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of charity and love covering all creeds, all humanity, his was truly ' the spirit 

 which thiuketh no evil.' One of his most striking characteristics was the indomi- 

 table courage which, through life and to its extremest verge, led him to brave diffi- 

 culties and adversities with the same calm, unflinching decision with which he con- 

 fronted personal danger, and which enabled him to endure, with unsurpassed forti- 

 tude, the sufierings of mortal illness. Self-reliant, self-poised, upheld by his con- 

 sciousness of right and just endeavor, firm in his grasp of the immutable prin- 

 ciples of truth, and in his reliance upon a gracious and superintending Provi- 

 dence, his life was guided by a sense of responsibility as a free moral agent, 

 from whom a strict account of the talents committed to his charge was hereafter 

 to be exacted. He was constant and fervent in prayer. Often, months be- 

 fore, and during his illness, his voice was heard in the stillness of night raised 

 in petition to God. His last words on earth, the last tones of his voice vibrated 

 with the name of the Saviour. He was a ' devout Christian ; exalted honor bis 

 instinct, Christianity his guide.' " 



