this country, in the humble and useful occupation of a district schoolteacher, and in the honorable pursuits lying between these. He chose the labors of an instructor, and that at the head of a strong University, so that he could affect most powerfully the lives of young men and women coming in contact with him, and fit them most successfully for a beneficent and happy career. He thus made the most goodly and lasting impressions upon hundreds and thousands in our denomination, some of whom are our chiefest and best beloved leaders. The teacher is the prime mover in the affairs of the church, society at large, and the civil power. He stands at the fountain head of all streams of wholesome influence. To inform and direct the boys and girls of a great community is to assume charge of the grown-up men and women, of controlling intelligence and energy therein. Such labor is worthy to engage exclusively the thoughts and the heart of any man of superior endowments of soul. No one else understood this fact better than did President Allen; so he was contented to occupy, and faithfully, as his life's work, the position he filled with such distinction. He never sought some official place, which he would have greatly honored, in a wider educational field or in the councils of the nation.

"We have, in the past few years, been called to mourn the death of our most eminent teachers, those who originated, managed, and gave success to our denominational schools. The first on the list was the talented and knightly-souled Kenyon, your former president, who gave you the confidence and the ability to found here a University. I stood about a year since before the house in London, England, where he breathed his last, and thought of his enthusiasm, the lightning speed of his intellect, and the vigor of his purpose, as exhibited here with his coworkers in the training of the youth, whom he guided with almost unexampled skill. Next came the fatherly, self-denying, and largeminded Irish, whose toils here in the early days of your Institution, and later at De Ruyter, will ever be remembered by his grateful and loving pupils. Recently we bade adieu to the gentle, scholarly, and polished Carpenter, our first college graduate of this century, and the first principal of a school established by our people. His body rests in a foreign grave. Last we stand in the presence of the remains of the dignified, comprehensive, and philosophical Allen, whose mind was rounded like. a ball, and could roll in any direction it chose. He was not a specialist, a mere agitator, but he had the ability to grasp the ultimate principles of any subject within the range of human investigation, and at the same. time to collect and arrange the many details of that subject into a practical unity under the guidance of those principles. This is a rare gift.

In conducting the interests of your Institution, in participating in the affairs of your community, and in suggesting the work of our denomination, he has been a masterful organizer. His place cannot be easily supplied.

"It is meet that we attend these funeral services on the grounds of the University, in sight of its buildings, in the midst of this scenery loved so well, and surrounded by those interesting associations with which President Allen had become most familiar through fifty-six years of his life as a student and a teacher in this village. Look upon the hallowed place, contemplate and admire his noble work, consider how he has moved here the lever which has lifted to a higher level many choice spirits, and the tasks which they have accomplished, and resolve that your aims, your efforts, and your natures shall in the future be worthier and still more useful because of his example, his instruction, and his devotion to you."

"For we speak of you cheerfully always
As journeying on;

Not as one who is dead do we name you-
We say you are gone.

"For how could we speak of you sadly,

We who watched while the grace

Of eternity's wonderful beauty

Grew over your face?

"M. E. H. Everett."

"Alas! what tribute may I bear

To thee, dear father, friend of my far-off youth?
With dimmed eyes and whitening hair

I turn to lay upon thy grave, in ruth,

One flower of love, and drop a grateful tear.

"Thy grave! where may I find thy grave?
No green slope of thy native hills
Cherishes one violet thy dear dust gave.
The mighty music of the pine tree thrills
Along the forest column s nave,

CHAPTER XXII.

VIEWS OF PRESIDENT ALLEN'S CHARACTER.

ON BEHALF OF PUBLIC INTERESTS.

[Extracts from the address of Judge P. B. LcLennan.]

SUCH a life as has been portrayed upon this sad occasion, President Allen's life, must of necessity have materially affected public interests; a character so grand and noble, so kingly yet so childlike in innocent simplicity, majestic, yet tender as a mother's love, imperious, yet ever pleading to come, never commanding to go; a character builded upon pure and noble thought and action, the outgrowth of God's lesson as he learned it from nature's volume, ever spread open before him; a character such as his made an indelible impression upon the lives of all with whom he came in contact. He sipped God's love from the tiny flowers, saw his majesty in the sturdy oak, his power in the tempest, his grandeur in the starry firmament—a beautiful and divine purpose in all. The plane upon which he dwelt was so high that, day by day, mingled with the discordant notes of humanity, he heard the music of God's angels sound so beautiful as to lead him ever to point higher and still higher.

"President Allen's life, so moulded, was consecrated to God and humanity, was consecrated, my friends, to you and to me. For more than half a century he traveled life's great highway, with a bearing so kingly as to compel our homage, strewing God's flowers by the wayside, and thus winning our love; carrying the heaviest burdens, and thus challenging our admiration. Indeed, an honest man, in God's own image, passed along.

"Think you that such a life did not materially affect the public interests of a locality, of a State, of a nation? Its outcroppings are seen on every hand. In the schoolrooms throughout the land noble men and women who were taught at his feet are day by day transmitting his enthusiasm, his power, his soul, to the boys and girls of the commonwealth. In business centers his students are contending, both by pre

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cept and example, for better methods, for stricter honesty and closer application. Those engaged in the professions realize a greater responsibility to clients and patients for having heard his proclamation of duty. In the legislative halls throughout the nation there are those who heard his views as to the duty of the legislator, who were taught his Puritan notions of honesty, and who are standing in this critical period of our country's history as a bulwark against corruption in high places and imbecility in the discharge of the duties of public trusts. In the pulpit thousands of his devotees are pleading in Christ's name with weak, with foolish humanity, to be stronger and wiser, and to come upon the higher plane where he dwelt. In every avocation of life there are those who are endeavoring to practice the precepts which he taught, endeavoring to follow his example, and are thus helping a little to make life's pathway more beautiful, man's abode upon earth more heavenlike. Thousands, yes, tens of thousands, are under the influences of his noble life to-day, and as the years go on they will multiply and still multiply, until the truths which he taught-God's truths-having been transmitted from soul to soul, shall be known throughout the world. "Dear friend and loved one, thou art not dead. Those attributes of thy character, love, truth, purity,-can never die. Sleep for an hour if thou wilt. Rest, if thou must; but thy glorious work must go on forever and forever. In our weakness now we shed a tear. If we were strong we would leap for joy that a noble soul is now untrammeled, that it may soar higher and higher, even to the house of God, and from thence be a still more potent helper in working out God's divine purpose toward man. Thy seeming death emphasizes, vitalizes, the influences of thy life. Thy students, thy children, engaged in the more public activities of life, will pause for at least a moment to shed a tear, but will consecrate themselves anew to higher and nobler things, to the emulation of thy example.

"Would that in this hour of sorrow I could pay the tribute of my heart to my absent, not dead, benefactor. I cannot speak the words. The thought of his many kindnesses, of his unselfish love for me, would overwhelm even a stronger heart. Instead, let me pledge a lifelong fidelity to Alfred University, the capstone of his life's work, the object of his tenderest devotion."