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his duty. The work God gave him to do, - that he was intent on doing, in season and out of season. To me his life will always be full of fragrant memories, and of inspiration, and of warning from evil. Our hearts are bereaved and sore, but it is a consolation to me and all of us 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 the popularity and of earthly prosperity he pleaded for temperance, and for the poor slave who then had none to help him. But he has gone home!