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He not only preached in the principal churches, but entered every open door, occupying on week days and evenings all the school-houses and private dwellings that were offered for devotional services. He was incessant in work, and high in his aspirations. Naught but an inward fire which was kindled of a lofty purpose could have borne him along, despite some marked physical disabilities, to the eminence which he attained. He was made for command, and to reach command through the force of action. Temperament is the natural ground of character, and in itself must be regarded as innocent. It is only as temperaments differ that determinate types of character are possible, and it is within the sphere of temperament that divine grace works, modifying and directing to the highest and most useful ends.

The Rev. Thomas B. Sargent, D.D., then a very young man, had been transferred from the Philadelphia to the Baltimore Conference in the spring of 1830. He had been the preacher at Elizabethtown for 1826 and 1827. He made a visit to his former parishioners soon after Mr. Janes had been appointed to them, and he gives in 1876 this pleasant reminiscence: "My acquaintance with him began June 13, 1830, when I preached for him in the old forty-feet-square shingle-boarded church at Elizabethtown, in which I, as his predecessor, had ministered for two whole years-Dr. Holdich

having been between us. I was led to urge our little flock in Elizabethtown to enlarge, and was seconded by Brother Janes. He and I on Monday made a round of our fold, and I was deeply impressed with the modesty, sweetness, and spirituality of the man and minister, and said, ' Behold, how they love him- both sheep and lambs.'" The acquaintance which then began between these two promising young ministers was soon afterward ripened into a close friendship, which continued without alloy or abatement during their whole lives. Of this there will be further proofs.

Mr. Janes was re-appointed to Elizabethtown in 1831. The following letter to him, from the Rev. John J. Matthias, Newark, November 28, 1831, shows he was already attracting some attention as a speaker beyond his own charge:

Our Sunday-school celebration will be on Wednesday evening, December 7, at six o'clock. We depend on you to give a speech on the occasion, and you will please not disappoint us; for the meeting will be generally advertised, and we hope it will pass off well. We are still going on here after the same old sort, and need a great deal of grace-pray for us. I wish you would come up in the morning stage and come to my house.

If the young preacher began as he finished his ministry, he was at Newark on time and spoke.

Thus early was his voice raised in the Sundayschool cause, a department of Church work which

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was just then rising to importance, and of which he was to be so efficient an advocate.

He attended the session of the Philadelphia Conference at Wilmington, Delaware, in the spring of 1832, and was then ordained a deacon, and admitted into full membership in the Conference.

The Rev. John S. Porter, D.D., in a communication, says:

My knowledge of Mr. Janes commenced in 1832, when he preached in Wilmington, Delaware, before a large number of the members of the Philadelphia Conference, to which he had been admitted into full membership the day before. It was a surprise to many that he should be appointed to preach on such an occasion, but when he had performed the duty assigned, the surprise was that he had given such proof that the appointment was every way justified by the ability displayed. Taking for his text, "Show thyself a man," he proceeded to give the programme of his own admirable life, which he filled out fully in all the years allotted to him.

At this session Mr. Janes had the pleasure of seeing his twin brother, the Rev. E. L. Janes, admitted on trial by the Conference. Thus the two brothers were to be united for life in the work of the Christian ministry, having their natural relationship re-enforced and cemented by a calling wholly congenial to their convictions and tastes. And a pair of loving brothers and fellow-helpers they proved.

Mr. Janes was assigned to Orange, New Jersey. His name stands alone in the Minutes. The only

item which I have in my possession that throws any light on this year, is an old scrap of paper with a vote of thanks on it:

REVEREND SIR: The Young Men's Temperance Association of Orange, at its last anniversary meeting, passed the following resolution, and instructed the president and secretary of said society to forward you a copy of the same.

"Resolved, That the thanks of this association be presented to the Rev. E. S. Janes for the very appropriate and excellent address with which he favored the society on this occasion." ORANGE, Nov. 9, 1832.

So we find the young evangelist laying hold of all the side issues which pertained to the work of saving the souls and bodies of men. Nothing was foreign to his ministry by which he hoped to render it more useful to the masses, and especially to young people. From this day onward he was the steadfast friend and supporter of the Temperance Reform.

During this year he made a visit to his friend, Mr. Sargent, who had been transferred to the Baltimore Conference, and was stationed in Baltimore city. Of this visit Dr. Sargent says, "He preached with great acceptance and usefulness in all our then best churches, for white and colored, the latter offering a new and agreeable audience to him. In conformity with a usage then and now prevailing as distinctive of Methodism, he preached short, seldom exceeding forty-five minutes, and prayed

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long, over twenty-five or thirty minutes. One of the preachers who had followed him over the city. ventured to say to him, 'Brother Janes, why do you pray so long?' He answered with great softness, sweetness, and simplicity, Because I love to pray.'"

The following year his name stands on the Minutes for Bloomfield and Orange, with James V. Potts in charge. The Rev. S. S. Potter, D.D., of Cincinnati, says of this period: "It was some years before his true worth was known even by his own denomination. I think it was in a school-house where I learned my A B C, that I first heard him preach. It was at a time when my mind was first exercised in regard to the ministry, and his preaching so favorably impressed me that it drew forth the utterance, 'I would not mind being a preacher if I could preach as well as that man.'

It was at about this period that the youthful preacher chanced to be in the company of some older ministers and to hear a conversation which made a deep impression upon him. John M. Howe, M.D.-a life-long friend-received this account of it from his lips: "When I was a young man, having just entered the Conference, I was in company with three aged ministers, to whose conversation I listened with marked interest. They were relating their experience as Methodist preachers, and the course that they had pursued in reference to their