When temperance meetings were held in my church he very gladly lent his effective services, refusing any compensation, and there was no man in the city whose evening hours were worth more in solid gold than his.

It is said that he was once called upon, in the absence of his minister, in a Universalist Church, to go into the pulpit.

He did so, and delivered a very pungent sermon on the text, "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." The strongest points made by Mr.Greeley in the best of his printed essays are those which emphasize the authority of God.

A letter in his characteristic hieroglyphics, the last one he ever wrote to me, and which now lies before me, was in reply to one of mine, criticising the _Tribune_ for speaking of Dr.Tyng's as a "church" and of Dr.Adams's house of worship as a "meeting house." I told him if one was a church, then the other was equally so.

He replied: "I am of Puritan stock, on one side, in America since 1640, and on the other since 1720.