dismissed, after which he
spent some time in traveling for the benefit of his health, at the
same time acting as an agent for the Massachusetts Sabbath-school
Society. His health now rapidly improved, and on the 15th of July
succeeding his dismission, he was installed as pastor of the Calvinist
Church in Worcester.

"The change of climate seemed, for a time, highly beneficial, and had
begun to induce the hope that his health might become fully
established; but, in the winter of 1835-36, he was prostrated by
another attack of hemorrhage, which again clouded his prospects of
ministerial usefulness. In the spring of 1836, his health had so far
improved that he resumed his ministerial labors and continued them
through the summer; but in September, his symptoms again became more
unfavorable, and he determined, in accordance with medical advice, to
try the effect of a sea voyage and a winter in the South. Accordingly,
he sailed in November for New Orleans; and, on arriving there, decided
on going to St. Francisville, a village on the Mississippi. Here he
remained during the winter, preaching to both the white and colored
population, as his strength would allow. In the spring, he returned to
his pastoral charge, with his health considerably invigorated. He
labored pretty constantly, though not without much debility, until the
succeeding spring (1838), when he found it necessary again to desist
from his labors, and take a season of rest. In company with a friend,
he journeyed through a part of Vermont and New Hampshire, and on
reaching Hanover, the day after Commencement, was surprised to learn
that he had been appointed professor of Rhetoric in Dartmouth College.
Conscious of his inability to meet any longer the claims of a pastoral
charge, and hoping that his health might be adequate to the lighter
duties of a professorship, he could not doubt that the indications of
Providence were in favor of his accepting the appointment. He did
accept it, and shortly after resigned his charge at Worcester, amidst
many expressions of affection and regret on the part of his people,
and, in October following, entered on the duties of his professorship.

"The change of labor proved highly beneficial, and during the winter
of 1838-39, he enjoyed a degree of health which he had not known for
many previous years. In March, he was so much encouraged in respect to
himself that he remarked to a friend that he thought God would indulge
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