For example, he was one day driven from his study at Oberlin by a refractory stovepipe which persisted in tumbling down.

At family worship in the evening he said "Oh, Lord! thou knowest how the temper of Thy servant has been tried to-day by that stovepipe!" Several other expressions, quite as quaint and as piquant, might be quoted, if the limits of this brief sketch would permit.

What would be deemed irreverent if spoken by some lips never sounded irreverent when uttered by such a natural, fearless and yet devout a spirit as Charles G.
Finney.

He retained his erect, manly form, his fresh enthusiasm and intellectual vigor, to the ripe old age of eighty-three.

On a calm Sabbath evening--in August, 1875--he walked in his garden and listened to the music from a neighboring church.