When I behold this beautiful well-kept farm, I see its wide, extending fields, its running brooks, its whitewashed fences, its excellent buildings, in the burning of one of which our brother met his death--when I behold these things, I say, I am made to exclaim that God hath blessed him in basket and store.
Yes, a great man in business.
"Secondly, he was a great man in his home, and by the way, there is where the true greatness of a man is tested.

In the death of our esteemed brother the home is the loser.

It loses a loving husband.

It loses a considerate father and an efficient bread-winner.
"Thirdly, our brother was a great man in the community.

I am told that he was a public-spirited man.