Last Words and Old-Time Memories

Last words-words spoken in the presence of death, eternity, and a nearness to God,-are a treasured legacy to survivors. Of the poorest and meanest son of Adam, even of the criminal on the gallows, it is eagerly asked, 'How did he die?' 'What were his dying words?' What wonder, then, that Christians prize the dying testimonies of the saints, and that there is a wide-spread desire, quite beyond the circle of actual acquaintance, to learn how our departed fellow-mortals wrestled with the grim ...