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life, the ideal man, unto which, through the mighty power of the 

 Cross, the whole creation moves. Upon whatever land the sun of 

 the Gospel rises, there these moral qualities spring up; and what- 

 ever and wherever the human heart which is touched by the love 

 of Christ, that heart becomes Heaven's soil for the growth of this, 

 which is Heaven's life. 



Now, Professor Henry possessed these constituent qualities of 

 the Christian mind, and possessed them in a degree at once beautiful 

 and rare. You who knew him, and who knew him well, will bear 

 cheerful witness to my words. He was simple as a child — without 

 folds, without dissimulation, without guile. He was not smart, as 

 some men count smartness. Neither was his Saviour. Neither 

 have been many of the great spirits of time. His mind was the 

 crystal depths of our Northern lakes, — not the noisy course of the 

 shallow and frothy river. 



And he was pure. Pure! — we lay him to rest to-day without a 

 spot. The product of four-score years in this rough world, we lift 

 up his character to-day and say, "Behold it! — the freshness, the 

 purity, the stainlessness of childhood are yet upon it." Grand, is 

 it not, and comforting, is it not, my hearers, that God now and then 

 builds up a man before us of whom we can say, "Look upon him; 

 walk round about him; you will find no ugly scar, — you will dis- 

 cover no running sore." Grand, is it not, and comforting, is it not, 

 • that now and then, in this world of smirched reputatidns and dis- 

 eased lives, God gives us a whole man — a man whom, without a 

 blush, we can lift up to the Great Maker, saying, "Take him again; 

 he is unharmed, and he is worthy of Thee." 



But Professor Henry was not only Christian in the spirit and 

 temper of his mind, but also in the unselfish aims and purposes of 

 his life. Christianity is not a quality simply. It is also a force, — 

 a force which, under the law of love, works unto external results, 

 unto a reproduction of itself in the world. Here again the Christ 



