WILLIAM LEWIS WHITTEMORE XV 



all churches and creeds were much alike to him, and 

 I am sure that he had little respect for professions, 

 and none for pretences, of piety. He rarely talked 

 of religion, and I take the absence of lip-service as 

 one evidence, at least, that he had a religious nature. 

 He was a reader of the Bible. He must have felt in 

 his soul the solemn majesty and authority of some of 

 the Hebrew scriptures, and I believe that he accepted 

 the precepts of the New Testament as a perfect moral 

 code for a regenerated world, and tried to make them 

 the guide of his life. He did what the prophet says 

 the Lord required of him, to do justly, love mercy 

 and walk humbly and without guile before God and 

 man. Perhaps his view of outward religion is ex- 

 pressed by the familiar lines in which Pope gave the 

 world a creed to which increasing numbers adhere : 



" For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 

 His can't be wrong whose life is in the right." 



I cannot take leave of my old preceptor without 

 acknowledging my great debt to him. With later 

 experience of two academies, and a college, I can 

 truly say that all I ever learned in schools and was 

 able to keep, or found worth keeping, was learned 

 from him. I see here to-day as many, perhaps, of 

 his old flock as are likely to meet again in this world, 

 and it cannot be unwelcome to them if I express what 

 must be the common feeling, a sense of grateful and 



