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Church in Boston, and during a ministry of only five years rose to as 

 high a reputation as any American preacher has ever attained. It was 

 at this time that he delivered, at an Andover anniversary, his celebrated 

 Sermon " On the Moral Dignity of the Missionary Enterprise." It is 

 said that the greatness of this magnificent discourse was hardly sus- 

 pected even by the most appreciative of its hearers, so little was there 

 then in the preacher's voice and manner to constrain attention ; but it 

 had no sooner issued from the press than it passed into rapid and ex- 

 tensive circulation, was republished in many successive editions on both 

 sides of the Atlantic. The brilliant reputation thus won concurred with 

 his previous success as a member of the Board of Instruction to pro- 

 cure for him an invitation to the Professorship of Mathematics and 

 Natural Philosophy in his Alma Mater. Hardly had he entered on 

 the duties of this office, when he was chosen President of Brown Uni- 

 versity. He promptly accepted the trust, and remained at the head of 

 that institution for more than twenty-eight years. Though he resigned 

 his presidency on account of impaired health, the few years that suc- 

 ceeded his resignation were a season of undiminished mental vigor and 

 industry. During a temporary engagement as acting pastor of a church 

 in Providence, he preached with greater eloquence and efficiency than 

 at any previous time, and the printed sermons of this period transcend 

 in vigor of thought, fervor of religious feeling, and the higher qualities 

 of style and diction, all his earlier writings, the one master work ex- 

 cepted. He died in consequence of an attack of paralysis, on the 30th 

 of September, 1865. 



Dr. Wayland's publications have been numerous. Besides many 

 sermons, lectures, and addresses, issued singly and in volumes, he was 

 the author of valuable treatises for school and college use, on Political 

 Economy, Mental Philosophy, and Moral Philosophy ; the last of which 

 has had a very extended circulation, and is believed to be more gener- 

 ally employed as a text-book in our colleges than any other manual in 

 that department. 



Dr. Wayland seemed born to command, and could not but have been 

 a controlling mind in whatever sphere of life he might have chosen. 

 Strong in his convictions, with not a little native impetuosity, which 

 strenuous self-discipline directed rather than repressed, and with an 

 energizing sense of right and duty in whatever he undertook, he usually 

 succeeded not only in having his own way, but in drawing to it the 

 current of surrounding opinion and feeling. In the administration of 



