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■which have been meiitioned. "The Conservative Reformation;" "Ul- 

 rici's Strauss" "Berkeley, with Notes, " and the translation of "Tholuck's 

 Gospel of St. John." Through these, with the many and varied essays, 

 articles for encyclopaedias, editorials, lectures ' at ths Seminary and 

 University, sermons published or heard, and the large number of young 

 men whom he helped to educate for the ministry, the other learned pro- 

 fessions, and practical life, will cause his influence to be felt, for good, 

 through all future time. Throughout the forty years of his very active 

 and laborious life — had he lived, forty years this day — in imitation of the 

 Great Teacher, "he served his generation faithfully, according to the will 

 of God," and he will be held in everlasting remembrance, as one of the 

 great benefactors of the race. 



Our subject would be incomplete, did we not speak of his excellent qual- 

 ities as a Christian man. Scholarly acquisitions are often tarnished, by 

 moral, or personal defects, or obliquities. It was not so with our friend. 

 Tlie grand elements of his character were harmoniously united, with a 

 natural simplicity, and an affluence of kindly feeling. He was very con- 

 descending towards inferiors, and extremely fond of children, whom he 

 could most successfully entertain and instruct. In his addresses to them 

 he laid aside all that was repulsive, became one of them, disarmed all their 

 fears, and attracted them to himself. Nor was this attractive power limited 

 to them ; it was general. The extent of it was realized fully since his la- 

 mented death. Friend and foe, the aged and the young, those of the same 

 belief with himself, as well as those who occupied positions in theology 

 directly opposite to his own; officers of the churches he served, and gen- 

 tlemen associated with himself in public bodies, have, with great unanimity, 

 testified both to his general excellence, as well as the warmth of heart, by 

 which he drew them to himself. One, eminent in position, but often op- 

 posed to him in debate, speaks of him as "cordial, genial, magnetic and 

 brilliant, often winning his waj^ to hearts that were closed to others, and 

 forming personal attachments which no changes of time or circumstances 

 could break." Such a man could not fail to be respected and beloved. 



But the bowstring, after long use, when subjected to extraordinary ten- 

 sion, will snap asunder. So it was with our departed friend. There is a 

 limit to human exertion, and our bodies and minds will not endure indef- 

 inite pressure. The superabundant labors, apparent in what we have 

 said, but more fully known to his associates, togetlier with the anxieties, 

 sorrows, disappointments — greater, because kept to himself — which his 

 friends knew but did not venture to allude to, out of regard for his feel- 

 ings, by degrees brought his manly form to an early grave. We will not 

 draw aside the veil which conceals these special troubles from the public 

 gaze, to which he never himself made any allusion, except to say, " the 

 heart knoweth its own bitterness," They are too sacred for publication, 

 but they exerted no little influence in gradually undermining his vigorous 

 health. The first intimation of any serious illness was communicated to 

 the writer by a friend of the Doctor, who visited Germany with him, and 



