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It is customary to save all the good things we know about a man until he is dead and then lavish them on his memory, smother his coffin with flowers and his grave with blossoms. The custom is a beautiful one and enjoys the distinction of having come down to us through the ages, but the Tradesman believes - and has always undertaken to act on such belief that a little less eulogy at the funeral and a little more acknowledgment of the obligation due the individual this side of the grave are by no means out of place.

Especially is this true when applied to the life work of Edwin A. Strong, whose experience in the various channels in which he exerted himself during the twenty-five years he resided in this city is graphically described by eighteen contributors elsewhere in this week's issue.

What Mr. Strong's services were to this community others know in part; but only his associates in the schoolroom can understand the peculiar inspiration, the infectious and quickening enthusiasm, which he carries into his daily labor.

To work with him is of itself a liberal education. His praise is a sufficient guerdon; his own brilliant method at once the spur and the despair of others. As Emerson spoke of Carlyle's descending to the drudging details of his Life of Frederick from a superior height of cosmic knowledge, so Mr. Strong appears to apply himself to the questions of the hour, laden with the wisdom of the ages.

And to garnered knowledge and wide experience he adds a moral judgment which pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, so that to no man can better be applied the epitaph of Thirlwall: Cor sapiens et intelligens ad discernendum judicium.

To every one privileged to observe or to share his work as a teacher his very personality is a thrilling summons. His inexhaustible fertility, his ever-renewed freshness, his indomitable - spirit falling to rise and baffled to fight better these are among the qualities which perpetually astonish and delight those who are with him in daily association.

Mr. Strong has never talked cant He gives simple expression in conversation, as well as in his lectures, to what he believes both practical and natural when perceived and understood. He has faith in the divine which is in every human heart, however obscured it may be by outward circumstances and environment.

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