this hope

Every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure. I John 3:3

"Many persons think they are seeking "holiness" when in fact they are seeking the "loaves and fishes". To be holy is to be like Christ, who, as the Captain of our salvation, was made perfect through suffering." Prof. Upham


Thomas Cogswell Upham(1799-1872) dominated American academic psychology in the mid-19th century. His popular and extremely successful textbooks brought prestige and funds to Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. His personality, shy, bookish, conscientious and, self-effacing to ta fault, contributed to the stereotype of a dutiful academic, quietly teaching and publishing in a university career spanning many decades. Yet at the same time one has to recognize the extraordinary activity of Upham, not in the sense of an obvious, frenetic energy, but in his ability to accomplish so much, through persistence and diligence, in so many fields. Besides his long and distinguished academic career, Upham was an accomplished poet, a recognized leader in the New England anti-war and abolition movements, and if we may characterize his involvement with the "holiness movement" in such terms, a religious reformer.
Upham passed away the same year he published his poetry book, Christ in the Soul, following a stroke. His last coherent words reportedly were: "My soul....is with God"(1872)