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Excerpt from Hithersea Mere Without doubt Jasper Berkeley Somerville was a great man. Theologian, poet, philosopher, divine, above all, philanthropist, he fought a good fight in his day against the sin, and doubt, and sorrow, of a sinning, doubting, sorrow-stricken world. He only laid down the weapons of his warfare with his life. The last sentence which he wrote he left unfinished. The last cause he strove for had not been won. With the tidings of his sudden death there came to all England a sense of loss and of sorrow, as for a great brother departed. To his own people, who loved him, it was for a time as if the sun had fallen om the heavens, and all brightness and glory had faded from the earth. On the day of his funeral it seemed to Rhona Somerville, his daughter, that the echo of the footsteps of a great company of mourners, and the voice of their weeping, comforted her, and yet left her in a strange solitude, as she stood clasping her pale mothers hand. For of their loss, of the utter blank life had become, what could the world know? Only it missed a friend - a teacher - an eloquent voice - the hand and heart of a strong helper; and in that it missed him Rhona could rejoice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.