. Contemporary American biography . at hewas in great demand as a lecturer and orator. In 1853 he was invited to give the openinglecture of a course in Philadelphia, by bishops and clergymen of the Episcopal church, ontopics connected with theological science. The subject assigned him, and which he discussedwith masterly ability, was The Philosophy of Eeligion. These discourses were subsequentlypublished, with an introductory essay by Et. Eev. Alonzo Potter, , , bishop ofPennsylvania, and constitute a valuable contribution to the literature of the Church. He hadalready been for severa
. Contemporary American biography . at hewas in great demand as a lecturer and orator. In 1853 he was invited to give the openinglecture of a course in Philadelphia, by bishops and clergymen of the Episcopal church, ontopics connected with theological science. The subject assigned him, and which he discussedwith masterly ability, was The Philosophy of Eeligion. These discourses were subsequentlypublished, with an introductory essay by Et. Eev. Alonzo Potter, , , bishop ofPennsylvania, and constitute a valuable contribution to the literature of the Church. He hadalready been for several years lecturer on pastoral theology at the Berkeley Divinity School,Middletown, Conn., and he continued to sustain this relation to that school of the prophets, inaddition to the duties of his rectorship, during his residence in New Haven, a period of tenyears. In 1856, before he had completed his thirty-second year, the University of Pennsyl-vania conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. In January, 1858, when. CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 157 yet but thirty-three years of age, he was unanimous-y elected president of Hobart College,Geneva, N. Y. This honor he respectfully declined. In the spring of 1860 he was called tothe rectorship of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn, N. Y. The position was one ofpeculiar responsibility and anxiety and a man of less moral courage would have declined toleave a congregation so strongly attached to him as that of St. Pauls, and one in every re-spect so pleasant, for the trials and severe labors which he well knew would be inevitable inhis new position. The Church of the Holy Trinity, originally erected in large part throughthe munificence of one of its constituent members, and through his subsequent misfortune inbusiness so heavily mortgaged that in 1856 it was with the greatest difficulty rescued fromfalling into the hands of the Roman Catholics, on a foreclosure sale for a mortgage debt of$100,000, was still
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