DISCOURSE BY REV. S. B. DOD. 147 



There are some who, in these days, tell us that if a man believe 

 in God as his maker, in Christ as his redeemer, in the Holy Spirit 

 as liis sanctifier, and in the word of God as the guide of his life, he 

 is no more to be ranked among scientific men, nor fit to be trusted 

 as a student of nature. Where then shall we place this father of 

 American science? Who that vaunts his skeptical conjectures 

 before the world to-day, as the badge of his scientific acumen and 

 liberty of thought, can show so wide, and free, and fair a record of 

 high scientific and beneficent work for his day and generation, as 

 this avowed Christian philosopher? • 



To those who knew Professor Henry personally, there was the 

 charm of a singularly gentle and unaffected sincerity of heart and 

 manner, that made him approachable to all. His attachments were 

 warm and lasting. He remembered always with undiminished 

 affection his associates in his professorship at Princeton, and now 

 their children rise up and call him blessed. "None knew him but 

 to love him." 



Modest, unassuming, gentle in his deportment, he bore the fruit 

 of Christian faith in his life. Following the example and precepts 

 of his Master, " When he was reviled, he reviled not again ; when 

 he was persecuted, he threatened not." He was the model of a 

 Christian gentleman. 



And now he has passed from this school, where, by patient labor 

 and with docile heart, he had learned, from'the two great books of 

 God, such wondrous lessons of the Divine wisdom and power and 

 love. To-day that noble intellect and simple heart stands, strijjped 

 of the clogs of sense, before the unveiled presence of his God, and 

 looks not at the things seen and temporal, but at the things unseen 

 and eternal. With what rapture and amazement there has opened 

 to his view wonders, surpassing immeasurably all that he had 

 guessed on earth, we cannot tell ; " for eye hath not seen, nor ear 

 heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things that 

 God hath prepared for them that love Him." 



But Avho of us, if called to make the choice, would hesitate as to 

 which were the higher honor and which the happier destiny — the 

 place which Joseph Henry, the philosopher, holds, and will ever 

 hold among the great of this world, by virtue of his scientific 



