The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . without color, and almost ghastly, yetset in the very center of tranquillity, and with a benevolentand very pleasant aspect of features and mouth. Of himFather Taylor once remarked, Dempsters a walking corpse;but if you touch him, the lightning will stream out after a preacher he stirred men profoundly. By felicitousterms of expression, delicate gleams of inquiry, vigor, andcomprehensiveness of thought, fervor, and rapt inspiration ofstyle, and, above all, by the inevitable conclusions of hislogic, he adorned the pulpit to a preeminent de
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . without color, and almost ghastly, yetset in the very center of tranquillity, and with a benevolentand very pleasant aspect of features and mouth. Of himFather Taylor once remarked, Dempsters a walking corpse;but if you touch him, the lightning will stream out after a preacher he stirred men profoundly. By felicitousterms of expression, delicate gleams of inquiry, vigor, andcomprehensiveness of thought, fervor, and rapt inspiration ofstyle, and, above all, by the inevitable conclusions of hislogic, he adorned the pulpit to a preeminent degree. As athinker he ranked among the first scholars and philosophersof his time. In the departments of metaphysics and theologyhe was regarded as having no superior in American Metho-dism. As an educator he possessed a rare power to com-municate forcibly to others what appeared clear and certainto himself. Gifted with a glowing imagination and a spar-kling and ready wit, he was able to make the most abstrusesubjects glow with living CHAPTER. XCVIII Educators Joseph —James Strono. — Landon C. Garland.—LeadingEducators.—Consecrated Culture.—Diversified Talents andToils. WHEN Joseph Cummings, president of the North-western University, died in Evanston on May , the pulpit and press, governing- boards, andlearned societies vied with each other in words of eulogyover a fallen leader. The statements that Methodism, inhim, had lost its greatest college president, and that no othereducational career stands out so strong, effective, and com-plete in our denomination, were indeed words of truth andsoberness. He was born on March 3, 1817, at Falmouth,Me. At the age of twenty-three he graduated with honorfrom Wesleyan University, and in the same year wasappointed professor of natural science and mathematics inAmenia Seminary. In 1843 ne became principal of thisinstitution. Three years later he entered the New EnglandConference, and there served four pro
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