the Orphanage, the Mission Boards, the great denomination of which he was a loyal member, will miss him; Willingham, Gray, Rowe, the Lowreys -- alas! we will all miss him. "Thou shalt be missed because thy seat will be empty."

All the avenues of business, morals and religion will feel the shock and stagger under the loss. Every member of this vast assembly must feel that a strong support has fallen. A wider circle, for whom I may presume to speak, mourn the loss of a dear friend. And a far wider circle of friends, covering, indeed, the whole country, offer through my lips affectionate and earnest sympathy to these stricken hearts here today.

As a business man Brother Hearn was eminently successful. Pre-eminently so, when we reckon with the limited possibilities of a small town. He would have been a leader in business circles of any large city. He was greater than his surroundings. His advice was sought by neighboring towns and cities for the promotion of their business interests, But I pass that by that I may speak of something more enduring than material prosperity.

Deeply spiritual, he had a clear insight--spiritual vision--and was delighted at any time to enter into conversation with leading ministers about the great, fundamental teachings of Jesus Christ. Repentance, faith, regeneration, justification, sanctification, perfect salvation through the sovereign grace of God, election, perseverance and preservation of the saints, to his devout soul, composed the most precious cluster of divine doctrines God ever presented to human thought. His personal faith in the Savior amounted to full assurance of his own salvation. He lived in what the apostle called the full assurence of faith. During the twenty-two years I have known him more or less intimately I have never heard from his lips an expression of doubt as to his safety in Christ. He had a Pauline experience and could, with that apostle, say: "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded tat he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."

He was possessed of a Christlike candor. If the Great Teacher had never said to him: "Let your communication be yea, yea; my, nay,’ ‘or had he never read Jas. "Let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay," he would have understood that the Christ spirit needs no vehement assertions to enforce its utterances. His word was the truth. When he spoke you could reckon with certainty

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