n Boston he had won the confidence and
regard, not only of his own sect, but of the entire community.
His labors for the good of his oppressed race attracted public
attention to him more than twenty years ago, and this interest
manifested itself in the generous contributions of Unitarians,
Episcopalians, and Universalists in aid of his church. During the
thirty-four dark days of the infamous Fugitive-Slave Law, and the
excitements occasioned by slave hunts in Boston, Mr. Grimes had a
'level head,' and did much to keep down riotous outbreaks from
those who then were told that they had no rights that white men
were bound to respect. Fortunate, indeed, will be the church of
the deceased, if his successor, like him, shall be able to keep
them together, and lead them in righteous ways for a quarter of a
century."

On the following Monday morning, at the ministers' meeting,
appropriate remarks were made, and resolutions drawn up. The following
appeared in the daily papers:

"BAPTIST MINISTERS' MEETING.

"The Monday morning meeting of the Baptist ministers of Boston
and vicinity was held at ten o'clock, Monday, as is the weekly
custom. After the devotional exercises, the committee to prepare
resolutions on the death of the late Rev. Leonard Andrew Grimes
made their report to the meeting. Pending the acceptance of the
report remarks eulogizing the deceased were made by Rev. R. H.
Neale, D.D., and others. The resolutions, which were thereupon
given a place upon the records of the meeting, are as follows: In
the death of Leonard Andrew Grimes, for twenty-seven years the
pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church of Boston, the city in which
he lived, the race for which he labored have sustained an
irreparable loss. The _confrere_ of Daniel Sharp, Baron Stow,
Phineas Stow, Nathaniel Colver, Rev. Mr. Graves of the
'Reflector,' he was one whose coming might always be welcomed
with the exclamation of our Saviour concerning Nathaniel: 'Behold
an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.' His last efforts
were put forth for his race. He carried to the Board of the
American Baptist Home Mission Society, of which he had been for
many years an honored member, a large contribution from his
church, to help on Christ's work among the Freedmen, and, on
returning from New