"Beyond the grave! As the vision rises how this side dwindles into nothing — a speck — a moment — and its glory and pomp shrink into the trinkets and baubles that amuse an infant for a day. Only those things, in the glory of this light, which lay hold of immortality, seem to have any value."
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Randolph Sinks Foster
Randolph Sinks Foster (February 22, 1820–May 1, 1903) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.
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