Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-07-12
Charles Dickens.

CHARLES DICKENS Died at his residence. Gads
Ill., Kent Thursday, June ., 1870, aged Is years.
dead, your Majesty. Dead. nv
lords and gentlemen. Dead, RIGHT
Revcrcnds and Wrong Reverends of
every order. Dead men and women
born with Heavenly Compassion in
your hearts. And dying thus around
us every day. Bleak House, Chap
ter ca.
Tho golden ripple on the wall
came back again, and nothing else
stirred in the room. The old. old
fashion. Tho fashion that came in
with our first garments, and will
last unchanged until our race has
run its course, and the wide firma-
ment is rolled up like u scroll. The
old, cid fashion-Death | O, thank
God, all who see it, for that older
fashion yet of Immortality And
look upon us, angels of young chill
dren, with regards not quito estrang-
ed when the Swift River bears us to
the Ocean. - Dombey, Chapter II.
"The spirit OF the child, returning,
innocent and radiant, touched the
old man with its hand, and bcckoned
him away. -[Chimes, "a quarter.
"The star had shown him the way
to find the God of the poor; and
through humility, and sorrow. and
forgiveness, he had gone to his Re-
deemer's rest. - Hard Times, Book
3, Chapter 6.
"a cricket sings upon the hearth,
broken childs toy lies upon the
ground, and nothing else remains"
-[Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp B.
[Nickelby, Chapter So
81 felt for my old self as the dead
may feel if they ever revisit these
scenes. | was glad to BIO tenderly
remembered, to be gently pitied, not
to be quite forgotten" II Bleak
House, Chapter 10.
"From these garish lights | vanish
now forevermore with heartful,
grateful, respectful, and affectionate
farewcll-and | pray God bless us
every one. u Last Reading, London
March 6, 1870.
"When | die, put me near some
thing that has loved the light and
had the sky above it always. '-GOld
Curiosity Shop, Chapter II.
Lord, keep my Memory Green"
i Haunted Man, Chapter 3
Now, he murmured, Il am hap
py. He fell into light slumber,
and waking smiled as before, then
spoke of beautiful gardens, which he
said stretched out before him. and
were filled with men, women, and
many children, all with light upon
faces, and whispered that it was
Eden-and so died" - [Nickelby,
Chapter So.
-"died like child that had Como
to sleep. = Copperfeld, Chapter 8.
-"and began the world-not this
world, 0, not this. The world that
sets this night" Il Bleak House,
Chapter 60,
-"gone before the father far be-
yond the twilight judgments of this
world high above its mists and
obscurities. little Dorrit, Book ?,
Chapter 10.
-"and lay at rest, The solemn
stiffness was no marvel now" fold
Curiosity Shop, Chapter Il.
at being high water, he went out
with the tide."-[Copperfeld, Chap
ter 30.
In the funeral GRAFTON pronounced
on Mr.. Dickens, in Westminster Alb
hey, by Dean Stanley, the preacher
read the following extracts from Mr..
Dickens will, dated May II, 1869,
which will be new to the public:
Il directthat my name be inscribed
in plain English letters on my tomb.
= = enjoin my friends on DO
account to make me the subject of
any monument, memorial or testi-
monial whatever. | rest
my claims to the remembrance Of
my published works, and the re-
membrance of my friends upon their
experience of me in addition thereto.
x | commit my soul to the
mercy of God through our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, and | exhort
my dear children to try and guide
themselves by the teaching of the
New Testament in its broad spirit,
and to put no faith in any mans
narrow construction of its letter.