He published thirty-one volumes and edited two immense commentaries; he was the president of the Committee on Biblical Revision, and he crossed the ocean fourteen times as a fraternal internuncio between the churches of Europe and America.

His prodigious capacity for work made Dr.Samuel Johnson seem an idler, and his varied attainments and activities were fairly a match for Gladstone.
To those of us who knew Dr.Schaff intimately, one of his most attractive traits was his jovial humor and inexhaustible fund of anecdotes.

When I made a visit to California--journeying with him to the Yosemite--his endless stories whiled away the tedium of the trip.

How often when he sat down to my own, or any other table, would he tell how his old friend, Neander, when asked to say grace at a dinner, and roast pig was the chief dish, very quaintly said: "O, Lord, if Thou canst bless under the new dispensation what Thou didst curse under the old dispensation, then graciously bless this leetle pig.

Amen!" Another eminent scholar who was wont to seek recreation at Mohonk was the venerable President McCosh, of Princeton University.