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Excerpt from A Champion of the Cross: Being the Life of John Henry Hopkins, S. T. D, Including Extracts and Selections From His Writings John henry hopkins needs no introduction to the Amer ican Church. For the last forty years he has been one of the weightiest of the influences which have moulded and directed her thought. Nevertheless, my connection with him is not so clear as to give authenticity to what I have written concerning him. When Dr. Hopkins died two years ago his brother undertook the work of writing the biography. It is to him that a very large degree of credit is due for the material which he afterward handed over to me. I had been one of Dr. Hopkins's students, and to me he had left the task of completing his work on the history and true meaning of the Seventh General Council. Ac cordingly, when the brother found that he could not complete the biography, it was in a certain sense natural that the materials should be given to me which was done, and I, with the full approval of all Dr. Hopkins' relatives, undertook the work. The work, then, has been done, as well as it could have been by myself, in such intervals as I could snatch from the work of a parish in a large New England factory city. I have no apolo gies to make for the carelessness and scrappiness of the work, for I did as well as I could under the circumstances. I desire to say here just a word or two as to Dr. Hopkins as a feather. I have seen, from the pupils' bench, a good many teachers, in university, and in legal studies, and in theology, and, leaving all question of learning out of consideration (for all know that Dr. Hopkins was a man of genuine erudition), he was simply one of the best that I ever knew. That he was sympathetic will be gathered from the biography. But he was far more. He was simply inspiring. What I am is of little consequence, indeed, but such as I am, after those who gave me life and care and love, I owe to him. This book has been written because I love him, and so have tried to snatch from the maw of Time some relics of his life, whose full beauty will be known of all, as he willed to have it, in God's own day. 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.