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safe guide to just such common-sense, practical knowledge as their 

 profession requires. 



Mr. R. J. Dodge — I knew Mr. Lyman, not intimately, but long. 

 Whenever he spoke I listened and gained information, and although 

 his remarks and writings have passed, their influence lasts, and must 

 go on. lie was genial, pleasant, never captious or quarrelsome. I 

 grieve that we have lost him. Though gone while still young, I 

 doubt not he was fully ripe and rests in peace. 



Mr. II. T. Williams — I indorse heartily all that has been said- 

 Mr. Lyman labored earnestly to promote the fundamental interest to 

 which he devoted his life. He wronged no one, and was a great 

 help to thousands. 



Mr. S. E. Todd — This vacant chair is an impressive commentary 

 on the brevity and uncertainty of mortal life. For us to say that 

 our departed associate was an estimable citizen and respected friend, 

 is frigid eulogy. We loved him. lie was a great man, for whoever 

 is truly good is truly great. Few men in a public capacity, who have 

 done so much as Mr. Lyman, and who have been so exposed to the 

 attritions and asperities of life, have made less mistakes than he. I 

 have been in Mr. Lyman's family, and he has been at my home. 

 Perhaps I knew as much of his every-day life as any other man in 

 New York. It affords me transcendent pleasure to attest that in all 

 our intercourse I have failed to see any manifestations of that pro- 

 fessional jealousy which too frequently rankles in the breasts of 

 contemporaneous journalists. In all this intercourse with men in a 

 private or public capacity, his aim seemed to be to do right and to 

 avoid every appearance of wrong. His character always appeared to 

 be founded on principles of the strictest equity. So far as I knew 

 him, the record of his life furnishes an illustrious example to every 

 young man who has virtuous aspirations to rise in the scale of being 

 to a noble manhood. lie acted his part well. Lie was a man of 

 prayer; and he taught his children to approach the throne of 

 heavenly grace and to say, "Our Father." While we feel the 

 bereavement and mourn the loss, we are cheered with the considera- 

 tion that he died in hope of a glorious immortality beyond the grave, 

 trusting alone in the atoning merit of Him who is the resurrection 

 and life of his people. 



Professor Henry E. Colton — I have known Mr. Lyman with more 



intimacy, perhaps, than any person here, with one exception. lie 



was my personal and social friend : I knew his business and private 



affairs, as well as the views he was constantly urging for the advance- 



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