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human nature which furnished him ^{in the pulpit} with
the double equipment of genial sympathy
and relentlessness of a two-edged sword in
his eloquent renunciation of sin and the sinner
there must be some few living now who recall
his famous sermon from the text -- "When will the
Sabbath be gone that we may sell corn"? in which
he took occasions to lash the students for all their
violations of the at that time Puritan Sunday code --
What force and genius must there be in a sermon
from the text -- "Whoso drinkest of the water that
I shall give him shall never thirst" --that has
lingered with a compelling power in the mind
and life ^soul of our past the prescribed physical
boundary, rich in every sower of life and culture
and fascinating experience -- This same nature
of Prof. T's yielded as years went on to human
timidity, and distrust of the old finalities for he
said to me in an informal call of sympathy
when I find myself getting dusky in doubt
and depression I get to work to help some
body