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wc solicited from ^Ir. Delavan L. Pierson,
Editor of the Missionar\ Rcz'iezv of the
IVorld, (with whom Air. ]\Ieyer was associated),
the "Appreciation" which we are
glad to be able to lay before our readers.
For the same reason we are publishing, almost
entire, the funeral sermon by the Rev.
A. Theodore Smith, and extensive extracts
from the article which appeared in TJie Missionary
Rez'iezv of tire World, written by
Mrs. T. C. Rounds, Superintendent of the
Chicago Hebrew Mission.
As he had time and opportunity ]\Ir. ^^leyer
rendered serviceable aid of many kinds to
this paper. For several years and until some
time after his pastorate at Hopkinton, Iowa,
he contributed "Geographical Notes and Oriental
Illustrations" in connection with the
Sabbath School Lesson, and his work was of
a very high order; during the past ten years
he has published in our columns scores of articles
on subjects of great interest; and his
•'Brief Sketches from Abroad," pubhshed in
the summer and autumn of 1911, including
his illustrated account of the "One Hundredth
Anniversary of the Irish Synod," evidenced
his rare power as a descriptive writer.
What we are publishing suggests the manysidedness
of the man. He was not only that
which we understand by the word "scholar,"
for he was also a surgeon, a sea-faring man
and world-wide traveler, a linguist, a statistician,
an organizer, a missionary, an author,
an editor, and a preacher, and above all, as
the records and his private letter now disclose,
he had his Master's hunger for souls.
His love for statistics was a passion; that
which with other men is hard and tiresome
labor, was with Mr. Meyer recreation. During
his frequent visits tO' New York, he was
in the habit of making this office his personal
headquarters, and we have a little book in
which he had recorded by post offices and indexed
all the names of subscribers to the
Christian Nation who get their paper in
packages and from a chairman, and whose
names are not printed on our mailing list.
These names he gathered by much letter
writing. Of course, constant revision was
necessary, and this he attended to from ti'ne
to time, when in the city, because of a genuine
love for such work.
His associates in Mission and Educational
work speak of his ability in his chosen lines
as incomparable, and of his international eminence
as an editor, a convention and pulpit
orator, and in his knowledge of doctrine; and
in telling of his honors he was puffed up in
about the same way that a little boy is who
has a new pair of boots. To his intimates
he was always the same joyou