his creed. Discarding what are commonly called "plans of
salvation," he believed in the light "which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world," and that if people would follow this light, they
would thus seek "the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness and all
other things needful would be added thereunto." He was a devoted member
of the Society of Friends, in which he held the position of elder,
during the last twenty-five years of his life. That peculiar doctrine of
the Society, which repudiates systematic divinity and with it a paid
ministry, he held in special reverence, finding confirmation of its
truth in the general advocacy of Slavery, by the popular clergy of his
day.

When he was quite advanced in years, and the Anti-slavery agitation grew
warm, he was solicited to join an anti-slavery society, but on hearing
the constitution read, and finding that it repudiated all use of
physical force on the part of the oppressed in gaining their liberty, he
said that he could not assent to that--that he had long been engaged in
getting off slaves, and that he had always advised them to use force,
although remonstrating against going to the extent of taking life, and
that now he could not recede from that position, and he did not see how
they could always be got off without the use of some force.

His faith in an overruling Providence was complete. He believed, even in
the darkest days of freedom in our land, in the ultimate extinction of
Slavery, and at times, although advanced in years, thought he would live
to witness that glorious consummation. It is only in a man's own family
and by his wife and children, that he is really known, and it is by
those who best knew, and indeed, who only knew this good man, that his
biographer is most anxious that he should be judged. As a parent, he was
not excessively indulgent, as a husband, one more nearly a model is
rarely found. But his kindness in domestic life, his love for his wife,
his son and his grandchildren, and their reciprocal love and affection
for him, no words can express.

It was in his father's household in his youth and in his own household
in his mature years, that was fostered that wealth of love and
affection, which, extending and widening, took in the whole race, and
made him the friend of the oppressed everywhere, and especially of those
whom it was a dangerous and unpopular task to befriend.

The tenderness and thoughtfulness of his disposition are wel