trying John Huss. And we have known an Association, in declaring certain articles an obligatory basis in the trial of a minister, to refuse an amendment saving the same right of appeal to the Scripture.

The conclusion therefore is: The pastor if a true pastor, is not a retailer of his private views, though he is not to preach anything except after it has become a part of his personal conviction. He is not to diverge from the symbols of doctrine familiar to his people except where he can distinctly show that the general course of Christian thought is against them. He is not at liberty to diverge again from ecumenical consent, except where he can plainly prove that it has misapprehended apostolic testimony. But at each step he is never to acknowledge that the lower can control his teaching where the higher supports it. Christ's charter runs everywhere in Christ's Church, and extinguishes all lesser ones that vary from it.

CHARLES C. STARBUCK.

UNIVERSITY TOPICS.

IN MEMORIAM. HENRY C. KINGSLEY.

TREASURER OF YALE COLLEGE 1862-1886.

HENRY COIT KINGSLEY was the second son of Professor James Luce Kingsley and Lydia Coit Kingsley. He was born in New Haven, December 11, 1815. His father was born in Scotland, Conn., August 28th, 1778, and died in New Haven, August 31st, 1852. His mother was born in Norwich, Conn., August 25th, 1789, and died December 2d, 1861. His father was a Tutor and Professor in Yale College from 1801 till his death in 1852. He was distinguished as a scholar, critic, and historian, was sensitive and modest to excess, yet conspuciously kindly, sagacious, and just. Few scholars in our country of his time were more eminent than he, and few better deserved the honor which they received. There are few men to whom Yale College owes as much as it does to him. Many of the traits of the father were conspicuous in the son. His mother was more than usually cultivated for her time. She was ardently interested in literature and in every form of benevolent and religious activity, and impressed herself strongly upon her children and the community.

Mr. Kingsley began his classical studies at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven under Robert McEwen (Yale, 1827), but finished his preparation for college at the Boston Latin School, then one of the most famous schools in the country, residing as a "child of the house" in the family of Hon. Jeremiah Evarts, a friend of his father's. As a boy, he was what he became as a man, more than usually quiet and retiring, yet always playful and kind. He entered Yale College in 1830, and graduated with honor in 1834. He was an excellent and well-drilled scholar. He was universally liked and confided in, though reticent and shy. He made fast friends for life among his classmates of such men as Dr. William I. Budington, Hon. Eleazar K. Foster, Rev. John R. Keep, Gov. William T. Minor, and Professor Na

than P. Seymour. After graduating, he acted as private tutor for a few months, and then entered the Yale Law School, where he finished his studies under Judges Daggett and Hitchcock. After passing the winter of 1836 and 1837 in Columbus, Ohio, in the law office of Messrs. Wilcox (Yale, 1821) and Andrews (Yale, 1830), he was admitted to the bar of that State in December, 1837, and established hinself in Cleveland, in connection with his elder brother George (Yale, 1832), who had previously opened an office in that city. He remained associated with him till the sudden lamented death of his brother in 1842. He very early took a high position in his profession and secured the confidence of the public as a financial agent and manager, which he retained till he transferred his residence to New Haven.

In 1843, he became a member of the First Presbyterian Church, in Cleveland. As that church was full to overflowing, he soon proposed and urged the formation of another church, and somewhat unexpectedly found himself an active leader in the organization of the "Second Church" and the erection of its house of worship. This was in 1844, when he had been a resident of Cleveland less than seven years.

In 1854, he had been elected a director of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railway. The company was then seriously embarrassed, and in 1857 became insolvent at a time of very general distress and disaster. He was urged to take charge of its finances, and consented to act as its receiver, which he continued to do from 1857 till 1866, and as the result of his care and skill it regained in 1862 the position of a sound dividend-paying company.

In 1862, after the death of Edward C. Herrick, he was elected treasurer of Yale College, and continued in this office till his death. At the time of his election he held in his hands the offer of two very lucrative positions, but he put both aside for the post which was made attractive and almost sacred by its association with his father and his early home. The writer will never forget an interview with Mr. Kingsley in respect to the decision of this question, when Professor Thacher was present, at which he expressed his feelings with respect to the responsibilities and attractions of the office. It need not be said that he discharged its manifold and trying duties in the spirit of exemplary faithfulness and of ardent personal devotion, and that he made the interests of the institution in all its departments emphatically his

own. Some of his friends have expressed surprise that he should be willing to accept and retain an office of which the emoluments were so small and the details so minute and sometimes vexatious, but they could not understand the light under which he regarded its duties and its interests. It deserves to be noticed that with the immense enlargement of the resources of the college and its expansion into a University during the twenty-five years of his administration, the duties and responsibilities of the office were enormously increased, and in the discharge of all these duties he exhibited a financial skill and an administrative ability to which the most emphatic testimony has been given. In 1885, a member of the Corporation, reviewing his report to that body for the year 1883-4, makes the following comment upon the sagacity and wisdom of his loans and purchases of stocks. He says that the fact that the income for the year was at a rate a little larger than 6-24 per cent. shows most conclusively the soundness of his investments. It has also been said that not one of his investments for the college which he personally controlled suffered loss under his management, and that during the various periods of financial stress, such securities were never permanently impaired

in value.

Besides discharging the duties of his office, he also filled many public and private trusts with remarkable ability and conspicuous fidelity, being distinguished for the acuteness and rapidity of his judgment, the singular fairness and comprehensiveness with which he estimated the merits of all questions, and the promptness and force with which he passed from decision to action.

He was a man of few words; at times he seemed abrupt in his utterances, but he was a man of many thoughts, and the positiveness with which he expressed himself was the result of the habits of clear and rapid thinking, to which he had been schooled from his childhood. Naturally shy and reserved, he did not often obtrude his opinions till they were asked for, but when his opinion was required he showed that, while others had been discussing, he had not been idle in his thinking. Naturally ardent in temperament and positive in his convictions, he had disciplined himself to more than usual taciturnity as the outgrowth of the singular shyness or reserve, which was native to the man. Though warm in his affections and tender in his sympathies, the force of neither was suspected, even by many who seemed to know him well, till on some rare occasion his feelings broke forth

in a fervid flame. A chronic invalid for all his active life, he expended the surplus energies which are so lavishly wasted by many, in a constant strife with bodily discomfort and nervous unrest, but never complaining, rather seeming always on the alert with his powers ready for action, and yet equally ready to dismiss a subject when it was disposed of.

During all his life Mr. Kingsley used his pen with great readiness, and as a writer was distinguished by conciseness, directness, and force; especially, whenever he appeared in the rôle of a controversialist or a critic his ability was conspicuous. In 18411842, he published in Cleveland a series of papers in opposition to "free banking" which, as was thought at the time, had an influence in shaping the policy which was finally adopted by the Ohio Legislature. After his return to New Haven, he was a frequent contributor to the pages of the New Englander, writing on a great variety of subjects. The volume of that magazine published in the last year of his life contained six communications from his pen; one of which appeared in print only after he had been disabled by the accident which caused his death. Among his contributions to the New Englander may be mentioned two articles in 1858 and 1859 in criticism of the management of the American Tract Society. In 1869, he wrote an article on the "late Rebellion in Spain," of some of the exciting scenes of which he had been an eye-witness. In 1870, he wrote a critical examination of Professor Huxley's "Physical Basis of Life." But he was chiefly interested in the discussion of economical questions; and, in the year succeeding the civil war, he gave much attention to the discussion of the questions connected with the public debt.

We hardly need say that he was admirably fitted to assume the duties of the office which he filled in Yale College for twentyfour years, and that it will not be easy to find a man who will discharge its manifold and various duties so well. For fifteen years the writer of these lines has been intimately associated with him as a witness and to some extent as an associate in these duties. During all these years scarcely an hour has elapsed, during the office hours which were common to both, in which some words have not passed between them which were more or less characteristic of the man. Upon all these words simplicity and godly sincerity have been distinctly stamped, and every one has had the ring of honesty and truth. Those who have sought