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called because Dr. Coke united with him in hearty 

 cooperation in the enterprise) in the town of Abing- 

 don, about twenty-five miles distant from the city of 

 Baltimore. The spot commanded a magnificent view 

 extending for twenty and even fifty miles. The valley 

 of the Susquehanna spread out in beauty on either 

 siite of the river, forming a most charming landscape. 

 In t tie distance was to be seen the broad and beautiful 

 bay of the Chesapeake stretching away as far as the 

 eye could reach. The eminence upon which it was 

 proposed to erect the college buildings seemed to have 

 been formed by the God of nature as a place specially 

 prepared for a temple of science. On Sabbath, the 

 5th of June, 1785, a large concourse of people were 

 asseml led to witness the ceremony of laying the corner- 

 stone of the college. Attired in his long silk gown 

 and with flowing bands, the pioneer bishop of America 

 took his position on the walls of the college and an- 

 nounced for his text Ps. lxxviii. 5-7: "For he es- 

 tablished a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law 

 in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they 

 should make them known to their children: that the 

 generation to come might know them, even the children 

 which should be born; who should arise and declare 

 them to their children : that they might set their hope 

 in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his 

 commandments." 



The Spirit of the Lord was with him as with Elijah 

 at the school of the prophets at Bethel. As he dwelt 

 upon the importance of a thorough Christian edu- 

 cation, and looked forward to the effects which would 

 result to the generations to come from the streams 

 which should issue from this opening fountain of 

 sanctified learning, his soul enlarged and swelled with 



