" iJut, at the same time, the life of a professor is not all pleasure and enjoyment. If upon every word an echo would resound in' the awakened heart; if upon every warning spiritual breath green >ho(>is would spring up; if on every bestowal of a gift there would follow iis recep- tion— then it would be nothing but enjoyment. Hut thus it does not alwavs happen, for there are also the silent, the dull, and theslow ones, whom one can call again and again, but no echo resounds; v\ here one can thrust in the spade day afier day before anything is heard resounding under the earth. And to be surrounded by such, that was my lot in the beLrinning.
"I have seen the secrets of many hundred young men disclosed to me: I have seen them wander far, far from the real aim of human life. 1 have been able to show them this, and I have had the i)leasure to know that ni iny a one perceived it who now enjoys this pleasure once unknown to him.
"This, then, is the life of a student professor; he has not only easy, joy- and ijleasine-briuL'ing work, but also a heavytask in youth, seeking love. But what a precious task when such young men are found that sit at the feet of Christ, who have been awakened from their slumbers, iir who have returned from their erring ways ! Wherever giving is also a receiving, that is a work which affords a higher enjoyment than all others that are more easily per- formed."
With such a love for students. Dr. Tholuck became a verv popular professor, and students tiocked to Halle from all parts of the world. His thorough knowledge of the English language made him an esjiecial favorite with American students, large lumihers of whom sat at his feet. Among the most distiiigui.-lied of these we may mention Drs. Hodge, Addison, Alexander, I'rentiss, H. H. Smith. I'ark, and others. The partiality manifest- ed for Tholuck by American students was recijirocated by him. He regarded them with more than ordinary interest, and was in the habit of calling a number of those named his "si>ecial pets."
Besides the Englisii. he was a master of a great many languages, and was only siirjiassed by cardinal jMezzo- fanti, who is said to have known fifty, including dia- lects. He was also gifted with jioetic genius, and had acquired an immense store of varied learning. He was not only a master in theology, but profoundly versed in philology, philosophy, history, and poetry; in ancient and modern. Oriental and Occidental, heathen, Jewish, Mohammedan, and Christian literature. He was a voluminous writer. He commenced his literary labors as an author in 18"_M, and, besides the works al- ready named, he wrote Coinmenttirks on the Ejiistle to the Komans, the Hebrew.s, the I'salms, the Gospel of John; — a philosophico- theological exposition on The Sermon on the Mount: — The Credihility of the Gospel History (an antidote to Strdvss's Life of Christ) : — The iSjririt of the Lutheran Theoloi/ians of Wittenhtry in the \lth Century: — and The Academic Life of the Mth Cen- tury. In the last two productions he gives, mostly fnnn M.S. sources, a very interesting and graphic, but by no means favorable, |)icture of the palm.y days of orthodox Lutheranism, for the instruction and warning of those contemporaries who would so zealously revive it as the best state of the Church, without considering that it was followed by the terrible apostasy of Kationalism. These works were forerunners of an extensive history of Ka- tionalism. We mention the Ihmrs of Devotion, togeth- er with .several volumes oi Sermons, s.sv;e\\ as numerous articles published in the theological journals of Ger- many. He also issued his miscellaneous writings in two volumes, and republished The True Consecration of the Sceptic (1823), under the changed title of The Doc- trine of Sin and the I'ropitiator, in 18.51. INIost of his writings have been translated into the more widely spoken modern languages of Europe.
Dr. Tholuck was also an able and popular preacher. He breathed and exhibited the spirit of evangelical piety in all the circles in which he moved — domestic, social, lilerary, and theological. He was simjile and bland in his manners, social in bis disposition, and kind- ly affcctioncd towards all men. He did not eschew pleasantry, but gave it its due place in conversation, and thus furnished the matter for many relishable anec- dotes. He accepted the I'mssian I'liion as consistent with the catholicity of Christianity, as well as with the doctrines of the Eutheran Church as set forth in her catholic symbol, the A nf/ust(rmi, and hence never allied himself with the separatistic Lutherans in their attempt to revive and jierpetuate the symbolic dogmatism of the Lutheran theologians of the ITih century. In spite of his frail physical coiistitiilion, he was permitteit to celebrate his semi-centennial jubilee as a ])rofessor Dec, 2, 1870, an occasion which was graced by the presence of a great number of his former jiupils from all ])arts of the world. In responding to one of the addresses pre- sented to him at his semi-centennial jubilee, he referred to the bodily iiilirmities he had been called u])on to bear, and the compar.atively small number of his days in which he was in the enjoyment of health. The performance of so much unintermitted labor, and the great age which he attained, are attributable to his abstemious habits and systematic exercise, as well as to the cheerfulness of dis- ])osition inspired by his personal piety, and his extraor- dinary success in doing good and glorifying Christ. On June 10. 1877, Dr. Tholuck"s wife sent the follow-