[1] His wife died after 13 years, and in 1882 he married her sister, Margaret E. Brown, to whom were born four more children: Frank H. Thompson, John L. Leonard, Alice M., and Randolph H.
[4] The following year he was sent on a successful missionary assignment to South America and the West Indies where he received another copy of that book and read it on his return journey.
[4] As editor beginning in 1892 of a small journal, The Testimony of Jesus, he continued its publication and presented to his readers the new views he was learning.
[4] He was a member of The Herald editorial committee[2] beginning in 1918 and was elected a trustee of the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1923,[5] serving in that capacity until his death the following year.
[4] He was a deep student of prophecy and was the author of Daniel, the Beloved of Jehovah (2 vols., 1923) and The Revelation of Jesus Christ (posthumously 1928).