life were consecrated to the service of the Master and the good of humanity.  He died with the ministerial harness on.  At the time of the sad casualty which proved to be fatal, he had arrangements for continued work in the churches, both at home and abroad.  He finished his course with joy, for he knew there was laid up for him in heaven a crown of righteousness.  He labored assiduously in life, and now enjoys the sweet rest which remains for the people of God.

CHAPTER XLI.

TEMPERANCE AND CHURCH WORK,

BY ELD.  J. B. MCCLEERY.

ANALYSIS OF CHARACTER.

 1.  An indomitable will.

 2.  A sublime courage.

 3.  A never-satisfied hungering and thirst for knowledge.

 4.  An intense love for truth, and hatred of shams.

 5.  A tireless worker.

 6.  An advanced thinker.

In presenting this analysis it is by no means thought to be complete.  There are many phases of his well-known character left untouched, because this chapter would become a book, if all were presented in detail.  We touch upon these more salient ones, as presenting the well-known outlines of his later life, and trust the picture will find faithful recognition among his host of admirers.

Those who have known him ever since the past Territorial days of Kansas, will concede that, for the accomplishment of a purpose unto which he had once deliberately put his hand, no man ever breathed the fresh air of these broad prairies who followed the trail with more determination and keen, intelligent acquaintance with all bearings, overcoming difficulties, meeting objections, accepting temporary defeat (philosophically), but never relinquishing his purpose until victory crowned his effort, or failure was absolutely inevitable, than he.

Suited to this was a courage as heroic as Leonidas’ and sublime as Paul’s.  The stormy days of the fifties and sixties gave evidence of the physical side of this quality, and his entire life, of the moral.  He “feared no foe in shining armor,” and rather courted than avoided a passage at arms dialectic.  Eminently a man of peace, and loving the pursuits that make for it, he would see no principle of right unjustly assailed without girding himself for the conflict, and standing where the blows fell thickest.

Coming to this unknown country at an age when the ordinary mind takes firmest grasp of all intellectual things, and being thus deprived of that mental food necessary to satisfy and make strong, there was ever after a hungering for the things he did not have, that would not be satisfied.  I remember talking with him once, while sitting on his lumber wagon, resting his team in the cotton-wood bottoms east of Atchison, and he bewailed as much as a man of his fiber could, the fate that compelled him to toil day and night while his soul was starving for that intellectual food which lay all around him, but which he did not have time to gather and devour.  This, however, was not abnormal; for, even to the day of his death, he was a devoted disciple, sitting at the feet of every true Gamaliel.