« The Annual Convention of the Pittsburgh Alliance proved also a rallying point for the workers of Western Pennsylvania. It was decidedly the best Convention ever held in Pittsburgh in connection with the Alliance. The mournful loss of our beloved brother, Mr. Conley, a few months ago, seemed to human sight to be almost an irreparable blow to the great work he had done so much to inaugurale and establish, but the best monument of a true worker is the work that can stand even without him, and dear brother Conley’s work was built on deeper foundations than his own personality. » — Magazine : The christian and missionary alliance, The pittsburgh convention., March 9 1898, page 228 § 1.