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 Garfield and of Lord Shaftesbury; whose words were widely read, not only in Great Britain, but all the world over; who entertained, by the flashes of his shrewd wit, even those who were not attracted to his principles, will leave a great and visible gap in English life."

And this—after Chalmers—greatest preacher Europe has seen in this century, who said: "I think I am bound never to preach a sermon without preaching to sinners. I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach;"—was his a delicate, half-developed, hap-hazard, neglected sort of a body? Look him over a little and see. Power—broad, square, deep—written all over him. The mighty chest that made his clear, vigorous voice go easily to all those six thousand and more who packed that Tabernacle Sundays; the thick neck; the set, determined, forceful-looking head and eye; the general massiveness; and everything he did and did not do showing that that is just what he was—massive. Another of the great divines like Luther, Chalmers, Guthrie, Beecher, Hall, Moody, specially fitted by nature to deal with great assemblies, and move them as he liked.

The New York Tribune of March 3, 1895, said of Professor Blackie: "To scarcely any personage could the much over-used title 'Grand Old Man' be more appropriately given than the illustrious educator whose death is herewith recorded. Half a year older than Mr. Gladstone; he bore his age even more lightly, and with much less physical infirmity, than that marvellous veteran; and maintained his versatile intellectual activity unimpaired to the very end of his life. In his departure the world loses almost the last of the great figures of Scottish scholarship who long made their country's capital the 'Athens of the North.' As a young man he spent some years at Göttingen, Berlin, and Rome, devoting himself