and none, I venture to say, loved and admired him
more. The world at large knew and valued him as a noble Christian
gentleman, as a man of sterling integrity, and enlarged benevolence,
but who could understand all his excellence and all his loveliness, but
those who have been privileged, as I have so often been, to see him in
the sweet relations of husband and father, to bow with him at his
family altar, and to hear the fervent, yet humble, outpourings of the
Christian heart before the mercy seat? Ah! well do I remember how
tenderly, how sweetly, his petitions were wont to ascend for me, at the
time of my deep and overwhelming sorrow; and when about to leave his
hospitable roof, how affectionately he would commend the stricken one
to our heavenly Father's gracious care. These remembrances will linger
about the heart as long as it throbs with life. Oh! sad, sad is the
thought that I shall no more hear that sweet voice pleading with our
Father God in behalf of the sorrowing ones, or for the Church of God,
so dear to his heart, or committing his loved ones into his gracious
care; while, with lowly meekness, he confessed and bewailed his sins,
and plead for pardon with a childlike love and trust in our blessed
Saviour. But oh! delightful thought, his prayers are now turned to
praise."

I will copy a part of a letter, from a gentleman in the city of
New York, to show what kind of an impression your dear grandfather made
upon strangers.

"June 4, 1859."

"Very dear Madam: Although a stranger to you, I cannot repress
the expression of the heart-felt sympathy of myself and my whole family
for you in your late terrible bereavement. Language is totally at
fault in its poverty to convey what we feel, or give words that shall
comfort you in your heavy affliction. Our acquaintance with your dear
husband was recent and short, but it was long enough to endear him to
our hearts in no ordinary way. We had gone to the house of God in
company, and taken sweet counsel together. We had mingled our songs of
praise around the domestic altar, and at the same holy place had poured
out our united petitions to God for his blessing on our dear families,
as well as on the cause of our divine Master. Indeed, I can truly say
that our intercourse with your dear husband was all that was sweet and
refreshing to the Christian's heart, and time can never efface the
delightful impression he left in our family when he took an
affectionate leav