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example bids us do, to that which was the essence of it all. The God who gave her by nature her fair and womanly gifts gave her by grace the power to refine and consecrate them. It came through truth early learnt from the lips, and life, and character of a father to whom Oxford and the Church of this century owe an incalculable debt; it was disciplined by quiet and persevering devotion; it was seen in humility such as Christ alone can give; it radiated the power of that love which amid the clouds and darkness of this life finds in the lives and characters of His own its steady and irrefutable witness. Let us be imitators of them, as they also were of Christ.
