A Good Man Has Gone

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 28, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 22.

A Good Man Has Gone.

William Taylor, the missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is dead. He fell asleep the afternoon of May 18, at Palo Alto, Cal., at the residence of his son, at the advanced age of eighty-one years and sixteen days. He was born in Rockbridge county, Va. His ancestors came from Ireland. When twenty-one he began evangelistic work as a circuit rider. He came to California in 1849. His world-wide work began in 1856. He labored in England, Ireland, Scotland, Australasia, South Africa, Barbadoes, British Guiana, Ceylon, Bombay, Madras, Brazil, Peru, Chile. The work which has made him the best known is the self-supporting work which he did in Central Africa and South America, having at one time in South America alone forty-three missionaries. What is said to be the leading university in Chile was founded by him. He possessed a strong, vigorous constitution, and an excellent knowledge of human nature. He knew how to present Gospel truth simply, clearly, strongly. His presentation of Ps. 19:1-7 was the best we ever heard. But the old warrior is at rest. Would there were many more with the same energy and zeal.