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of these. In science, Agassiz, Fabricius, Jenner, Linnaeus, Olbers, 

 Fields, Morse, Berzelius, Euler; in history and philosophy, George 

 John Komannes, John G. Wilkinson, Hallam, Hobbes, Fronde, Sloan, 

 Parkman, Bancroft, Schnelling, Schliermacher, Nietzsche, Miiller; in 

 art, Eeynolds and Christopher Wren; in philanthropy, Clarkson and 

 Granville Sharp, the anti-slavery agitators; in poetry, Lessing, Tenny- 

 son, Ben Jonson, Cowper, Goldsmith, Thomson, Coleridge, Addison, 

 Young, John Keble, Matthew Arnold; among essayists, Emerson, 

 Eichter, Hazlitt ; among novelists, Charles Kingsley, Henry James, and 

 three daughters of clergymen, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and 

 Harriet Beecher Stowe. 



But most remarkable is the long list of celebrated divines who were 

 themselves sons of ministers. Among such are these names, Sweden- 

 borg, the seer, Jonathan Edwards, Archibald Hodge, Henry Ward 

 Beecher, Lyman Abbott, Charles Spurgeon, Increase and Cotton 

 Mather, Matthew Henry, the famous commentator, Frederick D. 

 Maurice, Lightfoot, John and Charles Wesley, Mansell, Dorner and 

 Dean Stanley. 



In our American history the Field family is a noble example of the 

 influence of clerical households. The father, the Reverend David D. 

 Field was a minister of the Congregational church. One son, David 

 Dudley, was the eminent jurist and law reformer; another, Stephen J., 

 was an associate justice of the Supreme Court; a third son, Henry M., 

 was a useful clergyman and author ; and the fourth son was Cyrus W., 

 who laid the Atlantic cable. 



It is probable that ministers' sons have exerted more influence in 

 the United States than in any other country. Among teachers, 

 lawyers, doctors, scientists, men of business, and in the church, there 

 are a great host who have been the sons of the manse. Of the more 

 notable men in our history who were sons of ministers we find in 

 political life, Cleveland, Clay, Buchanan, Arthur, Quay, Morton, Beve- 

 ridge, Hughes, and the lamented Dolliver of Iowa ; among jurists, Field 

 and Brewer; among educators, Woodrow Wilson, Faunce, James, Car- 

 roll, Lounsbury; in history and literature, Sloan, Parkman, Bancroft, 

 Holmes, Emerson, Henry James, Lowell, Gilder, Van Dyke; in inven- 

 tion and science, Cyrus W. Field, Samuel F. Morse, and Agassiz; in 

 the church, Beecher, Alexander, Hodge, Abbott, Potter, Jonathan 

 Edwards ; in philosophy, James. In the Hall of Fame fifty-one famous 

 Americans are honored. Of these fifty-one, ten are the children of 

 ministers: Agassiz, Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Clay, 

 Jonathan Edwards, Emerson, Lowell, Morse, Bancroft, Holmes. 



The Protestant ministry is justified of her children. Like the 

 fabled Pactolus of Syria, whose sands carried the wealth of Croesus, 

 the ministerial family has flowed down the valleys of our national life 

 weighted with the golden dust of achievement and renown. 



