nable to go any further, and was
entirely out of money. He procured a carriage for the unknown young
student and conveyed him to Goettingen. That young student was Neander; and
this little adventure led to a friendship which lasted for life, the gulf
which subsequently yawned between them, in respect to matters of faith,
abating nothing of their mutual respect and kindliness. "At first it was
painful to me," said Neander, writing from Goettingen, "to be thrown into
this place of icy coldness for the heart. But now I find it was well, and
thank God for it. In no other way could I have made such progress. From
every human mediator, and even every agreeable association, must one be
torn away, in order that he may place his sole reliance on the only
Mediator."

In 1809 he returned to Hamburg to become a pastor. But the city had a
small fund to support one of its theologians as a lecturer at Heidelberg.
This was wisely appropriated to Neander, who promised more as a scholar
than as a preacher. Accordingly, in 1811, we find him established at
Heidelberg as a teacher in the University, he having previously, on his
public profession of Christianity, assumed the name of _Neander_ deriving
it from the Greek, [Greek: nheos haner], "a new man," to signify
the entire change which had come over him. The family name was Mendel. The
year following he was appointed Professor Extraordinary, which, in plain
English, means a professor without a regular salary from government, and
shortly issued his work on "The Emperor Julian and his Time," the first of
those monographs which awakened the admiration of his learned countrymen,
and paved the way for the great undertaking of his life, "A General
History of the Christian Religion and Church."

In 1813, when but twenty-four years of age, he was called to a
professorship in the then recently established University of Berlin, and
signalized his removal thither by a work on "St. Bernard and his Age."
Five years later, he published a work on Gnosticism, and in 1821, his
"Life of Chrysostom;" besides some treatises of minor note, which we need
not pause to enumerate. At length, in 1825, when of course he was
thirty-six years old, the first volume of his General History of the
Church appeared. And to say that this work put him directly at the very
head of Christendom as the expounder of its inward life, is saying only
what we all know to be true. After that, he turned aside occasionally in
obedience