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hair, bright blue smiling eyes, and a frank, hearty manner. He loved the walks of common life, and was never weary of gossip with the country people. His sympathy went out to meet those who were oppressed, and his large nature embraced all mankind. He will always be honoured and loved, for he had "genuine veneration for all that is divine, and genuine sympathy for all that is human."

This volume of Good Thoughts in Bad Times is reprinted now in this country because there is much in it of a nature relevant to our lown disturbed state. Fuller wrote and practised that he might eradicate error and implant the loftiest virtues in the heart of man. His mission was incomparably the highest God vouchsafes to mortals, and in peace and war he wrote and spoke such wisdom as time treasures for the benefit of the world. In our own days of trial it will be well to remember such words as these, which he penned when his own land was plunged in dangers manifold. "Music is sweet

est near or over rivers, where the echo thereof is best rebounded by the water. Praise for pensiveness, thanks for tears, and blessing God over the floods of affliction, makes the most melodious music in the ear of Heaven."

Boston, January, 1863.

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