Page:Memoir of Dr James Alexander (1795-1863), Wooler by his son-in-law, Sir John Struthers, 1863.pdf/13

7 suffering and saving life, but as a man of genial and sunny spirit, and a good man, he must have used his influence often consciously, but much more have diffused it by his unconscious example. Such a life for forty long years, during which he must have seen generations of human beings come and go, could not fail to have a wide effect, felt not only during his lifetime, but now after he has passed away. Let us therefore honour his memory. We do so not merely as a just tribute to the memory of the man, but because such lives are an honour to the profession in which we belong, and deserve to be held up as an example to the younger numbers and as an encouragement to those who are now engaged in the daily work of their profession, that their lives are not being spent in vain.