fragrant memories, of inspiration, and of warning from evil.
"Our hearts are bereaved and sore, but it is a consolation to know, from our intimate acquaintance with his daily life, that from his vigorous and active early manhood to his venerable advanced age, he tried, with what humility we all know, and trusting in his Savior, to do the work God set for him to do. It is a joy to remember how early, and without at all counting the cost, at the risk of popularity and of earthly prosperity, he pleaded for temperance and for the poor slave. "But he has gone home! The tired laborer is at rest. The servant has gone to his Master. Be it ours to lay to our hearts the lesson of his life. 'Be not weary in well doing.' 'To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life."
The same brother, writing to us soon after he received the sad tidings of mother's death, says: My mind has been heavy with grief. I am so far: away that I have been utterly unable to go to see her, or to attend her dear body to its last resting-place. And I feel that it is an overwhelming affliction to you, to whom her magnetic presence and her self-denying care have made for you a restful and happy home for so many years. O, my heart is sad and heavy when I think of my dear mother, of what she has been to all of us; of her ready sympathy, always going forth more than half way to meet its object; of her sincere and shining piety, and ardent desire for the spiritual good of her children. I never before so fully realized how much mother was our home. The grand words of
