellowing and matur
ing influence, and left upon him the patriarchal look,
he was universally known as "Father Guild." For
many years he served the church as superintendent of
its Sunday School.
Deacon Guild was conscientious in his convictions of
truth, and ready to welcome any new truth that might
spring out of God's Word, revealing to him the needs of
his own spiritual nature or the fulness of grace and
glory that is in Jesus Christ our Lord. His thoughts
evidently dwelt often upon these themes. One day,

when past four score years of age, there appeared to
him, as to Paul, a vision of a Being of ineffable beauty,
who accosted him in gentlest tones, saying, " Perhaps
you do not know me, Mr. Guild." " I can not say that I
do," was his reply. "What!" said the stranger, "not
know the Lord Jesus! " The vision was born undoubt
edly of his own frequent, inquiring meditation, his
longing for a mental peace that had not yet come to
him, and for a fuller knowledge of his divine Lord and
Saviour. Soon after, at the close of a religious service
held by a Baptist clergyman, who was visiting the
town, and who is still living, and recently informed me
of the incident, in response to an inquiry, if there was
any one present who had not yet come into possession
of spiritual peace and desired to know assuredly that
he was born again and was a forgiven child of God,
Deacon Guild rose up, and said that was his condition,
and that he had long been anxious to experience the
peace of forgiveness through our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is needless to say that earnest prayer was offered for
him and by him, and that soon he entered into a new
and restful experience of divine things, and into a
satisfying knowledge of him " whom to know aright is
life eternal" In obedience to the Saviour's command,
at the advanced age of eighty-four years, in the pres
ence of his neighbors and fellow church-members, he
made public profession of his new faith in Christ. This
was many years after his children had grown to ma
turity, and had chosen their own church affiliations.
His sons Eeuben and George had the unspeakable joy

of welcoming their venerable father as he came up out
of the baptismal waters, and walking with him arm in
arm as expressive of a deeper fellowship of the Spirit,
into which they had been brought. This act of Deacon
Guild produced a profound impression in the commu
nity in which he had lived so long, and been so greatly
respected. But the respect and love of his neighbors
for him were undisturbed. " His evident sincerity and
inward peace, his sweet temper, cordial manners, un
assuming ways, and warm, generous heart, disarmed all
enmity, and preserved long established friendships."
This last statement is taken from the record of this in
teresting event prepared by Dr. Guild.*
The career in life to which God was calling the son,
Eeuben, was not quickly apparent. An education was
felt to be necessary for any honorable career. The
parents encouraged the son's fondness for books, and
inclination to study, by every means in their power.
He was sent to the best neighboring schools in Dedham
and in West Eoxbury, where undoubtedly the founda
tions of an education were well laid. But not yet did
the growing lad feel that his whole life was to be spent
among books, that their accumulation, their orderly
arrangement, the study of their educational uses were
to occupy aU his thought and consume all his energy,
that books, books, books, were to be his intimate com
panions, and his inspiring friends.
Business had its attractions, probably as a means of
earning a livelihood. Already he had tried his hand at
*In Memoriam. Deacon Reuben Guild of Weat Dedham, Mass.

it at the country store near by. At the age of seventeen
he went to Boston, then as now the commercial centre
of New England, and found employment in the store of
Charles Warren & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in
dry and domestic goods on Hanover street. He re
mained with this house for two years. It was during
this time that the true vision of life dawned upon him
in the face of Jesus Christ, and God by his converting
hand guided him towards the career which He was
marking out for him. On April 5, 1840, when almost
eighteen years of age, he was publicly baptized on pro
fession of his personal faith in Christ, by Eev. Dr. Baron
Stow, Pastor of the Baldwin Place Baptist Church. Dr.
Stow was for many years a preacher of remarkable
power, and an acknowledged leader in the denomination
in its missionary and educational activities. He was
subsequently pastor of the Eowe Street Church,- which
afterward became the Clarendon Street Church, which
the lamented Dr. A. J. Gordon served with such dis
tinguished ability until his death. The Baldwin Place
Church afterward changed its location, and is now called
the Warren Avenue Church.
When the grace of God came with renewing power
to the heart of young Guild, as is often the case, it
quickened anew his intellectual life, and kindled within
him an unquenchable desire for an education. The
embers that had died down were fanned into a burning
flame. He determined to abandon his business hopes
and ambitions, and prepare himself for a college course.
He secured such preparation as was necessary, at Day's

Academy in Wrentham, and at the denominational
Academy in Worcester, spending the winters in teaching
school. He entered Brown University, whose Librarian
and Historian he was to become, in the autumn of 1843.
President Wayland had been for sixteen years at the
head of the College, and was then in the zenith of his
reputation and power as an educator of young men.
Among Dr. Guild's classmates were Dr. James P. Boyce,
the founder of the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary; our own Rev. Frederic Denison, preacher, author,
poet and chaplain ; Professor George P. Fisher, who
has been the distinguished Professor of Ecclesiastical
History in Tale College for nearly forty years ; Dr.
John H. Luther, an eminent editor and teacher in the
South ; and Eev. Benjamin Thomas, a devoted mission
ary of the American Baptist Missionary Union in Bur-
mah until his death in 1868. The class of 1847 was
certainly an excellent class. Dr. Guild acquitted him
self well during the college course, and graduated with
the sixth honor.
In March, 1848, he was appointed tibrarian of the
University, and in the following year he was joined in
marriage by President Wayland to her who has been
the partner of his joys and sorrows, has shared with
him his labors and successes, and still survives with
four children to mourn his loss and cherish his memory
with tender and grateful affection. Thus early estab
lished in his calling and in his home, he gave himself
with all the earnestness of his nature and with unwear
ied fidelity to the duties which belonged to his respon-

sible position in the College, to literary and historical
pursuits, and to the cheerful recognition of his obliga
tions as a Christian and as a citizen.
He was preeminently a public-spirited citizen. He
was a member of the city government for seven years,
and a member of the school committee for fifteen years,
the greater part of the time serving as its secretary,
and giving himself intelligently and unsparingly to the
arduous labors, which the conscientious holding of such
official positions entailed. During the civil war he was
chairman of the Committee of Belief of the City Council
for the aid of soldiers' families and the promotion of
enhstments, and found time, as there was abundant
occasion, for the exercise of the most sympathetic and
patriotic devotion to the Union and its brave defenders
in those dark days, the memory of which still lingers
like a painful dream. He was chairman of the Com
mittee on Evening Schools, and had much to do in
developing that essential part of our educational system.
He was the secretary of the joint committee, represent
ing different local organizations, which brought our
excellent Public Library into existence, and to him the
committee looked for statistics and information about
other libraries, which he gathered and presented at
great pains, and upon his practical wisdom, gained from
his official experience at the College, they depended
in the formulation of their plans. His pen was busy
through the public press in appealing to the good
judgment, the intelligent convictions, the benevolent
sympathies, the local pride of philanthropic citizens.

to establish and support a library which should be
free to all, should supplement the refining and eleva
ting influence of the public schools, and minister pleas
ure, profit and enlightenment to all the people. When
the full history of the Public Library movement is
written up, it will be found that no little credit and
honor are due to Dr. Guild for the initial steps and the
wise impulses that have led to that institution, which
is the ever increasing pride of our city.
Of Dr. Guild's church relationship it may be said
that in 1850 he transferred his membership from the
Baldwin Place Church in Boston to the First Baptist
Church in this city, and that he served for a time as the
superintendent of its Sunday School. In 1855 he united
with others in forming the Brown Street Baptist Church,
which in April, 1878, was joined with the Third Church
to form the present Union Church. He retained his
connection with the Union Church for fifteen years, and
in 1893, on account of its distance from his home and
his advancing years, he found a home again and a happy
fellowship in this, the mother church. During all these
years his connection with the visible church was more
than nominal. It was real and vital, delightful and
helpful to him and to those with whom he was asso
ciated. He cheerfully assumed the responsibilities of
such connection, and loved to bear testimony to the
blessing which through it came to his own heart and
life. In the Sunday School, in the prayer meeting, in
the committee meeting, in the business meeting, in the
social meeting, as well as unvaryingly in the public

preaching services, when strength was his, he gave evi
dence of the vital and controlling power of his reUgion,
and the genuineness and reality of his profession. He
could sing with truthfulness,
" I love thy kingdom, Lord,
The house of thine abode.
The church our blessed Eedeemer saved
With his own precious blood.
' ' For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend ;
To her my cares and toils be given
Till toUs and cares shall end.
" Beyond my highest joy
I prize her heavenly ways,
Her sweet communion, solemn vows,
Her hymns of love and praise.''
His example in his active identification with the
church has been a most commendable and admirable
one. He knew what encouraged the pastor's heart and
made him happy in his work. He knew what made a
church prosperous and successful. He knew what was
good for his own soul, and gave strength, and beauty,
and power to his spiritual life. Blessed is the church
that is composed of such faithful members.
And so, while he was interested in all good, benevo
lent objects, like the Home for Aged Men, which he
held very closely to his heart, he found time amid the
arduous duties of his position to be true to his church
obligations, and like the late Professor John L. Lincoln,
to hold church and professional calling in just relations,
and give to each its due recognition ; and more than

that, to give the weight of his presence and influence to
those other forms of joint activity which are essential
factors in the coming of the kingdom of God among
men, the Society for Ministerial Education, the Sunday
School Convention, of which he was president for a
term, and to which he contributed, in different ways, his
matured thought and wise suggestion, the State Con
vention, which has for its object the present and eternal
welfare of our fellow-citizens and the carrying of the
blessing of the Gospel of Christ to the destitute within
our borders, and those other Christian charities born
of the Spirit of Christ, and carried on in obedience to
the command of Christ, which seek to make men
happier and better, and happier because better, and
fitter for this world and the world that is to come. Dr.
Guild escaped the danger which often threatens liter
ary and professional men of being narrow in his sym
pathies, and narrow in his activities. He had a warm
heart and a ready hand for all good service, because of
the Christian spirit that was in him.
Yet Dr. Guild will be especially remembered because
of his protracted and faithful service as the Librarian
of Brown University. As has been said, he entered
upon his life-work in the spring of 1848, succeeding
Professor Charles C. Jewett. This post he filled with
rare fidelity until his resignation in 1893, since which
time he has been Librarian Emeritus. When he took
charge of the Ubrary it was comparatively small, but as
the years advanced, and it outgrew its early accommo
dations, and found hospitable shelter in the present

commodious building, his labors were greatly increased.
Tet with untiring zeal and cheerful devotion he did his
useful work, rejoicing that he could be helpful to those
who were seeking the riches of knowledge, that he
could serve his Alma Mater, which he loved with an un
surpassed affection, and that he could minister at the
holy altar of the temple of truth. The record of his
services cannot be better told than in the words of one
who was his assistant for thirteen years.*
" Especially was the library his home, a part of his
very life and being, and its welfare was the constant
subject of his thought and desire. Few people, even
those most conversant with the needs of a library, and
the work that must be performed to make it useful and
accessible as an educational adjunct to a growing uni
versity, have any definite conception of the amount of
labor which Dr. Guild accomplished almost alone.
When the library contained about 40,000 volumes, the
library force consisted of Librarian and Assistant
Librarian. When it could claim over 70,000 volumes
within its walls, the library force remained the same.
* * * Not many young men could have sustained
the burden which rested upon the shoulders of Dr.
Guild, and have carried forward such a work with
success. And this work was performed with cheerful
alacrity and unflagging energy, though it might never
be fully known and appreciated, except by those who
were in a position to observe, and who were competent
to judge of, the labor required by the results attained."
* John Milton Bumliam, A. M.

It has been truly said that Dr. Guild was " an ideal
custodian of books." He loved them as if they were
instinct with the breath of life, and could almost appre
ciate and reciprocate the tender affection in which he
held them. Although library methods have greatly
changed in recent years, his Librarian's Manual was
long a "bibliographical classic." Into the new library
building he put the best results of his long and rich
experience, and it stands to-day, as another has said,
" a beautiful monument of his professional ability."
His genial and affable manner, his sympathy with
young men, his helpfulness so cheerfully rendered,
won the heart of every student to himself, and made
the library the delighful rendezvous of returning alumni,
where all knew the hearty greeting that awaited them.
No more beautiful tribute could be paid by one man to
another than that which Dr. Guild's successor* has
paid to him. "The place which he thus won in the
hearts of the alumni will never be filled by another.
No succeeding librarian or other officer of the Univer
sity can ever hope, under our changed conditions, to
possess the friendship of every graduate for half a cen
tury. In this affection of so many succeeding classes
of college graduates there exists an endurance in the
memory of men not always attained by monuments of
stone or bronze. When another fifty years shall have
passed away, and Brown graduates of the early nineties
of our century shall revive their recollections of these
ancient days, the name of Dr. Guild will not fail to be
? Harry Lyman Koopman, A. M.

on their lips, nor his cheery greeting to rise up in
grateful memory. Hardly elsewhere in earthly fate
does 'the memory of the just' attain to such a perma
nence of personal regard."
Dr. Guild will also be long remembered, and grate
fully, because of the valuable service which he has
rendered as a historian. He has been widely regarded
as an authority on matters of local and early denomina
tional history. His position as librarian enabled him
to cultivate the gift that was in him in this direction.
He had nothing less than an innate penchant, a God-
given genius for the collection of facts, the accumula
tion and the preservation of historical material, the
investigation and the record of the events of by-gone
times. His pen has been prodigiously active in giving
to the world the results of his careful investigations and
voluminous accumulations, papers, addresses, articles
in periodicals and magazines, pamphlets and bound
volumes prepared at great labor and of large size>
making a list of publications creditable to his industry.
his candor and his historical ability. His unprinted
manuscripts and the scrap books yet remaining of
unused material would be a valuable treasure to any
librarian or future historian. I can only take time to
mention a few of his more valuable publications.
"Life, Times and Correspondence of James Manning,"
1864; "Biographical Introduction to the Writings
of Eoger Williams," 1866 ; "History of Brown Univer
sity with Illustrative Documents," 1867; "Chaplain
Smith and the Baptists," 1885 ; " Footprints of Roger

Williams," 1886 ; " Address in Memory of Professor J.
W. P. Jenks," 1895, and his latest and perhaps most val
uable work, "Brown University and Manning," 1897.
Dr. Guild has well earned the title of historian of
the Baptist movement in Rhode Island, of the First
Baptist Church in Providence, and of Brown University.
He did not limit his publications to denominational
literature, though this was the special field of his
research. He may be said to be the only historian
that Brown University has ever had, and to him and
to his labors the College, as well as the Baptist denomi
nation, owes a debt of gratitude that it can never pay.
His love for such study and his distinguished services
have won for him membership in many Associations.
viz. : "The Rhode Island Historical Society,'' "The
Ehode Island Veteran Citizens' Historical Association,"
"The American Antiquarian Society," "Essex Institute
of Salem," "Old Colony Historical Society," "Library
Association of the United Kingdom," etc. The name of
Dr. Guild has been highly honored by all those who
have been engaged in like pursuits, and will be
cherished as an inspiration to a patient and pains
taking, a laborious and conscientious fidelity to service.
But among us in this church, and in the other
church in this city with which he was so long con
nected, among the college professors with whom he
was associated, among the numerous alumni who were
brought under his influence, Dr. Guild will undoubt
edly be held in most vivid and lasting remembrance
because of the excellent Christian spirit which he

possessed, and the graces and characteristics of his
Christian life. I may not hope to add anything to the
picture which has already been formed in your minds
by your intercourse with him, and which wiU never be
effaced, or even to put upon the canvas of my descrip
tive words the portrait which you see so clearly, and
will always love to contemplate.
His piety was of the most cheerful and happy sort.
There was nothing morose or gloomy in his spirit or
bearing. He had undoubtedly his sorrows, his trials,
his disappointments. Who of us has not? But above
every cloudy Providence, he showed a smiling face.
His religion was a living joy to him, and all God's
service his perpetual delight. He had no need to con
sider whether Christian obedience was of the nature of
duty or privilege; for it was all privilege to him. His
spirit was as simple and buoyant as that of childhood.
This made him always an agreeable companion to the
young people, and a welcome visitor and participant in
their religious meetings. He seemed never to grow old.
It seemed unnatural that he should feel the infirmities
of age, and the waste and weakness of the physical
organs, and be sick and suffer and die, for he seemed
to be the impersonation of joy and health and youth ;
and indeed he was, and after a brief obscuration they
have now reasserted themselves, and have shone forth
in undimmed splendor in the upper home, where none
has occasion to say I am sick or weary or sad or have
need of anything.
Closely connected with this characteristic of Dr.

Guild's piety was his great friendliness and cordiality.
There was a heartiness about him that was contagious.
Who ever knew him to be distant, reserved, on his
dignity, unapproachable to the humblest or lowliest
person ? It was this that enabled undergraduate stu
dents to approach him without embarrassment, that
won their confidence, that made it possible for him to
advise and encourage them, that bound them to him
by hooks of steel, that prompted many a one in review
ing his college course to confess: "Well, after all,
there is no man to whom I feel more indebted for uni
form courtesy, kindness and helpfulness, than to Eeuben
A. Guild."* He was deeply interested in their strug
gles and in their aspirations, in their success as stu
dents and in their moral and religious well-being.
President Benjamin F. Clarke has testified of Dr.
Guild — "I doubt if any officer ever came into closer
contact with the students, and perhaps it is safe to
say that few, if any, have exerted a more healthful
infiuence. He was always ready to assist anyone who
was in need of a word of cheer to lighten up a dark
heart, or who might require a word of advice to lead
him to a higher life."f
And his attitude towards young men was his atti
tude towards everybody. He illustrated as perfectly as
any man whom I ever knew the old adage, " He who
would have friends must show himself friendly."
• Quoted from a tribute by Professor William Cabet Poland in the
Braum Herald of May 17, 1899.
t Quoted from a tribute in the Brown Herald of May 17, 1899.

Though strong and positive in his religious faith, as he
ought to have been, he was eminently catholic in his
spirit. He knew how to maintain the most cordial
relations with men of all faiths and men of no faith.
Every man was his brother. He loved to subscribe
himself in his correspondence, "Fraternally yours."
And it was no empty form with him. It was the
genuine expression of the brotherliness of his heart.
The warmth and sincerity of his nature were always
apparent in his words and conduct. He expressed
himself exactly as he felt. Who, that has known him,
can ever forget his greeting or his parting ? His heart
was as tender, and true, and loving as a woman's. The
last words I heard from his lips, on the day before
he was taken from us, when his poor body was suffering
almost unendurable pain, were : " Good-by, my dear,
dear pastor.''
It remains to be added, what should not be omitted
in this sacred pulpit, and what he would have us espec
ially emphasize, Dr. Guild had an unshaken faith in the
Word of God as the Word of God. The inspiration
and divine authority of the Bible he no more questioned
than he questioned his own existence or the intuitions
of his own soul. He was familiar with the methods and
the conclusions of modern criticism. He read much
and reflected much upon the discussions that are surg
ing about the Holy Scriptures. But his belief in them,
and his reverence for them were undisturbed. Thej^
remained to him, as Mr. Gladstone calls them, "the
impregnable rock." Christ, the Son of God, was to him

"the truth" as well as "the way and the life." He
could not go back of his utterance or of his endorsement.
He believed in Moses, the most magnificent figure
in ancient history, the inspired law-giver and historian,
the chosen leader and deliverer of God's ancient people,
who prefigured and testified of Christ. He believed in
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the unique and towering
Personality of all history, who accomplished by his cross
the eternal redemption of all God's spiritual Israel, who
beginning from Moses and the prophets, expounded
unto his disciples in all the Scriptures, the things con
cerning himself. He believed that in heaven he would
join with all the redeemed children of God in singing
" the song of Moses and of the Lamb."
He was ever ready with voice and pen to give
a reason for the faith that was in him, and come
to the defence of the Word of God. In this faith
he lived, and in this faith he died. The Bible was
to him the treasury of richest truth, the sum of es
sential knowledge, the veritable revelation of the
mind and will of God, the authoritative expression
of the highest ethical and religious thought for man,
the progressive unfolding of the divine plan of human
redemption, the foundation of the soul's immortal hope,
and transcendentally worthy of all acceptation.
The place which in his judgment the Bible holds in
literature, in education, in the formation of character,
in social progress, and in the onward and upward move
ment of the race, was illustrated in the following beau
tiful incident. The new and elegant library building

was dedicated with appropriate services on February
16, 1878. On the following morning. Dr. Guild, accom
panied by the late Professor J. L. Diman, a member of the
Library Committee, took from the shelves in Manning
Hall a large copy of Bagster's Polyglot Bible, and car
ried it reverently to the new edifice as the first book to
be placed upon its shelves, the corner stone of the
literary structure to be reared within, the basis of all
true wisdom, and the source of mental illumination, the
divine instructor of the generations that were to come
to this seat of learning. That simple and significant
act was a dedication in itself. Henceforth that building
was consecrated to the preservation of the highest
wisdom, and the dissemination of the best learning. It
was set apart as a temple of truth forever.
Upon the shelves of his retentive memory. Dr. Guild
had been placing with reverent and loving hand, year
after year, the precious truths and promises of the
Bible. By reason of frequent use no dust had been
allowed to collect upon them. During his long and
useful life they had been his help and his inspiration.
When the end drew nigh, they were his companions by
day and his consolation by night. When his heart and
his fiesh failed, the Word of God was the strength of
his heart, and his portion forever. In that crucial hour
all other books faded from the good librarian's vision.
One Book, luminous with the light of God, brightened
the upward pathway of his departing spirit.

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