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ROBERT GARRY
ROBERT GARRY

“THE MAN OF ONE BOOK”

““WHOo WENT ABOUT DOING GooD”

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FAITHFUL DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST
SKILFUL AND SUCCESSFUL PERSONAL WORKER

A MEMORIAL OF A RARE LIFE

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
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A SKetca or His Earty Lire........ ee |
CHAPTER II
Our First MEETING anD WorK ToGETHER
IN LOCKPORT............0. 000s eee 7
CHAPTER III

His DEVELOPMENT IN THE STUDY OF THE
BIBLE AND THE Use He Mane or It 21

CHAPTER IV
His QUALITIES..............00c eee eeee 35
CHAPTER V
Some or His QuaLities EXHIBITED IN
PersonaL LETTERS................ 43
CHAPTER VI
ToGETHER IN NESTLEWOOD............. 51
CHAPTER VII
Last Days ann Home Gorne.......... 60

CHAPTER VIII
OTHER TRIBUTES.............00 ccc euee 68

APPENDIX
Some or His Brsite ReaDINGs......... 79
PREFACE

Recently there died of pneumonia two sol-
diers in service. One of these was a line offi-
cer of distinction, well born and well bred, a
politician well up the ladder of national life,
much talked about, a member of several clubs,
comparatively young. He was wealthy and
left a fairly large fortune to his family.

The other was an old soldier, who had
served with distinction in the Civil War, and
at the time of his death was engaged in the
Young Men’s Christian Association War
Work, in Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg,
South Carolina. He was born of poor parents,
reared amidst poverty, inured to hardships,
and lived a comparatively obscure life. He
was never in the “limelight,” but spent and
ended his days in the “light of the knowledge
of the glory of God.” Of this old soldier I
am asked to write a memorial.

Although I have always dreaded the task
of making a book, I attempt this one with
pleasure because of my love for the man; be-
cause I knew him so long and so intimately;
and because I am persuaded that a sketch of

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the rare life of Robert Garry will quicken
interest in the Book which he loved so ardently
and studied so diligently. And I cherish the
hope that it may deepen desire in many a life
to do personal Christian work, which was a
passion with my friend.
S. M.S.
Newton, Mass.
CHAPTER I
A SKETCH OF HIS EARLY LIFE

The parents of Robert Garry were born in
Ireland and came to Canada in the early
forties of the last century.

Robert was born at McCaskills Mills, Can-
ada, November 20, 1844. The family came to
the States in 1848, stopping for a brief time
in Lewiston, N. Y., and then moving to Lock-
port, N. Y. There they lived until 1851, when
they settled in the nearby town of Medina.
Here young Garry spent his boyhood days.
In 1856 his father died and Robert was obliged
to help support the family. He had carried
drills in a stone quarry when he was only ten
years old, for which laborious work he re-
ceived thirty-one cents per day. A few weeks
after the death of his father, the boy began to
sell fruit and candy at the railroad station in
Medina and on trains running to and from
that station.

For two winters, he spent about two hours
a day in school, and with this. scanty equip-
ment he was obliged to begin his life struggle.

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In 1859, he secured a job firing a boiler in a
stave factory, at which he remained until the
breaking out of the Civil War. Two of his
older brothers enlisted; and Robert, fired with
patriotic enthusiasm, made three attempts to
follow them, but each time was returned to
his home, from which he had gone without the
consent of his mother. He was reared in the
Roman Catholic Church, and it was through
the efforts of the priest that he was appre-
hended and brought back. Not daunted by his
repeated failures and arrests, with that in-
trepidity which was his prominent character-
istic in after years, he made another and this
time successful attempt. Stealing away from
home at night and boarding a train for Ro-
chester, about forty miles distant, he very
soon presented himself at the recruiting sta-
tion in that city for enlistment. Passing a
good physical examination, and being of fit
age, according to his own statement—although
he was only seventeen—he was accepted, mus-
tered into service October 15, 1861, assigned
to Company F, Third New York Cavalry, and
sent at once, via Washington, to the Army of
the Potomac. He participated in many bat-
tles, and with his regiment was transferred to
North Carolina, where he served under Gen-
eral Burnside in all of his engagements up to
SKETCH OF HIS EARLY LIFE 3

the retreat from Tarboro. Here Robert was
taken seriously ill and sent to the hospital, in
which he remained for three weeks, when he
was discharged for physical disability and
returned to his home. .

Having recovered sufficiently within a
month, he recruited the required number of.
men and was appointed First Lieutenant in
the Ninetieth New York Regiment Volunteer
Infantry and was assigned to duty in the
Shenandoah Valley, where he served under
General Phil Sheridan until the close of the
war. He was discharged at Washington June
3rd, 1865, and mustered out June 9th, at
Rochester, N. Y., the city in which he had
enlisted four years previously.

Within sixty days after his return from the
war he entered a machine shop at Medina to
learn the trade of a machinist. A year later
he went to the Holly Manufacturing Com-
pany, in Lockport, where he rendered most
faithful and efficient service for thirty-five
years, twenty-five of which he was one of the
foremen, with thirty or more men under him,
for whose work he was responsible.

In due time, Robert married and established
a home of his own. There was no “discipline
of the strap” in his family. The two children
were molded by love and example. The father,
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by reason of his daily toil and the Christian
work to which he devoted his evenings, was
at home but little of the time. Mrs. Garry
was a model mother, as she was a model wife.
She lived and sacrificed for her dear ones. I
have a fancy if she knew I was saying this
she would ask to have it omitted, or at least
to omit the word sacrifice. Doing was a joy
with her; first in her home, and then for others
outside. She did everything possible to make
it easy for her husband to respond to the con-
stantly increasing calls for his Christian serv-
ice. Of the two children, Hopestill—a charm-
ing girl—lived into young womanhood, and
then went to be with her Lord, Whom she
had found joy in serving even when in her
teens. The son did more or less Y. M. C. A.
work in Lockport and in Buffalo, and finally
went West, where he now has a home of his
own and is connected with a railroad com-
pany. The home life of this plain family was
ideal. The evenings, when they were all to-
gether, were most enjoyable; Hopestill at the
piano and her father with his harmonica, or
mouth-organ, with gospel hymns and popular
songs gave variety to the entertainment. Each
entered into the pleasure of the others and
thus made an interesting and happy family.
Some time after Robert’s conversion, his
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mother, a devout Roman Catholic, came to
visit in her son’s family. He was much con-
cerned for her conversion, and one evening he
prevailed on her to tarry with them for their
evening devotions. By design he selected and
read the eighth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel.
As he read the fourteenth verse, “And when
Jesus was come into Peter’s house he saw his
wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever,”
‘Robert’s mother exclaimed, “Stop, Son. Was
Peter a married man?” “Of course,” replied
her son, “that’s what it reads.” With some
excitement she said it was not so in her Bible,
when Robert replied, “Yes, it is, Mother.
Bring your Bible.” And when she brought
it and her son showed her the verse and re-
minded her that the only difference was that
in her book it read, “He saw his mother-in-law
lying, and sick with a fever,” she exclaimed,
“Well, I always thought that popes and priests
were not allowed to marry.” It proved the
entering wedge, and in a short time my friend
had the satisfaction of bringing his mother
into the faith which was his joy, and in which
she lived and died. Nor was she the only
member of the family whom Robert brought
to see Jesus as he saw and knew Him.
Neither were his efforts confined to Roman
Catholics of his own family. He won several
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from among his fellow-workmen in the shop,
and finally made a Bible reading for ‘'Cath-
olics which has had large circulation and has
been translated into at least one other lan-
guage. From among his shopmates whom he
led to Christ five became preachers of the
Gospel.

Robert’s absorption in Christian work was
the cause, doubtless, of his absent-mindedness.
Upon one occasion he took his little daughter
to the center of the town where he had a bit
of business to transact, and, being called to
the other side of the street, bade the child to
wait by the lamp post until he returned. In
the course of an hour he reached his home,
when his wife said, “Why, Robert, where is
Hopestill?” and he replied, “My! I left the
little tot standing down town to wait until
I’d come for her.” He hurried back, and sure
enough, the little girl, in obedience to her
father’s instructions, was waiting for his re-
turn.

 

‘This reading, with others, may be found in the ap-
pendix.

 
CHapter II

OUR FIRST MEETING AND WORK
TOGETHER IN LOCKPORT

We first met on life’s pathway in Lockport,
N. Y., in the early part of 1876. I was
specializing in temperance work among chil-
dren; and through it I came in close touch
with the Young Men’s Christian Association,
and was chosen later by its directors as Gen-
eral Secretary.

Robert Garry was a skilled mechanic in the
employ of the Holly Manufacturing Company.
He had been converted three or four years
previously and was eager to do Christian work.
He was one of the trophies of God’s grace in
a series of evangelistic meetings conducted
by my old friend, George C. Needham.
Robert’s coming out from Roman Catholicism
created somewhat of a sensation among his
Catholic friends and brought him to the special
attention of the more aggressive Protestants.
His first testimony in a public religious meet-
ing gave evidence of the light which had

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broken in upon his heart and conscience, and
marked him at once as a man to be counted
on for the things of the Kingdom. With
exuberant joy the young convert exclaimed,
“I am one of the happiest men in the world,
for I have found the great High Priest and
need no longer make confession to a priest of
the church.”

He united with the First Congregational
Church, of Lockport, of which the late Rev.
James W. Cooper, D.D., was pastor. He be-
came deeply interested in the young man, and
found him a jewel which to help polish became
Mr. Cooper’s great joy. Robert grew “in
grace and in the knowledge of ‘the Lord Jesus
Christ” to such an extent that his pastor, when
he accepted a call to the South Congregational
Church, in New Britain, Conn., tried to per-
suade the young man to go with him, that he
might have his help in the new field.

The present pastor of the Lockport church
writes, in answer to inquiries I made of him:

“Yes, our good saint, Robert Garry, is gone to his
reward. The records of this church show that he
united on confession of faith May 4, 1873. During
the interim of my pastorates here, I understand that
he seldom attended the services, but he was out of
the city much of the time in evangelistic work.

He was never formally dismissed from our mem-

bership, and his name was on our list when he died,
as an absent member. He was one of the saints of
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the earth. He often spoke of you in our conversa-
tions.”

He and I were about the same age; we had
been soldiers on the same side in the Civil
War; we had been interested in Masonry; we
were “babes in Christ,” and thus found much
in common upon which to build a friendship
which brightened and deepened with the speed-
ing years, and was only interrupted forty-two
years later when Robert was “called up
higher.” There is much satisfaction in the
thought that such separation is simply an in-
terruption of fellowship, to be resumed in that
“land that is fairer than day.”

“All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends ;
And many friendships in the days of time
‘Begun, are lasting here, and growing still.”

The enthusiasm with which Robert em-
braced opportunity for Christian service; his
eagerness to know and use the Bible; his
humility and simple childlike faith; his bold-
ness and fearlessness won for him a place in
the working force of the Association, and gave
to the organization one of its best personal
workers.

In those days, the efforts of the Young
Men’s Christian Association were not con-
fined to men alone, but such work as it did
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was more distinctively religious than now, and
that prosecuted by the Lockport Association
was almost exclusively of this nature. Its
meetings were open to men and women and
were generally evangelistic in character, with
opportunity given for a public acceptance of
Jesus Christ as Saviour.

In the fall of 1876, owing to much suffering
among the needy poor of the city, the Asso-
ciation assumed responsibility for the dis-
pensing of charity. In this new departure,
Robert Garry rendered most yaluable assist-
ance. Continuing his work in the shop by
day, he gave his evenings gladly, and without
financial compensation, to this form of philan-
thropy. Night after night he and I visited the
homes where poverty was pinching, and in
addition to temporal assistance rendered we
offered spiritual advice and consolation.

An extraordinary and startling incident
was part of our experience in this new minis-
try.. With several friends we had conducted
an evening meeting in a nearby town, where
we were compelled to spend the night, owing
to a raging snowstorm. The next morning,
being driven in a large pung over unbroken
roads, we came within a mile or so of Lock-
port where we stopped to rest the horses. I
asked our host and the other members of the
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party if they would wait long enough for
Robert and me to make a call on one of our
parishioners who lived within a stone’s throw.
Getting their consent, he and I plunged into
the snowdrifts and made our way to a tumble-
down shanty, in which an unusual sight
greeted us. A man, recently converted in one
of our meetings, a woman, and a little babe
were occupying a room, in which they ate and
slept and existed. In an attempt to keep the
driving snow from sifting through about the
windows, they had stuffed rags and paper in
the crevices; and about the bed in which the
little child was sleeping, they had suspended
old pieces of carpet to keep out the storm.
The three were living amidst squalor; and
yet there were fading evidences of refinement
about the woman. She was combing a head of
luxuriant hair; a Bible lay open on a box
which was used for a table. The man, who
admitted us, said, with tears trickling over his
sin-scarred cheeks, “God must have sent you
to us. We have a confession. to make, and
were wishing the two of us could meet you
men together.” Hesitating for only a minute
or so, he continued, “The little one there,”
pointing to the sleeping babe on the bed, “is
our child, but we are not married. What shail
we do?” I said, “Oh, we can fix that, if you
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desire. There is a minister in the sled out
there whom we can call, and he will marry
you with Mr. Garry and me as witnesses.”
“Ah,” said the poor fellow, “if only we could.
She is the only woman I love in this world,
but I have two wives in Lockport. My first
one married another man and lives with him;
the other is living in a house of shame in
town.” I said, “Well, my dear man, you are
guilty of a crime and must confess it and suf-
fer punishment to make things right.” His
immediate reply was, “I am willing to go to
prison or suffer any other penalty to clear this
awful matter up.” The woman was crying, but
looked up through her tears, and said, “Yes,
and so am I. If someone will take care of
the baby, they may put us in prison, and when
we have satisfied the law we will marry and
live a straight life. I have seen better days;
drink was my ruin, but I know there is hope
for such sinners even as we are.” Making
note of food and fuel, of which they were in
need, we returned to the pung and continued
our ride home.

As early after our return as possible, we
made an appointment with a lawyer concern-
ing the unfortunate condition we had just
discovered. After hearing our statement, he
said, “Well, this is a tangled skein; it will
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take considerable time and more or less money
to carry it to court, and under the circum-
stances it is hardly worth the while. Take
the money you would spend in trying to un-
ravel the tangle and get the couple, with their
child, away from here. Send them to some
city where they are not known, and where they
may marry and begin life anew.” Whether
this was the best advice or not, they left Lock-
port, settled in a city not far away, were mar-
ried at once, and with the money we gave them
he started in peddling tin-ware. ‘They were
kept under observation for some time and
found to be doing well in every respect.

In December, 1876, the Y. M. C. A. in Lock-
port inaugurated noonday prayer-meetings.
Of. the few persons who attended, none came
more regularly than Robert Garry. His pray-
ers and his testimonies were always brief,
and to the point, and interwoven with texts
of Scripture: they bore evidence of being
prompted and indited by the Holy Spirit.
These meetings grew in power and in popu-
larity, so that we were soon obliged to seek a
larger room to accommodate the people. The
members of the Lutheran Church, only a short
distance from the Association rooms, kindly
proffered their house of worship, which was
accepted. Meetings were held in the evenings
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as well as at noon, and within a little while
we found that we were in the midst of a most
gracious revival. The pastors of several of
the churches united with the Association, and
in a short time it became again necessary to
seek larger quarters. These were found
through the courtesy of the Methodist Church,
where special meetings had been in progress
since the beginning of the “Week of Prayer.”
By the concerted and unanimous action of the
churches, now united in this movement, the
Rev. George Mingins, of New York City, was
invited to assume charge of the services. Still
another enforced change of place, and the
large Presbyterian Church was found none
too large to accommodate the throngs that
were now attending the meetings. My friend
Robert was much in evidence throughout. the
campaign, and was soon recognized as one of
the most efficient helpers. How many indi-
viduals he brought into personal touch with
Christ. through his open Bible will never be
known. There were over three hundred con-
versions among the results of this series of
meetings, the influence of which was felt
throughout Niagara County.

The Young Men’s Christian Association
was now in the forefront of the city’s religious
life. Representatives of churches and Sunday
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schools came to it for helpers, and among
these no one responded more promptly or with
greater joy than did the subject of this me-
morial. Among the applicants was a woman
from the “Crocker District,” where revival
meetings were desired, and where some one
was especially needed to lead in the Sunday
school. This district was a farming com-
munity just a few miles from the city. When
Robert was suggested, the woman expressed
astonishment, and said, “What! that Irish-
man?” “Yes,” replied the writer, “I know of
no one more apparently filled with, and led
by, the Holy Spirit than he. He knows the
Bible as few men know it, and I feel reason-
ably sure that you will make no mistake if his
services can be secured.” After some hesita-
tion she was persuaded to act upon the sug-
gestion, the result of which was that he here
began his first public work. .An interest was
kindled in the community attracting wide at-
tention. Ministers and others from Lockport
assisted, and great joy was among the people.
Twenty or more “family altars” were estab-
lished in as many homes through the faithful
use the young evangelist made of his Bible,
and through his unassuming manner in doing
personal work. He so.endeared himself to all
the people that he was persuaded to remain
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as their spiritual leader. He continued with
them for several years, and left finally because
of the demands for his Bible teaching from
Rochester and Buffalo and the towns lying
between these two cities.

Very soon calls for his services came from
distant places, and so urgent were many of
these that he withdrew from the Holly Manu-
facturing Company to devote his time without
business interruption to religious work. From
this time on, he was almost continuously en-
gaged in Bible teaching and personal work,
traveling through much of our country be-
tween Maine and Minnesota. The International
Committee of Young Men’s Christian Asso-
ciations occasionally employed him for Bible
work among railroad men and in industrial
plants, in which he achieved distinction and
won the hearts of thousands of the “dear
boys,” as he called them.

There came under my eye the following con-
cerning his labors in the Railroad Y. M. C. A.
at Peoria, Ill., in 1906:

“From December 10-22, 1905, Robert Garry con-
ducted a series of 14 evangelistic meetings. Also a
series of Noon Shop Bible Classes at Union Freight
House, another at P. & P. U. Car Shop, and another
at 'T. P. & W. Car Shop, a total of 26 meetings and
Bible classes. The total attendance was 979.

The results are %8 decisions secured by personal
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effort most largely by Mr. Garry before and after the

meetings. Hach of these, after his decision, signed

: card pledging himself to Christ and giving his ad-
Tess.

Decisions were secured in reading room, dining
room, wash room, on street, in bed rooms, shops, cars,
baggage room, anywhere an opportunity offered.
Since October 1, 1900, these meetings and classes
have been persisted in faithfully, in building and
shops, with the result that, as Mr. Garry is pleased
to state it, ‘The men show a remarkable attitude
toward, and interest in, the gospel message, mani-
fested in their acceptance of Christ, their readiness
to hear the message, and to endure discomfort that
they might hear, as was the case in the cold and
open, unheated freight house, where speaker and
singers were obliged to be heavily coated and mufiled
to escape the cold.’ A card record of these decisions
and a definite follow-up system is contemplated, also
a correspondence Bible class with these decisions as
its nucleus.”

The great amount of personal work he did
during the “Billy” Sunday meetings in Buffalo
is referred to by Mrs. Abigail Luffe in a letter
to Mrs. C. K. Fitch, of Passaic, N. J.:

“I wish you could have been with us at the ‘Billy’
Sunday meetings in Buffalo; to see ‘Billy ?}—No.
To see souls saved every afternoon and evening. I
missed. only three meetings to which women were
admitted, so am in a position to know a little as to
what really took place.

There were some very earnest “Christian workers,
among whom our dear Brother Garry stands out in
bold relief. Shall I ever forget the joy with which
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we met in that great campaign? Work! I never
saw @ man more untiring in leading souls to Christ.
Once I begged him to rest at least between meetings.
His answer was, ‘No, no, the time is very short. God
has sent Mr. Sunday to wake up the great mass of
people to get them interested, but to you and me
He has given the work to drive the message home,
and, whoever has a heart to work now has the oppor-
tunity that may never be given again.’

One day I said to him, “Do you never eat?’ He
replied that he had eaten in the morning and would
take a little more before he went to bed. ‘But look
at all these people,’ he said, and off he went again
first to one group and then another, and in a ve
few minutes you would see his much-loved Bible held
so that the ones he was talking to could read. Some
he would plead with to come to the Saviour, and he
did it in such a way that none took offense, yet he
gave a full Gospel. Often I followed him from group
to group of Christians, and again out came the Book
so dear to his heart, and he would say, ‘Oh, have you
ever noticed thus and so?’ and soon room would be
made for him to sit among them, and then would
follow a precious time over the Word.

I should say that he never lost one moment through
that two months’.campaign (two or three times he
was away because he did not feel well).

There was an understanding between us that if
I needed help with men or he with women we would
send for each other, which we did a number of times.
He was always ready, always on the alert. It was a
grand sight to see the dear man taking up one, two,
or three persons together three and four times at one
meeting; his own face a picture to see; and we know
he had been fully satisfied before he would take them
up. Often have I heard him say, ‘Shaking hands
with Billy will do you no good unless it is an open
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confession of a real birth through faith in Jesus
Christ.’

As he saw the great place filled to overflowing, he
would say, with beaming face, ‘This is grand; do not
fail to pray; we must have the power of the Holy
Spirit if any lasting good is to result. Pray, Sister,
pray; there are some who must be saved tonight.
The bait has taken well tonight.’

Once again I begged him to rest. I knew he was
not well; but he said, ‘Don’t tell anyone that. Jesus
is coming soon; but if it please God to take me by
way of death I only ask that it may come when I am
at His work. Oh, I love, I love my Master, He has
done so much for me.’

Talking of results one day, he said, ‘I believe God
has given me 350 souls in this place. Many more
have told me they are saved, but 350, I believe, are
really born again. Still, God knows the hearts of
all. This is grand! What must it be to be there!
We give the Word; life is His only,” ”

Many similar testimonies concerning the
labors of this indefatigable disciple of Jesus
could be secured and printed were it less diffi-
cult to obtain them, and were less time neces-
sary to complete the inquiries. Many secre-
taries of Y. M. C. A.’s and ministers with
whom he labored have either passed away or
are in the service of their country.

His greatest public work was doubtless
among railroad men and mechanics. Thou-
sands of these have been led to Christ and in-
structed in His teachings by this mechanic-
evangelist. His meat and drink was to do
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what he conceived to be the will of God con-
cerning his responsibility for the souls of men.
The only evidence of impatience I ever dis-
covered in my friend was when too long an
interim came between his engagements.
CuHapter III

HIS DEVELOPMENT IN THE STUDY OF
THE BIBLE AND THE USE HE
MADE OF IT

In the early days of our acquaintance,
Robert asked me if I would show him how
to study the Bible. He had come to recognize
his need of a knowledge of the Book, but had
not the slightest idea as to how he might study
it to the best advantage without college train-
ing. I remember saying to him, “It isn’t
always easy to show a person how to do a
thing that may be comparatively easy to do.
The best way to study the Bible is to study
it. If you get at it and let commentaries alone
you may find a way. If you do, it will be your
way, and that may be the best way for the
use you will make of the Book in the work you
may find to do. Buy an inexpensive Bible
to begin with, one you will not hesitate to
mark, and spend a little time with it each
day. It may be well for you to begin with the
New Testament. Read with great care and
mark such passages as particularly appeal to

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you. For convenience in reference, it may be
well for you to mark all passages pertaining
to salvation in red, and all references to sin
and its wages in blue.”

Within a few days, I called on him at the
“Holly Shop,” and found to my surprise that
he had a Bible open on his lathe, and between
its pages lay a pencil with red and blue leads,
which he had already begun to use. His prog-
ress was almost phenomenal. In a compara-
tively short time he became able to quote and
locate accurately more Bible texts than any
man I knew. With his growth in knowledge
came a corresponding growth in grace and in
efficiency, and my friend was in great demand
for “Bible readings,” which in that day were
very popular, and in the giving of which he
had become an expert.

In the late spring of 1877, I went to Europe
and left Robert in charge of the Association.
He was not only attentive to its needs and
faithful in the discharge of his new duties,
but he was most considerate of my family and
proved his friendship for me by numerous and
unsolicited acts of kindness in their behalf.
When in London, I purchased a wide-margin
Bagster Bible, and on my return presented it
to the dear fellow, who had already found such
a large place in my heart. No man ever be-
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came more closely related to a book than did
Robert become related to this particular
Bible. Neither an expensive diamond nor a
large purse of money would have pleased him
as much. The Book went where he went; they
were practically inseparable. No memorial
of his life would be complete if more than a
single chapter were not devoted to the man
and his Bible. Indeed, he and it were so inter-
woven that every chapter must necessarily
contain more or less reference to that relation-
ship. He came to be known among Christian
workers and other friends as

“Trp MAN OF ONE BooxK” .

He had begun searching the Scriptures be-
fore the big Bible came into his possession.
At the lathe he found time, in the intervals
when the material adjusted in the lathe took
care of itself for the next few minutes, to
study his Bible without neglecting his allotted
work; and at lunch he could well afford to
take forty minutes of the hour that other men
spent in smoking and telling unprofitable
stories, for feeding on the Word that “maketh
wise unto salvation.” He was thus eating that
which is good, and his soul was delighting it-
self in fatness, according to the Word of the
Lord in Isaiah 55: 2.
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Now that he had gotten the new book, with
its limp leather binding and golden-edged
pages, he was rather shy about marking it. He
was disposed to keep this Book as it were for
“dress parade,” until one day when he was
showing it to a friend, the man had occasion
to sneeze, and to Robert’s disgust, the page
was sprinkled with tobacco juice. He at once
found comfort in Romans 8: 28, declaring that
this apparent misfortune was one of the “all
things that work together for good.” Since
this page was disfigured, he could well afford
to bring his pen and various shades of ink to
mark this Book as he had marked another.
Within two or three years his Bible became a
curiosity in conventions and elsewhere. He
and his Book were sought out by persons,
several of whom I have known to copy copi-
ously into their Bibles the comments Robert
had made in his.

A UNIQUE USBH OF THE BIBLE

So familiar had he become with its contents
that he made it serve him as we make the dic-
tionary serve us when in doubt about the spell-
ing of certain words. For instance, in writ-
ing a letter upon one occasion, he needed to
use the word “business”; and being in doubt
as to whether the “i” came before or after the
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“gs,” he turned to Luke 2:49, and read, “Wist
ye not that I must be about my Father’s busi-
ness?” Again, he wanted to write the word
“government,” but could not spell it correctly
until he had turned to Isaiah 9:6, and read,
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is
given; and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Won-
derful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The ever-
lasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Read-
ing it aloud, he exclaimed, “How can any
Christian doubt the deity of Jesus Christ in
the light of that verse?” And then he said
to a friend at his side, “Let’s have a little
study on this blessed doctrine,” and together
they ran through the Book, collating texts
until a first-class Bible reading on this par-
ticular subject was the result.

His exegesis of portions of Scripture might
not stand the test of modern scholarship, but
I’d rather have Robert Garry’s knowledge of
the Bible than the speculations of all the
schools in Christendom concerning it. The
“thus saith the Lord” or “it is written” was
proof sufficient for his rugged faith. He said
to me once, “Psalm 18:28 takes the place of
college training in my case.” Turning to the
text, I read, “For thou wilt light my candle:
the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.”
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He would say with emphasis, “His Word is
a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my
path.” I have discovered recently that. the
Hebrew word used for path in this text is
literally “trodden path.” It is that kind of a
path unto which His word is light. Robert
had it because he spent so much time with his
Bible.

In a public address in Duluth, Minn., he
said, “The Bible is my constant companion,
my textbook, the Book that educated me, and
has given me all my inspiration in life. I have
had very limited schooling, nothing more than
the three ‘R’s,’ but by careful reading of the
Bible I have improved my command of lan-
guage and my knowledge of men and affairs,
and it has broadened my mind in general.”
He literally lived by the Book.

I recall his bringing an illustration to me
that he had gotten in the shop. The master
mechanic brought him a drawing and ordered
him to make a piece of work after its pattern.
In looking it over he thought he had discov-
ered where an advantageous change might be
made, but it occurred to him that the master
knew his business and that the best thing for
him was to go by the drawing. He finished
the work according to the plan and received
the approval of his boss. As he related this
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experience, he added, “I’m afraid there are
some ‘D.D.’s’ who are suggesting changes in
God’s plan of salvation as given to us in the
Book, who will find themselves mistaken in
the time of testing.”

His SENSH OF HUMOR

Robert had a sense of humor which was
most attractive. It asserted itself in most
unexpected ways and at most unexpected
times. No Irishman had ‘keener wit than he.
His failure to secure even a common-school
education was noticeable in his spelling as
well as in his grammar; but the former defect
is not uncommon among college graduates,
and the latter may be occasionally discovered
in the chronic critic. Taking up my friend’s
Bible one day, I happened on the word
“Satan” which he had written on the margin
of the page. Calling his attention to it, I said,
“Bob, you have the old fellow’s name spelled
wrongly.” He said, “What do you mean?”
“Why,” said I, “you haven’t spelled the word
‘Satan’ correctly.” “How have I spelled it?”
was his reply, “I thought I knew the old fellow
well enough to spell his name.” TI said,
“You've spelled it ‘s-a-t-i-n”” “Well, what
does ‘s-a-t-i-n’ spell?” said he. “Satin,” was
my reply. Quick as a flash, he said, “Well,
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we will just let it stay as it is, for that’s the
kind of dress the devil wears every time he
gets after Bob.” What philosophy was ex-
pressed in this flash of wit! How many of us,
who have come to hate sin in general, are
caught by the glossed suggestions of the evil
one! How often defeat is encountered in life’s
struggle because of parleying with a question-
able, but attractive, evil proposition!

His DEVOTION TO THE BIBLE

This unlettered man—according to the
schools—was so devoted to the Bible and so
absorbed its contents that he had prepared
over five hundred Bible readings, many of
which are gems in method of arrangement and
are full of most wholesome instruction. Con-
cerning some of these, he wrote me in 1909,
saying, “While in Binghamton I gave four
Bible readings on the inspiration of the Bible,
and the school had them put in print. This
subject I have been working on more or less
from the time you gave me the Book thirty-
two years ago.”

His diligence in this particular was due
largely to his having appropriated in the be-
ginning of his Christian life those verses in
the first chapter of Joshua:

“Only be thou strong and very courageous, that
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thou mayest observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not
from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou
mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy
mouth ; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that
is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way
prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a
good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dis-
mayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whitherso-
ever thou goest.”

These words, addressed to Joshua after the
death of Moses, Robert Garry made the plat-
form and program of his life. Frequently
have I heard him say, “The man who will live
by this Book will never go wrong and stay
wrong; nor will he ever want for any good
thing. You know it is written in Psalm 34:
10, ‘They that seek the Lord shall not want
any good thing,’” and then he would exclaim
with emphasis, “ ‘Shall, it’s absolutely sure.”

Robert’s dwelling place, I discovered, was
within the circumference of Hebrews 4:16
and Philippians 4:19:

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to
help in time of need.”

“My God shall supply all your need according to
his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

He tested and proved the words of Isaiah in
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that wonderful 55th chapter, at the second
verse:

“Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that
which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fat-
ness.”

He lived on the Word, and thus found it
easy to live by the Word.

He was always quoting Scripture and had
the faculty of making it fit into ordinary con-
versation. He began and closed most of his
letters with some verse of Scripture, and used
“stickers” for his envelopes to carry the truth
of the Gospel. His greetings and farewells
were generally spoken in the phraseology of
the Bible, and frequently he would work in
some Scripture text in answering questions
put to him by strangers. On one occasion a
man inquired of him the way to a certain place
in Lockport. After giving him the directions,
he said, “Be sure and read Psalm 32:8.” The
man said, ““What’s that? What do you mean?”
“Why,” said Robert, “that’s where God says,
‘I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way
which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with
mine eye.” Bidding good-by to some ac-
quaintance, Robert said, “Meet me in the
morning at Philippians 4:19,” to which came
the reply, “I don’t know that place; where is
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it?” This gave him the coveted opportunity
to urge upon the person the claim of the Gos-
pel. In leaving my camp where he had spent
much of the summer as my guest, he sang out
as he jumped into the auto, “Good-by; God
bless you; read Hebrews 6:10.” Going into
the bungalow, I took up my Bible, and read:
“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work
and. labor of love, which ye have showed toward his

name, in that ye have ministered to the saints and
do minister.”

During that day I found a bit of paper he had
left on my desk, and on which he had written:

Our Security. Three Blessed Facts.

Our Past: I Sam. 7:12. “Hitherto hath the
Lord helped us.”

Ovugk Present: II Cor. 12:9. “My grace is
sufficient for thee.”

Our Fururn: Gen. 22:14. “The Lord will
provide.”

In one of his letters to me, he said, “The
dear good old Book grows more wonderful and
more glorious and more precious every day.
It is the one and only Book that is entirely
and eternally true. It has done a lot for your
old friend Robert, I can tell you. I give it
the first place in all the efforts I make for the
Kingdom. The church or the Y. M. C. A. that
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is most used of God wherever I go is the one
that makes much of the Scriptures, and this
is true of the individual believer also. In
order to get the most light from the Word,
we must put out our own candle.” He closed
his letter with Romans 15:13, which reads:
“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and
peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in
the power of the Holy Spirit.”
And then he added, “All joy; all peace. In
what? In believing.”

Loss or His Bic BIBLE

There came a time, however, when Robert
and his big Bible were forced to part company.
It was in the winter of 1913. He wrote me
from Columbus, Ohio, with reference to the
burglarizing of my bungalow, and said, “Well,
my dear fellow, there is so much of that going
on all over the country. I have a similar ex-
perience to relate. When I reached Cleveland
on my way here from Lockport, we had to
change cars and wait six hours for a train to
Columbus. Just before its arrival, I reached
for my suit cases and found one of them gone.
Some one had taken that leather case I had
carried for fourteen years. It contained a
new suit of clothes, that fine razor your
brother-in-law, Mr. Kepner, gave me, and
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many things I never can replace. Among
these was the dear old Book you gave me in
1877. I do hope I may recover this, though
I have need of the other things, too. There
is no doubt about the grip being stolen, for it
was too heavy for any one to carry off by mis-
take, so you see both of us have had a little
of the same treatment. I am glad I have so
much of the Bible in my head, as well as in
my heart, and I am comforted with Romans
8:28.”

The loss of his Bible was a most serious one,
since the margins of its pages contained his
annotations from many years’ study. Special
prayer was offered for its recovery; the aid of
policemen in Cleveland was secured, but the
Book was not found. Notwithstanding his
keen regret, he looked upon its loss in a most
philosophical manner, and with Christian
resignation. He said to me, “Maybe I had
come to think too much of that particular
Bible; maybe I was becoming proud of it,
since so many people were asking to see it, and
many of them were praising me for my work
in it; and possibly I was depending so much
upon the matter I had worked out and put
upon its pages that I might become lazy.”
Thus he became reconciled to the loss of the
Book, but not without much effort and prayer.
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Many persons have expressed wonder at his
grasp of the Bible and attributed it to his
memory. While he had a most retentive
memory, it was necessary for him to read the
Bible more than casually in order to become
so proficient in its use. I remember hearing
a man in a Bible class Robert was addressing
ask, “How do you know so many Bible verses .
and are able to tell just where to find them?”
His characteristic reply made a most pro-
found impression. He said, “In coming from
Lockport to Rochester, I noticed the brake-
man would call the stations as we approached
them, and do it without looking out of the car
or at his time-table. As soon as I got an oppor-
tunity I asked the brakeman how he could
tell the stations with such accuracy, and he
said, ‘Because I go over the road so often.’”
That was the secret of Robert Garry’s knowl-
edge of and familiarity with the Bible. His
memory was a large asset, but his application,
his persistent and continued study of the
Bible, and his daily meditation therein ac-
counted for the frequency and accuracy with
which he quoted its texts in private conversa-
tion or upon the public platform. He did it
because he went over its pages so often. Most
of us would be able to use the Book as he did
were we as devoted as was he to its study.
CHapPTEer IV

HIS QUALITIES

“Formed on the good old plan,
A true and brave and downright honest man:
He blew no trumpet in the market-place,
Nor in the church, with hypocritic face
Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace;
Loathing pretense, he did with cheerful will
What others talked. of, while their hands were still.”
—Whittier.

Many qualities which adorned this rare life
might be specified, yet they could all be
summed up in one word—Devotion.

His earnestness, his ardent love or affection,
was the prominent trait of his character. He
was earnestly devoted to his family, to his
friends, to his country, and not least to his
God. No sacrifice was too great for him to
make, not even life which he gave so lavishly
through the years of his earthly pilgrimage,
and finally surrendered in his indirect service
to his country at seventy-three years of age.

The component parts of this crowning
quality may well pass under observation in
determining the true worth of the man.

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Truthfulness may be placed first among the
foundation stones in the structure of his char-
acter. My friend’s “word was as good as a
bond.” Absolute dependence could be placed
upon his promises. His reliability, as well as
his skill as a mechanic, made him one of the
most valuable employes in the company he
served for so many years.

Alongside of, and joined with, truthfulness
was Fidelity. His adherence to a person or
cause to which he was bound by ties of friend-
ship or obligation was admirable, and almost,
if not altogether, unusual. He would make
opportunity, if none could be found, for an
exhibition of this cardinal virtue. No service
was too menial for him to render in contribut-
ing to the comfort of his friends or to the
alleviation of their sufferings; and he would
do as much for his enemies, if he had any, if
thereby he might make the kindly act bear
testimony to the grace of God in him.

Upon one occasion when we were together
in my camp, I was suffering much discomfort
from crippled feet. Robert would bathe them
and rub them with alcohol and oil as we sat
before a blazing fire on the hearth. Thus en-
gaged one evening, he deliberately thrust my
great toe into his mouth and nipped it with
his teeth. Expressing my surprise at his
HIS QUALITIES 37

action, he said, “Why, beloved, I would a good
deal rather kiss your toe than the toe of St.
Peter.” Whether in his home, or among his
friends outside, or in service as a soldier, he
was always unconsciously displaying this
splendid quality of sterling character, which
had running through it a vein of humor which
he could not, or did not try to, suppress.
Humor was not the least attractive among
the fascinating qualities which my friend
possessed. He was born with it. He was full
of fun amidst all the hardships of his early
days. While attending school in the all-too-
little time afforded him for this purpose, he
was alert for opportunities for practical jok-
ing. Among the pranks he played was one
to which he occasionally referred, since it was
a great success without inflicting injury upon
any one. The school teacher was severe in
his discipline and incurred thereby the dislike
of nearly all the pupils. One of his favorite
ways of punishing the boys was to compel
them to saw and chop wood for the old-
fashioned drum stove. Robert, desiring to get
even with the teacher, and afraid to trust any
other boy with his secret, went alone to the
wood-pile, secured a good-sized chunk of wood
and bored a hole in it lengthwise. Then, in-
serting a small charge of powder, he plugged
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the hole and threw the piece of wood back
upon the pile. A day or two later there was
an explosion which damaged the stove and
created much consternation among the pupils
and teacher, and the boy who perpetrated the
joke was apparently as badly frightened as
were his schoolmates.

Among his comrades in the army he was a
leader in fun-making. Upon one occasion he
helped to secure and secrete under the cap-
tain’s bunk a hornet’s nest which, when suffi-
ciently warm, made things quite interesting in
the officer’s quarters, and would have con-
fined in the guardhouse the men who did the
stunt if they had been discovered. He sent a
“raw recruit” to the chaplain for a remedy
for mumps and another to the doctor to ask
if it were wrong to play poker for dollars.

In after years, this fun-loving spirit would
crop out whether in the home or in the shop,
and semi-occasionally in recreation hours at
Christian conventions. No man enjoyed a
joke better than he, and it pleased him just as
much whether he were the victim or the perpe-
trator.

Enthusiasm was one of his very prominent
qualities. It was part of his nature; and
coupled with fearlessness, or courage, it made
him one of the most wholesome and valuable
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associates in any enterprise in which he could
be enlisted. This quality in my friend’s char-
acter answered to the definition first in order
of arrangement in “Webster” or in the Cen-
tury Dictionary. His enthusiasm was “an
ecstasy of mind as if from inspiration or pos-
session by a spiritual influence.” In much of
his enthusiastic endeavor during the last forty
years of his life he was divinely led. What
he may have lacked in polish or culture was
more than compensated for in his downright
earnestness and sincerity.

He would rejoice in his weariness of body
or mind if it were the result of service in be-
half of others. I never knew his zeal to flag.
If his strength were spent, he would nerve
himself for any task by which he might serve
friend, country or the Kingdom of Christ.
Whatever of apparent sickness he suffered
came generally because of his persistent and
indomitable doing for others. He ate little,
comparatively; slept like a well baby; had
lots of sunshine in his nature, which kindled
and kept aflame his contagious enthusiasm.

With this quality was beautifully blended .
that kindred trait known as Optimism. Based
upon his belief that “whatever exists is right
and good in some inscrutable way, in spite of
all observation to the contrary,” he was un-
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daunted by apparent defeat, because he knew
that ultimately right would triumph.

He lived in the blessed hope of the Lord’s
return—“when the kingdoms of this world are
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his
Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”
Such a hope in a man leaves. no place for
pessimism. Victory absolutely assured is. the
pole-star of hope. The second advent of our
Lord is the spur to Christian activity, and all
who are watching for Him, and believe in the
teachings connected with His promised ap-
pearing, must of necessity have all their en-
deavor tinged with true optimism. Robert
Garry was an optimist.

His Generosity was as large as: his heart,
and his heart was as large as the Creator
could put into one man. He gave of his
strength and of his. limited means most lay-
ishly. I have known him to work all day in
the shop, give a public Bible reading in the
evening, sit. with a sick friend through the
night, and go on with his work the next day.
If he had but a couple of dollars in his. pocket,
and some worthy acquaintance came to him in
need, he would give the two. dollars: rather
than. divide it.

These qualities were sufficient. to have made
him a strong man; but to have acquired. the
HIS: QUALITIES. 41

character which placed him in a class above
the common or ordinary Christian, it was
necessary for him to have Spirituality. This
was his: predominant characteristic, and with
the accompanying graces of sympathy and
humility made him delightfully companion-
able. Faith and expectation were the warp
and filling of the tapestry of prayer, with
which he enfolded himself and all others for
whom Christ died.

While to. the casual observer he may have
seemed rugged, without being austere or harsh,
yet he had a heart. as tender as: the: heart of
@ pure woman. In the forty odd years of our
companionship, I never knew him to tell a
coarse or vulgar story. Such a tribute can-
not be truthfully paid to all Christians, for
I have heard some most salacious stories from
the lips of men who held high office in the
ehurch.. Profanity shocked the sensitive soul
of my friend, and wherever he heard it he
sought. opportunity to upbraid in a gracious
and effective way the person who had used it
within his hearing.

His prayer-life was one of the evidences of
the nearness with which he lived to Christ.
His prayers were so interwoven with the
Scriptures that they sometimes sounded as if
they were taken literally from the Bible. He
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talked in most familiar fashion with the Lord,
and made one feel as if He and Robert were
really sitting together in sweet converse. He
prayed as a “friend talketh with a friend.”
Sometimes he would mention by name many
of his friends and commend them to God in
most affectionate manner. At meals his
thanksgiving for daily benefits was a joy to
those of us who heard it. He lived day by day
in an atmosphere which was charged with the
presence of God. He had “put off the old man
with his doings” and had “put on the new
man,” and gave undoubted evidence that he
was bearing “the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy,
peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, meekness, self-control.” He had
“crucified the flesh with the passions and the
lusts thereof.” He lived and walked by the
Spirit. While he loved wholesome fun, he was
unworldly, and created by his presence and
the use he made of the Book which was so
dear to him, an atmosphere which was as
refreshing as it was stimulating. I have heard
others say, “I am always made better by com-
panionship with Robert Garry.”
CHAPTER V

SOME OF HIS QUALITIES EXHIBITED
IN PERSONAL LETTERS

The following letter was written October 7,
1900, concerning an evangelistic campaign in
Lockport, which eventuated in a most success-
ful series of meetings:

“Kverything is now looking bright for your coming
to Lockport to work again for Him. It was not hard
work, dear brother, to create an interest in your com-
ing, all the saints I spoke to about it were anxious
to have you come. What is most needed. now is fervent
prayer. Many are looking to God for His presence,
help and blessing without Whom we can do nothing.”

Then, referring to some of his own work in
and about New York City, he continued:

“While in Montclair I took dinner with dear
George A. Hall, also took breakfast and dinner with
Charles Kilborne at Orange, also lodged Saturday
night with him. He and his good Christian wife
drove over after me and carried me back in time for
meetings next day. They have a little ten-year-old
son who is a mighty child in the Scriptures. I read
in Acts 18:24 of a mighty man in the Scriptures,
but here I found a mighty child. You must some
day see his marked Bible and also see how he can

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handle it. I am counting on our Bible study while
you are with us. Do you intend to make our home
your own while here or have you something else in
view; if not, don’t be ashamed to write us in full
what you find in Philemon 22. Beloved, such as our
home is you know it is yours at all times. I am now
feeling first rate, doing lots of Bible study and giving
it out-as fast as I get it.”

In 1907, I wrote him with reference to his
finances, and the following was all he said
concerning it (the Father was the only one to
whom he talked concerning his money mat-
ters) :

“Yes, I now get a pension of twelve dollars per
month as every old soldier now receives that amount
each month, and some of them more. I suppose
you come in on this with the rest of us. It comes
in very handy now-a-days, as I have not ‘been out in
the work since leaving Harrisburg, Penn., last De-
cember, but if Ella can be left alone later on will
make some dates for fall and winter.”

The following shows his interest in the
work of the Kingdom and his persistent appli-
cation in Bible study (the Bible he refers to
was given to him in 1877). Writing from
Lockport, in 1909, he says:

“Our good brother in Christ Tarbox tells me that
‘you are kept quite busy. I am glad -you are still
able to keep in line while many dear saints have
passed over since we came into the light, and are
permitted to tarry here... . While in Binghamton
gave four Bible Readings on the inspiration of the
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Bible. The Bible School had them put in print, a
copy of which I enclose. This subject I have been
working on more or less from the time you gave me
the Bagster Bible.”

His interest in helping others to know the
truth led him away from home more than
some of his friends thought wise. I took him
to task for it in a letter I wrote to him in 1909,
and from which I quote:

“And, now, you old scamp, I want to scold a bit.
For the past two or three years in most of your let-
ters you have reminded me that you were going to
stay at home more and take better care of Ella. Why
don’t you do it? How much harder it is to do than
to say. I’ve found this out in many of the experi-
ences of my life, and doubtless we are ‘two of a kind.’
But, never mind, we are getting older; we are nearly
through our school days, and I trust by the time
graduation comes we will have so learned our lessons
as to pass a good examination and hear the Teacher
say, ‘well done.’ ”

Writing me later in the year from his home
after he had visited Northfield, Mass., he says:

“Northfield has so changed in more ways than one.
So much preaching and so very little Bible study or
exposition, and you know the latter is what I am the
most fond of. I did some good personal work while
there and met many small groups between meetings
over the Word.”

In the same letter, he expressed a growing
desire for some quiet little spot, in which he
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and I could have uninterrupted opportunity
for studying the Bible together. To this let-
ter, I replied, saying:

“I am sorry we could not have had a couple of
days at least together when you were so near Boston.
I am planning now for a couple of weeks’ vacation in
the mountains of New Hampshire to begin about the
11th of September. I wonder if you could make it
convenient to leave home at that time and share a
real vacation with me. I’d like to have you for my
guest from the time you leave Lockport until you
return.

In his immediate reply to my letter, he said:

“Well, beloved, I cannot tell you how much I appre-
ciate your great kindness in asking me to be your
guest for two weeks in the mountains of New Hamp-
shire. I know of nothing that would give me more
pure delight, but could not think of your being put
to any such expense for me. If there were openings
where I could do a little work after the outing to
defray expenses would be glad to be with you, but
this could not now be arranged, for the time is too
short. I have done very little paying work for the
past two years, not having received over a hundred
dollars in all, so do not feel like even sharing the
expense for this vacation. Don’t lose hope, however,
we may have it some time.”

Answering this letter from my friend, I was
led to say:
“Your reference to financial compensation being

so small for the work you did during the past two
years uncovers anew the fact to which I have so often
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referred. There are plenty of Associations that will
let Bob come, because he comes and goes without any
apparent concern for the wherewithal necessary to
support his family. It’s the same old story. It ought
not to be so, but it is. A lot of real good folks seem
to think because the Master had no place to lay His
head that all His disciples ought to be content with
the same pillowless fare.”

Robert was so much afraid of interfering
with what he believed to be God’s plan for him
and his family that he kept finances as much
beneath the surface as many evangelists put
them above the surface. He was so much
afraid of friends’ sacrificing to help him that
there were times when he would positively
decline to receive money sent him, as the fol-
lowing extract from a letter will show:

“And now only a word about the check enclosed
from my dear brother full of love to Christ and such
generosity. We are deeply touched by this token of
Christian love from you but Ella and myself unani-
mously decided, Elia taking the lead, that like the
water drawn for David at Bethlehem’s well the sacri-
fice is one that we cannot accept. (II Samuel 23: 13-
17.) You will not misunderstand us, I am sure, in
returning your gift. Christ knows your heart and
that you do it for His sake. He has more than pro-
vided for our wants. I am too weak to write more.
Will only add we will some day, I hope, have our
little outing either up this way or in New England.”

The following shows his delight in the serv-
ice others rendered for our Lord:
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“Had fine time with our good ‘brother Pettingill
in ‘his Brooklyn Bible class. He is much loved and
used in New York and Brooklyn in Bible teaching.
A Russian named Wm. Fetler conducted meetings in
Mrs. Fitch’s home for one week recently, a most re-
markable man of God. Only few people came to hear
him. They are so busy making green-backs to save.”

Relative to the “Billy” Sunday Campaign
in Buffalo, in 1917, he writes:

“Yours of February 22nd duly received. Am find-
ing much hurry ‘and ‘rush in this campaign, as you
did in Boston when Billy was there. Lots to do at
all times. Fine shop meetings and all kinds of other
meetings and any amount of personal work sand-
wiched in between. I note what you say in your letter
about slowing up. Forty-one years is a long time to
wear the harness amidst so many activities as teacher,
preacher, evangelist, personal worker, etc. Well, my
dear fellow, you have been a great help and blessing
to me from the first. No living man has helped me
more and you may depend I fully appreciate it and
have always told the people so.”

Among his letters to the author from Camp
Wadsworth, Spartanburg, South Carolina,
was one just before his illness became suffi-
ciently serious to put him in the hospital. In
this, he said:

“My dear old Comrade—Your last letter for 1917
came duly to hand although mails here are much be-
hindhand. The cough remedy’ you sent has just
arrived. The cold wave struck this camp hard, froze

and burst water pipes in our building and in others
as well. Much as I would love to have you here with
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me in this most blessed work, the weather would be
too hard for-you in your present condition. Been out
of wood for some time; have some coal, poor stuff it
is, makes little or no heat; nevertheless, we thank
God for it as well as for other needed articles in camp.
It’s been cold ever since I reached this camp. Hope
soon to ‘have some warm weather to melt the snow
at least. Never had such a severe cold in my life. It
refuses thus far to yield to all remedies.”

‘The following extracts are from his letters
to Mrs. Cornelia K. Fitch, a very warm per-
sonal friend:

“Don*t forget me in the great field and work in
prayer.”

“The recent great cold wave hit the camp hard.
Snow now melting, which makes walking in deep
mud hard work. Men are well provided for now,
blankets, good living and clothing. Some so anxious
to go to France.” —

“Men rush to our building (Y. M. C. A.) as soon
as open. Enjoy two large furnace fires and large
fireplace. Room 40x120 always warm for the men,
where they find writing paper, envelopes, pens,
pencils, ink, etc., and free for all. The Association
has been a wonderful blessing and help to the men
this winter in all army camps. The Government is
also doing all in its power for the men’s comfort.
This sort of weather was not expected in this part
of the country. Many men sick with severe colds. I
have coughed harder this month than in all my life
before.”

“Wish you could look into this building and see the
crowd: hundreds of men, many writing. There are
six long writing tables nearly whole length of build-
ing and every seat occupied ; others waiting to write.”
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“I have a free hand in all the camp as well as in
the building to give out the pure Gospel. Scores of
soldiers have already accepted our Lord Jesus Christ
and written their home address in my blank book.
The fact of my having been in Civil War gives me
an extra grip on men. You would be pleased to see
them gather around me to ask questions and advice.
You may send any number of tracts. I can get
Christian soldiers to pass them out judiciously.”

Another letter was full of thanksgiving for
sweater, shoes, helmet, underwear, etc., sent
him by friends. He said:

“No man in camp, even General Ryan with whom
I took dinner today with some thirty others, has finer
footwear. I have received several boxes and have a
variety of good things. It seems like a dream.”

“Tf a Christian knows how to win souls this is one
rich field to work in. Have had six Hebrews accept
Christ. When shown by the Word that their Messiah
has come, it seems to satisfy them.”
CHAPTER VI
TOGETHER IN. NESTLEWOOD

After I came to live in New England, Robert
and I met with far less frequency. He often
expressed in his letters to me a desire for a
reunion in some secluded spot where we might
again study the Word together. He concluded
a letter to me, in 1909, with these words: “I
would like to have about two weeks with you
over the Word in some quiet place and at the
same time have a little season of rest together ;
but such a time does not seem to be in sight at
present. It may be if I should go to Paw-
tucket that I could spend a day with you in
Boston, ‘but do not count on it.”

Several plans were made with the suggested
study in view, but they failed to materialize
until, in 1910, I bought a little piece of woods
in Holderness, N. H., and built a bungalow,
to which Robert came with me June 3rd of
that year, and remained until July 29th.
From that time until now (almost eight years
later), we spent more or less time each sum-
mer, save one, in most delightful and profit-

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able fellowship amidst the pines of Nestle-
wood. He could work in wood as skilfully as
he had worked in metal, and many are the
evidences of his handiwork in and about the
bungalow.

It was always difficult to keep him quiet.
He secured his rest by change of occupation.
If there was nothing to: do in camp, he would
walk through the village in search of some one
whom he might interest in the power and
blessing of the Gospel. And none of these
walks were fruitless. Upon one occasion, he
came back after a longer absence than usual,
and exclaimed as he entered the door, “An-
other victory! I got the landlord to accept
Christ, and he promised to come over tomor-
row and tell you about it.” This bit of work
was so well done that the next afternoon we
saw the man approaching our camp. He came
in unceremoniously, and said, “Well, Sayford,
I promised Garry I’d call today and tell you
what he got me to do.” I said, “That’s good,
John, what have you got to say?” He replied,
“Well, I’ve accepted Christ as my Saviour the
best I know how, and I will try to-do the right
thing the rest of my life.” In a few minutes,
we three men were on our knees in prayer of
thanksgiving for another trophy of God's
matchless grace, and we besought Him: for
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keeping power for the man who, thus late in
life, committed himself to God.

Robert preached and gave Bible readings in
the church near by and taught the little Sun-
day school many Sundays during the seasons
we were in camp together. It was interesting
to. watch the people gather about him after
service and ply him with questions concerning
the truth he knew so well.

He was. particularly fond of children and
would enter into their sports with the zest of
a boy. Although he had passed threescore
and: ten milestones in life’s journey, he could
elimb a. tree as easily as any country boy, and
do: more work in a.given number of hours than
the average modern laborer.

One summer, we found that a limb of one
of the tallest pines had been broken by the
winter’s. storm and was fastened in a erotch
near the top of the tree. Robert was bent on
getting that dead branch, but I forbade his
climbing so high; and he said, with. that. at-
tractive little twinkle in his.eye, “In the pres-
ence of the boss I must obey.” Embracing
an opportunity, however, which came when
I. went to the Bridge, he equipped. himself for
the coveted task. When I returned I discov-
ered him among the topmost. branches of the
pine,. girded. with saw and hatchet. The dead
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limb was lying on the ground. The only reply
he made to my chiding was, “I didn’t think
you’d get back so soon.” He was the most
agile man for his years I ever knew. He had
sinews like steel; his endurance was remark-
able. Many a tree did he fell and saw and
chop and store away under the bungalow, and
call the work fun. “With such drinking water
and such good living,” he said, “a well man
ought to be able to do anything needed in a
camp like this.”

It was amusing to see him when he’d come
in contact with a hornet’s nest and the hornets
would come in touch with him. Though he
might receive more or less stings, the destruc-
tion of that nest was a foregone conclusion.
He’d burn it out. One day, my neighbor was
standing on his side of the fence, and he and
I were watching Robert clearing brush in-
fested with the troublesome insects. Directly
there was an attack made upon us by that
species of bee or hornet that build their nests
near or in the ground, or in old decayed
stumps. My neighbor left hastily for his
house, as I did for mine. Robert said he’d
stay and see the fun, and he did until com-
pelled to leave because of the furious attack
the “critters” made upon him. Several of
them followed him into the house. These we
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killed with difficulty, and were somewhat the
worse for the fight. I applied remedies to the
stings which he had received, while he enter-
tained me with a plan he had for routing the
enemy. Early next morning, before break-
fast, the deed was done, and the clearing was
made without further molestation.

His sense of humor found ready expression
in our camp life. Away from the constraints
of society, in a place to which we had come for
relaxation, there was lots of opportunity for
the play of the boy side of our natures. We
had great enjoyment one day in watching a
good-sized boy whom he had induced to set a
parrot’s cage, in which to catch a woodchuck.
According to Robert’s instructions, the boy
fastened a string to the open door of the cage,
in which he had placed some vegetable to at-
tract the chuck. Fixing himself alongside a
nearby rock with the other end of the string
in hand, he was watching for the opportunity
to pull it. Robert would exhort the boy to be
patient and to keep perfectly still, and thus
he kept one of the most boisterous chaps in the
neighborhood quiet for over an hour.

Upon another occasion, he went to the clerk
in the postoffice, and said, “I understand that
Mr. Sayford got thirteen two cent stamps here
for a cent and a quarter.” “That can’t be
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possible, Mr. Garry,” said the clerk. “Well,”
replied the joker, “Mr. Sayford said so, and I
am sure he would not tell a lie, and I think
you ought to let me have the stamps at the
same price you sold them to him.” The clerk
said that there must be some mistake and in-
sisted that Mr. Garry should bring me to the
office. Refusing to do this, he said, “You give
me thirteen two cent stamps, and I’ll prove to
you that Mr. Sayford spoke the truth.” Hesi-
tatingly the stamps were handed out, where-
upon Robert laid down a quarter of a dollar
and one cent, and then he walked out of the
office laughing.

He could dance as good a “clog”. as I ever
saw on the stage of a-minstrel show, and two
or. three times I got him.to do it for me on
the smooth hardwood floor of the bungalow.
These performances, however, were always of
brief duration, since he said they smacked too
much of the life he had forsaken some years
before.

The loss of his companionship will rob
Nestlewood of much of its charm for me. My,
how he loved’ music! He played the har-
monica as well as anyone I ever heard. Many
an evening we had a most enjoyable time with
his little instrument, my “Victor,” .and an
occasional select reading, invariably, however,
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closing with reciting Scripture texts and hav-
ing a word of prayer. There were some records
which, when put on the machine, brought
tears to the dear fellow’s eyes, whilst others
would provoke hilarious laughter. Tetraz-
zini’s high notes in the “Carnival of Venice”
or her “Swiss Echo Song” would evoke excla-
mations of wonder, mingled with tears, when-
ever he would hear them. Though he could
not understand a word of Italian, the marvel-
ous range of her voice excited his wonder and
admiration. Going from classic music to
“ragtime,” the other side of his nature was
awakened, and he’d laugh at the “Whistling
Coon” and join in the whistling chorus. But
when the singer repeated the words, “He
whistled when his wife was dead,” Robert
would indignantly exclaim, “That fellow’s no
friend of mine.”

Last summer was our last one at Nestle-
wood. They were great days for us. It seems
to me now as if some premonition of it made
my friend do more than usual to make the
weeks particularly memorable. He was so
eager to clear the undergrowth completely
from a new lot I had added to the place, and
to trim low hanging limbs on the old lot, “be-
cause,” he said, “we may not have another
opportunity.”
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I had purchased several patriotic airs for
my “Victor” which he and I greatly enjoyed.
These, and two or three band selections with
drum, would awaken memories of the Civil
War, in which he and I had part. The “Battle
Hymn of the Republic’ was his favorite
among these records, and he played it so often
that it almost wearied me. He would stand
before the horn and look into it intently as if
he expected to see the singer’s face as the tears
rolled down his own. As the words of that last
verse were being sung, his soul responded, his
frame shook with emotion, and he became joy-
ously agitated as Werrenrath so distinctly
enunciated with his finely cultivated baritone
voice the words,

“Tn the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the
sea,
With a glory in.His bosom that transfigures you and

me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make
men free,
While God is marching on.”

We talked more or less about the prospect
of our rendering together some service in the
present awful conflict. The Young Men’s
Christian Association War Work would afford
favorable opportunity, since we were too old
for active service in the ranks. He said, “Of
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course you can’t go with your physical in-
firmity, but I never felt better in my life. I’d
love to be among the boys and win a lot of
them for our Lord.” I filled out and signed
a questionnaire sent me by the Committee in
New York concerning my friend.

On the morning of Friday, October 19, 1917,
we closed the house, put up the bars at the
road and bade farewell to Nestlewood. He
stayed with me in my home in Newton
through Sunday. In the afternoon, with my
daughter’s family, we motored about forty
miles, through their hospitality, and return-
ing took lunch at their home. He and I spent
considerable time in prayer in my study that
evening until ten o’clock, when he left for his
home via New York City, where he wanted to
make inquiry about his chance to work among
the soldiers.
Cuaptrer VII
LAST DAYS AND HOME GOING

The world’s appraisement of a man is most
likely to be based on the size of his bank ac-
count, the bonds and stocks he holds, the
amount of his real estate free from all encum-
brances, the number of clubs to which he be-
longs.

“To talk of fortune in terms only of the
money market is simply to show our limita-
tions.” God’s appraisement of a man is in
the quality of his character. This constitutes
true wealth, and alone passes current at the
bank of Heaven. A man is worth just what
he is. Character is molded by the divine toueh,
and this is secured through faith in, and com-
panionship with, God’s only begotten Son.

Robert Garry was rich in the love and com-
panionship of God and has entered into his
reward. Could he have chosen a place from
which to be called from the activities in which
he had spent the years of his Christian life,
it would have been the place where he had
ample opportunity to recruit men for the
Kingdom of God.

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Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, 8. C., gave
him this opportunity, which he most heartily
embraced and improved to the best of his
ability.

Concerning rest, he disregarded the counsel
of his friends, as well as the monitor within
his own heart. I doubt not but that he was
spurred on in these last days by the words
of our Lord, who, when His parents found
Him in the Temple, “sitting in the midst of
the teachers, both hearing them, and asking.
them questions,” said to his parents, “Wist
ye not that I must be about my Father’s busi-
ness?” He had often said to me, “I want to
wear out rather than rust out,” and this he
literally did until compelled to enter the hos-
pital. His last letter to me, which was writ-
ten from Camp Wadsworth, under date of
January 3rd, is indicative of his suffering and
of the uncomplaining spirit which kept him
brave to the last.

The end of his faithful ministry on earth
came in the early morning of January 18th,
when he was summoned from among the boys
he loved so dearly to be with the Lord, for
whose second advent he had so faithfully
watched.

A telegram received from his beloved wife
was followed by one from our mutual friend,
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A. H. Whitford, in New York City, which
read:

“Garry received his ‘abundant entrance’ when he
fell asleep this morning at Spartanburg. His son
arrived last night.”

Later, Mr. Whitford wrote me:

“When I wired you that Robert had an ‘abundant
entrance’ I had in mind that the joy bells were ring-
ing because of his arrival in glory, for no saint ever
felt more at home on arrival—no saint probably bet-
ter understood the language. What a Kingdom
linguist he was! He began life in Blue fighting for
his country and: ended life in Khaki fighting for all
that was best in helping our fighting men.”

Mrs. Whitford had written me two days be-
fore Robert went from us, saying:

“Have you heard that Mr. Garry is in Spartanburg
working with the Army Y. M. 0. A.? He has caught a
very heavy cold and we fear pneumonia has developed.
He is in the hospital there having the best of care.
. - - He was too old to rough it. He felt quite upset
at first to think the Y. M. C. A. perhaps would not
accept him on account of his age; finally they did and
he went. . . . One thing is sure if he does not recover
he will fall asleep in the harness. There is no one
I know of who will receive more stars in their crown
than our Mr. Garry.”

How prodigally he spent his strength, and
what a valuable service he rendered in these
last days may be conceived from the two fol-
lowing letters; first, from young Corporal
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Lunard, who was greatly attached to Mr.
Garry, and who had been much helped by him
in Bible study. He writes:

“You ask several questions in regard to the last
days of our friend which I shall try to answer. I am
glad to say that the end came without much suffering.
Of course it was bad enough. He had had a bad cold
for a long time. One morning, about a week before
the final, I came, as was my habit, rushing into his
room only to find him looking poorly and panting
somewhat. I said, ‘What’s the matter, Daddy?’ (He
had so endeared himself to the boys that many of
them called him Daddy.) ‘Oh, Carl,’ he said, ‘how
I wished last night that you were here, I was so sick,
and I surely thought that the Lord was going to take
ee But somehow he got better for a couple
of days.

My regiment was then quarantined and I could
not see him in the hospital. A friend of mine met
me at the guard line every evening to give me the
news. He remained conscious, or semi-conscious at
least, to the last, ever interested in the work in camp
and inquiring about it at every opportunity. Of
course we expected that the dear man would leave
us; and I think he, too, was aware of it, but he never
said anything to anyone in this respect.

Evenings I would sit in his little room studying
the Bible under his matchless guidance and we would
say our prayers together, he in bed and I kneeling
at its side. Somehow it seemed to me his prayers
became more magnificent from day to day. He would
linger a bit as he said, ‘Oh, Lord, when we can’t do
anything for you any more, take us away to be with
you.’ My, how he loved the Lord! Oh, my friend,
how he loved the holy Cause and all of its saints.
Surely he was suffering discomforts of many sorts
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(though we did our best for him), but he thought
of Saul of Tarsus—Paul—who was called to suffer;
and remembering his sufferings he forgot his own. I
can still see the tears in his dear eyes as we read Acts
9:16, and ued on he went out among the boys
to labor in the vineyard; and Oh! the joy in his
dear eyes when some one accepted our Saviour.

We used to ask those into his little room and there
we would pray with and for the new-born soldiers.”

After some personal reflections, the young
Corporal concludes his letter with the follow-
ing:

“T am thankful to God that the beloved man came
to this camp. They say he is dead, but he lives;
he lives as he never lived before, with Christ in glory,
be is it not good to know that we shall meet him

ere?”

The other letter is from Rey. Paul Moore
Strayer, Camp Religious Director at Spartan-
burg. He writes, under date of January 21,
1918:

“My dear Sayford: As Religious Work Director I
am very glad to send you a word with regard to
Robert Garry, your friend and ours.

He spent about one month in one of our Y. M.
C. A. Units and left an influence which will tell tre-
mendously in the work of our whole staff, of about
thirty-five men. Every day he had about 8 to 10 con-
versions, by which I mean, he got that many men, one
after the other, into his room and showed them the
way to a Christian life, prayed with them, and helped
them to a personal decision. He did the kind of work
which our Association workers are slow to attempt,
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because of diffidence and fear they might not be able
to put it through.

We had a memorial service this morning at which
the whole staff was present. We agreed he came to
his end as he would like to have done if he had had
the choosing. Never in his life could he have done
better work. One word seems to sum up his per-
sonality and that is ‘devotion’; he was utterly de-
voted to his business of winning men for Christ. Of
course, he had an advantage in his Civil War record
and in the reverence which a Christian old age always
commands. But, if we younger men were driven by
his sheer devotion we could accomplish far more than
we do. I am confident we have learned a lesson from
him and that through our staff of stalwart young
Christian workers he will accomplish more during
these next six months, far more than he could have
done himself were he here with us in the body. ‘He,
being dead, yet speaketh,’ and he has inspired every
one of us with something of his passion for the souls
of men.

There were times when I regretted that he had been
sent to us, for I felt he was not physically strong.
enough to endure the hardships entailed by this rigor-
ous weather. I now feel, however, that he has
achieved in one brief month more than any noted man
who might have been sent to this camp.

We will never cease to thank God for Robert
Garry.”

Thus have ceased the labors of my beloved
friend and fellow-worker. He built himself
into the lives of thousands of men whom he
led into the “marvelous light” of the Gospel
of God’s dear Son. It was a fitting capstone
to the rare life, of which he gave so lavishly,
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that he might lay it down among the men
whose souls he coveted for Him who “loved
us and gave Himself for us.”
He could have well said in the words of an
author unknown to me,
“Into the garner of the past 5-6
My day has gone;
Its work has all been done,
Its seed been cast.

Saviour, supremest, best,
Receive my day,
And hear me when I pray
In thee to rest.

So in the quiet of the night

I lay me down,

Thy work my noblest crown,
My chief delight.”

His body was brought to Lockport by his
son, who reached the camp the night before
his father “fell asleep.” Funeral services
were held at his home January 22nd, in which
Rev. J. Webster Bailey, pastor of the First
Congregational Church, officiated, and Rev.
W. L. Pettingill, of Wilmington, Delaware,
assisted. Mr. F. H. Thatcher represented the
Railroad Y. M. C. A. of Buffalo. Other friends
were present from distant cities. His body
was laid away in Glenwood Cemetery, to await
the morning of the resurrection.

The Lockport Journal contained an article
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on his death, in which was the following refer-
ence to his Y. M. C. A. War Work:

“With his accustomed ardor and enthusiasm he
threw every ounce of his vitality into personal work
among the boys in the training camp.”

The article concludes:

“Through his efforts hundreds were led to a deeper
study of the Scriptures and to a personal knowledge
of Christ. Among his personal friends were some
of the most earnest and active Christian workers in
the country. In his own daily life Mr. Garry en-
deavored to put into practice the teachings. He died
as he had wished to die, in the service, as true a
patriot and soldier as any man fighting in the
trenches. He had been through the Civil War and
knew the hardships of a soldier’s life. Surviving him
are his wife and one son.”

I imagine my friend among those of whom
it is said in Daniel 12:3:
“And they that be teachers shall shine as the

brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many
.to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”

Should he have a monument of stone to
mark the grave wherein the loved ones laid
his body, no more appropriate epitaph could
be carved upon it than the words of Paul:

“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and
not to me only, but unto all them also that love his
appearing.”
CuHapter VIIT
OTHER TRIBUTES

The following tributes show the loving re-
gard others had for their friend and mine;
and they may appropriately constitute a chap-
ter in this memorial. Many others could have
been secured if there had been time to solicit
them.

Rey. CHARLES R. ERDMAN
Of Princeton

“It is a great pleasure to reply to your letter in
reference to Mr. Robert Garry. I recall with dis-
tinctness his visit to the Princeton. Theological Semi-
nary. As he had been a lifelong friend of my father,
and as I had been with him when he was conducting
services in Philadelphia among the railroad men, I
urged him to address the theological students. He
came to my classroom one morning and gave to the
seniors a fascinating account of his own life, particu-
larly as to his habits of Bible study. The purpose
of his message, as I had hoped, bore on the need of
daily devotional Bible study. His address, as was
always the case, revealed a most accurate and strik-
ing knowledge of Scripture passages, and the men
were fascinated by his quaint and sparkling humor,
as well as by the rapidity of his utterances and the
evident depth of his spiritual conviction. I am sure

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that no one who heard him speak will ever forget
his message. I also recall his addresses to the railroad
men among whom I have been working for the past
twenty-three years. His services were not largely
attended, but produced a very definite stimulus along
the line of Bible study.

I am delighted to know that you are engaged in
preparing a memorial of his life and I shall hope to
secure copies of the book as soon as it is published.”

Cou. SAMUEL C. PIERCE

Of the Municipal Civil Service Commission,
Rochester, N. Y.

“Mr. Garry’s service in the Union Army was simi-
lar to that of thousands of his associates. As a soldier
in the ranks he did his duty, his whole duty, willingly,
conscientiously, fully impressed with the righteous-
ness of the cause in which he was offering, if need
be, his life. Serious illness terminated his service
with his comrades before the final victory was won,'
but no more zealous, faithful defender of the Union
ever donned the blue than Private Robert Garry.

For the past thirty years I have been the secretary
of the 3rd New York Cav. Veteran Association. For
the most of that time Mr. Garry was Chaplain of the
Association. .He was a deeply religious person and
always impressed me as one who tried faithfully to
follow the footsteps of the Master and who spent his
strength in showing others the path.

I am deeply grieved to learn of his earthly separa-
tion from the comrades whom he loved, but I look

 

1 Within sixty days after his discharge, ‘he recruited a com-

pany in his native town and served in the 90th New York

i iment Volunteer Infantry as First Lieutenant to the close
of the war. ;
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forward to an eternal reunion with him in the happy
beyond.”

Cou. N. P. Ponp
Of The Rochester Democrat Chronicle

“T was a Captain in the 38rd New York Cavalry of
which Garry was a member also. I was taken from
that regiment and promoted to Colonel in another
and of course lost sight of the members of the former.
Since the war I have been intimately acquainted with
Mr. Garry and learned to prize his friendship very
highly. His death was a shock to me as he had been
in my office only a little while before I heard of it.”

Being very popular with boys, it is alto-
gether fitting that the following letter from
one of them should be inserted here:

“Dear Uncle Sam—

I was very glad to have your friend, Mr. Garry,
visit us at the farm. I enjoyed hearing him tell
stories of the war and play the harmonica. He gave
me one.

I never heard a man who could repeat so many
Bible verses.

We had a little meeting Sunday evening led by him.
Fay, our man, enjoyed hearing him. Mother said it
did him lots of good. She said he never liked reli-
gion before.

Mr. Garry is a good sport, too, although he is so
old. We had a game of ball, not baseball, there were
two bases and two players on each side. The pitcher
threw the ball over the base, the batter would hit it
and then they changed bases. If the batter did not
hit the ball the catcher would pitch it back, and so on.

I was umpire. I had a shingle and a pen knife
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and would scratch every point on the shingle. The
score was ten to ten. Chase said it wasn’t, but I
was right because Mr. Garry said so.

We went for a walk one afternoon. Mr. Garry went
right up the rocks like a boy.

He showed me how to mark my Bible in red ink
and left us some verses, Heb. 6:10 and John 13: 35.

Yours truly,
Kenneth E. Kepner.”

A friend writing concerning his death, says:

“We shall all meet again, surely, surely. So why do
we weep our hearts out because one of us has gone on
a little ahead? I had some troubles I wanted to tell
him, but I am glad I did not. They would only have
depressed his sympathetic heart. He had a passion
for souls. I never knew his like. Sowing by all
waters and the harvest will be glorious!”

Mr. Homer Buack

For Many Years General Secretary of the.
Harrisburg, Penn., Y. M. C. A.

“T have known Robert Garry for more than twenty
years and used him as a Bible teacher again and
again during my secretaryship in the Harrisburg
Y. M. ©. A. I knew him well and loved him much
indeed. He was one of the most lovable men that I
ever met, as well as one of the most humble. His
supreme desire was to win men to Christ through
the use of the Word, and then teach them how to be-
come better acquainted with Him in using the Bible.
He was a gifted man in this line, and his gifts were
renewed. day by day by the Holy Spirit. The church
will deeply feel his loss, while men all over the land
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who were led to Christ by him or edified because
of his ministry will always rejoice that they were
brought into contact with Robert Garry, God’s man,
in God’s place for God’s pleasure. Personally he will
always be in my memory.”

Rey. WILLIAM L. PETTINGILL
Dean of the Philadelphia School of the Bible

“Robert Garry was no small factor in determining
the course of my own life and it is probably due in
part to his faithful testimony as a teacher of the
Word of God that I myself was led into the’ same
ministry. I was less than twenty years old when I
came into contact with him in the old Y. M. C. A.
rooms on Hast Main Street Bridge in Rochester, N. Y.
I have known and loved him all these years and I
do thank God upon every remembrance of him.”

Pres. JOHN A. DAVIS

Of the Practical Bible Training School, Bible
School Park, N. Y.

“Too high tribute to the revered memory of Robert
‘Garry cannot be written. He was so close to our
Father that to know him was to become better ac-
quainted with God.

At our large Summer Bible Conferences at Bible
School Park, also his various times of visitations and
teachings at our school, he has again and again con-
ducted the work without the use of his Bible, only
as he held it in his hand, so thoroughly did he know
the Word. Better than all of that, he never failed
to be a channel of blessing. Whenever he appeared
on the campus, a bevy of students surrounded him.

He was one of the saints.”
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CHARLES T. KILBORNE
Of Wall Street, New York

“My acquaintance with Robert was through you at
the first. The names of Rev. George C. Needham,
Rev. James W. Cooper, and Sayford and Garry
eran’ themselves together as I recall those early

lays. After he came out for the Christian life his
development was the most rapid and symmetrical I
have ever seen. His pastor, Rev. Mr. Cooper, said
to me, ‘He is a man of one Book, the Bible, and he
feeds upon it to his great personal enrichment and
growth.’ His loving reverence for the Bible was most
marked. He spoke of it as ‘the Word’ in a tone and
manner which cannot be forgotten by those who heard
him. To him it was the supreme authority, the high-
est court in all questions of Teligion. It had led him
out into the new life; it had constantly and fully
met his needs as they unfolded; it had never failed
him in any time of need; it was increasingly full,
a and. satisfying; therefore it had vindicated it-
selr.

His devotion to Christ as the Son of God, his per-
sohal Saviour and Redeemer, found its expression in
the words ‘He loved me and gave Himself for me,’
and ‘his own’ self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree’ Following his realization of salvation
through Christ as a substitute, came that of the Elder
Brother, filling him with a sense of overwhelming
condescension and honor. His response to these suc-
cessive experiences might ave been expressed in the
language of the hymn,

‘Love so amazing, so Divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.’

His eagerness to share with others what he had
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found was most constant and his unceasing activities
were prompted by his loyal gratitude to Christ and
his Christ-like love for his fellows. There was not a
trace of ‘legality’ in his service, but the joy of a
redeemed soul conscious of its redemption, ‘Free
from the law, O happy condition’ and ‘I’m the child
of a King’ were hymns expressive of his attitude. He
could have reverently used the words of the Psalmist,
‘I delight to do thy will, O my God” _

He told me of his connection before his conversion
with a fraternity which required that he spend from
one to two evenings a week for some time at the
Chaplain’s house learning the unwritten work, and
said that this Christian minister, knowing he was an
ungodly man, never spoke a word to him about Christ,
and added, ‘If he had led me to Him at that time,
just think of ten years more of service I might have
had for Him.’

His ability and success as a teacher of the Bible
were due largely to his unshakable confidence in it
as the Word of God, and also his patience and gentle-
ness. No opposition could excite him to irritation or
anger, but when it seemed to be caused by wilfulness
or a dishonest attitude, he was grieved and distressed
for the other person.

While he was grateful for words of appreciation
and encouragement, he was also entirely independent
of them. The smile of approval from his Saviour
was his supreme satisfaction.

T have a short list of men who have influenced me
strongly and helpfully in my Christian life, and
Robert Garry’s name was placed there long ago, and
re are few others that stir such tender feelings as

is.

A letter written by the late George C. Need-
ham, in 1897, comes under the observation of
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the author, who takes from it the following
extract:

“How glad I am to know that you are with my
princely brother Bob. Ah, me, but he is A-1. A wad
of theology, a bed of spices, a bundle of myrrh. He
is none of the modern willowy and waxy high-flyers
who pose as evangelists when the sun shines, or lovely

maidens flatter. When God called Robert, Satan had
a shock, and swore by his black throne ‘to have re-
venge. But see, the slim greyhound of our King,
keeps on chasing the cubs of the pit back to their
lair. Beelzebub would swap a legion of his German-
ized ‘higher critics’ for one Bob Garry.”

Mrs. C. E. WHITE

Supt. West Side Gospel Mission, New York
City

“We loved Mr. Garry, and he was loved by our
young people especially. I remember one day seeing
him in a group of unsaved people with about a dozen
children in the group and the elders sitting interest-
edly by, he the while telling a war tale and between
times having those youngsters recite a Bible text,
‘Thou God seest me.’ It was interesting, for the
group was so unusual, and he ‘had them all’ and they
were getting a lot of gospel truth seemingly without
knowing it, that is, they would not have listened at
all but for the tact with which he presented it.

One day when on the farm with us he gave an evi-
dence of the humor he possessed. A party, myself
and husband included, were going for a day’s outing
to Lake Mohonk. We urged his joining us, but he
stayed at home and picked pears all day, picking
more than either hired man who picked side by side
with him and ridiculed the idea of a ‘city man and
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a preacher’ being able to really do anything worth
while. At night they were tired out and ready to
respect our preacher friend, who had made them do
the hardest day’s work they had done in a long while
and had beaten them out at that. He enjoyed this
experience immensely.

One night while with us there in the country, we
had started to the village to attend a meeting which
we had arranged for Mr. Garry to address. Meeting
and greeting a neighbor, a godless man though a
genial fellow, Robert sat down on the stone wall and
‘preached Christ’ to him, urging immediate accept-
ance of the Saviour.

He was never too tired and it was never too late
for him to talk it out with any inquiring soul. Often
it was the midnight hour when he would have finished
making the way clear to some seeking soul in our
midst.

We shall never cease to thank God for the influ-
ence of the precious life of our friend, Robert Garry,
on our own lives as well as on the lives of our people.”

The Bible Scholar contained the following
from the pen of Rev. W. J. Erdman:

“T am one of the many who feel a great personal
loss in the departure of dear Robert Garry to be with
Christ, whom he served so faithfully many years and
for whose return in glory. he ardently looked.

Somehow I cannot dissociate Robert Garry from
the word of God. It was ever in his heart and on
his lips, and as a book—the Book to him, carried
under his very arm.

We all loved him; he was so simple-minded, so
humble, so generous—he had the true, warm, cheer-
ful Irish heart; but withal, who was more shrewd
than he in ways and devices to disarm prejudices
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and excite interest in the Scriptures and the way
of Salvation when speaking to sinners, whether in
private or in public?

And none were nearer and dearer to him for whose
salvation he prayed than the adherents of ‘the old
church’ in which he was born, and which he left
when his eyes were opened to see what the Word of
God taught touching the way of salvation.

The men in the Holly Works of Lockport, N. Y.,
where he worked for years, and the farming com-
munities around the city, could bear witness to his
ceaseless interest in their salvation, and to his in-
genious methods to arrest and keep their attention.

And many fellow-workers of past years and who
are now with the Lord probably never knew of the
list of names fastened to the machine he tended in
the shops, for whom his prayers and thanksgivings
went up daily to God.

He died in a soldiers’ camp in the South; he had
been himself a soldier in the Civil War; he loved
and understood soldiers, and truly he was a ‘good
soldier of Christ Jesus.’ Though not educated in the
schools, none contended more earnestly, humbly, and
intelligently for the faith ‘once for all delivered to
the saints.’

Many, indeed, will thank God now and in the
Glory for the life and ministry of this humble servant
of God.”

And now, Father, grant that the author,
and all those who read this memorial, may
emulate the example of Robert Garry, whose
devotion, and enthusiasm, and fidelity, and
faith, and deep spirituality kept him in the
“imner circle” of our Lord’s disciples.
APPENDIX

SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS FOR ROMAN
CATHOLICS

PREPARED BY THEIR FRIEND, ROBERT GARRY,
Lockport, N. Y.

Please get a Bible and read all the texts referred to
in this little messenger

Jesus said, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will
draw all men unto me.” John 12: 32.

_1. We SHovtp ALL Reap AND Stupy THE BIBLE

John 5: 39. Search the Scriptures. Not other books.

Matt. 22: 29. Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures.

II Tim. 3:16. It is aiZ profitable.

Rev. 1:3. A blessing on those that read it.

Deut. 11:18, 19. Should teach our children the Bible.

Acts 17:11. The Bereans commended for searching
the Scriptures to see if their preachers preached the
truth of the blessed Gospel.

John 17: 14. Jesus gave the word only.

Luke 24: 44-47. Jesus taught out of the Old Testament.

2. BIBLE CoMMANDMENTS ONLY, TO BE KEPT

Rev. ah 18,19. We must not add to or take from God’s
word.

I John 3: 22, 23. The Two Commandments.

I Tim. 4: 1-5. ‘To forbid Meats is an error.

Matt. 26: 27. All were to drink of the Cup, and not
the Priest for the people.

Mark 14: 23. They ali drank of it (the Cup), as Jesus
commanded. John 14: 15, 21.

James 5:14, 15. Praying for the sick and anointing

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them with oil, was to prepare them to live consecrated
lives and not to die.

I Cor. 14:19. Paul teaches us to use a known tongue.
Not the Latin Tongue for English-speaking people.
Isa. 8: 20. The word of God should be our standard in

everything.

3. Mary, a4 BLessep Woman, But LIKE OTHERS,

NEEDED A SAVIOUR

Luke 1: 46, 47. Mary confesses Jesus her Saviour.

Matt. 2:2. The Son, The King, and not the mother,
worshipped. The expression worshipped Him, is
found 13 times in Matt. alone.

Matt. 2: 11, 13, 14, 20, 21. The child always mentioned
before the Mother; do not reverse it.

Acts 1:14. The last mention of Mary is in a prayer
meeting, and she not even the leader.

I Tim. 2:5. Only One Mediator between God and men.
The Man, Christ Jesus.

I John 2:1. As to sins, we have an Advocate with the
Father, and one only. Mary, therefore, is not needed.

4, Perer No Better THan Many OTHER MEN

Luke 5: 8 Peter said to Jesus, “J am a sinful man.”

Acts 3:12. Peter did not trust his own power or holi-
ness.

Acts 10: 24-26. Peter said, “I am but a man.”

Acts 9: 32-35. Peter said, “Jesus maketh whole,” not
“I make whole.”

Acts 10: 36. Peter said, “Peace by Jesus Christ.”

Acts 4:12. Peter said no hope or help aside from Jesus.

Gal. 2: 11-14. Paul blamed Peter for acting wrongly,
and this after Peter had been an apostle about 25 years.

5. THE BisLe Dozs Not TEacu THaT PETER Was
Ever In RoME

I. Epistle written to Romans, A. D. 58 to 60.
In Romans, Chap. 16, Paul salutes 26 or more per-

sons by name. Peter not mentioned among them.

II. Paul writes from Rome his Epistles, Eph., Phil., and
Col., and names brethren who were with him, but
Peter was not one of them.

ITI. Paul writes, II Tim. from Rome, the last letter he
wrote just before his death, and says, Luke only
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is with me. II Tim. 4: 9-12. Not one word about
Peter.

6. As To THE MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS

Luke 1:5, 13. Zacharias, a Priest, a married man, and
yet pleased God.

I Cor. 9:5. Mark 1: 29-31. Peter was married.

I Tim. 3: 1-4. Bishops, Elders and Deacons were disqual-
ified if not married.

Heb. 13: 4. Paul says marriage is honorable in all.

I Tim. 4: 1-3. Paul says it is a departure from the faith
to forbid marriage.

Y. As TO CONFESSION To A PRIEST

Mark 2:7. God only can forgive Sins. ;

Heb. 7: 27. Priests needed forgiveness themselves.

Psalm 32: 6, 7. David confessed to God, not to a Priest.

Ezra 10: 10-12. Ezra, a Priest, taught confession to God,
and not to himself, (a Priest).

Dan. 9: 4, 5. Daniel said, Confess to God.

Acts 8: 20-22. Peter told the Sorcerer to Confess to God
and not to himself or Mary, or to any saint.

I Peter 2: 5,9. Peter says all believers are priests.

James 5:16. James exhorts believers to confess faults
one to another. Our faults are sins.

8. Curist’s AToNING DEATH. AND MERITS THE
ONLY GROUND OF PEACE AND PaRpoNn

Isa. 53: 5, 6. Christ took our place on the Cross.

II Peter 2: 24. He bore our sins.

Gal. 3:13. He redeemed us.

John 19:30. He finished all atoning work, and made
all the merit needed for our salvation.

John 6: 28-29. To believe is doing God’s work, in his
way and sight. Believe occurs 100 times in John’s
Gospel alone, and 251 times in the New Testament.

9. How To BE Savep

Rom. 3: 28. Justified without works.

Rom. 4:5. To him that worketh not, but believeth.
Eph. 2: 8, 9. Saved by Grace, not by works.

II Tim. 1: 9. Saved by Jesus, and not by works.
Rom. 6:1. Justified by Faith, not by works.
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Isa. 45: 22. Look to Jesus only for salvation.

John 3: 14-16. Believe on Jesus alone for everlasting
life.

Acts 16: 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou
shalt be saved.

Rom. 6: 23. Prov. 14: 12. Man’s way ends in death.

John 14:6. Jesus said no man cometh unto the Father
but by Me.

10. No PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE

Heb. 9: 27. After death, the judgment. No hope beyond.

Luke 16: 19-31. Abraham could not help the dead, and
Jesus gave no hope after death.

Eccl. 9:10. No salvation after death.

II Sam. 12: 22, 28. David ceased praying when the
Child was dead.

II Cor. 5:8. Phil. 1: 21-23. The believer in Christ, at
death goes at once to Christ.

WHAT WE ARE AND RECEIVE THROUGH
JESUS

John 3: 16-17. Life. Salvation.

John 20: 31. How we get it. I John 5: 11-13.

Rom. 6: 23. Eternal life.

Rom. 5: 9. Saved from wrath to come. John 3: 36.
Eph. 1:7. Redemption. Rom. 3: 23-25,

Rom. 6:1. Peace. Col. 1: 20.

Acts 10: 42, 43. Remission. Isa. 50: 7, 8.

Acts 13: 38, 39. Forgiveness of sins. I John 1: 7-10.
Phil. 4: 7. We are kept in peace. Isa. 26: 3.

Gal. 4: 7. An heir of God.

Phil. 4: 13. Can do all things. Luke 10:17. John 15: 5.
Rom. 1: 8. Must thank God.

I Cor. 15: 57. We get the victory.

Rom. 8: 37. Are more than conquerors.

Eph. 2:18. Access to the Father. Eph. 1:1, 5, 9.

II Cor. 8:9. We are made rich. Luke 9:58. Foxes.
Acts 4: 2. Will come forth from grave. John 11: 25, 26.
John 1:7. Must believe through Jesus.

THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURE
ier 3:16, 17. II Pet. 1:21. Rom. 15:4. I Cor.
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THE Law INSPIRED
Mioslus 4: 10-12. John 5: 39, 45-47. Mark 7: 9-13. Luke

a ai 26-27, 44. Acts 24:14. Acts 3: 22, 23. Acts
Acts 28: 22, 23. Heb. 10: 28. Exodus 20: 1. Isa. 8: 20.
John 17: 8, 14.

Tue Psatms INSPIRED

II Sam. 28:1, 2. Acts 1:16. Psalm 41:9, John 13: 18.

Psalm 32: 1,2; Psalm 2:1,2. Psalm 2:7. Psalm 110: 1.

Rom. 4: 6-8. Acts 4: 23-26. Acts 13:32, 33. Mark
12: 35-37. Heb. 1: 6.

Tur PROPHETS INSPIRED

Jer. 1: 6-9. Luke 1: 68-70. Acts 3: 19-23. Acts 24: 14.

Acts 26: 22, 23. Acts 28: 22, 23, 25, 26. Heb. 1:1.

Luke 24: 25-27, 44. Micah 5:2. Jonah 1:17. Psalm
22: 16.

Matt. 2: 1-6. Matt. 12: 39, 40. Isa. 59: 20, 21. I Kings
22: 14,

Tur New TEsTaMENT Writers INSPIRED

Acts 2: 4. Gal. 1:1, 8-20. John 14:16. John 16: 12, 13.

I Cor. 14: 37. Matt. 10: 16-20, 40. I Cor. 2: 9-14.

I Thess. 4:15. Luke 10: 16. I Thess, 2: 13.

Ben 3: 1, 2, 14-16. I Pet. 1: 1-12. Eph. 3:1-5. I Cor.
21, 2.

WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN?

Mark 16:16. He is a believer.

John 8: 31, 32. He is a disciple.

Matt. 5: 13-16. He is a light.

Acts 8: 21. Heart is right with God.

II Chron. 6: 14-17. Does not mix with the world. I John
2:15. James 4: 4.

Eph. 4: 31, 32. Has no bitterness. John 13: 34, 35.

1 Cor. 9: 24-27. Overcomes self.

John 15: 14, 15. A true friend.

II Tim. 2:3. A good soldier of the Lord.

Rom. 1: 7. Called to be a saint.

I John 3: 13-16. He does not hate a brother.

an 101: 3. He controls the eye. Psalm 119: 37.

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I Thess. 1:9. He serves God.

I Thess. 1:10. He waits for His Son.

Phil. 4: 6, 7. Much alone in prayer.

Matt. 12: 36. Is careful in speaking.

II Pet. 3:11. Much engaged in holy conversation.
Phil. 3: 10-14. Goes forward. Tell my people.

EIGHT STEPS DOWN IN BACKSLIDING

. Neglect of secret prayer. Acts 2: 42. Col. 4: 2.

. Disregard for the Bible. Prov. 28:9. John 15: 7.

. Forsaking the means of grace. Heb. 10: 25.
Worldly-mindedness. II Tim. 4: 9-11. I John 2: 16-17.
Levity in conversation. Eph. 5: 4. TI Pet. 3: 9-11.

. Dwelling on the faults of others. Matt. 7: 1-5.

. Having a quarrelsome spirit. Isa. 29: 21. I Cor. 3: 3.
. Readiness to take offense. Prov. 14:17. Prov. 18: 19,

QO AIST CODD PD

THREE ENEMIES AND HOW CONQUERED

. The world. I John 5: 1.

. The flesh. Gal. 2: 16.

. The devil. James 4: 7. :

. The Lord knoweth how to deliver. II Pet. 2: 9.
. God sustains in temptation. I Cor. 10: 13.

IN ORDER TO HAVE OUR PRAYERS
ANSWERED

We must ask in the name of Jesus. John 14: 13, 14.

We must be abiding in Him. John 15: 7.

eee be keeping His commandments. I John 3: 22,

We must be giving thanks at same time. Col. 4: 2.

We must seek spiritual things first. Matt. 6: 33.

we ie pray for all the saints at same time. Eph.

We must be intelligent as to God’s mind. Jude 20.
Eph. 6: 18.

we an have hard feelings toward any one. Mark

We must not babble. Matt. 6: 7.

We must not ask for fleshly desires. James 4: 3.

We must not doubt God will keep His word. Mark
11: 24. James 5: 14, 15.

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We must be careful for nothing. Phil. 4: 6.
We must be prayerful for everything. Phil. 4: 6.
We must. be thankful for anything. Phil. 4: 6.

The following Readings are the result of our last
Bible study, three months before my friend went to
be with our risen Lord:

THE BIBLE CONCERNING JESUS .

The Bible is authoritative:
Deut. 6:6, 7. IL Tim. 3:16. IL Pet. 1:21. John
5: 39. :
The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecy:
Rev. 19: 10. Luke 24: 27. I Pet. 1: 10, 11.
Prophecy is the Word of God:

Ht Pet. 1; 21. “For the prophecy came not in old time
by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

Moses—Bxodus 4: 10-12.

Davip—II Sam. 23: 1, 2.

JEREMIAH—Jer. 1: 6-9.

The Old Testament contains much of Prophecy and most
of it refers to Christ.

The New Testament contains fully 300 quotations from
Prophecy.

The Old Testament points to Jesus as the Redeemer.

Isa. 7:14. Zech. 13:1. Mal. 4: 2.

The New Testament reveals the prophesied Redeemer.

John 1: 29-34, Rev. 13: 8.

Redemption through Jesus foretold in the Old Testament.

Gen. 3:15. Exodus 12:13. Isa. 53: 1-5.

Redemption fulfilled in the New Testament.

John 3: 16-17. I John 4:14. I Cor. 15:3. I Pet.
1; 18-21. I Pet. 2: 24.

This authority is supreme; therefore we need no other.

Isa. 8: 20. “To the law and to the testimony: if they
speak not according to this evord, it is because there
is no light in them.”

Luke 16: 29. John 5: 39, 46. Acts 10: 43.
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WHO IS THIS JESUS?

His name and character are discovered on most of the
pages of the Bible:
Isa. 7:14. “Therefore the Lord Himself shall give
you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear
a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Matt. 1: 23. Luke 1: 30-33.
Is this one born of the virgin Mary more than man?
Isa. 9: 6. “For unto us a ehild is born, unto us a son
is given: and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father,
The Prince of Peace.”
THomas recognized him as God. John 20: 28.
ELISABETH recognized him as God. Luke 1: 43.
JOER eae ce him as God. John 1:1-3, 14. Heb.
1: 1-8.
The testimony of Jesus Himself:
John 8:58 compare with Exodus 3:14.
John 10: 30. John 17: 6.
Proof of His claim:
John 2: 18-22. John 10:17, 18.
In the light of the above, and other Scriptures, what
should be our attitude toward Him?
Heb. 10: 19-26.