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because underneath and over them all
was Doctor Hamln's faith in God. Like
Paul, he knew whom he had believed
Vigilant and interchangeable to the last in
planning and conducting all his many
and various campaigns, he never forgot
whom he served and on whose unfailing
cooperation he relied. This personal
fellowship of faith, baptising and Hum
mating all intellectual convictions, Kept
him true, without tremor, to his one mis-
sion of building the kingdom of his Lord
and Master Immense army contracts,
during the Crimean war, were instantly
declined whenever they would, In appear
arce even, compromise loyalty to thatone
lfe-purpose. And when his business
genius had accumulated $4,000, which
was simply secondary consideration
and result, it must all go into the
churches of his love and care. No stain
of self-seeking ever married his white
shield. He ever exceled in walking out
with his full weight upon the promises
of his Heavenly Father.
Like most successful men, Doctor
IIamlin could and did command co-opera-
ton. Did he give promise of exceptional
usefulness If educated, DR.. Payson's
church of Portland offered support.
Did ne take in hand to build the first
steam engine ever built in his native
state, Neal Dow and Others Joined
hands with him. a lghter-load of white
bread in the Golden Horn enlisted a New
York merchant in a service that did not
cease until Robert College was glorious
and abiding reality. Inscriptions Brit
sh contractors might conspire against
him, but their superiors saw the man
with whom they were dealing and he had
all needful right OF way. And, in life's
autumn. when most men are released from
large undertakings, he put new and per-
manent life into a college at home be-
cause her alumni believed in him and in
his power to conquer.
No man so earnest, even in a good
cause, could fail of having opponents,
some of them bitter, but few men, if any,
ever had truer or nobler friends. Did he
need home for the last years of his So
called retirement-a retirement full of
engagements such as some young men
would have dreaded daily mail at
once brought unsolicited offerings until
the last payment was made, the largest
being from an American resident Of
Scotland with whom, at one time, he had
vigorous discussion and difference oyer
question of wisdom in his CONSTANT
nople work.
No man ever loved his friends better
than did Doctor Hamlin. After a brief
acquaintance with the late DR.. William
Butler, the glorious pioneer of Methodist
missions in northern India, he was pres
ent at birthday gathering in Newton
Centre, finding his way from Lexington
In wild winter blizzard which detained
loving friends only few blocks distant.
And in the last months Of DR.. Furber Of
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60" and often made the same long and
circuitous journey of loving sympathy.
He made farewell visit to New Y Ork q,
Brooklyn and New Jersey, saying to his
friends it would be his last visit but it
must be as merry as a wedding" One
OF these visits was in the home of the
late Doctor Samuel Moody Haskins,
then in his only pastorate of more than
sixty years, of st. Marks church, Brook
lyn. DR.. Haskns and three sisters were
Doctor Hamln's earliest schoolmates in
Waterford, Maine. All were present at
this interview. After recalling far-aWay
days, In a glad fellowship Of reunion,
they celebrated and reconsecrated tine ir
mutual love by sacramental service.
When the volume now In preparation by
loving and competent hands appears, it
will publish intmacies and mutual SER
vice which will beautifully illustrate the
sweetness and light of earth's noblest
communion of hearts and lives.
In contrast with some of the world 5
best benefactors, Doctor Hamlin had
ideal compensations in his autumn life.
On very hot July MONDAY of 1889 he
sought relief from WEAKNESS in the study
of Armenian by going to the Galata
shore of the Bosphorus to distribute
"A
nationality. On his way he rescued a
disappearing American sailor, whom he
found, apparently dying of cholera in
the street. Under difficulties that would
have appalled, and repealed any other
man, he brought medicines, physician.
nursing and Bible teaching to the pitiful
wreck, until he saw him embarking for
America, clothed and saved in body and
soul. A year later he heard of one of
Father Taylor's flock at his bethel In
North Square, Boston, praying, "
thank Thee, o Lord, for the American
missionaries When | was dying bias
phemOus dog in the streets of CONSTANT
nope, Thou didst send Thy servants
Hamlln, Hebard and Goodell to save me,
soul and body. Since then | have been
trying to serve Thee, O Lord, and pray
for all the American missionaries the
world over. Amen"
In 1867, at hotel in Paris, he learned
thar his sailor friend had been very use
, full, helping Chaplain Damon in Hon
olulu. After twenty-five years more OF
: silence, Providence kindly brought It'd
= ings supremacy gratifying. His sailor
had been "A faithful Christian worker till
: his death in 1861. He had married anC
, left, Il son, Hamlin Cyrus. The Bible
: presented in Constantinople by his be
loved benefactor had been carefully
guarded for the twenty-five years and
2 was tenderly cherished by the son. Las
/ autumn, at the Ecumenical Council il
r New York, his hand was eagerly graspeC
= by an Armenian pastor whose churcl
and parsonage he had saved with tn,
5 first proceeds of his bakery in the Cri
c mean war.
Pehaps the best compensation of al
= was the veteran missiOnary's grateful
4 recognition of the Divine Hand in al
e his work Many of you remember hi