thorough and intimate acquaintance with Christianity; 2, this knowledge should not be dead nor fruitless; 3, it becomes us to act constantly on the principle, that the Lord Jesus Christ, manifesting himself in his gospel and by means of his disciples, is the real agent in establishing his own universal reign.

11. The Apostolical Fathers, Polycarp and Ignatius. Burlington, N. J. 1837. pp. 48.

The Apostolical Fathers, Clement, bishop of Rome. Burlington, N. J. 1837. pp. 32.

The first of these pamphlets contains some account of Polycarp and of his martyrdom, with his epistle to the Philippians; a sketch of Ignatius and of his martyrdom, together with his epistles to the Smyrneans, the Trallians, the Ephesians, the Magnesians, the Romans, the Philadelphians, and to Polycarp. The other pamphlet comprises a biographical sketch of Clement, and his epistle to the Corinthians, with a fragment from Irenæus. The pamphlets are well printed, and will serve to extend a knowledge of the lives and writings of these eminently holy men.

12. Death and Heaven. A Sermon preached at Newark, N. J., at the Interment of the Rev. Edward Dorr Griffin, D. D., on the 10th of Nov. 1837. By Gardiner Spring, D. D., Pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church in the City of New York. pp. 40.

A Discourse occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Edward Dorr Griffin, D. D., delivered Nov. 26, 1837, in the Chapel of Williams College. By Mark Hopkins, D. D., President of the College. pp. 20.

These are both excellent sermons. A considerable part of Dr. Spring's is occupied with an exposition of the text, while Dr. Hopkins, after a brief introduction, proceeds to delineate the life and character of Dr. Griffin. Both are worthy and well-wrought memorials of the exalted character of him whose course was so full of blessings to the church and to the world. Dr. Spring's text is 1 Cor. v. 1. "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Pres. Hopkins discourses from Acts xiii. 36. "For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers." From the two sermons, we shall now make out a brief abstract of the life of Dr. Griffin.

Edward Dorr Griffin was born at East Haddam, Ct. Jan. 6, 1770. He was the son of George Griffin, an independent farmer of that place. He was educated at Yale college, where he graduated in 1790. He excelled in every department, and attained the first station in his class. Upon leaving college, he superintended, for a few months, an academy at Derby, a pleasant village near New Haven. There he was attacked by a severe illness, which confined him several weeks. His early religious education, and his serious reflections and prayers during his sickness were made the power of God to his salvation. The study of the law, which had been his favorite object, was abandoned. In the spring of 1792, he united with the church in Derby. In about six months, (having in the mean time studied divinity with the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Edwards of New Haven,) he was licensed to preach the gospel. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in New Hartford, Ct., in 1795. But few men in our country ever entered on the work of the ministry under brighter auspices. It was the commencement of the age of American revivals, in which he felt an absorbing interest, and in which he was an early and efficient agent. At New Hartford he was associated with the kindred spirits of Mills, Hallock, Strong and Gillet. About the time of his settlement at New Hartford, Dr. Griffin was married to Frances Huntington, the niece and adopted daughter of Samuel Huntington, governor of Connecticut, with whom he lived

in great harmony, and whom he followed to the grave only about three months before his own death. During the six years in which Dr. Griffin was pastor in New Hartford, about fifty or sixty adjacent congregations were visited with revivals of religion remarkably pure and powerful. In 1795, fifty were added to Dr. Griffin's church, and in 1798 and 1799, about fifty heads of families in his parish became the subjects of renewing grace.

In the fall of 1800, Dr. G. removed to Orange, N. J., where he spent about six months, and had fifty souls as the seals of his ministry; and in Oct. 1801, he was installed as colleague with Dr. M'Whorter over the First Presbyterian church in Newark. In 1807, there was a wonderful work of grace at Newark. From 230 to 250 in his society became interested in the great salvation. At one sacrament 97 new members were added to the church.

In 1808, Dr. Griffin was solicited with great unanimity to fill at once the pulpit of Park Street church in Boston, and the chair of professor of sacred rhetoric at Andover. "It was no common trial," says Dr. Spring, "to his pupils, that he vacated the professor's chair. To his unchanging friend and patron who nominated him to that office, it was one of the severest trials of his life. The individual who addresses you, was one of a class of about 30, who first enjoyed the benefit of his instructions." After his removal from the seminary, he remained in connection with Park Street church from his installation in July, 1811, till his dismission in the spring of 1815. While in Boston, he published his Park Street Lectures, which have been widely circulated in four or five editions, and which have been the means of much good. As he was the only orthodox Congregational clergyman in the city except one, his meeting-house was much resorted to by members of the legislature and by strangers, and he thus became extensively known throughout the State, and indeed throughout the country. Many souls were here the fruits of his labors.

In 1815, he became pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Newark. Here he was once more distinguished not only as a successful preacher of the gospel, but as an assistant founder, and active, zealous friend of our great benevolent and religious institutions. In his study at Andover, the incipient measures were taken which resulted in the formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. After he removed to Newark, the United Foreign Missionary Society sprung up under his care. Next to Samuel J. Mills, he seems to have done more than any other man to give form and features to several of our great national institutions.

In 1821, he was elected president of Williams college. "He had precisely the kind of reputation," says Dr. Hopkins, "which was needed for the college at this crisis; a comparatively large class entered, and the college continued to increase in numbers." In 1825, the trustees resolved to raise a fund of $25,000 to establish a new professorship, and to build a chapel. In the raising of this sum, Dr. Griffin was the principal agent. In a time of general embarrassment, he raised $12,000 in four weeks. The fund was completed; a professorship of rhetoric and moral philosophy was founded; and Sept. 2, 1828, a commodious chapel was dedicated. During his connection with the college, there were several powerful revivals of religion, especially that in 1825, which for a long time changed the whole aspect of the college. In the fall of 1836, in consequence of increasing infirmities, he resigned his presidency, and soon after removed to Newark, N. J., where, in the family of his son-in-law, Lyndon A. Smith, M. D., he lived till his death, which took place Nov. 8, 1837. His last days were tranquil and happy. On the day before his death, his family were called up to see him die. One of them inquired if he suffered any pain. To which he answered, none; and in his own emphatic manner, though scarcely able to articulate, he added, “My heavenly Father-my dear Redeemer's mercy and faithfulness-I pray you give him glory for ever!" During the evening before his death, he remarked, "The Saviour never so manifested his preciousness to me before."

We should be glad to quote the remarks which both the preachers make on the character of Dr. Griffin, but our limits ad

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to add, that the Rev. Dr. Sprague of Albany is expected to prepare a memoir of Dr. Griffin.

MOSES P. STICKNEY, Cong. ord. pastor, Eastport, Maine,
May 10, 1837.

FRANKLIN YEATON, Cong. ord. evang. Perry, Me. Oct. 4.
ALBERT COLE, Cong. ord. pastor, Bluehill, Me. Oct. 24.

13. A Discourse delivered at Providence, HOBATEOLLSLEY Cong. ord. pastor, Cherryfield, Cct. 26.

Aug. 5, 1836, in Commemoration of the First Settlement of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; being the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Providence. By John Pitman, Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society. pp. 72. Roger Williams landed in Providence in the summer of 1636. The precise date cannot be ascertained. The earliest record of his being there, is found in the journal of governor Winthrop of Massachusetts, of July 26, O. S. 1636. The deed of the land on which Providence is now built, from the chief sachems of the Narragansetts to Williams, bears date March 24, 1638, though the first purchase was made in 1636. The first male child born in Providence was Mr. Williams's eldest son, who was born in Sept. 1638, and named Providence. The year after the settlement of Providence, the services of Williams were of great importance in preventing a union between the Pequots and Narragansetts, and in attaching the latter to the English. The island of Rhode Island was settled in 1638. In 1640, Portsmouth was settled, and in 1642-3, Warwick. In 1644, Roger Williams procured a liberal charter from the English government. On the 19th of May, 1647, the inhabitants met at Portsmouth, and agreed on a form of government, and chose their magistrates—a president and four assistants. In 1654, Roger Williams was chosen president. On the 8th of July, 1663, a new charter was granted by Charles II. In April, 1683, Roger Williams died, aged 83. Various and interesting memorials in relation to the progress of Providence and of Rhode Island generally, may be found in this elaborate production of judge Pitman. Our pages will not allow us to extract many interesting incidents which are recorded by his industrious pen.

GEORGE W. ADAMS, Cong. ord. pastor, Brooksville, Me.
Oct. 26.

ELIAS WELLS, JR. Cong. ord. pastor, Foxcroft and Dover,
Me. Nov. 8.
ELI THURSTON, Cong. ord. pastor, Hallowell, Me. Jan. 3,

1838.

FREDERICK A. ADAMS, Cong. ord. pastor, Amherst, New

Hampshire, Nov. 22, 1837.

ISANG WILLEY, Cong. inst. pastor, Goffstown, N. H.

Nov.

EDWARD BUXTON, Cong. inst. pastor, West Boscawen,
N. H. Dec. 14.

Oct. 12, 1837.

CYRUS B. DRAKE, Cong. ord. pastor, Royalton, Vermont,
ASA B. SMITH, Cong. ord. F. Missionary, Williamstown,
Vt. Nov. 1.
T. W. DUNCAN, Cong. inst. pastor, Burke, Vt. Nov. 8.
SIMEON PARMELEE, Cong. inst. pastor, Williston, Vt.
Nov. 9.

S. H. HODGES, Cong. Inst. pastor, Chester, Vt. Nov. 15.
CEPHAS H. KENT, Cong. inst. pastor, Bradford, Vt. Dec. 27.
WILLIAM SCALES, JR. Cong. ord. pastor, Lyndon, Vt.
Dec. 27.

HIRAM CARLTON, Cong. ord. pastor, Slow, Vt. Jan. 4,

1838.

chusetts, Oct. 2, 1837.

Oct. 18.

WALTER FOLLETT, Cong. inst. pastor, Dudley, Massa-
HUBBARD BEEBE, Cong. ord. pastor, Longmeadow, Mi.
J.T. SARGENT, Unit. ord. evangelist, Boston, Ms. Oct 28.
JOSEPH VAILL, Cong, inst. pastor, Brimfield, Ms. Nov. 1.
SEWALL HARDING, Cong, inst. pastor, East Medway, Ma.
JOHN WHITNEY, Cong. Inst. pastor, Waltham, Ms. Nov. 8.
CHARLES WILEY, Cong. ord. pastor, Northampton, M..
Nov. 8.

Nov. 1.

LUCIUS R. EASTMAN, Cong. ord. pastor, Sharon, Ms.
NATHANIEL BEACH, Cong. ord. pastor, West Millbury,

Nov. 15.

Ms. Nov. 22.

SAMUEL H. EMERY, Cong. ord. pastor, Taunton, Ms.
Nov. 23.

Dec. 13.

nis, Ms. Dec. 13.

JOHN BOWERS, Cong. ord. pastor, North Wilbraham, Ms.
LYMAN B. PEET, Cong. ord. F. Missionary, South Den-
JOHN HIGEEE, Bap. ord. pastor, Granville, Ms. Dec.
JOEL S. BACON, Bap. iust. pastor, Lynn, Ms. Dec. 22.
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, Bap. ord. evang. Sturbridge, Ms.
JOSEPH BALLARD, Bap. inst. pastor, Lowell, Ms. Dec. 25.

Dec. 25.

HENRY S. GREEN, Cong. ord. pastor, Lynnfield, Ms.
Dec. 27.

Jan. 3, 1838.

WILLIAM BUSHNELL, Cong. inst. pastor, Beverly, MI.
GIDEON DANA, Cong. ord. pastor, North Falmouth, Ms.
CHARLES T. TORREY, Cong. inst. pastor, Salem, Ms.

Jan. 3.

Jan. 4.

JAMES O. STEDMAN, Pres. ord. pastor, Tuscambia, Ala- J. RUTHRAUFF, t. 74, Ger. Ref. Greencastle, Pa. Dec. 15. bama, Nov. 1, 1837.

JOURNAL

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THE AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

FEBRUARY, 1838.

THE LAST THURSDAY OF FEBRUARY.

NARRATIVE OF REVIVALS OF RELIGION IN YALE COLLEGE,

FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME.
[Prepared by Prof. Goodrich.]

THE frequent dispensations of divine grace to the colleges of our country, afford matter of fervent thanksgiving and praise to every enlightened Christian. Here are assembled those who are soon to occupy, for good or for evil, the highest stations of influence and authority in our land. With the natural ardor and inexperience of youth, they are beset with temptations on every side. The love of study may seduce them into unholy ambition, and the love of pleasure into criminal indulgence; their principles may be sacrificed to a sense of shame, and the warm affections with which they left the family circle, may be deadened by familiarity with scenes of vice. Every year is marked with the shipwreck of parental hopes in our literary institutions; every year exhibits anew the unspeakable importance of a peculiar divine influence on the minds of students, to secure to them the attainment of those high ends for which they are placed in a seat of learning.

With a view to awaken increased interest and more fervent prayer on this subject, the Secretary of the American Education Society addressed a circular to the colleges, in the month of February, 1836, requesting an account of the revivals they had experienced since the year 1820. A brief statement, drawn up by the writer of this narrative at the request of president Day, was accordingly forwarded from Yale College; and was afterwards published in the appendix to the last report of the American Education Society. Subsequent reflection has led the Secretary of the Society to feel, that a fuller account of revivals in our colleges, than he at first contemplated, ought to be laid before the public. He has accordingly requested me to furnish such an account with respect to Yale College;-to carry back the narrative to our early revivals, and embody what has already been given to the public, in a more extended and minute statement of the various dispensations of divine grace at this institution.* It may be proper for me in entering on this narrative, to state the sources from which my information has been principally derived. Of our early revivals, during the last century, comparatively little can now be known. What is here given has been gleaned from the histories of the day, and the records of the institution. For an account of the memorable work of grace in 1802, I am indebted to the Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., of Farmington, Ct., who was then a member of college. Since 1802, all the revivals have occurred at a time when I was connected with the institution, either as a student or an officer; and of

It is intended to give full and complete histories of revivals of religion in all our colleges so far as they can be obtained. The next account will probably be either from Amherst, Williams or Middlebury college. The history of revivals in Dartmouth college was given in volume ix.-EDITOR.