Excerpt from Martin Brewer Anderson He felt completely carried off his moral and intellectual legs, as if he had lost his standing-point in the invisible world. Besides which, the deep, loving loyalty which he felt for his own leader made the shock intensely painful. It was the first great wrench of his life, the first gap which the angel Death had made in his circle, and he felt numbed, and beaten down, and spiritless. If he could only have seen the doctor again for one five minutes; have told him all that was in his heart, what he owed to him, how he loved and reverenced him, and would, by God's help, follow his steps in life and death, he could have borne it all without a murmur. But that he should have gone away forever with out knowin g it all was too much to bear. So felt many a Rochester alumnus when the telegraph flashed the news across the continent that President Ander son was no more. The blow was less sudden, perhaps, than that which smote Tom Brown, for we had had warning that our doctor had failed rapidly - indeed, that his state was critical - but it was no less heavy, and the sorrow was not less grievous, because partly anticipated. It did not seem that the news could be true. When we were college lads our Prex had so impressed us all with a sense of his throbbing, exuberant, masterful Vitality, his protean and um tiring activity, that it was hard to think of him as mortal like the rest of us. And when I saw him last, on the day he left New York for Florida, though he was no longer the stalwart man of yore, he seemed full of mentalv1gor and hopefulness, and no word or act gave premonition that the end was so near. 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.