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student, when done with Professor INIartin'S immediate instruction, 

 went away a well-furnished man, often surprising his seniors in age 

 and acquirements by his stock of general information, so well assorted 

 and so easily available. 



That Professor Martin was a great thinker, his published essays 

 prove ; that he was a great teacher, more than a thousand pupils 

 affirm ; but more than thinker, more than teacher, he was great in 

 those higher attributes which gain for a man not merely the respect, 

 but also the love, of those with whom he is brought into contact. 

 Though knowing no fear of man in his defence of principle, his great 

 heart was overflowing with kindness. Throughout his life, his was a fit- 

 ting exemplification of the religion which commands — " Do ye unto 

 others as ye would that they should do to you." Like his great Master, 

 he literally went about doing good. When he conferred a favor, he im- 

 posed no obligation ; he demanded not gratitude, and, therefore, 

 seldom failed to receive it. Wherever good could be done, he was 

 there to do it. He visited the sick in hospitals ; he carried sunshine 

 into many a dreary tenement ; he lifted the load from many a weary 

 heart. He believed, in his practice, that "pure religion, and undefiled, 

 is to visit the widow and fatherless, and to keep one's self unspotted 

 from the world." J. J. STEVENSON, for the Committee. 



REMARKS. 



Rev. Dr. E. P. Thwing expressed a deep sense of his own personal 

 loss. Dr. Martin was a many-sided and well-developed man ; a 

 gentleman by birth, by instinct, and by culture. In his early life he 

 took a pulpit in a New England village, not far from Dr. Thwing'S 

 birthplace, and became prominent for his useful service. He also 

 had a successful intellectual contest with an older clergvman of that 

 place, a man of great dignity and weight, in which the youthful and 

 the aged athletes were compared to a sword-fish and a whale. 

 The young preacher's mind was clear, incisive, brilliant, and grew 

 with years in strength and moral power. Dr. Thwing desired to offer 

 also a father's grateful tribute to the faithfulness of Prof. Martin 

 as an instructor and example to his own two sons in the University. 

 Happy indeed was he who taught by his life as well as with his lips. 

 Dr. Thwing had been associated with his lamented brother for 

 years as a clergyman, in clerical bodies. To know him was to love 

 him. He expressed profound interest in certain experiments in the 

 science of Psychology. But the work of the scholar, the teacher, and 

 preacher, was suddenly ended. We would drop, however, this gar- 

 land of amaranth on his fresh grave, in full assurance that his unend- 



