t of Dartmouth College
during my whole collegiate course--from 1822 to 1826. My earliest
recollections of him are those only which a thoughtless boy of sixteen
would be likely to have of a grave and reverend divine, and are of
little value.

"It was not until near the close of my college life that I began
really to know him. At that time the college was visited by a revival
of religion of uncommon power, and my reverend president suddenly
awoke (at least to my view) in an entirely new character.

"He came to the students with a power and unction which were quite
irresistible, and manifested a depth of religious feeling for us which
made us at once love him and admire him. He seemed to have found his
appropriate sphere of labor; to have got into an atmosphere which
filled his soul and body with life and energy; to have work to do
which was congenial, which he loved, and which he knew how to do as
few men did. He was at once a son of thunder and a son of consolation.
His discourses, which had always been able and instructive, and
characterized by simplicity of arrangement and neatness and purity of
style, had now the additional attraction of an animated and energetic
delivery.

"And yet, perhaps, the conference room and the prayer-meeting were the
places in which, at that time, Dr. Tyler specially excelled. He was
naturally rather heavy and lethargic in his manner of speaking, and it
required a good deal to excite and warm him thoroughly. But the scenes
and duties incident to a powerful revival of religion, in which a
hundred or more young men were more or less interested, supplied the
necessary stimulus, and the strong man was fully waked up, and in his
extemporaneous addresses particularly, poured out streams of Christian
eloquence which he seldom equaled in his more carefully prepared
public discourses, and which few men whom I have ever heard, could
excel or equal.

"His labors, however, were not confined to the pulpit and the
conference meeting. He cheerfully and heartily did the work of a
pastor among the students, going from room to room, instructing and
exhorting his beloved pupils, and praying with them. He was among us,
not as the grave and dignified head of the college, but rather as a
loving, anxious father, seeking to instruct and save his children; or,
as an elder brother, tenderly solicitous for our spiritual welfare. He
was gentle among us, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. And God,
I verily b