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yet comprehensive, from any point of view, ever uttered to hu- 
manity. He endeavored to lead the life thereby called for, and his . 
works certainly do follow him, as he followed that ideal. He was 
kindness and love itself, even unto self-sacrifice—constant and 
enduring in good effort. 
In one word, the life and career of Joseph M. Wilson manifested 
in well-balanced harmony the two conditions, material and spirit- 
ual, which call forth the best within a man as the wisdom of this 
age now perceives the truth in things as they are—viz., a sound, 
reasonable basis (scientific) for physical needs and intellectual life 
in all he studied, designed, advocated and executed—this being an 
up-to-date application of truth as natural science now recognizes it ; 
also, a marked spiritual discernment of truth progressiveas manifested 
in and through the religious consciousness of humanity under the 
ever-active ministry of the Holy Spirit of Truth in man himself— 
an inner life of good thoughts, giving utterance in good words, 
good deeds—an example of one who did follow in sincerity on- 
ward and upward toward the brightest and best. 
Mr. Wilson married (1869) Sarah Dale Pettit, daughter of Judge 
Thomas McKean Pettit; great-granddaughter of Col. Charles 
Pettit and of Commodore Richard Dale, of Revolutionary memory, 
and of Chief Justice and Governor Thomas McKean, signer. He 
left one daughter, Mrs. John T. Gibson, of New York. 
His domestic virtues were as beautiful, steadfast and altruistic as 
his professional life was admirable, sincere and progressive. He 
passed away in full belief of that higher existence in which there is 
“activity for all our powers, and power for all our activities.”’ 
March 23, 190}. HEnry PETTIT. 
