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father in this life. This deprivation he felt most keenly. 
After his death his friends came to understand what a strug- 
gle this decision had cost him, when their eyes rested on a 
passage in his well-worn Bible scored and underscored and 
blotted by his tears, which began with the words, “Peter 
began to say unto Him, Lo, we have left all to follow Thee.” 
We admire the noble heroism of this man in whom the 
spirit of self-denial had the mastery so completely, and 
though so far removed by time from the circumstances of 
his life, we mourn while tracing the history of his work to 
find that but a short space from the hour when that great 
decision was reached, we are led to the tragic termination 
of his work and his life under the club of the people for 
whom he had so completely sacrificed all. 
