The Rev. Edward E. Hale, writing of Mr. Huntington,



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his immediate predecessor, called it "an intense and
eager preaching which is not satisfied until the whole
man is quickened and his life fired. At the same time
he is an organizer as he has always been. I have been
told that in college he was called, in joke, the * Major
Greneral,' and I can well beUeve it. He did not mean
to do all the work of a church, active and eager though
he were. He meant to have its members work, and
where he led the way they followed loyally.
"Never was a ministry more successful. The
church was full; the charities were admirably ad-
ministered; the Sunday-school was in perfect order.
More than this, oh so much more than this, hearts had
found living food here that had hungered and thirsted
elsewhere. Here were those who had heard no peace
elsewhere and had found it here. Here were voices
pleading with God, and finding an answer, who had
not known how to plead before. Here was sin repent-
ant and forgiven. Here were exiles who had been lost
and were found. Here were those who were all alone
in a strange city and in this church, in its fellow-
ship and its minister had found companionship and
a new Hfe."

The impression Mr. Huntington's personality made
upon a casual listener is given in the following sketch,
published in the local press of the day.
" The prevailing quality of his character is exhibited.
