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 BORN MARCH 31, 1800. 
 DIED APRIL 28, 1882. 
 
 (PRINTED FOR THE FAMILY AND RELATIVES.) 
 
I BRIEF SKETCH 
 
 OF 
 
 Rev, H, ¥. HUNT. 
 
 The Rev. Holloway Whitfield Hunt was descended, 
 on his paternal side, from a line of ancestry long resident 
 in this country and well known in the annals of English 
 history. The genealogy of the descent is, in part, given 
 in the history of various families of the name in America, 
 as compiled by T. B. Wyman, Jr., Boston, 1862-3, and 
 in Bolton's History of Westchester County, N. Y. 
 
 His father was the Rev. Gardiner Augustine Hunt. 
 His mother was Ruth Page, the daughter of David Page 
 and Ruth Nixon, of Dividing Creek, Cumberland coun- 
 ty. His paternal grandfather, Augustine Hunt, of Hunt's 
 Point, New York, at one time had removed near Wilkes- 
 barre, Pennsylvania, and at the time of the massacre of 
 Wyoming, lost his all of earthly goods, and was glad to 
 escape with his family. The wife of Augustine Hunt 
 was Lydia Holloway, a woman of Welsh descent. A 
 son, the Rev. Holloway Whitfield Hunt, of Hunterdon 
 county, had been named from her surname, and the 
 middle name inserted, which was thus continued in the 
 family. The father of Augustine Hunt was Thomas 
 Hunt, of West Farms, or Hunt's Point, New York, his 
 wife being Elizabeth Gardiner. 
 
 The facts stated in the more recent genealogy, show 
 that the blessing of an honorable and pious ancestry 
 has been cherished through the generations, and that 
 
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 several of them have been devoted ministers of the 
 Gospel. 
 
 There have been seven ministers in direct descent thus 
 far in this country. 
 
 When Augustine Hunt lost all" his earthly goods at the 
 time of the Wyoming Massacre (1778), he advised his 
 son, HoUoway, to seek some life-work for himself, say- 
 ing to him, ''All I have to give you is a dollar, and to 
 seek for you the blessing of God." 
 
 Becoming a Christian, he began life as a Metho- 
 dist minister, but finding his education inadequate, so 
 soon as he secured means he prepared for College, and 
 graduated at Nassau Hall, in 1794. He then helped to 
 educate his brother, the Rev. Gardiner A. Hunt, who 
 was older, and was not able to attend a college course. 
 
 HoUoway W. Hunt, the subject of this sketch, was 
 named for his uncle, and received from him the rudi- 
 ments of his classical education. 
 
 He was born in Kingwood, Hunterdon county, March 
 31, 1800, and in 1807 removed to Harmony, Warren 
 county, his father having been called as Pastor of the 
 Presbyterian congregation there. When about thirteen 
 years of age he lost his mother, and went to reside 
 with his uncle. Her pious and exemplary character 
 made a deep impression on his early years. After spend- 
 ing about a year with his uncle, he was sent to the 
 school of the Rev. Dr. Finley, of Baskingridge, where he 
 prepared for college. While there, in a time of some 
 religious interest, an elder of the church at Baskingridge, 
 who knew of his mother, asked him whether he ought 
 not to choose his mother's God and get a title to the 
 same Heaven where she was. The thought touched his 
 heart and led him to serious inquiry as to his personal 
 need of salvation through Christ. He became hopefully 
 
EEV. H. W. HUNT. 5 
 
 converted, and seems afterward to have thought of no 
 other plan of life than that of the Gospel ministry. He 
 always referred with great interest to his early experiences 
 in Baskingridge, and to the school of Dr. Finley and 
 associations there formed. 
 
 He entered college in 1815 and graduated in 181 8, 
 when only a little over eighteen years of age. After 
 teaching a year he entered the seminary at Princeton, 
 and became one of its most diligent and successful 
 students. Dr. Charles Hodge had just, begun teaching 
 there, as tutor of Hebrew, and found in him a zealous 
 pupil. Having finished his seminary course, he was 
 licensed, by the Presbytery of Newton, April 22d, 1822. 
 He spent a few months in preaching in the vicinity of 
 Bridgeton, and then accepted a call to the Presbyterian 
 Church of West Galway, New York. 
 
 All the record he made of his stay there is found in 
 his written volume of Seminary Lectures, which says, 
 *'I commenced preaching at Galway the first Sabbath in 
 March, 1824. I was installed on the second Tuesday, 
 or seventh of September, 1824. The pastoral connection 
 between me and my congregation was dissolved on the 
 thirty-first day of August, 1825, at Charlton, on account 
 of bodily incompetency to perform the duties of Pastor. 
 May the King of Zion overrule it for his glory, my good 
 and the good of the people." 
 
 On March 31, 1825, he also has entered as follows : 
 ''This day I am twenty-five years old. O what an im- 
 portant day of my life ! In reviewing my life, and 
 especially the last year, I have the most abundant cause 
 to say — Honour and praise and thanksgiving be rendered 
 unto God for his marvellous loving kindness and for his 
 peculiar grace, but to me belongeth shame and confusion 
 of face that I fall so far below my privileges and obliga- 
 
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 tions. O God, for the sake of thy dear Son, forgive all 
 my past sins and give me true sincerity of mind while I 
 make this resolution: Resolved, that depending upon 
 Divine grace and strength, I will endeavor to live the 
 coming year (if my life is spared) in a more worthy and 
 exemplary manner than ever I have done, avoiding any 
 false and wicked way, and walking in conformity to that 
 glorious Gospel which I preach to others. ' It is better 
 not to vow than after vowing not to perform.' " He 
 soon after went to South Carolina for his health, and 
 spent the year in laboring, as much as he was able, in 
 the service of the Missionary Society of Charleston. 
 Returning the next year, he preached for a little time at 
 Shrewsbury, N. J., but came to Metuchen in the fall of 
 1827, on the recommendation of his friend the Rev. Mr. 
 Barton, of Woodbridge. After preaching as a supply 
 until the next spring, he received a unanimous call to 
 the church, then known as the Second Church of Wood- 
 bridge. He was installed April 27, 1828. His ministry 
 there as Pastor and stated supply extended over a period 
 of eighteen years. He was married December 3, 1828, 
 to Miss Henrietta Mundy, daughter of Ezra Mundy, who 
 lived in that vicinity. 
 
 The type both of his preaching and pastoral work was 
 that which characterized him through life. His method 
 of sermonizing was clear, direct and such as illustrated 
 and enforced the language and the doctrines of the 
 Bible. 
 
 In the Theological Seminary he had attracted atten- 
 tion as a student of Hebrew, and although not dis- 
 tinguished as a linguist, he delighted in a close and care- 
 ful exegesis. 
 
 With a good voice, a solemn manner, an instructive 
 method of dividing, illustrating and enforcing the truth, 
 
BEV. H. W. BUNT. 7 
 
 he was generally regarded as an interesting and instruc- 
 tive preacher. Earnest in appeal to the unconverted, 
 and especially interested in the young, he did not forget 
 to address himself to the Church as well as to the con- 
 gregation, and to preach to believers the Gospel of 
 works as well as of faith. 
 
 He was abundant in labor — preaching at afternoon 
 and night services in school houses and families, and did 
 much to promote neighborhood attendance on the means 
 of grace. As a Pastor, he was social and faithful, and 
 devoted himself much to visitation of his people. What 
 he lacked in executive tact was greatly supplied by his 
 diligent and fervent desire to fulfill the work of the 
 ministry in faithful ministration. His labors seemed to 
 be blessed and the Church prospered under his ministry. 
 After the close of his service at Metuchen he removed, 
 in 1848, to Newark, and was at once asked to preach to 
 a small congregation at Lyon's Farms, who were thus 
 aided in the subsequent formation of a Church. While 
 laboring here he received an invitation to the Congrega- 
 tional Church at Patchogue, L. I., where he labored very 
 successfully for about seven years. During his ministry 
 there a new Church edifice was built and the congrega- 
 tion enlarged. About this time he regarded his active 
 service as over and sought retirement, expecting to 
 preach only as occasion might offer. A love for his 
 work and a fair degree of health soon led him to feel 
 that he should not as yet cease labor, and so in the 
 spring of 1865 he accepted an invitation to minister to 
 the Presbyterian Church at South Centreville, N. Y. 
 After a service there of about six years he returned to a 
 farm-home near Menlo Park. Though often preaching 
 and sustaining afternoon services at Menlo Park and 
 Uniontown, he did not again settle over a congregation. 
 
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 Besides frequent additions to the membership at other 
 seasons, two periods at Metuchen were especially marked 
 by extensive revivals. In 1831 about sixty persons were 
 added on profession of faith, and in 1843, fifty-five. His 
 labors were similarly blessed elsewhere. His scriptural 
 methods of teaching, his earnest exposition of the word 
 of God, his fondness for preaching in neighborhoods 
 within the bounds of his congregation, and his faithful 
 pastoral visitations, secured a sustained interest in his 
 work and left a marked impress upon the entire people 
 among whom his ministry was fulfilled. While a man 
 of definite views and clear expression of his opinions, he 
 was tolerant of the views of others and affable in his 
 bearing. On all public questions he was sure to take 
 high moral ground, and to throw his influence against 
 too great latitude in expression or action. 
 
 He was eminently a preacher of the Gospel. Christ 
 and his salvation were never lost sight of in the applica- 
 tion of the truth. He enjoyed the presentation of the 
 Word. Long after he had any expectation of preaching 
 all the sermons he wrote, he would employ his leisure 
 time in writing a sermon on some text which at the time 
 especially impressed him. Within the last month of his 
 life he had prepared a sermon with considerable care. 
 His fondness for Bible reading made him very familiar 
 with the language of Scripture. 
 
 The Proverb ''Take heed of the man of one Book " 
 often found application in the point and pungency of his 
 quotations. 
 
 His reading and study of the Word of God were the 
 marked characteristics of his religious life. . He never 
 seemed to tire of the study and exposition of the Word. 
 Over it he spent much spiritual meditation, and used it 
 not less as a manual for private worship, than for public 
 
BEV. H. W. HUNT. 9 
 
 discourse. He was ever ready with an appropriate quo- 
 tation, and knew how to clinch many an argument and 
 remark by a reference to the law and to the testimony. 
 
 He was devotedly a man of prayer. God was to him 
 an Immanuel. He believed in a present, ever active, 
 particular providence, and so was accustomed to ask in 
 faith Tor blessings upon his family, the Church, and 
 upon the Kingdom of God wherever established. 
 
 Indeed, in most respects he belonged so much to the 
 older type of ministers, that, without effort at peculiarity, 
 he failed to be modernized into fresher methods of 
 thought, and continued to illustrate and enforce scrip- 
 ture truths with a zeal kindled mostly by a study of the 
 Word and of such guides as Henry and Scott and Jay 
 and other earlier divines. 
 
 His life-long habits were those of a Theological stu- 
 dent, not easily drawn aside from his routine of study, 
 except by his pastoral work and his care of health, 
 which was as thorough and as definite as any part of his 
 life-work. While never very vigorous, (by a consistency 
 of method) he preserved a natural tenacity of life to his 
 eighty-third year. 
 
 While sometimes impatient over what was dishonorable 
 or unreasonable, his judgment was generally correct. It 
 was forcibly said of him, by a distinguished minister of 
 younger years, that no one could well listen to his dis- 
 courses without benefit, and you could always feel sure 
 that from his pulpit no word or action would come forth 
 to offend the taste or mar the solemnity of a worshipping 
 assembly. 
 
 At the fiftieth anniversary of his settlement at Metuchen 
 (1878) he preached a befitting memorial sermon to a 
 large congregation. 
 
 The death of two of his sons in full manhood affected 
 
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 him much. One, Augustine Page Hunt, early inclined 
 to a farmer's life, and settled on a farm in Belvidere, 
 Illinois. He had enjoyed general good health, but 
 caught a severe cold in the spring of 1871, and died 
 June 19th of that year, from pneumonia. 
 
 The other son, David Brainerd Hunt, had graduated 
 from the College at Princeton in 1866, and from Colum- 
 bia Medical College, New York, in 1870, with much 
 honor, and after two years of study in Vienna had en- 
 tered with great promise into practice in New York, 
 where he had secured a hospital appointment and the 
 prospect of large success. As a result of the unconscious 
 swallowing of a small fruit stone, he was seized with 
 peritonitis, and died September 25, 1876, after a week 
 or more of severe suffering. 
 
 While submissive, he did not cease to mourn this sud- 
 den loss and often to recall the disappointment of his 
 hopes. 
 
 In 1878 his golden wedding brought together many 
 friends to mingle in expressions of social and christian 
 gratitude. 
 
 For a few months before his decease he had realized 
 his strength as waning, but with no serious marks of the 
 inroads of disease. He still enjoyed the habits of his 
 life, and wrote many a sermon which he never expected 
 to preach. 
 
 His tender interest for his children was that of a 
 christian parent, who would have them know that the 
 chief instrumentality for good in his last days was in the 
 length and earnestness of his petitions for his family and 
 for the Kingdom of Christ. His strong attachments to 
 the College and Seminary at Princeton, and to his num- 
 erous friends in the ministry, were often expressed. For 
 many years his name had stood as that of the oldest 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 11 
 
 member of the Presbytery. As a citizen, he mourned 
 much over certain political and social evils, since he kept 
 a full interest in public events and loved his nation with 
 all the zeal of a revolutionary patriot. 
 
 At his last birthday, four weeks before his death, with 
 his wife and most of his children and grandchildren 
 about him, he expressed his doubt if he should reach 
 another anniversary, and heartily relished the enjoyments 
 of social and domestic intercourse. The frequent death 
 of aged persons of his acquaintance had recently much 
 affected him, and he had expressed the hope that his own 
 death would not be very sudden and yet not from a pro- 
 longed sickness. His desire was so far granted, that after 
 two days of unusual debility he passed into unconscious- 
 ness and peaceably departed April 28, 1882, in the 
 eighty-third year of his age. His remains rest in the 
 cemetery at Metuchen. 
 
 Of his college classmates, his intimate friend. Rev. 
 Charles Beatty, D. D,, of Steubenville, alone remained. 
 Not being able to attend his funeral, he ^e^pressed his 
 life-long friendship in a letter of befitting condolence. 
 Dr. Beatty's death occurred the following October. Rev. 
 John McLean, D. D., another life-long and cherished 
 friend, was detained by ill-health. 
 
 At the funeral services, held May ist, in the Church to 
 which he so long ministered, several brethern of the 
 ministry were present with the assembled congregation 
 and relatives. The Rev. Benjamin Cory was the oldest 
 minister of those once settled in adjacent parishes who 
 was able to preach, and it had been requested that he 
 should conduct the exercises. Professor Dufiield, of 
 Princeton, and the Rev. J. G. Mason, Pastor of the 
 Church, assisted in the services. 
 
 Mr. Cory took as the subject of his discourse the Scrip- 
 
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 ture contained in II. Timothy, fourth chapter, seventh 
 and eighth verses : "1 have fought a good fight, I have 
 finished my course, I have kept the faith : Henceforth 
 there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which 
 the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that 
 day : and not to me only, but unto all them also that 
 love his appearing." 
 
 After an earnest and effective discourse, he added the 
 following comment in application to the work and char- 
 acter of the deceased. It is thus put on record for the 
 comfort of his friends and for the encouragement of those 
 who still humbly labor in word and in doctrine. 
 
 ''The language of our text, we have reason to believe, 
 might have been humbly adopted by our venerable and 
 honored brother, whose mortal remains now lie before 
 us, and which we are about to take up and commit to 
 the tomb. 
 
 ''The high respect in which he was held, here and 
 elsewhere, will justify me in sketching, at some length, 
 his life and character. 
 
 « 
 
 "The Rev. Holloway Whitfield Hunt, a descendant 
 of Augustine Hunt, of Hunt's Point, Westchester county, 
 N. Y., was born at Kingwood, Hunterdon county, N. J., 
 March 31, 1800. He was the son of Rev. Gardiner A. 
 and Ruth Page Hunt, afterward of Harmony, N. J. 
 Mr. Hunt was prepared for College and brought into the 
 Church under the teaching and ministry of Rev. Dr. 
 Finley, of Baskingridge. He graduated at the College 
 of New Jersey, 1818, at Princeton " Seminary, 1822, and 
 was licensed by the Presbytery of Newton, and April 
 23, 1824, transferred to the Presbytery of Albany, to 
 become Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at West Gal- 
 way. After a pastorate of eighteen months he resigned, 
 on account of ill health, and spent the next year in 
 
BEV. H. W. HUNT. 13 
 
 South Carolina, laboring as much as he was able in the 
 service of the Missionary Society of Charleston. Re- 
 turning the next year, he first preached in Metuchen 
 October, 1827, and after being a stated supply for six 
 months received a unanimous call, and was installed 
 April 29, 1828, a little over a half century ago. His 
 ministry here, as Pastor and stated supply, extended over 
 a period of eighteen years. He removed soon after to 
 Newark, and organized the Presbyterian Church at Lyon's 
 Farms, but in about one year he was invited to the Con- 
 gregational Church at Patchogue, L. I., whither he 
 removed in 1S50. After laboring there for about ten 
 years, during which a new Church was built and the 
 congregation much enlarged, he resigned, with the idea 
 of retiring from active ministerial work. But unex- 
 pectedly regaining his wonted health and activity, and so 
 ardently attached was he to his Master's work, he soon 
 felt it his duty to continue stated and ministerial labor, 
 and so removed to Centreville, Orange county, N. Y., 
 and ministered to the First Presbyterian Church there 
 with marked success for about six years. He then re- 
 turned to Metuchen, with the view of spending the rest 
 of his days in the bosom of the community where, in the 
 earlier years of his ministry, he had rendered such 
 acceptable and useful service in his Master's name and 
 in his Master's house. 
 
 " From my long acquaintance with him, and the many 
 means and opportunities which I have had of forming an 
 estimate of his character, I feel no hesitancy in declaring 
 that he has gone up to the christian's home in glory, 
 there to enjoy that rest which remaineth for the people 
 of God, and to unite in uttering praise to the name of 
 Jesus, whose most precious Gospel he so much loved to 
 preach. 
 
14 A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 "1 knew him well — have known him for forty-seven 
 years. On my settlement over the Church at Perth 
 Amboy, in the spring of 1835, Mr. Hunt was Pastor of 
 the Church at Metuchen, and, of course, was one of my 
 nearest ministerial neighbors. He preached the sermon 
 on the occasion of my installation. We frequently ex- 
 changed pulpits, and in various ways worked together 
 in the labors of the Gospel, side by side, for a number 
 of years. I found in him a warm friend, a wise coun- 
 sellor, and a good brother altogether. And, though we 
 were afterwards separated by being called, in the provi- 
 dence of God, to occupy other fields of labor, yet we 
 occasionally met each other, and our attachment was 
 never interrupted : and, it is, as I suppose, owing to this 
 fact, this long and unbroken friendship, that he was led 
 to make the request that in case I survived him, I should 
 be called upon to preach at his funeral, and hence it is 
 that I occupy the position I do on this occasion. And 
 now, be it understood, that what I say concerning him 
 is not meant by me in the sense of mere eulogy, but as 
 an earnest and sincere expression ot my heartfelt respect 
 to his memory. ' I speak that I do know, and testify 
 that I have seen.* 
 
 "I need not inform this Church and congregation 
 who, for so many years, enjoyed his ministrations, what 
 he was as a man, a minister of the Gospel and a Pastor. 
 Although not favored with extensive revivals, with ex- 
 tensive effusions of God's Holy Spirit, resulting in large 
 and simultaneous ingatherings of persons from the world, 
 yet a moderate degree of Divine blessing seemed steadily 
 to attend his labors, and at several different periods the 
 general state of religious feeling was greatly quickened 
 among his people, and several additions made, from 
 time to time, to the communion of the Church. His 
 
BEV. H. W. BUNT. 15 
 
 ministry of eighteen years here left its impress upon 
 the people, and eternity alone can disclose the meas- 
 ure of its results. There are seals of his ministry to 
 be seen among you, I doubt not, here to-day, and more, 
 perhaps, who are now with him in glory, which show 
 what manner of man he was in the midst and over you in 
 the Lord. Ye are his epistles, known and read of all 
 men. Ye are his witnesses, that * by the word of truth, 
 by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness, on 
 the right hand and on the left — by pureness — by knowl- 
 edge — by long suffering — by kindness — by the Holy 
 Ghost — by love unfeigned, he approved himself as the 
 minister of God.' 
 
 *' As a preacher, he was serious, instructive and affec- 
 tionate. No one who heard him could doubt his sincer- 
 ity. As to style and manner in his pulpit performances, 
 there was great simplicity, and yet forcible earnestness. 
 His sermons were strictly evangelical ; they failed not to 
 point out and explain clearly the way of salvation. He 
 was not demonstrative in his nature, nor eager for the 
 praise of men. He was emulous, but it was mainly to 
 magnify the great truths of God's word and do good to 
 the souls of men. No man was less desirous than he to 
 create a sensation and set the world aghast by his preach- 
 ing. If he did not make so much display as some others, 
 his sermons were excellent ; they were full of instruction, 
 they were logically constructed, and brought out the 
 great, leading, fundamental truths of the Gospel in the 
 most simple and clear manner, without pretention or 
 studied ornament. 
 
 ''Though his manner of delivery was not remarkable 
 for what are commonly called the graces of eloquence, 
 there was in it a something that made the hearer atten- 
 tive ; there was in it a fervor, a force and directness 
 
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 that made it difficult to be resisted, and we have reason 
 to believe that in that day ' when they shall come from 
 the east and the west, and sit down in the Kingdom of 
 Heaven,' many will appear, from this community and 
 elsewhere, as happy witnesses of the impressiveness and 
 fidelity of his Gospel manner of preaching. 
 
 " He was eminently Scriptural in his sermons. I mean 
 by this, that they abounded in Scripture quotations. 
 Far enough removed was he from all pretension or 
 studied ornament. He had not a particle of taste for 
 anything like what we call sensationalism. He was not 
 wont to go outside of the Bible to find materials to make 
 up his discourses. He ' spake the things which became 
 sound doctrine,' and * declared the whole counsel of 
 God.' The Bible was orthodox enough for him — the 
 Bible was symmetrical enough for him — the Bible had 
 philosophy enough for him — the Bible had science 
 enousfh for him — and what he seemed to aim at most 
 was to be filled with its life giving spirit, and to be more 
 thoroughly taught the great things of God, by the Spirit 
 of God, that he might be thereby the better qualified to 
 impart sound and safe instruction to the people ; and in 
 this respect I would hold him up to your notice, my 
 brother ministers, as a model preacher. While others 
 profess to have made some wonderful discoveries and 
 made some wonderful improvements, as they think, in 
 Christianity itself (as if God's work was not perfect), he 
 seems never to have been able to get beyond the Bible — 
 nor did he wish to — he preferred to remain standing 
 upon the good old platform of God's simple truth, as it 
 is in Jesus, and as it was taught by the Apostles of our 
 Lord. Brethren in the ministry, let us go and do like- 
 wise. The longer I live the more I see the importance 
 of looking after the old landmarks of theology, and of 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 17 
 
 rigidly adhering to them. Let us preach the truth, as it 
 is in Jesus ; let us take a firm and decided stand in favor 
 of the peculiar doctrines of grace, as taught in our Church 
 standards, and let us give to our people the sincere milk 
 of the Word, and (as they are able to bear it) the strong 
 meat of doctrine, for, assuredly, unless we do, they will 
 never get beyond the growth and strength of mere babes 
 in Christ Jesus. When we would be wiser than the 
 Bible, we are weak and foolish indeed. 
 
 ''In regard to Brother Hunt, I proceed to say that, 
 in his manner and conversation, gravity and cheer- 
 fulness were happily blended. He was always enter- 
 taining, without descending from the dignity which 
 belongs to the sacred office he filled. His manners 
 were characterized by great simplicity and natural- 
 ness and the entire absence of everything that bor- 
 dered upon ostentation. While there was nothing that 
 betokened an early training in elegant and fashion- 
 able society, there was always a kindly and dignified 
 deportment and a strict regard to all the proprieties of 
 social life. Though the general habit of his mind was 
 grave, it was not gloomy ; he enjoyed cheerful inter- 
 course in a high degree, and would sometimes relate, or 
 listen to, a humorous anecdote with a marked relish. In 
 his most unrestrained moments he never forgot that he 
 was a minister of the Gospel and was set to watch for 
 souls as one that must give an account ; and, in this 
 particular also, I would hold him up as a model worthy 
 of our imitation. 
 
 "The domestic character of our brother was highly 
 interesting and exemplary. In those declining years, 
 which are too often marked with impatience, he knew 
 well how to prize the kind attentions of his children and 
 friends. He was predisposed to be satisfied and pleased 
 3 
 
18 A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 with everything they did. Between him and them all 
 was confidence and affection to the very close of life. 
 His was truly a christian family. There was the true 
 Church in his house. The worship and authority of 
 God were constantly maintained there, and it was often 
 observable with what affectionate and powerful earnest- 
 ness he would plead with God in behalf of his children, 
 as the family bowed together at the morning and evening 
 worship ; and hence it is not at all surprising that, in 
 covenant faithfulness, God should have so eminently 
 blessed his domestic ministry, even to the salvation of all 
 that belonged to his household. In his declining years 
 and honorable retirement from the active work of the 
 ministry, our brother found support and consolation in 
 the views of religion which he had embraced in early 
 life and which his ministry was spent in recommending 
 to others. The great truths of the Gospel were his guide 
 in life, and his unfailing support and consolation as he 
 grew, more and more sensibly, to realize that his days 
 on earth were fast drawing to a close. 
 
 " His death occurred, suddenly, on Friday, April 
 28th, in the eighty-third year of his age — having been 
 just sixty years a minister of the Gospel. He had 
 ' fought a good fight ' — he had ' finished his course ' — he 
 had ' kept the faith' — why, then, should he not depart? 
 He has departed, and in our sober imagination, me- 
 thinks we may now see him associated in glory with that 
 Great Apostle of whom he was an humble follower, even 
 as HE was of Christ. 
 
 '' And now, in application of the subject and the occa- 
 sion, let us all be ' followers of those who through faith 
 and patience inherit the promises.' While the example 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ engages our chief regard, let us 
 contemplate and copy the virtues which adorn the lives 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 19 
 
 of our fathers and brethren. Let us ' fight the good fight 
 of faith.' Encompassed with so great a cloud of wit- 
 nesses, let us May aside every weight/ and run with 
 patience our appointed race, having an eye to the recom- 
 pense of reward, even * the glory that shall be revealed.' 
 
 "The family of our departed brother will accept our 
 sympathies, under the bereavement they now suffer, in the 
 death of one so justly respected and beloved. While at 
 the same time they have our congratulations for the rich 
 inheritance they still enjoy in his Godly example, and in 
 those many and precious words of counsel which are 
 treasured in their memories. You mourn not, dear 
 friends, as those who are without hope. You have good 
 reason to believe that your dear departed is now in the 
 world of peace and blessedness, and enjoying the glories 
 that have been revealed to him. 
 
 '* *Thy Maker is thy Husband, and let thy fatherless 
 children trust in Him.' The widow's God and the 
 Father of the fatherless will not disappoint the hopes 
 that rest upon His promises. ' I now commend you to 
 God and to the word of His grace, which is able to 
 build you up and to give you an inheritance among all 
 them which are sanctified.' " 
 
 For the reference of those nearest and dearest to him, 
 and as a memento for the generations which may succeed, 
 we place in print one of his sermons. 
 
 While not marked by any special gifts of oratory, a 
 good voice, a clear utterance and solemnity of manner 
 added much to the effect of his ministrations. 
 
 The discourse here selected will serve as a fair example 
 of his uniform preaching and his general method of pre- 
 senting the truth. His sermons varied little in their 
 merit and thoroughness, as he was always a diligent 
 
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 student and came to the pulpit prepared for his service. 
 In his numerous weekly lectures and prayer meeting 
 addresses he spoke from a mere outline, and with a point 
 and fluency fully equal to his written discourses. 
 
 SERMON. 
 
 Philippians, 4: 19 — ''My God shall supply all your 
 need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus." 
 
 ** Perhaps the individual has never lived who had 
 greater confidence in the truth and value of Christianity 
 than had the Apostle Paul. He had the most abundant 
 reason for this confidence. His conversion had been of 
 so remarkable a character that he had a realizing sense 
 not only of the divine origin of Christianity, but of his 
 interest in its inestimable blessings. Everywhere in the 
 Epistles of Paul we witness the deep and abiding convic- 
 tion that he was possessed not only of the truth of Chris- 
 tianity, but that by a living faith he had made its bless- 
 ings his own. In the immediate connection of the text, 
 Paul evinced the gratitude that he felt to the Philippians 
 for the favors which they had conferred on him, and he 
 expressed his assurance that they would find a constant 
 benefactor in their God, rich in glory by Christ Jesus. 
 
 "We are to recollect the individuals to whom Paul 
 addressed his epistles — ' all the saints in Christ Jesus, with 
 the bishops and deacons.' The assurance that is ex- 
 pressed in the text evidently pertains to the people of 
 God. It is very proper for us to distinguish between our 
 desires and needs. A christian may, on many accounts, 
 have desires for many things which are not in themselves 
 sinful, and yet God may not see fit to gratify them ; as 
 with David in reference to the building of the Temple, 
 and Paul in reference to the removal of the thorn in the 
 
BEV. H. W. HUNT. 21 
 
 flesh. They entreated God earnestly and frequently, and 
 yet their desires were not granted. 
 
 " I. The first thing that seems worthy of our notice in 
 the elucidation of the meaning of the text is, the needs 
 of the christians which Paul was assured God would sup- 
 ply. 
 
 " In general, we may affirm that there is but one sup- 
 plier for all God's creatures throughout the universe ; 
 that God is the only fountain of supply. In the language 
 of the Psalmist, 'all our springs are in Him.' This re- 
 mark is as true of the seraphims that surround the throne 
 of God as of the insect that flutters in the sunbeams of 
 to-day and is gone to-morrow. Let us advert to some of 
 those wants that God supplies. 
 
 *'The christian needs bodily aliment and protection, 
 which God will supply. He is, every day and hour of 
 his existence, as dependent on God as is the child of a 
 day upon the care of its mother, or as were the Israelites 
 in the desert on the supplies that were furnished them by 
 the manna from the clouds. In God they ' live, and 
 move, and have their being.' He does not minister to 
 their wants as He did to the wants of Elijah in the desert, 
 or to those of the widow of Sarepta by the multiplying 
 of the oil, but He does it no less effectively by certain 
 laws and instrumentalities that He has established. Chris- 
 tians may say with the Psalmist, ' My defence is of God.' 
 They are exposed to ten thousand perils, and no arm but 
 that of the Almighty can ward them off and render them 
 harmless. All the true Israel can adopt the language of 
 the Psalmist, ' If it had not been the Lord who was on 
 our side, now may Israel say when men rose up against 
 us : then they had swallowed us up quick when their 
 wrath was kindled against us ; then the waters had 
 overwhelmed us. Blessed be the Lord who hath not 
 
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 given us as a prey to their teeth. Our help is in the name 
 of the Lord who made heaven and earth. The Lord is 
 thy keeper ; He shall preserve thee from all evil.' Every 
 true christian, in view of the perils by which he is con- 
 stantly surrounded, may exclaim, in the grateful language 
 of the Apostle, ' Having obtained help of God, I con- 
 tinue unto this day.' 
 
 ''But if God is the bodily and temporal keeper of his 
 people. He is still more remarkably their spiritual keeper 
 — the keeper that they need for their eternal good. In 
 the language of the Apostle, ' He shall supply all their 
 needs.' They need daily pardon; for, to a greater or 
 less extent, they are daily transgressors of God's law, 
 and therefore liable to suffer its penalty. A greater 
 blessing cannot be conceived than deliverance from the 
 penalty of the law that exposes us to eternal death. 
 ' There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ 
 Jesus.' 
 
 ''The people of God need sanctification. 
 
 "They are but partially sanctified. There is about 
 them a body of sin and death. A fountain of cleansing is 
 provided, ever full and open, that has already washed 
 away the stains of tens of thousands. How heart-cheer- 
 ing is the declaration of God given in the language of 
 the Prophet, ' I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and 
 ye shall be clean.' No less cheering is the assurance of 
 the Apostle, that ' the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us 
 from all sin.' As sin is the greatest burden and grief of 
 the christian, nothing can be more delightful than for 
 him to look forward to the period when he shall be com- 
 pletely delivered from this grief and burden and be 
 pure in some measure as God is pure, and holy as Christ 
 is holy. 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 23 
 
 *'The christian needs guidance. 
 
 " He needs a guide as much as did the Israelites when 
 they passed through the untrodden desert, or as does a 
 blind man in the midst of precipices. How consoling is 
 the language of the Prophet, that ' God will lead His 
 people in a way that they know not, and in paths that 
 they have not known ; will make darkness light before 
 you, and crooked things straight ' ; and the assurance of 
 another Prophet, that ' He will guide them by His coun- 
 sels and afterwards receive them in glory.' 
 
 **The people of God need to be strengthened. 
 
 * • The Lord declares that He is ' the strength of His 
 people ' ; that ' as their day is, so shall their strength be ' ; 
 that ' they shall be strengthened with all might by His 
 spirit in the inner man.' 
 
 '*They need strength for the performance of the nu- 
 merous, varied and important duties that they owe to 
 God, to their fellow-men and to themselves ; strength to 
 enable them to resist the subtle and powerful temptations 
 that are liable to assail them, from themselves, from the 
 world, and the great adversary of souls — temptations 
 that have wounded and agonized, if not destroyed, many 
 that were regarded by themselves and had been regarded 
 by others as proof against sin ; strength to fit His people to 
 endure as gold tried in the fire, and with a christian spirit 
 to bear the severe trials that they are sometimes called to 
 pass through. Oh, how comforting is the divine assur- 
 ance in relation to christians, that ' when they pass 
 through the waters he will be with them.' Christians 
 need strength to enable them to contend successfully with 
 their spirital enemies, not only with the hosts on earth, 
 but with principalities and powers in high places. 
 
 *' Christians need comfort. 
 
24 . A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 '*The sources of discomfort in this world are very 
 numerous and, to a greater or less extent, constant. 
 They arise from the position that christians are called to 
 occupy ; from their own physical and moral infirmities, 
 or from the physical or moral infirmities of their fellow- 
 men. God is the God of consolation. He knows how 
 to administer comfort to his children according to their 
 necessities. The promises which are exceeding great 
 and precious are designed to be to them continual wells 
 of comfort, from which they are permitted to draw, so 
 that the 'joy of the Lord may be their strength,' and 
 they may be enabled to rejoice with a joy that is un- 
 speakable and full of glory. 
 
 *'II. But it is time that we reflected upon the latter 
 part of the promise of the text — the method by which 
 God supplies the necessities of His people. * My God 
 shall supply all your needs according to His riches in 
 glory by Christ Jesus.' Unfallen creatures have their 
 needs supplied in a way that is entirely different from 
 that which is referred to in the promise that I have re- 
 peated. God does it as He made the heavens and the 
 earth, by His almighty power and sovereign will, in ac- 
 cordance with laws that He has established. As in the 
 morning of creation He spake all things into being by His 
 almighty fiat, so He continues the existence of the vari- 
 ous creatures that He has formed. It is said of the infe- 
 rior creation that they all wait upon Him, and He giveth 
 them their meat in due season. In the same way does 
 God sustain the glorious circles of angels which en- 
 compass His throne, who have ever held fast their integ- 
 rity. But God, in compliance with the promise upon 
 which we are meditating, supplies the necessities of His 
 saints through the channel of redeeming love, in accord- 
 
EEV. H. W. HUNT. 25 
 
 ance with the covenant that He has established with his 
 people through the atonement and mediation of His 
 well-beloved and only-begotten son. The language that 
 the Apostle employs is very significant and worthy of our 
 particular attention — ' according to his riches in glory by 
 Christ Jesus ' None of the other sacred writers employ 
 the word rich or riches with such frequency or signifi- 
 cance as did the Apostle Paul. ' The Lord/ he says, ' is 
 rich in mercy. He is rich unto all that call upon Him.' 
 He speaks of the 'riches of His goodness,' ' the exceed- 
 ing riches of His grace,' 'the unsearchable riches of 
 Christ.' The gospel that proclaims His mercy he calls a 
 'treasure,' and declares that in Christ are 'hidden all 
 the treasures of wisdom and knowledge ' ; that ' he who 
 was rich, for our sakes became poor. ' 
 
 " The Apostle Paul evidently intended by the employ- 
 ment of the term ' rich ' or ' riches ' to express the abun- 
 dance of those things to which he refers. Riches, in the 
 ordinary acceptation of the term, implies abundance ; 
 but an individual may be regarded as rich in something 
 that is by no means desirable or valuable. Paul, by the 
 term ' rich,' not only intended to express something that 
 was abundant, but exceedingly valuable, something that 
 was spiritual, and, in its precious fruits and influences, 
 eternal, the value of which was altogether beyond silver 
 and gold, pearls and rubies — yea, all those things that 
 were most highly prized by the children of this world. 
 He who is rich in this sense is the possessor of the pearl 
 of great price ; he has a treasure compared with which 
 all the treasures of this world are but as the dust of the 
 balance. 
 
 " But all this is not the climax. By ' riches in glory 
 in Christ Jesus ' we are to understand all the fullness and 
 preciousness of celestial glory, all that angels and the 
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26 A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 innumerable company of the redeemed will partake of 
 through eternity. The value of these must be estimated 
 according to the price that was paid for them — the price 
 of blood, the blood of Christ, when contrasted with 
 which all the riches of this world are less than nothing 
 and vanity. The sacred writers seem to rejoice in heap- 
 ing epithet upon epithet in describing the character and 
 mediatorial work of Christ, for the purpose of augment- 
 ing the faith, establishing the hopes, and rejoicing the 
 hearts of the people of God. After all that they have 
 said, their language is altogether inadequate to express 
 the emotions of their souls. Their descriptions fall infi- 
 nitely short of what will be realized in the history and 
 experience of the feeblest saint that shall be redeemed 
 from all the degradation and miseries of the fall, and be 
 brought home to glory. 
 
 " In addition to the Scriptures to which I have already 
 referred that are adapted to unfold the meaning and pre- 
 ciousness of the promise in the text, that God will sup- 
 ply all the christian's needs ' according to His riches in 
 glory by Christ Jesus,' it is important for us to call to 
 mind certain statements of Scripture that represent to us 
 the position that the Saviour occupies on the throne of 
 the universe. He is verily God as well as Man, King 
 of Kings, and Lord of Lords. It is His preroga- 
 tive in the office that he has undertaken on the be- 
 half of His people to constantly employ His omnipotent 
 power, wisdom and love on the behalf of His Church, 
 until she shall be completely redeemed from the power 
 of all her enemies and the least taint of moral corrup- 
 tion, and be presented to Christ not having spot or wrin- 
 kle, or any such thing, but be holy and unblamable be- 
 fore Him in love. 
 
 ''Paul, in writing to the Church at Colosse, says: 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 27 
 
 'And He is the head of the body, the church : who is the 
 beginning, the first-born from the dead ; that in all 
 things He might have the pre-eminence. For it pleased 
 the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell. And ye 
 are complete in him who is the head of all principalities 
 and powers.' These verses remind us of the heart-cheer- 
 ing testimony of John, 'And of His fullness have all we 
 received, and grace for grace.' 
 
 ''In addition to all these passages, we must only add 
 that sublime, comprehensive passage in Paul's Epistle to 
 the Ephesians that relates to Christ's resurrection and 
 ascension and the session that He has at the right hand 
 of His Father : 'And what is the exceeding greatness of 
 His power to us-ward who believe, according to the 
 working of His mighty power which He wrought in 
 Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him 
 at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above 
 all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, 
 and every name that is named, not only in this world, 
 but also in that which is to come : and hath put all 
 things under His feet, and gave Him to be the head over 
 all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness 
 of Him who filleth all in all.' Is it any wonder, in view 
 of these remarkable scriptures that have been quoted, 
 that the Apostle declares ' He is able to do exceeding 
 abundantly above all that we can ask or think.' And 
 again, ' Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath 
 entered into the heart of man the things which God 
 prepared for them that love Him.* No tongue can de- 
 scribe what the eye hath seen, or the ear heard, or 
 the capacious mind of man conceived ; yet all these are 
 nothing in comparison with what the saints shall enjoy 
 in the future world. 
 
 "The inconceivable variety and richness of provisions 
 
28 A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 of which the people of God shall partake in the future 
 world, were strikingly typified by the supplies that were 
 furnished for the Israelites in the barren desert of Arabia 
 as they passed in their journey from Egypt to the 
 promised land. Although the manna was apparently 
 light food, it was daily furnished by miracle, and so 
 adapted to their appetites and necessities that as long as 
 they continued believing and obedient there was not one 
 feeble in all their tribes. The water that was furnished 
 was no less miraculous. It came not from the clouds, 
 but from the flinty rock, and was abundantly sufficient to 
 slake the thirst of the millions of them and their child- 
 ren until they entered the promised land. Moses smote 
 the rock, that the waters gushed out and the streams 
 overflowed. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, tells us 
 what the manna and the rock typified, * And they did all 
 eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same 
 spiritual drink, for they drank of the spiritual rock that 
 followed them, and that rock was Christ.' 
 
 '^ REMARKS. 
 
 " I. It behooves us to be unfeignedly thankful that 
 God has made the most abundant provision for the sup- 
 ply of the needs of His children. 
 
 ''From the benevolence of His character, we would 
 be inclined to suppose that He would have been disposed 
 to do this ; and what reason seems to suggest has been 
 corroborated by fact. God has made the most abundant 
 provision for the physical necessities of His people. 
 ' The earth is full of His goodness,' and yields its pro- 
 ductions continually to supply the wants of God's child- 
 ren. So is the great and wide sea in which are fishes innu- 
 merable. God has been no less liberal in the supply of 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 29 
 
 provision that He has made for the supply of His people's 
 intellectual necessities. The works of creation and Pro- 
 vidence are a constant and inexhaustible storehouse of 
 food for the mind, and this storehouse is becoming more 
 rich and varied in proportion to its being explored and 
 exhibited. As iron sharpeneth iron, so does the intellect 
 of one individual sharpen that of another. Never has 
 there been an age when in this respect the inhabitants of 
 the earth were so advantageous to each other. But if 
 God has displayed and is constantly displaying His lib- 
 eralities by the provision that He has made for the sup- 
 ply of the physical and intell^tual necessities of His 
 people, still more abundantly has He provided for their 
 spiritual wants, at an expense altogether greater than the 
 value of the material universe, and which pertains alone 
 to man of all the creatures that He has ever formed. It 
 will require a period of duration no less than the ages of 
 eternity to render praise and thanksgiving to the Most 
 High for the scheme of redemption that He has provided 
 to meet the moral necessities of His children. 
 
 "2. The people of God are chargeable with great 
 folly and guilt in not having availed themselves to a 
 greater extent of the provision that has been made for 
 the supply of their moral necessities. Nothing can be 
 plainer from the Bible than that it is the will of the Mas- 
 ter, whom they profess to love and serve, that they should 
 not be always dwarfs in piety, but have a vigorous spir- 
 itual life ; that they should not be babes, but full-grown 
 men, or that, in the language of Paul to the Hebrews, 
 they should labor to be qualified for teachers, instead of 
 * having need that one teach them what be the first prin- 
 ciples of the oracles of God, or become such as have 
 need of milk, and not of strong meat.' 
 
30 A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 *' In all periods of the Church there have been occa- 
 sional instances of great maturity of christian character, 
 so that in various respects such have lived as others have 
 not, and done what others have not done. There have been 
 exceptions to the general rule — a class that deserve to 
 have been regarded as altogether peculiar. The most of 
 professing christians have been of a very different type of 
 character, and sometimes separated from the rest of the 
 world by a line so narrow and indistinct that it was not 
 easy to distinguish them from others. 
 
 " Among the radical causes of a defect of christian 
 character is the want of,a realizing sense of spiritual pov- 
 erty. There is in the Church a great prevalence of the 
 Laodicean spirit. Many professing christians regard 
 themselves as ' rich and increase in zeal, and in need of 
 nothing,' when they are comparatively poor and miser- 
 able. As the basis of prayer is a sense of want, and the 
 character of prayer will be determined by the conscious- 
 ness of the want, those who are affected by this Laodi- 
 cean spirit will not pray with that humility, earnestness 
 and faith that is needful to successful prayer. Their 
 prayers will differ entirely from those of Jacob, Moses, 
 Elijah, Daniel and the Syrophenician women. 
 
 '* Is it any wonder that such should know nothing ex- 
 perimentally of the meaning of the promise, * whatsoever 
 ye ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive ' ? So far 
 from feeling like Paul, as though they had not attained, 
 neither were already perfect, and resolving with him 
 ' this one thing I do,' they fold their arms in sloth and 
 security. Is it any wonder that, destitute of conscious- 
 ness of spiritual poverty, and imagining that they need 
 little that they do not possess, they should spiritually re- 
 main the same for years, or perhaps recede, rather than 
 advance, in the Divine life ? If these remarks apply to 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 31 
 
 any of us, may God in infinite mercy show us to our- 
 selves, give us an overwhelming view of our poverty and 
 great guilt, and lead us never to be satisfied until we have 
 a comfortable evidence that we are living, growing chris- 
 tians, and are laboring habitually to glorify God in our 
 bodies and spirits, which are His. 
 
 **How many considerations plead for the removal of 
 our spiritual leanness and barrenness, and the exercise of 
 those graces and gifts on account of which we may be 
 enabled to serve God with unspeakably greater satisfac- 
 tion and success, and with such comfort of soul that we 
 may employ the language of the Psalmist, ' Our souls 
 shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,' so that we 
 are permitted habitually to praise God with joyful lips. 
 Oh, that we may live so as to be blessed with all spiritual 
 blessings in heavenly places ! Oh, that we may cry 
 out ' all things are ours, and we are Christ's, and Christ 
 is God's' ! Oh, that we may be assured that the process 
 of sanctification in our souls is constantly going on, that 
 our wants are becoming day by day less and less, and 
 that we are journeying towards that world where we shall 
 have nothing more to desire or hope for, but be com- 
 pletely satisfied because we have awakened in God's 
 likeness and will enjoy His society through ceaseless 
 ages. 
 
 ** 3. It behooves those who have too much reason to 
 fear that their spiritual wants are unsupplied, to seek 
 with all their hearts to have them supplied without delay. 
 
 " The means by which they may be supplied are clearly 
 unfolded in the Bible, so that if we desire to be in- 
 structed we cannot mistake in regard to them. We are 
 to ask for them with all our hearts, and we are to com- 
 mend ourselves to the benevolence, power and compas- 
 
32 A BRIEF SKETCH OF 
 
 sion of Him who has made the provision that our neces- 
 sities require. 
 
 ''Should a benevolent and liberal prince make the 
 freest and fullest arrangements for the supply of the ne- 
 cessities of his needy subjects, and proclaim to them the 
 means of his supply, they would require no particular in- 
 ducements to lead them to accept of the provision that 
 he had made. The roads in every part of his dominions 
 that conduct to his palace would be thronged with trav- 
 elers, evincing the sense that they had of their necessi- 
 ties and their determination to seek for their supply with- 
 out delay. Were anything required for their obtaining 
 relief beside asking, they would most cheerfully discover 
 a disposition to comply with it, although it might require 
 no small degree of self-denial and sacrifices. Certain 
 things seem to be essential for the relief of our spiritual 
 necessities and the securement of an interest in the bless- 
 ings of the Gospel. The first thing is a humble, hearty 
 and trustful asking, with a determination not to cease 
 asking until we obtain. Next is a complete resting of our 
 souls upon those methods of relief that the Bible pre- 
 scribes. Then self-abasement and a childlike confidence 
 in the righteousness and merits of the Saviour and that 
 great work that He has accomplished. 
 
 ''I affectionately and earnestly entreat those who are 
 oppressed with a sense of spiritual need, and are in 
 danger of having their souls famish through want, to 
 avail themselves of the provision that has been made 
 for them without delay. 
 
 "One more thought, and I have done. In view of 
 the delightful and comprehensive promise upon which 
 we are meditating, and the thoughts that we have sug- 
 gested in connection with it, it becomes christians to be 
 
REV. H. W. HUNT. 33 
 
 reconciled to the dispensations of Providence, however 
 trying they may be. 
 
 " This world was never designed to be to the christian 
 a place of rest or of complete satisfaction, but of trial. 
 It is through many tribulations that he is to enter the 
 Kingdom. 'Weeping must endure for a night.' The 
 sowing time must be a period of anguish. Why should 
 christians complain if this night, that is soon past, is 
 succeeded by a joyful morning ? The sowing time is 
 succeeded by an eternal and glorious harvest. Christians 
 in this world, although poor as to this world's goods and 
 afflicted in many ways, have treasures and sources of en- 
 joyment of which the world is destitute. Let them then 
 be reconciled to their lot. Their last pang will soon be 
 past, their last want satisfied. They are on the borders of 
 a land where sorrow and want are unknown. Soon they 
 will reach that world where there is fullness of joy and 
 pleasures forevermore. It becomes them to wipe away 
 their tears, and to comfort themselves with the assurance 
 ' that all things shall work together for good to those 
 who love God,' even to those whose needs for this world 
 and the world to come are all supplied according to the 
 riches of God's glory in Christ Jesus." 
 
 5 
 
Sppendix as to Ancestry, etc. 
 
 GENEALOGY OF THE HUNT FAMILY. 
 
 The earliest allusion to the family as represented in 
 England is to be found in the Herald and Registrar's 
 Office of the Royal College of Arms, London, as fol- 
 lows : Richard Hunt, of Longnor, of Salep (Shrop- 
 shire), had as his wife Alice Gardiner. His son Richard 
 married Margery Bucke, sister of Sir George Bucke. He 
 was living in 1623. He had four children, who died 
 without issue, and were buried in St. Martin's Fields. 
 One daughter, Mary Tucker, survived, and had children. 
 Thomas Hunt, Esq., made record in the Herald and 
 Registry Office in 1768 that his family have for about a 
 century borne the arms of the family of Longnor since 
 that family became extinct. This family was probably 
 of a near lineage. 
 
 As appears from the earliest records at Shrewsbury, 
 England, the first of the name of this ancestry is Thofnas 
 Hunt, of Gouldston, near Cheswardine, about sixteen 
 miles from Shrewsbury. Next is his son Richard Hunt, 
 who entered at the celebrated Royal Grammar School of 
 Shrewsbury in 1569. " He married a sister of the excel- 
 lent Rowland Heylyn, alderman of London. Richard 
 
36 APPENDIX. 
 
 Hunt's name appears as Bailiff of Shrewsbury in 1613, 
 1622 and 1 63 1, and in 1638 he was made by Charles the 
 First an alderman of Shrewsbury. His death in July, 
 1640, prevented his serving in the office of mayor." 
 
 Next in the line of ancestry is his son Thomas Hunt, 
 who became the most distinguished of the name, and to 
 whom reference has already been made in the former 
 sketch. Subsequently to the restoration of King Charles 
 II. he purchased the estate at Boreatton, a few miles 
 from Shrewsbury, where Rowland Hunt, sixth in descent 
 from Col. Thomas Hunt through his son Rowland Hunt, 
 now resides. The father died five years since. 
 
 From Colonel Hunt's youngest son John descended in 
 the second degree Thomas Hunt, of MoUington, in Che- 
 shire, branches of whose family gained great prominence. 
 (See Shrewsbury record of Rowland Hunt, the son of 
 Colonel Thomas Hunt, who inherited the estates at Bor- 
 eatton, and who was sheriff of Shrewsbury in 1672.) 
 
 Thomas Hunt, the English ancestor, who died in 
 1669, was an active participant in many of the events 
 connected with the period of Charles the First, who was 
 beheaded June 30, 1649, as also in the period of the 
 Commonwealth under Cromwell, reaching to the period 
 of Charles II. (1660). His family seems to have been 
 large, and the unsettled times no doubt influenced those 
 who emigrated to this country, thus to seek deliverance 
 from the civil and religious strifes of the period. The 
 tradition that some of the family at that time emigrated 
 to America still exists in the family in England. 
 
 A record of Thomas Hunt to which one of the family 
 had access in Shrewsbury is as follows : 
 
 " He was a very eminent person in his day. The first 
 situation in which I find him is commander of the garri- 
 son at Wem, after the capture by Col. Mytton, and he 
 
APPENDIX. 37 
 
 rose to the rank of Colonel in the Parliamentary army. 
 In 1645 he was appointed by the House of Commons 
 member of Parliament for Shrewsbury. In 1656 he was 
 sheriff of Shrewsbury under Cromwell and the Protec- 
 torate. He died in the town in 1669, though he had 
 subsequently to the restoration of King Charles II. pur- 
 chased the estate at Boreatton." 
 
 " Baxter, who knew him well, assures us that he was a 
 plain-hearted, honest, godly man, entirely beloved and 
 trusted by the soldiers for his honesty. Mr. Henry 
 (Philip) confirms this handsome encomium, styling him 
 an Israelite indeed in whom there was no guile, and sev- 
 eral of his descendants have been persons of distin- 
 guished piety." 
 
 "Baxter tells us that he preached one of Col. Hunt's 
 assize sermons at Shrewsbury. There is also the follow- 
 ing allusion to the family in connection with a distin- 
 guished branch descended from the youngest son, John, 
 (whose character is drawn at great length by Lord Clar- 
 endon). It says : 'Among the friends of Matthew 
 Henry during his residence at Chester, who had all 
 along professed themselves dissenters, yet with great 
 moderation and just esteem to the good men that were 
 of the Established Church, his biographer enumerates 
 John Hunt, * * * walking in the same spirit and 
 way with the honored family from which he was de- 
 scended, and always Mr. Henry's faithful and prudent 
 friend.' In the Life of Philip Henry, written by Mat- 
 thew Henry and printed in London 1709, another 
 brother is mentioned as a friend of Mr. Philip Henry." 
 
 Leaving now the ancestry in the Old World, we trace 
 those who in the unsettled period of the Commonwealth, 
 thought it best to emigrate to America, and of whose 
 emigration a tradition still exists in the lineage there. 
 
38 APPENDIX. 
 
 The first record is that of Thomas Hunt as having 
 bought a liberal quantity of land at Throckmorton's 
 Neck, N. Y., in 1652. Some years after the Grove farm 
 was confirmed to him by the Governor's patent. In 
 1686 he was possessed of Hunt's Point, Westchester 
 county, N. Y. In 1665 Thomas Hunt and Thomas 
 Hunt, Jr., sign a document. It is possible that this son 
 was born before the parents left England. The first 
 Thomas Hunt here died in 1694. The American record 
 of the family of Thomas Hunt is as follows : 
 
 I. Thomas Hunt. 
 Ciceley Pasley. 
 
 Emigrated from England in Cromwell's time (1652). 
 In principles a High Churchman. (See Hunt Genealogy, 
 New York line.) 
 
 2d American family — 
 
 Thomas Hunt, West Farms, N. Y. Born 1626. 
 
 Elizabeth Jessop. 
 
 The wife was daughter of Edward" Jessop, of West- 
 chester, from Fairfield, Conn. 
 
 Children — Thomas, Josiah, Joseph, John, Abigail, 
 Mary. 
 
 Thofnas born in 1663. 
 
 3d American family — 
 
 Thomas, of West Farms. 
 
 Elizabeth Gardiner. 
 
 The wife is affirmed to have been of Lord Gardiner's 
 family in England. Died, aged 57, in 1724. 
 
 Children — Thomas, Lewis, Robert, Abigail, Augus- 
 tine. Born September 15, 1716. Died March 24, 1809. 
 
APPENDIX. 39 
 
 4th American family of this line of ancestry — 
 
 Augustine, of Orange county, N. Y. 
 
 Lydia Holloway, of Welch descent, was born in Mas- 
 sachusetts, January 4, 1725. 
 
 Children — Austin, Gardiner A. {Garner), Holloway 
 W., daughter, married Z. Cobb; daughter, married 
 Lowrie ; daughter, married John Martin, Claverdale, N. 
 Y. Five sons and seven daughters died young or with- 
 out heirs. 
 
 There have been thus far six ministers, seven physi- 
 cians and two lawyers in direct descent from Augustine 
 Hunt. 
 
 Augustine Hunt removed from New York State to 
 near Wyoming, Pa., where he bought a tract of "Elec- 
 tion land," but after his losses there at the time of the 
 massacre moved back to Orange county, N. Y. He wrote 
 a pamphlet called '' Hunt's Mite," in which he discussed 
 political and religious doctrines. He was *' a proficient 
 in the arts and sciences, conversant in medicine and 
 theology, and also often an adviser in legal affairs." His 
 wife was a devoted Baptist, and her eminent piety left a 
 deep impression on her children. He died at the age of 
 92. 
 
 5 th American family — 
 
 Gardiner A. Hunt. Minister. Born June 16, 1764. 
 Died February 11, 1849. (^^ was pastor at Kingwood, 
 Hunterdon county, and at Harmony, Warren county, N. 
 J., a long time.) 
 
 Ruth Page. Born May 26, 1775- Died June 16, 
 1813, aged 38 years and 21 days. 
 
 His wife was daughter of David Page, Dividing Creek, 
 Cumberland county. Her mother was Ruth Nixon, of 
 the Nixon family of Bridgeton. She died in 1813. 
 
40 APPENDIX. 
 
 Children — David Page. Physician. Born April 23, 
 1798. Died 1838. 
 
 Holloway W. Hunt. Born March 31, 1800. Died 
 April 28, 1882. 
 
 Ruth Hunt. Married John Cline, New Village, War- 
 ren county, N. J. 
 
 Sarah Hunt. Married Lewis Cline, Harmony. 
 
 6th American family of this line. 
 Holloway W. Hunt. (See sketch herewith.) 
 Henrietta Mundy. Born August 16, 1812. 
 The wife was the daughter of Ezra Mundy, of Piscat- 
 away township, Middlesex county, who had been born 
 in that county and went to New York as a merchant, but 
 early moved out on a farm between Metuchen and New 
 Brooklyn. He was in descent from Nicholas Mundy, 
 who settled in Piscataway early, having lands under a 
 grant from Lord Carteret. His name appears 1672. 
 (See Hatfield's History of Elizabethtown.) 
 Children of H. W. and Henrietta Hunt- 
 Ezra M., Augustine P., Catharine M., Charlotte E., 
 Theodore Whitfield, David Brainerd. 
 
 Ezra M. Hunt, physician, Trenton, N. J. 
 Augustine P. settled as a farmer at Belvidere, Illinois. 
 Died 1870. One child, John Whitfield, survives. 
 
 Catharine M. married Lewis Rowland, farmer, Me- 
 tuchen, N. J. Three children — Henry W., Edward C, 
 and Ezra Augustine. 
 
 Charlotte Elizabeth married Rev. Charles W. Cooper, 
 South Centreville, N. Y. 
 
 Theodore Whitfield Hunt, minister and professor, 
 Princeton College. 
 
 David Brainerd Hunt, physician, New York city. Died 
 1876. 
 
APPENDIX. 41 
 
 Ezra M. Hunt. 
 
 Emma R. Ayres. Died January 17, 1867. 
 
 Emma Reeve (2d). Married October 5, 1870. 
 
 Children — Ellsworth E. Hunt, physician. 
 
 Alonzo C. Hunt, physician, married Elizabeth Ayres. 
 
 Henrietta Hunt. 
 
 Edward M. Hunt, aged 10 years. 
 
 Theodore W. Hunt. 
 Sarah Reeve. 
 
 The related branches in descent from Augustine Hunt 
 (4th) are still mostly located in New Jersey. T. Edgar 
 Hunt, Glen Gardner, Mrs. Joseph Van Sickle, formerly 
 Cynthia Martin, and the children of Rev. H. W. Hunt, 
 dec'd, Schooley's Mountain, are also in direct descent 
 from Augustine Hunt and Lydia Holloway. One son of 
 Augustine Hunt settled in Virginia, and from him was 
 descended Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, of Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
 Ralph Hunt, of Newtown, L. I., and Edward Hunt, of 
 Newtown, were evidently near relatives of the Thomas 
 Hunt who first settled in this country, probably brothers. 
 Many of their descendants are in Mercer and Hunterdon 
 counties. Many items of interest as to all these families 
 appear in Bolton's History of Westchester County, N. 
 Y. ; Annals of Newtown, 1852, James Riker, Jr.; Gene- 
 alogy of the Name and Family of Hunt, Hunt and Wy- 
 man, Boston, 1862-3, pages 153, 176, 437. 
 
 The description of the coat of arms in the Herald and 
 Registrar's office, England, is the same as of the earliest 
 families in this country, and is as follows : 
 
 Coat of arms — Party per pale, Arg. and S., a Saltire 
 counter changed, couped or wounded on the breast, with 
 a phaeon sable dropping blood proper. 
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42 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 The crest of the Thomas Hunt's descent here is ''a 
 lion's head erased, per pale argent, and sable collared 
 gules lined, and ringed or." The shield is the same in 
 each. 
 
 The coat of arms which represents the American de- 
 scent is here given. 
 
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