"The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us."

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We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin