Illustrative Cases Known to the Writer

As already stated in the Preface we may well associate many Early Graves,” not with Infancy or with Youth alone, hut with early Manhood or Womanhood,

The following, as the above title indicates, are three illustrative examples of such, in which the writer had a sacred personal interest. He hesitated much about including the first of these, having been already published for several years, in fuller detail, under the title Golden Sunset” He feels, however, as if he dare not omit, though in an abbreviated form, what, in connection with early death,* occupies so remarkable a place in the Treasures of Memory.” Among a hundred deathbeds which it has been his sad privilege in the course of a lengthened pastorate to at! end, this uhus by far the most remarkckble.