April 20

“Can the last parting do much to hurt such friendships between good souls, who have so long learnt to say farewell, to love in absence, to trust through silence, and to have faith in reunion?”

Mrs EWING

“Those children of God to whom it has been granted to see each other face to face, and to hold communion together, and to feel the same spirit working in both, can never more be sundered, though the hills may lie between. For their souls are enlarged for evermore by that union, and they bear one another about in their thoughts continually, as it were a new strength.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“Let my voice be heard that asketh
Not for fame, and not for glory;
Give, for all our life’s dear story,
Give us Love, and give us Peace.”

JEAN INGELOW