y the benefit of his instruction. Such impressions as I have,
however, I am happy to give.

"It was when a member of Kimball Union Academy, in preparation for
college, if I mistake not, that I first set eyes on his commanding
form, and listened to the impressive tones of his voice. That academy,
as you know, is about a dozen miles from Hanover. Not long before the
graduation of one of its classes, he visited the place, and preached
on the Sabbath. It is not impossible that his visit had some reference
to the fact that there were among us so many candidates for college
life. It was, at all events, well for Dartmouth that he came. Judging
from the influence on my mind, I cannot doubt that not a few were the
more inclined, for what they saw of him, to connect themselves with
the institution over which he presided.

"It was the year before I entered college, I think, that is, in
1825-26, that Dartmouth was blessed with one of the most remarkable
revivals of religion it has ever enjoyed. Transformations of character
were wrought then which have borne the test of decades of years. Some
of the finest minds in college were brought under the power of the
gospel--minds that have since shone as bright lights in the world.

"When I entered the college, I found him dignified, yet affable and
fatherly in his bearing. His preaching then, as we often heard him in
the village church, was marked by the same simplicity, clearness, and
logical force, the same scripturalness, fullness of doctrine, and
evangelical earnestness, that characterized his subsequent
ministrations. He preached not to the fancy, but to the conscience and
the heart. He confined not himself to hortatory appeals, nor did he,
in any wise, skim over the surface of things; but, as both my notes
and recollections of his college sermons assure me, he was apt to
handle, and that vigorously, the high topics of theology. He gave us
not milk alone, but strong meat. Yet have I seldom known a man so
remarkable for making an abstruse subject plain to every hearer."

* * * * *

Rev. George Punchard, of Boston, and Rev. Nathaniel Folsom, D.D.,
professor in Meadville College, Pa., have furnished their
recollections respecting the revival in Dartmouth College, in the year
1826, to which allusion is made by Dr. Smith.

The former says:

"Boston, February 16, 1859.

"Rev. John E. Tyler,--

"My dear Sir: Your venerable father was presiden