l life. To this institution he freely gave the wealth
of his well stored and acute mind, his tried experience, and his
cheerful, patient resolution. The trials were sometimes great, the
laborers few, the support scanty, and there were times when it seemed
as if the one man only stood between the life of the college and its
death. As one of the Trustees wrote, "Life was already nearly extinct,
and death would have soon followed, had not the president given
himself wholly to the work with a faith that never faltered, a
perseverance which strengthened with difficulties, and a thorough
conviction that his work, if well done, would promote the glory of God
and his church through all time." And he was successful, as much so as
it was within the power of one man to be, both in correcting the evils
which he found existing, and in securing the stability of the college
beyond all peradventure. Wherever he was, in the recitation room, in
the academic circle, in the Medical School of which he was _ex
officio_ president, in the Board of Trustees, in the councils of the
bishop and the Diocese, in the conferences with the Vestry of Old
Trinity Church, before the Board of Regents, before the Legislature of
the State, he was always the learned, sagacious, loyal, and inspiring
president; respected and beloved always, by all who entered the circle
of his influence; and illustrating daily in his own character, the
symmetry, strength, and purity of the principle by which he was
governed.

Dr. Hale instructed easily in every department of learning. He was
most fond of ethical and metaphysical studies. His class room will
never be forgotten by those who delighted to go to it, and regretted
to leave it. His courses of lectures for many years included Civil and
Ecclesiastical Architecture. He loved music, and read it as easily as
the words. His diction was always remarkable for the best English,
expressed in the happiest style. His memory and power of association
were almost unerring. His temper was held in the nicest balance. In
preaching he was a Chrysostom in wisdom, truth, and sweetness.

We have not space to dwell upon this theme, nor upon the wholesome
influence which Dr. Hale exerted in the diocese in which he was
placed, both towards preparing the way for a second diocese in the
State of New York, and in ministering in his place to its unity and
order, when under the Episcopal charge of the noble De Lancey. In
1858, he left Hobart (on