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office not only by the vote of the electing body, but equally by the ap- 

 proving suffrages of a widely extended public. He was consecrated as 

 Bishop in 1845. He found his post of service as arduous as it was 

 honorable, and for the first twelve years he performed an incredible 

 amount of labor, both in the visitation of a diocese larger than some 

 important kingdoms of the Old World, and in the preparation of sermons, 

 charges, and other official papers, which continued to bear the marks of 

 fresh, strong thought, and to betoken a mind no less industrious in 

 his now crowded and care-cumbered arena than it had been during 

 the quiet of his academic life. But RFs overtasked brain at length 

 yielded to a stroke of paralysis in 1857. In 1858 he was relieved 

 of a portion of his official duty by the appointment of an assistant 

 bishop." A few months spent in foreign travel restored him to his 

 work, which he was permitted for a few years longer to pursue with 

 little less than his former vigor. But threatening symptoms again 

 supervened, and by advice of his physician he sought relief by a sea- 

 voyage. He took passage for California in a new steamer belonging 

 to the Pacific Mail Company. From Panama he went to Aspinwall 

 to consecrate a chapel. He was detained there over night, and was 

 subjected to malarious influences, which, after he had embarked on the 

 Pacific, issued in malignant fever. On arriving in the harbor of San 

 Francisco he appeared so far convalescent that arrangements were 

 made for his removal on shore. But a relapse ensued, and he died 

 on shipboard, July 4, 1865. 



Bishop Potter published, in addition to numerous pamphlets, a trea- 

 tise on Political Economy for college use, and several other educational 

 works. He was also the author of the first part of " The School and 

 Schoolmaster," a work prepared by him in connection with Mr. George 

 B. Emerson, and placed in every school-house in Massachusetts and 

 New York. 



He was an easy, graceful writer. His imagination, evidently vivid, 

 else his words would not have been so transparent, was employed, not in 

 imagery and ornament, but in the presentment of the objects of thought 

 in their true aspects and relations. Never forsaking, postponing, or 

 slighting the duties incumbent on him by virtue of his station, he was 

 always ready to renounce needed rest or leisure in aid of any worthy 

 cause. His services in behalf of the reformed system of common-school 

 education will be beneficently felt long after they have ceased to be 

 remembered. 



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