1880.] lOi [Hartshorne. 



educated mainly under its influences, his formal con- 

 nection with it was severed by his marriage, his wife 

 belonging to the Lutheran communion. He joined no 

 other body. Often attending the meetings of Friends, 

 and also not unfrequently accompanying his wife to 

 her chosen place of worship, his religion was alto- 

 gether unsectarian ; but, for that, none the less real. 

 His Journals, as well as his unprofessional published 

 writings, manifest this clearly and often ; and it was 

 well understood by those who had the privilege of con- 

 fidential intercourse with him. On one occasion, he 

 expressed to a near relative his opinion, that the doc- 

 trine of the Society of Friends, of the immediate 

 and perceptible guidance and teaching of the Holy 

 Spirit (acknowledged, indeed, in some manner, by 

 -other denominations, but held most definitely and 

 strongly by them) affords the only scieuti-fic basis for 

 religious belief; since it gives to the historical revelation 

 contained in the Scriptures a confirmation exactly cor- 

 responding to that verification by experi?nent which is 

 the characteristic of modern science, since its improve- 

 ment by means of the Baconian inductive philosophy. 



But we must hasten towards our conclusion. To Dr. 

 Wood, better than to most men, might be applied the 

 poet's line : yustum et tenacem propositi viru7n. 



If he had genius, it was a geimt-s for work ; a rare 

 capacity for continued, indomitable, all-conquering 

 labor. With this, he became an eminently successful 

 iman. As he wrote of Dr. Chapman,* " His career 



* Lectures and Addresses, ist Vol. p. 211. 



