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turbable good nature, he skillfully parried the 

 many hard blows he received. 



After a quarter of a century's incessant toil, his 

 health gave way and for months he was a sick 

 man. Yet his busy hands never ceased their 

 work, his last tract being an Appeal to the Rev. 

 Charles Spurgeon, of which I give the closing 

 characteristic sentence : "The project of converting 

 the world by the Gospel of Christ, by the power of 

 the Holy Ghost, and by man's free agency is not a 

 humbug, but a natural, scriptural, glorious, project 

 eclipsing every other. The idea of converting the 

 world whilst rum, opium, and tobacco are its 

 masters, is a humbug." 



It was while correcting the proofs of this tract 

 that the Master summoned him. So on January 

 25, 1875, the old hero joyfully passed from the 

 toils of earth to the higher, broader services of the 

 heavenly kingdom. 



Blessed be the memory of George Trask, one of 

 the earliest workers in this great field — The One- 

 Man Anti-Tobacco Society ! . 



But the good work was not to end with George 

 Trask's mortal life. 



At Cincinnati in November of the same year, 

 1875, at the Second Annual Convention of the 

 Woman's Christian Temperance Union, — that 

 wonderful society, born of the Crusades and which 



