. Life of Col. Jesse Harper of Danville, Ills.; farm-boy, lawyer, editor, author, orator, scholar and reformer. coined in speech, a veryCalifornia of the golden nuggets of Gods grandest truthsstamped, not with the form of eagle or goddess, butwith the shining face of emancipated and glorified hu-manity. What, asked of me a certain person who believesmore in making money than in making reforms, didColonel Harper ever do (meaning financially) for hisfamily? I replied: He lifted it, with loving and Her-culean labor, from the common clods of the valley to theproud and shining heights of his sublim
. Life of Col. Jesse Harper of Danville, Ills.; farm-boy, lawyer, editor, author, orator, scholar and reformer. coined in speech, a veryCalifornia of the golden nuggets of Gods grandest truthsstamped, not with the form of eagle or goddess, butwith the shining face of emancipated and glorified hu-manity. What, asked of me a certain person who believesmore in making money than in making reforms, didColonel Harper ever do (meaning financially) for hisfamily? I replied: He lifted it, with loving and Her-culean labor, from the common clods of the valley to theproud and shining heights of his sublime kinship with thegreat names of the noblest and best in human history,among which his own name will stand linked forever tothe stars and the ages. And this, I added, my friend,not all the gold on earth could have done. Colonel Harper devoutly believed in the literal secondcoming of Christ, to make this old earth over again, andto make the New Earth the actual home of God aswell as the home of purified humanity, dwelling in re-newed bodies and made absolutely free and happy foreverin busy and active REV. W. B. GALLAHER ,->L^SS Life of Col. Jesse Harper. 39 He was both profound and enthusiastic on this greattheme, and it was, to my certain knowledge, his innermeat and drink, his perpetual feast and fountain of peaceand joy, in the honored quiet of his declining years. Instead of sorrowing and murmuring and repining inold age because the reforms in which he had labored withsuch brilliant hopes, such tireless zeal, such mightyenergy and such lofty enthusiasm, had not been accom-plished; he only became enlarged and sweetened in hismoral and intellectual nature, seeing in the second com-ing of Christ, with all power and glory, his lifelongideal earth and its government, with all human tyranny,oppression and evil cast out of its happy borders, at lastfully and forever realized. It was equally a joy and an honor for anyone to havethe friendship and confidence of this great,
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