help me to bear my burdens, with the kindness of an elder
brother. He was exacting, but he was humane; he was impatient, but
full of generous sympathies. These qualities might not always be
tempered in the hurry of an occasion, but found their balance in the
leisure and quiet intercourse of retirement. He was just and faithful.
He had strong likes, but he would yield a favorite when he must; and
strong dislikes, but he was incapable of hate. He stopped short of all
extremes. You could move him easily either way on the current of the
sympathies; but you could not tempt him to do wrong. As with the
judgment, so with the sensibilities; they were led by conscience. As
with the love of knowledge, so with the passions; they were subject to
the love of truth. Whatever the occasional excitement of the intellect
or the feelings, there was that in his mind which made it impossible
for him to be an enemy of God or man. The soul had been harmonized by
grace.

"Mr. Chase had a pious ancestry, and was brought up by Christian
parents in the fear of God. An excellent mother, an invalid in his
childhood, sat much in her arm-chair with the Bible on her knee. She
used it with her little boy as she would a primer. Before he was four
years old he had learned to read it, and read through the New
Testament; and that particular volume now remains the best part of his
estate. He was ever afterwards a diligent student of the Bible, and
never ceased to honor the father and mother who had led him in this
way of life. Filial reverence was one of his most beautiful and
characteristic traits. It was a natural step to the fear of God; and
the early fear of God is likely to be succeeded, according to the
covenant, by that love of God which, when perfected, casteth out fear.
During his third year at college he became, as he hoped, regenerate,
and professed his faith in Christ. It is said that his religious
awakening at that time was unusually deep; his awe of the Divine
government and his sense of sin profound; his acknowledgment of God's
justice and general sovereignty unreserved; and his trust in Christ
for justification free and unqualified. That sheet-anchor saved him.
It brought him up, subsequently, in the hour of danger. When the
fitful and rough winds of the spirit of the power of the air beat upon
him, and the swelling waters went over his soul, it dragged, but it
held. It was cast within the veil. That New Testament in his
childhood, that sub