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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 22, 28 September 1894, Page 9

Mr Gladstone 1 ! letter to Mr George Buaeell. M.P. on the death of Lord Charles Russell, is a moat pathetic piece of literature •-— " Mr dear Russell,— l have seen wiih the eyes of others io newspaDera of this afternoon the account of the death -shall I say ?— or of the in gathering of your father. And of what he was to yon as a father I can reasonably, if remotely, conceive from knowing what he was in the outer circles as a firm, true, loyal friend. He has doneand will do no dii honour to the name < f Russell. It is a higher matter to know at a in" preme moment like this that he had placed his treasure whe:e moth and rust do not corrupt, and his dependence where dependence never fai a. May he enjoy the rest, light, aud peace of the jast nntil you are permitted to rejoin him 1 With growing years you will feel more and more that here everything is but a ren',and that it is death alone which integrates. On Monday I hope to go to Pitlochry N B and in a little while after to return southwards, and resume if it please God, the great gift of working vibioo.— Always and eincerelr yours, W.TS. uladstone." No wonder that the man who writei §o was the friend of Manning, Manning who himself told us that out life here is separated from the life to come but by a veil which erowi thinner and thinner as year follows year, till at last we cease to mar vel that it should vanish wholly. Already it looki as if to Gladstone itg opaqueness were growing transparent irom the light be»onrf Edinburgh Catholic Herald. X oeyond.-