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JACOB HODGES.
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ol God that burdened his heart. He
wrestled with God like the patriarchs of
old, and he rose early, like the Saviour, to
renew his vows and his service of de
votion. The same comprehensiveness
and fervour, propriety and directness of
expression, characterized all his religious
exercises, and those that read his history
were at no loss to discover the secret of
his piety and the source of his abiding
consolation.
There was always something remark¬
able in his whole deportment and car¬
riage. While his stature was manly and
erect, his movement strikingly dignified
and commanding, and in his intercourse
nothing servile- and low, there was at the
same time a winning modesty, a just ap¬
preciation of himself. And while he
made no claim to the kind regard and
attention of others, he was never ungrate¬
ful for their condescension to his low
estate.
He never seemed to krow that his
mind was at all sup re: to that of others