1887.] -^"^ [Garrett. 



A leading characteristic of Prof. Ch'ise was the quiet and unwavering 

 faith with which he adhered to the Bible record, and to Evangelical Christi- 

 anity. Through all mutations, throughout his active studies of the material 

 world, and of the great forces of Nature, he was unshaken in his belief in 

 the spirituality of religion, and its real and necessary relation to the same 

 Omnipotent Power, who originated the cosmos. He accepted the 

 Christian theory of salvation absolutely and without qualiticatiou as 

 Divine. That which many scientists are led to doubt, seemed clear to him, 

 and all f\icts were of necessity parts of one stupendous whole. He was 

 a religious man, not only ])y intellectual conviction ; but the fruitsof piety 

 \tere manifest in his daily life, especially towards its end, in an unaffected 

 gentleness and sweetness of temper, a freedom from assumption, and a 

 general submission of his actions to the Divine government and guidance. 

 Wealth had few attractions for him, his tastes inclining him to count it 

 loss if it interfered with science and religion, even if he had had any gift 

 for accumulating, which he had not. Born in the Society of Friends, he 

 held throughout life their belief, and of later years frequently preached to 

 the little congregation at Radnor, of which the Haverford students and 

 Professors formed a part. Nor was his pen idle upon religious themes, 

 and those affecting the prosperity of the sect he loved. He read an able 

 paper before this body on "The Philosophy of Christianity," and his 

 lecture "On Denominational Education in the Society of Friends" was 

 a lucid argument of much power in its favor. He was wont to press the 

 view that God was ever acting on the soul of man to give it right direction, 

 as well as in the phenomena of nature. His faith was not so much in 

 doctrinal propositions, as in God himself, as revealed in Christ, in Nature, 

 in History, and in Man's reason and conscience. But while firm in his 

 own convictions, he was broad and charitable to others, and sought to find 

 any ground of common truth upon which he and those who differed most 

 widely from him could stand. His opinion was candid, and open daily, 

 like Dr. Arnold's, to change with the advances and discoveries of science ; 

 yet he always retained an abiding confidence that Science and Revelation 

 would be found really to harmonize. His personal trust in a present 

 Omnipotence enabled him to meet all the vicissitudes of fortune with a 

 more than philosophic composure and content. While his philosophy 

 was pervaded with religion, his religion was no less filled with philosophy, 

 and the lustre of his life presents a shining example to those who survive 

 him of evolution "more and more unto the perfect day," when at 

 last the " mortal shall have put on immortality." 



