KD 928 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BOUGHT FROM COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY ELIZA C. HARRINGTON. FRANKLIN PRESS: BOSTON, PREFACE. URING the last few months of Mr. Harrington's life, DURING the assurance that he was rapidly hastening away gave all his words an especial value to me, and led to the habit, unnoticed by him, of committing them to bits of paper for future perusal. After he went home, I collected and copied these writings, and shared the pleasure they gave me with a few friends. Influenced by the interest they awakened, and by advice given me, I finally determined to precede them with a brief outline of my husband's history, and thus give them to the public, hoping they might assist others, fighting the same fight of faith, in winning the same final victory. Middletown, CONN., Jan. 31, 1887. E. C. H. CONTENTS. . 47 FAILING PHYSICAL AND INCREASING SPIRITUAL STRENGTH. -"BORDER-LAND."- VISITS.- Letters. - Kindness of |