mposition.

Haynes was always industrious, his early habits having been formed in
the rigid pursuits of business. At home he was a man of the highest
domestic virtue. His family government was strictly parental, based on
reason and principle, not on passion or blind indulgence. He was
always strict, ever adhering to a standard of the most Puritanic
order. Having early formed the high ideals of uprightness, no man
could ever bring against him the charge of dishonesty. Above all he
was a man of consistent piety and resignation to the will of God.

His dying testimony was: "I love my wife, I love my children, but I
love my Saviour better than all." A plain marble marks his grave. On
it is this inscription, prepared by himself:

"Here lies the dust of a poor hell-deserving sinner, who ventured
into eternity trusting wholly on the merits of Christ for
salvation. In the full belief of the great doctrines he preached
while on earth, he invites his children and all who read this, to
trust their eternal interest on the same foundation."

So lived and died one of the noblest of the New England Congregational
ministers of a century ago. Of illegitimate birth, and of no
advantageous circumstances of family, rank or station, he became one
of the choicest instruments of Christ. His face betrayed his race and
blood, and his life revealed his Lord.

W. H. MORSE.
HARTFORD, CONN.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Cooley, _Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel
Haynes_, p. 36.

[2] _Ibid._, p. 38.

[3] The pious Deacon Rose lived some years thereafter and had the
pleasure of seeing Lemuel a distinguished man. See Cooley, _Sketches
of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel Haynes_, p. 40.

[4] Cooley, _Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel
Haynes_, p. 48.

[5] Cooley, _Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel
Haynes_, p. 60.

[6] Cooley, _Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel
Haynes_, p. 63.

[7] _Ibid._, p. 66.

[8] Simmons, _Men of Mark_, p. 677.

[9] _Ibid._, p. 678.

[10] Special Report of the United States Commissioner of Education,
1871, p. 342.

[11] Woodson, _The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861_, p. 280.

[12] Cooley, _Sketches of the Life and Character of the Rev. Lemuel
Haynes_, p. 67.

[13] _Ibid._, p. 169; _Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science_, XLIX, p. 23