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deadly one. I think he was conscious to the last, for when the final struggle approached he seemed to rally all his remaining strength and clearly spoke in the ears of his stricken wife the words, "It is well—jt is well, " and then "fell on sleep. " The angel of peace breathed comfort in her heart and left a sacred memory there. Mr. Crane was a man of strong, of pronounced convictions, and feared not to avow them, and the world has great need of such men, and their loss is a felt loss to all earnest lives. Acquainted with him almost thirty years and
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