CHAP. I.] JUDGE STORY. 03 



at Washington, Story had been placed at the head of the Law 

 School in Harvard University, which he had soon raised to celeb 

 rity from small beginnings, drawing students to his lectures from 

 every state of the Union. 



I afterward read, in the newspapers of Boston, several funeral 

 orations pronounced in his honor, some from the pulpit, by preach 

 ers of his own denomination (he was president of the Unitarian 

 Association), which praised him for his pure, scriptural, and lib 

 eral Christianity, and represented him as an earnest defender of 

 the faith, one who had given to its evidences that accurate inves 

 tigation which his reflecting mind and professional habits demand 

 ed. &quot;What he found to be true, he was never ashamed or afraid 

 to declare. He valued the Gospel and felt his own need of its 

 restraining and consoling power, alike in temptation and grief,&quot; 

 &c. 



But eloquent eulogies were not wanting from ministers of some 

 of the other churches, usually called in New England, by way 

 of distinction from the Unitarian, &quot; orthodox,&quot; some of which 

 displayed at once the intensity and liberality of sectarian feeling 

 in this country. They did homage to his talents and the upright 

 ness of his conduct, and they dealt with his theological opinions in 

 the spirit of Dry den s beautiful lines : 



&quot; The soul of Arcite went where heathens go, 

 Who better live than we, though less they know.&quot; 



I will extract, from one of the most favorable of these effusions, 

 the following passage : 



&quot; Judge Story was a Christian who professed a firm belief in 

 the Bible as a revelation from God. He was a Unitarian ; but 

 if he reposed in the divine mercy through the mediation of 

 Christ, and if he came with the temper of a child to the Scrip 

 tures, I have no doubt he has been received of Him to whom, in 

 his last words, he committed himself in prayer ; and, had he been 

 more orthodox in his creed without the Christian spirit and the 

 Christian life, his orthodoxy would not have saved him.&quot; 



Sept. i9. Early in the morning of the fifteenth day from 

 our leaving Liverpool, we came in sight of the lighthouse of Cape 



