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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt:...of which she was sensible, in the air, which she could compare to nothing but a storm or battle going on over the bed, which affected even herself, no believer in the mysteries which were so dear to them--with all the sensation of a terrible conflict, during which the patient suffered greatly. And then there came peace and great quiet, and the sufferer looked up, restored to ease, and told her son that she had seen his father, who had poured new strength into her, so that she felt overflowing with vitality, and knew that now she should live and not die. With these words on her lips, and murmuring something about the angels all around and about, Lady Oliphant died. She had been greatly deceived in her life, and suffered much. Yet we may be well assured that in the chief point of all, in the divine footsteps she had tried to follow, and the God whom she DEATH OF LADY OLIPHANT. 205 had always sought, though through mediums of human weakness, she was not deceived. It seems to the spectator a hard fate that this tender mother, so devoted through all his life to her only child, should have been left so long in her failing days, at the end of life, alone in a far distant country, separated from all who belonged to her. But at all events it was with her son's hand in hers, and her Lowry's beloved face bending over her, nearer to her than any angel, that this good woman, much blown about by many winds of doctrine, yet always steadfast to the standard of divine charity, passed into the eternal home, the way to which was never far off from her humble feet. His mother's deliverance from the bonds of the flesh was a great shock to Laurence, not only in his tenderest affections, but in those hopes which he had entertained that one so supported by the unseen need not die....