by one gifted with administrative capacity, viz., the conversion of great numbers of persons. Every charge he served was visited by revivals, the most of which were notable. It is rare when we do not read of from one to two hundred converts added to the church. It is impossible to estimate from these figures-the statistics of churches built and men converted-all the moral meaning of the life, or measure the result of forces, he, under God, set in motion through those busy and pious years. Whither he has gone "his works do follow him," and shall be his swift, sure witnesses in the Great Day, when they shall "rise up and call him blessed." They are all known of Him who treasures up even the tears of His saints.

The aged

And here on earth, in the Church he loved and served, his memory is blessed. people who linger where he labored, cherish yet his name. It is fragrant to them as "precious ointment poured forth." And the annals of Methodism, that has had so many thousands of devoted ministers as to excusably forget some, will not suffer his name to be forgotten. Bishop Simpson, in his "Cyclopædia of Methodism," says, "He occupied prominent positions as a pastor, was a sound, experimental preacher, and greatly devoted to his work."

A memorial volume of his own Conference accords him a place among the worthies, and records a saying of the venerable Bishop Waughwhich contains as high praise as should be coveted by any man-uttered once in his Council: "JOHN K. SHAW would be useful anywhere."

And the official memoir, adopted by the Newark Conference at its session of 1859, and published in the archives of the Methodist Episcopal Church, contains these words, which follow a recital of the main facts of his career:

"During the whole of his ministerial life he followed the directions of Paul to Timothy: 'Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate upon these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all.' Thus lived one of the most devoted

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and useful of Methodist preachers."

And having lived well and labored nobly, he died most happily, not in the decrepitude of age, nor in the loneliness of one who sighs, "my company before is gone," nor after years of weary waiting for the coming of his Lord, but in the prime of life, in the thick of the contest, in possession of all his

faculties, with "his eye

undimmed and his natural force unabated"; and so, out of the best and at the best of life, he ascended to the fulfillment of his highest hopes, to the perfection of his being, and through the loss of only what was least, lowest, transient, and indifferent, to the gain of all that was holiest, noblest, essential, and eternal, in his nature. He has gone to the "general assembly of the Church," to "an innumerable company of angels," to "the spirits of the just made perfect," and to "Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to God, the Judge of all."

Thither may those that loved him, who linger yet on earth, follow gladly in the time which God shall appoint.