. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. o \olumes of Sermons, published after his death,ha\-e taken their place among the most perfect examples ofwriting drawn from the pure well of luiglish undefiled, as wellas for yet higher qualities of spiritual and moral truth. In hisown religious bod) especially, his influence, if for the most partsilent, was deep. A writer, now belonging to the EpiscopalChurch, has lately said: — Many churches of high pretensions to Catholic tradition have hadless of Gospel teaching than this old pulpit has given under the minis
. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. o \olumes of Sermons, published after his death,ha\-e taken their place among the most perfect examples ofwriting drawn from the pure well of luiglish undefiled, as wellas for yet higher qualities of spiritual and moral truth. In hisown religious bod) especially, his influence, if for the most partsilent, was deep. A writer, now belonging to the EpiscopalChurch, has lately said: — Many churches of high pretensions to Catholic tradition have hadless of Gospel teaching than this old pulpit has given under the ministryof Greenwood and Peabody. . His rich and memorable Hymn-bookhas done much to save Unitarians from Deistical tendencies, . . andneeds few changes of omission or addition to fit it now for use in anychurches of the land. . Sensitive, meditative, ideal, and also some-what recluse and reserved, ... he had a face never to be forgotten, andeyes that never lost tluir light for friends, — an expression like the tran-quil lake with landscape under the serene •T,l-->:..-tc THE MINISTRY OF F. W. P. GREENWOOD. 459 ^:h-^^.^tyu-- -Sr^ He bore his part in the controversies of an angry theologicalwarfare; but he bore it with that gentle and Christian spiritwhich was in all that he did, because it was himself; and hebelieved less and less in that way of advancing truth. SaidDr. Walker: ^ The last lime I saw him, he spoke of somethinghe had written against the old theology: 1 thought a gooddeal of those things once, but they re nothing to me now. He had the rare ex-perience of passingmany jears with thethought ne\er absent from him that each day might be hislast; and it colored his preaching and his life with hues ofanother and a holier world. Vet it would be an error to* suppose that he was thus cutoff from heallhy enjoyments or health of spirit. He had anexquisite sensibility of taste to all things beautiful and he saw in Nature grand or lovely, he br
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