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could not meet a boy in the street without giving him a loving 

 look ; ? and one now in an honourable position, who was raised 

 and made a man by his efforts, writes of him after his death : 

 ' Our Father has called him away, it seems to us, before his 

 work was finished ; but it never would have been finished, as 

 long as sin and misery dwell on earth.' " These words are 

 from a letter by Mr. T. Moulding, for many years one of the 

 leaders in the temperance cause in Chicago. He wrote 

 (May 26): "He was always like a father to me, though he 

 treated me like a brother. . . . He found me a poor factory 

 boy, beset with all sorts of temptations to evil. He took me 

 up tenderly, and sent his spirit, which is the spirit of Christ, to 

 me : and through his watchful, prayerful care, I was enabled 

 to resist many of the temptations. And what he did for me, 

 he did for scores of others ; and his work will never die. In 

 my brief visits to you at Montreal, I have met well-to-do 

 young men who have said to me, 1 God bless Dr. Carpenter, 

 he is so devoted and so good.' " 



At Stand and Warrington, though he kept himself aloof 

 from all parties in Church and State, he was a very prominent 

 public man. At Montreal, he was no longer the leader of an 

 influential congregation; and he never thought of using his 

 powers as a speaker and an organizer, to attain either civic or 

 political eminence. He was not devoid of natural ambition ; 

 but he always reproached himself if he thought that he was 

 caring for human praise ; and his conscientious humility 

 blossomed into a rare Christian lowliness. This was increased 

 by his devotion to his work ; for he felt (as his beloved father 

 often felt) that it might prosper most, if he were not regarded 

 as the doer of it. " He would not even allow it to be 

 whispered in his ear by his wife what benefits he had wrought. " 

 While self-love was his dread and abhorrence, he had always 

 been in the habit of speaking with a downrightness, which 

 some might regard as self-confident and dogmatic, as the 

 champion of humanity, or in the intensity of his religious con- 

 victions. He had an "irrepressible urgency." When his 

 " eyes looked right on," he was not always patient with those 



