DR. GODMAN. 21 



" Let me now give you a retrospect of ' the days of my 

 life.' Since I have returned from you, I have discovered 

 my real age, in an old book of my father's, (and you 

 would hardly suppose it,) I was 21 years old the 20th 

 day of December, 1815. Before I was two years old I 

 was motherless before I was five years old I was father- 

 less and friendless I have been cast among strangers 

 J have been deprived of property by fraud, that was mine 

 by right I have eaten the bread of misery I have 

 drunk of the cup of sorrow I have passed the flower of 

 my days in a state little better than slavery, and have 

 arrived at what? Manhood, poverty, and desolation. 

 Heavenly Parent, teach me patience and resignation to 

 thy will." 



About this time he seems to have found a patron in 

 Professor Davidge, and, on the 18th of April following, 

 he wrote to Dr. Luckey 



"I still continue to study with Dr. Wright, (the part- 

 ner of Dr. Davidge,) and provided it shall be the will of 

 heaven, I may possibly procure admission in the course 

 of the next year into the venerable circle of medi- 

 cine." 



In speaking of his perplexed and embarrassed situation, 

 and of the mutations of fortune, he says 



" There is only one thing which points to, and affords 

 immutable consolation, and that is, the observance of re- 

 ligion. Although we should be incapable of reaping 

 enjoyment in this world, even from uninterrupted pros- 



