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MEMOKIAL 
 
 OF 
 
 REV. JOHN S. mSKIP. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 EEV. E. I. D. PEPPEE. 
 
 V 
 
 Shout unto God with the Voice of triumph." 
 
 Psalm 47: ]. 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 NATIONAL PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION FOR 
 THE PROMOTION OF HOLINESS. 
 
 No. 921 ARCH STREET. 
 
IN MEMORY OF REV. J. S. INSKIP. 
 
 W. H. CLARK. 
 
 PRINCE of royal blood has gone 
 ^j^^ His kingdom to inherit ; 
 tf^^!> And brighter scenes of glory dawn, 
 JfL On his triumphant spirit. 
 
 With raptured eye, he now descries 
 
 With more than mortal vision, 
 Those glorious mansions in the skies 
 And fields beyond Elysian. 
 
 Most valiant for the truth he stood, 
 
 The truth of God eternal ; 
 And taught the list'niug multitude, 
 
 To seek for joys supernal. 
 
 The conflict long and sharp is o'er, 
 His latest foe is vanquished ; 
 
 He's landed safe upon the shore 
 For which his spirit languished. 
 
 Though fiercely raged the battle strife 
 
 Yet ever on his banner, 
 His motto was eternal life. 
 
 His rallying cry "Hosanna." 
 
 The Spirit's sword he knew to wield, 
 
 The enemy confounding ; 
 But never knew to quit the field. 
 
 Till victory was resounding. 
 
 Through every conflict, toil and care. 
 
 His soul anticipating, 
 Has gone the glorious crown to wear, 
 
 So long for him in waiting. 
 March 11th, 1884. 
 
In Ifipmoriani. 
 
 Rev. JOHN S. INSKIP, 
 
 " Truly, a prince and a great man has fallen in Israel !" 
 
 iUK Editor-in-Chief, Kev. John S. Inskip, President of the 
 National Camp-meeting Association, has been removed from 
 us at the very climax of his popularity and power. His 
 fame was world-wide, and well-deserved. It was honorable 
 in the highest, purest, best sense of the word. Perhaps no man, all 
 things considered, occupied a more prominent and peculiar position 
 in the Christian world than he— a position accorded him spontaneous- 
 ly, continuously, as a matter-of-course, in the essential fitness of 
 things. He stood in the very fore-front of " The Holy War," a 
 commander-in-chief by acclamation ! Genial in spirit ; prepos- 
 sessing in address ; affable in manners ; winning and childlike in all 
 his ways ; as fascinating as he was firm in his friendships ; heroic in 
 soul ; full of gracious, generous, great-hearted, contagious enthu- 
 siasm ; devoted to the most sublime idea that can possibly command 
 the thought, and conscience, and heart of humanity ; fully conse- 
 
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 crated to God and His work ; preaching, professing, and enjoying 
 entire sanctification of body, soul and spirit ; prodigious in labors ; 
 abundant in travels ; mighty in word and deed ; full of Pentecostal 
 power in the pulpit; facile with his pen; careful in the minutest 
 details of secular and religious duty ; loyal to the Church of his 
 choice, yet catholic in his views ; take him all in all we shall not 
 soon look upon his like again. 
 
 Who can ever forget his almost matchless prayers in public w^or- 
 ship, around the family altar, in the circle of his chosen companions 
 in labor, amid the most grievous trials, multiplied discouragements 
 and perplexing business details? The sweetness, the pathos, the 
 comprehensiveness, the evident inspiration, the all-conquering faith, 
 the reverent familiarity with God, with which he found access to 
 the throne of grace, still lingers like a fragrant memory. How 
 those never-to-be-forgotten appeals for Divine guidance, succor, and 
 salvation, broadened out into almost apostolic intercessions, into 
 almost seraphic supplications ! How they cheered our weary hearts, 
 inspired our sinking hopes, and carried wdth them the almost 
 prophetic assurance that the things asked for would most surely be 
 granted. And were they not frequently. Divinely, almost miracu- 
 lously fulfilled in the face of superhuman difiiculties, and appalling 
 improbabilities ? The place of business became a Bethel, as he be- 
 sought w^isdom from on high. The meetings to transact the tempo- 
 ral affairs of the Association, seemed to turn into a National camp- 
 meeting. As the circle was formed, and hand clasped hand, how 
 under his prayers we came to see eye to eye, heart was melted into 
 unity with heart, and 
 
 " Heaven came down our souls to greet, 
 While glory crowned the mercy -seat." 
 
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 What irresistible exhortations welled up from the abundance of 
 his good heart, sprang spontaneously from his vivid imagination, 
 and fell with thrilling effect from his burning lips anointed with the 
 unction of the Holy One ! Were there ever exhortations exactly like 
 his ? How his powerful frame would quiver under the fervor of his 
 own fiery soul ! Was he not pre-eminently adapted to almost every 
 occasion ? Was he not naturally and graciously equal to almost 
 every emergency ? Sometimes thundering with awful eloquence ; 
 sometimes flashing with the lightnings of the law ; sometimes melt- 
 ing all hearts with the dying love of the suffering Son of God ; at 
 other times exquisitely touching in his almost womanly tenderness ; 
 and still again brimming with his own joyous exuberance ! How the 
 proud, the formal, the sober and the sanctimonious would reluc- 
 tantly, yet surely crumble imder those marvellous appeals ftill of 
 sanctified wit and wisdom, and expand into a contagious good- 
 humor! How the stifi*, stately and stubborn would bend, and sway 
 and bow under his extraordinary insight into all phases of human 
 nature, and his equally extraordinary spiritual discernment. His 
 very pleasantry was ready and forceful ; yet chastened, sanctified 
 and singularly correspondent to time, place, persons, and circum- 
 stances. Karely or never at a loss ; seldom off his guard ; full of 
 native dignity ; commanding cordial respect ; yet cheering the grav- 
 est hearts. 
 
 Like Alfred Cookman, he bore no titles. He needed none. They 
 would have been misplaced on him. He was commissioned from on 
 High. His name became a household word. We admired him. 
 We loved him. We were glad to be captivated by his personal in- 
 fluence. We esteemed it a high privilege to be associated with him 
 in his peculiar mission. Personally I regard it as a sad yet precious 
 Providence that I have been called into my present position, so that 
 
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 I might be privileged to pour out a full, and loving soul in testimony 
 to the exemplary character and life of one whose friendship and 
 ministry I prized so highly. " I owe unto him mine own self." 
 Coming generations will more fully appreciate his worth and his 
 work. Is any man a prophet in his own country and century ? He, 
 being dead, Avill continue to speak in the ages to come. Having 
 been long and intimately acquainted with him we bear emphatic 
 testimony to his fidelity alike in things little and great ; in matters 
 temporal and ecclesiastical. His work was worship ; his worship 
 was his happiest, holiest work. He was a natural-born-orator, a 
 magnetic preacher, an orthodox theologian, a scriptural expositor, a 
 safe leader, a good man and minister, full of faith and of the Holy 
 Ghost. Like Timothy, he preached the word ; he was instant in 
 season and out of season ; he reproved, rebuked, exhorted with all 
 long-suffering and doctrine. While some would not endure his 
 sound doctrine, but after their own lusts heaped to themselves teach- 
 ers, having itching ears, and turned their ears away from the truth, 
 he nevertheless watched in all things, endured afflictions, did the 
 work of an evangelist, and made full proof of his ministry. A wor- 
 thy successor was he to Paul the apostle. In many Churches, on 
 many camp-grounds, among many nations, he shunned not to declare 
 the whole counsel of God, but preached Christ as a present, perfect 
 and perpetual Saviour ; able to save to the uttermost and evermore. 
 
 What effect his decease will have upon the movement, so much in 
 his thought, so dear to his heart, to the promotion of which he de- 
 voted all his redeemed energies, and to which he finally fell a mar- 
 tyr, it may be impossible to conjecture. He was almost peerless in 
 his potent sway over large masses of people. He was almost 
 unequaled as a camp-meeting general. His place it will be diffi- 
 cult, if not impossible to fill. He was a rare combination of 
 
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 commanding qualities. We can only bow in unquestioning sub- 
 mission to the Divine mandate ; we can only acquiesce without a 
 murmur or a doubt in the Divine will ; we can only cheer our- 
 selves with the thought that while God buries His workmen, He 
 carries on His work. Perhaps Omniscience may call several 
 choice spirits to do the work so satisfactorily accomplished by 
 this one, wonderful, many-sided man. 
 
 To those matter-of-fact people who insist that, after all, the best of 
 men are but human, and have their frailties and imperfections we 
 can only say that like other truly great and good men his very weak- 
 nesses were am ong the strongest points in his character, his faults 
 only laid the foundation for firmer friendship, his failures were so 
 graceful that they resolved themselves into substantial victories, and 
 his natural infirmities only displayed more strikingly the gracious 
 transformation effected in him by the cleansing Blood and the 
 inward operations of the Holy Ghost. 
 
 He died as he lived — full of holy ecstasy and triumph. Nothing 
 aroused him so quickly, so completely as prayer and praise. Allu- 
 sions to Christ and His c^use, to his own experience, to the manifest 
 and marvellous success of the movement to which he devoted the lat- 
 ter years of his life would stir him with the greatest enthusiasm. 
 His eye would brighten, his hand would wave, and his lips shout and 
 sing his fervent faith and glorious hope. Amid helplessness and 
 suffering, his mind was stayed on God. His sky was ever bright 
 as noon, his soul was unutterably full of glory and of God, 
 and his heart was held continually in perfect peace and in- 
 violable patience. No murmurs, no regrets, no despondency, 
 no misgiving for one moment interrupted his complete triumph 
 in Christ. 
 
 What multitudes Avill rise up to call him blessed, as they greet 
 
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 him among the spirits of the just made perfect ! What a gathering 
 of the Saints, from the East, West, North, South, and from the isles 
 of the Sea, will cluster once more around their Divinely provided 
 and now glorified leader who so constantly called to them to come 
 on to perfection, to follow him as he followed Christ ! May God 
 keep us faithful to the cause he so successfully championed for so 
 many sacred, glorious, Heaven-crowned years! " Help, Lord ; for 
 the godly man ceaseth ! " 
 
 And while our hearts are full, our memories are busy, and our 
 thoughts are absorbed with the translation of our beloved Brother 
 Inskip, let us not forget the devoted and widowed heart that hastens 
 to bury its grief in the bosom of Infinite Love. Years of confiding 
 tenderness have bound them almost inseparably together. The very 
 grace of entire sanctification only quickened and intensified their 
 natural esteem and afiTection for each other. He was an unusually 
 affectionate and exemplary husband and father. With this devoted 
 wife he has been, for many years, closely, lovingly, joyously linked 
 in holy love and holy labor. At home and abi'oad, in their own 
 land or at the ends of the earth, they were inseparable. 
 
 " Their fears, their hopes, their aims were one, 
 Their comforts and their cares." 
 
 Down to the very last moment, in the sick chamber, around his 
 bedside, in the still hours of the night, in the awful loneliness that 
 must come to every sufferer in such a Gethsemane, she continued 
 her tireless solicitude, her ceaseless care, her self-forgetful, self- 
 sacrificing toil, her wifely work of watching for the faintest token of 
 his slightest wish. 
 
 Perhaps she has thought that she had succeeded in schooling her 
 heart to meet the inevitable. Perhaps she has thought that she was 
 
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 prepared for so painful a parting. Alas ! Who ever is ready for 
 such a bereavement? Like her husband, strong in character, 
 fervent in faith, and joyful through hope, she is bearing up nobly 
 under this sore trial. She has found Christ to be her husband. 
 More than ever she realizes that she is the Bride of the Lamb. 
 
 And yet she needs the sympathies, the prayers, and the practical 
 loving-kindness of the Church of God. Let us bear her up in the 
 arms of our faith ! Let her feel that kindred souls are throbbing 
 in unison with hers ! Let her be assured that the intercessions of 
 the saints mingle with the intercessions of the Son, and with the in- 
 tercessions of the Spirit, with groanings which cannot be uttered, in 
 her behalf! Let her know that our omnipotent faith accords with 
 hers in claiming all the exceeding great and precious promises, as 
 yea and amen in Christ Jesus, that she may have a lively hope of 
 the inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and fadeless, into which her 
 " precious husband " has entered and which is reserved for her, in 
 partnership with him, throughout a blissful eternity ! While Ave 
 weep with her as she weeps, let us not sorrow as those that have 
 no hope, but let us rejoice together with joy unspeakable and full 
 of glory! 
 
 E. I. D. Pepper. 
 
 NOTE OF SYMPATHY FOR BROTHER INSKIR 
 
 e^^9 Dear Sister Inskip: 
 
 OUR telegram was received this morning by the Board of 
 Directors of the National Publishing Association at Phil- 
 adelphia. 
 
 We regretted to hear that Brother Inskip had a restless 
 night ; but were glad that the morning came with some relief. I 
 
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 am requested by the Board, to say: We deeply sympathize with 
 Brother Inskip and yourself, in his and your great affliction ; and 
 that we cherish the kindest regards for you both, and do not cease 
 to pray, that if it be the will of our Heavenly Father he may be 
 raised up from the doors of death, and restored to his family and 
 friends. But if otherwise, the recall of his commission to labor 
 longer, as heretofore in the glorious cause of holiness, may be over- 
 ruled, so that his death may accomplish more than even his useful 
 life could have done. 
 
 His cheerful, happy state of mind is a comfort to us all. And 
 we also commend you to the sympathy and support of the blessed 
 Saviour, and rejoice in the grace that enables you to say, the will of 
 the Lord be done. The Lord makes no mistakes. He doeth all 
 things Avell. 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 J. E. Searles, Committee. 
 
 Philadelphia, March 4, 1884. 
 
 BROTHER SEARLES' VISIT. 
 
 New Yoek, March 8, 1884. 
 
 VISITED brother Inskip in company with brother G. C. Reis 
 at Ocean Grove, and found him in a dying state. When I 
 was announced, he roused up a little, and looked towards me ; 
 and his ever-faithful wife said to him, " My dear, brother 
 Searles has come ; do you know him ? If you know him press his 
 hand " (which I was holding) ; and then I felt a gentle pressure, 
 and there was a slight movement of the lips. But it was only for a 
 
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 moment ; consciousness reeled and vanished, to return no more in 
 this life. It seemed difficult to realize we were looking upon the 
 leader of the great holiness reformation in the present history of the 
 Church ; who so recently appeared so strong and full of almost 
 youthful vigor ; whose constitution and make-up seemed to defy the 
 effects, either of toil or increasing years. He was indeed " immortal 
 until his work was done." He often said to the writer, who prob- 
 ably knew his heart and private feelings as fully as any other of his 
 friends : " I want to die in the work." He seemed to feel he should 
 be better prepared to go from the field of ministerial activity to his 
 reward than to go from the retired list of God's workmen. His 
 record is one of incessant activity and glorious success. 
 
 The friends of Ocean Grove have manifested the most affectionate 
 and tender interest and care for brother Inskip and his devoted 
 wife in their affliction. The Lord reward them. After singing, 
 " My latest sun is sinking fast," etc., we joined in prayer, and felt 
 that heaven was bending low and the angels, and especially the 
 presence of Jesus, were there. 
 
 We turned away from the dying hero of a thousand glorious 
 victories for Christ, with inexpressible sadness, and yet with a secret 
 joy that we should soon join him, with a host of the brothers of the 
 Association and friends of holiness in the blessed life above, "un- 
 measured by the flight of years," where all is heaven forever ! 
 
 At six o'clock in the evening, after returning home, I received a 
 telegram, that all was over, that he had entered into his rest. 
 
 Fraternally, 
 
 J. E. Searles. 
 
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 TRIUMPH! TRIUMPH! 
 
 Lines written on the last words of Rev. J. S. Insliip. 
 
 ^|pW. I trace with failing sight ; 
 'i3^k:r' Its heavenly- landscape fast appears, 
 
 ^ My ransomed spirit plumed for flight, 
 The glorious conflict o'er. 
 Oh Death where is thy victory ? 
 I triumph as I soar. 
 
 Sweet sounds from Beulah greet my ear ; 
 
 I revel in the theme ; 
 Their " Songs of Triumph " I shall join, 
 ' To Him who did redeem. 
 
 Farewell, dear friends, mourn not my loss, 
 
 Salvation still proclaim ; 
 That all the sons of Adam's race 
 
 May triumph thro' the Lamb. 
 
 I triumph with a conquering faith, 
 Since Jesus has crossed o'er, 
 
 I triumph in my upward flight ; 
 I'll triumph evermore. 
 
 HE gleaming spires of Beulah land, 
 
 As darkness ends in light. 
 
 CHOEUS. 
 
 De. H. L. Gilmotje. 
 
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 A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF MY LIFE. 
 
 BY REV. J. S. INSKIP. 
 
 OT knowing " what a day may bring forth," and presuming 
 that my friends who may survive me will be gratified 
 therewith, I make the following synopsis of my life. I was 
 ^'1^ born in Huntingdon, England, August 10th, 1816. I came 
 to this country in the year 1820, and remained with my parents 
 in Wilmington, Del., until 1832, when we removed to Chester 
 county, Pa. I was converted to God under the ministry of Rev. 
 Levi Scott (afterwards Bishop), at Marshal Iton, Pa., April 10, 1832. 
 I soon after this, removed to another part of the county of Chester 
 called Goshen. I united with the Grove M. E. Church by letter. 
 I was licensed as a local preacher May 23, 1835, and travelled that 
 year under the Presiding Elder with Brothers Wm. Torbert and 
 Allen John as colleagues, on the Springfield Circuit, Philadelphia 
 Conference. This circuit then included the city of Reading, Pa. 
 In the spring of 1836 I was admitted on trial in the Philadelphia 
 Conference, and was appointed to the Cecil Circuit wdth Edward 
 Kennard as senior preacher. In November of this year I married 
 my wife. Miss Martha J. Foster, to whom, under God, more than to 
 any one else, I owe my ministerial success, as well as my domestic 
 bliss. In 1837 I w^as appointed to Nottingham Circuit, Samuel 
 Grace being preacher in charge. We had a great season of success. 
 In 1838 I was ordained deacon in Wilmington, Del., by Bishop 
 Waugh, and returned to Nottingham with Brother Grace. We 
 were favored with very large accessions to the Church. Brother 
 Grace was a most excellent and amiable brother, and, although 
 
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 much my senior, he was unusually familiar and pleasant in his 
 bearing toward me on all occasions. We had remarkable pros- 
 perity. During our two years on Nottingham Circuit over five 
 hundred found the Lord. In 1839 I was appointed to Easton, 
 Pa. Being my first experience as preacher in charge, I felt some 
 embarrassment, but the Lord helped me, and the brethren were 
 very kind. In 1840 I was ordained Elder at Philadelphia by 
 Bishop Waugh, and returned to Easton. I had considerable suc- 
 cess in Easton. Over one hundred were saved. In 1841 I was 
 appointed to Western Church, Philadelphia, labored hard and had 
 some success. In 1842 I was appointed to Kensington, and remained 
 during 1843. I had extraordinary prosperity during my labors 
 there ; full three hundred were converted. In 1844 I was appointed 
 to Salem, in the western part of Philadelphia, and was favored with 
 some success. In 1845 I was stationed at Germantown. We had 
 much prosperity there ; about one hundred were brought in. During 
 the year I was transferred to the Ohio Conference, and stationed at 
 Ninth Street, Cincinnati, by special request of the Society. I com- 
 menced laboring at Cincinnati January, 1846 — attended Ohio Con- 
 ference in Piqua. September, 1846, I returned to Ninth Street, 
 and had much prosperity, especially in the Sunday-school. In 1847 
 I was appointed to Dayton, and was returned during 1848. We 
 had glorious triumphs ; over two hundred and fifty were converted. 
 A new Church Avas built and the Society greatly strengthened. In 
 1849 I was appointed to Urbana. Had a wonderful revival ; about 
 two hundred and fifty converted. In 1850 I was appointed to 
 Springfield, finished the new Church and added largely to its 
 numerical strength ; one hundred were converted. In 1851 I was 
 appointed to Troy. Here we were favored with extraordinary suc- 
 cess ; full two hundred were converted. In 1852 I was transferred 
 
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 to New York East Conference, and appointed by earnest request of 
 the people to Madison Street, New York. In 1853 I returned to 
 Madison Street; nearly four hundred were converted. In 1854 I 
 was stationed at Fleet Street. Here, too, had some fruit ; about 
 forty were converted. In 1855, by request of the people, I was 
 stationed at Centenary, Brooklyn. In 1856 I returned. We had 
 much of God's blessing ; about three hundred were converted. In 
 1857 I was appointed by earnest request of the people to De Kalb 
 Avenue, Brooklyn ; had over one hundred and fifty conversions. 
 In 1858 I went to Cherry Street, New York, at the invitation of the 
 Church, and returned to the same Church during 1859. I was 
 much comforted in my labor there ; full two hundred and fifty were 
 brought to Christ. In 1860 I was appointed at the request of the 
 people to Ninth Street. In 1861 I returned to Ninth Street ; over 
 one hundred converts. In May of this year I went out as Chaplain. 
 At the Conference of 1862 I was announced as Chaplain. During 
 the year my health failed, and, upon my resignation, I was " honor- 
 ably discharged " from the service. In 1863, by special request, I 
 was appointed to Birmingham, Conn., and had a pleasant year. In 
 1864, by special request, I was appointed to South Third Street, 
 Brooklyn. Great revival ; nearly four hundred converted. Mrs. 
 Inskip and I both attained (no, we received) the blessing of entire 
 sanctification. A wonderful and glorious year! It will never be 
 forgotten by many. I shall remember it'as long as I live. In 1865 
 I returned to South Third Street. God grant it may be a great 
 year. My whole soul is in the work. Oh, how I love the work ! It 
 is pleasant to labor for the Master. " His commandments are not 
 grievous." If my life were to be repeated, I would choose to be an 
 Itinerant Methodist Preacher. I am more than " satisfied with my 
 lot." Praise the Lord ! " I am, O Lord, wholly and forever thine." 
 
 South Third Street M. E. Church, 1865. 
 
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 [What follows seems to have been written subsequently. Editor.] 
 
 In 1866 I was transferred to New York Conference ; appointed 
 to Greene Street Church by special request of the people ; returned 
 in 1867 and 1868. God gave us great success ; over 300 were con- 
 verted. In 1869 I was transferred to Baltimore Conference, and 
 stationed at Eutaw Street Church by application of the people. In 
 two years over 500 were converted. These were two years of great 
 triumph. I think I never had as great success. In 1871 I took a 
 supernumerary relation, without appointment ; visited California 
 and commenced my evangelistic work. In 1872 I became effective, 
 and was transferred from the Baltimore to the New York East Con- 
 ference. I received a nominal appointment at Seventh Street 
 Church, New York, and pursued my evangelistic work. In 1873 I 
 took a supernumerary relation, without appointment, and continued 
 the evangelistic work. 
 
 REV. JOHN S. INSKIP IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE. 
 
 BY EEV. JOHN THOMPSON. 
 
 iO know men we should see them from different standpoints, 
 I and under the various situations and circumstances through 
 
 which they pass in their pilgrimage through this world. To 
 know ministers of the Gospel, it is not enough that we see 
 
 and hear them in the pulpit. We need to know what they 
 are in their business transactions and what they are in the family 
 circle. Thousands have known Bro. Inskip to the joy of their hearts 
 in the pulpit and the prayer service. Very many have known him 
 
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 well and favorably in business life, for be it known that be had a 
 good business record. But comparatively few have known him for 
 any length of time in the home circle. It has been said that the 
 best way to know people is to live with them, and some, in their ex- 
 travagance, have gone so far as to teach that it is impossible to know 
 people unless we do live with them. For many years my house has 
 been the home of Brother and Sister Inskip, in their visits to Phila- 
 delphia, at such times as when they had no home of their own here. 
 Bro. Inskip, under the influence of mighty baptisms of the Holy Ghost, 
 made himself felt and known in the pulpit, and I am glad to say 
 that his home life was no contradiction of the impressions made by 
 these volcanic camp-meeting utterances. His habit of life in the 
 family was of a joyous sort ; the children were glad to hear of his 
 coming ; so much so, that they would gladly hasten through their 
 school lessons, that they might have time to enjoy his evening inter- 
 esting and instructive family chats, and everybody about the house 
 expected a hallelujah sort of a time, when Brother and Sister Inskip 
 came. And to add to the interest of these evening entertainments, 
 we shall never forget the experience of happy hours, as Brother and 
 Sister Inskip united in singing for us the songs of Zion. From the 
 old " Sweet Singer of Israel," to the newest pieces in the " Songs of 
 Triumph," they seemed ready and willing to sing anything that was 
 called for. It is a good thing to have a great deal of music in the 
 family circle. Bro. Inskip was nowhere more at home than at the 
 family altar. He had a rare faculty of remembering in his prayers, 
 parents and children, strangers and household help, in such an easy, 
 familiar way, as to make all feel that they had a place in his heart. 
 Unless wearied and fatigued with over-work, Bro. Inskip was an 
 early riser. He was frequently at the table at four or five o'clock in 
 the morning, writing for the Standard, on some subject that had 
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 come to his mind during a wakeful hour in the night, or he was up 
 early, to answer letters from friends, with whom he would have no 
 time for correspondence during the day. Bro. Inskip enjoyed his 
 meals as well as most people, but in this matter he was not hard to 
 entertain. He seemed best pleased when but little trouble or ex- 
 pense was endured to make him comfortable. More than once I 
 have been with him at camp meeting when there seemed, not with- 
 out cause, to be a general complaint about the provisions, but his 
 custom was to say but little, and make the best of things, and I 
 have heard him express earnest dissatisfaction with those who seemed 
 hard to please with their meals. 
 
 His last night with us was on his way to his last Sunday's ap- 
 pointment, at Waynesburg, Pa. He seemed unusually well, and in 
 jubilant spirits. The most prominent matter on his mind, that night, 
 on which he wished to converse with me, was in reference to writing 
 his autobiography, and after a full exchange of thought on this sub- 
 ject, he determined to commence this work, in good earnest, at an 
 early date. He left us on Saturday morning, for Waynesburg, ap- 
 parently in the vigor of his best days. Xo one of us even thought 
 of the probability that this might be his last visit. I trust that he 
 realizes, in his heavenly home, that his visits to our family were 
 benedictions to us all. We will continue to remember the happy 
 hours thus spent together, and when we meet beyond the river, hope 
 to renew our converse, and together " be forever with the Lord." 
 
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 REV. J. S. INSKIFS LAST SABBATH'S WORK. 
 
 BY REV. J. 8. LAME. 
 
 HE Apostle John plaintively said, " Little children, it is 
 the last time." A melancholy interest attaches to the 
 last things — an interest that almost sanctifies — makes them 
 TV sacred to memory. The patriarchs, venerable with age, 
 m and laden with good works, seemed gifted with inspira- 
 l tion and prophecy ; and glorified their last hours with a 
 splendor tlmt burst from the world of light into which they were 
 fast entering. How tenderly touching the final interview of 
 Jacob with his sons. And David's farewell charge to Solomon, 
 " And thou, Solomon, my son ; know thou the God of thy father, 
 and serve Him with a perfect heart." And Paul's valedictory. 
 How we love to linger on the last words of Wesley, and " I am 
 sweeping through the gates, washed in the blood of the Lamb," 
 by the glorified Cookman. 
 
 By a remarkable providence. Rev. J. S. Inskip commenced 
 and concluded his life's labors in Chester County, Pennsylvania. 
 Converted at Marshallton, Chester County, in 1832. In 1835 he 
 was sent by the presiding elder to Waynesburg Circuit; many 
 appointments radiating from Waynesburg, forming the circuit. 
 By many of the more aged members he is remembered as rather 
 a small youth, of dauntless courage, indomitable will, glowing 
 ardor, and vehement voice. 
 
 Near Morgantown in Berks County, a landlord offered his 
 house for public worship, and the offer was accepted by Mr. Inskip. 
 Preaching began, and a revival followed. While a number were 
 
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 at the rude mourners' bench seeking religion, a mother, enraged 
 by being informed that her daughter was kneeling as a seeker, 
 rushed into the house, and, forcing her way to the front, was 
 about to drag her daughter from the room, when the young 
 commander shouted, " Shut the door ! Every man to his knees," 
 and so tremendous was the power that came upon the mother, 
 that she not only relinquished her grasp upon her daughter, but 
 called aloud for mercy. Interesting were the incidents related 
 by those early co-laborers of our ascended brother. 
 
 Waynesburg in Chester County, Pennsylvania, is a village 
 nicely built, well laid out, with broad and elegantly shaded 
 streets, having a highly intelligent population. The First M. E. 
 church was built in 1816. The Second, a large and commodious 
 building, was erected in 1840 by Kev. J. B. Ayres. Waynesburg 
 church has enjoyed the pastoral services of Rev. E. I. D. Pepper, 
 the present editor of the Christian Standard and Home 
 Journal. 
 
 During the first year of my pastorate at Waynesburg affec- 
 tionate inquiries were made concerning Bro. Inskip, and a desire 
 expressed to hear him preach. I sought an interview with him, 
 when he promised to come, but failing health prevented the 
 fiilfilment of the promise; but renewing my efforts the following 
 year, I gained his promise to spend Sabbath, October 21, 1883, 
 with us. Accompanied by Mr. Joseph C. Davis and wife, my 
 son and daughter, and Mrs. Rev. John Thompson, Mr. Inskip 
 and his devoted wife duly arrived on Saturday evening. We 
 formed a most interesting group as we listened to the pure and 
 sprightly conversation of that devoted man and elect lady. He 
 was as elastic and playful in spirit as a boy. My son, having 
 attained his twenty-first year, received a birth-day present. Bro- 
 
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 ther Inskip made the presentation speech, a speech flashing with 
 humor and flowing with pathos. 
 
 He \va3 ahvays gifted in prayer, but on Saturday night round the 
 family altar, the fire and fervor of the Lord God of Elijah fell 
 upon him. Every one bending about that altar was mentioned 
 with a particularity and tenderness most touching ; and when he 
 came to petition for God's benediction on the coming Sabbath, 
 certainly the glory of his coming translation must have mantled 
 him ; my soul was melted with the pathos, and my mind almost 
 bewildered with the grandeur of his language and thoughts. 
 
 Sabbath, the 21st, all the Presbyterian churches in the city 
 were closed, the pastors attending the Synod. The Honeybrook 
 Graphic, published in Waynesburg, contained the following notice : 
 " Rev. John S. Inskip and wife, who recently made an evangelistic 
 tour around the world, will hold an all-day meeting in the M. E. 
 Church of this place on next Sabbath, the 21st inst. Mr. Inskip 
 will preach at 10.30 A.M., and 7 P.M.; Mrs. Inskip will hold 
 a young people's meeting at 3 o'clock." 
 
 The morning broke dark and lowering, but no rain fell during 
 the entire day. A consecration meeting at 9 A. M. assisted in 
 preparing the people for the grand results of the day. The 
 church was crowded from gallery to pulpit, altar, aisles, and 
 vestibule. Promptly at 10.30 Mr. Inskip arose and read the 
 775th hymn, " Awake, Jerusalem, aw ake." Reading the first 
 Psalm, announcing the 53rd hymn, and taking for his text the 
 fifth verse of the 93rd Psalm, " Holiness becometh thy house, 
 O Lord, forever." 
 
 He prefaced his sermon by saying that about forty-eight years 
 ago this was his field of labor. Many a landmark and name 
 were dear to his memory. Since then he had been in almost 
 
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 every State in the nation ; around the globe, and in nearly every 
 country in the world ; but he had found no spot so dear to him 
 as Chester County. Holiness, his favorite theme, was the subject 
 of his sermon. He quoted from the Creeds of the Baptist, Pres- 
 byterian, Roman Catholic, and Episcopal Churches, and showed 
 that holiness was the common creed of Christendom. This plan 
 of presentation was most happily adapted to his promiscuous audi- 
 ence. As he advanced he discussed the point where the M. E. 
 Church diverged and differed from her sister churches. The 
 M. E. Church has pushed her doctrine into experience. As he 
 swept on in his sermon smiles rippled over the congregation much 
 more frequently, tears filled many eyes, hearty responses attested 
 that the mighty archer was not drawing his bow at a venture. 
 The great preacher was at his best, he held the people in his 
 grasp, and at the close of the sermon not less than a hundred rose 
 as seekers of holiness. 
 
 At 2.30 the church was again crowded to its uttermost. Mrs. 
 Inskip took charge, and made a most pointed appeal to the young. 
 It was a memorable service. 
 
 At 7 the house was packed. Mr. Inskip, on his throne of power, 
 giving out the 518th hymn. The last hymn that he ever read 
 in the pulpit was the 503rd, the last line being, " And I am 
 white as snow," a life experience crystallized in a single sentence. 
 He announced his last text, Phil. i. 9, " And this I pray that your 
 love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all 
 judgment." He preached an hour and a half It was a Man- 
 heim Camp-Meeting in a church. Including his explanations and 
 exhortations he spoke two solid hours. Half way down the church, 
 men and women were kneeling, seeking pardon, or purity, or some 
 special blessing of God. In the glad exultation of the hour, 
 
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 lifting aloud his strong voice, that appeared entirely unimpaired 
 by the strain put upon him, he exclaimed, " I feel able for twenty 
 years' work yet." At a late hour the vast congregation slowly 
 unpacked and retired to their homes. Notwithstanding his extra- 
 ordinary labors of the day he was bright and buoyant on his arrival 
 at the parsonage, ate heartily, engaged in sprightly conversation, 
 joined in prayer, retired in good cheer, slept soundly, awoke early, 
 took breakfast before daylight, leaving for Philadelphia in the first 
 train. Had our sainted brother known that he was preaching his 
 last sermon he could not have preached better ; it was a worthy 
 peroration to a long and useful life. It was one of the greatest 
 days in the whole history of the Waynesburg Church. The blessod 
 elfects remain ; other churches participating in the blessing, and 
 acknowledging their obligations. 
 
 A keen sensation thrilled our community on hearing of Brother 
 Inskip's sudden attack of illness. A public meeting expressed their 
 high appreciation of his services and profound sympathy. His last 
 Sabbath's work was a great work, a day and a work that produced 
 a profound impression on the community; awakened slumberers, 
 aroused stolidity, thawed the frozen. Convictions, Conversions, and 
 Sanctifications being the order till ten o'clock at night. It was a 
 day that will long live in the memory of our church. A man of 
 full physical development, a born leader, a majestic and impressive 
 preacher, a flame of fire, an eminent and blessed illustration of 
 entire sanctifi cation. May thy mantle fall on many, and thy 
 memory yet more thoroughly arouse a slumbering Church ! 
 
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 LAST DAYS OF REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 BY REV. A. E. BALLARD. 
 
 PKINCE and mighty man in our Methodist Israel has 
 fallen." The record of a great and good man's life is 
 the illustration of God's meaning in sending him into the 
 world ; the record of his closing days, after the deeds 
 which made his life a glory have become impossible, is 
 the illustration of that meaning in taking him out of the world. 
 And the student of the world's religious history will find but little 
 difficulty in connecting both the life and death with a blessing to 
 the world. The record of his life will be written by abler pens and 
 eulogized by nobler speech than belong to the writer, but of his 
 later days when it was his privilege to visit him almost daily, he 
 feels privileged to write, and allow the tenderness to plead for 
 recognition notwithstanding all deficiencies of style. When John 
 S. Inskip and wife returned from their trip around the world, 
 among other ovations in his honor, there was one tendered and 
 accepted at Ocean Grove, N. J. This was held in the house which 
 he had built in that place in the early part of its existence, but 
 which, in the changing circumstances of his life, had passed into the 
 ownership of Sister Thorne, who had long been a personal friend ! 
 
 During the evening of the reception he said to the friends assem- 
 bled there, that he found no place for him like Ocean Grove, and he 
 hoped to be permitted to die there and be buried from its sacred 
 precincts. The necessities of his editorship required that he should 
 reside nearer to Philadelphia, and he removed to a farm near West- 
 town, Pa., where he remained until the stroke came from which he 
 
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 never completely rallied. As soon as he recovered his conscious 
 intelligence, although deprived of the power of speech he made his 
 wife understand his desire to be moved to Ocean Grove, and as soon 
 as his strength permitted, his wishes received their compliance. 
 Singularly enough, the lady who had become the owner of his pro- 
 perty was so circumstanced as to be able to receive his wife and 
 himself So in the house he had builded and in which he had lived 
 he accomplished the last temporal desire of his life — passing his clos- 
 ing days within its walls, and leaving earth in the very room he had 
 occupied when he dwelt in the house as its owner. After he first 
 came to the Grove there was a manifest improvement. The para- 
 lyzed organs of speech did not regain their power but all the other 
 bodily faculties did, and his mind, while not what it had been before, 
 yet was clearly and consciously intelligent. With a little boy — 
 little Lawrence — an adopted child of Mrs. Thorne, he walked over 
 the ground with apparently the same hale, fresh vigor as in the 
 days of his olden time. Many of his friends hoped, the writer 
 among them, that he would yet be allowed to lead the hosts of the 
 Lord to battle again, and even physicians began to be sanguine that 
 the exceptional strength of an iron constitution might overcome the 
 terrible stroke which had befallen him. But these hopes were all 
 fallacious, and relapse after relapse came upon the times of improve- 
 ment, each one leaving him feebler than before and deepening and 
 intensifying his pain until the end came, and the recovery which 
 could not be accomplished on the earth was completed in putting on 
 his house from Heaven. There was possibly to him a struggle in 
 giving up the use of his voice. To talk of God, of his Lord Christ, 
 of the power of the Spirit to cleanse ; to express his experience of 
 the fullness of God, and tell it all publicly and privately to men 
 had been among his supreme delights. Scarcely a heavier cross 
 
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 could have been laid upon him than the deprivation of speech. The 
 nearest approach to a murmur he ever made was Avhen he said, in 
 his half articulate way, " I wish I could talk and tell you what is in 
 my heart," in reference to his experience of salvation. There were 
 some words he was able to enunciate. He could always say " Amen ; " 
 could join in hymns he had known, and sing the words, but while 
 his mind formed ideas Avithout difficulty, when once it attempted to 
 apply them to the vocal organs, these organs refused their office and 
 he was unable to give them their expression ; yet, in the subtile 
 telegraphy of love, his wife was able to understand and interpret 
 him to his friends in ways which he accepted as exactly correspondent 
 with his meaning. In all the earlier days of his illness, when the 
 pain was not so severe as it afterward became, he was exercised 
 deeply about being laid aside from the work, to which he had con- 
 secrated his life, yet there w^as no murmuring. There was not 
 exactly submission, for he had passed beyond submission into acqui- 
 escence. His wife said to him, " Do you not think, if you had not 
 worked so hard, and spared yourself a little more, that it would 
 have been better and probably you would have lived longer?" The 
 answer was prompt and characteristic. " I am glad I have worked 
 hard all my life." When asked if he was as rapturously happy now 
 as in the day when his soul was filled with God's presence in the 
 activities of a life of conquest? with a countenance which shone 
 from the inward light of God, he repeated over and over " Yes ! 
 yes ! Happy anywhere with the Spirit of the Lord. God's presence 
 makes my happiness, and 1 have that all the time." It was always 
 his desire that prayer should be made every time I visited him. 
 Rev. Brothers Beegle and Jaquett frequently visited him also, and 
 met with the same request. But the prayers were peculiar because 
 they seemed of necessity to partake of the triumphant realization of 
 
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 his soul rather than of the usual sorroAV with which they are generally 
 penetrated. His wife almost always sang a hymn with which he 
 was familiar, in which he joined as far as his strength would allow. 
 
 Then came a new phase. He had been tried by the Lord in the 
 activities of Christian life to the exhaustion of his splendid physical 
 powers and passed the ordeal well. He had been tried long before 
 in sorrow in the death of his only son ; but his soul had not failed 
 to give glory to God in the furnace of his affliction. He had been 
 tried in the forcing of repression in the loss of his voice and leader- 
 ship, and his glorious soul had risen above them all. In all these 
 ways he had experienced his sanctifi cation. And now, the highest 
 sanctification of all was to be given him — the " sanctification 
 through suffering " — in order that he might be perfect and entire, 
 wanting nothing ; and be thoroughly fitted for the other world what 
 he had been here, — " a king and a priest unto God and the Lamb." 
 For the last few wrecks of his life, he blended agony and triumph as 
 in the course of a ministry I have never seen them blended. The 
 pains which came upon him were almost beyond endurance. I 
 have seen him lie there, propped by his pillows and supported by 
 the arms of the wife, who never for a day, never for a night, in all 
 the weary months of his illness, quitted his side, his whole frame 
 quivering with anguish, and his voice moaning with the pain that 
 distorted his features, and still insisting that prayer should be made, 
 during which smiles, which seemed reflecting from the glory beyond, 
 would irradiate his face, and the anguish and the pain be all ob- 
 literated ! I have also seen him in the apparent unconsciousness of 
 stupor when the words of the prayer would touch the name of 
 Jesus, arouse each time and with the same rapture, which had shone 
 upon his countenance when a baptism of power had come upon him 
 in a meeting. I have seen him when his agony had forced the 
 
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 cold sweat out all over his body, and his soul like those of the 
 martyrs at the stake, lifted itself above the pain and spoke the 
 praises of the Lord, and I have never seen any other soul whose 
 triumphs equaled his in the same class of circumstances. He never 
 troubled himself as to whether he should die or recover ; indeed he 
 never troubled himself about anything, but put everything in the 
 hands of God all the time and left it there. Every day almost, him- 
 self, his wife, and the writer would put their souls together before 
 the Lord in his behalf, and every time would come the answer of 
 transcendant blessing. Every time she would sing, the song would 
 be made the medium of the power of God unto a salvation then and 
 there to him, and every time Ave would leave with the feeling that 
 the blessing which had descended upon him, had also fallen upon 
 us. In the early morning of the day before his decease the most 
 wonderful spiritual baptism of his life came upon him. Just after 
 or in connection with one of his paroxysms there had been exercises 
 in which he had joined fervently. Then there was singing of a 
 favorite hymn — " O there is glory, glory in my soul. For I touch 
 the hem of His garment and His blood doth make me whole " — and 
 the glory in his soul did touch the hem of His garment till the 
 virtue came out of Him again and touched him with the glory of 
 the first resurrection before he had passed the domain of the grave 
 and transfigured him before the eyes of those who loved him. All 
 souls were awed with delight when they witnessed and felt the 
 weight of the glory which descended upon him — Then they sang 
 " Is not this the Land of Beulah ? " in which he also joined, inter- 
 jecting " yes ! yes ! " as the words flowed along. Afterward amidst 
 expressions of rapture they sang " Palms of victory," and the way- 
 worn traveller waved the palm in his hands here as he sang of the 
 band of angels which came from the throne of God. Then in the 
 
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 intensification of the rapture, his wife sang, " The sweet bye and 
 bye," and while the notes were floating upwards toward the heavens, 
 like his Master, who in the extremity of His agony could not forget 
 the woman dearest to him, he put his arms around the woman, who 
 for forty-eight years had been the wife of his bosom and the beloved 
 of his soul, drew her down to his breast, and held her there with a 
 pressure which seemed to say, " I could not have done without you 
 on the earth. I do not know how even to leave for heaven without 
 you." The writer did not come in the room till a little afterward, 
 but the shining of the glory was so radiant still, that there was no 
 difficulty in fully understanding it all, especially as he had wit- 
 nessed it in detached forms over and over during his illness. After 
 this he lay mostly in stupor, but occasionally gave a hand pressure 
 to Brother Osborn, whom he loved scarcely second to any man on 
 earth, and who had devoted himself in all forms of helping, wher- 
 ever the possibilities allowed, from the beginning of his illness. On 
 Friday three hours before he passed away, lying apparently uncon- 
 scious of everything, I offered the last prayer in his presence, not 
 fully believing it was heard by him, until I asked him, if he under- 
 stood, to press my hand, when the pressure came, and then at three 
 hours later in the presence of the hearts who so loved and clung to 
 him, and who would have kept him with them if they could, as 
 peacefully and smilingly as an infant in its slumber ; so quietly, 
 that those who held him by the hand did not know when he de- 
 parted, — the warrior chieftain — the tender husband — the loving 
 father — the true friend — the intelligent teacher — the spiritual Chris- 
 tian — the powerful preacher — the convincing writer — the man of 
 God thoroughly furnished for every good word and work exchanged 
 the kingdom and the priesthood which God gave him on the earth, 
 for the kingdom and priesthood for which training and suffering 
 had fitted him in the Heavens. 
 
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 HIS LAST WORDS. 
 
 N the morning of Thursday, March 6th, between four and 
 five o'clock, he had a wonderful season of rejoicing and 
 victory. His last words were ''triumph! triumph!" He 
 expired about four o'clock on Friday afternoon, March 7th. 
 
 It was a weary alternation, like the rising and ebbing 
 tides of the great restless ocean, near which the strong man 
 lay down, as he waited for the opening of the everlasting 
 gates. He complained not of weariness or delay. He cheered the 
 closing of a grand life with songs of joy, and when, according to 
 the will of God, his release came, it was " Let me go, for the day 
 breaketh." 
 
 To us — to untold thousands in crowded towns, and busy cities, 
 and wherever the tongue of the telegraph, or the newspapers 
 reached last Saturday morning, there seemed a pause in the 
 pulsations of life as one said to another, 
 
 " BROTHER IXSKIP IS DEAD ! " 
 
 And did this "end all?" Far from it! He never was more 
 alive, more potent in sacred influence, eloquence and power, than 
 that day, lying here Avith palsied hands folded, and heart still, but 
 remembered so vividly by the multitudes his earnest labors had won 
 to Christ and a holy life. In the affections intensified by his five 
 months of illness, his name embalmed shall be precious. 
 
 FUNERAL SERVICES AT OCEAN GROVE. 
 
 It was here by the sounding sea. Brother Inskip delighted most 
 to live, and it was here, as we learn, he preferred to close his labors 
 and his life. God gave him the desire of his heart. 
 
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 Thorne Cottage, formerly his own loved home, was densely 
 crowded on Monday evening, March 10th. Rev. J. Bradds, of the 
 Baltimore Conference, opened the impressive services with prayer, 
 Rev. W. H. Meeker, of Troy Conference, read Scripture lessons, and 
 Rev. Brother Pepper of the Standard, Philadelphia, announced one 
 of the favorite hymns, which cheered Brother Inskip's dying hours, 
 which was tenderly sung, Mr. Dey and the St. Paul's choir leading. 
 
 ADDRESS BY THE REV. WM. B. OSBORN. 
 
 To the loving tribute paid by Brother Osborn, who shared so 
 long the confidence and affection of the departed standard bearer, 
 we cannot do full justice here. His reminiscences were pathetic — 
 thrilling. The two men were early bound together by indissoluble 
 ties. Side by side they labored at great camp-meetings in this 
 country. They met in India, evangelized in Australia, and loved as 
 David and Jonathan. It was his sad office, and yet a privilege to 
 be much with his friend during his illness, and down to the last 
 moment of life. He held his hand while dying, and repeated 
 Wesley's words as the spirit took its flight : 
 
 Servant of God, well done ! 
 Thy glorious warfare's past, 
 The battle's fought, the victory's won, 
 And thou art crowned at last." 
 
 He has met his old associates, Wells, Coleman, Lawrence and 
 Cookman, and an unnumbered multitude who preceded him to the 
 world of light. 
 
 Rev. S. Jaquett, who, with Brothers Ballard, Beegle and others, 
 had been almost daily in attendance at the dying bed, referred to 
 these visits as a high privilege. It seemed §o near heaven, to be in 
 the room, where, although faint and weary, Brother Inskip was 
 
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 always on the mountain top of ecstatic\ision. He always roused up 
 during prayer, joined fervently in the song, and with great emphasis 
 could say " Amen ! " It was quite near the Jordan, when they 
 last joined in the old hymn : 
 
 " Amen, amen, my soul replies, 
 I'm bound to meet you in the skies, 
 And claim my mansion there." 
 
 " When I called on Friday," continued Father Jaquett, " I found 
 him going down into the valley. He could only recognize a friend 
 by touch of the hand. While seated there, this thought pressed 
 heavily on my mind — dying ; what a tremendous process it is to go 
 through. There was so much vitality in his make-up, it seemed 
 nature contended every inch of the ground, and would not yield 
 until disease had invaded all the avenues of life, and then he calmly 
 and peacefully passed away. For him to live was Christ, and to 
 die was gain." 
 
 " O may we triumph so 
 
 When all our warfare's past, 
 And dying find our latest foe 
 
 Under our feet at last." 
 
 WONDERFUL WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 
 
 Kev. H. B. Beegle referred to the circles in which divine provi- 
 dence moves, and orders our lives. Bro. Inskip, he said, was one 
 of the originators of Ocean Grove, and one of the first members of 
 the Association. When the enterprise was first broached to him by 
 Bro Osborn, his heart took a strong hold of the enterprise, and has 
 always felt a deep interest in its welfare. He came here to make it 
 his home ; but circumstances called him elsewhere, and yet from 
 this very spot he started on his evangelistic tour around the globe, 
 and to this place he returned covered with the trophies he had won 
 
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 for Christ in that career of triumph. When recently he felt his 
 strength failing, he longed to reach this home by the sea, and here 
 he finished his course. Doctor Palmer only recently went up from 
 an adjacent cottage, and now these holy men have met hard by the 
 throne. Bro. Beegle, in conclusion, touchingly alluded to his last 
 interviews with family and friends and considered it in accordance 
 with God's harmonious plan that the last words to go sounding on 
 through the churches should in his case be, " triumph ! triumph ! ! " 
 
 VICE PRESIDENT BALLARD, 
 
 who in the stead of Dr. Stokes and Secretary Evans, both absent, 
 had all along felt it to be his province to pay the utmost attention 
 to our illustrious friend and associate, visiting him daily, here 
 offered prayer, and Bro. Osborn remarked, " On that morning of 
 triumph, referred to by the brethren, he drew his wife down close to 
 him, took her hands in his, assured her of his love, then taking her 
 right hand and lifting it up, he said, ' victory, triumph,' and we 
 joined in singing one of his favorite hymns, the ' Sweet bye and 
 bye.' The hymn was then sung by Prof. Dey and choir all joining 
 in the beautiful strains, 
 
 " There's a land that is fairer than day, 
 
 And by faith we can see it afar : 
 For our Father waits over the way, 
 
 To prepare us a dwelling place there. 
 
 In the sweet bye and bye, 
 We shall meet on that beautiful shore." 
 
 The services closed with the benediction by Kev. F. M. Collins, 
 of the Philadelphia Conference, and after a farewell look at the 
 remains, the beautiful casket was closed to be conveyed next morn- 
 ing to the place of burial. 
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 A CONSECRATION SCENE. 
 
 The service of the evening previous at the house where Bro. 
 Inskip died, in the presence of many of his old friends of Ocean 
 Grove, touched with their holy sweetness all the saddened hearts 
 whose relationships to him were now broken. In the morning which 
 followed, and on which all that v\^as mortal of him, were to be taken 
 away, Bro. Ballard who had spoken to God almost daily with him 
 since his last attack, conducted the family worship with his widow 
 and grandson, together with Mrs. and Miss Thorne, whose gentle 
 ministrations of kindliness had done so much toward lightening his 
 sufferings, nor forgetting little Lawrence who had so often been the 
 companion of Bro. Inskip in his walks around the Grove. 
 
 This worship was held at the request of Sister Inskip around the 
 coffin of her husband, and concluded by a consecrating prayer made 
 by herself, in which, in the presence of her dead, she dedicated again 
 in its loneliness the life she had so often dedicated in companionship 
 with him to the work of Jesus, saying in her own inimitable way, 
 " I know it will please him better for me to pass the rest of my life 
 in this way than to sit with folded hands weeping over his memory." 
 It was the sensible thought of this devoted sister that the nervous 
 reaction from her incessant watching and nursing night and day for 
 the last five months, would be better relieved by the alterative of 
 labor, than by the repose of inactivity. 
 
 The mournful cortege under the direction of Mr. Sexton, as 
 undertaker, who had charge of all the funeral services, left the 
 Grove in the 9 o'clock train for New York, thus closing an often 
 expressed wish of Bro. Inskip's that he might be permitted to die 
 at Ocean Grove and be buried from its sacred precincts, in a manner 
 which human foresight could not have anticipated, and yet which 
 was unmistakably the working of the Lord's providence. — Ocean 
 Grove Record. 
 
IN MEMORIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
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 MEMORIAL SERVICE IN NEW YORK. 
 
 The funeral cortege from Ocean Grove on arriving at New York, 
 was met by friends with carriages, and proceeded to the Asbury M. 
 E. Church, East Washington Square, formerly Green street, of 
 which Bro. Inskip had once been pastor, and the members of which, 
 now desired the honor of having the last public services conducted 
 in presence of his remains. The gathering was such as befitted a 
 distinguished public character — one whose life had been spent in 
 endeavors to benefit in higher forms, his fellow men. It was an 
 impressive sight, as the funeral procession moved slowly up the 
 aisle, to see so many of Bro. Inskip's brethren in the ministry, acting 
 as "pall-bearers," led by Dr. H. H. Ferris, pastor of Asbury 
 Church, who read the burial service as they approached the altar, 
 where the casket was placed, and upon which lay a most appro- 
 priate emblem — a bundle of sheaves — besides other floral designs. 
 
 Many ministers were present from a distance as well as those in 
 the vicinity of New York. Among those we recognized were Revs. 
 McDonald, Wood, Searles, Lowry, McLean, Hughes, Boole, Parker, 
 Osborn, Pepper, Short, Simmons, Ballard, Gorham, Daniels, Thomas, 
 Currey, Buckley, McGreggor, Reis, Johns, Cookman, Haviland, and 
 Hon. J. Sleeper of Boston ; also many others that time and space 
 will not permit to name. In consequence of sickness Rev. W. L. 
 Gray of Philadelphia, and one of the N. C. M. A. was unable to be 
 present. 
 
 Dr. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate, announced the 
 991st hymn, 
 
 " Servant of God, well done." 
 
 Prayer was then offered by Rev. J. A. Wood, after which Dr. 
 Lowry read the 23d Psalm, also 2d and 3d verses of 1st Peter, 1st 
 chapter. 
 
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 Rev. G. Hughes read the 970th hymn, 
 
 " Why do we mourn for dying friends V 
 
 and said Bro. Inskip voluntarily sang one verse of this hymn, a 
 short time previous to his death, but could proceed no farther. 
 
 Rev. Wm. McDonald, his associate from the beginning of the 
 National Camp-meetings, commenced his remarks by saying he felt 
 his place was rather among the mourners. I have known our 
 departed brother perhaps more intimately than any other man ; 
 having traveled over land and sea and fighting with him many 
 religious battles for seventeen years. Few men were loved more 
 ardently than this man ; few men had more ardent friends. His 
 death will be mourned all around the world. The question will be 
 asked. Is John S. Inskip dead ? Is he ? Shall we listen to his voice 
 no more ? The echo will say, " No more ! " To J. S. Inskip, more 
 than to any other man, is due the widespread influence of the doc- 
 trine of Holiness. Not that he was more pious, or more wise than 
 some others, but his persistent, quenchless zeal to push Holiness, 
 inspired all around to work. He slew on the right and on the left 
 in living; and will doubtless in dying. No wonder his last word 
 was " triumph ! " He was an enthusiast in the best sense of that 
 word ! No matter what truth commanded his attention, it had the 
 whole of him, whether temperance or any other reform — so in 
 Holiness. When his convictions were settled in regard to the work 
 of Holiness, his whole being was given to it. He often reached his 
 conclusions more from emotions than reason. His instincts were 
 right on the line of salvation. No man has lived who was better 
 qualified to lead a forlorn hope to wrest victory from what seemed to 
 be defeat. He was capable of reasoning, yet his best and most 
 striking utterances were spontaneous. His earnestness was often 
 
IN MEMORIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
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 taken for censoriousness. He once exclaimed, " Glory to God, I 
 am as gay as a lark, free as an eagle and happy as an angel." He 
 is to-day what he declared himself to be then, only more abundantly. 
 He possessed the power, above many, over large assemblies. In five 
 minutes, he could subdue a storm, and make the craft ride on even 
 keel. He believed in being religious and professing it, and in 
 making others religious and declaring it. He was earnest. Some 
 one has said of Bro. Inskip : " If the angel Gabriel would attend a 
 National Camp-meeting, J. S. Inskip would invite him forward for 
 prayers," and J. S. Inskip said " he did not believe the angel would 
 object to come." He was a most enthusiastic Methodist. He was a 
 Methodist from head to foot. He was not a Methodist doubter, but 
 a Methodist believer. He believed in the doctrine of entire sancti- 
 fication. Fie enjoyed this in his experience. He remembered the 
 second work God wrought in his heart at South Third St. Church, N. 
 Y. He believed the Methodist Church was raised up to spread 
 Christian Holiness. All around this earth he went as a flaming 
 herald proclaiming there was an uttermost salvation. He did not 
 believe machinery saved souls, but religion was what the Church 
 needed, and not more wheels to drive the machinery. He might 
 have lived longer had he been more economical of his strength, but 
 not accomplished more. 
 
 " Meu live in deeds, not years, 
 
 In thoughts, not breaths. 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial; 
 "We should count time by heart throbs. 
 
 He most lives, who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." 
 
 If life is to be counted by heart throbs, then J. S. Inskip has 
 lived long ; longer than most of us, if we live forty years to come. 
 This man has come down from his highest honors at mid-day. 
 
38 IN MEMORIAM-REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 Some one has said, " If the sun were to go out to be seen no 
 more, it would be grander to drop from the heavens at mid-day, 
 than to sink, however gracefully, to its setting in the west." He 
 is one that will never die. He has met Cookman, Wells, Cole- 
 man, and others who passed on before. Think you that J. S 
 Inskip, as he stands on the celestial shore, and who was so enthusi- 
 astic for Holiness, regrets it now? If he had the privilege of 
 coming back I think he would thunder more than ever. All we 
 can say to the weeping ones is, " Look up !" This dear sister 
 who walked side by side for so many years — no hearts more united. 
 Dear Sister Inskip, look up ! look up ! All Heaven looks down 
 to-day. His old comrades are here — the battle is over with him 
 — he has fought his last battle. Farewell, great warrior, with 
 whom I have fought over a thousand battles. Farewell, my more 
 than brother, though your life was somewhat stormy, your end 
 was as calm as a summer evening. 
 
 " Oh, may I triumph so, 
 
 When all my warfare's past, 
 And dying find my latest foe 
 
 Under my feet at last," 
 
 At the conclusion of Bro. McDonald's address, a telegram was 
 read from Bishop Simpson, extending deepest sympathy, and regret- 
 ting he was unable to go out of the house. Eev. E. I. D. Pepper, 
 the present editor of the Christian Standard, then paid his beautiful 
 tribute to the memory of dear Bro. Inskip, which you will find com- 
 plete on page 3 of this volume. 
 
 Dr. Curry next arose, and said owing to the shortness of time, he 
 would reserve his speech for the Conference, but continued by say- 
 ing J. S. Inskip was a many-sided man — he has some other sides 
 equally worthy of being noticed as those presented here to-day. I 
 
IN MEMOEIAM— EEV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
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 have known him over thirty years. We were certainly unlike, and 
 yet loved each other fondly. I have never seen the equal of his 
 experience, which to me was the most rational, as he related it in 
 South Third Street Church. His brethren in the ministry were 
 better off from being associated with him, and he was better off from 
 being associated with them. 
 
 Rev. A. E. Ballard, of the New^ Jersey Conference, remarked : 
 When he was in charge at Vineland National Camp-Meeting, he 
 received a despatch saying he must go home, as his daughter was 
 dying. Bro. Inskip said, " Not yet, not yet and immediately led 
 the congregation in prayer for the daughter's restoration. At 4 
 P. M. his family sat waiting for her death, and could not account 
 for the sudden favorable change. On Bro. Inskip's return from the 
 trip around the world he said he should spend his last days there, 
 meaning Ocean Grove. Heaven lit the outward form of J. S. Inskip 
 amid the greatest suffering. His wife once said, " Papa, if you had 
 not labored so hard you might have lived longer." He replied : " I 
 am so glad I worked as I did." Last Thursday there came such a 
 transfiguration — wondrous glory —visible to the rest. He would 
 join in singing, 
 
 " Oh, 'tis glory in my soul, 
 
 " Is not this the land of Beulah ?" 
 
 " Then palms of victory." 
 
 He pressed his wife to his bosom as if he did not know how to go to 
 heaven without her. I never saw one so glorify God in death and 
 have such manifested glory as J. S. Inskip. His last word was 
 " triumph." 
 
 Rev. S. W. Thomas then read resolutions from the Preachers' 
 Meeting of Philadelphia. Prayer was then offered by Rev. J. E. 
 Searles, at the conclusion of which the congregation united with the 
 
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 IN MEMOEIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 choir in singing " The Sweet By-and-By." As the last verse was 
 sung we could distinguish the clear voice of Sister Inskip, which 
 seemed as if an angel had suddenly joined in the chorus, and thrilled 
 every heart. 
 
 While gazing on his precious, lifeless casket, for we felt the jewel 
 was blazing before the throne, our tears flowed freely, mingling in 
 deepest sympathy with his beloved wife. We felt not only has the 
 great warrior fallen, or that the Church and the world have sustained 
 a loss, but that we were again bereaved of a father. Like the dis- 
 ciples of Jesus, a number " desired to see the place where he lay," 
 consequently followed the remains of our beloved brother to his last 
 resting place. Greenwood Cemetery. After the concluding burial 
 services by E,ev. I. Simmons, Rev. Wm. Osborn said, at the begin- 
 ning of every National Camp-Meeting it was Bro. Inskip's custom 
 to sing the good old battle hymn, " There is a Fountain filled with 
 Blood," and it was Sister Inskip's request we sing three verses, in 
 which, amid streaming tears, she joined, and sang as if by her hus- 
 band's side at a camp-meeting. After singing three verses. Sister 
 Inskip said, " I think we had better sing a fourth," and looking 
 down into the grave and then up towards heaven, as though talking 
 to her sainted husband, in notes so clear and beautiful sang : 
 
 " And if our fellowship below 
 In Jesus be so sweet, 
 What heights of rapture shall we know, 
 When round His throne we meet ? " 
 
 During all these solemn services our hearts cried unto God that a 
 double portion of His Spirit might rest upon the remaining brethren 
 of " The National Camp-Meeting Association for the Promotion of 
 Holiness," and all the ministers as well as ourselves, that we might 
 lovingly, fearlessly, courageously and successfully follow the earnest 
 
IN MEMORIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 41 
 
 exhortations of our deceased leader, in lifting the banner of Holi- 
 ness and \Yinning thousands of trophies to lay at the feet of Jesus 
 while we crown Him Lord of all. 
 
 Mrs. Lidie H. Kenney. 
 
 action of the philadelphia conference. 
 
 This Conference esteems it a pleasure to bear testimony to the 
 hallowed zeal, the entire devotion to Christ, and the great usefulness 
 in the Church, of our Brother John S. Inskip, who, as editor of the 
 Christian Standard, resided for so many years among us. 
 
 We find solace in his decease, only in a trustful acquiescence in 
 the Divine Will. 
 
 We hereby extend to Sister Inskip in her bereavement our heart- 
 felt sympathies and prayers. 
 
 E. I. D. Pepper. 
 Andrew Longacre. 
 M. J). Kurtz. 
 Samuel Pancoast. 
 
 action of the philadelphia preachers' meeting. 
 Kev. J. S. Inskip, a member of the New York East Conference, 
 late editor of the Christian Standard, and, until recently, for sev- 
 eral years a resident of Philadelphia, died at Ocean Grove, Friday, 
 March 7, 1884. His ability as a preacher, decided views on great 
 moral questions in Church and State, courage and boldness in the 
 advocacy of his convictions, power and skill in the organization of 
 large masses of people for direct spiritual results, zeal in the pro- 
 mulgation of the doctrine of holiness, in these and other lands, these 
 and other striking features of his character and life have made him 
 for many years a great spiritual and Church force wherever he has 
 lived and labored. We lameait his death as one of the leaders of 
 
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 IN MEMORIAM— EEV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 God's people, but acknowledge with gratitude to God the many years 
 he has been spared to the Church, and also our esteem for his 
 Christian and ministerial character and work. 
 
 He illustrated in his Christian experience the power of God's 
 grace to control and lead in a heavenly direction a man of strong 
 nature and pronounced individuality, and the sufficiency of the grace 
 to keep him in peace and joy w^hen prostrated by disease and in the 
 presence of death. We tender our condolence to the wife and 
 family of our deceased brother, and beseech for them the special 
 mercy and favor of God in this trial. 
 
 A. Atwood. 
 I. R. Merrill. 
 S. W. Thomas. 
 E. I. D. Pepper. 
 W. L. Gray. 
 W. Swindells. 
 
 TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION. 
 
 BY REV. E. M. LEVY, D. D. 
 
 ^ HE readers of the Christian Standard, and thousands of 
 others in this and in foreign lands, have heard with the 
 deepest grief the death of this great and holy man of God. 
 A man so distinguished, so freighted with personal and 
 spiritual endowments, and so linked with the cause of ho- 
 liness, could not pass away without the meed of tears. The same 
 blow which made the fond wife a widow, has dissolved many other 
 ties, has made vacant the highest place of influence in the Associa- 
 tion with which he had been so long identified, and has opened 
 fountains of sorrow in the hearts of his friends in every State, and 
 
IN MEMOEIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 43 
 
 in every city, village and hamlet, tlirougliout our country, as well 
 as throughout the woi'ld. For in what part of the globe was he not 
 known and loved? Where shall we find a spot on which Chris- 
 tianity has planted her standard, where his heroic defense of " pure 
 and undefiled religion " has not been an inspiration ? 
 
 I can hardly trust myself to write a single line concerning an 
 event which has touched me so keenly. Few there are that have 
 lost so much in a single friend ; and yet I bless God that I had 
 such a friend to lose. As Beza said of Calvin, and as Mather said 
 of Flavel, " Since he has died, life will be less sweet, and death less 
 bitter to us." I was not permitted to weep at his open tomb, but, at 
 the hour appointed for his interment, although many miles away, I 
 stood there in spirit, and wrapped in my own silent sorrow, I felt 
 that the half of myself were being laid in that grave. 
 
 Our departed brother was a man of rare worth. What was said 
 of Kichard the Lion-hearted might with truth be said of him : " He 
 was brave, honest, magnanimous. He had fortitude as well as cour- 
 age, coolness as well as daring, skill as well as valor." At times he 
 was a man of war, going forth to the fray with the fire in his eye, 
 / and the thunder of battle on his brow. At other times he was as 
 gentle as a nurse, staunching the wounds, and pouring into them the 
 precious oil of consolation. A scene in my own Church is now in 
 my mind. He had been preaching with wonderful power on his 
 favorite theme. I never knew him to rise to such heights of invec- 
 tive and sarcasm. As a tornado sweeps through a forest, so did he 
 sweep away all opposition. Many held their breath at the crash 
 and the roar of that hour. But soon the storm passed by, his voice 
 was heard, like the soft treble of a bird, singing : — 
 
 "My life flows on in endless song; 
 Above earth's lamentation 
 
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 IN MEMORIAxVE— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 I catch the sweet, tho' far off hymn 
 
 That hails a new creation ; 
 Through all the tumult and the strife, 
 
 I hear the music ringing ; 
 It finds an echo in my soul, 
 
 How can I keep from singing ? " 
 
 The front seats were quickly filled with seekers. I watched this 
 great Field Marshal as he passed from seat to seat, now like a tender 
 mother, comforting and healing those who Avere sick of self and sin. 
 
 In the eyes of strangers, and indeed of all who only heard him 
 casually, his manner had an air almost of unnecessary severity, es- 
 pecially when in the presence of ministers of his own Church who 
 opposed the doctrine so clearly taught in their creed. Those who 
 were acquainted with him, however, soon forgot this ; or, rather, it 
 was to them a matter of surprise, that one so cordial, and affection- 
 ate, and tender, and truly humble, could be so misunderstood. 
 
 Mr. Inskip was much more sensitive to the good opinion of his 
 ministerial brethren than is generally supposed. But he loved 
 truth supremely. He would follow it, lead where it might. It was 
 a great element of strength in his character. He was wisely com- 
 pliant if occasion required it, on unimportant points. Yet when a 
 matter of principle was at hand, when he was evidently called to 
 take his stand for truth and righteousness, then, whoever and what- 
 ever might oppose, he was steadfast and unmovable. There was a 
 guilelessness of nature about him too, that was beautiful. He had 
 nothing to conceal. He was indeed a book, "known and read of 
 all men." Of him it might be well said : " His heart was in his 
 mouth." The utterances of his tongue were the pure, fresh coinage 
 of his mind. 
 
 He was a genial fellow-laborer, unselfish, appreciative, consider- 
 ate, sympathizing. He seemed as much at home in a Baptist pulpit, 
 
IN MEMOKIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
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 or a Friends' meeting, as in a Methodist Church. He had, indeed, 
 his denominational preferences, but he was not slow to detect or 
 commend what was good and beautiful in others. He embraced in 
 his large warm heart, all who love Christ without regard to their 
 creed or name. But especially was he attached to those of every 
 denomination who were engaged with himself in the spread of 
 Scriptural holiness. Among the last acts of his life was an effort to 
 secure and print a work on entire sanctification from the pen of 
 representative men of every denomination. 
 
 Mr. Inskip was a great preacher. There are profounder thinkers, 
 men of greater culture and learning, but few excelled him in effec- 
 tive preaching. In some of his camp-meeting discourses, I am sure, 
 there was not only good logic, but a lithe and buoyant play of 
 intellect, an outpouring of heart, a variety and freshness, and often 
 brilliancy and style, seldom equalled. Now a condensed and pithy 
 statement would arrest your attention ; now an apt and striking 
 figure; now a fine descriptive touch; now an outburst of most 
 heavenly emotion. In the exposition and enforcement of the doc- 
 trine of holiness he was unsurpassed. In the National Camp- 
 meeting Association, he was not only one of its founders, but the 
 chief object of attraction. I would not give undue prominence to 
 the labors of our glorified brother. Could he speak to us from his 
 heights of bliss, he would forbid my doing so. And yet, if you ask 
 for the results of his labors in this department of the holiness move- 
 ment, I reply, summon up, if you can, the wonderful scenes of 
 Divine power witnessed in the fifty-four National Camp Meetings 
 already held, call up to your mind's eye the thousands and tens of 
 thousands that thronged the altars as seekers of pardon or purity. 
 Listen to the cries of convicted sinners, and the groanings of be- 
 lievers for deliverance from the bondage of death. Hear the shouts 
 
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 of young converts, and the Hallelujahs of the fully saved. Aye, 
 listen to the harpings of many already before the throne of glory, 
 who first sang, " I'm redeemed, I'm washed in the blood of the 
 Lamb," in these great convocations. And with all of them our 
 departed brother's name, influence, sermons, prayers, and sanctified 
 genius, are forever linked. 
 
 But we forbear to proceed farther. Space will not permit it. 
 Our heart is full. He has passed within the vail, and we shall see 
 him no more ; but his memory is safe everywhere. 
 
 " Servant of Christ, well done, 
 Rest from thy loved employ ; 
 The battle fought, the victory won, 
 Enter thy Master's joy. 
 
 Tranquil amidst alarms, • 
 
 It found him on the field, 
 A veteran slumbering on his arms, 
 
 Beneath his red-cross shield." 
 
 THE REV. JOHN S. INSKIP RESTS. 
 
 ^^FTER severe illness continuing through several months, and 
 giving rise to false reports of his death, the Rev. John S. 
 Inskip quietly breathed his last at the Thorne House, 
 Ocean Grove, on Friday last at four P. M. For so strong 
 a man he died comparatively young. The date of his 
 birth is August 10, 1816, which makes him less than sixty-eight 
 years old. He came to this country at five years of age from Eng- 
 land, his native country. According to the best authority within 
 our reach, he was converted in his sixteenth year, under the minis- 
 
IN MEMORIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
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 try of tlie late Bishop Scott, and before he was nineteen commenced 
 preaching under the direction of the presiding elder. In 1836 he 
 joined the Philadelphia Conference, and nine years later was trans- 
 ferred to the Cincinnati, where he remained a number of years. On 
 a question at issue between himself and that body he appealed to 
 the General Conference of 1852, which sustained him. He very 
 soon came to the New York Conference ; thence was transferred to 
 the Baltimore, and finally to the New York East, of which he 
 remained a member until his death. 
 
 Having enjoyed his acquaintance for twenty-six years, and asso- 
 ciated with him in Conference for eighteen years, the writer has 
 had opportunity to observe him closely, to note the various changes 
 in his religious experience and views, and to study the peculiarities 
 which rendered him a personality so marked and gave him an 
 influence so stimulating. 'Our conclusions have not been formed 
 hastily ; and we know no reason why they should not be frankly 
 submitted to the Church. 
 
 Physically, Brother Inskip was remarkable for great strength, 
 being of medium height, stoutly built, short limbed, having abun- 
 dant room for the vital organs. His head was large, somewhat 
 unusual in shape, and firmly set upon a short neck. His features 
 were in harmony with such a frame, and, without the light which a 
 heart softened by grace gave to his eye and smile, would have sug- 
 gested a combative and passionate as well as a most determined 
 disposition. Like the late William Morley Punshon, there was 
 nothing of the spiritual, the poetical, or the gentle in his natural 
 expression as viewed by a stranger. Withal, Brother Inskip was 
 capable of the most intense oratorical excitement. It was that 
 blending of physical, mental, and emotional excitement which, if 
 unchastened by religion or unrestrained by prudence, would have 
 
48 IX MEMORIAM— EEY. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 made him a leader of masses of men intent upon acts of an aggressive 
 character. On the field of battle— if he had been trained to it — 
 this susceptibility would have made him a Sheridan or a Stonewall 
 Jackson. His voice was very peculiar. It Avas high-pitched, and 
 when he was unstirred it was almost womanish in tone. But if 
 aroused, unlike many with a similar characteristic, it took, not the 
 bass note, but became a loud, clarion tone, which could be heard to 
 the very outskirts of the largest encampment. Its changes in prayer 
 as a wave of emotion rolled over him were startling, and in oratory 
 his great physical strength enabled him to lift a congregation almost 
 bodily, fire it with his own enthusiasm, and cause billow after billow 
 of excitement to sweep over it. In the days of his power, at the 
 Old Red Lion Camp-meeting in Delaware, he could shake the 
 encampment as Samson did the temple of Dagon, though he shook 
 to save, and not to destroy. 
 
 Bro. Inskip was naturally a combatant. As an anti-slavery man 
 he said fiery things and shouted with delight amid the awful storm. 
 Like an eagle his impetuous spirit defied restraint, and he spoke 
 and acted as one born for revolution. In those days he Avas a man 
 of ordinary piety, subject to the infirmities common to men of his 
 temperament, successful in revivals, mighty in preaching special 
 sermons on temperance, valuable as a helper to his brethren in a 
 series of meetings, and, as already intimated, in great demand at 
 camp-meeting-s. In his intercourse with ministers and Churches he 
 exhibited a strong will, and though tender and yielding when not 
 roused, was firm to obstinacy after he had set himself The doctrine 
 and the professors of entire sanctification he regarded with indiffer- 
 ence, if not suspicion. 
 
 We shall leave to those who have been more closely related to 
 him in the work which has made his name and, we may add, his 
 
IN MEMORIAM— EEV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
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 face and voice known throughout the world, to describe the cir- 
 cumstances which led to a change in his views and to his devoting 
 himself to the promotion of the experience and doctrine referred to 
 above. Our purpose is to note its effect upon him. He rushed 
 with all the enthusiasm of his nature and of a new convert into the 
 work, and did not at first, nor for some years, exhibit in perfection 
 the patience and self-control w^hich are the ripest fruits of the 
 highest attainments of grace. Yet it was obvious that a principle 
 was at work in his soul which was surely producing the most radi- 
 cal transformation. His efforts at self-control ; his prompt acknow- 
 ledgement when he was led to see that he had been extravagant or 
 indiscriminate in his denunciations ; his increasing kindness to those 
 who differed with him or whom he supposed to look with disfavor 
 upon his movements, and the prevailing influence of a spirit ot 
 gentleness, made it manifest to all that John S. Inskip had met with 
 a great change. 
 
 In the Methodist Episcopal Church there are, broadly stated, four 
 classes on the subject of Christian Perfection: (1) Those who are 
 indifferent to it, or hostile ; who do not know, or knowing, do not 
 care, what Mr. Wesley's views were. (2) Those who give to those 
 views general consent, but in no way stir themselves nor others 
 about them. (3) Those who believe with Wesley, Fletcher and the 
 early Methodists, preach the doctrine, and claim to enjoy or to be 
 seeking the experience, but do not make a specialty of it, and do 
 not attach much importance to a definite public profession of it, 
 while they do not oppose others who do profess it, and are not in 
 sympathy with meetings specially devoted to it. (4) Those who 
 hold that it may be instantaneously experienced by faith, and 
 should be at once by all sincere and enlightened Christians, that 
 special meetings should be held for its promotion, and that its expe- 
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50 IN MEMORIAM— REV. JOHN S. INSKIP. 
 
 rience should be definitely professed on all suitable occasions. To 
 the fourth class Brother Inskip allied himself, fully sympathizing 
 with the late Mrs. Phoebe Palmer in her views and methods. Under 
 the conviction that the first and second of the classes above men- 
 tioned were in the majority, and that the third erred by defect of 
 zeal and want of positiveness in teaching, he put himself at the head 
 of an organized movement to arouse the Church, and spread the 
 doctrine and promote the experience of Perfect Love. The National 
 Camp-meeting Association was formed, and began to traverse the 
 land. A weekly newspaper was started and a publication house was 
 established. Brother Inskip developed remarkable capacity as a 
 manager and as an editor of the kind of paper which he wished to 
 make — intense, pervaded by his personality, aggressive, stimulating, 
 and strongly defensive of doctrine, persons and methods. 
 
 At a certain stage in these movements many good men and wise, 
 not at all hostile to the Methodist doctrine on this subject, doubted 
 "whereunto this w^ould grow." A narrow and bitter spirit of 
 denunciation showed itself in certain sections of the country, and 
 many things were said which, in local societies and in districts and 
 Conferences stirred up evil feeling, and threatened to bring the 
 highest mystery of the Christian experience into contempt. With 
 his paper, his publishing house, his personal influence, the Rev. 
 John S. Inskip had the power to lay bare and waste large tracts in 
 our Zion ; to precipitate a secession, to lead out into the wilderness 
 many good men and women, to take out of the body much salt that 
 had not lost its savor, and to leave the Church for ages to antagonize 
 the doctrine to which the evils would be blindly attributed by many. 
 Here was the demand for wisdom and understanding. At that 
 crisis — a condition occurring at no particular time, but indicated by 
 the phrase "stage of affairs" — he stood for the Church and its 
 
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 institutions ; he opposed every thing that savored of fanaticism or 
 destructiveness ; he became more guarded than he had ever been, 
 and affirmed that " the Methodist Episcopal Church, just as it is, 
 affords the best field for the promotion of Christian holiness that the 
 world has seen since the Apostolic age." To-day the work in which 
 he was interested goes on within the Church with, comparatively 
 little friction, while fanatical excrescences which, in some sections, 
 notably in certain parts of the West, bring it into disrepute, cannot 
 plead him in their support, and are sloughing off from the Church 
 as morbid growths. 
 
 Without being construed into endorsing, as matters of judgment, 
 all that he did and said, we record our conviction that to John S. 
 Inskip the Church owes a sincere tribute of respect and affection as 
 a rousing, stimulating force ; as the antidote and counterpart of 
 worldliness ; as a visible exhibition of faith, indefatigable earnest- 
 ness, and moral fearlessness ; and as a herald calling the attention 
 of thousands to higher privileges than they had ever dreamed of 
 But especially in behalf of the whole Church do we commend him 
 for the wisdom with which he tempered his zeal to the exigencies of 
 later years. 
 
 Somewhere we have read that in a church at Florence there is 
 upon the tomb of a soldier, the following inscription: "Johannes 
 Divultius, who never rested, rests— hush ! " 
 
 So John S. Inskip rests from great and ceaseless labors, and 
 many good works follow him. — Dr. Buckley, in New York Christian 
 Advocate. 
 
TRIUMPH! TRIUMPH! 
 
 REV. A. WALLACE, D. D. 
 
 "He shouted loud, Hosanna, 
 Deliverance has come ! " 
 
 CHIEFTAIN panoplied with sacred power, 
 ^H^S^ A leader in the sacramental strife, 
 
 Has reached at length the painful parting hour, 
 
 And comrades watch the ebbing tide of life. 
 It seems defeat ; the strong is stricken down ; 
 The standard fallen from his palsied hand ; 
 Where now the conqueror's palm, the star-gem'd crown. 
 The glad acclaim of heaven's pure white-robed band ? 
 
 As sun-burst in the gloom of winter's sky, 
 
 His brow is radiant with unearthly light; 
 Once more it flashes in his glazing eye. 
 
 And scenes seraphic dawn upon his sight. 
 Tlien " Triumph ! triumph !" is his dying song. 
 
 As chariots wait to bear him home to God ; 
 And time receding, shall on earth prolong, 
 
 His final victory, through all cleansing blood! 
 
 O heart aflame, thy full salvation theme. 
 
 Is marching on to compass this lost world ; 
 Thy banner, with the mighty Saviour's name, 
 
 Unfolded once, shall never more he furled ! 
 Thy tongue, so eloquent for holiness ; 
 
 Thy pen, so ready in defence of truth. 
 Shall through succeeding ages rouse and bless. 
 
 While memory robes thee in immortal youth !