e bore still the aspect of a homo gravis; but his gentleness,
his tender devotion to the gay young companions who surrounded him, and
the almost boyish delight with which he shared in their pleasures, took
away all its sternness and lighted up his strongly-marked countenance
with singular grace and beauty. In these closing years of his life he
was, indeed, the ideal of a ripe and noble Christian manhood. His name
is embalmed in the memory of a great company of his old pupils, now
scattered far and wide, from the White House at Washington to the
remotest corners of the earth.

P.S.--This was written soon after the inauguration of Gen. Garfield, to
whom allusion is made. His high regard for the venerable ex-President of
Williams College--the Rev. Dr. Mark Hopkins--he made known to the whole
country, but the younger brother was also the object of his warmest
esteem and love, and the feeling was heartily reciprocated. Nearly a
score of years ago, when he was just emerging into public notice from
the bloody field of Chickamauga, Prof. Hopkins spoke of him to the
writer in terms so full of praise and so prophetic of his future
career, that they seem in perfect harmony with the sentiment at once of
admiration and poignant grief which to-day moves the heart of the whole
American people--yea, one might almost say, which is inspiring all
Christendom.--_Saturday, Sept. 24, 1881._

CHAPTER XIII.

PEACEABLE FRUIT. 1873-1874.

I.

Effect of spiritual Conflict upon her religious Life. Overflowing
Affections. Her Husband called to Union Theological Seminary. Baptism of
Suffering. The Character of her Friendships. No perfect Life. Prayer.
"Only God can satisfy a Woman." Why human Friendship is a Snare.
Letters.

The trouble which had so long weighed upon her heart, crossed with her
the threshold of 1873, but long before the close of the year it had in
large measure passed away. Such suffering, however, always leaves its
marks behind; and when complicated with ill-health or bodily weakness,
often lingers on after its main cause has been removed. It was so in her
case; she was, perhaps, never again conscious of that constant spiritual
delight which she had once enjoyed. But if less full of sunshine, her
religious life was all the time growing deeper and more fruitful, was
centering itself more entirely in Christ and rising faster heavenward.
Its sympathies also became, if possible, still more tender and loving.
Her whole b