And these labors and successes are they that those who have read of them in different countries know him by.

These comprise and present the character they honor with respect.

What he was in the temper and disposition of his inner life, in daily walk and conversation, in the even and gentle amenities of Christian humility, in sudden trials of his faith and patience; what he was as a husband, father, friend and neighbor, to the poor, to the afflicted in mind, body or estate,-- all this will remain unwritten, but not unremembered by those who breathed and moved within that disk of light which his life shed around him.
Few men have lived in whom so many personal and moral qualities combined to command respect, esteem, and even admiration.

In stature, countenance, expression, and deportment, he was a noble specimen of fully developed English manhood.

To this first, external aspect, his kindly and generous dispositions, his genial manners, his delicate but dignified modesty, his large intelligence and large-heartedness, gave the additional and crowning characteristic of a Christian gentleman.