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task. It is, however, never too late to be
instrumental in the diffusion of sentiments so full of
real humanity and true Christian feeling, and,
therefore, assured that the soundness of the
principles will compensate for any deficiencies in the
translation, I now, with pleasure and the hope of
indulgence, present them to my countrymen.
I cannot finish these few introductory lines
better than in the words of the talented reviewer
(see Foreign Quarterly N:o 54 p. 296). “Sentiments
such as these,” he says, “do Prince Oscar honour;
they will flourish when thrones are forgotten and
empty titles shall be no more. They will smooth
the pillow of disease and death in this world, and
will “go before” to brighter realms, to welcome
him to laurels which will never fade, to a crown
which shall never be removed from the immortal
temples it wreathes and enfolds. “I was sick,
and ye visited me; I was in prison and ye came
unto me!”
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