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been elected to a professorship in that department at 

 the State University of Michigan, I immediately and 

 gladly entered upon its duties. 



Installed in this new position at Ann Arbor, I not 

 only threw myself yery heartily into my work, but be 

 came interested in church and other good work as it went 

 on about me. From the force of old associations, and 

 because my family had also been brought up in the Epis 

 copal Church, I attended its services regularly; and, 

 while it represented much that I could not accept, there 

 were noble men in it who became my very dear friends, 

 with whom I was glad to work. 



It has always seemed to me rather an amusing episode 

 in my life during this period that, in spite of grave doubts 

 regarding my orthodoxy, my friends elected me vestry 

 man of St. Andrew s Church at Ann Arbor, and gave me 

 full power to select and call a rector for the parish at my 

 next vacation excursion in the East. This in due time I 

 proceeded to do. Attending the convention of the Episco 

 pal Church in the diocese of Western New York, I con 

 sulted with various clerical friends, visited one or two 

 places in order to hear sundry clergymen who were rec 

 ommended to me, and at last called to our rectorate a 

 man who proved to be not only a blessing to that parish, 

 but to the State at large. In the annals of American 

 charitable work his name is writ large, though probably 

 there never lived a man more averse to publicity. He 

 has since been made a bishop, and in that capacity has 

 shown the same self-sacrifice and devotion to works of 

 mercy which marked his career as pastor. 



As to my religious ideas in general, they were at that 

 time influenced in various ways. I read much ecclesias 

 tical history as given by leading authorities, Protestant 

 and Catholic, and in various original treatises by think 

 ers eminent in the history of the church. A marked in 

 fluence was exercised upon me by reading sundry lives 

 of the mediaeval saints: even the quaintest of these 

 showed me how, in spite of childlike credulity, most noble 



