The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-29

get the methods of his early teachers and that, as late as 1854, in his address at Manchester New College, he could say, Tt is with deliberate conviction that l profess allegiance to the English psychological method and build up all my hope for philosophy in accurate self knowledge"
 His work was not confined to the lec- ture room. Every week he discoWsed from the pulpit to an audience which
 looked to him for spiritual counsel;
 scarcely less regularly he wrote for
 periodicals No account of him would
 be complete without reference to his
 ministry in the Little Portland street
 Chapel in London. Called there in 1859
 to be the colleague of his friend. John
 James Taylor, he became, in 1861, sole
 minister and remained such until 1870.
 In 1885 he retired from the oftice~'of
 Principal of Manchester New College,
 which he had held for many years. He
 himself described his work in the chair
 of philosophy as discourslng to 1.-two or
 three boys in corner.f This is mod
 est account of lectures perhaps unsur-
 passed in England in their time for sug-
 gestiveness and comprehensiveness.
 Dr. Martineau recalled his dietingu-
 ished sister in more ways than one
 poles apart though they drifted in their
 convictions. Like her, he was by no means universally complacent. Of men,
 and even women, whom he did not re-
 spect he spoke with trenchant vigor.
 As a reviewer he ran no risk of spoil ing the author by sparing the rod.
 James Mill did not handle Macintosh
 more roughly, Maeauley did not casti- gate Montgomery more severely, than pr. Martineau chastised pr. Whewell for offenses against logic. In the ever- -be-regretted criticism entitled Mes merle Atheism" in The Prospective Re- view, of the joint work of Harriet Mar tlneau and Mir, Atkinson, he did not by reason of tenderness to his sister spare one stripe to the charlatan treat ment which tempted her to say that "of all natural relations the least satisfac7 tory is the fraternal,"
 A word must be said of his mode of writing. He was a volumnous author, but his published works are but small part of what he composed. It was al- ways his habit to write at first freely and diffusely, and then to condense by successive processes, his thoughts, Po- ssessed of a vigorous frame, he did not spare it. He worked early and late. This grand old man of theology" con- tinued his labors with the zeal with which he pursued them when he was a student at York. Even when close on and worked three and four ninety years of age he rose at in the hours before a 1 o'clock lunch. Then came rest, a constitutional and the in which he took keen in- l terest After dinner and a cup of tea he wrote and read until 12; then to bed to enjoy a child's sleep. Only of late | years he was induced by his family to make o'clock his hour of rising Regu- | larly as Summer came round he went | to his home, the Polchar, in Aviemore, | on Speyside, and, busy amid his books and writings, his day of labor broken 1 only by an afternoon walk to Loch-an- | Eilan or some other favorite spot, he ! kept his youth. There was no failing { off in the quality of his work Almost | on his ninetieth birthday appeared paper on Faith the Root of Knowledge md Love-" full of eloquence and far larting rays of insight, and sweetness, ind compassion made more comprehen- r i've by age.-London Times.