and wider reaching iiiHuence for good, are showing forth his teaching in their lives." In concluding this memoir as it relates to Mon- mouth College, we would only add that this devo- tion was so absorbing that under it he consecrated 38 A Busy Life. body, mind and heart to the work of his life. He had but one object in accepting the place of presi- dent and that was to glorify God in establishing a Christian college. To the accomplishment of this end, he put forth every exertion, laboring day and night with little or no cessation by way of vacation, till nature gave way under the protracted strain, and he was compelled to give the work to other hands. He was unselfish to a marked degree, as the Avriter saw him through twenty years of associated work. He possessed a strong mind and a large heart, a mind that looked after every detail and could reach forward ' and grasp results, and a heart that was generous, sympathetic, kind, tender and loving. It was a heart that sought to embrace in its strong affections every student of the college. And thus all were bound to him by the cords of an abiding love Avhose silken ties were never severed. And so it was that, when over the wires was flashed the intelligence that he was dead, the hearts of more than five hundred sons and daughters of Monmouth