The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-03

political life in his hands and dared
vote with his conscience and against
his party in that piece Of political as
sassination known as the im2each-
ment Of Andrew Johnson-in all
these works DR.. Salter has made him
self Indispensable to those who de-
sire authoritative information re-
gardtng the middle west in the mid
die years of the nineteenth century.
Coupled with his bent as student
was his remarkable breadth of mind.
whose increasing years bring in
creasing intellectual and spiritual ex-
pansion. He never stopped growing.
His mental and spiritual horizon was
farther away in old age than in COM
parative youth, he was continually
pushing it back. His earliest SER
mons were somewhat narrow and
rigid. his latest were the product of
a mind that had learned that the
love of God Is broader than the
measure of mans mind and the heart
of the eternal is most wonderfully
kind. He has learned that as is the
majesty Of God SO also is His mercy.
He remained true to the fundamen.
tails Of the christian faith, but he
was akin in spirit to the great souls
who believe that God is the Father
Of all men; it was his faith that in
every nation he that feareth God and
worketh righteousness is accepted by
Him.
Paul insisted that the law is
schoolmaster to bring men to Christ.
Clement of Alexandria was equally
confident that the philosophy of the
non-christian world was another
schoolmaster to bring men to Christ.
Michael Angelo painted in immortal
figures in the ceiling of the Sistine
chapel his conviction that as the
prophets Of Israel revealed to Jeru.
salem the nature and character of
also revealers Of the will of God.
What Angelo did for the Sistine
chapel Raphael also did for more
than one church in Rome. Erasmus
wrote Of Plato to Sir Thomas Moore,
He had climbed hill In the dark
and stood calling to his comrades
below, Come on, this way lies the
east am advised we shall see the
sun rise anon But they never did.
What a christian he would have
made? All, he is one now. He and
Socrates, the veil long removed from
their eyes are sitting at Jesus feet.
Sancte Socrates, ora pro nobis."
John Wesley wrote. in his journal,
81 read today part Of the Medita-
lions of Marcus Aurelius. What
strange emperor? And what a strange
heather? ! make no doubt but this
is one of the many who shall come
from the east and west to sit down
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob
in the kingdom Of God"
It is to this goodly fellowship of
generous minded christians that this
man Of God belonged. There was no
limit that he was willing to put to
the power Of God to save men, or to
the infinite variety Of ways in which
serve Him.
1t was this large mindedness, this
masnanimity broadening into phil.
anthropy which made him so eminent
pastor. He became a veritable
shepherd of the flock, and his flock
was not a church but city He
heard as many confessions as
priest. His advice was sought on
all sorts Of questions. In his old
age, when I knew him, one of his
most marked mental characteristics
was his sagacity, the maturity Of his
Judgment the ripened and measured
wisdom with which he commented on
passing events, whether personal or
national The years had given him
sanity and poise of mind, while ex-
perience had revealed to him the
hidden motives of human action.
The law of kindness was upon his
tongue; in many conferences in
which the characters of men were
necessarily discussed never heard
him pronounce harsh judgment on