Memoir of William C. Cattell, D.D., LL. D

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Excerpt from Memoir of William C. Cattell, D.D., LL. D: 1827-1898 In Princeton the life-work of Dr. Cattell as an educator began in 18 5 3 by acceptance of the post of associate principal of the Edgehill Preparatory School. Two years later, in 185 5, he was called to the professorship of ancient languages in Lafayette College, and, removing to Easton, Pennsylvania, he rendered his first service in the institution destined to be come his chief monument. For five years he filled this posi tion with eminent success, and then there occurred an inter regnum, which proved an essential part of his providential preparation for the later and larger work which he was to do for Lafayette. He received an urgent call to become the first pastor of the Pine Street Church, in Harrisburg, recently colonized from the Market Square Church. Although his professorship was most congenial and he had already formed strong attachment to his fellows of the faculty, as well as to the society of Easton, he felt he was summoned of God to resign his professorship for the pastorate. He was led, by a way he knew not of, to lay down his work for the College, only that he might take it up again when more broadly furnished for it and when it was in greater need of his services. Harrisburg was soon thereafter one of the throbbing cen tres of the excitement attending the outset of the war. Around the young, ardent, and cultivated pastor of the Pine Street pulpit there was presently gathered a congregation representative of the highest legislative, judicial, and military circles of the Commonwealth. He was brought into personal contact with the leaders of thought and action in those times which tried men's souls, and obtained extensive acquaintance among the eminent men of the day. And on his part, he failed not to employ his fine abilities to bring the light of divine authority to bear on the problems of the hour, public and private. For three years, from 1860 to 1863, he minis tered with ever-growing in¿uence and success to his own people and to the large transient audience thronging the church. He won for himself the ardent affection of his hear ers, as well as an ever-increasing reputation for wise, able, and consecrated leadership, that went out through all the State and beyond it. As to his labors for the soldiers gathered at the capital and converting it into one vast camp, a prominent member of his congregation testifies: In the urgent demands made upon the citizens of Harrisburg when the bloody battles fought in Virginia, Maryland, and Penn sylvania filled the hospitals of the city with thousands of wounded soldiers, no one was more active to relieve the sick or more tenderly ministered to the dying than the pastor of the Pine Street Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.