e young men in this school
of the prophets have, at these seasons, been powerfully and lastingly
affected; they have gone forth as 'angels of the churches;' the work
of God has prospered in their hands; many of their people have been
turned to righteousness."

Of President Tyler's administration it is said that the most
remarkable thing was "a powerful revival of religion." All the later
decades have been marked by manifestations of the Divine presence in
the college. Scarcely a year has passed in which some of its members
have not joyfully consecrated intellect and heart and life to the
service of Him who gave them.

Not a few have been "bright and shining lights" in the church. Of
Jesse Appleton, Rev. Dr. Anderson says: "I have been placed in
circumstances to see much of not a few great men in the Church of
Christ, but I have been conversant with only a few, a very few, whose
attributes of power seemed to me quite equal to his. The clearness of
his conceptions was almost angelic. If I am fitted to do any good in
the world, I owe what intellectual adaptation I have very much to his
admirable training, especially as he took us through his favorite
Butler."

Few American divines have had a wider or more varied sphere of
influence than Dr. Appleton's classmate, Ebenezer Porter, a _pioneer_
in sacred Rhetoric, one of the originators of the American Tract
Society, the most prominent of the founders of the American Education
Society, which he adopted as his child and heir, the beloved and
honored first president of the oldest Theological Seminary in the
United States.

Of Samuel Worcester, the distinguished opponent of Channing, we have
the following valuable record: "When the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed, his labors as the
Corresponding Secretary, with the whole system now in operation for
the conduct of missions abroad, required the same processes of
original evolution and determination of principles and rules, as so
signally characterized the formation of our Federal government. Here
was displayed his peculiar, if we may not say his transcendent, power
among his eminent associates. The great value of 'the Constitution of
the Board, as a working instrument,' 'the nicely adjusted relations of
the voluntary and ecclesiastical principles,' the 'origination of what
is peculiarly excellent in the Annual Reports, and also in the
Instructions to Missionaries,' and the '_American_ idea' of