It is needless to say that his continuance in his office as well as the impositions of various public trusts, both State and church are of sufficient defense of this worthy man against his own modest verdict, his excellent judgment, his fund of general information, his unblemished character and his benevolence of heart together with a uniform and devoted religious fervor served and won from all appreciating public positions which he filled with credit and vacated with a clear record.

He was a clear, strong and forceful. minister, using little or no ornaments, but with a plain, unvarnished truth in good logical shape, and when he wished to demolish some odious sophistry, or rebuke some specious ,popular vice, whether by withering satire or sound argument, the word was indeed quick and powerful in his hands, and yet there were few who would sooner attribute the results to the proper source than he.

Of Revolutionary parentage, intelligent, patriotic and well read on the great questions of the day, he kept his good name untarnished by the sin of treason in any shape, and openly committed himself to the Union cause in various addresses. He was equally active and a consistent friend of the temperance cause. In the Legislature ,as a chairman of the committee on Vice and Immortality he reported and advocated a prohibitory liquor bill.

But it pleased an all wise Providence to close the career of this good and faithful man. His family mourn their head departed. the church a faithful preacher and safe counselor and humanity a friend. In return he bequeathed to them an unsullied character for their emulation. During his illness his mental faculties were unimpaired, his trust in his Redeemer was unswerving and his prospect of eternal life luminously bright. It cost him a struggle to give up his family, but through faith the victory came and, conscious that his hour was nigh, he rejoiced that Christ had prepared a place for him. He remarked, a short time before his departure, "this is the death struggle.” Evening came and he had slept away as peacefully as if lying down to pleasant dreams. Having served the Methodist Episcopal church and her laity and ministering for forty-three years, he now rests from his labors and his works do follow him.