'organizing the missions as self-governing communities,' are justly
ascribed to him by the present senior Secretary, [Dr. Anderson] as
conclusive witness of his extraordinary 'sagacity' and of his being
far 'in advance of the age.'"

Philander Chase could found parish and diocese and seminary with equal
facility, performing a work for the Episcopal Church in America
unrivaled by that of any contemporary.

Nor should we overlook such names as Asa Burton, teacher of teachers
in theology, who could successfully measure swords with Emmons; Samuel
Wood, whose impress never left the mind of Webster; Daniel Story, a
pioneer of Marietta; Mase Shepard, Jonathan Strong, Walter Harris,
Ethan Smith, Alvan Hyde, William Jackson, Rufus Anderson, the honored
father of a not less honored son; John Fiske, Abijah Wines, Eliphalet
Gillett, whose home missionary zeal in Maine made a lasting impression
upon the rising state; Kiah Bailey, who first effectually moved the
springs which gave to the same State the Bangor Theological Seminary;
John Smith, an earnest and honored teacher in that Seminary;
Theophilus Packard, whose pupils have performed honorable service for
the Master in both hemispheres; Peter P. Roots, Bezaleel Pinneo, Asa
McFarland, Caleb Jewett Tenney, a leading founder of the East Windsor
(now Hartford) Theological Seminary; Thomas A. Merrill, Abraham
Burnham, George T. Chapman, John Brown, Daniel Poor, the pioneer in
Christian learning in Ceylon and Madura; Austin Dickinson, to whom the
world is under large obligations for a higher type of periodical
literature; Levi Spaulding, the worthy coadjutor of Poor; Nathan W.
Fiske, Daniel Temple, who carried the first missionary printing-press
to Western Asia, and made for classic lands a Christian literature;
William Goodell, the leading founder of two flourishing Christian
missions on heathen soil, and the translator of the whole Bible into
the Armeno-Turkish language; Ephraim W. Clark, John S. Emerson, and
Austin H. Wright, of similar spirit; Benjamin Woodbury, Aaron Foster,
a leading founder of the American Home Missionary Society, and John K.
Lord, whose early death in the Queen City of the West, was as the
falling of "a standard-bearer."

To these we might add many eminent living heralds of the cross, and a
Hovey and a Townsend in leading Theological Seminaries. We cannot more
fitly close on this head than by remarking that of the last forty-four
subjects in the second volu