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 William Campbell Preston. and dared maintain them. How few such men there are! We need them in all the departments of life,— in the pulpit, at the bar, on the hustings, in the editorial sanc tum, and, indeed, everywhere. How hard it is to be independent! How easy it is to go with the crowd! I cannot close more appropriately than by quoting the following lines, spoken on one occasion before the Preston Society of Wofford College, and with which Mrs. Martin so gracefully concludes her sketch of Preston : —

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• О for the thoughts, pure, holy, high, Whence spring the words right, wise, and true! О for the heart them to imbue With sweet and winning sympathy — Refreshing as the early dew, And Such strengthening words might charm as the an honey angel's new!ear, Such words we mortals sometimes hear. • Such words once spake a man I knew — To Whose A Our Unto Soglorious Must sympathetic, fitPreston, be the the every the world, speaker 'old bent 'golden-mouthed,' word man tender, toof for seemed show head eloquent,' his true how part." and Heaven-sent, —blent heart. seemed lent