But it will be difficult to replace McTeague.

He was a man," added Dr.Boomer, rehearsing in advance, unconsciously, no doubt, his forthcoming oration over Dr.McTeague's death, "of a singular grasp, a breadth of culture, and he was able, as few men are, to instil what I might call a spirit of religion into his teaching.

His lectures, indeed, were suffused with moral instruction, and exercised over his students an influence second only to that of the pulpit itself." He paused.
"Ah yes, the pulpit," said Mr.Furlong, "there indeed you will miss him." "That," said Dr.Boomer very reverently, "is our real loss, deep, irreparable.

I suppose, indeed I am certain, we shall never again see such a man in the pulpit of St.Osoph's.

Which reminds me," he added more briskly, "I must ask the newspaper people to let it be known that there will be service as usual the day after tomorrow, and that Dr.
McTeague's death will, of course, make no difference--that is to say--I must see the newspaper people at once." * * * * * That afternoon all the newspaper editors in the City were busy getting their obituary notices ready for the demise of Dr.McTeague.
"The death of Dr.McTeague," wrote the editor of the _Commercial and Financial Undertone_, a paper which had almost openly advocated the minister's dismissal for five years back, "comes upon us as an irreparable loss.