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favorable impress upon the minds of all, and won the confi-
dence and respect of those who knew him.

His personal character was full of noble qualities, and his
life was the embodiment of honor and integrity.

His moral and Christian example could be studied with
profit by old and young, and endeared him to his many
friends, and made them feel more keenly their irreparable
loss.

He died full of years, honored and beloved by his people;
and from his devotion to his church, (of which he was a
main support and pillar,) from his pure life, and from
his manifold good works, we can console ourselves in the
belief that he has attained that heavenly home for which we
all should strive.

His death, and the death of others whose voices but a few
years since were heard in this chamber—some of them taken
from us in the prime of life, may well cause us to reflect,
that we know not

Which of us may win the tomb,
And leave behind to other—
The task of penning lines in eulogy,

Of a dear beloved brother.

At the conclusion of the address of Mr. Lawrence,
Mr. Steiner arose and said :
Mr. President:

I hope that I may be allowed to pay my feeble tribute to
the memory of our deceased brother, although my acquaint-
ance with him began with the Session of 1874. During its
continuance however, it rapidly ripened into a genial and
profound friendship. There are those with whom we may
be thrown into daily contact for months and even years, with-
out ever being admitted into the inner circle of their friend-
ship, and of whom we can only say we own their acquaint-
ance but do not really know them. They are devoid of sym-
pathy for others, and do not appreciate sympathy when it
would feign draw them to the hearts of their companions.
They prefer to lead solitary lives, even when mingling in the
bustle and tumult of the world, perhaps because their very
existence is rooted and grounded in self, and hence can
only bear selfish fruit. But then, again, there are others,
whose souls revolt at solitude and whose chief happiness is
in association with kindred spirits, where heart can beat in
unison with heart and swell with the loving burden of fra-
ternal sympathy,—who gather around them the genial and
the enthusiastic of all ages and bind them to their affections
as with chords of steel. They bring a weird attraction with