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excuse us from our personal responsibility, living as we do 



under the meridian light of the Gospel dispensation 



President Day, now in his seventy-ninth year, is still, by 

 the favor of God, with us, although for ten or twelve years 

 more or less threatened by irregularities of the heart, which 

 at times comes to a pause and then flutters and then stops 

 again, and 'threatens to take on its final rest ; but he is 

 ready, and I believe, willing to go ; and what an exhilarating 

 bound it must be, to spring out of this mortal coil, enfeebled 

 and deranged in functions, into the glorious liberty of the 

 sons of God !....! remain, my dear friend, with every 

 good wish, 



Truly and affectionately, yours, 



B. SILLIMAN. 



The winter of 1851-2 was marked by the death 

 of an eminent man whom Professor Sillirnan had 

 known well in earlier days. This event he thus 

 notices in the Diary : 



Death of Rev. Professor Stuart, D. D., of Andover, Mass. 

 This eminent and good man died on January 4th, at his 

 home, being in his seventy-second year. I was born in 

 August 1779, he in the following March 1780, and he 

 was, therefore, seven months my junior. His praise is in 

 all the churches. Long an eminent professor in the first 

 theological school in our country, and the author of many 

 works in illustration of the Scriptures, he has made a per- 

 manent impression upon the age in which he lived. My per- 

 sonal relations with him were very friendly ; we were early 

 associated in the Faculty of Yale College. After his estab* 

 lishment at Andover, he addressed a letter to me upon the 

 relation of geology to the first chapter of Genesis ; this was, 

 I believe, in 1824. I replied at considerable length, and 

 he rejoined in a long letter containing his difficulties. This 

 correspondence gave origin to my appendix to Bakewell's 



