NOTE

   
         
  This is a book of memories, a book of sorrow and of tears. I cannot agree with those who pretend to laugh when an affliction befalls them. To do so is to mock at the very mission of sorrow. To stifle grief, to suppress tears, to enforce the semblance of sorrowlessness upon those who would be mourners, all this is an artificiality utterly revolting to the universal susceptibility of the mind to sorrow. Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep. The mission of sorrow is to refine, ennoble and inspire. The possibilities of faith and hope are in it. Through tears we see the sunshine of Love, through darkness we reach trusting hands and tuch God's own. May the reading of these pages lead many to rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. Truly "heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning"
 
  Nov. 1907   Issac Tambyah  
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