Excerpt from William Plumer Jacobs: Literary and Biographical

In line with my promise to write you about Father, I think the biggest thing in his character was his absolute. Altruism. He lived, not for himself, but for others. This was based upon his deep religious convictions.

As a theologian, he was dogmatic, and absolutely orthodox, but he was not formal. He took his religion as the greatest fact in life. He believed with an implicit faith, extraordinary in these times of formalism, and it was that faith which made possible his great altruism. He was a strong believer in the efficacy of prayer, and he proved experimentally through many years of experience that God would answer the prayer of faith.

He believed that we should live as Jesus lived. He believed this, not merely in the way of assent to its truth, but in the way of consecration to its execution. It was a daily matter, an hour ly matter with him. I have no doubt that many a time he felt that he fell short of his duty and his obligation to live as Christ lived, but whatever temporary aberrations may have occurred which he may have been able to see, there were few others who were able to see any such short-comings, and the wonder is that a mere human being could have lived so closely to the doctrinal standards to which he so strongly adhered.

The product of such a life every one can see, and all admire. They are amazed that, in his age, it was possible for a man to live for others, for the sake of his faith in God and his feeling of obligation to do his duty. Of course every one, to a certain de gree, is guided by his conscience and lives according to his doc trine, but there are few, if any, in our time and acquaintance who had so clear a vision of God and of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who so absolutely believed and in his belief attempted to emulate, and there are precious few who in any time have been able so to Walk in His way.

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