. Home mission heroes : a series of sketches. e support of churcheswhich would otherwise require aid from the funds ofthe Home Board. Of their twenty-seven churchesreported in the Minutes, twenty-one are aided by theHome Board. They have a Sabbath school attend-ance of over eight hundred.—Eds.] CHAPTER VI. THE PATRIARCH OF TWO SYNODS,HENRY LITTLE, 1800— George O. Little, * Dr. Little was born in Boscawen, NewHampshire, March twenty-third, 1800. Hedied in Madison, Indiana, February twenty-fifth, 1882. His religions life,* says one of his biog-raphers, dated back so far into his
. Home mission heroes : a series of sketches. e support of churcheswhich would otherwise require aid from the funds ofthe Home Board. Of their twenty-seven churchesreported in the Minutes, twenty-one are aided by theHome Board. They have a Sabbath school attend-ance of over eight hundred.—Eds.] CHAPTER VI. THE PATRIARCH OF TWO SYNODS,HENRY LITTLE, 1800— George O. Little, * Dr. Little was born in Boscawen, NewHampshire, March twenty-third, 1800. Hedied in Madison, Indiana, February twenty-fifth, 1882. His religions life,* says one of his biog-raphers, dated back so far into his child-hood that of its beginning there is no incidentto be related. In it there was no break untildeath. Rather, it would be correct to saythat the little rill that began away backamong the hills of New Hampshire almostinsensibly widened and deepened and grewuntil it reached the waters of the great oceanof immortal life. A man who is connected with the manage-ment of large railroad interests in an Im- * Son of Dr. Henry Little.— Henry Little, , 1800-1882 HENRY LITTLE 107 portant centre and who is highly respectedfor his religious character, Mr. W. N. Jack-son of Indianapolis, sends me this encomium: Dr. Littles character from the meridianto the end was one of the most perfect thatwas ever presented to a community in whichI have lived. One of the most attractive features of hisreligious character was his Christian him to be at his Masters work seemed tobe as natural and as necessary as it is for thephysical vitality of a child to manifest itselfin the exercise of its bodily powers. He spent all his early years, almost up tohis majority, on the farm. For farm life,not only agriculture but the raising and tend-ing of cattle, he had a love that amounted toa passion. When imported merino sheepwere worth a thousand dollars each he waschosen to take care of a flock of them, watch-ing them all day and folding them by nightwith a knowledge and a care of ea
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