Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... CLOSING YEARS. 515 CHAPTER XXIV. BY V. Xj. B. CLOSING YEARS. 1870-1876. Last Visit to New Preston.--A Deep Experience.--Revisions.--Extracts from a Correspondence.--First Summer in Ripton, with Letters.-- Notes on Prayer.--Work under Limitations.--Second and Third Summers in Ripton, with Letters.--"A Vacation with Dr. Bushnell," by Professor Austin Phelps.--His Manifold Interests.--Vitality of his Humor.--Publication of "Forgiveness and Law."--Letters concerning it. --Days of Peace.--A New Work begun.--A Severe Illness.--Partial "Recovery.--Last Letters.--Gradual Decline.--Naming of the Park.-- Death.--Extracts from the Funeral Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Burton. The closing years of Dr. Bushnell's life seemed, to those who knew them intimately, almost as much the opening years of the life to come. The twilight was gently falling on the things of this world, but already the day dawned that was to succeed the brief night. His few public ministrations of a later date than 1870 have found their true place in the foregoing chapter. Though he showed in them his wonted fire and power, he was no longer capable of sustained effort; and the work he had to do for the world must, in future, be done in seclusion, and little by little, as he was able. Yet this period of detachment was saved from much of the pain that often attends it, by the great gains he made. It was not a time of cessation, as of a life that was going out, but had a work of its own and growth and motion to the very end. No most labored argument for immortality could have been like this silent argument of the inward man, waxing so mightily amidst the waning of much that we are accustomed to regard as the physical and intellectual glory of man. It was, after all, less an argument for...
