His  brethren  in  the  ministry  contributed  a  sum  sufficient
to  provide  suitable  tombstones  for  his  grave.  By  the
contributions  of  a  number  of  his  old  friends  within  the
bounds  of  the  Lawrenceburg  district,  a  neat  iron  fence
has  been  erected  around  his  grave.  For  more  than  a
third  of  a  century  Wiley  had  labored  for  the  moral  im-
provement of  society  in  Indiana.  He  had  given  the
entire  weight  of  his  influence  to  every  measure  of  public


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utility.  He  was  a  leader  in  all  the  benevolent  enterprises
and  moral  reforms  of  the  day.  The  missionary,  Sunday
school,  Bible  society,  and  tract  cause,  each  had  his  cor-
dial support.  He  was  an  advocate  of  temperance,  on  the
total-abstinence  principle,  from  the  commencement  of  his
ministry,  and  to  the  cause  of  education  he  was  a  warm
and  consistent  friend.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a
trustee  of  the  State  University,  at  Bloomington,  and  was
one  of  the  early  projectors  and  fast  friends  of  the  Indiana
Asbury  University,  serving  for  several  years  as  a  member
of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  contributing  of  his  means
toward  its  permanent  endowment.  But  it  was  as  a  wise,
zealous,  and  indefatigable  minister  of  the  Gospel  that  he
had  most  efifectually  served  his  generation.  As  an  able
divine  Wiley  had  but  few  superiors.  The  death  of  such
a  man  is  a  public  calamity.  It  created  a  vacuum  not
easily  filled.
