"Look straight on beyond this transient world in all you think, or try, or do.  Remember, delightful as this existence may appear, and undoubtedly is to those who know how to employ it properly, it is but a passage which leads to eternity.  May Heaven guide you, my boy!"  He took me in his arms, and then I knew how his fond, tender heart felt the parting.  He burst into tears: he was not long in recovering himself.