awyer, and, at
times when he could be prevailed upon to speak, as eloquent as his
brother; of commanding personal presence, which in no way can be so
well described as by borrowing a Homeric epithet, for he was truly a
'king' among 'men.'

"Such was the body of men whose grave and majestic air used to impress
the writer of this sketch, when the Commencements came round, in his
college days, with the same feeling of awe and reverence with which
the barbarians' were inspired when they first looked in upon the Roman
Senate, supposing that they were looking upon an assembly of kings."

If to these we add the names of the eminent men who were the
colleagues of the founder, and of Nathaniel Niles, Jonathan Freeman,
Thomas W. Thompson, Stephen Jacob, Timothy Farrar, Samuel Bell, Asa
McFarland, Seth Payson, Samuel Prentiss, George Sullivan, John Aiken,
William Reed, Samuel Delano, Samuel Fletcher, Nathaniel Bouton, Silas
Aiken, Joel Parker, Richard Fletcher, and the honored Governors of the
State, we are fully impressed with the fact that the interests of the
college have been in the keeping of wise and prudent guardians.

CHAPTER XXX.

LABORS OF DARTMOUTH ALUMNI.--CONCLUSION.

As Dartmouth was founded as an evangelizing agency, and every stone
was laid in firm reliance upon Him to whom all was consecrated, there
was good ground of hope that it would be a strong and durable pillar
in the great temple of Christian learning. Its record is a realization
of the hopes of its noble and devoted founders.

In his "Narrative" for 1771 (p. 29) Dr. Wheelock, alluding to the
period immediately following his removal to Hanover, says: "there were
evident impressions upon the minds of a number of my family and school
which soon became universal, insomuch that scarcely one remained who
did not feel a greater or less degree of it, till the whole lump
seemed to be leavened by it, and love, peace, joy; satisfaction and
contentment reigned through the whole. The 23d day of January (1771)
was kept as a day of solemn fasting and prayer, on which I gathered a
church in this college and school, which consisted of twenty-seven
members."

His biographer, writing early in the present century, says: "The
college has been repeatedly favored with remarkable religious
impressions on the minds of the students. These showers of divine
grace have produced streams which have refreshed the garden of the
Lord, and made glad the city of our God. Th