General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, LL.D., Ex-Governor of Maine and Ex-President of Bowdoin College.
Rev. Abiel Holmes Wright, A.M., formerly Pastor of St. Lawrence Street Church, Portland, Maine.
Religious Worship Early in the Century 276
Delivered at Portland, Maine, Centennial Celebration, July 4, 1886.
At Bowdoin Commencement, June 25, 1890 287
At Centennial Celebration of Bowdoin College, June 28, 1894 297
Delivered at “Donation Party” at Harpswell, September 18, 1894.
Delivered at “Donation Party,” October 1, 1895.
Delivered at “Donation Party,” October 19, 1897.
Preached at the Second Parish Church, Portland, August 5, 1900, “Old Home Week.”
Written for the Semi-centennial Celebration at Bowdoin College, August 31, 1852.
Written for the Celebration of the Twenty-eighth Anniversary of the Boston Seaman’s Friend Society, May 28, 1856.
Elijah Kellogg at 65. 1878 _Frontispiece_
Rev. Elijah Kellogg, 1796. Father of Elijah Kellogg. _From a Miniature_ 8
Mrs. Eunice McLellan Kellogg. Mother of Elijah Kellogg 28
House on Cumberland Street, Portland, Maine, in which Elijah Kellogg lived when a boy 48
Elijah Kellogg’s Church at Harpswell, Maine 56
Hannah Pearson Pomeroy Kellogg. Wife of Elijah Kellogg 68
Elijah Kellogg’s Home at Harpswell, Maine 114
View of the Kellogg Homestead, Harpswell, Maine 140
Aunt Betsy and Uncle William Alexander, for fifty years nearest neighbors and dear friends of Elijah Kellogg 168
Casco Bay as seen near Kellogg Homestead, Harpswell, Maine 188
I. Frank Gilman Kellogg. Son of Elijah Kellogg. II. Mrs. Mary Kellogg Batchelder and Baby
Eleanor Batchelder. Daughter and granddaughter of Elijah Kellogg 202
Interior View of Elijah Kellogg’s Church at Harpswell, Maine 356
It is much easier to read the boy after you see and know the man than it is to read the man when you see and know only the boy. Manhood may be the unfolding of the various forces and dispositions of boyhood, but this unfolding must take place before the boyhood itself can be comprehended. The mill must grind the wheat into flour and the flour be baked and eaten before we can know how good the kernels of wheat are. So we must see Elijah Kellogg as a man before we can fairly estimate him as a lad. When we hear him preach or when we read some of his books, then we know there was something in him when a child more than mere roguery and fun. Genius was there. Powers and faculties were there which, when trained by judgment and directed by piety, made him the preacher to whom men and women loved to listen, and the writer of books that captivated the hearts of all boys.