The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

wioh Islands was present, for the AndoVel
students sometimes spend their Ssbbaths IL
adjacent towns. The writer felt that he hst
found himself among an intelligent, moral
hOspitsble and piOus people; but somewhat
peculiar. Numerous were their questions
about their kindred in Georgetown. "Happy
to see you at breakfast tomorrow morning,
naming the hour. This seemed to be the
meal at which they entertained. They were
quite as good sutOcrstS at the morning meal
as Wendell Holmes. The Episcopal minis
ter invited me to breakfast. We went ac-
cOrdingly. He did not return the call, but
this inciviity was probably owing to pass
at arms between himself and DR.. Dana about
keeping Christmas. But it was only news
paper fight.
A merchant in NewburypOrt had given
twenty-five thousand dollars to endow chair
of Church History in the AudOVer Seminary
DR.. Murdoch was to be insugursted to that
PrOfessOrship. DR.. Dana very politely asked
me to bear him company. The weather was
intensely warm but nevertheless it was a
pleasant ride through highly cultivated
country. Andover may be called hillside
town. A large company were assembled, In
cluding the Lieutenant Governor of the
State, and many Divines. The breakfast
table was crowded. We were glad to make
the acquaintance of DR.. Morse, because his
two volumes of Geography had been house
hold books at my home. But the Profes-
sOrs of the Seminary appeared to be engaged
in preparing for the ceremony of insugurs-
ton which was perfectly simple when it was
enacted. Had the writer been introduced to
Professor Stuart, our conversation could not
have lasted more than five minutes. He had
just replied to Channing, and We had read
his pamphlet and thought that he might have
made his argument much stronger for the
Divinity of our Lord. Still the Professor
was learned ThsOlOgisn, and Rabboni in
his Hebrew. A cloud became vertical to the
chapel during the inauguration, and man
was stunned at the door by the lightning
but he was bsthed in water, and soon recoV-
cred. Lsus Dec.
Newburyport. The writer had no curiOs-
ity to descend the stairs leading down to the
remains of Whitfield before the pulpit of Dr.
Dana. 1t did not accord with my taste.-
We saw the house in which the great evan
gelist died in ITO. He had preached the
preceding day at Ipswich, and on the next,
which was the Sabbath, the town was a
Bochim or place of mourning. Whitfield was
indeed wonderful man. He sent away the
bigOtry of the English Church to the four
winds of heaven, he sought no crOsier for his
hand or mitre for his brow, he glided by
without cOveting Prelstical palaces in the
fulflment of his Office, he crossed the Allan
tic and encountered storms fraught with i'm
pending dangers, ssvsnnahs and hills became
his pulpits, he traversed the rugged roads of
Wales, and the bleak moors of Scotland, and
scorching climates that he might call sinners
to repentance. Such man ought to be held
in venerstiOn to the last twilight hour of
time.
Adieu to NewburypOrt. Took leave of
DR.. Dana and his interesting family. Called
on Serene E. Dwight, of Boston. Found
him engaged in preparing an edition of the
works of his grandfather, President Ed
wards. No place like home.