speaker and studied for this purpose the masterpieces of eloquence. He once said: “A man must know two things above all others, namely, God and how to speak.” More than all else he studied the Bible to find therein the rule of life, so that he might the more faithfully carry out the resolution he had made when he came to Glarus, namely, “I shall be true and upright towards God and man in every circumstance of life into which the hand of the Lord may place me.” Glarus, the place where, it is said,