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Gladly be went until the body, always too frail 

 for the spirit within, succumbed to weakness 

 and the spirit enraptured escaped to the God he 

 loved and served. 



His intellect was brilliant, and he was a clear, 

 forcible speaker and writer. He was an uncom- 

 promising and fearless preacher and defender of 

 tlic whole truth. His scathing denunciations 

 of sin and worldliness were sufficient to encour- 

 age lovers of truth to believe that the spirit of 

 the old prophets was not extinct, and to make 

 sinners, hyprocrites and half-hearted professors, 

 of religion tremble. As a preacher he was al- 

 ways instructive and spiritual, and often eloquent. 

 He dealt faithfully with souls. No one under 

 his labors was ever daubed with untempered 

 mortal- or healed slightly. By the aid of the 

 Spirit he laid bare the sin of the heart and in- 

 sisted on genuine repentance and seeking the 

 Lord. 



His sudden and. to us, untimely death was one 

 of those providences which we shall only under- 

 stand " when the mists have rolled away." It 

 seemed we could not spare him, but Father 

 knoweth best and He took him. Fen* us there 

 still remain the thorns and ruggedness of the way 

 for him the glory of the Paradise of God; for us 

 yet a little longer of cross bearing, self-denial 

 and reproach In cause of the cross of Christ, for 



