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Though fitted by nature and high cul-
ture to tread with grace the higher
walks of literature, yet was he never
decoyed from the chosen work to which
he had coonsecrated himself, body, soul
and spirit. To the sterner duties which
attend the rugged way of his sacred call-
ing, all else was subordinate. Dipping
the pencil in his own heart, in so strong
colors did he sometimes paint the single-
ness of aim, the dauntless self-denial,
and unrelenting self-immolation--if
need be--the burning seal, the active,
vigorous faith, the inflexible purpose,
the resolute perserverance, the purity of
intention, and the personal holiness of
life, indespensable in him who aspired
to the service of the altar, that many a
candidate presented to him for Holy
Orders trembled and, almost shrank
from the assumption of such tremen-
dous vows, such fearful responsibilities,
until strengthened and encouraged by
words of holy cheer from that kind heart
which beat beneath the robes of office.
These wise counsels were oftentimes as
salutary to the robed priests who sat
around him, as to those who trem-
blingly stood waiting for the laying on of
his hands, and the solemn investiture of
a Deacon's misson or a Presbyter's
prerogatives.

By genera; consent his name has been
enrolled among the great minds of the
American Church, and occupies a proud
eminence in that order of the ministry
which has ever been distinguished for
talents, learning, and piety. He ac-
quired, under difficulties that few stu-
dents of theology at the present day are
called to encounter, a store of sound
theological learning which any one
might covet. Of him it can truly be
said, "he was mighty in the Scriptures;"
and few could apply them with with such
marvellous skill and quickness. In
some departments of theology he had
few equals, and fewer superiors. In
Christian Evidences, on the great doc-
trines of the Divinity of Christ and the
Atonement, on the Christian Ministry
and the Church Polity generally, he was
a giant in strength; and woe betide the