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Rh is not the money left by Isaiah Williamson but the man back of the money that we want to remember.

All who enjoy such benefactions as this earnest Quaker, and men like him, have given, under conditions that can be accepted by self-respecting young men, should learn to know their benefactor well enough to accord him much more honor than the mere politeness of ordinary gratitude. The man himself can become a living friend to every young man who will stop to think that the past had in it a man who willed his life, his earnings, and his example to them in the hope that thereby he may make the way of life easier for them. Well brought up and cultivated enough to enjoy the luxuries of life, he called himself off from them to a life of great labor and frugality, that he might have the luxury of being their servant.

He set for all young men a splendid example in walking as a youth from his mother's door to the last day of his life on the straight road of unspotted honor, truthfulness and highest integrity. A good beginning makes a good ending.