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 John Marshall. was a child; and that the reason why he had never been a communicant was that it was but recently that he had become fully con vinced of the divinity of Christ, and he then "determined to apply for admission to the communion of our church — objected to commune in private, because he thought it his duty to make a public confession of .the Saviour — and, while waiting for improved

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showing therefrom what he became as a man. The different epochs of his life are so intertwined and mutually dependent that it is difficult to specify with accuracy any line of demarcation. He was a soldier, scholar, statesman and legislator — all in splendid proportions — before he reached the meridian of life. He was as great as any of the many noble sons

ROOM IN HOUSE AT RICHMOND, USED bY CHIEF-JUSTICE MARSHALL AS A LIBRARY.

health to enable him to go to the church for that purpose, he grew worse and died, with out ever communing." 1 John Marshall was a man of note long before he became either statesman or Chief Justice. The gift of genius had early been discovered, and it followed him all the days of his life. It is difficult to speak of him as a man without going into his life as a whole and 1 Mr. Justice Gray.

of Virginia in a day when Virginia led the Union. In private life abundant evidence is forthcoming that he was a model of what a husband and father ought to be. He was the idol of the household. His children held him in the most affectionate esteem. The servants vied with one another in their desire to serve him. In the long period of the illhealth of Mrs. Marshall the tenderest affec tion was most markedly manifested. He would permit no one to do for her anything that he could do, and when, on Christmas Day,