838 JAMES MUNSON BARNARD. 



with what was doing in this country. In these studies and in travel he 

 spent four or five years, visiting England and the Continent, and finally 

 making a somewhat extended cruise in the Levant, in a boat of his own, 

 flying the Greek and American flags. He thus saw Greece and some 

 parts of Asia Minor and Syria, besides many of the Greek islands. 



On his return home he found that his oldest brother, the Rev. Charles 

 Francis Barnard, was engaged in the establishment of the Warren Street 

 Chapel for Boys, as part of the work of the Ministry for the Poor which 

 had been set on foot by Dr. Tuckerman, and was under the care of the 

 Benevolent Fraternity of the Unitarian churches. In the organization 

 and conduct of this well-devised and wisely directed charity Mr. James 

 Barnard at once took an active part, not only doing his share of the work 

 in the Sunday-school, but evening after evening through the week taking 

 charge of a large class of boys, acquainting himself with their personal 

 needs and ambitions, and encouraging them to better their lives. This 

 was when he was between twenty and thirty years of age, — a time of life 

 when personal ambitions and social claims might well have engrossed his 

 time and attention. As long as he lived he was constantly in the receipt 

 of letters coming from men in every part of the country, written in grate- 

 ful acknowledgment of these fraternal relations. One of them has since 

 his death placed in the Warren Street Chapel a memorial window, be- 

 lieving that he owed everything that had made life most valuable to him 

 to these wise and seasonable counsels. 



This work was the beginning of the career of active beneficence and un- 

 selfish devotion which Mr. Barnard made his chief occupation, and which 

 was to continue in many and various fields of usefulness for sixty years. 

 He had no liking for business affairs, and cared more about wisely spend- 

 ing the means at his command than about increasing them. What con- 

 cerned him most was to increase his own knowledge and understanding, 

 and then to give his time and attention to such kinds of work as need 

 to be done, but can be done only by men who have at command both 

 means and leisure, and are minded to devote to it their time and their 

 money. 



In pursuance of the first of these ends he presently joined the company 

 of young men who, when Mr. Agassiz came to Cambridge, hastened to 

 place themselves at his feet and to gain inspiration from his example. 

 At a later period he was formally entered as a student in the Lawrence 

 Scientific School, and his name appears in the annual catalogues from 

 1854, when he was already thirty-five years old, until 1858. He did 

 not graduate, his studies having been somewhat eclectic ; but on his 



