JOHN PITKIN NORTON. 



From the New Eiitflnnderfor Nov., 1852. 



Since the publication of our last number, Yale College 

 has been called to suffer a severe loss in the death of 

 Prof. Kingsley and of Prof. Norton. Our readers will 

 expect from us, we presume, some account of these 

 gentlemen, the one of whom was so well known from 

 his labors of fifty years in the cause of sound learning, 

 and the other from the promising commencement of 

 labors, which bid fair to be long protracted and extensively 

 useful. 



The death of John Pitkin Norton is one of those events 

 of Divine Providence, which are designed as "trials of 

 faith," and tests of the infinite value of eternal hopes. 

 In the case of those who are removed from life, not un- 

 til they have completed their appropriate work, we mourn, 

 but not because we see plans unfinished, aims frustrated, 

 and the unity of life marred and broken. We miss the 

 friendly greeting, the trust of well-tried affection, the com- 

 munication of knowledge and counsel ; the habitual asso- 

 ciations of our lives are sundered, and we are saddened at 

 the natural suspension, only a suspension we may hope — of 



