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culty in breathing, so that in walking he would have to stop and stand still a feAV minutes to rest. I could find no organic disease of the heart, and no disease of the lungs — nothing of that kind that would account for the trouble, and I referred the matter to nervous exhaustion — exhaustion of the nerve center that presided over respiration and breathing. " Thus all the labor he performed was under great bodily affliction. In August, 1881, after a year of hard Avork he was prostrated with gastralgia, or neuralgia of the stomach. He was unable to do any work until about the first of Octo- ber. In January, he was again prostrated. He was unable to return to his work until March, and then able only to do a limited amount. About the last of May, he had another severe attack. The congregation gave him a vacation for four months. This he spent at Clifton Springs, N. Y., and Ocean Grove, N. J. During his stay at these places he had much time at his disposal. This time was not spent in La^l Daijs. 67 idleness. It was not in his nature to be idle. He always felt that the Master had a work for him to do, and it was his object to be prepared for doing that work. He felt the time for work was very- uncertain, and this led him to a renewed act of con-

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