Goodwin.] 448 [November. 



Dr. Hitchcock did not pursue his studies as a man of scientific 

 leisure. He did more than one man's work as a Professor and Col- 

 lege President. He was the head and heart and soul of Amherst 

 College, — its real father and founder. He made it and left it what 

 it is. Nor did the College absorb all his practical energies. He took 

 a deep interest and an active part in the cause of popular education, 

 and particularly of female education. Sympathy for the masses con- 

 spired with his zeal for the promotion of Christian culture to interest 

 him deeply in all the early plans and efforts for the establishment of 

 the celebrated Mount Holyoke Seminary. "All the principles and 

 methods in which it should be founded and conducted were discussed 

 with him and other friends of learning and religion at his house ; 

 and when, at length, they were suflSciently matured, his tongue and 

 his pen were among the chief organs for communicating them to the 

 public. And from that time to the day of his death, next to Am- 

 herst College, Mount Holyoke Seminary was the child of his affec- 

 tions and the object of his constant watch and care." 



In active efforts also for the suppression of intemperance, he took 

 a zealous and prominent share. And, whatever may be thought of 

 the special plans or processes of some of the friends of the so-called 

 Temperance movement, surely no one can witness the multiform evils 

 and mighty woes brought upon the community by the intemperate 

 use of intoxicating drinks, and wonder that a man of moral principle 

 and Christian character, of humane instincts and almost feminine 

 sensibility, should have had his spirit stirred within him to seek some 

 remedy, to put forth some effort, for the removal of such a prolific 

 source of evil, for the eradication of such a loathsome and deadly 

 cancer from the bosom of society. 



Amidst all his studies and avocations. Dr. Hitchcock never forgot 

 his relation to the Church of Christ and his character as a Christian 

 miiii.ster. He was punctual, diligent and zealous in the discharge of 

 every religious duty. 



Nor did he forget his obligations to his country. He was a stern 

 patriot, a loyal man, and a good citizen. 



He was a Christian ; but his type of a Christian was not a monk ; 

 he was religious, but not what the French call un religieux; he 

 was devout, but not a devot. 



He was a Christain minister; but his ideal of a Christian minister 

 was neither the mere functional priest, nor the mere professional 

 preacher, nor both combined. In becoming a Christian and a clergy- 

 man he had not ceased to be a man, and to be interested in whatever 



