Identifier: lifelettersoffre00shie (find matches)
Title: The life and letters of Frederic Shields
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911 Mills, Ernestine Bell, ed
Subjects: Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911
Publisher: London New York (etc.) : Longmans
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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ship has been a brightgift of God in my being. I cannot hold back this word,though I have no expectation that you will have oppor-tunity even to say that I have him in most lovingmemory, thinking of him when I wake in the darknight, and praying for him in the passage through thedark river, whither it cannot be long, at the longest,ere I follow him. And writing again, he said:— Your beloved brothers friendship has been oneof the sweetest and most unclouded of my life, and hisinfluence mentally and spiritually always a blessing to onewho has drunk deep of the brook of sorrow. Close upon this loss came the death of Holman Hunt,the warmth of whose affection for Shields throughouttheir long years of friendship is amply testified by hismany letters. Shields continued his work for the chapelin spite of his deep sorrow and loneliness. In July thediary records: Put up the last two pictures in thechapel, and in September, Finished ante-chapel. But the supreme task being completed, he felt his
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Man Hearkens to the Appeal of ConscienceIn the Ante-Chapel, Chapel of the Ascension THE END 347 occupation gone. In September he began making somenotes for an autobiography, but his strength rapidly-failed, and after a few months of painful illness and pro-found depression, the end came on February 26th, 1911. His old friend, the Kev. Hugh Chapman, who hadministered to him in his last days, said at the funeralservice at Merton Old Church :— It is indeed a genuine instance of the labourers taskbeing done, and few stories are more eloquent of heroismand romance than the completion of his work at theChapel of the Ascension, followed by the collapse whichwas but the prelude to his crown. After a friendshipof twenty-five years, I have no hesitation in saying thatFrederic Shields knew and lived on his Bible as few whomI can recall. Literalist to a large extent he ever was,however mystically inclined in his role of artist, and therewas about him somewhat of the rugged Covenanter whobrooked

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