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such a manner that, by means of a simple acoustic arrangement, 

 Mrs. Bethune, on her invalid couch, could hear the services of the 

 church. 



For ten years he continued his ministrations there to a large aud 

 increasing congregation, and during this time received the appoint- 

 ment to the Chancellorship of the University of New York, which 

 he declined, unwilling to separate himself from the active exercise 

 of his pastoral oflSce. For a like reason he declined the Chaplaincy 

 of the Military x\cademy at West Point; but did, for a short time, 

 execute the duties of a Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence in the 

 Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, which he visited weekly, 

 until, Indeed, his falling health compelled him to resign this along 

 with his other elevated offices. 



In his new sphere of action he was repeatedly called upon, as he 

 had been in Philadelphia, to deliver discourses before learned bodies 

 or popular assemblages ; and he has doubtless left behind him many 

 productions of his accomplished mind, which are worthy of being put 

 into a permanent form. At one time, indeed, and not long before 

 the first attack of the malady which arrested his expanded and ex- 

 panding usefulness, he accepted so many invitations, and often in 

 parts of the country so distant from each other, that the writer re- 

 commended to him a wise caution, and discouraged him from so 

 much mental and physical labor as he was then incurring. An ex- 

 tract from a letter dated Brooklyn, in 1854, shows how largely his 

 mind was then engrossed with this matter : 



" The lectures which I have i-eady are what are called jjopidar, 

 that is, separate lectures on miscellaneous topics, for all the world 

 like our quondam Athenian Institute lectures. Thus, I have one 

 ' On Lectures and Lecturers' (an introductory), considering popular 

 lectures and lecturers in an amusing, but, I hope, not unserviceable 

 light. Another on ' Common Sense,' which, by the way, is long 

 enough for two, a mixture of metaphysics and familiar illustration. 

 A third on 'Work and Labor; the moral uses of the distinction 

 between them,' — the best of my lectures. Another on ' The Orator 

 of the Present Day,' originally a Phi Beta Kappa oration for Brown 

 University, inquiring into the secrets of the orator's power, etc. 

 Another on 'Oracles;' and another blocked, but not written, on 

 'Divination,' in both of which I strike at the spiritualisms (so called) 

 of the present day, while I give illustrations of the subject itself. I 

 shall try to write another during the winter, but am not sure what 



