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the First Parish and Church in Camhridjije. He was also LecturtT on 

 the History of Christian Doctrine in the Harxar.I Divinity School, 

 1S99-1900. In 1902 Harvard conferred upon him the honorary degree 

 of S. T. D. as, in the apt phrases of President Kliot, "army chaplain in 

 the Civil War, pastor, preacher, candid stutlent of early Christian 

 history, independent outspoken citizen." 



Dr. Hall was a conspicuous example of the clerical type once preva- 

 lent here in New England but now rapidly disappearing. Abhorring 

 sensationalism and sentimentalism, he maintained the most exigent 

 ideals of personal and civic righteousness, intellectual integrity and 

 personal honor. Utterly fearless, and with the sincerity and sim- 

 plicity which accompany courage at its best, he spoke out his full 

 mind on theological and social topics. Severely aristocratic in his 

 tastes and pleasures, with a native dignity superior to all baseness and 

 a fine contempt for sham and pretence, which he was keen to detect, 

 he was also thoroughly democratic in social principles and mental at- 

 titude. There was a significant difference between his appearance 

 on foot and on horseback. Walking the streets of Cambridge, often 

 accompanied b}- his dog, he would have attracted little attention 

 from a casual passer-by unless, indeed, the raising of his head to 

 acknowledge the greetings of a friend had gi\'en a glimpse of his keen, 

 strong, intellectual face, but when he rode, erect and martial, he was a 

 distinguished figure of whom no one could have failed to take notice. 

 As a scholar, he was interested in Christian History, particularly in 

 the earlier period. In this field his work was conscientiously thorough 

 and accurate, but the "enthusiasm" of the early church, and particu- 

 larly of Paul, was so alien to his own habits of mind and life, as to 

 make sympathetic appreciation difficult and hence he never quite suc- 

 ceeded in making its, scenes and characters live. The title of his last 

 book "Paul the Apostle, as viewed by a Layman" was significant of 

 his devotion to the ideals of Congregationalism according to which a 

 clergyman, as such, has no existence apart from his relation to the 

 particular church of which he is minister. From this point of view, 

 Dr. Hall, having resigned his Cambridge pastorate, properly and con- 

 sistently described himself as a layman. 



His published works are: — 



Orthofloxy and Heresy in the Christian Church— Worcester (pri- 

 vately printed) 1874; Boston, American Unitarian Association, 



1883.^ 

 First Lessons on the Bil)le — Boston, Unitarian Sunday School 

 Society, 1882. 



