noble lives. Honored be their memories and honored be their ashes, for
their lives shall live in the memories of all coming generations and
their ashes will make rich the soil whereon they lie.

May God give us some more of such men as these for they are few, and we
need so many now to go forth and speak the truth.

And there is dear Doctor David Moore, that my pen, I fear, would fail to
move, if I did not do him honor. He was beloved and honored to the last
day of his stay in the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, and it was on
account of sickness that he had to leave this city and go up in the
northern part of this State that he might be able to preach the Word,
and God did make him well after he had left Brooklyn; and his work has
been crowned with great success.

God did use him in this city to His own glory in saving men, women and
children from the very door of sin and the dread of the life which is to
come. And may the God of Heaven and the Ruler of this earth be with him
as he comes near the Jordan to make its waters calm, and enter in the
gate and hear the blessed "Well done, good and faithful servant, enter
thou in the joys of thy Lord."

J. D. Fulton is one that will have one of the highest places at God's
right hand, for he started out to look after the Ethiopian's rights when
he was only seventeen years of age. What can be said of a long life like
his, that has written and traveled and spoke to such large crowds of
hearers in the interest of the race which I represent. How I have seen
those silvery locks fly as his warm heart melted to tears as he pleaded
for the down-trodden of the Ethiopians; and if God has ever heard a
prayer I know that He hears the prayer of this dear good man, for I have