“ He was preacher to Harvard University and Plummer professor of Christian morals from 1860 to 1881, and was professor emeritus from 1881 until his death in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 10th of March 1893. On the walls of Appleton Chapel, Cambridge, U.S.A., is a bronze tablet to his memory.
Besides many brief memoirs and articles, he wrote: Christianity the Religion of Nature (2nd ed., 1864) , Lowell Institute Lectures; Reminiscences of European Travel (1868) ; A Manual of Moral Philosophy (1873) ; Christian Belief and Life (1875) , and Harvard Reminiscences (1888) . ”