VI

'_I know whom I have believed._'

Pascal had the words engraved upon his seal; Canon Ainger left

instructions that they should be inscribed on his tomb at Darley Abbey;

but, like Donal Grant, Michael Faraday wove them into the very warp and

woof, the fiber and fabric of his daily life.

'Speculations!' he cried in dismay, 'speculations! I have none! I am

resting on certainties! _For I know whom I have believed and am

persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him

against that day!_'

Happy the heads that, in the soul's last straits, find themselves

pillowed serenely there!

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