Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-04-18
VIM. .ELLERY CLAIMING, DID.

This celebrated divine, the champion of
free thought and free limbs, was born at
Newport, Rhode Island, April Z. 177s.
AS boy, he was at once beautiful thought
ful, and amiable conciliating all hearts,
and winning the love of his friends ard
teachers. He was patient as pupil, and
applied himself diligently to whatever task
was assigned to him but in no way pre-
cocious or brilliant. At a very early age,
he was imbued with religious reverence,
and. while mere child, thought with an
unusual degree of mental vigor upon the
abstruse dogmas of theology. He was the
soul of honor, and ever ready to take the
part of the oppressed among his play
mates Washington Allston, the poet
painter, describes him as 'an open, brave,
and generous boy"
At the age of twelve, he was removed
from the home of his childhood, and plac-
ed in the family of an uncle, in New Lon
don, to prepare himself for college. He
was entered as freshman, in Harvard Uni
versity, in 1894. His collegiate course
was marked by close application to his
studies, strict observance of all the re-
auirements of the government, and the
most faultless department. In 1898, he
was graduated with the highest honors of
his class.
After spending couple of years as tu-
tor in the family of David Meade Ran
dolph, Esq, of Richmond, Virginia, be re-
turned to Cambridge, with the purpose of
pursuing his studies preparatory to enter
ing the ministry. In 1901, be was made
regent in Harvard University The fol-
lowing year, having been licensed by the
" Cambridge Ministerial Associaticnn." ne
commenced preaching. He soon received
an invitation to settle over the Federal
Street Society, in Boston, where he re-
ceived ordination on the lst of June, 1903.
He retained the office Of pastor of this
church and society ultil his death, which
occurred at Bennington, Verment. on the
I'd of October, l642, while Oh a journey
for his health.
DR. Channing's stature was small, and
| his appearance ever gave the beholder the
most painful convictions of an infirm con-
stitution and a very depressed condition
| of health. When he rose to speak, his
voice, scarcely arising above tremulous
whisper, caused a strong feeling of disap-
pointment and regret but, as he warmed
with his theme, his form seemed 10 0lIate.
until you forgot his diminutiveness, and
| his voice rose to such a clear, soEorous
note, that vibration thrilled you to the
very soul Few men were so eloquent as
he; but it was not the eloquence of the
schools The greatness of his subject, the
solemity of his mission, the consciousness
of the immeasurable worth of the human
/ soul, and the solemn aud manly earnest
ness with which be sought TO make it free
in Christ these were the elements of his
subduing eloquence-an eloquence whict
Iencbained the souls of his auditors, ane
melted them into tenderness and hu
mility.
DR. Claiming was an uncompromisint
advocate of human freedom He sough
with all his might to take away the iron
from the limbs of the enslaved. and t
Idisenthrali the human mind from the fet
ters of party and the debasing creeds Q
. lsects. He was an ardent patriot, and hi
heart lied for every stain which fell upo
. 1.-The escutcheon of his country's glory
While he abhorred war and all the glor
Of it. and labored through life for the al