ABSTRACT

He stood for many years alone – he was long opposed, ridiculed, shunned – his doctrines were misrepresented – his little peculiarities of voice and manner were satirized – disturbances were frequently raised in his Church – he was a person not taken into account, nor considered in the light of a regular Clergyman of the Church. Such was the beginning of things. But mark the close. For the last portion of his Ministry all was rapidly changing. He was invited repeatedly to take courses of Sermons before the University. The same great principles that he preached were avowed from almost every pulpit in Cambridge. His Church was crowded with young Students … The Heads of Houses, the Doctors, the Masters of Arts, the Bachelors and the Undergraduates, the Congregation from the Town, seemed to vie with each other in eagerness to hear the aged and venerable man … And at his death when did either of our Universities pay such marked honour to a private individual?1