But, short though our stay in life may be, it is the appointed sphere in which each has to work out the great aim and end of his being to the best of his power; and when that is done, the accidents of the flesh will affect but little the immortality we shall at last put on: "Therefore we can go die as sleep, and trust Half that we have Unto an honest faithful grave; Making our pillows either down or dust!" FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 101: Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, Lord High Treasurer under Elizabeth and James I.] [Footnote 102: 'Life of Perthes,' ii.

217.] [Footnote 103: Lockhart's 'Life of Scott.'] [Footnote 104: Debate on the Petition of Right, A.D.

1628.] [Footnote 105: The Rev.F.W.

Farrer's 'Seekers after God,' p.

241.] [Footnote 106: 'The Statesman,' p.