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The following table exhibits the amounts raised for the prin- cipal objects of benevolence, so far as it has been possible to ascertain them, from January 1840 to August 1859. If the total amount is given for any year, the blank spaces would indi- cate that no contribution was made for the particular cause that year. If the total amount is not given, it is uncertain whether the blanks should be filled. It is not probable that all the sums are given with perfect correctness. Some of them have been supplied from the acknowledgments contained in missionary publications. Those from 1840 to 1851, inclusive, except those for the years 1842 and 1847, were taken from the annual ser- mons of Rev. J. L. Taylor, kindly furnished for the purpose.
The large sums given for the years 18.40 and 1811 were oe- casioned by special collections in behalf of the Am. Abolition and Am. Anti-Slavery Societies. In the column designated as that of the Am. and For. Chr. Union the two first sums were given to the For. Evang. Society. In reference to the sums reported for the present year, it should be said that the donations to the A. B. C. F. M. and the Am. Home Miss. Society will be increased by Monthly Concert collections during the remaining months - probably thirty dollars cach.
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CHARITABLE AND MISSIONARY EFFORTS.
Years.
American Bible Soc.
A. B. C. F. M.
American Education Society.
Am. Home Mission Soc'y. Tract Soc'y.
American
Sabbath Schools.
1840
$526,93
$114,50
$142,37
none $75,00
$50,00 50,00
1842
432,82
55,00
258,02
1843
283,12
40,00
258,51
46,08
43,66
1844
241,57
48,00
282,06
39,88
1845
$70,00
204,46
50,00
211,75
none
1846
153,42
108,05
197,21
1847
75,00
301,83
114,42
550,08
151,42
50,00
1848
56,72
196,84
124,00
186,00
308,00
47,46
1849
65,52
284,94
99,00
223,17
153,73
30,78
1850
66,05
400,28
40,00
221,01
85,25
45.93
1851
55,00
372,78
40,00
292,11
70,00
87,32
1852
351,52
44,88
223,42
1853
284,68
38,68
230,22
1854
66,69
233,48
16,48
164,77
1855
54.00
293,54
29,30
172,61
62,59
1856
81,57
400,50
60,45
201,18
200,00
85,00
1857
74,13
451,90
80,00
261,91
71,32
66,20
1858
76,00
444,69
98,33
216,70
50,00
46,00
1859
none.
562,31
65,00
248,86
Years.
Am. & For. Ch. Union.
Western Colleges.
Am. Seamen's Friend Soc'y.
Poor.
Miscellane- ous.
Totals.
1840
$20,00
1841
none
none none
none
none none
$533,00 676,30
$ 1386,80 1650,88
1842
none
1843
none
$130,00
none $21,50 27,50
none $46,70
338,00
1008,41
1846
41,21
1847
none
89,50
39,30 100,00
34,88
36,00
1212,90
1849
40,00
75,00
95,00
27,29
38,91
1133,14
1850
40,54
87,75
none
39,96
22,76
1049,53
1851
25,00
89,43
none
30,75
112,36
1194,75
1852
80,25
36,83
1853
none
42,41
1854
76,77
35,88
1855
64,00
38,65
1856
none
77,85
47,88
1233,00
1857
32,00
77,75
92,85
1513,06
1858
none
73,60
none
89,12
78,77 216,00 306,00
1400,44
1859
52,00
none
125,00
936,37
1844
none
105,00
738,01
1845
none
none 60,00
39,91
175,19
1586,65
1848
50,00
73,00
none
391,19
1841
421,79
36,60
none 59,00
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In May 1836, thirty-five ladies associated themselves together as a society, under the name of the Canadian Missionary Society. Their special object at that time was the support of teachers among the French Canadian population. Two teachers belong- ing to the Parish, Miss Mary Abbot, since deceased, and Miss Phebe Foster, now Mrs. Dea. Jos. Cummings, were sustained there for two years, the former by the Sabbath School, and the latter by this Society, with the cooperation of the Juvenile Mis- sionary Society.
At the close of the two years, in November 1838, the society took the name of the Female Charitable Society, which it still retains. It has been a social Sewing Society, meeting once a fortnight, working for different objects in different years. Among these objeets may be mentioned, in the order in which the society worked for them : Foreign Missions, For. Evangelical Society, Western Reserve College, Home Missions, Seamen, and the support of a colporteur. For several of these objects, the society has worked two or three years. During other years some local object of benevolence has enlisted its sympathies and efforts. The amount of money annually received from the work, taxes, and subscriptions of this society, has varied from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars. Probably one hundred and fifty is nearly the average amount. During its existence it has contri- buted not far from $2,000 to benevolent purposes. It has had a social value to the Parish also, of itself sufficient, it is believed, to justify its continuance.
The Juvenile Missionary Society was probably formed at about the same time with the Canadian Missionary Society, with which it cooperated. It owed much in the first years to Miss Mary Abbot, just now mentioned. Mrs. Mehitabel G. Abbot. Mrs. P'hebe Cummings, Miss Mary E. Hidden, and Miss Han- nah E. Whittier, have successively directed and upheld it. In the year 1851, it contributed to Foreign Missions $98. Not long after this the effort to continue it was deemed discouraging, and before 1855 it was given up. During the years 1857-8
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Miss Anstice Abbot gathered a few girls into a society. A more vigorous and hopeful attempt to revive and sustain this department of missionary effort has been made within a few months by Miss C. II. Swift and Miss S. M. Sweetser. It is pleasant thus to be able to close the account of charitable and missionary efforts, with the thought, that what was well begun in 1814 (the effort to interest the young in doing good), has not, for any long time, been wholly overlooked.
XIV. ORGANIZATION OF OTHER CHURCHES.
October 26, 1729, " Such of the inhabitants of Methuen as had been, at one time and another, admitted to communion here, were dismissed." Fourteen were then dismissed, and the church in Methuen was organized Nov. 5th of the same year.
The settlement of Concord, N. H., in 1727, was commenced, to a large extent, by citizens of Andover. Almost a fourth of the settlers were from this town. Rev. Mr. Phillips was one of the first proprietors. He, with two delegates from this church, were of the council, which assembled Nov. 18, 1730, " to constitute a church in the said plantation," and to ordain its first pastor. One of the eight members then constituted a church was of his flock. But for several years that church was strengthened by numerous dismissions from this.
In 1738, the year of the organization of the church in Pem- broke, N. H., seven members of the South Church were dis- missed to be incorporated with that enterprise.
The church in Hollis, N. H., was formed in 1743. Three of its first members were from this church.
Two members of this church, with six persons from other
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churches, constituted the church at Wilton, N. HI., which was gathered Dec. 14, 1763. Six more were recommended to join them in 1765. During the remaining years of the century this number was greatly increased.
Several other churches of New Hampshire, as will be seen by the catalogue, were either partly formed or strengthened from this church. Among them may be especially mentioned those in Pelham, Amherst, Loudon, Hancock, Weare, Deering, Green- field and Peterboro'.
The churches in Bethel and Norway, Maine, were in some measure nourished, in early years, by this church. The church in the neighboring town of Albany received hence, at its forma- tion, in 1803, ten of its members.
In the year 1816 the church connected with the Theological Seminary was formed. Five members of this church connected themselves with it.
November 28, 1826, fifty-six members of this church received dismission, and, on the fifth of December following, were organ- ized as the West church in Andover, adopting the same Con- fession of Faith and Covenant as are used by this church. Their meeting-house was dedicated Dec. 26, 1826. The successive pastors of the West Church have been
Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, D. D., Ordained June 6, 1827, Dismissed Sept. 25, 1850.
Rev. Charles H. Pierce, Ordained Oct. 9, 1850, Dismissed June 1, 1855.
Rev. James II. Merrill, Installed April 30, 1856.
The Methodists began to preach, it is believed, in the Bank Hall, as early as 1850. A church was apparently in existence at the close of 1831. Within about two years from this date six members were dismissed from this to the Methodist Church. A large number of tax-payers left the parish and connected them- selves with the new Society. A meeting-house was soon built,
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ORGANIZATION OF OTHIER CHURCHES.
and, at times, the church was flourishing. It grew feeble after a few years. Its last minister left before, or during, the year 1840. Its organization was kept several years after this, but the meeting-house at length passed into other hands, and only the foundation stones remain on the old site.
In the fall of 1832, the Baptist Church of this town was formed. No person, at the time a member of the South Church, was engaged in its formation. Quite a number of persons be- longing to the Parish, however, connected themselves with the Baptist Society. The Baptist Church was Recognized Oct. 3, 1832. The meeting-house was dedicated August 28, 1834. The public services of Recognition were held in the South meet- ing house, by invitation. The ministers of this people were
Rev. James Huckins, Inst. August 28, 1834, Res. Oct. 25, 1835. Rev. George J. Carleton, Inst. June 15, 1836, Res. Oct. 5, 1838. Rev. Nathaniel Hervey, Invited August 11, 1839, Left 1841. Rev. Benjamin S. Cobbett, Ord. Feb. 8, 1842, Res. Oct. 5, 1847. Rev. Silas B. Randall, Came Oct. 1, 1848, Left Oct. 1849.
From this latter date, for ten years, this church did not sus- tain stated services. The church dissolved itself Dec. 8, 1857. Sixteen members united, as a branch, with the church in Law- rence, under the care of Rev. Frank Remington. During Mr. R.'s preaching, continued here for several weeks following, a large number of persons were baptized, and, on the 28th of July, 1858, a Baptist Church of 156 members was Recognized. Rev. Wm. S. MeKenzie was the same day Recognized as its pastor.
The Evangelical Church at North Andover received fourteen of its thirty-one original members from the South Church. The church was organized and its meeting-house dedicated Sept. 3, 1834. It has had three pastors :
Rev. Jesse Page, Ord. Sept. 9, 1835, Dis. June 7, 1843. Rev. William T. Briggs, Ord. Nov. 4, 1846, Dis. 1855. Rev. L. II. Cobb, Ord. Oct. 28, 1857.
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
The first time the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church were performed in Andover, was in the summer of 1835, when Rt. Rev. B. B. Smith, of Kentucky, officiated, on Sunday, three times, in the Bank Hall. The first meeting relative to the for- mation of a religious society was held in the same place July 28th of the same summer. The first Parish meeting was held August 6th. The first communion was on April 3, 1836. Dur- ing the years 1837 and 1838 fourteen members of the South Church were dismissed and became communicants with this new church, which had taken the name of Christ Church. The church edifice was consecrated Oct. 31, 1837. Its ministers have been
Rev. James H. Tyng, 1836.
Rev. Joseph II. Clinch, 1837.
Rev. Samuel Fuller, D. D., Oct. 1, 1837 - June 26, 1843.
Rev. George Packard, 1843 - 1845.
Rev. Henry Waterman, Dec. 1845 - June 5, 1849.
Rev. Samuel Fuller, D. D., Oct. 1, 1849 - Oct. 1, 1859.
A Universalist Society was formed here in the fall of 1837, and a meeting-house built in the year 1838. 'A church was formed later. Public worship has been irregularly sustained ; for seve- ral years, after 1846, it was entirely suspended. At present it is supported but half the time.
The Free Christian Church of Andover was organized in 1846. Of its forty-four original members, fourteen were dis- missed from the South Church. It was organized, through a council of churches, May 7, 1846. Sabbath services had com- meneed some months before this date. For a few years the ser- vices were held in the Universalist Church. But in 18-19 the Methodist Church was purchased and removed, and from it the present meeting house of this society was built. The pastors of the Free Church have been
Rev. Elijah C. Winchester, Feb. 1846 - Sept. 1848.
Rev. Sherlock Bristol, Oct. 1848 - Oct. 1849.
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CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINISTRY.
Rev. William B. Brown, August 1850 - April 1855. Rev. Caleb E. Fisher, June 1855 - May 1859.
Rev. S. C. Leonard, Sept. 1859.
Some time before 1847 a Sabbath School was opened in Ballard Vale, and Sabbath evening services conducted there by persons connected with this and the neighboring churches. At a meeting of citizens in the village, in 1847, it was thought most proper that the stated services should be those of the Episcopal Church. Accordingly, such services were continued in the Depot Hall till August 1849. Worship in that form not receiv- ing sufficient support, a Union Society was formed, and a preacher employed for six months. At the end of this time he joined the New England Conference, and gathered a Metho- dist Church. This was in the early part, probably, of 1850. The Methodist Society, in 1851, built a meeting-house. They have not been able to support, except at short intervals, a resi- dent preacher.
Immediately on the formation of the Methodist Church the Union Society repaired to the Union Hall, where they have since maintained public worship. Rev. Henry S. Greene began to preach for them in Sept., 1850. A Congregational Church of eleven members, nine of whom were from the South Church, was organized Dee. 31, 1854. Mr. Greene was installed their pas- tor, by a council of Congregational Churches, April 1, 1855.
XV.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINISTRY.
The following persons, who have either become preachers of the gospel, or were in process of education for that end, were mostly born and baptized in this Parish ; all, when children, re-
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
sided here with parents who belonged to the church or Parish. The date before each name is the date of their birth.
1706 John Blunt, son of William, II. U. 1727, ordained the third minister of Newcastle, N. H., Dec. 20, 1732 : died August 7,1748.
1706 James Chandler, son of Thomas, II. U. 1728, ordained minister of the second parish in Rowley, Oct. 18, 1732: died 1788.
1713 Samuel Chandler, son of Josiah, H. U. 1735, ordained pastor of the second church in York, Me., Jan. 20, 1742 : installed in. the first church in Gloucester, Nov. 13, 1751 : died 1775.
1716
Abiel Abbot, son of Dea. John, II. U. 1737, designed for the ministry : died May 29, 1739.
1723 John Chandler, son of Thomas, II. U. 1743, ordained minister of Billerica Oct. 21, 1747 : removed June 5, 1760 : died Nov. 10, 1762.
1725 Nathan IIolt, son of Nicholas, II. U. 1757, ordained pastor of the second church in Danvers, Jan. 3, 1759 : died Aug. 1, 1792.
1735 Abiel Foster, son of Capt. Asa, II. U. 1756, ordained minister of Canterbury, N. II., Jan. 1761 : dismissed 1779 : was after- wards Representative in the General Court, President of the State Senate, Chief Justice of the C. C. P. Rockingham County, Representative in the old Congress, and for ten years under the present Constitution : died Feb. 1806.
1747 David Osgood, D. D., son of Capt. Isaae, HI. U. 1771, ordained pastor of the church in Medford, Sept. 14, 1774 : died Dec. 12, 1822.
1759
John Abbot, son of Capt. John, II. U. 1784, Instructor in Phil- lips Academy, Tutor in II. U. five years : studied divinity, and was approbated to preach; his health not permitting him to preach, engaged in mercantile business in. Portland, Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages in Bowdoin College 1802-1816, Treasurer of the College 1816-1829 : died at Andover July 2, 1843.
1761 Robert Gray, son of Robert, II. U. 1786, ordained minister at Dover, N. II., Feb. 1787 : dismissed May 1805 : died Angust 1822.
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CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINISTRY.
1763 Peter Holt, son of Dea. Joshua, H. U. 1790, ordained minister of Epping, N. II., Feb. 27, 1793 : moved to Exeter, N. II., 1821 : installed in the Presbyterian church, Peterboro', N. H., March 7, 1827 : stated supply at Deering, N. II., from 1835- 1841 : died March 23, 1851.
1770 Abiel Abbot, D. D., son of Capt. John, H. U. 1792, Instructor in Phillips Academy, at Exeter and Andover two years : ordained, June 1795, minister of the first ehureh in Haverhill : installed, Dec. 1803, in the first church in Beverly : died at sea, near Staten Island, June 7, 1828.
1778 Jonathan Freneh, D. D., son of Rev. Jonathan, II. U. 1798, Teacher in Phillips Academy, ordained at Northampton, N. H., Nov. 18, 1801 : died Dec. 13, 1856.
John Dane, son of Daniel, D. C. 1800, ordained minister of Newfield, Me., Feb. 15, 1802, dismissed in about a year.
1780
Thomas Abbot Merrill, D. D., son of Dea. Thomas, afterwards of Deering, N. H., D. C. 1801, Tutor in D. C., afterwards Tutor in Middlebury College, ordained pastor of the church in Middlebury, Vt., dismissed Oct. 19, 1842, Treasurer of Mid- dlebury College till 1852: supplied the pulpit in Weybridge, Vt., for about ten years, previous to 1854 : died April 25, 1855.
1780 Jacob Holt, son of Dane, D. C. 1813, teacher of school and preacher in Brookline, N. II .: ordained pastor there Jan. 30, 1827 : resigned in 1831 : resided in Ipswich afterwards, where he died.
1783 John Lovejoy Abbot, son of John Lovejoy, II. U. 1805, Libra- rian in II. U., ordained minister of the first church, Boston, July 14, 1813 : died Oct. 17, 1814.
1785
Joshua Chandler, Jr., son of Maj. Abiel, HI. U. 1807, ordained minister of Swanzey, N. H., 1819, installed in Orange, Dec. 1822, also at Bedford and Pembroke : died at Boston 1854. Samuel Phillips Newman, son of Dea. Mark, H. U. 1816, Tutor in Bowdoin College 1818, Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages 1820, Professor of Rhetorie 1824-1839 : died in Andover Feb. 10, 1842.
1797
1802 John R. Adams, son of John (who became Principal of Phillips Academy in 1810, and was a member of the South church and Parish), born in Plainfield, Ct. : Y. C. 1821, A. T. S. 1826,
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
ordained in Londonderry, N. II., Oct. 5, 1831 : dismissed in Oct. 1838 : installed afterwards at Brighton, and at Gorham, Me .: recently dismissed from the pastorate at the latter place.
1805
Sereno Timothy Abbot, son of Asa, A. C. 1833, A. T. S. 1836, ordained, July 12, 1836, minister at Seabrook and Hampton Falls, N. H. : died March 28, 1855.
1807
William Adams, D. D., son of John, born at Colchester, Ct .; Y. C. 1827, A. T. S. 1830, ordained at Brighton : installed in the Broome Street Presbyterian church, N. Y. City., and in the Madison Square Pres. church, N. Y. City.
1807
Amos Blanchard, D. D., son of Dea. Amos, Y. C. 1826, Tutor in Yale College : studied theology at New Haven : ordained pastor of the first church, Lowell, Dec. 25, 1829; installed in Kirk Street church, Lowell, May 21, 1845.
Joshua Emery, son of Joshua, born in Newburyport : A. C. 1831, A. T. S. 1840 : ordained May · 13, 1835 : installed in the first church at North Weymouth Jan. 25, 1838.
Samuel Hopkins Emery, son of Joshua, born in Boxford: A. C. 1834, A. T. S. 1837, ordained pastor of Winslow church, Taunton : installed at Bedford : reinstalled in Taunton : in 1855 installed at Quincy, Ill.
1809
Wilson Ingalls, son of Ezra, U. C. 1836, Tutor in Union Col- lege the following year, pastor in connection with the Re- formed Dutch church in the State of New York : in 1854 at Glenville, N. Y.
1811
Henry Callahan, son of Robert, born at North Andover: U. C. 1836, A. T. S. 1840 : ordained pastor of the Pres. church in Niagara, N. Y .: now pastor of Pres. church Oxford, N. Y.
1811
William John Newman, son of Dea. Mark, pursued theological study at Bangor and New Haven : ordained at Stratham, N. II., Nov. 2, 1836 : dismissed May 20, 1849, afterwards min- ister in York, Me. : died March 5, 1850.
1814 Edward Blanchard, son of Dea. Amos, entered Yale College, but died, before completing his course, June 2, 1834.
1816
Edward F. Abbot, son of Dea. Zebadiah, pursued theological study at Gilmanton, N. II., ordained minister at Milton, N. II., August 19, 1846, dismissed May 10, 1848 : stated supply at Loudon, N. II., 1849-1854 ; installed at Dublin, N. H., in
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Dec. 1855, but has recently supplied one year in the West Parish of Ipswich.
1820
Jonathan Edwards, son of Rev. Justin, Y. C. 1840, A. T. S. 1847, ordained at Woburn, Sept. 7, 1848 : installed, 1856, in the Plymouth church, Rochester, N. Y.
1821 Thomas E. Foster, son of Capt. Thomas C., Y. C. 1840, In- structor in Phillips Academy, A. T. S. 1848; preached in various places for two years : died March 17, 1851.
Besides the above ministers, this church has contributed a much larger number of ministers' wives. The attentive obser- ver of the catalogue of the church will be led to mark how fre- quently the names of such occur. " Our position," says the Rev. Mr. Taylor, in his half-century sermon, 1851, " lays us under contribution often in this respect. ... Even within the period now in question, we have supplied at least twenty-five such wit- nesses to our character, as the wives of clergymen alone." It would have been pleasant to have been able to supply the names of all these, with some brief notices of them. It has also been difficult to forego the pleasure of presenting some notices of prominent lay-members of the church and Parish, whose names are intimately connected with the reputation of the town and especially with the prosperity of the literary institutions here, but the labor has seemed too great to be consistent with other duties.
XVI.
PASTORS.
The first Pastor was the REV. SAMUEL PHILLIPS. He was born in Salem, February 17, 1690. His father, Samuel, was a son of the Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Rowley, and a grandson of Rev. George Phillips, the first minister at Watertown. Ilis
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mother, Saralı, was a daughter of the Rev. John Emerson, of Gloucester. He was received to the church in Salem, October 5, 1707, then a member of Harvard College, and in his eighteenth year. IIe was graduated in 1708. For one year lie was occu- pied with teaching at Chebacco, now Essex, and then devoted himself more exclusively to preparation for the ministry. He preached at Norton with great acceptance, and received a call to settle with the new church in that town; but the influence of the minister of the old Parish of Taunton was unfavorable, and though he "gave a favorable answer," he was not ordained. He commenced preaching in this Parish April 30, 1710. At a meeting, November 2d, " it being put to vote whether the Pre- cinct do desire the Continuance of the Rev. Mr. Phillips with us, it passed clearly on ye affirmative." December 12, 1710, the Parish voted unanimously that he should be their " Settled Min- ister." Because he was unwilling to assume such a charge while so young, his ordination was deferred nearly a year, and took place on the same day with the organization of the church. October 17, 1711. He preached the Sermon himself, from Ezek. 3: 17. His ministry continued here till his death, June 5, 1771, and he supplied the pulpit till the first part of April previous, a period of active service for one people of sixty-one years.
In one of the petitions presented by his people to the General Court shortly after his settlement, they describe themselves as " being now provided with a worthy, learned, and pious minister." They continued of the same mind during his whole ministry. They "were remarkably united," and "free from sectaries." Every memorial remaining of him, assures us that the epithets " worthy, learned, and pious," were deserved by the man, as well as in current courtesy due to the minister. " He was." says the late Dr. Abiel Abbot, "endowed with good powers of mind, and was a diligent, faithful, and useful minister. . . . As a preacher he was highly respectable, was zealous, and endeavored not only to indoctrinate his people in sentiments which he deemed correct and important, but to lead them to the practice of all Christian
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virtues." The numerous sermons which he has left in print and manuscript, more than confirm this description. They are plain, direct, and earnest letters to his people. He rebuked in homely and literal terms the prevalent vices of his day and parish. The duties which he urged upon them were specific and definite. He did not aim at novelty in the illustration or arrangement of his themes. Adhering to the somewhat cumbersome formality of various and minute division, characteristic of early puritan preaching, he nevertheless was thus able to repeat and impress the oftener the truth he was discussing. If there was slower progress in thought, there was the steady repetition of the same important views. What characterized in this regard one ser- mon, characterized his whole preaching -the steady and earnest enforcement, week after week and year after year, in a well- known method, of well-known doctrines and duties. "His labors in the pulpit were protracted beyond what is usual at the present day. His hour-glass was turned at the commencement of his sermon, and the last sands ran out before its conclusion." He must have been highly esteemed as a preacher, for he not only preached an Artillery Election, a General Election, and a Con- vention Sermon, but, as it would appear, several times, on ex- change with other ministers, his sermons were solicited for pub- lication. In this manner, "at the desire of many who heard" them, were the discourses on Justification and Living Water printed, after having been preached, the one at the Old South Church, and the other at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston. As early as 1729, his friend and classmate, John Webb, pastor of New North Church, Boston, says of him, in the preface of Ad- vice to a Child : "The discourses he has published heretofore, have given him this testimony in the consciences of all good Christians who have read them, That he is a well-qualified and faithful minister of Jesus Christ."
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