I will praise him-I will praise him!" A moment after, he inquired, "Who are in the room? Call all in-call all-let a great many come." And then he exclaimed again, “Wonderful-glory--Jesus reigns!" After this, he sank down exhausted, and fell asleep in Jesus. Thus he died, in the fifty-first year of his age, and descended to his grave like a shock of corn, in his season, fully ripe. Thus he died, like a rich, luxuriant tree, "broken down and killed by the fruit." Thus he died,

"And with the everlasting arms embraced "Himself around, stood in the dreadful front "Of battle high, and warred victoriously "With death and hell; and now was come his rest, "His triumph day,

"Waiting the promised crown, the promised throne, "The welcome and approval of his Lord.”

Such are the triumphs of Jesus' love. "If any man serve me, him will my Father honor." Such are the trophies of missionary grace. Such are the honors of the missionary cause. Hall wore them fresh and vivid, and they decked his grave. And Newell wore

them; and Fiske and Parsons wore them; and Nichols, and Warren, and Mills wore them, in all their fragrance and splendor.

'A noiseless band of heavenly soldiery
"From out the armory of God equipped,
"High on the pagan hills, where Satan sat

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Encamped, and o'er the subject kingdoms threw "Perpetual night, to plant Immanuel's cross; and in the wilderness

"Of human waste, to sow eternal life."

"He that will lose his life for my sake, the same shall find it." Eternity alone can tell how much such men loved the heathen. And by how much they loved the heathen, by so much will the measure of their joys increase, when they go up with the "nations of the saved" before the Son of man. O! what a scene is that, when pagan nations and the missionaries, and men that have been the means of their salvation, shall stand before the throne of God! What a song is that, when they raise their melody of grateful hearts to heaven! There is Worcester. And there is Evarts.

"See where he walks on yonder mount,'that lifts "Its summit high on the right hand of bliss, "Sublime in glory, talking with his peers

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"Of the incarnate Savior's love, and passed Affliction, lost in present joy. See how

"His face with heavenly ardor glows, and how "His hand, enraptured, strikes the golden lyre, “As now, conversing of the Lamb once slain, "He speaks; and how from vines that never hear "Of winter, but in monthly harvest yield "Their fruit abundantly, he plucks the grapes "Of life."

But I shall not meet your expectations, nor gratify my own wishes, without attempting to present a brief outline of the character of this great and excellent man.

The intellectual character of Mr. Evarts was distinguished for strong powers of reasoning, [great clearness and precision, and remarkable soundness and comprehensiveness of judgment. He possessed large and rich treasures of original thought, and great powers of illustration. He had great activity and copiousness of mind. He was remarkably capable of making his existing stock of

ideas extensive materials of knowledge. Every thought he acquired added to his capital, and was immediately put out at interest. He had a taste for literary and scientific pursuits, and engaged in them with great ardor and zeal. He was fond of speculation, and yet he was no theorist. Rarely do habits of abstraction and habits of business unite, as they were found in him. His talent for minute and rapid observation was not exceeded even by his talent for comparison and arrangement. But what was peculiar in the intellectual character of Mr. Evarts was the exact adjustment of the several faculties of his mind to each other. He once said to a friend, that, in early life, he was inclined to be hasty and positive in his judgment. But a remarkable balance was observable in the powers and operations of his mind. At almost any moment he could apply his mind to almost any subject; could pursue that subject at pleasure; could change it for another, and resume it at any time, and almost in any place, and in the same strain of sentiment, however elevated.

His memory was remarkably tenacious-very remarkably so for dates, considering the strength of his powers for general analysis, reasoning, and judgment.*

He had a great taste for statistical observations and calculations, and, indeed, for the whole science of political economy. Such

* He was rarely mistaken in dates; and there was a surprising number of events, of which he could state in a moment the precise time of their occurrence. He once allowed one of his associates at the missionary rooms to question him as to the day of the month and of the week on which he entered different places on a journey he had taken, some years before, in the southern states; and he invariably answered promptly, and without any apparent calculation. When he was asked, by what process of mind he contrived to associate so many places with the day of the week and of the month in which he visited them, he replied, that the only account he could give was that it was easy.

† He made a calculation of the probable results of the census of the United States for 1820, which was early published in the Boston Recorder, which came so near the actual result, for each distinct state in the union, that it was scarcely credible that the calculation was merely a conjectural one.