lighted keenly in the successes of others; and there was
that about him which made every one wish him to succeed, expect him
to succeed, and apt to tell him so when he had done well. And yet he
was, to a singular degree, free from any promptings of personal
vanity. He had pride but was not proud; least of all was he
conceited. He never did poorly; he almost always did brilliantly;
there was not an indolent fibre in his being. He did well because he
exerted himself to do his best. He was happy in the power God gave
him, and accepted joyously the opportunities which others eagerly
offered him for doing the things that were in line with the main
purpose of his life.

He had an exquisitely sure and alert sense of honor. He could not do
a mean thing. He won friends, and never lost any; because all felt
that he was not only so genuine and unselfish, so bright and full of
happy humor, so deep and exuberant in affection, but that he was so
perfectly to be trusted. No one knew better his own rights, or was
less wanting in any courage that might be needed to maintain them. He
was capable of high degrees of indignation, and his life work,
championing the rights of wronged and depressed classes and races,
furnished him with but too many occasions for holy anger. His soul
often burned with intensest indignation. When one night the people in
Quitman, Georgia, burned over their heads the seminary for colored
girls, or when the Georgia Legislature was enacting the infamy of the
Glenn Bill, his heart was hot as any Babylonian furnace, aflame with
indignation, as though touched with the divine wrath, the anger of
love. And yet not for a moment could one detect in him any spark of
bitterness or malice.

But chilled now is that heart of flame; stilled now are the mighty
pulsations of that better than chivalric spirit, which up and down
the land, all over the East and the West, during those fourteen
years, did so much to _educate the churches_, and to remind the
country of the "kindness and love of God our Saviour, which hath
appeared toward man," and which ought with all possible celerity to
be manifested by men, by men of all races and of all classes, toward
one another, and to promote which this American Missionary
Association finds supremely its reason to be.

The Society has had, has, and will have, other men in its service of
splendid personal characteristics and having peculiar fitness for the
signally providential parts assigned