of Christ Church preaching the Word of God with gripping
power. It was not merely the power of virility and eloquence, but the
power of grasp, of comprehension, the ability to communicate truth and
make it come alive, and cry out for expression in the hearts and lives
of his hearers. We felt the majesty of the human spirit, the impatience
of sure faith with the rags and blemishes of doubt and cynicism. "Like
rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth," Frank Nelson
poured out his soul, and revealed the grand proportions of human
destiny.

In his beautiful address at the Helen S. Trounstine Memorial Service, a
portion of which follows, we find one of the best examples of Mr.
Nelson's ability to interpret human experience, as well as of his
intuitive understanding of another's travail of soul:

And then her courage. There are the lesser courages and the
greater. There are many who dare face danger and undertake hard
tasks, and face ridicule and failure. It is a fine and a true
courage and I do not underrate it. Helen Trounstine had it and
had it to the full. She tackled hard tasks; she faced some men
whose interests she opposed. She fought out her fights against
all comers, and never flinched. She would go into the court or
into the saloon or dance hall, the places of commercial
recreation, and fight her fight with all, for what she believed
to be right; and she won most of the time. It was a noble thing
to see that delicate woman unafraid before the problems and evils
of the world.

Yet that was not the finest courage she had. That other finer
courage is the one that I would emphasize. It was given her to
reconcile a spirit filled with high ideals and great desires,
with a body weak, often bent and torn with pain, unsuited to the
tasks she longed to do, until at last she was stricken with utter
helplessness waiting for the end. For only a few brief years was
her body adequate, even a little, to her will. And instead of
bending before that limitation and saying that she could do
nothing because of it, instead of growing bitter with resentment
at a fate that had so burdened her, she but grappled with it the
more determinedly. With utter courage of heart and mind, she
fought her inner fight and won the victory of cheer and energy
and peace. With no excuse and no complaints, and no relaxing of
her will before the limitations of her strength, she lived and