chairman of the faculty, with great dignity and genuine affection he declared that he relinquished the presiIdential duties with all the more assurance and cheerfulness because there had been at his side for many years turning his full gaze upon Professor Ellis-one who could take up the work which he was laying down and carry it forward with efficiency and enthusiasm, whom he commended to the favor of his colleagues. But for two years no successor was appointed. At the end of that time the choice fell upon a younger colleague, the brilliant scholar and most efficient teacher of Hebrew, Professor William Gay Ballantine, who had come into the Oberlin faculty and fellowship in 1878. Ex-President Fairchild gave to the new president his cordial support from the first, and himself went on as he says, "with his regular work in theology and somewhat in ethics," for nine years more. The relationships in the theological faculty were most cordial, and the presence of Ex-President Fairchild and President Ballantine in all the meetings of that department brought a strength and good cheer which will never be forgotten.

In 1892 he published his Elements of Theology, in which he treats of the Christian doctrines with his own peculiar clearness and force. In 1897 he was made Emeritus Professor, and in the following year gave his theology to the seminary students for the last time,turning the work over to Professor Henry Churchill King who had been designated as his successor two years before, and who by his native ability, training and experience was peculiarly fitted to become President Fairchild's successor in the chair of theology, as also later in the presidential chair. But his active duties as

a member of the Board of Trustees and of the Prudential Committee he continued to perform as before.

The home life of President Fairchild is to come more and more before us as this chapter advances; and many little glimpses and incidents have been waiting to be presented. After the early years four more children had been born into the family,-Alice, Emma -who fell a victim of scarlet fever before she became five years of age-Grace, and James. In the early years, when a young professor in the college, he had bestowed his kindly care upon his own children in the home. Mrs. Margaret Alsworth who lived in the family for some time when a student in the college says, "I remember well his many wonderful fatherly characteristics; here he was the perfect father endued with sweet motherly sympathy." Rev. Edwin S. Williams has never forgotten the picture which greeted his eyes, when in the spring of 1853 he went to live in his home:" His beautiful child Alice was upon his knee when I presented to him my letter of introduction. No child ever seemed to trouble him. With commencement cares on him, when distinguished guests were in the parlor, and high converse going on with such intellectual souls as Mark Hopkins or Newman Hall, he could stop and patiently untie a knot in a child's shoestring. From the time I became an inmate of his home until privileged to wheel his invalid chair to the big tent at the reunion in 1900, I never heard him speak a sharp word in his family-and I never heard of any one who ever testified to any unloveliness on his part."

Mrs. Mary Andrews Millikan who was in the family during the year of 1857 has always regarded it one of

the great privileges of her life:-" I never knew one," she says, "who did so much to influence the life and character of those about him, or did so little apparently with that end in view. It was his own character that made his influence great. He was a model of industry, faithfulness, modesty, purity, and perfect truthfulness; and in his presence you felt it, and that it was unworthy to live in any other way. He did not often command, he rarely reproved, and if he did either it was with exceeding delicacy. If little Emma became unruly at table he would wait patiently a little while, and carry her away to his room, and shortly return with a subdued child. We never knew his method of discipline, but were sure it was not corporal. In my later experience I have wondered how with his large family and small salary he managed to make ends meet, yet there was always generosity towards those in his family, and I cannot remember ever hearing a word expressing any straitness of means."

"In his home," says Ex-President Brooks," he was at his best-dignified but most hospitable, and always the same loving friend ready to hear one's trials and give counsel which was always convincing. He was very patient in his treatment of the children.—I remember when Grace was a little girl in her high chair at the table she frequently was uneasy. He repeated to her many times in a soothing tone, Fret not thyself!'" Mrs. Frances Steele Pratt gives several charming little pictures from her life in his home :—“ President Fairchild was in every way a perfect head in a large household of children and guests. About nine o'clock in the evening he would come from his study into the family circle, and no one ever thought of