unremitted efforts of its minister. It is, indeed, due to his meekness of wisdom, his tenacity of purpose, equally gentle and firm, and the irresistible contagion of his philanthropic spirit, that he early secured the cordial support and efficient co-operation of some of the best men in his congregation, whose instincts and habits had been, and but for him would still have been, much more conservative than his own.

For the more quiet duties of the pastorate Mr. Foote from the first manifested a rare aptitude, not only by the warmth of his sympathy, but by the delicacy of sentiment and feeling, which enabled him to meet cases that made special demand on his services in the way best suited to bestow the needed counsel, aid, or consolation. During the early years of his ministry the deaths among the older and more prominent members of the society were very numerous. Among those who were thus removed was Samuel Atkins Eliot, who, though he had become a resident of Cambridge, was still virtually, and with the strongest attachment, a member of the Chapel church, and had been for many years second to no one in its official service, in the charge of its various interests as well as of his favorite department of sacred music, and in the influence of his example in behalf of the highest type of Christian excellence. That Mr. Foote became subsequently connected with his surviving family by marriage, was an event which not only united him more intimately with many of the families under his charge, but also secured for the entire society the unremitted service, in her own proper sphere, of one whose religious associations had from the very first been connected with its worship and its charities.

In January, 1867, Mr. Foote, in accordance with a longcherished plan, and not without need of repose from five years of arduous service, asked leave of absence for a European tour and sojourn. This leave, by vote of the Proprietors, was granted for a year, with the provision that the salary be continued and the pulpit supplied without cost to the minister. During Mr. Foote's absence the monument in memory of the young men of the society who had fallen in the war was completed, and was dedicated, with appropriate services, on Easter Sunday.1 Those whose names are inscribed on the monument were commemorated by their pastor in a sermon2 delivered on the 29th of May, 1870, and published by request of the parish. From this we give the following extract:

1 A sermon, delivered on that occa- 2 The Roll of Honor appended to it sion, was published at the request of the is reprinted in this book, pp. 611-615, society. post.

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"Side by side their names are writ in marble, from the private soldier to the division commander. From the catastrophe of Ball's Bluff to the eve of the great surrender, those names are intertwined with the history of the time; and Antietam and South Mountain, and Gettysburg and Fort Wagner, and Bull Run and Chickamauga, and Whitehall and Spottsylvania, and Averysboro and Cedar Mountain and Hatcher's Run, all cast their deep shadow over these dim aisles. Shall I venture to speak of them as, one by one, they come back to our memory? - One,1 whose name stands written first in that proud record, born into this church, but long absent from it, who fell on that wooded hillside in the valley whose slope was fatal to so many precious lives; - the merciful surgeon 2 of whom his fever-patients, in the wards where he and they were fellowprisoners, said, 'When he came, sunshine came with him, and when he went away, darkness followed,' under whose care, in that house of doom, not one man died, during three weeks that he was with them, though previously they had died five or six daily; the brave boy who lingered through eleven weeks of suffering and was released on the eve of the day when his comrades were mustered out of service, who, when I last saw him, I remember, as I wished him God-speed and that he might escape the dangers of the camp as well as of the battle-field, pulling with a bright look a pocket Testament from the pocket next his heart, told me that he should try to live by that; the gallant gentleman,' in whose veins was blood that had leapt at the first low murmurs of the Revolution, and whose name was historic, who endured imprisonment, wounds, sickness, death, with quiet dignity of demeanor, simplicity of speech, and silent heroism of life, who could put aside the suggestion of how much he was giving up in the way of opportunity and 'future success with the few simple words, 'Yes, if this life were all ;'. the high-toned officer, whose face, as I watched it in earliest college days, bore the marks of dignified and modest refinement, and won for his steadfast moral nature confidence and respect, that grew into admiration for the unpretending service of duty: 'Do as I do,' he said, and stood up upright and firm before the enemy's rifle-pits, when the fatal bullet came; the two brave brothers," in whose souls burned a flame of courage and manhood unquenchable: one, of whom it has been said, 'he might well stand as the typical young soldier of the North,' dying instantly, at the head of his men, in a disastrous battle; the other, wounded in the first skirmish of the war, winning by his gal

1 Richard Cary, Captain in the 2d Regiment of Mass. Volunteers.

2 Dr. E. H. R. Revere, Assistant Surgeon of the 20th Regiment of Mass. Volunteers.

5 James Amory Perkins, First Lieutenant in 24th Regiment of Mass. Volunteers.

6 Warren Dutton Russell, First Lieutenant in 18th Regiment of Mass. Volun

8 Franklin Moody Adams, Private in teers; and Francis L. Dutton Russell, 8th Battery, Mass. Volunteers.

First Lieutenant in 4th Regiment of

* Paul Joseph Revere, Colonel of 20th Artillery, U. S. A.

Regiment of Mass. Volunteers.

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lantry as private soldier a commission in the regular army, doing great things to avert our heaviest disaster in the West, giving up at last, by slow degrees of wasting sickness, the life whose strength was spent for his country; two others, who singularly shared a fate, in which uncertainty slowly darkened into assurance that they were no more. Of these, one,1 among our youngest, bore from the university powers of mind and native observation which quickly raised him from the unnoted station in which he had sought to serve a great cause. Riding alone, he was set upon by a band of guerillas, and disappeared from human sight, leaving only a fresh and beautiful memory. The other, educated in the best military discipline of foreign schools, born for the profession of arms, with his brigade of regulars first stayed the hostile rush at Chickamauga. Like a wall of rock his men stood around him. He was seen sitting 'on his horse, as cool as ever, without changing face,' while the volleying line surged on toward him, then with drawn sword, surrounded by the the foe. The waves of the conflict passed over him, and when it had ebbed, no certain trace of him remained behind. Then there was the bright, winning spirit who took up the mysterious peril of a command over colored troops, and, falling on that sand island which cost so dear, was buried with his men; his last words being, 'Follow your colors,' as he himself had followed the star of duty; - the rare, beautiful soul,4 well-named 'the gift of God,' who hastened home from the study of foreign culture, at the echo of war heard across the Atlantic, the colorsergeant who fell bearing the flag that he loved with his heart's blood ;— he, who bore the highest rank of any who went out from this place, idolized by his men, trusted by his superior officers, whose warm, true nature glowed with love of friends and of country, whose modesty perfected his manliness, but could not hide his worth or his value to the country, who gave up his life in the great advance; and yet two others, among the youngest and the dearest that this church gave to the cause, who fell just before the dawn of that day of peace for whose coming they willingly died: one in the victorious march of that army which cut the Gordian knot of the war, slain in its last battle; the other," after wounds and exposures, after months of daily peril in the memorable siege, struck down by almost the last shot that rang out from the expiring Rebellion: both dying in the arms of victory."

During Mr. Foote's absence occurred the death of Thomas Bulfinch, who was perhaps more intimately associated with

1 Arthur Cortlandt Parker, Second Lieutenant in 33d Regiment of Mass. Volunteers.

2 Sidney Coolidge, Major of 16th Regiment of Infantry, U. S. A.

3 Cabot Jackson Russel, Captain in 54th Regiment of Mass Volunteers.

4 Theodore Parkman, Sergeant in 45th Regiment of Mass. Volunteers.

5 Thomas Greely Stevenson, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers.

6 Samuel Storrow, First Lieutenant in the 2d Regiment of Mass. Volunteers. 7 Charles James Mills, Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers.