Dr. Moses DeWitt Denman, Editor of the Old School Baptist Quarterly, Tyrone, Oklahoma, the son of J. D. and Ann W. Denman. He was born at Larrissa, Cherokee County, Texas, Aug. 11th, 1850, and died Jan. 8th, 1907, being 56 years, 4 months and 27 days old.

He had been in feeble health for several weeks and was much weakened by indigestion until by undue exertion and exposure he con­tracted a spell of pneumonia of the most violent character. He took his bed Jan. 2, and at 11 o'clock Jan. 8, passed away very suddenly from an attack of heart failure.

Brother DeWitt Denman united with the Regular Primitive Baptist at Cedar Grove church, in Bell Co., Texas, being baptized by Grandfather Moses H. Denman in 1872. He was early liberated to exercise in the public and has at all times since proven himself by a pious life and a godly conversation. He was a hard student and a zealous advocate of the truth. He has written much. In his meditations, in his preaching and in his writings he has dwelt much on the beauty and sufferings of Christ, the obliga­tion of all men to live uprightly, but the total inability of any to attain unto eternal life except by the imputed righteousness of Christ.

At an early age he manifested great respect for superiors, and abiding interest in the lives of great men, and a strong desire to imitate, the good. Having acquired a liberal education, he gave his attention to medicine, and in 1882 grad­uated with high honors from the medical depart­ment of the University of Tennessee. For some eighteen years following the completion of his medical course, he was actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and in his home neighborhood, Sparta, Bell Co. Texas. He then abandoned the practice of medicine and gave himself almost entirely to scriptural study and scriptural work. He led a life of abstinence and self-sacrificing devotion to the cause he espoused. Wishing to relieve the sufferings or to advance the well being of others, he never hesitated because of the night or the fierceness of the storm, nor did he question about the pay. The predominating spirit of his life may be shown by the following beautiful thought, to be found on his calendar now hanging on his lonely desolate house on his home near Tyrone, Okla., also in his memorandum in many places: "Happiness consists in a consciousness of duty done."

In the winter of 1904 he moved to Tyrone, Oklahoma and established a residence.

In January, 1906, appeared the first issue of the 'Old School Baptist Quarterly,' and the last issue came from the press and was ready for mailing out just as he was taken sick. Much of his writings has never been submitted to the press. His thoughts were generally brief, clear and scrupulously exact.

Brother DeWitt's death is deeply deplored by friends and relatives and by the membership of Beulah church, Beaver County, Oklahoma, where his membership was at the time of his death. He was one who walked not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful but his delights were in the law of the Lord and in His laws did he meditate day and night.

In loving remembrance,

HORACE H. DENMAN.