Urbane, old Dr.Samuel Miller, was the Professor of Ecclesiastical History.

Those wise men taught us not only to think, but to believe.

All education is atmospheric, and the atmosphere of Princeton Seminary was deeply and sweetly Evangelical.

At five o'clock on the morning after I received my diploma, I was off for Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, the Arcadian spot made famous in the volume of Campbell's "Gertrude of Wyoming." I spent five months there supplying the pulpit of the Rev.Mr.Mitchell, who was absent to recruit his health.

In the Autumn I received an invitation to take charge of the Presbyterian Church of Burlington, N.J., founded by the princely and philanthropic Dr.Cortland Van Rensellaer, son of the Patroon at Albany.
It was the very place for a young preacher to begin his work.