Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. E. Henderson, D.D., Ph.D: Including His Labours in Denmark, Iceland, Russia, Etc., Etc

Of the anecdotes he was wont to relate, a richer store might doubtless have been accumulated, had we listened to the advice repeatedly given us by his friends, and had we carefully taken down the details from time to time. But we recoiled from the idea of pursuing such a course. We were told, indeed, that we owed this to the Christian world, but we felt that we had a prior and paramount duty to discharge toward himself, We were sufficiently alive to the espionage practised under despotic govern ments abroad, to have contracted a peculiar distaste for all that could seem like an invasion of the sanctities of home. His one thing for memory lovingly to retrace the past, as it fondly gathers up the recollections of the departed, and quite another thing for the eagle-eye of vigilance to be on the perpetual look-out for every casual incident or off-hand phrase that may serve to point a moral or adorn a tale of individual life.

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