The Walking Stick of Orthodoxy

"As Archibald Alexander, Princeton [Seminary]'s first president, approached his death, he summoned Charles Hodge to his bedside and gave him a walking stick. This stick, explained Alexander, was handed down to Hodge "as a symbol of orthodoxy." The elder Hodge [whose son, A. A. Hodge later suceeded him] fulfilled that theological mission by his dedicated leadership of Old School Presbyterians, his voluminous publications, and his diligent seminary teaching."

(W. Andrew Hoffecker, 'Benjamin B. Warfield' in David F. Wells (ed) Reformed Theology in America: A History of its Modern Development (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1985) p60 citing A. A. Hodge, Life of Charles Hodge (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880) p382.)

Sadly Hoffecker doesn's say what became of that walking stick.