essional labor; and a heart always tender, yet always true to the
profoundest convictions of duty. A deep, rich, and thorough religious
experience well fitted the graceful and earnest man to be a graceful
and earnest Christian teacher. The question of fitness for the
position as an executive was soon settled beyond the possibility of a
doubt. It required but a brief acquaintance with President Lord to
teach any one, that he fully believed in the most literal acceptation
of the doctrine, that "the powers that be are ordained of God."

A recognition of this fundamental law guided and governed him daily
and hourly through all his public life. When early in his
administration, he discovered marked symptoms of a spirit of
insubordination in the college, he gave all concerned to understand
most fully, that it would be his duty to maintain the supremacy of the
law. There was never any deviation from this loyalty to duty in
administering the discipline of the college. No undue regard for his
own dignity, or comfort, or safety, deterred him from visiting, at any
hour of day or night, the scene of disorder. When he had been more
than forty years an officer of the college he reaffirmed his adherence
to this principle, in a most emphatic manner, when those to whom he
did not deem himself responsible sought to point out to him the path
of duty.

As a teacher it was President Lord's province, chiefly to unfold the
various relations and obligations of man to his Maker. In the
performance of this duty he gave remarkable prominence to the Divine
Revelation. Jealous for the honor of his great Master and Teacher, he
was very suspicious, possibly too suspicious, of any intermixture of
"man's wisdom." This habit may have induced occasionally, measurable
disparagement of worthy and eminent men. But the genial manner and
chastened tone invariably extracted the point from the severest word,
and left upon the pupil's mind a profound conviction that his teacher
had been "taught of God." It may well be doubted whether, of the large
numbers who graduated during President Lord's administration, any who
were brought in close contact with him, and listened with a "willing
mind" to his instructions, failed to receive measurably, yet
consciously, the impress of their honored teacher.

The following extracts from the official records of the Trustees, are
deemed worthy of insertion in this connection in order to a full
understanding of the circumstanc