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e coming night with the memory of it to lighten and interpret it. We go a week from tomorrow, back to work, to the men and women who have so bravely gone on working through long, hot summer days in the streets and factories and tenements of the city. And in that bravery and drudgery, there is the same flaming glory of God. It isn't just biology--it is the spirit of God, making the physical the dwelling place of God and glorifying it with His presence. Frank Nelson had an almost Elizabethan zest for thought and action, and even at Cranberry he entered enthusiastically into the local life. He preached at least once every summer in the Congregational Church, and in that church today are numerous memorials to him: a silver alms bason, the Service Book of the Congregational Church beautifully bound in red morocco, a United States flag, and several pictures. Each year at Easter there is a large cross of geraniums in the church, and after the service the flowers are distributed among the families on the island with a card saying, "Given in memory of Frank Howard Nelson with the Easter message of Christ's Resurrection." When he left Cranberry the last time, all the public school children were dismissed to wave their goodbyes. His unaffected interest in the affairs of the community expressed itself in practical ways, and his unassuming and simple manner gave little inkling that he was a foremost citizen of Cincinnati. "There is nothing comparable," says Coventry Patmore, "for moral force to the charm of truly noble manners." Frank Nelson's manner was not only the result of a choice family inheritance, but also the rich fruitage of a lifetime of faithful obedience to a consuming passion and vision. He was a life-giving river flowing in a parched land. In him the ancient prophet's words found a fresh fulfillment: "Everything shall live whithersoever the river cometh." FOOTNOTES: [21] R. L. Nettleship _Lectures on the Republic of Plato_, p. 129, published by Macmillan Co. Used with permission. _Last Years_ _Then of those shadows, which one made descent Beside me I knew not; but Life ere long Came on me in the public ways, and bent Eyes deeper than of old; Death met I too And saw the dawn glow through._ --_Anon_ 8 Frank Nelson never became an old man. Toward the end of his life his body could not fulfill the demands of his spirit, and he was not able to underta
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