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Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Right Rev. William Meade, D.D., Bishop of the Prot. Epis. Church in Virginia: From August 19th, 1829, to March 14th, 1862
Great examples of good are great public treasures, and like other riches are often laid up where they yield no increase, instead of being turned over to the profit of the owner and the good of others.
As a hard worker, with the hand, at his plough, or with the head, at his books, - as a patriot who loved his own people and his native land, - as a Christian man and Bishop whose life was one act of devotion to his Master, and who served well his generation and the Church, - Bishop Meade was and is an example worthy to be remembered.
The number of those who knew him is gradually getting smaller, and whatever knowledge of him they have, which might benefit their kind, (and there is much besides that contained in Bishop Johns' valuable had far better be made over to the public, than buried in their graves.
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