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Thus entering anew on the work, he continued it with unabated zeal for eight years more, until in 1876 his powers of endurance gave way under the 28 A Busy Life. stress of the burdens which his broad and willing shoulders carried. He sought to be relieved entirely from his work, and offered his resignation of college president to the Board; but it heeded not his cry of an over-taxed life, and granted him another rest. He went to Fall River, Massachusetts, where in the old field of his early ministerial labors, and con- tiguous to the soothing air of the sea, he sought relief, and gained health and strength. Again he returned to the college and took up the burdens he had laid aside for a time. These he bore for one year, and had entered upon a second, which he was not able to complete. He offered his resignation a second time in December, 1877; and though we plead with him to withdraw it, offering to lighten his labors and increase his remuneration, we were compelled by him to accept it. And, thus, a wise president, a faithful preceptor, a kind father, a loving brother and a devoted friend, severed his connection with us. Still, though gone from us in the body, we ever felt that he was with us in spirit on the college rostrum, in the Monday evening prayer-meeting, in the chapel services and in the

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