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Of the forty-two men recorded above, twenty-six were full graduates, thir- teen took a partial course, and three studied here as resident licentiates. Eleven were educated at Amherst College, eight at Dartmouth, six at Yale, four at Harvard, three each at Bowdoin and Middlebury, two at Williams, and one each at Brown, Oberlin, Western Reserve, and Yankton; one alone had failed to take the college course.
Two were professors in the Seminary - one just putting off the harness of long and honorable warfare, the other just girding it on with the brightest prospect of signal service to the institution ; Grout and Leonard had been faith- ful foreign missionaries, Thwing also giving his life at last in the same cause, while Jeremiah Porter and Dr. Neill laid foundations of Christian institutions in the far West; Dr. Thayer, Dr. Means, Dr. Davis, with Wells and Rich- ardson, had seen long and fruitful service here in the East; Dr. Field, Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Sheldon, and Cyrus Baldwin had in different ways achieved success in educational or philanthropic work; Norcross and Pound were in the morning of their day, and Martin had not finished his first year of preparation. Every one had done his own work and will have his own reward.
Mr. Isaac Watts Wheelwright, our senior alumnus (Class of 1825), now in his ninety-third year, sends Christian greetings to his brethren from his home in South Byfield, Mass. Dr. Edward Beecher remains of the Class of 1827, and PROFESSOR PARK of the Class of 1831.
OFFICERS OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
REV. ALEXANDER S. TWOMBLY, D.D., Moderator, 1893. REV. PROF. EDWARD Y. HINCKS, D.D.,
REV. B. M. FULLERTON, D.D., REV. WILLIAM J. BATT, REV. HARRY P. DEWEY, -
Committee, 1893-94.
REV. C. C. CARPENTER, Secretary, 1892-95.
NOTICE.
THIS Obituary Record is published annually in connection with the meeting of the Alumni Association at the June anni- versaries. Alumni are earnestly requested to aid in its prepara- tion by communicating the fact of the death of any past member of the Seminary, together with any newspaper notices or memorial sketches. These, with change of address, or other information relating to the record of living alumni, should be sent to the Secretary at Andover.
Memonal Hall Library. 6. b. b.
ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NECROLOGY,
1894-95.
PREPARED FOR THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND PRESENTED AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 12, 1895, BY C. C. CARPENTER, SECRETARY.
Second Printed Series, No. 5.
BOSTON : BEACON PRESS : THOMAS TODD, PRINTER, I SOMERSET STREET.
1895.
INDEX.
Class.
Age.
Page.
1860. JOHN Q. BITTINGER .
64
167
1876. CHIARLES N. BRAINERD
44
172
1839. TIMOTHY G. BRAINERD
86
I 50
18 50. SWIFT BYINGTON .
71
1 58
1837.
HIRAM CARLETON
82
146
1845.
LUTHER CLAPP
74
155
1838. AARON M. COLTON
85
148
1844.
JOHN L. DUDLEY .
82
I 54
1847.
JONATHAN EDWARDS
73
I 57 160
1836.
ELI W. HARRINGTON
90
I44
1867. EDWIN J. HART
67
171
1859. 1828.
HENRY HERRICK
92
I4I
1854.
ELIAS B. HILLARD
69
161
1875-
JOHN H. HINCKS .
45
171
1834.
FREDERIC W. HOLLAND
83
142
1854.
SAMUEL D. HOSMER
65
161
1862.
GEORGE W. HOWE .
61
169
1860.
CHESTER C. HUMPHREY
63
168
I866.
ALFRED P. JOHNSON
58
170
1855.
GEORGE C. KNAPP
71
162
1890.
CARLETTO F. LEWIS .
31
173
IS36.
WALTER R. LONG
83
145
1837.
JOHN LORD .
83
147
I845.
JABEZ B. LYMAN
73
I56
1836. JOHN M. MACKIE.
80
146
1855.
MASON MOORE .
71
163
1857.
ALPHEUS S. NICKERSON
63
164
1835.
CALVIN E. PARK .
83
143
18 58.
WILLIAM W. PARKER
70
164
1842.
ANSON H. PARMELEE
83
152
1841.
WIIITMAN PECK
79
I51
1828.
CALVIN N. RANSOM .
88
142
18 59.
JOHN H. SHEDD
61
166
I843. WILLIAM G. T. SHEDD
74
I53
1851.
HENRY M. STORRS
67
I 59
1842. LATHROP TAYLOR
81
152
1846. DAVID TORREY
75
I 57
1838.
CHARLES W. WOOD .
80
149
Visitors.
JOSHUA N. MARSHALL
64
140
JULIUS H. SEELYE .
70
I39
I852.
CHARLES P. FELCH .
70
1884. HENRY S. HARRISON
44
173
AUSTIN HAZEN
60
165
I866.
BERNARD PAINE
59
170
NECROLOGY.
VISITORS.
Julius Hawley Seelye, D.D., LL.D.
Son of Seth Seelye and Abigail Taylor ; born in Bethel, Ct., September 14, 1824; prepared for college while a clerk in his father's store at Bethel ; entered the sophomore class of Amherst College and graduated there, 1849; took his theological course in Auburn Seminary, 1849-52; licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Cayuga (N. Y.), June 4, 1851, at the same time with his class- mate, Rev. Dr. R. R. Booth, the present moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; studied in Germany, 1852-53; ordained by the Classis of Schenec- tady (N. Y.) as the pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church in that city, August 10, 1853, remaining there until 1858; professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Amherst College, 1858-90, and from 1876 president of the college and pastor of the college church. Failing health compelling him to resign his position in 1890, he continued to reside at Amherst.
Professor Seelye received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Union College in 1862, and that of Doctor of Laws from Columbia College in 1876. He was lecturer on Foreign Missions in Andover Seminary, 1873-74, and one of the Board of Visitors of the Seminary, 1875-92, having been the president of the Board, 1879-90. He was a member of Congress from the Tenth Con- gressional District of Massachusetts, 1875-77. He served for many years as a trustee of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, as a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and as president of the Ameri- can Home Missionary Society and the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. He published a translation of Schwegler's History of Philosophy ; revised edi- tions of Hickok's Mental Science and Moral Science ; Christian Missions ; The Way, the Truth, the Life, being his Lectures to Educated Hindus (published first in Bombay) ; and two small text-books on Duty and Citizenship.
Rev. N. G. Clark, D.D., LL.D. (Class of 1852), a close friend of Dr. Seelye's for many years, writes of him : "Dr. Seelye impressed all who met him as a strong man, of broad and comprehensive views, of generous sympathies, and of an elevation of character lifting him above everything low and narrow in thought or life and rising sometimes to heights of moral grandeur. It is not as a phi- losopher or a theologian that he will be remembered, but as president of Amherst College, where he brought his best thought in philosophy and in theology to bear upon the lives of the students. He held the institution fast to its evangel- ical principles, earning the confidence and generous support of its friends, while inspiring the students with something of his own high ideals of life and charac- ter, and drawing them personally to himself by his genuine sympathy and inter- est in their welfare.
" His mind was eminently practical rather than speculative. Hence he turned away from philosophical studies - in which he did little beyond trans-
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lating Schwegler's History of Philosophy and editing for use as text-books some of the works of his favorite teacher, Dr. Hickok -though in his earlier years it had been expected that he would take up and develop Dr. Hickok's system of spiritual philosophy. The pressing needs of his fellow men turned his atten- tion to more practical lines of work and led him to interest himself in mission- ary enterprises, both home and foreign, and in the political welfare of his own country. No words seem to reveal his own Christian life more justly than the expression so often on his lips, ' O, the unsearchable riches of Christ !' They seem to have molded his thought and sentiment, and to have given them, if possible, a higher scope, while harmonizing with a philosophy which recognized the validity of the intuitions of man's spiritual nature. The result was a repose of spirit most fitly characterized by his own favorite word - serene."
Dr. Seelye was married, October 26, 1854, to Elizabeth Tillman James, of Albany, N. Y., daughter of Rev. William James, D.D., and Marcia Ames. She died March 5, ISSI. One of his three daughters, the wife of Rev. James W. Bixler, died in 1894. His only son is professor of Greek in the University of Wooster (Ohio).
Dr. Seelye died of paralysis of the nerves, at Amherst, Mass., May 12, 1895, aged seventy years.
Hon. Joshua Newell Marshall.
Son of Simeon Moore Marshall and Jennette Lamb Berry; born in Dra- cut, Mass., May 22, 1830; prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, N. H .; graduated at Amherst College, 1853; studied law with Hon. Arthur P. Bonney, Lowell ; was admitted to the bar, 1855, and practiced in Hopkinton, Mass., 1855-56, and in Lowell afterwards until his death. He was a member of the House of Representatives, 1863-64, and of the Senate, 1867-69; one of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners, 1869-74; delegate to the National Republican Convention, 1872. He was also at one time the city solicitor of Lowell, and was a trustee of the Central Savings Bank and of the Rogers Hall School. He was a member of the Board of Visitors of this Seminary from 1885 until his death, and for several years the secretary of the board.
Rev. John M. Greene, D.D., of Lowell, writes of him: “Joshua N. Mar- shall was my college classmate, and during the last twenty-five years in this busy city I have known him intimately. As a man of principle and character he had no superior. He stood firmly to the intelligent convictions of con- science. He never wavered from the path of duty because it was unpopular. He never trimmed his sails to catch the popular gale if the yielding of any principle was at stake. He stood very high in his profession. Governor Greenhalge said at the last meeting of the trustees of Rogers Hall, of which corporation Mr. Marshall was secretary, that 'Mr. Marshall was one of the foremost men in his profession in Middlesex County.' He was a man of ex- cellent judgment, kindly in his feelings, and unselfish in his life. He was a much respected member of the Kirk Street Church, and when in health taught a class in the Sunday school and attended the midweek prayer meeting. He was, without making any show of it, a pillar in the church. He was always an able and upright man, and a devoted and consistent Christian."
Mr. Marshall was married, January 21, 1858, to Georgiana Bliss Fiske, of
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Upton, Mass., daughter of Elisha Bradish Fiske and Miriam Starkweather. She survives him, with two sons and one daughter.
Mr. Marshall died of Bright's disease, at Lowell, Mass., March 2, 1895, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.
ALUMNI.
CLASS OF 1828.
Henry Herrick. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Rev. Claudius Herrick and Hannah Pierpont ; born in Woodbridge, Ct., March 5, 1803 ; prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover ; grad- uated at Yale College, 1822; taught in West Springfield, Mass., 1822-23 ; Berke- ley scholar and teacher in Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 1823-25; teacher of penmanship in Phillips Academy, 1826-27 ; studied in this Seminary, 1825-27, and graduated at Yale Divinity School in 1828 ; preached at Middleton and Saugus, Mass., 1828-29; ordained at Humphreysville (now Seymour), Ct., April 14, 1830 ; home missionary in Illinois, 1830-31 ; engaged in Sunday school and other agencies in New England, 1832-34; principal of female academies in Knoxville, Tenn., Somerville and Moulton, Ala, 1835-42 ; home missionary afterwards until 1867 (Canada East, 1844; Clintonville, N. Y., 1845-49; Ticon- deroga, N. Y., and vicinity, 1849-53; Middlefield, Mass., 1853 ; Archbald, Pa., 1854-55; Colchester, N. Y., 1856-58; Exeter, N. Y., and vicinity, 1858-67) ; from 1867 resided at North Woodstock, Ct.
Mr. Herrick gave most of his life to pioneer work as teacher and home missionary, seeking out and occupying hard fields with self-denying devotion, and everywhere striving to inspire youth with a desire for higher education. Joseph Cook and Prof. G. Frederick Wright are among those who have grate- fully acknowledged his influence in this way. Rev. Charles W. Thompson, D.D. (Class of 1860), at one time Mr. Herrick's pastor at North Woodstock, writes : " The memory of my association with Mr. Herrick is very pleasant. I never knew a man who combined so much genuine humility with so much real ability. He was conscientious, pure-minded, and unworldly. He did not seek large things for himself in this world, but, it seems to me, that he was so 'other- worldly ' while here that he will be high above many of us 'over there.'"
Mr. Herrick was married, February 19, 1835, to Sarah Maria Wright, of Windsor, Mass., daughter of Asahel Wright, M.D., and Lydia Worthington. She survives him, with four sons and three daughters, two children having died in infancy. One of the sons, Rev. E. P. Herrick, is a Congregational minister at Tampa, Fla. ; one of the daughters is the wife of Rev. J. T. Nichols, of Seattle, Wash., and another of Deacon George Gould, of Andover.
Mr. Herrick died of old age, in North Woodstock, Ct., March 11, 1895, aged ninety-two years.
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Calvin Noyes Ransom.
Son of Col. Theophilus Ransom (an officer in the War of 1812); born in Sandgate, Vt., February 15, 1800; the family settling early in Marietta, Ohio, he prepared there for college; graduated at Ohio University, 1825; took the full course in this Seminary, 1825-28; licensed to preach by the Andover Asso- ciation, meeting with Rev. Freegrace Raynolds, Wilmington, April 22, 1828. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Newburyport, September 25, 1828, as home missionary, and went immediately to Southern Ohio; was at Hamilton until 1832; pastor at Berlin, 1832-37; agent of the American Bible Society, 1837-39, and of the Western Education Society, 1839-40 ; pastor (Presbyterian) at Hebron, 1840-46, and at Scipio, 1846-50; acting pastor of Congregational church, Bennington, N. H., 1850-53, and at Westbrook, Me., 1853-54; pastor, Poultney, Vt., 1855-59, and at Lowell, Ohio, 1864-68, preaching also at Rain- bow. He resided, without charge, at Lowell until 1875, and afterwards with his children in the suburbs of Cincinnati and at Columbus. From 1870 he was totally blind.
Rev. Dr. Washington Gladden, his pastor at Columbus, writes : " During the long years of his blindness the inner light was never dimmed. His mind was always wakeful ; he found the keenest pleasure in the studies which he had always followed, and the new phases of thought were familiar to him. Far from being distressed at the changes in theology, he hailed them with exulta- tion, as new light breaking forth from God's Holy Word. And all the while his Christian faith grew firmer and stronger, and his love for his Master more ten- der and more pure. Dark as were the paths of his feet, the highway of his soul was one that shone more and more unto the perfect day."
He was married, September 28, 1828, to Susan Gale, of Pembroke, N. H., daughter of Joseph Gale and Susannah Frye. She died July 9, 1845, and he married, second, August 24, 1846, Ann Elizabeth Clark, of Concord, N. H., daughter of George Lewis Clark and Charlotte Matilda Turner. She died July 31, 1887. Of two sons and four daughters, two daughters alone survive him. A son, Capt. Edward Payson Ransom, was an officer in the Union Army.
Mr. Ransom died of old age, at Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 1889, in his eighty-ninth year.
CLASS OF 1834.
Frederic West Holland. (Non-graduate.)
Son of John Holland and Sarah May ; born in Boston, Mass., June 22, 1811 ; prepared for college at Boston Latin School; graduated at Harvard College, 1831; studied in this Seminary, 1831-32, and completed his theological course in Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1834; preached in Oswego, N.Y., 1835; Greenfield, Mass., 1836-37 ; Philadelphia, 1837 ; ordained pastor of First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 11, 1838, and remained there until 1842; pastor of First Unitarian Society, Rochester, N. Y., 1843-47 ; secretary of American Unitarian Association, 1848-50; traveling in Europe and the East, 1850-51 ; pastor at East Cambridge, Mass., 1851-59; Neponset, 1859-62; North Cambridge, 1862-65; Rochester, N. Y., 1865-68; Rutland, Vt., and New Or- leans, La., 1868-69; without charge at Cambridge, but often preaching, 1869-71 ;
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pastor, Newburgh, N. Y., 1871-77; resided at Cambridge, 1878-84, and after- wards at Concord. He was chaplain of the Middlesex County Jail at East Cam- bridge, 1856-59, and of the almshouse at North Cambridge sixteen years, from 1878 to the fall preceding his death.
Mr. Holland was a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and his addresses at the society's memorial meeting in honor of Edward Everett and its Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Shakespeare were pub- lished, as also Scenes in Palestine. Rev. A. P. Putnam, D.D., of Concord, says of him in the Christian Register : " Among all our Unitarian missionaries, his decided ability and large attainments, his high Christian character and his ex- traordinary zeal as a preacher and a worker, and the very long and uninterrupted term of his active service entitle him to be regarded as first and foremost. .. . Many are those, on earth and in heaven, who gratefully recall the hour when they received from him their first impetus to the better life ; and it is not easy to estimate the vast amount of good which he accomplished in the wide field that witnessed to his varied, protracted, and untiring devotion to the higher interests of souls under his care."
Mr. Holland was married, February 1, 1835, to Harriet Newcomb, of Keene, N. H., daughter of Judge Daniel Newcomb and Hannah (Dawes) Goldthwait. She survives him, with three sons - all graduates of Harvard College - and one daughter. Two sons and two daughters have died, one of the latter three days before her father.
Mr. Holland died of old age, at Concord, Mass., March 26, 1895, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
CLASS OF 1835.
Calvin Emmons Park.
Son of Rev. Calvin Park, D.D., and Abigail Ware (and brother of Prof. Edwards A. Park, of Andover) ; born in Providence, R. I., December 30, 1811 ; prepared for college under the tuition of his father, then professor in Brown University ; studied one year in Brown University, and graduated at Amherst College, 1831 ; was principal of the Classical School of Weymouth and Brain- tree, 1831-32 ; took the full course in this Seminary, 1832-35; licensed to preach by the Woburn Association, April 22, 1835; tutor in Amherst College, 1835-37. He was ordained as pastor of the church at Waterville, Me., October 31, 1838, and remained such until 1844, being also instructor in rhetoric in Waterville College (now Colby University), 1839-43; was acting pastor at North Andover, Mass., 1844-45, and pastor at West Boxford, Mass., 1846-59. He continued to reside at West Boxford afterwards, carrying on a private school for young men until 1881.
Mr. Park was a thorough scholar and careful writer, and contributed many articles and literary reviews to the Bibliotheca Sacra. Rev. Prof. William S. Tyler, D.D., LL.D. (Class of 1836), of Amherst College, sends this tribute : " Mr. Park was an exemplary student, a superior scholar, esteemed by faculty and students, excelling especially in the humanities and belles-lettres, and gradu- ating with distinction in the Class of 1831, the largest class that was graduated in the first half-century of the history of the college. As tutor in 1835-37, he taught the Class of 1839 (the class of Bishop Huntington and Dr. Storrs) the
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Greek and Latin classics with a degree of taste and general knowledge and culture which they highly appreciated. At the same time he was a licensed preacher, wrote sermons of uncommon beauty and excellence, and supplied pulpits in the vicinity of Amherst, much to the satisfaction of his cultivated hearers. But I love to think of him especially as one of that rare group of choice and congenial spirits - two professors and three tutors - who, in 1836-37, were gathered around the table of Professor Snell, and who remained almost daily after dinner or supper for ' the feast of reason and the flow of soul.' We were all Christians of a cheerful type, and were all fond of sacred music; and we could always sing from the heart and from our own happy experience :
The fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above."
Mr. Park was married, November 5, 1839, to Harriet Turner Pope, of Port- land, Me., daughter of Joseph Pope, Esq., and Caroline Mclellan. She sur- vives him, with two sons - one of whom is Rev. Charles W. Park, of the Class of 1870, formerly a missionary in India, now pastor in Birmingham, Ct. - and two daughters, their oldest child having died in infancy.
Mr. Park died of influenza, at West Boxford, Mass., March 4, 1895, aged eighty-three years.
CLASS OF 1836.
Eli Whitney Harrington.
Son of Nathaniel Harrington and Nancy Townsend; born in New Brain- tree, Mass., November 28, 1804; worked on his father's farm until twenty-three years of age, teaching school in the winter season; while attending school at Westminster became interested in active religious work, and determined to fit for the ministry ; prepared for college at Amherst Academy; graduated at Am- herst College, 1833; took the full course in this Seminary, 1833-36; was licensed to preach by the Andover Association, meeting with Rev. Samuel C. Jackson at Andover, April 5, 1836; went at once from the Seminary to Lunenburg, Mass., and was ordained over the church there, April 26, 1837. He remained there until 1847; supplied the church at Mason Centre, N. H., 1847-50; was pastor at Rochester, Mass., 1850-58; was acting pastor at North Beverly, Mass., 1859-66, remaining there without charge, although often preaching, 1866-84; afterwards resided at Pepperell, Mass., occasionally preaching, and attending religious services up to the last Sabbath of his life.
Mr. Harrington, although a quiet, unostentatious man, excelled many others of greater reputation as a clear, effective preacher. An Essex County layman writes : " As a speaker, he enunciated distinctly, to the delight of elderly people who went to hear him, not only on that account, but because, also, he had something to say. As a pastor, his people had his fullest sympa- thies at all times. His manliness was beyond question ; his convictions, strong and clear, were fearlessly uttered ; he was careful, studious, upright, and always in touch with his Master and with mankind." Mr. Harrington was a good man and delighted to do good, not simply as a preacher and pastor, but before he became a pastor and after he ceased to be one. His college classmate, Rev.
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George C. Partridge (Class of 1838), whose obituary was in the Necrology of last year, in writing two years ago of his early life, said : " Eli Harrington was older than I, and saw that I was making shipwreck of my Christian belief and came to my room one Saturday night and gave me a very plain talk; that changed the current and saved me from losing my faith." Having no children, he left most of his property for the support of home and foreign missions.
Mr. Harrington was married, May 17, 1837, to Maria Dickinson, of Am- herst, Mass., daughter of Roswell Dickinson and Rachel Hurd. She died August 29, 1838, and he married, second, October 17, 1839, Nancy Stiles, of Pepperell, Mass., daughter of Isaac Stiles and Nancy Chase. She died March 19, 1882.
He died of old age, at Pepperell, Mass., February 23, 1895, aged ninety years.
Walter Raleigh Long. (Non-graduate.)
Son of Col. Edward Long and Prudence Wells; born in Cambridge, N. Y., January 16, 1811 ; prepared for college at Washington Academy, Cambridge ; graduated at Union College, 1831 ; studied in this Seminary, 1833-34, in Prince- ton Seminary, 1834-36, and as resident licentiate in Yale Divinity School, 1836- 37 ; licensed to preach by the Troy (N. Y.) Presbytery, August 24, 1836; preached at Woodbridge, Ct., 1837-39. He was ordained at Lansingburgh, N. Y., by the Troy Presbytery, August 28, 1839, and was acting pastor at West Troy, N. Y., 1841-42; pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. Y., 1842-44; at Whitesboro, N. Y., 1844-50; acting pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo., 1851-52 ; pastor of Congregational church at Mystic Bridge, Ct., 1853-63; acting pastor at Montville, Ct., 1863-65; agent of American Freedmen's Union Commission, 1865-68, and of the Presbyterian Committee on Freedmen, 1868-70; agent of American Bible Society in New York State, 1870-75, and district superintendent for West Virginia, 1876-86; traveled in the East, 1887-88; afterwards resided at Richmond Hill, N. Y., without charge, but often preaching, lecturing, and taking part in religious meetings.
He published a sermon on Our Goodly Heritage, delivered at St. Louis in 1852, and numerous letters of travel in the newspapers. In a reminiscent letter written last year to the Secretary he said: "The crowning year of my theolog- ical study was at Andover in 1833 and 1834, over sixty years ago. I resolved neither to rust out nor wear out, but to burn out. I ministered to the church at Salem, N. H., one year, by consent of the Faculty, preaching two sermons every Sunday and superintending the Sunday school, without charge. My athletic ground was a stretch of ten miles to Salem and back on foot; my gymnasium was the 'Andover workshop.' I preached my eighty-third birthday sermon last January, from Psalm xc : 10. I am living on my second period of ' borrowed time' with scarcely any labor or sorrow. I am nearing the border- land; I shall soon be cut off and fly away. 'For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.'" An article in the New York Evangelist said of him: "This characteristic of intense activity and persistent effort was manifested throughout his entire ministry, and proved to be the secret of his unusual success in his late work with the American Bible Society. . .. He made a personal canvass of the whole State [of West Virginia], penetrating on horseback to the most remote
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