distrust of himself, and an unfaltering trust in
Him through whose aid he was strengthened to
keep them in abeyance. By God's help he con-
verted the tears of his angels into pearls.

It was this constant and successful warfare
upon every unworthy and degrading propensity
that sought an asylum in his heart that made him
such a moral force in the country, that invested
any occasion to which he lent his presence with an
especial dignity, that gave to his personal exam-
ple a peculiar power and authority, that made his
career a model which no one can contemplate
without being edified, which no one can study
closely without an inclination to imitate, and
which no one can imitate without strengthening
some good impulses and weakening the hold upon
him of every bad one.

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