322 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME.  [1844, 
find some place of service, in Englishif he could. He 
enjoyed the Episcopal service, though early habit and 
training had made him a Presbyterian; but, as he 
wrote in an early letter, “In fact I have no more 
fondness for high Calvinistic theology than for Ger- 
man neology. . . . But I have no penchant for mel- 
ancholy, sober as I sometimes look, but turn always, 
like the leaves, my face to the sun.’ 
e was a teacher in Sunday-schools in New York 
(the lady with whom he boarded has still a lively re- 
membrance of his enthusiastic study of German that 
he might teach his class of German boys better), and 
also in his early years of Cambridge life, until the 
heavy load of work he was carrying made the Sunday 
more imperative as a day of rest. It was his rule to 
rest on Sunday. Rest for him was change of intellec- 
tual occupation, and he read all of the day he was not 
out at church; more especially on the philosophical 
questions, whether general or scientific, which next to 
botany were his chief interest. Books on these sub- 
jects were the few he bought outside of works on bot- 
any; as he said, he could only afford botanical books 
and had no money or room for general literature. He 
read the leading magazines, and occasionally biogra- 
phies and travels, and if he had friends staying with 
him, Sunday was the day for talk and discussion. 
A friend writes such a lively reminiscence of one of 
these Sunday discussions, on a stormy winter day 
which shut all in the house, that it seems worth giving 
as a vivid description of him 
“Dr. Gray is more spacietad with the study and 
the room next it, but I recall him there (in the par- 
lor) also, especially in the visit of which you wrote, 
made when Mr. John Carey was with you. He and 
