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Rh of God that burdened his heart. He wrestled with God like the patriarchs of old, and he rose early, like the Saviour, to renew his vows and his service of devotion. The same comprehensiveness and fervour, propriety and directness of expression, characterized all his religious exercises, and those that read his history were at no loss to discover the secret of his piety and the source of his abiding consolation.

There was always something remarkable in his whole deportment and carriage. While his stature was manly and erect, his movement strikingly dignified and commanding, and in his intercourse nothing servile- and low, there was at the same time a winning modesty, a just appreciation of himself. And while he made no claim to the kind regard and attention of others, he was never ungrateful for their condescension to his low estate.

He never seemed to know that his mind was at all superior to that of others