20 



•conducted an altar service, seekers for holiness 

 would be found as well as seekers for pardon. 



He always took especial pains to interest him- 

 self in those who were poor and despised, and he 

 made them feel that he was their friend. The 

 humblest and poorest loved .him. But in no 

 place did the richness and strength, the loveli- 

 ness and purity of his character, manifest itself 

 "better than in his home. He had a very 

 high ideal of home life and with God's grace 

 lie always endeavored to realize it. Nothing de- 

 lighted him more than to have his home a 

 place where God's children, the poor and the 

 needy, as well as those more favored, could feel 

 free to come. 



A"s a parent he was remarkably tender and 

 affectionate and yet equally firm. By the time 

 his children reached the age of three months he 

 had almost perfect control of them and without 

 any seeming difficulty in gaining it. 



As a husband he was gentle, affectionate and 

 true. A spiritual guide and a trusted friend. 

 Four years of married life only served to deepen 

 .and strengthen the already deep respect and ten- 

 love of 



f)t6 affectionate OEtfe. 



