text:  But the king had been a guardian a restorer a deliverer; therefore his sins are buried or burned with his body; and all over the land he saved generation after generation continues to cry aloud--"O king live for ever!" The Sage who by long meditation on man's nature and man's life has seen how liberty rests on law rights on obligations and that his passions must be fettered that his will be free--how often has he been overcome when wrestling in agony with the powers of evil in that seclusion from all trouble in which reverent admiration nevertheless believes that wisdom for ever serenely dwells! The Servant of God has he always kept his heart pure from the world nor ever held up in prayer other than spotless hands? A humble confession of his own utter unworthiness would be his reply alike to scoffer and to him who believes