Charles Chapin Tracy, missionary, philanthropist, educator, first ...

8 CHARLES CHAPIN TRACY
graduation, " And Now I Sing of Toil." Williams
College conferred upon its alumnus the degree of
Master of Arts in course, in 1867; and the honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1894.
UNION SEMINARY. LIFE WORK
Young Tracy went direct from Williams College to
Union Seminary in 1864, and here the country youth
came into touch with the life of the great metropolis.
A student with acquisitive and unsated mind, he came
under the formative influence of such mighty teachers
as Drs. Roswell D. Hitchcock, Henry B. Smith, and
the irenic and pellucid William G. T. Shedd. Some
of the choicest memories of those years were associated
with private studies in the Pauline Epistles and prayer
together by a group of chums in their own rooms for
the purpose of deepening their own spiritual life.
Andrus of Mardin, a classmate in college and seminary
and a life-long friend, was one of that student group.
Young Tracy supported himself in part by private
tutoring. One summer vacation spent in Minnesota
gave him a taste of home missions, and one in Chicago
a taste of city missions before he entered the wider
foreign field, and he had some experience in slum mis-
sion work in the great metropolis.
He had been consecrated to the Master for missionary
service by his saintly mother from the beginning,
and his own heart caught the passion in boyhood years
when the schooner " Morning Star " was purchased
by the gifts of the Sunday School children of America
for mission service among the Micronesian Islands.