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THE MOSCOW MEDAL.
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the resting-place of Christ's honoured servant, choosing for its sole inscription those words of Christ himself—"I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came unto me." "Where the kings of the nations lie in glory, every one in his own house," the Czar Alexander Paulovitch has his stately sleeping-place; and well might it bear the same inscription. No human hand has placed it there; but we doubt not Divine lips will one day utter the commendation, "Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these, you have done it unto Me."