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of the prime spirit of their alma mater. One of these sons, Major E. W. McClaughry, at the memorial service in Monmouth, said, " Not only in our own land but in Egypt, India, Syria and the islands of the sea, are more than a hundred of these sons of Monmouth College making proof of their ministry, and of his faithfulness in their Christian education, besides the hundreds of men and women in other relations of life who by labors abundant and wide-reaching influence for good, are showing forth his teaching in their lives." In concluding this memoir as it relates to Mon- mouth College, we would only add that this devo- tion was so absorbing that under it he consecrated 38 A Busy Life. body, mind and heart to the work of his life. He had but one object in accepting the place of presi- dent and that was to glorify God in establishing a Christian college. To the accomplishment of this end, he put forth every exertion, laboring day and night with little or no cessation by way of vacation, till nature gave way under the protracted strain, and he was compelled to give the work to other hands. He was unselfish to a marked degree, as the writer saw him through twenty years of associated work. He possessed a strong mind and a large heart, a mind that looked after every detail and could reach