A further resolve that he would give up this ministry, chosen with such earnest conviction, should another field of labor offer more extensive measures for reaching mankind, took him, in later years, into the field of literature.

He left the ministry with many regrets but with the same earnest conviction with which he had earlier chosen it.
Following the publication of "The Shepherd of the Hills" his publishers assured him that he could secure greater results from his pen rather than his pulpit and prevailed upon him to henceforth make literature his life work.

This was in every way consistent with his teaching that every man's ministry is that work through which he can accomplish the greatest good.
In the battle of life there is always the higher ground that the many covet but few attain.

In reaching this height Mr.Wright has given to a multitude, his time, strength and substance, that they, too, might further advance.

He is companionable, loving and loyal to his friends.
He hates sham and hypocrisy and any attempt to glorify one's self by means other than the fruits of one's own labor.
This boy, who, from the death of his mother, was driven into a hand to hand struggle with life for a bare existence, was necessarily forced into contact with much that was vicious and corrupt.