New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-03

,,,,eu pleasant reading; out cohl0'' 80 ,rLn, |
Ices had n kind of prejudice against theu'' my
i"'S ed 20 me 70 imply something of vanity, or
-. of Identified reserve. The apology lles' per
-, in the writer's ignorance after all "i HIS oM"
and very self lie has only told the story Vi nv
Ie has not come much nearer TO hhsel ti,"n %
tisties come to the life OF people vi aii el'''
,,otbinQ is applicable to the good doctor own iec
nrd of an honorable life. He has not Only Vou HIS
-, With rare modesty and dignity but mas clear
lv If Internationally, revealed on every P"sV
nstpre nobly honest, earnest and pure Inc doom
d.l nj its kinda book wherein no one can una
g. in taste or feeling 1t tells with the proper
oserve of gentleman all that the world OF eoSSlps
hos right 10 know of his private lie; ana II laS
only in its unafIectedy humble estimate VI us
writers benefcent career as one OF the l'os' 'io
ouent and practical of the early Unitarian Ie."eio'
Orville Dewey was born in little MaSSach' '
,n,ooe in the closing decade of the last century
1Iianao.bor with tender remembrance of the sen
t;mental hero of Miss Burney's Evellna' na,neu
hor child after that matchess Orville.' Ah MS
surroundings All his early training were those u u,
Puritan-the stern Calvnist. He mentions 'Io az T'
clergyman Ephraim JudsOn, as one Vi 'iio ,I1,ond
tinct figures i'll the recollectiohs VI ms - .io+
ain 20 the age of twelve" he says IL is ST.
truth that did not regard MI Judson as p,orN
n human being-as a man at an - La,,o
soonded from the planet Jupiter he couid not nav
- hit more preternatura and strange 10 me.
T1'aoI1 gentleman was fond of visiting the SCHOOL
- ond examining the boys whose awe OF MN
was extreme 80 -, o+
and minute account of the Cru IG 80 a,,neal
ways andsn the same terms IL was d NJ pHt,y
way G5ruical sympathy, awful, but not winning
When he stood before and, lifting ms nan1 I g.?
,'ast to the ceiling said, And so they IeIou ~
@ = i seemed as if he described the cataStf9p5c y,
The world not its redemption; lnuGcu W f, tba
annearcd to think that anything uIaWn In, a,nIi
her he
nt;on of il or not. l have heard nm Plt 4;I1
whole sermon, giving the most pIggSSSSc .' ,yr
Tncr;nfiou of the building of the laDernaclc, WIZ
uoson ,Snr of comment inference, or instruction
Rnt he was good and kindly man ana "I,eii LIZ
was going to college at the age oil elghte;eLt' J @
VIZ E 80 mon my head and gave me- with Solemn
f ,T IAN and fender accent, his blessing, ielt aweu
have felt under patrarchs Oeheuic''oh
A. tbat time there was little that was happy an"
winning in Puritan teaching Even TINS chio Oh "
gentle mother and Joyous-natuleu i''i'i "
members that he really feared that IL he went o,',
into the ouiet fields to walk on Sunday pears Wou
come down from the mountain ana eaten mn"
apaI;rior - he saws "had sort of horrible attrac-
tion for me. but nothing could exceed ITS giool"',
ness | had heard of the unparuohaolo sii1, anu
Ill do I recollect living in my bed-a mere child
IL L,i,o +bourhts and words injected into my
mind which / imagined were that SIN, ana 'hou
derinp and trembling and SAYING aiou'', w. Il'
no. | do not-I will not" 1t was during III
Devey's college life at Williams that religion De
came his highest delight. lie lost ms Sei'' ioi ''S
oral wears and deprived of books found i'll soi''''H
and Thought a new day of happiness ana Oh WORK
II, ro,,, tlrounh a course AT Andover, the monaSth
soo,ns;on of which by the way, he like many othc
clergvmen objected to.
For the first time in my life boarded IN com
mons: the domestic ecWcnt dToFleu I 49, az II,
,ras nrTsuaded as never had been beioIci vi ~
hemefrrnce of that ordinance that sets tIle SG
tarv i'm families" 1t was line SITUATION III w. i a.
TO s1e I'M ! had some experiences that were some
%bat notable to me. We were directed oil cours'
~ lake a great deal of exercise we, were w
10 am abont il and sometimes walked five mile
Leforc breakfast. and that IN WINTER moTnlhss e.
u1 t ~" and hoard in n family, half mile distant
fonud that the three miles day IN golhg Oack al
forth that regular cSeIcisci was 1i1n srte
IT, oil my previdus and more violent cn0TtS
That way But imagine that was not All va u
The misfortune to scaid my foot ana WIS Vogeu ~
barI Professor Stuart said to me, Well how Is
with your dyspepsia - Al gohGi ME- Hit .tic il
,ar% strict WHY, have eaten pies and pickles,
and pot hooks and tranneS might, ioI amy na
=, tle matter" Here wonder-no eXerci
nnd no regimen and | was well. The CONCLUSION
came to, was the whole that cheeTinlness mr.
and next regularity are me DeSI su'lus 5i i
that exercise can no more proiitaDiV De cohuenS
'h,n ~ morbid habits of mind TO which isolat
semiparcs are exposed. had also some eXpcrleh'
What complaints of orr spiritual DUNES conS i
lv arose among us! And there was other Dune
too-physiCal, moral, social: l remember ai u
time the whole college fell into strange ana u
accountable depression. lie occasion WAS 80 =
IONS that the professors called us together m
chanel 10 demonstrate with us; and. after tank
II nj! over and giving us Their adNce one ol lh
soiJ. The evil Is so great, and reef so indspcn
bic that will venture TO recommend 10 y3n p
ticIIar plan Go to your rooms; assemble 50
dozen or twenty in room; form circle ana
the first in il say Haw! and the second li2iV
and sn LET il 90 round and if that doesn't avail
the first again say Haw nav anu ra, 80 on v
tried it, and the result may be nhag'he,l' v
Sstonishinr il must have been to the people vi
ont but the spell WAS broken
For the story of Dcwey's passage from the CAV
tic faith to that of Untariauism the reader III
81, to his own pages 1t is told SIMPLY reyereL
ID with such reserve as must accompany uep"
cling His first experience as cieIgSina"
and in the church of Claiming, for whom
cached for two years. During his LIE III boS
- vounc man became known to many eminent
.resting nersons His "reminiscences OF Oh
NO are pleasantly given. Channings conve
n he declares struck him most; more than
his writings ever did.
He was an invalid, and kept much at home
doors and he talked hour aIter hou Jay d
" and sometimes for week upon Ne S,nG
.1r;soIne Edward Everett sad,-he had J9s'
rned from Europe, where douDliess ~ ~ m a I,
,;nent persous-" have never met Win ahyD
whom il was so interesting to listen, and SO
talk when my turn came" lhele vas lhget
and and surprising superiority IL 4 .1 ~ -
.th in the topics and the Treatment OF u
here was no repartee in It, aud not nuch ol
nd take in any way. People used 70 come ne 10 10
IS clerical brethren-I remember Henry ware
tLers speaking of it,--they came, listened 10
1id nothing themselves, and went away. In
hauning talked for his own SAKE genTI 1.,,S
rite II was curious to see HIM. from time 10 |
a. he talked dash down note or two en- .
ooper and throw il into pigeon-hole, which e'
"T II ywoTld appear from all this that Charming