Dr.Guthrie told me that he swept the assembly away by his stately bearing, sonorous voice and classic oratory.

The men whom he moved so mightily were such men as Arnot and Guthrie and Rainy and Bonar,--the men who had listened to the grandest efforts of Duff and of Chalmers.

I well remember that when I had to address the same assembly (as the American delegate) the next year I was more disturbed by the apparition of my predecessor, Dr.
Adams, than by all the brilliant audience before me.
Dr.Adams was gifted with what is of more practical value than genius, and that was marvelous _tact_.

That was with him an instinct and an inspiration.

It led him to always speak the right word, and do the right thing at the right time.