. Home mission heroes : a series of sketches. filled the sameoffice of Superintendent of Home Missions inthe great State of Texas. CHAPTER VII. ONE OF THE MISSOURI TEN,TIMOTHY HILL, 1819— John B. Hill, * It is difficult to condense into the shortlimits of a sketch a statement of the facts nec-essary to the right understanding of any life-work worth studying. So at least we find itin writing of Timothy Hill^ perhaps the bestknown synodical missionary of his day. He was descended from pious and patriotic,energetic and thrifty Puritan pioneers, long-lived and fairly influential. H
. Home mission heroes : a series of sketches. filled the sameoffice of Superintendent of Home Missions inthe great State of Texas. CHAPTER VII. ONE OF THE MISSOURI TEN,TIMOTHY HILL, 1819— John B. Hill, * It is difficult to condense into the shortlimits of a sketch a statement of the facts nec-essary to the right understanding of any life-work worth studying. So at least we find itin writing of Timothy Hill^ perhaps the bestknown synodical missionary of his day. He was descended from pious and patriotic,energetic and thrifty Puritan pioneers, long-lived and fairly influential. His were schol-arly antecedents, inclination and opportuni-ties. His life was filled with continuousministerial activity from ordination to death,attended with more than ordinary honors and,presumably therefore, with reasonable suc-cess. His varied labors required constructiveand executive ability. He had historical in-stincts and literary tastes, for whose gratifica- * Son of Dr. Timothy Hill and synodical missionaryin Missouri.—Eds. 126. Timothy Hill, , 1H19-1887 TIMOTHY HILL 127 tion little time could be taken from the en-grossing cares of official life. The predomi-nant spirit of the whole life was evidentlymissionary. The childhood of Timothy Hill was doubt-less fairly happy and useful; but neithertheoretically nor experimentally could he en-dorse the oft-expressed sentiment that A boyis seeing the happiest days of his life. His own experience was that every periodof life^ however great its perplexities, was,as it should be, happier than any that pre-ceded. His home experiences will be reason-ably understood when we say that he wasborn and reared on a farm, in a small, retiredvillage, fifty miles from Boston. His broth-ers and older sisters, all much older than he,soon left home for distant homes of theirown. But to the youngest six of his sistershe was a companion, helper, pet and seven he fell from a stone wall and brokehis right arm. About fifty years la
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