was born at East Hampton, Long Island, in the year 1809.

His childhood was spent in Litchfield, Conn. He was fitted for college at Hartford, Conn., under the care of his brother Edward, pursued his collegiate course at Yale College, and studied his profession at the Theological Seminary at New Haven.

It was during his course in college that he became permanently interested in the duties of personal religion.

There are no other events of his early life which demand special notice, and it is designed to confine this memoir exclusively to the years of his ministerial life.

Possessing strong social sympathies, he was, from early life, in a habit of transmitting his thoughts and feelings to some relative, or intimate friend; and these records furnish the means of presenting a brief outline of his character and history after he became a pastor.

The following statements are necessary, as connecting links, to unite the particulars contained in the extracts which follow.

On the removal of his father to Lane Seminary, he accompanied him, and soon after was settled in Batavia, twenty miles from Cincinnati. The state of the church to which he ministered was such, and the difficulties to be met so many, that it was considered by his friends, who advised his location

there, as missionary ground, where he would learn to "endure hardness as a good soldier."

He labored there four years, and then was advised by his father and other friends, to stop his labors awhile, and spend some time in study, as much of his collegiate and professional course had been interrupted by ill health, and he felt the necessity of repairing consequent deficiencies. At this time he was married to Miss Sarah S. Buckingham, of Putnam, Ohio, and spent a part of the succeeding year in reading, hearing lectures, and study, at Lane Seminary.

While thus engaged he received a call from the Brick Church of Rochester, to preach there, with reference to his settlement as their pastor. He went on there, and, after preaching some months, was regularly installed as their minister.

After some years, it was decided by physicians, that the climate had such an effect on the health of his wife that it was unsafe for her to reside there, and that removal to a more congenial climate was indispensable.

During his residence at Batavia, he had preached at Chillicothe, and was urged to remove and settle there. After some years, on learning his determination to remove from Rochester, those who were most anxious for his services in Chillicothe, being formed into a separate church, invited him to become their pastor. He accepted their call, and there finished his course as a minister of Christ.

The following extracts from his letters contain a short sketch of his experience, as a country minister in a retired place. The object aimed at is, in the first place, to give a short history of his ministerial life; and in the next place, to present, prominently, those points in his Christian experience, which, it is supposed, have a practical bearing on results afterwards developed. Should there occasionally appear some repetition, or apparent sameness, it may be borne in mind, that the particular object aimed at could not otherwise be so clearly developed.

Batavia, 1835.

WHEN I gave myself to the service of Christ, I relinquished ambition and its rewards for the higher honor of serving him. I relinquished all right, or desire to amass wealth, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of earth. Were I willing to live for myself, to seek honor and reputation from men, and to obtain an abundance of this world's goods, I believe I could secure them. I believe I could compete successfully with men of the world in the ranks of political aspiration. But I despise it. I despise all that can be offered in comparison with the glory of "turning many to righteousness."

Batavia, 1836.

WANT of health is a much greater hinderance to me, in preparing for the pulpit, than want of inclination; and when I am in a weak state of body, unless I have friends with whom I can converse, and thus become excited by the collision of intellect, I cannot raise myself to the point of writing with ease. You know I told you I have begun to write out my sermons. I wrote two or three, and found myself so embarrassed and cramped for the want of language, that I commenced a different course, which I am now pursuing diligently.

I first purchased Milton's works, and set myself to the study of them; and having finished them once, I am now studying them more slowly and critically. Then I determined to try the mode which Cicero says he pursued, in order to acquire fluency in style, that is, to translate from one language into another. I took my Cicero, last week, and began with the first oration, and wrote it out in as good English as I could, endeavoring to free it from Latin idioms.

The next day I took another oration, and then I thought it would be better to write out a translation of some entire Latin work, as copiousness in writing is what I most need. I have therefore selected from Cicero's Tusculan Questions, one of the most interesting treatises of this author. It is on the immortality of the soul, and is the most

interesting work of antiquity on this subject. It presents the argument, as a philosopher, destitute of religion, contemplated it, aided by all the light, which the most learned of his own and former times, in Greece and Rome, could throw upon it. I am going to translate this into as elegant English as I can, and when I see you again, I will read it to you, with the illustrative notes, written by Prof. Stuart, of Andover.

I find already, that this course has been of great service. I can have a much greater choice in my language, and am more accurate in the selection of terms to express the exact shade of thought. If God spares my life and health, I hope to become a good writer, and thus I can do good on a greater scale; for the press is becoming the great engine for moving the world, and I feel as if every man, who can exert an influence in this way, is bound to qualify himself to do it. I feel that I owe it to my Saviour, who has given me talents, and put me into the ministry, to do good on as extended a scale as possible.

I have had much ill health, and did not know but I had become averse to study and mental discipline, but I find that I never loved study half so well, as since I have been able to resume my long intermitted habits. I can study from morning till night, and then read in the evening, and take delight in it all. But the most delightful part of the day to me, is from five to six in the morning. I rise