and, I have sometimes thought the _genius
collegii_, with a father's and mother's teachings and prayers, all
favored by the Spirit who only searcheth the deep things of God, kept
him near and true to the everlasting Word.

"But we forgot all his speculative trials and temptations, we forgot
almost that he was not perfect but in part, when, in his sacred
character, and in this sacred place, he laid aside his weapons of
intellectual warfare, and, with his peculiar meekness of wisdom,
simplicity of statement, power of argument, and cogency of appeal,
testified to us the great things of the kingdom of God, so far as he
had learned them out of the Holy Scripture. Very instructive and
affecting it was, when, as sometimes, the aspiring philosopher, the
uncompromising logician, the astute economist, the grave and learned
dogmatist, renounced these and all other accomplishments of nature, or
rather made them subservient to the greater accomplishments of grace.
Then we admired, even to tears of thankfulness, how the wise man, in
becoming a fool, becomes truly wise; how he who could be great among
his fellows on Mars Hill,--great after the fashion of the
Areopagus,--could be greater, after a higher fashion, in declaring the
God there Unknown; in repeating simply the lessons of that heavenly
wisdom which none of the princes of this world knew; and, with a
child-like sincerity and earnestness, from his own sense of the
sufficiency of redeeming mercy, inviting us to 'The Lamb of God who
taketh away the sin of the world.'

"It might seem that one so abstract and speculative, so contemplative
and reserved, would naturally be wanting in those sensibilities and
affections which are justly reckoned indispensable to the highest
excellence of character, and to the happiness, or the relief, of our
present state. But appearances do not necessarily represent, but more
frequently conceal, realities. I have been permitted to read some of
his most familiar letters, which reveal a sunny and cheery side of his
character which I had not learned from personal observation. That he
had a susceptible and generous heart no man ever doubted. But one must
know what he has written to his friends, out of its unperceived
fullness, to appreciate those hidden sympathies of his nature which
brought him into harmony as well with the outer as the inner world.
Few would have a better relish for innocent festivities, or the
pleasures of travel, or the grander and