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too “shall praise them.” To the more youthful or to the 
middle-aged, who have just commenced, or but partially 
‘accomplished, the steep ascent which leads to honorable fame, 
his life is precious in its teachings. 
He was a patriot in the broadest and best sense of the 
term. To his country he had given himself, and every fac- 
ulty of his being was devoted to her honor and welfare, — 
realizing almost literally the thought of Rousseau, “the 
child on entering life ought to see his country, and to the 
hour of his death to see but her.” 
Like all who have left lasting results for the benefit of 
their country or of mankind, he was a hard worker. But 
ill-regulated labor, however arduous, could never have ac- 
complished what he accomplished. Beyond all men I ever 
knew, he was systematic ; and few indeed are the examples 
of a life, in all things, so perfectly regulated. The beautiful 
order which pervaded all that he did is scarcely less worthy 
of study and admiration than the achievements to which it 
80 materially contributed. 
€ was no trifler with the realities of life, who dallied 
with them for his pleasure or who wielded them as instru- 
ments of ambition or self-interest. To him as to all true 
men, the meaning of life was concentrated in one single 
word, Dury. This “chief end of man,” which is to glorify 
God by obedience to his laws in the use of the faculties he 
has bestowed, was his ruling principle, — the celestial cyno- 
sure to which his eye was ever directed, and from which no 
allurement of lower motives could divert it. Nor was his 
sense of duty of that frigid, repulsive nature which reduces 
the conduct of life to a formula, and, substituting rules for 
emotions, seems but a refined selfishness. He was warm 
and sympathetic, finding his chief happiness in the pleasures 
of domestic and social intercourse, but singularly susceptible 
to everything that ministers to innocent enjoyment. 
