this time: 'The general impression made on me by several
of his sermons I remember to the present day. I liked to hear him
preach, even before I took any especial interest in religion as a
personal concern. His sermon on the text, "The harvest is past, the
summer is ended," etc., produced a deep effect at the time of its
delivery which was not soon forgotten. I remember the stillness and
solemnity of the audience. This sermon must have been delivered some
little time before the revival.' The same gentleman further states,
that 'During the whole of this revival, and the gathering in of the
fruits of it into the church, Professor Shurtleff was the leading
instrument of the work, so far as human agency was concerned. He went
into it with his whole heart. I have seen him and his excellent wife
almost overpowered with joy when told of a new case of conversion
among the students. He did a great deal--all that one man could do, as
it seemed to me--to promote the good work by his own personal
efforts.' It is in the power of the speaker to give similar testimony
respecting the revival of 1821.

"When Professor Shurtleff entered upon the duties of his
professorship, and for many years afterward, he met with much
opposition. But his position was constantly growing stronger, both as
it respects the sympathy of his Christian brethren and the clergy, and
his popularity as an instructor. I have not been able to learn that
there was a whisper of discontent with his instructions during the
whole of the period from 1804 to 1827. The testimony of one of the
best students of the Class of 1816 is, that 'As an instructor,
particularly in Moral Philosophy, he was much thought of; and we were
careful never to miss one of his recitations on this subject. His way
of putting questions, and answering such as were proposed to himself,
showed great judgment and shrewdness.' Quite a number of persons in
the classes for seven or eight years following the time here referred
to, were pre-eminent as scholars and as men. May not the fact be partly
accounted for by the impulse and guidance of the mind of this
instructor? He constituted a large portion of the faculty from 1815 to
1819, there being at that time only two professors,--Professor Adams
and Professor Shurtleff. The graduates of the college who had been his
pupils were never backward in acknowledging their obligations to him.

"In 1810, Professor Shurtleff was united in marriage with Miss Anna
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