DISCOURSE
DELIVERED AT THE FUNERAL
op
PROFESSOR MOSES STUART.
BY
EDWARDS REM9ARK,
ANDOVER, MASS.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY'TAPPAN & WHITTEMORE,
114 WASHINGTON STR3BT.
185 2.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
TAPPAN & WHITTEMORE,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
ANDOVER: JOHN D. FLAGG,
STEREOTYPER AND PRINTER.




DISCOURSE.
I. SAMUEL 2: 30.
THEM THAT HONOR ME, I WILL HONOR.
"GOD only is great." He sitteth on his throne
independent, - and needeth not the homage of
the angels even. When Solomon had "builded
an house unto the Lord," he was overcome by the
thought of having ventured to provide a restingplace for Him who filleth immensity; and with a
subdued feeling he exclaimed: "Will God in very
deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain
thee; how much less this house which I have
built! " So wonderful is the structure of mind, so
mysterious are the sympathies between the Great
Spirit and the intelligences which he hath made,
that he is said to inhabit their praises, and he
declares: "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth rAe."
How shall we understand this mystery?  IN
WHAT WAY can a child of the dust honor that lofty
One before whom the heavens are unclean?




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A heathen sage has said, that to knoii: God is
to glorify him. So majestic are the attributes of
Jehovah, that a mind perceiving must admire, even
if it hate them. i The conscience of a fallen spirit
approves of the virtue which the will rejects.
God is exalted by the lost minds who believe and
tremble.
Much more is he honored by men who piously
seek to know, in'order to love him. When the
idea of his excellence is followed by the becoming
affection, when- every thought of his ways elicits
the appropriate confidence, when the knowledge
of his truth blooms into reverence for it, and bears
the fruit of peace and good will, then is the Father
glorified. One sigh of a penitent child is a nobler
tribute to the divine praise, than is the largest
knowledge of a-seraph even. How complete, then,
is the honor which God receives from the most
capacious intelligence, sanctified by the'fullest
love; Wvhen every idea concerning him is enriched
with an appropriate'emotion, and every new
thought occasions new and holier joys.
As Jehovah is honored by the mere fact of our
intelligence respecting him, even if it call forth a
reluctant homage, and still more by our free-will
offering, that answers to the claims of our intelligence, so is he glorified by our endeavors to diffuse
among other minds a like knowledge, with its cor



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responding love. A Christian scholar,.contending
with the infiimities of an emaciated body, leaving
his sleepless couch that he may discipline himself'for the studies of an anxious day, and closing his
volume at evening, that he may gain some inter-.
mittent sleep for the relief of his wearied frame;
eating the bread of carefulness, that he may have
a clear mind for interpreting the sacred page,
keeping aloof from the busy, haunts of men;; that
he may search out new motives for winnihg them
to -a life of godliness; such a scholar offers.his soul
and his.:body as a burnt offering to the.,Lotd, and:by the sacrifice of his own ease, he- persuades
others to walk in the ways of pleasantness and
peace. When a Biblical teacher allures young
men to become, themselves, the. instructors of.the
community; when he inspires them with a..love
of the gospel, qualifies.them to translate it into
other tongues, instils into thdm;an earnest -desire
to open this treasure before their wondering fellow
men; when he sends them forth,. year after year,,_ the east and the west,  the north:and the south,
eavnest to make known,what they have.learned
from him,. such a teacher. ofa teachers is himself a
missionary, perambulating among the dark, places
of the earth, going from the. wigwams of the West
to the city of Constantine, and in a kind of moral
ubiquity unfolding the, varied truths~which. he -has




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gathered up in his still retreat. On one and the
same Sabbath, through a hundred ministers, to
Parthians and Medes, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus
and Asia; to the strangers of Rome, Jews and
Proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, he is speaking inf
their own tongues the wonderful works of God.
The principles of -the gospel are disseminated
among men, not more by argument, than by the
authoriy of personal character. Hence a child of
the dust may honor the King of kings, by associating. religion and religious truth with those
qualities which command the respect of the world.
There is a style'of intellect which may be in itself
no worthier than other styles, but it dazzles the
observers; it strikes their imagination; it enforces
homage. A man of marked- subtlety and acuteness of powers, of accurate distinctions, and a
scrupulous nicety of expression, is not fitted to
carry captive the multitude; but they are surprised
and borne onward by the comprehensive mind
that generalizes extensively, and calls up illustrations from a multifarious reading; the mind that
takes a wide range over all sciences, and sweeps
through a literature in various and strange languages, and holds together the spoils of a vast
learning within the grasp of a giant memory.
When this man consecrates his genius to the




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cause of the Nazarene,+ many troubled souls' are
comforted; the timid grow valiant in the cause of
virtue, and praise their Maker for giving them a
strong"staff on which they may lean.  "Not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble are called; but God hath chosen the
foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty; and
base things of the world, and things w.ich  are
despised, hath God chosen, yea, and thinghich
are not, to bring to nought things that ar, that
no flesh should glory in his presence."  Still, it
pleaseth him to give here and there a sovereign
demonstration that all the riches of the spiritual
world are his; that at his behest lie the resources
of the most versatile intelligence, and he holds in
his hand the. hearts of the. kings in the realm of
mind, and turneth them whithersoever he will.
Nor. is our Sovereign honored by the authoritative character of the intellect alone, which he
consecrates to himself. There is a peculiar style
of moral excellence, which,: though it may have
no more:intrinsic value than other styles, is more
fitted to attract the admiration of men to itself and
to its great Author. There is a virtue in duly
caring for the  body; but the sympathies of the
world will rather go with him who makes the




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animal give way to the spiritual nature, and is not
afraid to use, while he does not abuse his health,
and perseveres in weariness and painfulness, in
watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings
often, in cold and nakedness, to labor for the moral
improvement of the churches. There is a virtue
in frugality; but the multitude will kindle into the
higher enthusiasm for a generous temper, and in
their view the crown of a public servant is, that
after a;hard life he died poor. There is a virtue
in a fiting deference to the opinions of the community; but the masses of the people will raise
their loudest shout for the man who braves public
opinion in what he deems a good cause. Sooner.or later, they bow before him who has a positive
character, and who assails a favorite error or vice
in high places; who rushes forward amid obloquy,
in,defiance. of a general ill-will, and is earnest for
a seeming truth or grace;, be it generally despised;
and is fearless of all who may resist him, and
hears their reproaches and goes forward with his
eye single on one mark, and when circumvented
by their snares, forces.his passage through them
and.gains. the prize. lTheredis a virtue in discxeetness and,prudent sreserve; but the hearts of men
will, open;moast readily to:him who is frank, and
ingenuous; who will rather lose his cause than
spring a mine upon his'adversary, and will be




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ensnared into the loss of his estate or his fame,
sooner than be guilty of one mean evasion; who
will retract his errors as guilelessly as he made
them, and will expose all his foibles, and lay open
the recesses of his soul gladly, rather than deceive
the lowest of his race. When a man of such
noble impulses blends his own name with that of
true godliness, he is a jewel in the Redeemer's
crown. He wins a large community to a devout
life.  He makes men feel that lowly Christians
are the world's nobility.  They hpnor God for
him. He- honors God through them. It may be
that Simon Peter had no truer love than Bartholomew or James the Less, but he has associated
religion with an intrepid spirit, and identified real
piety with real courage; and all times will pay
obeisance to a manly boldness, and to the genius
of the gospel, which makes the wicked flee when
no man pursueth, but makes the righteous bold' as
a lion.
".Them that honor me, I WILD HONOR."
God exalts them, in causing them to glorify
him. Nothing can glorify that august Being, save
what is itself noble; and by everything which is'truly dignified he is exalted, as the Great Spirit
from whom cometh down every perfect gift. The
chief greatness of man is summed up in his
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virtue, and this virtue is itself an honor,:and the
virtuous man has obtained this honor from  the
Father of Lights, and is ennobled by the mere
reception of that which, proverbially, is its own
reward.
As we honor the Most High by a love to his
truth, so he will crown that love with his blessing.
It is one office of the Holy Spirit, to make fresh
disclosures of his will to the earnest and trustful
seeker. He is pleased by our honest search after
all that pertains to his attributes.  No man has a
character that will bear to be thoroughly examined. The great distinction -of God is, that all
new discoverie:?of his ways will be discoveries of
new excellence, and we praise him by our assured
faith that the deeper we descend into the mine of
Christian doctrine, so, much the richer will be the
gold and the precious stones found in those depths.
His will is, that himself be known, not be hidden
from observation. They who strive to know him,
then, coincide with his will; and, seeking, shall
find' the wisdom which he gives in recompense
of their toils.. There is a sympathy between an
inquiring spirit and every religious idea.  That
idea is like a magnet, drawing to itself the mind
that inclines to' learn of it., The appetences of a
Christian scholar after larger and higher. attainments in revealed truth, are a commendation of




that truth; as the bended branches of a houseplant toward the window, illustrate the worth of
the light of day. Nothing can satisfy a true divine,
but the word of God. In his extreme age his zeal
remains fresh for this word. As he walks the
streets he is old; but he becomes young again
when he opens this volume, for this renews the
strength of the faint. Amid the depressing maladies of a student's life, he finds his chief comfort
in exploring these pages, for these are a medicine
to the sick. The world is dark to him, but the
Bible lies before him in illuminated letters. Foes
rise up against him, but he loses himself in the
contemplation of God. He is -enveloped in the
truth. This is his protection. And the very fact
that the Scriptures have this variety of appeal to
his varied sensibilities, that they are his defence
amid peril, his lamp in the darkness, his companion when lonely, his staff when he is languid;
the fact that they are everything to him in every
want, is an encomiun upon their value, as it
proves them to be the word ever in season. Such
a man, free from personal interests, superior to
partisan schemes, sacrificing his old prejudices to
the great Teacher, will be elevated into the true
knowledge. He may err in an individual argument. He may mistake a minor interpretation.
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his mind. The great principles of the gospel he
will understand. This understanding is an appropriate reward for a hearty search. He who gives
a healthful air to the lungs panting for it, and provides a fit satisfaction for every instinct made by
Him, also "giveth to a man that is good in his
sight, wisdom and knowledge and joy;" and has
established it as an ordinance, that if an inquirer
have a pure love for the truth, he shall be honored
with a growing knowledge of it.
To a man of these generous aspirations after
the highest wisdom, will be vouchsafed a good
name among his fellow men. Even in this gross
world, God will honor him for his spiritual tastes.
Amid the ruins of the fall, there is still preserved
in the race a respect for truth, and for those who
seek the truth with a full heart. Men who hate
the search, will gaze and admire. Deep-seated in
the human soul, among its ineradicable instincts,
is a reverence for an honest man, who studies to
know God in order to become like him, and
who becomes assimilated to him in order to know
him yet more perfectly. Men may oppose such
an inquirer; they may calumniate him, but the
best part of their natures yields a homage to him,
and they will garnish his sepulchre when he is no
more. Even if the letters of his name be forgotten, his character will be venerated. The rever



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ence which is paid to a clear mind animated by
pure desires,.is paid to him in reality, though not
in form, after his titles and even his residence have
ceased to be recognized. The thoughts which he
started into life will live on, and at last will find
him out and pay him tribute. No literature is so
permanent as -the religious; for none is so intertwined with the enduring sensibilities of man.
No poetry, no paintings, no sculptures keep their
hold on the affections of the race, so long as those
which are consecrated to Him who made our souls
for religion. To this end are we born, that we
may khow and do the will of God. He, therefore
who enlarges our comprehension of that will,
furthers the end of our being; and as men become
the more mindful of their high vocation, they will
be the more grateful to every one who has quickened their moral growth. The exile at St. Helena
complained, that in a few ages all his mighty deeds
would be honored with only a few sentences of the
historian. But the histories which will be read in
the Millennium, will portray the character and the
influence of Augustine and Luther, with the vividness of a present reality.  Long buried reminiscences of the good will then be revived. Then will
be the first resurrection of those who have signally
honored God. While the fame of the wicked shall
be as the snow upon the river, the deeds of the




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righteous shall be held in everlasting remrnembrance..
But the highest honor of those who adorn the.
church of the Redeemer, is reserved for a nobler
sphere.  "They that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the firmament; and they that turn
many to righteousness, as the stats forever and
ever."   He  that hungereth  and thirsteth for
divine knowledge, shall sit down at last to a perennial feast. He who has the most spiritual mind,
is the best prepared for the world of spirits. There
is a temple, where the fathers of the church are
assembled as devout learners. There is a school,
where great philosophers stand in adoring council.
There is an arena, where the captains and the
mighty men of the church militant rest from their
warfare, and cast the crowns of their victory at
the feet of the Prince of Peace. The elect minds
of the church, the venerable doctors of divine
science are collected there in a magnificent array,
and have become like unto their great Teacher,
for they see him as he is. Owen and Baxter are
there; and strive together no more. Toplady and
Wesley are there; and, forgetting their old contentions, unite in each other's hymns of praise.
Heaven has long been attracting to itself; and
continues still to draw up within its alluring walls,
whatever is majestic and vigorous and graceful in




the church below. The clouds do not roll up the
mountain and vanish out of our sight into the
pure skies above us more surely, or by a firmer
law, than our good men who honor their Lord,
rise from ounr view to be honored by him.
When the Most High endueth any of his servants with rich and costly gifts, he requireth us
to take note of them, and to say with the prophet:
" Blessed be the name of God, forever and ever;
for wisdom and might are his. And he changeth
the times and the seasons; he removeth kings and
setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise,
and knowledge to them that know understanding." Let us now strive to gain a deeper reverence
for his name, while we glance at the favors which
he. lavished upon the man whose form, on its
passage to the grave, is for a brief hour detained
in the sanctuary.
MosEs STUART was born in the town of Wilton,
State of Connecticut, on the twenty-sixth of March,
1780.  Like the majority of our clergymen, he
was a farmer's son'; and, until he was fourteen
years old, had no intention of pursuing any but a
farmer's life. His early field labors, although they
did not give -him health, were one means of prolonging his days. He looked back upon the farm




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as one of his best schools, where were nurtured
some of his most healthful tastes. In his extreme
age,. he remembered the eagerness with which,
when but four years old, he read a book of popular ballads. At that early period, he had a fondness
which never forsook him, for the creations of an
imaginative- genius. When a lad of but twelve
years, he became absorbed in the perusal of Edwards on the Will. In his fifteenth year, he was
sent to an academy in Norwalk, Connecticut,
merely for the purpose of perfecting his English
education. His preceptor was quick to recognize
in him the signs of a masculine intellect, and
urged him to prepare for a collegiate course. He
began his Latin Grammar with a characteristic
impetus.  In one evening he learned the four
conjugations of verbs.  In another evening he
mastered the sixty rules of syntax. In three days
the principles of the whole grammar were in his
mind, and he found himself a member of a class
who had devoted several months to the language.
While pursuing the Latin and the Greek, he
attended also to the French classics. Several of
his elder schoolmates had devoted many weeks
to the reading of Telemachus. They ridiculed
him for his attempt to recite with them at the very
beginning of his study. He remained with them
a day and a half, and was then transferred to a
higher class.




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In May, 1797, having been under the careful
tuition of Roger Minot Sherman, he entered the
Sophomore class of Yale College.' At this period,
his tastes were preeminently for the mathematics;
but his thirst for all learning was intense.  His
physical system proved then, as ever afterward,
unable to sustain the full action of his mind. One
of his honored classmates describes "the identity
of the youth of seventeen with the old man of
seventy," and says: "The first composition which
I heard him read, was in the same style, in its
leading characteristics, as his last publication from
the press." - " At our Commencement in 1799, he
had the salutatory oration, which was considered
at that time, the first appointment, and I do
not suppose that a single individual of the class
thought this distinction unmerited."  Thus early
in life he had a marked, positive, determined
character.
During the year after his graduation, he taught
an academy in North Fairfield, Connecticut; and
during a part of the following year, he was the
principal of a high school in Danbury, Connecticut.
Here he commenced the study of the law. He
soon left the school and devoted himself entirely
to this study, in the office of Judge Chapman or
Judge Edmonds, at Newtown. He was admitted
to the bar in 1802, at Danbury.




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In the legal profession, a brilliant career opened
before him. In many respects, he seemed made
for an advocate. He had a memory quick to
seize the minutest facts of every case, and strong
to retain the old precedents relating to them. He
had a rare vividness of conception, by which he
could bring himself and his auditors into the ideal
presence of any scene. He had a fertility of illustration, and could present a single idea in so many
different lights and shades, as to make the dullest
mind both see and feel it. He had a singular
readiness of utterance, and a quickness of repartee,\
and a forceful, authoritative manner' which would
have held a mastery over the jurors, and baffled
most of his antagonists. His legal studies exerted
an obvious influence on his whole subsequent life.
He ever delighted in examining points of jurisprudence. Thus was he led to cherish such an interest
in politics as was enough to absorb an ordinary
The power of Mr. Stuart's elocution, is not readily understood by
those who heard him in his advanced life only. An eminent critic,
familiar with him in his youth, says that his Master's Oration spoken at
Yale College in 1802, was requested for the press and published by the
editor of the United States Gazette, in Philadelphia, and adds: " This
was an honor unusual at that time. I must say, however, that the
oration owed its success in part to the manner in which it was pronounced. No man whom I have ever known, has appeared to me his
equal in the faculty of saying even common things so as to give them
the air of novelties."




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mind.  He continued through  life to preserve
some familiarity with the decisions of the English
courts; with the movements of the French and
German parties; and was as conversant with the
political details of our own country, as if he had
been constantly in civil office. During the last
few weeks of his continuance among us, he
examined our relations to the Magyars, with as
lively an interest as if he had been responsible to
our national Cabinet for his opinion. It was a
singular felicity with which, in the Professor's
chair, he often referred to the principles of human
legislation, for the purpose of illustrating  the
divine. He acquired a certain manliness and
versatility of style from his perusal of the forensic
orators, and he often advised men to study the
noble science of the law, as preparative for the
nobler one of divinity.
A few weeks before his admission to the bar, he
was called to a tutorship in Yale College. "My
love of study," he writes, "induced me to accept
the office." He continued to perform its duties from
the autumn of 1802 to that of 1804. A teacher of
large experience, vyho was then associated with
him in the college Faculty, has said of Mr.
Stuart: "He excelled all men whom I have ever
known in the same employment, for enkindling
among his pupils an ardent zeal in their literary




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pursuits; although his instruction, perhaps, was
not better than that of some others." - " His great
power was, in making a class feel that something
was to be done. Even Dr. Dwight, whose influence in this way was wonderful, did not in this
particular surpass Mr. Stuart." During the earlier
part of his tutorship, the science of the law was
ever in his mind. "I well remember," says one
of his associates in office, "that he would often
speak to me of some discovery he had made with
regard to the origin of a legal formula, or of some
mode of proceeding in the courts; or he would
mention some new decision of which he had
learned, and which he considered as settling some
important legal principle." But soon a change
came over the spirit of his conversation. He felt,
probably, the influence of that religious movement
which had so recently made the collegiate year of
of 1801-2 so memorable in the annals of New
Haven. Of two hundred and thirty students,
about one third, and among them the philanthropic Evarts, had become interested in the
claims of the gospel. One day, desirous of procuring some appropriate book for the Sabbath,
Mr. Stuart borrowed of the President, a volume
of Macknight on the Epistles.  That volume
opened before the future philologist a new field
of inquiry. At first his interest in it seemed to be




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a mere literary inquisitiveness; soon he became
absorbed in religious contemplation. His feelings
were deeply moved. For a long time he resisted
the new influence, but at last bowed his heart
before God. There was great joy among the
disciples, when so promising a mind yielded its
prospective honors to the Redeemer. In the early
part of 1803 he connected himself with the church
in Yale College.
Under the direction of President Dwight, who
entertained for him a high esteem, he now began
to prepare himself for the work of a preacher.
"After reading," he says " Dr. Hopkins's System of
Divinity, a number of President Edwards's Treatises, several of Andrew Fuller's, a part of Ridgley's
Body of Divinity, and somnie of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History, and a part of Prideaux's Connectiot, I was examined and licensed to preach, by
the neighboring Association of Ministers."  Thus
narrow was the ordinary course of theological
study in that day!  Its present expansion is a
result, in no small degree of his own efforts.
In the autumn of 1804, he journeyed for his
health among the Green mountains; and having
preached several Sabbaths at Middlebury, Vt., was
invited to take the pastoral care of the Congregational church in that town.  Having declined this
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of Rev. Dr. James Dana, in New Haven; and,
subsequently, of Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, in New
York. " Soon after I had begun to preach in New
Haven," he says, "the people made a movement
to obtain the consent of their pastor, that I should
be settled as a colleague with him; but when he
had heard me preach several times, he strenuously
opposed " the movement. Dr. Dana had been long
known, as an opposer of the Edwardses, Bellamy,
and Hopkins. But he could not resist the determination of his people to enjoy the services of
Mr. Stuart. He was dismissed from his pastoral
office. Mr. Stuart was chosen his successor with
only five dissenting votes, and was ordained on
the fifth of March, 1806. " His short ministry in
New Haven, marks an era in the history of the
church which he served as pastor. We might
almost define his settlement as the date of a revolution. The old petrified order of things which
had come down through the ministry of at least
three successive pastors, and which was sanctified by the traditions of more than a century,
was rapidly and eff'ectually disturbed. Meetings
for prayer and free religious conference, which
before had been hardly known - meetings in the
evening by candlelight, which before had been
reckoned little better than a scandal, became frequent. A new religious vitality began to be devel



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oped in the church; a new seriousness spread
itself over the congregation at large." So writes
the present minister of that church,e and he adds
that, during the three years and ten months of
Mr. Stuart's pastorate, two hundred persons were
admitted into full communion in the church, of
whom only twenty-eight were received by letter
from  other ecclesiastical bodies.  Wellnigh the
whole ministry of this zealous man, was passed
amid scenes of special religious interest.  They
fitted him for his literary life. He had, indeed, a
rare combination of excellences for a pulpit orator.
His voice, deep, sonorous, solemn, was like that
of a prophet. His commanding and impassioned
manner gave to his spoken words a power which
they lost on tlie printed page.  His language was
copious, his illustrations were distinct, his vivacity
of thought awakened men, his energy of feeling
bore them onward. He seized a subject in its
strong points, and held it up, simple, clear, prominent, until it affected his hearers as it obviously
affected himself. He loved his work. His interest
in preaching rose to enthusiasm. In despite of all
his zeal for books, he devoted each afternoon of
every week to the duties of a pastor.t Had he
* IRev. Leonard Bacon, D. D.
t Speaking of a negro, once purchased as a slave by President
Stiles, Mr. Stuart was wont to remark: " That negro was the sexton of




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remained in the pastoral' life, he would have been
what is now  provincially  termed  a  "revival
preacher." Thousands in our cities would have
continued to hang, as they once did, upon his
lips.  The common people heard him gladly.  Dr.
Porter of this Seminary, on listening to one of his
sermons, almost forgot his usual care for the proprieties of the occasion, and had no sooner passed
the threshold of the sanctuary, than he exclaimed
aloud: " This is preaching the glorious gospel of
the blessed God."  The life of our friend's discourses was, Christ and him  crucified.  On the
communion Sabbath, at the sacramental table, his
emotions often choked his utterance, and he
expressed his sympathies in silent tears.  Many
of his admirers, after the maturest deliberation,
deemed it unwise for him to leave the sphere of
a parish minister. But his field was the world.
When his removal to Andover was proposed by
Dr. Samuel Spring, President Dwight replied,
" We cannot spars him." Dr.. Spring rejoined,
" We want no man who can be spared."
On the twenty-eighth of February, 1810, Mr.
Stuart was inaugurated Professor of Sacred Lit-'
my church, and the most I happy man on account of his piety whom I
ever knew. I used to call on him oftener than on any man in my congregation, and it did me more good to hear him converse on his religious
experidnce, than any other man."




erature, in this Theological Seminary. "I came
here," he says, "with little more than a knowledge
of the Hebrew alphabet, and the power of making
out, after a poor fashion too, the bare translation
of some [five or six] chapters in Genesis and a
few Psalms, by aid of Parkhurst's Hebrew Lexicon, and without the vowel-points.  I had not,
and never have had, the aid of any teacher in my
biblical studies.  Alas! for our country at that
time (A. D. 1810); there was scarcely a man in it,
unless by accident some one who had seen
educated abroad, that had such a knowledge of
Hebrew  as was requisite in order to be an instructor.?" The youthful professor's acquaintance
with the Greek language was far inferior to that
now obtained in our universities. Hewas to be
a self-made man. In about two years, amid all
the heterogeneous cares of a new office and a
new seminary, he prepared a Hebrew grammar,
without the points, for the immediate use of his
pupils.' They were obliged to copy it, day by day,
from his written sheets. In the third year, he
published it at hao own expense. To print a
Hebrew grammar was then a strange work. He
was compelled to set up the types for about half
the paradigms of verbs, with his own hands. He
* Christian Review, Vol. VI. p. 448..
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taught the printers their art. Is he not fitly termed
the father of biblical philology in our land? Eight
years afterwards, he printed his larger Hebrew
grammar. This he soon remodelled with great
painstaking, and published it in a second edition,
two years after the first. Not satisfied with it, he
reexamined all its principles anew, wrote " some
of it three, four, and a small part even seven or
eight times over,"' and published the third edition
five years after the second. Professor Lee, of the
University in Cambridge, England, while speaking of this edition, says, "the industry of its author
is new matter for my admiration of him." t When
called to prepare a seventh- edition of this work,
on which he had already expended labor enough
to fill up half the life of an ordinary man, he
preferred to introduce the amended system of
younger grammarians; and therefore, in his sixtyseventh year, he translated the grammar of Gesenius as improved by Roediger.  As early as 1821,
his enterprise had procured   for the Seminary a
Hebrew press, then unrivalled in this land; and
as early as 1829, he had at his command fonts of
* See Preface to Hebrew Grammar, 1828.
t See North American Review, Vol. XXXVII. p. 295, and American Biblical Repository, Vol. I. pp. 776 - 786.
t Through the generosity of Rev. John Codman, D. D., of Dorchester, Ms., donor of'the Codman press.




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type for eleven oriental languages and dialects.
The works which he sent forth from this press,
gained the notice of scholars who had previously
looked upon our literature with indifference, if not
with disdain. He awakened a scientific interest
in biblical theology.
When he began his course in the Seminary, he
often consulted Schleusner's Lexicon, and was
troubled by the German terms occasionally introduced into that work. No one could explain their
meaning to him. His curiosity was thoroughly
roused. At an exorbitant price he obtained the
apparatus for German study, and in a single fortnight had read the entire Gospel of John in that
language.  A friend presented him with Seiler's
Biblische Hermeneutik, and this work introduced
him to the wide range of German literature. He
felt himself to be in a new world. It was the
suggestions and references of that one volume,
which enabled him, through the liberal aid of the.Trustees of the Institution, to fill our library with
the richest German treatises then in the land.
"Before I obtained Seiler," he writes, "I did not
know enough to believe that I yet knew nothing
in sacred criticism."* For ten years he performed
the rugged work of a pioneer; and in his maturer
life he often said, that he did not know how to
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bes;tii the study of the Bible nntil he was forty
years old. For forty years he had been in the
wilderness.  He entered late in. life upon the
promised possession.
Nor was he merely alone, in the efforts of the
first ten years of his professorship. To have been
simply friendless, would have been to him a
relief. But the anxieties of good men were
awakened with regard to the results of his German study. He endured the whisperings of his.brethren. Many of them met him with an averted face. "Solitary," he says of hi'nself, "unsupported, without sympathy, suspected, the whole
country either inclined to take part against me, or
else to look with pity on the supposed ill-judged
direction of my studies," "admonished by my
bosom  friends,"  " warned of my approaching
ruin," -" very-sensitive on the point of character,"
-"many a sleepless night have I passed, and
many a dark and distressing day, when some new
effusion of suspicion or reproof had been poured.
upon me."'  Morning after morning, he sallied
forth from his house at five o'clock, through rain,
hail, snow, storm, and as his attenuated figure
breasted the winds of our cold winters, it seemed
a type of his spirit, encountering manfully the
opposition not of foes only, —this were easily
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borne, —but of friends.  Night after night he
repeated the sentiment which at the age of threescore years he expressed in a public prayer, and
which many an ingenuous youth will hereafter
read with a tearful eye: " God in mercy keep me,
by thy Spirit, from falling,- from  denying the
Lord that bought me, and from refusing to glory
in the cross of Christ! A poor, dying sinner has
no other hope or refuge but this; and to forsake
his last and only hope, when he is approaching the verge of eternity —would be dreadful
indeed!"*
The time at length arrived for developing the
influence of his communion' with the Teutonic
mind. The Unitarian faith had acquired a dominant influence in our Commonwealth.  Buckminster and Channing had commended it by the
graces of their style, and by the beauties of their
character. The celebrated Baltimore sermon had
begun to attract a general admiration. At this
crisis, Prof. Stuart published his Letters to Dr.
Channing. The first edition was exhausted in a
single week. Two other editions rapidly followed.
Four or five were soon printed in England, with
the highest commendation.  His opponents acknowledged and admired his learning. -is friends
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confessed their error in resisting his German
progress. They felt the importance of it for the
church. "No," said the venerated Porter to him,
"you could not" have written that volume, without your German aid. "You are in the right in
this matter, and your friends are in the wrong;
take your own way for the future."" Before this
contest of the intrepid student,- scarcely one of our
divines was acquainted with German literature.
He has made it common. With a great sum, he
obtained for us this freedom. For it he endured
a great fight of afflictions.  But he fought a good
fight. But he kept the faith. He came off a conqueror and more than a conqueror, through Him
that loved him. Thousands of trembling Christians now triumphed in their strong deliverance.
They honored himswho had honored Christ. At
this time, he entered upon a career of popularity
as a scholatr, which was perhaps unexampled in
our religious annals. He disapproved of the adulation that was offered him,  Such encomiums
ought not to be pronounced upon a mortal.
Flatteries, however, more than frowns did not
deter him from his studies. In a few years he
published his Commentary on the Epistle to the
Hebrews. At once this work was honored in the
high places of letters, where so few of our theo* Christian Review, Vol. VI. p. 458.




logical treatises had been previously noticed. The
most eminent scholars of Great Britain, have confessed their obligations to it. The North American
Review predicted that it would be translated into
the German language.' It was lauded as an
American treatise had seldom.been, in the German
periodicals.t  Within five years the Commentary
on the Epistle to the Romnans followed that on the
Hebrews, and awakened a still deeper interest, not
only among critics, but also among metaphysicians. It is unwonted for a treatise to touch so
many salient points in the creeds, and to stir up
so many classes of men. It reached the hidden
springs of intellectual and of moral life. If some
Expositions of this Epistle be more accurate than
his, are many of them  more learned? -If some
be more learned than his, are many of them more
accurate? In originality of thought and feeling,
it excels those by which it is surpassed in logical
order and chaste style. It exhibits no more of
piquant idiom, nor of good sense, nor of pious
feeling than are to be found in some other Commentaries, but it exhibits an unusual combination
of these excellences; of thoughts which are to be
* North American Review, Vol. XXVIII. p. 150.
t Although the preparation of this Commentary cost its author years
of toil, yet he formed the plan of it in fifteen minutes, and wrote the
entire first volume with a single quill.




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remembered, with phrases which are to be quoted.
The erudite and pious Tholuck commended it to.the "learned Germans," and said: "In preparing
this work its author was able to avail himself of a
rich exegetical literature; he himself examined
every point independently and carefally; his remarks bear testimony to a keen and practised
judgment; he is particularly careful in deciding
the most important doctrinal points of the Epistle;
and what is in the highest degree attractive, is the
Christian mildness and moderation which he
everywhere manifests; as also the expression of
his warm Christian feeling which here and there
breaks through."*
No sooner had our departed friend completed
his Exposition of the Romans, than he began his
Exposition of the Apocalypse. With what enthusiasm he searched into the dark sayings uttered
on Patmos, his exhilarated pupils know right well.
Never shall I forget the tones almost of inspiration
with which he exclaimed: " Oh that I might have
seen Michael Angelo or Guido, and besought them
to transfer to the canvas three or four scenes which
John has suggested to my mind. I am on the
point of writing to Washington Allston and proposing to him these subjects for his pencil."  So
large were the conceptions, so vast the plans of
* Literarischer Anzeiger, 1834, No. 22. S. 170.




our many-sided critic! Whether the details of
this, which he regarded as his most elaborate Cornmentary, be true or false, it will effect a revolution
in our mode of interpreting the prophetical style.
Many will resort to it for information, if they will
not admit it as an authority.- Many a finished
treatise will be cut out from it, as a statue from a
marble block. It is a pyramid of labor.  One of
its most eminent opposers has said, that "if it were
compressed into two thirds its present bulk, it
alone would bear the name of its author to a
distant age." In rapid succession followed this veteran's Commentaries on Daniel and Ecclesiastes;
both of them abounding with hints and references
of rare worth. On his seventy-second birthday
he began his Exposition of the Proverbs. In four
months it was prepared for the press. Five weeks
before his death he fractured his arm by a fall
upon the snow, but he persevered a full month in
correcting, with his lame hand, the proof-sheets of
this his final work, and sent the last pages of it to
the press two days before he died. During his
life he printed more than twenty volumes, and
carried several of them through the second and
third editions; and whenever he republished any
one of his writings, he verified anew its accumulated references to other works. His pamphlets
and periodical essays occupy more than two
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thousand octavo pages.* All the labor immediately
connected with these voluminous publications has
been performed, amid physical pain, during three,
or at most, three and a half hours of each day.
He has never. allowed himself to engage in what
he called study, for- a longer portion. of the twentyfour hours. These were his golden hours. No
mortal man was allowed to interrupt them. They
were his sacred hours. He wis wont to commence them with secret, but sometimes audible
prayer, and occasionally with chanting a Psalm of
David in the original Hebrew. While in his
study, his mind moved like a swift ship. He
bounded over the waves. It required a long time
each day to repair his dismantled frame, his
exhausted energies. He made all his pecuniary
interests, all his plans for personal comfort, all his
social enjoyments, tributary to his main business,
that of investigating the divine word.t
* See Appendix, Note A.
t During a large part of his professional life at Andover, he would
not allow himself to sit in his study-chamber, after eleven and a half
o'clock in the morning. At the stated minute, even if he were at the
height of his interest in a theme, he would leave a sentence unfinished,
drop his book or manuscript, and go to his physical exercise. He was
once invited to perform the marriage ceremony for two friends, who had
long enjoyed his esteem. He desired to gratify them, and consented to
do so, on condition of their having the ceremony after half past eleven
of the forenoon. They urged him to perform it at ten. " But that is in




3.5
But although  his writings have  been  read  on
the  banks of the  Mississippi and of the  Danube,
it is not by them that he has achieved his greatest
triumphs.  He  lives  in  the  souls of his  pupils.
He has stamped an image upon them. He has
engraved deep lines on the character of the
churches through them. Many a professor in our
colleges has reiterated the saying, " I first learned
to think, under the  inspiration of Mr. Stuart.   He
first taught me how to use my mind." The
excellence of a teacher does not consist in his
lodging his own ideas safely in the remembrance
of  his  pupils, but in  arousing  their  individual
powers to independent action, in giving them
vitality, hope, fervor, courage; in dispelling their
drowsiness and spurring them onward to selfimprovement. The vivacity of Mr. Stuart when
my study-hours!" was his reply, and, of course, another clergyman
was called to the service.  It will not be surmised that Mr. Stuart
was divorced from books during the afternoon and evening of each day.
His pupils were early familiarized to his distinction between " reading "
and "studying."  For his mental relaxation, he was daily perusing
books of geography, history, biography, literary criticism, etc. Among. the
works which he " read " in his parlor, were such as Brown's Philosophy of
the Mind, Brown on Cause and Effect, Bishop Butler's Sermons. He
interdicted all " study" during his seminary vacations, but in the five
weeks' recess of 1841, he read thirty volumes through. He exemplified
the law, that change of mental action is mental rest. The irrepressible
instincts of his mind for progress in knowledge, illustrated the reasoning
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he met his pupils, his exuberance of anecdote,
his quick-thronging illustrations, his affluent, racy
diction, his vivid portraiture of the prominent
features of a theme, astonished his class, and
animated their literary zeal. If all his writings
had been burned in manuscript, the preparation of them  in his own mind would have
been a sufficient publication of them, through the
minds of' his scholars. By his enthusiasm  in
elaborating them, he disciplined'himself for his
oral instruction. Daily he went from the scene of
their influence to his class-room. His words in the
afternoon betokened his morning struggles, and
quick was. the sympathy which they awakened.
He verified the adage, that instructors must be
learners, and they cease to impart when they
cease to acquire. The fresh, versatile, easy, openhearted way in which he discoursed before his
scholars on every science and every art, raised
their admiration of him often to an excess. Some
of them almost looked upon him as a being frdm
a higher world. The hour when they first saw
him was a kind of epoch in their history. " Never
shall I forget my first interview wTith him," has been
said by hundreds of young men. No teacher in the
land ever attracted t'o himself so many theological
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has been more than fifteen hundred. Men came
to him from the Canadas, from Georgia, and the
farthest West. Members of eight differing sects
congregated around him, and did one ever suspect
him of a proselyting spirit? They loved his freedom in dissenting from' their views, but perhaps
no man who knew him ever stigmatized him as a
sectarian. More than seventy of his pupils have
been the presidents or professors of our highest
literary institutions; and in their persons he has
given an impulse to classical study among the
colleges of our land. Nowhere is he more gratefully remembered than in our tralls of science.
More than a hundred of his disciples have been
missionaries to the heathen; about thirty of thdm
have been engaged in translating the Bible into
foreign languages, and have borne the results of his
grammatical study to men who are to be civilized
by means of it. It cheered his declining years
to reflect that he had been preaching the gospel,
through his missionary pupils, in ancient Nineveh
and under the shadow of Ararat, as well as amid
the wilds of Oregon, and on the islands off the
sea.
The great work of Mr. Stuart may be summed
up in a few words. He found theology under the
dominion of an iron-handed metaphysics.  For
* See Appendix, Note B.




ages had the old scholastic philosophy pressed
down the free meaning of inspiration. His first
and last aim was, to disenthrall the Word. of life
from its slavery to an artificial logic. He made no
words more farniliar to his pupils than: "The Bible
is the only and sufficient rule of faith and practice."  In his creed the Bible was first, midst, last,
highest, deepest, broadest. He spoke sometimes
in terms too disparaging of theological systems.
But it was for the sake of exalting above them
the doctrines of John and Paul.  HIe read the
scholastic divines, but he studied the prophets and
apostles.  He introduced among us a new era
of biblical interpretation.  The Puritan fathers
of New England were familiar with the Greek
and Hebrew tongues. But they never devoted
themselves to the original Scriptures with that
freshness of interest which he exhibited, that
vividness of biographical and geographical detail,
that sympathy with the personal and domestic
life of inspired men, that ideal presence of the
scenes once honored by our Redeemer, that freedom from the trammels of a prescriptive philosophy or immemorial custom. Because he has done
-so much and suffered so much, in persuading men
to interpret the Bible; not according to the letter,
but the spirit, not in subjection to human standards,,but in compliance with its own analogies,




not by conjectures of what it ought to mean, but
by grammatical and historical proofs of what it
does mean, he has received and deserved the
name of our patriarch in sacred philology. Several weeks before he was publicly named for the
Professorship which he afterwards adorned, a
sagacious observer remarked to him incidentally:
"You, of all men whom I know, are just the
man for that Professorship.  Biblical Literature
is now at a low ebb throughout the country, but
if you were to teach it at Andover, you would
make the students there believe, in three months,
that Sacred Criticism is as necessary to the successful progress of a theologian, as air is to the
support of animal life."  For more than forty
years, the man who uttered this prophecy, has
been an instructor in one of our most enterprising
colleges, and'he is, perhaps, more familiar than
any living man with the history of our philological literature, and he now writes: "No one has
rejoiced more heartily than myself at the success
which has attended Mr. Stuart in his office at
Andover. He has done a work there, and in the
whole of our country, which no other man, as I believe, could have accomplished. Those who have
come- forward.as theological students within the
last thirty-five or forty years, can form but a very
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encounter at first. But he seemed not to regard
them, and they disappeared."
As it was the aim of Mr. Stuart to present theology in a Biblical form, so it was one of his chief
aims to exalt the doctrine of a Saviour's atoning
death.  One of his reviewers, the devout and
quick-sighted Tholuck, has said of him: "In
respect of his theological views, he believes in all
the fundamental doctrines of the Christian church
of the Reformed [Calvinistic] confession. In these
his extensive study of German literature has in no
degree shaken his faith; though it should seem to
have exercised an influence upon his method of
establishing them.  He forsakes the ways prescribed by those of the same faith, and the dogmatic interpreters of his own church, and seeks
new paths; being led to this sometimes because
scruples have occurred to him, which were unknown to them."* In a new path, however, or in
a beaten one, he never went away. from the scene
where his Lord was crucified.  Lutheran or
Reformed, either, or both, or neither, he was
determined to know nothing among men, save
Jesus Christ and him crucified.  Firm, indeed,
was his faith in the sovereignty, the decrees, the
universal providence of Jehovah. But these were
not the heart of his theology. In his view, all
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other truths clustered around the doctrine of Redemption. To make this doctrine prominent, he
would depress any formula invented by man.
Around the cross he gathered all his learning.
At the foot of the cross he strewed his many
honors. Here his quick-moving, his indomitable
spirit lingered in a childlike peace. If men trusted in the Redeemer, they were welcomed to his
sympathy, let them err as they might on the metaphysical theories of religion.  And when he
uttered censures, too severe perhaps, upon the
abstractions of our divines, it seemed to be not
that he loved philosophy less, for he aspired after
a true philosophy, but that he loved Jesus more.
Several years ago, I heard him say incidentally:
"No greater injury can be done me, than to hold
me up as faultless in my mode of thinking and
living." The thought never occurred to my own
mind, until three days ago, that I should be
called to heed this admonition while standing
over his bier. He was not faultless. The sun
never shone on all parts of the same body at
one and the same time. If it illumine one side,
it must leave the other shaded. But the frailties
of our revered friend were intimately combined
with his excellences. The former suggest the
latter. If he made minor mistakes, it was because
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he gazed too steadfastly at the great principles
of things.  In the celerity of his thought, he
was sometimes led to overlook important incidents. Did he commit errors which he had the
power to avoid? It was because he seized upon
pressing exigences, and hurried forward to meet
the demands of the people. He launched his
vessel when the tide was up. It is one characteristic of true genius, to find out andthen to meet
the crisis; to put forth the influence which is
demanded, and when it is demanded by the
occasion.  Mr. Stuart was always at the post
of danger. When the Education Society was
attacked, he was at once upon the ground.
When the cause of Temperance was assailed, he
was speedily in the field.  When the laws of
hygiene were discussed, his essays were in the
newspapers forthwith. - Did he make more inaccurate statements than some other men? And
did he not utter many more truths than most
other men? The most luxuriant tree needs most
to be pruned. —Habitually was his mind on
useful themes. Sometimes this, sometimes that,
but always one important idea was revolving
before him.  When the missionary Judson, on
his recent visit to this place, came out from the
chamber of our departed friend, he said, with a
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a pilgrim on the threshold of that same chamber:
"I feel that I have been conversing with a great
man." In Mr. Stuart's conversation with a farmer,
he imparted new ideas on the implements of husbandry. To the mechanic, he often seemed to
have learned the trades. To the merchant, he
gave instruction on political economy. To the
philanthropist, he proposed new schemes of beneficence. Medical men were often surprised at the
extent of his reading in their own department. If
there were better metaphysicians than he, more
accurate classical scholars, more correct historians,
more profound statesmen, - as there doubtless
were, —-still, where is the man who knew so
much of philology and philosophy and history
and practical life, all combined, —who had so
many knowledges of such multifarious things, and
applied them all to a better purpose? If there be
such a man (and there may be such), I am too
ignorant to have learned his name.
We look for no perfect one on earth; and had
the master who is taken from our head to-day,
been more punctiliously accurate, he would have
been less impulsive; and had he been less impulsive, he would not have stirred up. the mind of the
clergy; and had he not aroused men to biblical
studies, he would not have fulfilled his mission;
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hard soil, to do a rough work, to introduce other
laborers into the vineyard which he had made
ready.  If, then, he lapsed here and there in
sacred literature, who are the men among us that
correct him? Chiefly, the men who are in some
way indebted to him for the power to make the
correction. Chiefly, the men who have received
from him the impulses by which they have learned
to criticise him. Chiefly, the men who would
have remained on the dead level of an empirical
philology, had they not been quickened to an
upward progress by his early enthusiasm. If the
eagle in his flight toward the sun, be wounded by
the archer, the arrow that is aimed at him is
guided by a feather from the' eagle's own broad
wing.
He who now lies before us had faults of character. But he might have concealed them, if he
had possessed more cunning and less frankness.
He was ready to acknowledge his errors. Had he
been adroit in hiding them, he would not have
been a man of progress, nor that transparent,
open-hearted man who won to himself the general
love. Spreading himself out over various departments, he was free in his speech upon them all.
Had he not been thus adventurous, he would not
have roused so many classes of minds to such
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heart. He spoke what he felt. We know, and
the world know the worst of him! and this is
his highest praise. He had no hidden mine of
iniquity. His foibles do not lie buried beneath our
soundings. But it is no common virtue which is
honored in- every farmer's cottage' of the town
where he has lived for two and forty years, and
which is venerated by missionaries of the cross on
Lebanon and at Damascus. I have heard him
praised by Tholuck, and Neander, and Henderson,
and Chalmers, and by an Irish laborer, and a
servant boy, and by the families before whose
windows he has taken his daily walks for almost
half a century. His influence as a divine, is to be
widened and prolonged by the fact, that on the
hills and in the vallies around his dwelling, there
is neither man nor woman nor child, who has
known him, and does not feel that an honest
Christian rests from his labors, —an Israelite
indeed, in whom was no guile.
The old age of 3Mr. Stuart honored God in illustrating the wealth of the inspired word.  In his
sixty-seventh year, he read all the tragedies of
Aeschylus, for the sake of detecting idioms and
allusions explanatory of the Bible. There were
three hours in every day, when he forgot all the
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of the world. More than once with his wonted
vivacity, has he repeated the sentiment of Heinsius: "I no sooner come into my library, than I
bolt the door after me, excluding ambition, avarice,
and all such vices, and in the very lap of eternity,
amidst so many divine souls, I take my seat with
so lofty a spirit and such sweet content, that I
pity all the great and rich who know not this
happiness." A few years ago, when he made a
certain discovery with regard to the book of Job,
he could not sleep for more than thirty-six hours.
They were hours of a grateful interest in the
wonders of the Bible. At his death, he had formed
the plan for several commentaries which would
have engrossed three  years of his time.*   His
solace was in the book of books. It never tired
him.  Not seldom  was it his meditation all the
night.  It presented to him  exhaustless stores.
Near the end of his life he expressed a religious
gratitude that the Hebrew language had become
to him like his mother tongue, and that the simple
reading of the Hebrew text opened the sense of
passages which had. before been closed against
him.  When asked, whether he retained his con* He intended to write soon a second Exposition of the book of Proverbs. It was to be popular in its character. Its plan was admirable. He
recently collected the Materials for an Exposition of the book of Jonah,
and also for the book of Job. He left written notes on the Epistles to
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fidence in the great system of truths which he had
defended, he answered with a strong emphasis:
"Yes." Have you any doubts with regard to your
former principles? was the question; and the energetic answer was given at once, "No." As he
approached the grave, he became more and more
hopeful that these principles would soon triumph
over all opposition. — "I have long since learned,"
he said, "that feelings in religious experience are
deceptive. I look mainly to my life.for my evidence. I think that my first aim in life has been
to glorify God, and that I have been ready to labor
and suffer for him." When afflicted with severe
pains, he loved to repeat the words, "Wearisome
days and nights hast Thou appointed unto me."
He had thought of death long and carefully. He
was familiar with it. He was ready for it. It was
less to him than a Sabbath day's journey. " This is
the beginning of the end," was his placid remark
with regard to his broken arm, and after alluding
to the pains which it caused him, he added: " Such
troubles make the peaceful asylum of the narrow
house look very inviting." When he heard the
hope expressed that his last sickness would be
unto life and not unto death, he replied," Unto the
glory of God, but unto death" — "I am prepared
to die. — 0 God! my spirit is in thy hand! Have
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of the New  Year, when the storm  was howling
around his dwelling, he fell asleep. Peaceful, as to
a night's repose, he entered on his long rest.'
Hearing of a severe personal affliction, he once
said, in the language of Beza after the death of
Calvin: "Now  is life less sweet and death less
bitter." So may that venerable matron say, now
that the companion of her youth has been taken
up out of her sight. Let her honor God, that she
has been allowed to alleviate the cares of one, who
has enabled so many Missionaries of the cross to
translate the Bible for the untutored Indian, and
the learned Brahmin.   Let her be thankful that
she has been permitted so to order her house, that
light has radiated from it upon the banks of the
Ilissus and  the  Euphrates.   Some of the most
important volumes which the disciples of her husband have given to the world, are prefaced with
the significant and amiable announcement, that
they were written in the bosom of his family.t
Her domestic cares have been for the church.
* See Appendix, Note C.
t A volume of meaning is beautifully compressed into Dr. Robinson's
dedication of his Biblical Researches: "To the Rev. Moses Stuart,
Professor of Sacred Literature in the Andover Theological Seminary,
these volumes, the fruits of studies begun in the bosom of his family, are
respectfully inscribed, as a token of grateful acknowledgment on the
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Her household arrangements have been made for
the culture of mind. They have ministered to the
comfort of one who has now, as we suppose, been
welcomed to the school of the prophets and the
apostles by more than two hundred of his ascended pupils. Then let her exclaim, as she has
often heard her departed husband exclaim in this
sacred place: "Blessing and honor and glory and
power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne,
and unto the Lamb, forever and ever."
And the children of our deceased father will
mourn most of all, because they have lost their
opportunities for easing the toils of himl who delighted in toiling for them. They cannot weep for
the dead. They know his fitness for that world
where his active spirit has found a congenial element, and where all his activity is rest. They have
often witnessed his aspirations to see the old
prophets, on whose words he had lingered so long.
They have often observed his'exultation at the
thought of meeting Isaiah and Jeremiah, of conversing with Paul on the depth and the height,
the length and the breadth; and of beholding the
face of John, whom he had almost seen in vision
here below. Let them be thankful for his present
communion with the Man of Sorrows, whom he
has longed to see face to face, and in whose
presence he has hoped to enjoy eternal health.
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And while we unite our prayers for the children
of our revered friend, we must remember his
spiritual sons, who are scattered throughout the
wide world, from the prairies of Wisconsin to the
shores of the Bosphorus. In Canton and under
Table Mountain, in Ceylon and at Jerusalem, they
will feel that they have lost a father. We are the
bereaved children of a scattered family. We have
received impulses from him, which will affect us
through our eternal life. Then let us honor him
by a new love to that Volume which he prized
more and more unto his dying hour, and by
remembering with a new affection those words
of his which we have all read: " When I behold
the glory of the Saviour, as revealed in the gospel,
I am constrained to cry out with the believing
apostle, My Lord and my God! And when my
departing spirit shall quit these mortal scenes, and
wing its way to the world unknown, with my
latest breath, I desire to pray, as the expiring
martyr did, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."*  "I
ask for no other privilege on earth, but to make
known the efficacy of his death; and none in
heaven, but to be associated with those who
ascribe salvation to his blood. Amen." t
* Conclusion of his Letters to Channing.
t Conclusion of his Two Sermons on the Atonement.




APPENDIX.
As the Author was called unexpectedly to preach at the interment of
Mr. Stuart, and was obliged to prepare hastily for the sad occasion, he
has deemed it not improper to make various additions to the sermon
then delivered. He has not pretended, as the limits of a single pamphlet forbid the attempt, to give a full portraiture of his teacher's character and life.
NOTE A, p. 34.
It is to be regretted that a complete list of Mr. Stuart's published
writings cannot be made out at present. The following is an imperfect
catalogue of them: -
Two  Sermons, preached at New Haven, one immediately before,
another soon after, his resignation of his pastoral office. 1810.
Grammar of the Hebrew Language, without points. 1813.
Sermon before the Salem Female Charitable Society. 1815.
Sermon at the Ordination of the Missionaries Fiske, Spaulding, Winslow,
and Woodward. 1819.
Letters to Dr. Channing on the Divinity of Christ. 1819. Fourth American edition in 1846.
Sermon at the completion of Bartlet Hall, Andover. 1821.
Grammar of the Hebrew Language, with points. 1821. Sixth edition
in 1838.
Letters to Dr. Miller on the Eternal Generation of the Son of God.
1822.
Two Discourses on the Atonement. 1824. Four editions.
Winer's Greek Grammar of th6 New Testament. Translated by Professors Stuart and Robinson. 1825.




Christianity a Distinct Religion. 1826. A Sermon. Two editions.
Elementary Principles of Interpretation. From the Latin of Ernesti.
Fourth edition in 1842.
Election Sermon. 1827.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. 2 vols. 1827-8. Second
edition in one volume, 1823.
Hebrew Chrestomathy. 182b. Second edition, 1832.
Practical Rules for Greek Accents. 1629.
Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Adams. 1829.
Course of Hebrew Study. 1830.
Letters to Dr. Channing on the subject of Religious Liberty. 1830.
Second edition with Notes. 1846.
Prize Essay respecting the Use of Spirituous Liquors. 1830.
The Conversion of the Jews: A Sermon at the Ordination of Rev.
Wm. G. Schauffler. 1831. Two editions.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. 2 vols. 1832. Second
edition, in one volume, 1835.
Grammar of the New Testament Dialect. Second edit. improved, 1834.
Notes to Hug's Introduction to the New Testament. 1836.
Cicero on the Immortality of the Soul. 1833.
Hints on the Prophecies. Second edition, 1842.
Commentary on the Apocalypse. 1845. 2 vols.; pages 1008. This, and
five of his other most important works, have been reprinted in Europe.
Critical History and Defence of the Old Testament Canon. 1845.
Sermon on the Lamb of God. 1846.
Translation of Roediger's Gesenius. 1846.
Sermon at the Funeral of Mrs. Woods. 1846.
Scriptural View of the Wine Question. 1848.
Commentary on Daniel. 1850.
Conscience and the Constitution. 1850.
Commentary on Ecclesiastes. 1851.
Commentary on Proverbs. 1852.
Several of the preceding works were republished in a volume of
Miscellanies, in 1846. Among the anonymous Essays written by Mr.
Stuart, are twenty or twenty-five in the Panoplist, the Christian Spectator, and the Spirit of the Pilgrims. Among his articles for the American
Quarterly Register, are one on the Study of the Hebrew, and one on
the Study of the Classics, in 1828; one on Sacred and Classical Studies




in 1831, and an Examination of Strictures upon the American Education
Society, and a Postscript to the Examination, in 1829. Among his Articles for the North American Review, are a Review of Roy's Hebrew
Lexicon, in 1838; of Robinson's Greek Lexicon, in 1851; of Gilfillan's
Bards of the Bible, in 1851. In 1851 he also published two Essays in
the Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, on
the Traits of History and Doctrine peculiar to Christianity. The larger
part of his Essays for Periodicals, however, he published in the Biblical
Repository and the Bibliotheca Sacra. The following is an incomplete
list of them. His anonymous, and his briefer articles are omitted.
Biblical Repository.
1831. Interpretation of Psalm xvi.; Sages 59. - Remarks on Hahn's
Definition of Interpretation, and some topics connected with it; pages
49.- Creed of Arminius, with a Sketch of his Life and Times; pages
83. — Interpretation of Romans 8: 18-25; pages 44. — Meaning of
KYPIO in the New Testament, particularly as employed by Paul;
pages 43. -Remarks on the Internal Evidence respecting the various
Readings in 1 Tim. 3: 16; pages 23.
1832.  Are the same Principles of Interpretation to be applied to
the Bible as to other books? pages 14. - Notice of Rosenmuelleri
Scholia in V. T., in Compendium redacta; pages 5. - On the alleged
Obscurity of Prophecy; pages 29. - Hints on the Study of the Greek
Language; pages 20.- Samaritan Pentateuch and Literature; pages 43.
1833. Hints respecting Commentaries upon the Scriptures; pages 50.
- Is the Manner of Christian Baptism prescribed in the New Testament? pages 103.
1834. Hints and Cautions respecting the Greek Article; pages 51.
1835. On the Discrepancy between the Sabellian and Athanasian
Method of representing the Doctrine of the Trinity: Translated from
Schleiermacher, with Notes and Illustrations; pages 88.- Second Article
on the same; pages 116. [Both of these articles were afterwards republished in a distinct volume.] - How are Designations of Time in the
Apocalypse to be understood? pages 50.- On the use of the Particle
Iva in the New Testament. Translated from the Latin of Professor Tittmann of Leipsic, with Notes; pages 28.
1836. What has -Paul taught respecting the obedience of Christ?
Translated from the Latin of Tittmann, with Notes and Remarks; pages
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particularly on the meaning of the passage in which it occurs in Col. 2:
9; pages 56.- Hebrew Lexicography; pages 46.
1837. Critical Examination of some Passages in Genesis i.; with
Remarks on Difficulties that attend some of the Present Modes of
Geological Reasoning; pages 60.- Have the Sacred Writers anywhere
asserted that the Sin or Righteousuess of one is Imputed to another;
pages 89.
1838. The Hebrew Tenses: Translation from Ewald, with Remarks;
pages 43. - Review of Prof. Norton's Evidences of the Genuineness of
the Gospels; pages 78.- Inquiry respecting the Original Language of
Matthew's Gospel, and the Genuineness of the first two chapters of the
same; with particular reference to Prof. Norton's " Genuineness," etc.;
pages 44.- Second Article on She same; pages 41.
1839. Genuineness of several texts in the Gospels; pages 26.What is Sin? pages 34.- Second Article on the same; pages 45.
1840. Christology of the Book of Enoch; pages 52.- Future Punishment as exhibited in the Book of Enoch; pages 34.
1841. Correspondence with Dr. Nordheimer on the Hebrew Article;
pages 8.
1842. Examination of Rev. A. Barnes's Remarks on Hebrews 9:
16-18; pages 26.
Bibliotheca Sacra.
1843. Sketches of Angelology in the Old and New Testament;
pages 66. - On the Manuscripts and Editions of the Greek New Testament; pages 28.- The number of the Beast in the Apocalypse; pages
28. - The White Stone of the Apocalypse: Exegesis of Rev. 2: 17;
pages 16. -The Lord's Supper in the Corinthian Church: Remarks on
1 Cor. 11: 17-34; pages 32.
1844. Patristical and Exegetical Investigation of the Question respecting the real Bodily Presence of Christ in the Elements of the Lord's
Supper; pages 42. - A Second Article on the same theme; pages 55.
1848. De Wette's Commentary on Rom. 5: 12-19; pages 20.
1850. Exegetical and Theological Examination of John 1: 1-18;
pages 41. — A  Second Article on the same theme; pages 47.Doctrine respecting the Person of Christ: Translated from the German
of Dr. and Prof. J. A. Dorner, with remarks; pages 37.
1852. Observations on Matthew 24: 29-31, and the Parallel Passages
in Mark and Luke, with Remarks on the Double Sense; Review of
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NOTE B, p. 37.
The sentiments of grateful regard which are cherished toward Mr.
Stuart, by those of his pupils who have devoted their life to collegiate
instruction, are faithfully expressed in the following letter, dated Jan. 20,
1852, from Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D., President of Brown University: " I entered the Seminary," says the President, " I think, in the
year 1816, and remained there a year, being under Professor Stuart's
instructions during the whole time. I have never known any man who
had so great power of enkindling enthusiasm for study, in a class. It
mattered not what was the subject of investigation, the moment he
touched upon it, it assumed an absorbing interest in the eyes of all of us.
A Sheva or a Qamets, if it affected ever so slightly the meaning of a word
in the oracles of God, became at once a matter of the greatest importance. I do not think that there was one of us, who would not have
chosen to fast for a day, rather than to lose one of his lectures. There
was also a tone of perfect candor, and a sincere love of truth in all his
teachings, which wrought most powerfully in developing the intellect of
his pupils. He was rigid in his requirements. He expected us all to do
our duty, and was sometimes severe if he observed the appearance of
negligence; but I do not know that he ever administered a reproof
which did not carry with it the judgment of the class. Although so many
years have elapsed, I at this moment recall with delightful interest the
hours passed in his lecture-room, as among the most pleasant and profitable portions of my life.
" He had a genuine liberality of sentiment. When I entered Andover, but few Baptists had ever been connected with the Seminary. From
the commencement of our acquaintance, he treated me with a degree of
confidence, and I may almost say affection, that won my whole heart.
From that moment I have never ceased to love and honor him, to delight
in his reputation, and to look upon him with almost filial reverence.
Nor am I alone in these sentiments. I believe that among those who
cherish his memory with the most enthusiastic regard, at least an
equal proportion will be found in the ranks of those who belong to sects
different from his own. With some of his later views, I am unable to
coincide; but this difference of opinion does not, in any manner, diminish the debt of gratitude which I shall always owe to the instructor of my
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"A monument should be erected to his memory by his pupils. I
hope that the subject will receive immediate -attention. The father of
sacred literature in this country, deserves this tribute at our hands."
NOTE C, p. 48.
Professor Stuart died at ten minutes before twelve o'clock on Sabbath
night, January 4, 1852, aged seventy-one years, nine months, and nine
days. He had been a preacher of the gospel forty-seven years, a teacher
of youth forty-one years, a Professor in the Theological Seminary thirtyeight years.  His death was so sudden and tranquil, that but few of his
family were apprized of it before the morning. The tolling of the chapel,
and of the village bells on Monday, announced the sad event to his townsmen, many of whom did not know that he had been dangerously sick.
His disease was the influenza, accompanied with a typhoid fever. His funeral was attended on Thursday afternoon, January 8, 1852, by a large
concourse of clergymen, pupils, and friends. Rev. Prof. Stowe, of Bowdoin College, introduced the exercises with an Invocation and the
reading of select passages from the Bible. Rev. Prof. Emerson, of Andover, offered the funeral piayer. The choir then sung the four hundred
and fifty-fourth Hymn of the Church Psalmody: —
"Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love."
This was a favorite hymn with the deceased, and one which he had sung
on every Sabbath of the past two years. After the-sermon, the choir sung
the last three stanzas of the seventeenth Psalm, Long Metre, Third Part,
in the Church Psalmody:"This life's a dream, an empty show."
These were also favorite stanzas with Mr. Stuart. On the Sabbath
after his interment, many clergymen of various sects and in distant parts
of New England, noticed his death in their pulpits.