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service without going through that apprenticeship in ac- 

 tive life, or training in the learned professions, which, 

 though it sharpen the faculties and enlarge the sphere 

 of knowledge, yet has a tendency to leave the heart 

 hardened in the conflict of human passions and interests, 

 and the mind sophisticated by the habit of seeking for 

 arguments to maintain an assumed opinion or side, in 

 the stead of the unprejudiced exploration of the depths 

 of supreme and eternal truth. In this he was fjivored 

 by fortune ; the rest was all his own — opportunities of 

 education and mental formation faithfully improved, 

 scholarly accomplishments, a graceful and ready elo- 

 quence, courteous bearing, candor of judgment, a spirit 

 manly and generous, firmness of tenet softened by mod- 

 eration of temperament, justness of principle, philan- 

 thropy in sentiment and practice, not in loud profession, 

 religion of the heart as well as of the head and of the 

 outward life, equableness of general worth, constancy 

 and uprightness in the performance of all his duties, 

 whether to himself, his country, or his God." 



Mr. King was Secretary of the Society from 1842 to 

 1844, and was one of the Vice Presidents from 1848 

 to 1850, the year of his death. 



The Secretaries of the Society have been — 



David Cummins, 1818. 



Frederick Howes, 1819. 



John W. Proctor, 1820—1842. 



Daniel P. King, 1842—1844. 



Allen W. Dodge, 1844—1861. 



Charles P. Preston, 1861. 



Of these, David Cummins, Frederick Howes and 

 Daniel P. King are deceased. I am happy in this op- 

 portunity to pay a just tribute to the long and valuable 



