. Fifty years in China : an eventful memoir of Tarleton Perry Crawford, ssionaryservice of half a century with views far differentfrom those he began with; but his evolution was notaway from, but back to, the word of God. This wasthe reason for his progress far in advance of hisbrethren. He had reached that sunny eminence fromwhich human contrivances and the power of the liv-ing God could be rightly compared and judged; andalong with that knowledge came the power to walkin the light of the truth. He was honest, intelligently honest, perseveringlyhonest, if he was anything. Being no mean
. Fifty years in China : an eventful memoir of Tarleton Perry Crawford, ssionaryservice of half a century with views far differentfrom those he began with; but his evolution was notaway from, but back to, the word of God. This wasthe reason for his progress far in advance of hisbrethren. He had reached that sunny eminence fromwhich human contrivances and the power of the liv-ing God could be rightly compared and judged; andalong with that knowledge came the power to walkin the light of the truth. He was honest, intelligently honest, perseveringlyhonest, if he was anything. Being no mean philoso-pher, his thinking on religious subjects was intense;and what makes his close of life like the fall of thetall poplar, or the long-leafed pine, was that his ownrules of private life and conduct kept pace with thelight of his thinking and learning. What a benedic-tion it was to those who were favored with his pres-ence in his riper years, to listen to his words of in-struction and wisdom, which came out in battalionsfrom his full storehouse of experience and memory!. ESTIMATE OF CHARACTER. 297 Some men come and go like the noonday shadows,or hke the flitting bird, but into whatever heart entered he remained a permanent and wel-come guest. What a rare combination of greatness! Greatphysical and mental strength presided over by astrong faith in the unseen verities of another world!Simple and guileless as a child, and so philanthropicthat even those who acted as enemies toward himnever put themselves outside the sphere of his goodwishes. In no sense was he a narrow person; forwhile strict with himself, and as narrow as the truthin his own practice, he was as broad as the ocean inhis love of all his brethren. He could love his brethren, while opposing theirerrors. He was too great and too original a man tobe carried along by the current, and later years willappreciate the brawny man in his small canoe, whokept his bearings and reached the port in spite ofthe time
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