Hope College - Milestone Yearbook (Holland, MI)

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The Citizen No man lives to himself alone. The full-orbed life reaches out and comes into contact with every phase of human life and thought and lends a helping hand to all the great moral, spiritual, economic, and civic forces that are strug- gling to uplift mankind. Professor Kleinheksel was not a recluse, lie felt the keenest interest in the sweep of national and world events and kept in closest touch with them. He was a pioneer in the temperance movement, and loved to battle for all great reforms. The caucus, the primary, the political gathering, and the polls on election day, were never neglected. The Holland Chamber of Commerce often listened to his words of advice and he was a favorite at farmers’ gatherings. He was financially interested in many of Holland's most substantial business institutions and was a director of one of her banks. The Friend To his students, as we have seen, Professor Kleinheksel was more than a teacher; he was a guide, patron, and friend. To his associates, he was more than a pleasing companion; he was their friend. To his business acquaintances, he was more than a sharer in their dividends; he entered into their lives, he was their friend. Friendship to him was sacred and he was, therefore, always loyal. No gold ever rang truer than did his friendship. True friendship is always unselfish and sincere, and his was of the David and Jonathan type. Broken friendships he never knew. His loyal heart ever beat the faster when success and fortune smiled upon his friends. How well the words “great heart” suit him. “His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.” The Christian Carlyle well said that the great thing about any man is his religion. Al- though Professor Kleinheksel had a deep, philosophic and a keen, analytic mind, much given to close reasoning and one which required clear proof and accurate demonstration to produce conviction, such a mind as is often found in the skep- tic, yet he embraced the Christian’s faith with his deepest convictions and with- out the shadow of a doubt. In the home, in society, in the Sunday-school as teacher and superintendent, in the church as elder, yes, wherever he went, he lived and talked a joyous Christian life. He bade farewell to his loved ones, not only with the hope, but with the fullest assurance, that he would meet them again. He was a sincere, a happy Christian. In this faith he lived, loved, and finally fell asleep. “Though ’neath the clouds of the valley Forms that we cherish may sleep; God has commanded his angels Watch o’er our loved ones to keep. Only the leaves of the vine tree Wither and languish and die; God hath transplanted its branches, Garnered its fruits in the sky.” 7 G. J. Diekf.ma, ’81.

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