his visit, and, on the latter's leaving, followed him to the door, begging him, 'Come again soon.' 'I will, I will, my child;' and, two days after, the doctor called again to see Willie."

"I can recall," says another, "the tenderness of his salutation to me, a child, when we met on the street; the occasional putting of his hand on my head or shoulder, and saying, 'My daughter, is it well with you?' and the flood of emotion that filled my heart as he passed on; for well I knew what his grave, tender question meant. . . . . . The power of his affectionate manner gave him the influence over me which was needed in deciding the great question of life."

Fifteen years ago, a very careful observer of men and ministers wrote, "No man in New England has produced a more profound impression upon a community - an impression which is felt in all classes of society than Dr. Hawes. His life has been devoted to the good of his people; and, when I say life, I mean not only his time, but his heart, his affections, his entire being. Even the irreligious

and the sceptic acknowledge this: all reverence and respect the man.”

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manhood, so little capacity of any thing noble, that it is impossible for them to become great, or eminently useful in any calling. There is nothing to start from, nothing to build upon, and not much to build with. The Parthenon would have been a transient and much less impressive model of architecture if it had been built of wood, and reared in a bog of the muddy Tiber, where the Pantheon stands; and the Pantheon a far more imposing one had it been erected on the Acropolis at Athens.

Dr. Hawes possessed native elements, that were both foundation and building-material of the man great Nature made him," before God made him a minister. There was nothing negative, nothing neutral or apathetic, about him as a boy. His old master's description was characteristic and graphic: "Whether he got hold of a fine cloth or coarse, it made no difference: it was go ahead." He mastered all his tasks without difficulty, whether in manual labor or study. He was never staggered but once,

and then only for a day and a half, — by the first declension in his Latin grammar.

He was endowed by nature with strong passions, an iron will, and great executive energy. These usually give eminence to a man, whatever becomes. his vocation. Had he devoted himself to the study and practice of law or medicine, these qualities would have given him success, though not perhaps the same, which, in his consecration to Christ, he attained in the ministry. He was a marked young man fifty years ago, and a leader of his fellowstudents in college and in the seminary. With the broader and richer culture in our institutions of today, his native powers, his persistent industry, and his love of learning with his earnest faith, would probably have placed him in the forefront with the most thoroughly drilled and cultivated young men who are now entering the ministry, and have given him, for forty years to come, a prominence in his work not a whit below that which he actually held at his prime.

He was highly favored with a robust constitution; and by regular habits in exercise and study, and by a simple regimen, he enjoyed a large measure of health, which was continued quite up to his last short sickness. "He ate sparingly," says an inmate of his household, "particularly at supper, and always of simple but nutritious food." It was a rule which he early adopted, to leave off at each meal with a little appetite for the next. Dr. Emmons says, that, through life, he rose from his table with as good an appetite as he had when he sat down. Dr.

Hopkins breakfasted and supped on bread and milk from a bowl containing about three gills; never allowing himself to exceed or fall short of just that quantity.

Dr. Hawes was in the habit of retiring at nine o'clock, and rising at five. The first thing in the morning was his season of devotion. Many who have occupied that guest-chamber adjoining his study have heard the low tones of his pleading prayer before the sun was up, and in winter before the dawn. This was the key that opened for him the day and its duties. Next he went to the care of his faithful horse; and afterwards, before breakfast, to his garden or woodhouse for exercise; and thus he was prepared for his hours of study.

He was a man of economy as well as fidelity. The carefulness in money-matters which he practised in early life from necessity he continued afterwards from habit and from principle. He could not have accepted charitable aid, as he did in his preparation for the ministry, without at the same time practising the strictest self-denial compatible with health and the best condition for study; and when settled, with a family to care for, he gauged his expenditures according to his salary, aiming at a little balance each year to be laid aside for future need. This economy saved him from the numberless perplexities to which not a few ministers, from the want of it, have been subjected in the accumulation of new debts or the prolonged burden of old ones, in the humiliating necessity of asking for more salary, or of seeking or awaiting

a call to some more affluent or generous congre gation.

Dr. Hawes never had occasion to request an increase of his stipend, or to suggest an extra allowance; for the people, on their part, were duly considerate of their pastor in these matters. They were made partakers of his spiritual things; and they ministered unto him wisely of their carnal things. Several times in an emergency, from sickness or other cause, the society voted an addition to his quarterly payments of from one to five hundred dollars. The original salary of twelve hundred was raised, in 1843, to fifteen hundred, and later to eighteen hundred. After three years, the expense of living having somewhat diminished, Dr. Hawes requested that it might be reduced to fifteen hundred dollars. From this it was afterwards advanced to two thousand. While the question of this increase was under consideration, a prominent member of the society said to his pastor, "I intend to have a vote passed at the next annual meeting to raise your salary to twenty-five hundred dollars, the same that some of the other ministers of the city receive." "No, brother, no," was the emphatic reply: "don't you do it. With economy, I can live on my present salary. I am opposed to it for two reasons. One, there are many clergymen in the country towns who receive only seven or eight hundred dollars, which is all their parishioners can pay; yet these ministers work as hard and as earnestly as we do in the city. The other is, I never wish to see the salaries of the clergy raised in this country