LORD RUSSELL'S LAST WORDS.
In the October number of the 'lrish Monthly' the editor—Father Matthew Russell—makes the following deeplydnteresting reference to the last words of his illustrious brother; the late Lord Chief Justice :—" His childlike faith," he writes, " was shown in the last words that have reached us from his death.-bed. When a priest of the Oratory had administered the final sacramental rites prescribed in the last chapter of St. James's Epistle, and "was withdrawing from the death-chamber, he Was recalled by the summons : ' Father, lay your hand upon my head and bless me. The last words—except the aspiration . followed Out half consciously towards the very end by the feeble lips that had uttered so many a strong ahd noble word: ' Ma* God have mercy °n me.' The last word he would wish to b§ said of himself is what he himself always said, when any man's death was announced in his presence: ' God be merciful to him!'"
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Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 7
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