Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-10-02

Here he uus throNn lh cpAiati Niih as
kinds Of =. isms" compelling closer aPPii-
action 70 she study orthe Bible, ani eaus-
log the development Of hi- controversial
poaers. Ga she Alb OF Osiober, 1905,
4 be vas ordained as elder By Bishop Ne
Kcniree. Jusi previous 10 this, Aug ] IS
he bad been married to Frances Gaines,
up1a her I9th birthday. he bsing nearly
twenty-three.
In 1912 he was selected a. presiding
Elder Of the Wabash district 10 October,
/ 1924 be crossed to Illinois on account Of
the slavery question. lie was an earnest
hater Of slavery. and eoald not bear to
bring up his. family in Contact with it es-
pecially desiring to avoid the medication
of the idea that work was disgraceiul
With six children two Sons aud four daugh-
tiers, he settled in Sangamon county, Iii
nois; where he has lived most OF the time
since in 1927 he was made Presiding FL
der of the Illinois District. In 1882, at
the first Illinois Conference, having labor
ed incesantly foi nearly thirty years, he
asked TO be allowed for ono year, a super
anuated relation. which request was grant
ed, before night however the appeal came
for presiding Elder for the Quincy Dis
srict, aud denying himself the longed-for
rest all others refusing the position on &C.
count Of its difficulties, he accepted it. In
1896 he was elected to the legislature,
serving for two terms, and battling
against slrvery continually. For the next
twenty-five years he continued in active
service, and in 1852 came for tho first
time, 20 Boston to attend the General Con-
ference Great curiosity was manifest TO
see and hear him, but in most instances
his audience went away disappointed. He
did not dare to be himself, restrained ham,
pcred and embarrassed, he failed to fulfill
expectation 5. Once however he succeeded.
Invited by Father Taylor to preach for
him he consented upon condition Of being
allowed to preach in his own way, and
aging aside all restraints he had felt in
other Boston pulpits he preaccel in his
own way, regaining the reputation he had
50 nearly lost
Since 80 he has until, we think, within
a year remained in the Methodist work,
tossing little Of his old power but retaing
much Of what has given him influence in
his earlier days For the lest year he has
been falling gradually, and now after al,
most seventy years of service, having out
lived almost all his contemporaries, he is
dead.
During his entire life he was noted for
his eccentricities, so much, so that posi-
bly, this value of his services may have
been forgotten. No man in the West cx-
ercised a greater influence for half CEN
tury than he did. During the whole of
his long life it had but one impulse--to
plant the Methodist church in the West.
This impulse controlled every plan, every
act. 1t was his master /; he knew rothing
Else, BELIEVING that denomination to be
mel chosen Of God for the spread of the
Gospel, he gave himself up to the work
he believed himself called to, and went
wherever there was work to be done.
Possessed Of great powers Of endurance,
md Of lndomitable will close student
,fthe Bible, powerful in controversy,
nan OF the common people, with great
executive ability, inspiring by his very
presence activity among all with whom he
,ame in contact, wherever he went he be-
ame mighty power for good. He lived /
o see the West, when he began preach
Nc, was an almost unbroken wilderness.
'ecome the heart of the nation, and the
Jhurch he loved one of its mightiest pow
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