Page:The Granite Monthly Volume 6.djvu/381

 KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY.

��345

��changed the character of the college, and which was felt in all the region. He was so situated in his missionary

field in the Island of Malta, and also at Smyrna, as to extend an important influence upon what was called the Greek church, lie published several works for their benefit, and sustained a periodical in that language. He also published several works, both in the Italian and in the Armenian languages. The Scripture histories winch he pub- lished were well suited to call attention to the word of God. which in the sur- rounding country was little known. As a preacher. Mr. Temple was a man of commanding influence. Only at intervals are such men reared to quick- en their brethren and to give an im- pulse to the Gospel among men. But his work was short. He was taken away, in the midst of his days. But few men have accomplished so much in a long life.

To aid such men as have been no- ticed in their preparation for their life work, would seem to have been a priv- ilege. They proved to be among the useful men of their time, and some of them among the most distinguished. It was but a small amount of aid which they received, but important to the student who has been for years pursu- ing his studies, who has spent all his funds, all he could earn and all he could borrow.

The above-named twelve men, added to the thirty young men who commenced their preparation for the ministry, brings the number to forty- two. In addition to this number there were at least eight or ten others, more or less, at that school, who went into the ministry — making not less than fifty ministers who commenced their course of preparation at that institu- tion within four or five vears from its establishment. But in addition to those educating for the ministry, there were those who were preparing for other occupations in life. There were not less than eleven who are known to have become farmers ; thirty who be- came teachers. — one of whom. Miss

��Cynthia Farrer, spent a long life as a teacher at a mission station in India ; nine of the students became physicians ; nine became lawyers, — some of them judges of courts ; seven became merchants. In summing up the results of the school for the first four or five years, we may not pass un- noticed the teachers.

To have conducted such a school, where all was new, and to have direct- ed the early studies of such men as came under his instruction, required wisdom, talent, and scholarship of no ordinary character. It can not but be regarded as wisdom in the trustees — their selection of the principal. He was always calm, self-possessed, ready to impart information to any scholar in any branch of study, and he secured the good will of all who came under his instruction.

It is here important to notice that in 1839 a female department was added to the school by a donation of Si 0,000 from Mrs. Kimball, the widow of the founder of the seminary. This added largely to the number in the school. The institution has been blessed by a succession of able teachers, both as principals and assistants. But no one taught so long, and no one has done so much to give character to the insti- tution as Dr. Cvrus S. Richards. Few men have attained to the skill which he possessed of advancing the student in classical studies. The moral influ- ence, also, which he exerted over the student, was of great value. A large number, since leaving that school, have shown themselves Christian men and women.

After the labor of thirty-six years, Dr. Richards, for a time, was laid aside by sickness. On his recovery he was sought as a teacher in Howard Uni- versity, in the city of Washington, where he has since been engaged. We deem it important here to add the tes- timony of Dr. Richards, given since he left the school. It is as follows :

•'The patronage of the school, al- ready rapidly increasing, underthe influ- ence of the added department, with a

�� �