with such clearness, and unfolded with such power, the mys teries of redemption.

The Spirit revealed to him the deep things of God; his lips were touched with holy fire; and his sermons were accompanied by an energy supernatural. Sinners trembled, saints were comforted, and Pentecost was repeated.

Would that the following pertinent and eloquent suggestions. of Dr. Roche might be read and remembered by the rising ministry of Methodism :

That which distinguished our early preachers was not mental idiosyncrasy, new theological beliefs, nor physical force, whether judged by voice, or gesture, or forms of labor. They could not, as a rule, claim the profound learning of the schools. They were not remarkable for the exhaustive treatment of their subjects; but whether they sang, or prayed, or exhorted, or preached; whether they met in class, or formed a band," or held a lovefeast, their perpetual thought was, "It is the Spirit that quickeneth." The books they read, the letters they wrote, the conversations they delighted to hold, were eminently spiritual. In their conversation they claimed that the Spirit bore witness with their spirit that they were born of God. In many cases, if they were not spiritual they were nothing. The confidence of the pulpit was in the Spirit to secure the highest success. This awoke the faculties, inspired the purpose, prompted the language, and compelled the noblest utterances of the man. The heart spoke, the tears flowed, and the joy that thrilled them animated others.

To our fathers, rhetoric, logic, elocution, even exposition, were only the stepping-stones to something higher. Where, as a rule, other ministers left off, they did execution. Then they took a firmer hold and obtained a firmer grasp. When they had put the subject before the mind they tried to get it into the heart, and felt that nothing was done till the citadel gave way under the heaviest fire.

church work.

At the risk of being deemed "unprogressive," we affirm with all possible emphasis that the prosperity of Methodism depends upon fidelity to primitive methods of preaching and The noble men who laid the foundation of our great Church have passed away, but their influence as earnest, mighty preachers, is felt to the very ends of the earth. Foremost among these stood the great Durbin, the light of whose example is still around us.

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ART. IV.-WASHINGTON CHARLES DEPAUW:

FOUNDER OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY.

THE family of DePauw has an ancient and honorable lineage. In the department of Basses Pyrénées, in the extreme southwest of France, lies the old city of Pau, on the river of the same name. This place is the original seat of the family, which was destined, in the course of several centuries, to make its way into Flanders and Holland, and thence into the New World. Here, as early as 1221, a chieftain, perhaps the son of a crusader, built his castle of Pau-that word meaning in old Provençal a pale, a palisade, a defense. A city and a feudal estate were here laid out, and during the latter part of the Middle Ages were developed into considerable importance.

At the present day the original Pau, modernized but still retaining its historical associations, is one of the most interesting places in all that sunny and romantic country where aforetime. the bards of the old Languedoc gave to the dawning literature of Europe its morning light. Pau was the capital of Navarre. It is the birthplace of the first king of the House of Bourbonthat Henry IV. whose white plume was seen above the battlerack of Ivry. Here, in the castle of Gaston-Phoebus, the traveler may still enter the bed-chamber of Jeanne d'Albret, where the great Henry first saw the light, and where his cradle of tortoise-shell stands as it stood in 1555. Here was born Marshal Bernadotte, afterward king of Sweden; and here the African, Abd-el-Kader, was put into captivity.

The DePaus lingered around their ancestral seat until the latter part of the sixteenth century. They, in common with the best of their countrymen of Navarre, were Huguenots. They shared the fortunes of the Protestant party, suffered persecutions, and went into banishment rather than renounce their faith. A removal across the northern frontiers of France brought the descendants of the original Count of Pau into. French Flanders and the Walloon provinces, where the name. was modified into the present form of DePauw. The spirit of adventure was now on, and the name soon became known, not only to the countries of the Zuyder Zee, but in the wilds of the New World.

One of the DePauws became a prominent figure in the primitive history of New Netherland. The plan of organization. proposed for that province by the Dutch West India Company, in 1629, contemplated the establishment of a landed aristocracy. In July of the following year, Michael DePauw, one of the directors of the company, chose Staten Island as his estate, and his title thereto was confirmed by Peter Minuit and his council.

The territory thus secured by DePauw embraced an area of fifty-eight and a half square miles; but his privileges as a Patroon were not exhausted even by this broad claim, and in November of 1631 he established on the main land opposite another estate, which he named Pavonia, embracing what is now the southern part of Jersey City and the adjacent district. Here the name of the suburb Communipaw preserves to this day the tradition of the primitive owner of these lands.

Michael De Pauw returned to Holland. It appears that his kinsmen, the descendants of the Huguenot refugees, had their homes about Ghent. That city had been the stopping-place for many of the wanderers until the time when, by the vicissitudes of revolution, they were driven further to seek rest or adventure among the estuaries of the North Sea. It is believed that Michael passed his last years in Ghent; but the family at this time was widely distributed throughout the Low Countries, from the borders of France to the Lower Rhine.

After the early American episode the history of the DePauws is obscured. Doubtless the records of the cities of Ghent and Amsterdam would witness, by the occasional recurrence of the name, to the part which the members of this stock took in the long struggle for Dutch independence. The conflict lasted for eighty years; and the fortunes of the DePauw kindred, like those of thousands of other patriotic houses, were blown hither and you on the bloody seas.

The next distinguished member of the family was the historian, Cornelius DePauw, of Amsterdam, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. This eminent man passed the greater part of his life at Xanten, near Cleves, in Rhenish Prussia; and here he died in 1799. He held the office of private reader to Frederick the Great, and devoted his whole energies to historical study and composition. In his thirtieth year (1767) he published his Researches Concerning

the American Indians-a subject to which his attention had doubtless been called by the fact that an ancestor, a hundred and thirty-five years before, had dwelt among the Red men in America. He afterward published Researches Concerning the Egyptians and the Chinese, and in 1788 produced Researches Concerning the Greeks. His Researches Concerning the Germans existed in manuscript at the time of the invasion by the French Revolutionary army, in 1792, and DePauw, depressed in spirits by the course of events, gave his work to the flames. His writings are noted for the care with which they are composed and the originality of the deductions which they embody. Carlyle speaks of him as that "sharp-sighted, thorough-going Cornelius DePauw, who mercilessly, cuts down cherished illusions."

The historian left a son, Charles DePauw, born, in 1757, in Ghent, from which place he was sent, in his youth, to Paris to be educated. There he caught the enthusiasm of the American Revolution, joined the adventurous Lafayette, and came to the aid of our patriot fathers. He was a brave soldier, and suffered and bled for our sake in the war of Independence. After the close of the conflict, he took in marriage a Virginian wife, and then sought the blue-grass region of Kentucky as his home. Of this marriage were born ten children, of whom John DePauw was the eldest son. In him was concentrated a force of character which had come down through many vicissitudes from a robust, adventurous, and patriotic ancestry. From a boy he was full of energy and action. Limits of space forbid an account of his youth. On reaching his majority he removed from his home in Kentucky to Washington County, Ind., where he laid out the town of Salem and fixed his residence. He was at once recognized as one of the ablest young men of the region. He was made surveyor of the county; but from this work he turned to the practice of law. After a brief service as an attorney at the primitive bar he rose to the judgeship of the court, and was finally appointed general of the militia of southern Indiana. He had in the meantime taken in mar

Charles DePauw was first cousin to the celebrated Baron de Cloots, otherwise Anacharsis Cloots, of Cleves, who, on the 19th of June, 1790, marched into the Salle de Manége at Paris at the head of the strangest procession ever seen in our poor planet, and introduced Mankind to the National Assembly of France.

riage Elizabeth Battiste, and a large family sprang up from the union.

No man in primitive southern Indiana held a larger place in public esteem than did General John DePauw. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth. He sat in the Constitutional Convention of 1816, and was a leader in that body. Afterward he served the new State in many important offices and trusts. On four different occasions he was representative or senator in the General Assembly. His activities in private and in public life were prodigious. He had in him much of that industrial enterprise which afterward displayed itself in so extraordinary a manner in the person of his distinguished son.

Washington Charles DePauw, founder of DePauw University, and subject of this sketch, was born in Salem, Washington County, Ind., on the 4th of January, 1822. He was the second son of General John DePauw mentioned above. The conditions of his childhood were somewhat more favorable than those common to the frontier boys of the epoch. The school of his native village was superior to the average school in the new States. The boy availed himself diligently of his advantages, and acquired early in life what is known in the West as a fair English education. It was reserved for young DePauw, however, to expend the energies of his life in a kind of enterprise which, while it does not demand a high grade of scholarship, calls out the strongest exertions of the mind, and produces a sterling discipline.

Great force and activity were the elements of character which young DePauw displayed, and to these was added a courage that knew no fear. We find the youth at the age of thirteen intrusted with oxen and wagon loads of merchandise, and sent through a roadless country a distance of more than a hundred miles to another settlement in the new State. He camped out at night, crossed dangerous streams, and lost himself in the trackless country only to regain his course and come safely to the end. It is related of him that on one occasion he went to a drug-store in his native town and sought the privilege of working without pay, giving as a reason that he "wanted something to do." While still in his minority he was appointed deputy in the office of the county clerk, and at the age of twenty-two was himself elected to the clerkship.