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Show Dean Stanley said to tho crowd of children at Westminster Abbey on Innocents' day Dec. 28: "I once knew a very famous man, who lived to bo very old who lived to be SS. He was always the delight ol thoso about him. He always Blood up tor what was right. His eye was like an eagle's when it flashed fire for what was wrong.' And how early do you think be began to do this? I have an old grammar which belonged to him, all tattered and torn, whioh he hail when a little boy at school, and what do you think I found written in his own hand in the very first page? Why these words: 'Still in thy right hand carry gentle peaco, to silence vicious tongues be just, and fear not.' That was his rule all through life, and ho was loved and honored down to tho day when he was carried to his grave." |