ELIJAH KELLOGG

THE MAN AND HIS WORK

PREFACE

This book makes no pretence of expoundingthe doctrines of the theologian or analyzingthe methods of the artist. It is simplya remembrancer of a quaint and winning manfor his intimate friends and parishioners; forthe boys who have delighted in his stories;for the sailors whose lives he saved from shipwreck;for the college students who learnedfrom him a wisdom not to be found in books;for all, in fact, to whom the memory of hisunique personality is dear. With the storyof his life, with anecdote and reminiscence,with selections from his speeches, sermons,letters, and journal, it aims to recall ElijahKellogg as he really was: the boy, tinglingwith life and full of fun to his finger tips;the college student, genial, prankish, andzealous; the farmer-preacher, devout and resourceful,making pen and book, scythe andhoe, seine and boat, all his ready servants todo God’s work; the author, finding his way[Pg viii]straight to the heart of the growing boy; theaged man, fond as ever of the soil and thesea, and after all the rubs and chances of along life, still young in spirit, strong in faith,and free from bitterness and guile.

Acknowledgment is here due to Mr. Kellogg’sson and daughter, Mr. Frank G. Kelloggand Mrs. Mary C. Batchelder, and to many ofhis intimate acquaintances in Harpswell andBrunswick for information relating to hisearly Harpswell life. Special acknowledgmentis also due to President William DeWittHyde for valuable advice concerning the preparationof this book.

W. B. M.

Brunswick, Maine,
  November 23, 1903.

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