II. 



FRATERNAL TRIBUTES. 



REV. D. B. TOBEY. 



'OR the past six years it has been my privi- 

 lege to be most intimately associated with 

 Aura Claire Showers, and I am ready to say 

 now. as I did many times while he was yel 

 living, he was intellectually the most brilliant 

 young man I ever met, and one of the greatest 

 preachers I ever heard speak. 



Some may think this too strong, but I do not 

 say it because he is dead, but because, to my 

 mind, it is the truth. So far as my appreciation 

 •of and love for him was concerned, he knew what 

 I thought of him for I often told him and he 

 never doubted my sincerity. 



There were those among us who would criticize 

 his sermons, because, as they claimed, the) 7 were 

 more intellectual than spiritual, and also because 

 the words he used were above the comprehension 

 of the common people. 



To these objections. 1 answer thai many of 

 these critics were nol spiritual enough themselves 

 to discern the fact thai the Holy Spirit had pos- 



