genius for popular eloquence. But he had also as truly unique gifts
and graces for personal friendship. Without a particle of cant, he
possessed profound religious faith and devotion. He walked with God
and had no gifts which were not consciously devoted to his service.
At the same time he was intensely human. He never affected to be
ethereal. He was a son of man, a child of nature. And he touched life
at many points. His sympathy was immensely more than mere pity. He
was instinctively, as well as religiously generous. Open hearted,
open minded, genuine to the core, quick, sensitive, responsive,
impulsive, enthusiastic; whatever he did, he did with a will and
noble zest. Happy in a certain "divine sense of victory and success,"
he also delighted 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,