Alger.] ^40 [Peb. 6, 



pervading sympathy which interpenetrated his whole moral nature. By 

 this I do not mean the mere sentiment of feeling or of compassion. Much 

 more than this ; something vastly more comprehensive ; something in 

 which both the heart and the head are concerned, and these two in such 

 sweet harmony with man, in all his conditions, wants and aspirations, and 

 with nature in all her moods, that unstudied, and instinctively the look of 

 the eyes, the speech of the tongue, and the very manner of the body, all 

 conspired in securing a supreme mastery over the human mind and heart. 

 There is, perhaps, no position in which a minister of the Gospel can be 

 placed that requires greater circumspection, to escape unfriendly criticism, 

 than in discharging the claims of social life. Here he is brought into con- 

 tact with the most incongruous elements of society, embracing the sober 

 and gay, the reverent and irreverent, the learned and unlearned, the cul- 

 tivated and rude. Like his Master in company with the Scribes and Phari- 

 sees, "he is watched." Tried in this crucible. Dr. Beadle came forth 

 without even the smell of fire on his garments. He could change the drift 

 of distasteful conversation with consummate adroitness and reprove, with- 

 out offense, by a silence more expressive than words. His conversation, 

 even on ordinary topics, was always entertaining, and generally, ingen- 

 iously concealed a golden thread of religious thought. Like the force of 

 gravitation in the planetary world, attracting, yet at the same time keep- 

 ing the celestial bodies at a fixed distance from the common center, so the 

 transparent simplicity and purity of Dr. Beadle's character, while draw- 

 ing every one to his person by a singular fascination, never encouraged 

 undue nearness or familiarity. 



It requires neither brass or marble to perpetuate the memory of a man 

 like him whose life and character I have so imperfectly portrayed. His in- 

 dividuality was so impressed on human hearts that thousands to day be- 

 hold his image as an ever present reality. The earth is covered with pre- 

 tentious shafts, telling the story of ambitious men who once animated the 

 sleeping dust beneath, but what inscription so noble ! what one so brief 

 and yet so comprehensive and glorious, as that which marks the grave- 

 stone of Beadle, graven at his own request — ''Only a servant of Christ." 



A Collection of Wo7'ds and Phrases taken from the Passama- 

 quoddy Tongue. By Ahby Langdon Alger. 



(Read before the A^nerican Philosophical Society, February 6, 1SS5.) 



a like a in father ; i like ee ; ch as in German ; u like oo in spoon. 



Nouns. 

 FroQj 'rchkwulsuk. 



Dog, Ulehmus. 



