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 HISTORICAL ADDRESS 
 
 DELIVERED AT THE 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION, 
 
 June 8, 1875. 
 
 By ALVAH HOVBY, D.D., 
 
 President, and Professor of Theology. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 WRIGHT &. POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, 
 79 Milk Street (corner of Federal). 
 
 1875. 
 
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Haverhill, June 10, 1875. 
 Eev. A. Hovey, D.D., Newton Centre. 
 
 My Dear Brother : — At a meeting of the Trustees of the Newton 
 Theological Institution, held on the 9th instant, it was — 
 
 Ordered, That the thanks of this Board he presented to Eev. Dr. Hovey, 
 for his ahle and interesting historical address, delivered yesterday, on the 
 occasion of the semi-centennial anniversary of the foundation of Newton 
 Theological Institution, and that he he respectfully requested to furnish 
 a copy of the same for publication. 
 
 Attest : GEO. W. BOSWOETH, Secretary. 
 
 Eev. E. C. Mills, D.D., Chairman of the Executive Committee of Newton 
 Theological Institution. 
 
 Dear Brother : — In compliance with the request of the Board, I here- 
 with place in your hands, for publication, the historical address delivered 
 June 8, 1875, before the Trustees and Alumni of Newton Theological 
 Institution. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 ALVAH HOVEY. 
 
 Newton Centre, June 18, 1875. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 The work of the Newton Theological Institution was begun 
 on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1825, and that work 
 has been continued without interruption, save by the regular 
 vacations, through a period of fifty academic years. You 
 must, therefore, I am sure, as Trustees and Alumni of this 
 seminary, desire to review at this time the origin and progress 
 of your cherished school. Why was it founded? How has 
 it been sustained? What has it accomplished? And how 
 may it be improved? In attempting to answer these ques- 
 tions within the limits of a single discourse, I can give at 
 best no more than a general, bird's-eye view of the past, 
 followed by a less assured, but hopeful, glance into the 
 future. 
 
 Why was the Newton Theological Institution Founded ? 
 
 It was founded, I answer, because wise and devout Bap- 
 tists, fifty years ago, believed in a well-instructed ministry, 
 and saw in such a school as this the best means for securing 
 such a ministry. In other words, the founders of this semi- 
 nary were intelligent, far-sighted, godly men ; they were 
 convinced that theological education is very desirable for 
 ministers of the gospel, and they were persuaded that such 
 education can be obtained most readily in schools of sacred 
 learning. My answer, therefore, divides itself into three 
 distinct parts : one relating to the general character of the 
 founders, and the other two to their special aims in the work 
 under review. 
 
Q NEWT OX THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 The existence of any human institution depends on the 
 existence of men who are capable of establishing it. Hence 
 it may be said that this seminary was founded because there 
 were men in the churches at that time whose wisdom and 
 energy were equal to the task of founding it. The under- 
 taking was too great for a weak faith, and too costly for a 
 selfish spirit. Had we no other source of knowledge in 
 respect to the persons who planted their new institution upon 
 yonder hill, and who plaoned the work of instruction to be 
 done by it, than the school itself as organized by them, it 
 would be safe to conclude that they were men of high 
 character and wide influence. But we have other, if not 
 better, sources of knowledge. Their names have come down 
 to us with honor. Traces of their agency may be discovered 
 in the records of almost every good enterprise of their day. 
 The churches confided in them as thoughtful, sagacious, and 
 liberal. They were spoken of as pillars, being steadfast, 
 immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. 
 They were known as lovers of truth and of peace. They 
 were sought for as counsellors in difficulty. They were 
 friends of the poor, and zealous in giving the gospel to the 
 destitute. Observe the names inserted in the charter which 
 was signed by His Excellency Governor Levi Lincoln, 
 February 22, 1826 : of clergymen, Joseph Grafton, Lucius 
 Bolles, Daniel Sharp, Jonathan Going, Bela Jacobs, 
 Ebenezer Nelson, Francis Wayland, Jr., Henry Jack- 
 son ; and of laymen, Ensign Lincoln, Jonathan Bachel- 
 ler, Nathaniel R. Cobb. 
 
 Joseph Grafton (d. December 16, 1836) was, for more 
 than forty-eight years, pastor of the church in whose house 
 we meet to-day. Though called to the ministry without the 
 advantages of liberal culture, he was distinguished among his 
 brethren for good sense, knowledge of men, practical sagacity, 
 and an amiable spirit, as well as for soundness of faith and 
 unflagging zeal in the service of Christ. On the east side of 
 his monument are engraved the words, "A memorial of 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 7 
 
 unsurpassed ministerial fidelity, hallowed affections, social 
 virtues, and holy perseverance" ; and these words are believed 
 to express, without exaggeration, the judgment of those who 
 knew him best. He was a man of medium stature, having 
 "a piercing black eye," and "a quick, nervous manner," 
 though "he was always perfectly self-possessed." 
 
 Lucius Bolles, D. D. (d. January 5, 1844), a graduate 
 of Brown University, and a student of theology three years 
 with Dr. Samuel Stillman, of Boston, was pastor of the First 
 Baptist Church in Salem, Massachusetts, during the first 
 twenty years of its existence, and then Corresponding Secre- 
 tary of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions fourteen years. 
 He was a devout Christian, a wise counsellor, an affectionate 
 pastor, and a pathetic preacher ; he was tenacious of principle, 
 but gentle and courteous in manner ; " he labored in season 
 and out of season, not stopping to quarrel with any one " ; 
 from the first he manifested a profound and lively interest in 
 the cause of missions ; and he was also a generous and stead- 
 fast friend of ministerial education. "He was rich in good 
 works," "a lover of good men," and a " patron of everything 
 that was worth patronizing in the denomination." 
 
 Daniel Shakp, D. D. (d. June 25, 1853), was pastor of 
 the Charles Street Baptist Church, Boston, more than forty 
 years ; and, though almost twenty-two years have passed 
 since his death, many of you can recall without effort his 
 erect form and noble countenance, his personal dignity and 
 natural eloquence, and will say, with Dr. Stow, "his preach- 
 ing was lucid, serious, instructive, earnest"; "he was an 
 enthusiastic believer in the ethics of Christianity," and 
 "attached special importance to the culture of the moral 
 virtues as the fruits of a genuine faith." " He was a friend of 
 the rising ministry, and bestowed upon it generous atten- 
 tions." He was a lover of missions, and gave time and 
 thought freely to this cause. He was a man of peace and of 
 truth, " inflexibly firm in all matters of principle," but " pliable 
 and conciliatory in all matters of opinion." 
 
3 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Jonathan Going, D. D. (d. November 9, 1844), was a 
 graduate of Brown University, and a student of theology for 
 a time with President Asa Messer. He was pastor of the 
 Baptist Church in Cavendish, Vermont, five years, pastor of 
 the First Baptist Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, six- 
 teen years, Corresponding Secretary of the Home Mission 
 Society five years, and President of Granville College six 
 years. The Eev. Dr. Welch testifies that he "was a large, 
 well-built man, with an expression of countenance denoting 
 more than common shrewdness " ; that " his judgment was 
 sound, his perceptions clear, and his insight into the remoter 
 relations and bearings of things somewhat remarkable " ; that 
 " his uncommon discernment of men's characters and motives 
 was an effectual protection against the arts of the designing " ; 
 that " he was amiable and kind-hearted, and always disposed 
 to confer favors whenever it was in his power " ; that " he had 
 great simplicity and plainness of manuers," and was a "highly 
 instructive and useful " preacher ; that he possessed " high 
 executive talent, and appeared to great advantage in public 
 bodies, whether as a presiding officer or as an ordinary mem- 
 ber." To these words I need only add that he was a decided 
 friend of this seminary, and indeed of all the general interests 
 of our denomination. 
 
 Bela Jacobs (d. May 22, 1836) entered the ministry 
 without the advantages of liberal culture, and after little more 
 than a year of theological study with the Rev. Mr. Williams, 
 of Wrentham. Yet he labored with success in Somerset, 
 Massachusetts, more than two years ; in Pawtuxet, Rhode 
 Island, seven years ; in Cambridge, with the First Baptist 
 Church, fifteen years ; and in East Cambridge a few months. 
 Between his last two pastorates he was Secretary of the 
 Massachusetts Baptist Education Society two years. He is 
 described by those who knew him as a man of sound judg- 
 ment and cheerful piety. He was an acceptable preacher, a 
 diligent pastor, a faithful friend. That he served the First 
 Baptist Church of Cambridge fifteen years is good and suffi- 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 9 
 
 cient evidence of his worth, and that this church has, from 
 the first, done so much for the Institution which he assisted 
 in planting, is probably due, in some measure, to the stead- 
 fast confidence which he felt in it. 
 
 Ebenezer Nelson (d. April 6, 1852), one of the original 
 trustees, was also, to the day of his death, one of the most 
 earnest supporters of this Institution. He ministered accept- 
 ably and usefully to the First Baptist Church in Lynn seven 
 years, to the Baptist Church in West Cambridge six years, 
 and to the Central Baptist Church in Middleborough fourteen 
 years. At two different times he acted as agent for the 
 Institution in procuring funds, and once, for two years and a 
 half, he was Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts 
 Baptist- Education Society. It is said of him that, " as a 
 preacher, he was original and energetic in thought and man- 
 ner, clear and striking in illustration, pungent and stirring 
 in appeal." He was distinguished for his interest in all 
 Christian enterprises, and especially in the cause of minis- 
 terial education. I well recollect his presence at our anni- 
 versaries, — his gray head, his marked features, his slender 
 form, and his somewhat nervous manner, though twenty-four 
 years have passed since he was with us. 
 
 Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D. (d. September 30, 1865), 
 is, beyond doubt, the greatest name in the charter of this Insti- 
 tution. After completing his course of study in Union College, 
 and a medical course in New York, he spent one year in Ando- 
 ver Theological Seminary, four years as tutor in Union Col- 
 lege, four years as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Boston, 
 twenty-nine years as President of Brown University, and one 
 year as pastor of the First Baptist Church, Providence. His 
 character and influence were so remarkable, and are so well 
 remembered, that I need attempt no description of them. 
 His massive form, his penetrating intellect, his resolute pur- 
 pose, and his skill in teaching, were only surpassed by his 
 simple faith in Christ, his profound reverence for the„Word 
 of God, and his fervent zeal for the good of men. 
 
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10 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Henry Jackson, D. D. (d. March 2, 1863), having com- 
 pleted the regular course of study in Brown University, and 
 also that of Andover Theological Seminary, was pastor of 
 the First Baptist Church, Charlestown, Massachusetts, four- 
 teen years ; of the North Baptist Church, Hartford, Connecti- 
 cut, two years ; of the First Baptist Church, New Bedford, 
 Massachusetts, seven years, and of the Central Baptist 
 Church, Newport, Rhode Island, eighteen years. Many of 
 you recall, without effort, his noble form, benignant counte- 
 nance, affable manner, and delightful enthusiasm. He was a 
 true pastor, knowing every one of his flock, and, like an 
 oriental shepherd, calling each one of that flock by its own 
 name. Yet his interest was not confined to those who sat 
 under his ministry. He loved all men, all Christians, all 
 Baptists. He rejoiced in the growth and usefulness of the 
 denomination with which he was connected, without being 
 uncharitable to others. I shall never forget the subscription 
 to a letter which I once received from him ; namely, "As 
 always I am, — Henry Jackson." Certainly, I said to myself, 
 you are Henry Jackson ; and, as I recollected my last inter- 
 view with him, how he grasped my hand in a neighboring 
 city, and talked about Baptist history, and filled my heart 
 with his own enthusiasm, I said also, that is enough; to be 
 Henry Jackson is to be the friend of every youthful Christian. 
 It may be added, that Dr. Jackson was a trustee of this 
 Institution from the day it was founded until the day of his 
 death, — thirty-eight years, — and that he gave to it, by will, 
 his valuable library. 
 
 Ensign Lincoln (d. December 2, 1832) may be con- 
 sidered the connecting link between the ministers and the 
 laymen named in our charter ; for during a period of not less 
 than twenty-five years, he rendered service to feeble churches 
 as a lay preacher, without relinquishing his business. His 
 character is spoken of in terms of unqualified praise. One 
 who knew him well commends " his strict integrity ; his uni- 
 form piety ; his warm benevolence ; his public spirit ; his 
 
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 unspotted life ; his seriousness, so distant from austerity ; his 
 cheerfulness, so removed from levity ; his good-will to all 
 men ; his delight in the saints ; his labors to build up the 
 kingdom of Christ, and the blessed results of these labors." 
 Another uses the following language : " Among those who 
 knew him, we hazard nothing in saying, that the sun of the 
 present century has not shone upon an individual who com- 
 bined so many of the excellences which are requisite to com- 
 pleteness of character." And I am happy to remind you that 
 three sons of this Christian merchant and preacher have been 
 students of the seminary which he assisted in founding, — 
 Dr. T. O. Lincoln, who was graduated in 1834, and has 
 been in the ministry ever since ; Dr. John L. Lincoln, who 
 left at the close of his second year, in 1839, and has served 
 his generation thus far with distinction as professor of the 
 Latin Language in Brown University ; and Dr. Heman 
 Lincoln, of this Institution, who was graduated in 1845, and, 
 from that year to the present, has been in active service as 
 pastor, editor, or professor. 
 
 Jonathan Batcheller (d. April 26, 1864) was known to 
 many who hear me now as a diligent, clear-sighted, trust- 
 worthy man. He was more than this, — a Christian of settled 
 principles and definite aims, who spent little on himself, and 
 put much into the treasury of the Lord. He was a strong 
 pillar of the church to which he belonged, a warm friend of 
 missions, and a large contributor to the funds of this school. 
 His ample forehead, clear eye, and firm mouth were expressive 
 of character, intelligence, efficiency, and it is no more than 
 just to affirm that he was both an honor and a support to 
 every cause which he approved.* 
 
 * " Mr. Bachellek was born in 1785, November 20 ; and died 1864, April 26. He 
 went into business when he was twenty-two years old, with a capital of $200, in 
 which business he was actively engaged over fifty years. He acquired, as near as I 
 have been able to ascertain, about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), 
 one-third of which he gave away while living; one-third he lost in his business; the 
 remaining third he gave away at his decease ; maintaining through all a consistent 
 Christian character."— Mrs. J. Bacheller. Written April 27, 1875. 
 
12 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 The list of names in our charter closes with Nathaniel R. 
 Cobb (d. May 22, 1834), the name of a Christian merchant 
 who will not soon be forgotten. He is said to have possessed 
 unusual capacity for business , being a man of " acute pene- 
 tration, rapid decision, and unconquerable perseverance." 
 Yet, though prompt and energetic, he was neither fretful 
 nor harsh. He was distinguished, however, not by the 
 rapidity with which he accumulated property, but by the 
 method with which he disbursed it. Giving entered into 
 his plan of life. His alms were therefore a steady stream, 
 increasing as his means increased. Soon after entering into 
 business for himself, he drew up the following document : 
 "By the grace of God, I will never be worth more than 
 $50,000. By the grace of God, I will give one-fourth of the 
 net profits of my business to charitable and religious uses. 
 If I am ever worth $20,00.0, I will give one-half of my net 
 profits ; and, if I am ever worth $30,000, I will give three- 
 fourths ; and the whole, after $50,000. So help me God, or 
 give to a more faithful steward, and set me aside. — N. R. 
 Cobb." Within thirteen years, by the grace of God, he 
 was enabled, under the influence of these resolutions, to give 
 away more than $40,000. It is not for me to say that every 
 person ought to adopt the plan of giving laid down in this 
 document ; much less do I say that the ratio of what is given 
 to what is gained ought in every instance to be what is here 
 prescribed ; but I am fully convinced that giving liberally 
 and discriminatingly should be included in every Christian's 
 plan of life ; and to that extent, if no further, the example of 
 this early benefactor of Xewton should be held in everlasting 
 remembrance. 
 
 Though the name of Levi Far well (d. May 2, 1844) 
 does not appear in the charter of this Institution, he must be 
 numbered among its founders. Appointed treasurer by the 
 trustees, at the beginning, he was retained in that office till 
 his death, a period of eighteen years. In further proof of 
 the high estimate in which his services were held by the 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 13 
 
 guardians of the seminary, it may be mentioned that one of 
 the public buildings has been named by them, Farwell Hall. 
 It is certain that he freely gave thought, time, and money to 
 promote the usefulness of the school, and was the trusted 
 friend of the students, as well as of the officers. In this 
 labor of love he was nobly encouraged by his benevolent 
 wife, of whom it is hardly enough to say that in this, and in 
 every other good work, she was "a help meet for him." 
 Deacon Farwell was a dignified and courteous gentleman, 
 moving with grace in the best society. For many years he 
 was registrar of Harvard College. In 1833, when the Con- 
 stitution of Massachusetts was so amended that, for the first 
 time, "the support of ministers became wholly voluntary," 
 he was representative from the town of Cambridge, having 
 been elected with reference to his vote and influence in favor 
 of religious equality. His death occurred the year before 
 I was admitted to the Institution ; but the remembrance of 
 him was fresh in the minds of many with whom I became 
 acquainted, and I soon learned to think of him, and of his 
 companion in life, as worthy to be named with "the excel- 
 lent of the earth." 
 
 But there is another name which you are all waiting to 
 hear, — the name of Irah Chase, D.D. (d. Nov. 1, 1864), the 
 first professor in this seminary. Born in Stratton, Vermont, 
 he pursued his collegiate studies in Middlebury, of the same 
 State, and his theological course in Anclover, Massachusetts. 
 He then spent several months as a missionary in Western Vir- 
 ginia, from which service he was called to assist Dr. Staugh- 
 ton in a Baptist theological school, begun in Philadelphia, but 
 afterwards removed to Washington, D. C, and connected with 
 Columbian College . Having labored in this way seven years , he 
 became satisfied at last that his cherished views of theological 
 education could not be carried out in Washington; and there- 
 fore, resigning his professorship, he turned his face north- 
 ward. In New York he met Nathaniel E. Cobb, and, 
 through his influence, was led to visit Boston, and engage 
 
14 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 with others in founding this school. And its character was 
 determined in a great measure by him. The course of study 
 and instruction was marked out by his mind and described 
 by his pen. A theological school might indeed have been 
 founded in the vicinity of Boston, by the Baptists of Massa- 
 chusetts, if he had not been at hand to lead in the enterprise, 
 but it would surely have been different in some respects from 
 the one* that was founded. And it has been justly said that 
 "he was the central mover in the enterprise, and around him 
 the friendly elements crystallized and coalesced. The plan 
 of the Institution was essentially his ; and scarcely a prin- 
 cipal feature in its organization has since been changed." 
 From my acquaintance with Dr. Chase, in his riper years, 
 and from the testimony of those who were familiar with his 
 earlier life, I infer, that whatever he set before him as an end 
 to be sought, was chosen with careful deliberation, and, when 
 chosen, was pursued with unwavering purpose. In the best 
 sense of the expression, he was tenax propositi; and if he did 
 not in every instance surmount the obstacles in his way and 
 reach the end proposed, the failure cannot be ascribed to any 
 weakness in his character. He was a patient student, a saga- 
 cious interpreter, an exact teacher, an instructive writer, an 
 honest counsellor, a conscientious, hopeful Christian, and it 
 is not easy to overestimate the service which he rendered to 
 biblical learning and a pure Christianity. 
 
 By th enaction of these men, and of such as these, was New- 
 ton Theological Institution founded ; and, on the day when it 
 was opened, many of them met in the house of " Father 
 Grafton," to invoke upon it the blessing of Almighty God. 
 Now, at the end of fifty years, not one of them is with us to 
 look upon the tree which God planted by their hands, and 
 tell us whether its growth and fruit have fulfilled their expec- 
 tation ; not one of them is here to testify of their faith and 
 hope and prayer, as they committed this sapling to the care 
 of Providence, to resist the storms and survive the droughts 
 and gather strength and beauty from the sunshine and the 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 15 
 
 rain of half a century, and then, with a larger and a deeper 
 life, to pass on into the future. 
 
 This Institution was founded by the men of whom I have 
 spoken, because they believed in an educated ministry. 
 That is to say, they were convinced that both collegiate 
 and theological studies are useful as a preparation for the 
 sacred office. The only confirmation which this remark 
 needs, is furnished by the course of instruction prescribed 
 for the seminary, — a course which was from the first adapted 
 to graduates from college, though other pious men, who 
 could pursue the same course with graduates, were made 
 welcome to the school. A guarded and just expression of 
 their opinion is probably contained in the Eleventh Annual 
 Report of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts 
 Baptist Education Society, September, 1825. In that re- 
 port, which contains a narrative of the first steps toward 
 the founding of this Institution, I find these words: "It is 
 matter of rejoicing that the popular sentiment in our churches 
 now very generally harmonizes with the objects of this soci- 
 ety. Much of that indifference and opposition which was 
 felt in some minds to the cause of education, there is reason 
 to believe, has subsided. The churches hold, as firmly as 
 ever, the sentiment, that no irreligious man, however learned, 
 should be encouraged as a preacher of the gospel ; that those 
 whom God designs for the sacred office of the ministry, he 
 designates by a special internal call ; these sentiments, it is 
 ardently hoped, will ever be held by the churches dearer 
 than life. But, in general, they now esteem learning a very 
 important qualification for him whose business it is rightly to 
 divide the word of truth, and to feed the churches with 
 knowledge and understanding." These discriminating sen- 
 tences represent correctly the position which intelligent Bap- 
 tists have always held in regard to ministerial education. 
 They have been more than friendly to sound learning, but 
 they have known how to distinguish between education as a 
 substitute for grace and education as a servant of grace. 
 
16 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Thus, at the first general meeting of the Particular Baptists 
 of England, in 1689, measures were taken to raise a fund for 
 the purpose, among other things, of " assisting members that 
 are disposed for study, have an inviting gift, and are sound 
 in fundamentals, in attaining to the knowledge and under- 
 standing of the languages, — Latin, Greek and Hebrew." 
 Three years later a similar meeting reports that several "pious 
 and hopeful young men have been assisted in their acquire- 
 ment of learning," by the fund, and the churches are " pressed 
 to make further progress therein ; and the rather, because 
 several of our fellow-christians, who after us fall into this 
 method, have far exceeded us." From that time to the 
 present, English Baptists have testified with more or less 
 unanimity and self-sacrifice their desire for an educated min- 
 istry. And some of them, as Thomas Hollis, have rendered 
 noble service to the same cause on this side the Atlantic. 
 
 Early in its history, the Philadelphia Baptist Association 
 began to manifest an interest in the education of "young per- 
 sons hopeful for the ministry and inclinable to learning." To 
 the influence of this Association were due in a great measure 
 the founding of Rhode Island College, in 1764, and the origin 
 of the Warren Association, in 1767. A few years later the 
 pecuniary wants of the college in Providence were repre- 
 sented to the Warren Association, and its members, " from an 
 idea of the great importance of good education," recom- 
 mended " a subscription throughout all the Baptist societies 
 on this continent," to increase the funds of the College. 
 Finally, in 1791, this body adopted unanimously " a plan for 
 establishing a fund for the purpose of assisting with a col- 
 legiate education, such young men of the Baptist denomina- 
 tion as may appear to be suitably qualified for the ministry." 
 In 1814, the Massachusetts Baptist Education Society was 
 formed, a society which, with a slight change in name, has 
 continued its beneficent ministry down to the present hour. 
 
 From this imperfect sketch, it appears that the importance 
 which the founders of Newton Theological Institution attached 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. J 7 
 
 to the education of pious men for the ministry, was in har- 
 mony with the history and traditions of our people. Yet 
 there were some in the churches who took a different view of 
 the case, and were inclined to say : "Knowledge puffeth up, 
 even when it is joined with love, and learning is vain, even 
 when it is seasoned with grace. Ministers should labor with 
 their hands, as did Paul, and give the gospel to men without 
 price. Were they to do this, the Lord would see to it that 
 they did not lack words when speaking for him." Some 
 there were in the churches, fifty years ago, who spoke after 
 this manner, but how numerous they were, I am unable to 
 conjecture. Indeed, there have been those among us, in 
 every period of our history, who have been indifferent or 
 unfriendly to ministerial education. Isaac Backus refers to 
 the influence of such Baptists in his day, and the English 
 Baptist convention was compelled to say, in 1693, only five 
 years after it had started a fund for the assistance of young 
 men in study, that "against this [fund] a mighty wind hath 
 been raised, both in this city [London] and all the churches 
 of our way in the nation, as if from hence would follow a neg- 
 lect of gifts already in the churches." Had the connection of 
 the English universities with the Established Church, and 
 the notoriously unspiritual lives of many clergymen of that 
 church, led a large part of the unlettered Baptists to look upon 
 learning with distrust or aversion, it would not have been 
 surprising. Nor would it have been at all strange if similar 
 causes had produced similar effects upon the Baptists of 
 America. To what extent this was really the case cannot 
 easily be learned. But I find no evidence that the leading 
 spirits of our denomination have ever despised literary or 
 theological culture. On the contrary, they have steadfastly 
 affirmed the importance of sound learning, and especially of 
 biblical learning, to ministers of Christ. And in this respect, 
 the founders of Newton are entitled to rank with the wise 
 and good of earlier days. 
 
 Again, the founders of this Institution saw in a. theological, 
 
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18 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 seminary the best means of securing a well-instructed minis- 
 try. Other means had been tried with partial success, but 
 had proved in the end unsatisfactory. In many instances, 
 young men had pursued their studies in divinity with pastors, 
 and had derived great benefit from the connection. But the 
 pastors who were best fitted by knowledge and character to 
 instruct men in theology, were often serviug large churches 
 that needed all their strength. Moreover, the domain of 
 Christian truth was found to be so wide and diversified, that 
 no one man, though endowed with the greatest intellect, edu- 
 cated in the best manner, and burdened with the least pas- 
 toral care, could be expected to prove a competent guide 
 through every part of that domain. No one man could be 
 familiar with every high mountain and shaded valley and 
 tangled forest, with every frowning crag and fearful gorge 
 and sunny dell, with every hidden spring and laughing stream 
 and rushing waterfall, with every vein of gold and silver and 
 iron, every oak and cedar and palm, every shrub and flower 
 and root, with all the sky above, the air around, and the 
 fruitful soil beneath. Yet, it was felt, and justly felt, that if 
 candidates for the ministry needed any guidance in exploring 
 the realm of Christian truth, they were entitled to the very 
 best attainable. If men who were soon to stand as watchmen 
 upon the walls of Zion, or to lead the sacred host on the high 
 places of the field, could be benefited by any human instruc- 
 tion, they should have the most accurate and trustworthy 
 possible. This at least was the opinion of the Rev. Henry 
 Jackson and the Rev. James D. Kxowles, who, by direction 
 of the trustees, addressed the churches of our faith in behalf 
 of this Institution, at the close of its first year, in the follow- 
 ing language : " The committee deem it unnecessary to reca- 
 pitulate and justify the motives which led to the establish- 
 ment of this seminary ; the principle, that the ministers of 
 the gospel ought to receive as thorough an education as pos- 
 sible, is now settled; and the person who questions it, has 
 fallen behind the age." And the founders of this seminary 
 
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 were persuaded that such an education, "as thorough as pos- 
 sible," could be gained more rapidly and surely in a school of 
 sacred learning, than in any other place. From a circular 
 published in June, 1826, by Levi Farwell and Nathaniel 
 K. Cobb, we learn that " the origin of the Newton Theological 
 Institution may be dated from a numerous meeting of minis- 
 ters and private brethren, from various parts of New Eng- 
 land, held in May, 1825, at the vestry of the First Baptist 
 Church in this city [Boston] . It was then resolved that the 
 necessities of our denomination imperiously require the estab- 
 lishment of a theological institution in the vicinity of Boston, 
 and the gentlemen present pledged themselves to use every 
 suitable exertion towards the promotion of such an object. 
 Brethren from all parts of the State addressed the meeting, 
 and each one seemed most deeply impressed with the impor- 
 tance of such an institution to the interests of piety among 
 our churches." With this account may be joined the state- 
 ment of -the executive committee of the Massachusetts Bap- 
 tist Education Society in its Eleventh Annual Keport: "In 
 compliance with the recommendation of a large meeting of 
 ministers and other brethren convened in Boston, May 25, 
 1825, your committee have taken into consideration the 
 establishment of a theological seminary in the vicinity of 
 Boston. This measure has for many years been in contem- 
 plation. Your committee are now convinced that the time 
 has arrived to build this part of the Lord's house. Although 
 attempts have been made to establish theological departments 
 in connection with two of our colleges [at Washington, D. C, 
 and at Water v ill e, Maine], and some success has attended 
 them, yet your committee are of opinion that a theological 
 institution established by itself alone, where the combined 
 powers of two or three or more men of experience, and men 
 of God, can be employed in instructing and forming the 
 manners and habits and character of pious young men for 
 the work of the ministry, is greatly to be preferred." 
 
 In order to set forth more distinctly the idea which these 
 
20 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 men hoped to realize in the school which they were founding, 
 I must add an extract from a statement of the executive 
 committee of the Massachusetts Baptist Education Society, 
 dated Boston, November 9, 1825 : "The Institution is to be 
 open for the admission of those persons only who give evi- 
 dence of their possessing genuine piety, with suitable gifts and 
 attainments, and of their being influenced by proper motives 
 in wishing to pursue theological studies, and who, moreover, 
 present certificates from the churches of which they are mem- 
 bers, approving of their devoting themselves to the work of 
 the ministry. 
 
 "The regular course is to occupy three years, and embrace 
 the Hebrew language and antiquities, with the Chaldee and 
 Greek of the Scriptures, Ecclesiastical History, Biblical The- 
 ology, Pastoral Duties, and, in short, the various studies and 
 exercises appropriate to a theological institution designed to 
 assist those who would understand the Bible clearly, and, as 
 faithful ministers of Christ, inculcate its divine lessons the 
 most usefully. 
 
 " To the department of Ecclesiastical History, will be re- 
 ferred instruction on the evidences of the Christian religion ; 
 on the formation, preservation, transmission, and canonical 
 authority of the sacred volume ; on the history, character, 
 influence, and uses of the ancient versions and manuscripts of 
 the Old Testament and of the New ; on modern translations, 
 especially on the history of our common English version ; on 
 the principal editions of the original Scriptures ; on the an- 
 cient and the subsequent history of the Hebrews, and, as far 
 as may be requisite, of the nations with whose history that of 
 the Hebrews is connected; on the history of Christianity, 
 and the various opinions and practices which, under its name, 
 have been supported, with the causes and the consequences ; 
 on the attempts at reformation ; and on the present state as 
 well as the origin of the different denominations of professed 
 Christians, and of unbelievers, and the unevangelized through- 
 out the world- 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 21 
 
 w To the sphere of Biblical Theology it will belong to aid the 
 students in acquiring a knowledge of the sacred Scriptures 
 in the original languages, as well as in the English ; to guide 
 them to correct principles of interpretation, and habituate 
 them to employ, in seeking to understand the various parts 
 of the Bible, all those helps which may be derived from the 
 different branches of biblical literature ; to analyze, and lead 
 the students to analyze, in the original, the most important 
 portions of the Old Testament, and the whole, if possible, of 
 the New, exhibiting the scope of the respective parts, and 
 whatever of doctrinal or of practical import they may con- 
 tain, and showing hoiv they are applicable at the present day, 
 and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for in- 
 struction in righteousness ; and having thus surveyed the rich 
 field of Scripture, and viewed the products as scattered pro- 
 fusely on every side by the bounteous hand of God, the pro- 
 fessor is, for the sake of convenient reference, to classify and 
 arrange the particulars, and, for this purpose, to bring the 
 students to the examination of a series of theological subjects, 
 in such a manner as most to awaken the efforts of the genuine 
 disciple of Christ, and lead him to search the Scriptures. 
 
 "Under the head of Pastoral Duties, it will be required to 
 give instruction in the nature, objects, difficulties, responsi- 
 bilities, and supports of the pastoral office ; on the great ivork 
 of preaching the gospel ; on the various ways and occasions 
 of promoting the welfare of a church, and commending the 
 gospel to the consciences of men by private labors as well as 
 by public preaching, exhortation, and prayer ; on the dangers 
 of the preacher, and the appropriate guards ; on his visits to 
 persons in health and in sickness, and in other affliction ; and 
 on administering consolation or reproof or instruction or 
 entreaty, as different individuals may need, and as becomes 
 one who is to watch for souls as they that must give account." 
 
 .This description, which bears internal evidence of having 
 emanated from the mind and heart of Dr. Chase, establishes 
 three points ; namely, first, that students for the ministry 
 
22 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 were believed, by the founders of this Institution, to need a 
 course of instruction more thorough and extended than could 
 be given by any pastor, for no one can read this prospectus 
 of study without recognizing the importance of nearly every 
 part of it, and, at the same time, the vast amount of investi- 
 gation presupposed by it ; second, that the course of study 
 marked out by. this prospectus was preeminently biblical, 
 comprising the history, the criticism, the interpretation, the 
 analysis, the application, and the influence of the sacred Scrip- 
 tures, together with suitable training for the work of preach- 
 ing and pastoral duty, but assigning a very subordinate place 
 to systematic theology, and avoiding the expression altogether ; 
 and third, that had the founders of this seminary been willing, 
 as we know they were not, to see their younger brethren, 
 who were looking forward to the ministry, dependent for 
 their theological education upon schools supported and con- 
 trolled by other churches, yet none of those schools furnished 
 a course of instruction which was thought to be in all respects 
 adapted to the wants of our ministry. Nor was there in the 
 whole country a Baptist theological seminary of the grade 
 contemplated by the founders of Newton. Hence they 
 looked upon the planting of this Institution as a duty which 
 they owed to Christ and his truth, and believed that the time 
 to build this part of the Lord's house had fully come. Look- 
 ing back over the history of fifty years, it is difficult for us to 
 think they were mistaken. 
 
 The second question proposed in the opening of this dis- 
 course ; viz., — 
 
 How has the Newton Theological Institution been 
 
 Sustained ? 
 may be answered by referring you to the care of its guardians, 
 the liberality of its friends, and the work of its professors. 
 
 No one can study, as I have done, the Eecords of the 
 Trustees, and observe the number of meetings which they 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 23 
 
 have held, the variety of subjects which they have considered, 
 the special reports which they have received, the difficulties, 
 perplexities, discouragements which they have encountered, 
 without being convinced that some of them have rendered a 
 great amount of service to their beloved school. To devise 
 ways and means for the financial support of a growing semi- 
 nary is no light task ; for, as soon as one want is met, another 
 appears. Yet every good school is a growing school ; it has 
 a " springing and germinant " life ; it enjoys a kind of per- 
 petual youth ; and should it cease to grow, it would straight- 
 way begin to die. Nor is it an easy thing to make choice of 
 suitable men for the work of instruction, especially when it is 
 important to give every teacher a high degree of separate 
 responsibility, and, at the same time, to preserve unity of 
 aim and action in the whole force. Yet this separate responsi- 
 bility, and this unity of aim, are both indispensable to the best 
 theological training, and on this account are to be sought 
 faithfully, even though they be never found in perfection on 
 the shores of time. It may therefore be seen at a glance that 
 the duty of the trustees must have been oftentimes grave and 
 perplexing. To make every dollar contributed go as far as 
 possible in support of the school, and then to perceive that 
 half its wants were unmet, was the service to which they were 
 called, and the service, I may truly add, to which they 
 addressed themselves with Christian fidelity and patience. 
 With few, if any, exceptions, the trustees of this Institution 
 have been its wise and stanch friends, ready to give any 
 reasonable amount of care and thought to its improvement. 
 
 To illustrate this statement, I will trace very briefly their 
 action during two critical periods ; but my sketch will be of 
 little value to any who are themselves strangers to the anxiety 
 and care inseparable from this kind of service. 
 
 The charter of Newton Theological Institution was accepted 
 by the Trustees March 13, 1826, and the Eev. Irah Chase 
 duly elected Professor of Biblical Theology. At the same 
 meeting, a Committee on Finance, composed of five mem- 
 
24 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 bers, was appointed. But at the next meeting, held May 30, 
 1826, a committee of two was substituted for the larger one ; 
 and in June, 1826, Levi Farwell and Nathaniel R. Cobb, 
 this committee, issued a circular, explaining the origin of the 
 Institution, the aim of its founders, and the need of pecuniary 
 aid. In it they say that more than $3,000 are necessary to 
 meet existing demands on the treasury, and add, that " the 
 trustees do not contemplate, at present, a seminary which 
 shall need more than two instructors. They do not consider 
 a large theological institution desirable. But they believe that 
 two professors will be necessary as soon as their funds will 
 justify their appointment." Yet if the course of instruction 
 adopted by the trustees was to be carried out, a second profess- 
 or was indispensable, and, therefore, at the following meeting, 
 September 14, 1826, the Rev. Henry J. Ripley was elected 
 Professor of Biblical Literature and Pastoral Duties, the 
 Massachusetts Baptist Education Society being respectfully 
 solicited to aid in his support. The Rev. B. C. Grafton, of 
 Plymouth, was, at the same time, appointed agent to obtain 
 funds for the professorship of Biblical Theology, and Rev. 
 Henry Jackson and Rev. James D. Knowles were directed 
 to prepare an appeal to the churches for subscriptions in sup- 
 port of the school. This appeal was dated October 10, 1826, 
 and published in the "Baptist Magazine." 
 
 On the 13th of September, 1827, the balance due to the 
 treasurer for money advanced by him was $494.54, and a 
 petition was received by the trustees at the same time, asking 
 for the addition of an English and preparatory department, 
 which soon went into operation. At a meeting held April 16, 
 ]828, the secretary of the Board was instructed to send a 
 circular to benevolent individuals, asking them to assist the 
 Institution in its need. On the 11th of March, 1829, between 
 $5,000 and $6,000 were reported due to the treasurer, and 
 Professor Ripley was requested to act as ngent during his 
 next vacation. Rev. Daniel Sharp and Rev. Bela Jacobs 
 were also asked to serve the cause in the same way for a few 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 25 
 
 weeks, the professors supplying their pulpits meanwhile. In 
 April, a month later, the treasurer was authorized to borrow 
 $5,000, and, in September, the Massachusetts Baptist Educa- 
 tion Society was requested to assume the support of Professor 
 Ripley. At the meeting which was held April 21, 1830, 
 Rev. E. Nelson was appointed agent to provide for the 
 professors' salaries by procuring subscriptions for the annual 
 payment of $50 for five years ; and on the 9th of September, 
 1830, it was announced that sixteen shares, enough to sup- 
 port one professor, had been obtained. To accomplish this 
 result, Rev. Bela Jacobs had also given several weeks to the 
 matter. But the plan appears to have been inadequate to 
 meet the wants of the school, and therefore another, contem- 
 plating a longer period, was adopted. It was proposed to 
 raise a sinking fund of $20,000, to support two professors 
 twenty years. A commendatory notice of it was inserted in 
 the February number of the "Baptist Magazine," in which it 
 was hopefully said, "This method was chosen, we are told, 
 instead of a permanent endowment, because it was the only 
 plan which seemed practicable. We are by no means certain, 
 however, that the mother of invention has not, in this case, 
 marked for those who wish to honor the Lord with their sub- 
 stance, a very promising means of doing good." On the 13th 
 of April, 1832, the trustees were informed that the whole 
 sum of $20,000 had been subscribed. But they received from 
 Professor Ripley, at the same session, a request for the 
 appointment of a third professor, and, coming from such a 
 source, we may be certain that it was both well considered 
 and reasonable. At their next meeting, September 13, 1832, 
 the Rev. James D. Knowles was elected Professor of 
 Pastoral Duties, that Professor Ripley might give his whole 
 strength to the single but great department of Biblical 
 Literature. Thus the struggle between the growing wants 
 of the seminary and the inadequate resources of the Board 
 went on from year to year, and from lustrum to lustrum. 
 Plan followed plan ; expedient succeeded expedient ; the 
 
26 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 cloth was not enough for the garment. For a short time the 
 Institution was free from debt, but soon its property must be 
 mortgaged, or its work cease. There were years when 
 some of its friends despaired of saving it from extinction, — a 
 doom which had befallen many similar schools,— and, as is 
 often the case, the deepest night just preceded the fairest 
 dawn. It will not harm us to look for a moment at the diffi- 
 culties which were met in a second period worthy of notice. 
 
 On the 4th of April, 1848, Kev. T. F. Caldicott was 
 appointed financial agent to raise the sum of $30,000, but his 
 efforts to accomplish this task were unsuccessful. Somewhat 
 more than a year later (August 22, 1849), the treasurer was 
 authorized to sell all the Institution lands in Newton, except 
 the original Peck estate, for the purpose of removing a mort- 
 gage of $10,000 on the property, and soon after (October 3, 
 1849), he was authorized to sell ten shares of stock in the 
 Western Railroad, to meet the liabilities of the treasury. 
 On the 28th of August, 1850, Professor R. E. Pattison, 
 D. D., was appointed financial agent; and on the 26th of 
 February, 1851, the Rev. E. Nelson was called to the same 
 service, Dr. Pattison having been unable to obtain the pro- 
 posed $30,000. But the efforts of Mr. Nelson were also 
 unavailing. The sum proposed was too small to inspire con- 
 fidence. Those who loved the Institution were satisfied that 
 it would afford no permanent relief, and therefore, on the 14th 
 of April, 1851, the Rev. J. W. Parker, D. D., was invited to 
 raise $50,000. Dr. Parker was one of the few whose faith 
 never faltered ; but, in this instance, he labored with only 
 partial success. It was clearly seen that $50,000 was not 
 enough to place the senfinary out of danger. Hence the Rev. 
 Horace T. Love was chosen financial agent, February 23, 
 1852, and, on the 15th of March, it was voted to raise 
 $100,000. And at that very meeting — a circumstance worthy 
 of distinct notice — $35,000, out of the proposed $100,000, was 
 subscribed by the trustees present. This augured well for 
 the enterprise, and, as you all know, the effort made was not 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 27 
 
 in vain. From that hour the cloud which had hung over the 
 Institution began to break and disappear. 
 
 I will improve the figure : at that hour the sun rose in a 
 clear sky, but passed quickly behind a cloud. For it had 
 been supposed that the $100,000 just subscribed would be 
 all invested, and the income of it meet the wants of the Insti- 
 tution for a generation to come ; but so heavy was the debt 
 already pressing upon it, and so urgent was the need of 
 increased expenditure, that some part of the new fund was 
 borrowed for the present necessity. Then came disappoint- 
 ment and dissatisfaction, encroachment on the original estate 
 by sale of land at auction, and retrenchment in expenditure 
 by diminishing the corps of instructors. The money borrowed 
 from the fund was paid, but it soon appeared that the interest 
 of $100,000 would not support a first-class seminary. The 
 foe which, it was fondly thought, had been vanquished, was 
 still in the field, and was preparing to come upon them 
 again, "like an armed man." But they naturally dreaded the 
 encounter, and more than ten years were passed in feints and 
 skirmishes and guerilla warfare, before the trustees and 
 friends renewed the battle in earnest. At last, on the 3d of 
 December, 1867, it was voted that an "additional endowment 
 of $150,000 ought to be raised at an early day." Dr. Ander- 
 son was expected to solicit subscriptions ; but his health 
 failed, and he visited Europe. In the summer of 1869, 1 was 
 requested to try my hand at the same task; but my own 
 unskilfulness, together with my duties in the seminary, pre- 
 vented success, and, on the 27th of December, Eev. W. H. 
 Eaton, D.D., was appointed agent to raise money for the 
 additional endowment. By his quiet, patient, and well- 
 directed efforts, complemented, at the last, by the powerful 
 exertions of a few distinguished brethren, the sum of $200,000, 
 which had finally been agreed upon, was raised by subscrip- 
 tion, and in amounts varying from $1 to $18,000. This was 
 a great and wise contribution to the cause of sacred learning, 
 and those who shared in it were entitled to rejoice at the 
 
28 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL IXSTITUTION. 
 
 auspicious result. Among the brethren who did most to 
 insure the final success of this effort, may be named, besides 
 the president of the Board, the Hon. J. Warren Merrill, 
 a Christian gentleman of whom it would be difficult to speak 
 in terms of admiration too positive or high. His keenness of 
 perception and clearness of judgment are turned to the best 
 account in practical life by strength of purpose, eloquence of 
 speech, and promptness of action. Long may his presence 
 grace the councils of our Board ! * And with him, I cannot 
 deny myself the pleasure of naming Hezekiah S. Chase, who 
 has no superiors, and few equals, in sympathy, hopefulness, 
 liberality, and enterprise for the good of man. I need not 
 invoke upon him the blessing of perpetual youth, since he 
 appears to enjoy it already. 
 
 Under the direction of the trustees, the buildings of the 
 Institution have been repaired and improved from time to 
 time. Farwell Hall has been built, at a cost of about $10,000, 
 and repaired, at a cost of about $12,000, Colby Hall and 
 Sturtevant Hall have been added, at an expense of about 
 $40,000 each. 
 
 But while it is true that nearly all the guardians of this 
 Institution have been its wise and earnest friends, there have 
 always been a few on whose shoulders the burden has rested 
 with peculiar weight. And so it is with every similar body. 
 For there are men who seem to be leaders and burden-bearers 
 by divine vocation ; men whose vision is clear, whose purpose 
 is strong, whose benevolence is large, and whose action is 
 prompt. To these, others will look for impulse and direction, 
 and to these, far more than is sometimes thought, must be 
 ascribed the success of every great enterprise, and, indeed, 
 the whole progress of mankind. It has been the good fortune 
 of Newton Theological Institution to have had men of this 
 class in its Board of Trustees from the first. Of the dead, I 
 may speak freely ; but of the living, with some reserve. 
 
 To the class described may be justly reckoned the five 
 
 * See Note C. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 29 
 
 presidents of the Board; viz., Rev. Joseph Grafton, from 
 1826 to 1835; Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D., from 1835 to 
 1853; Rev. Alexis Caswell, D. D., from 1853 to 1854; 
 Rev. Baron Stow, D. D., from 1854 to 1869 ; and Gardner 
 Colby, Esq., from 1870 to the present time. 
 
 Of Father Grafton and Dr. Sharp I have already spoken. 
 They were worthy of the distinction conferred on them by the 
 trustees, and may be said to have honored the office as much 
 as the office honored them. 
 
 Dr. Caswell was president but one year, though he was 
 unanimously reelected to the office ; and has since, as he had 
 before, manifested a very intelligent and hearty interest in 
 the seminary. More than once, as you well recollect, has he 
 taken occasion to commend the school as one that honors the 
 Word of God, by giving it a leading place in its course of 
 instruction. The Nestor of Baptist scholars, his memory 
 embraces the entire history of this sacred school, and peoples 
 the silent years of the past with friends and voices and deeds 
 that were, but are not. Long may his benignant presence 
 grace our anniversaries, and the autumnal ripeness of his 
 wisdom temper our youthful zeal ! 
 
 Baron Stow, D.D. (d. Dec. 27, 1869), a graduate of 
 Columbian College, and then for a short time editor of the 
 "Columbian Star," was afterwards pastor of the Baptist 
 Church in Portsmouth, N. H., five years, of the Baldwin 
 Place Church in Boston fifteen years, and of the Rowe Street 
 Church, in the same city, nineteen years. He was a trustee 
 of this Institution thirty-four years, and president of the 
 Board the last fifteen years of his life. It has been said that 
 he was "eminent as a Christian, a philanthropist, and a 
 preacher " ; that " to every post of duty and labor he brought 
 a sound judgment, an earnest purpose, a prayerful and con- 
 ciliatory spirit" ; that he was highly valued for his .substantial 
 worth, and greatly loved for his uniform courtesy and kind- 
 ness"; that "he always avoided strife and bitterness," but 
 "was extremely sensitive, and could never enjoy, in a high 
 
30 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 degree, the society of minds cast in a different mould." My 
 own impression of Dr. Stow was this : that in him quick 
 perception, keen sensibility, and ready command of language 
 were united with a good understanding and a sanctified will. 
 To his work as a pastor he cheerfully added a large amount 
 of service to the cause of foreign missions and the cause of 
 ministerial education. 
 
 To Gardner Colby, Esq., now president of the Board, I 
 shall have occasion to refer in another connection, and I will 
 therefore only say that he has discharged the duties of his 
 office with admirable dignity and despatch. 
 
 But if the presidents of the Board have belonged to the 
 class of leaders and burden-bearers in sustaining the Institu- 
 tion, so likewise have the treasurers, the secretaries, and, in 
 general, the members of the executive committee. If time 
 permitted, I would gladly mention them all by name, and 
 give some account of their silent work. But I can speak of 
 no more than two or three. 
 
 Of the strictly financial ability of Hon. Levi Farwell, 
 the first treasurer, I am unable to form any clear judgment ; 
 whether he was too indulgent to the poor students and to the 
 hardly-pressed subscribers, I cannot say; but of his perfect 
 integrity, his paternal affection for the seminary, and his 
 cheerful devotion of time, thought, and care to its support, I 
 am well assured. " Many a time," says Dr. Stow, " he stood 
 under heavy burdens, sometimes bending, occasionally well- 
 nigh disheartened, yet giving money with a liberal hand, and 
 personal service to an extent little known and imperfectly 
 appreciated." He was treasurer eighteen years. 
 
 The Institution was not called to mourn the loss of its 
 second treasurer, Gardner Colby, for twenty-four years ; 
 and when he ceased from his labors in that sphere, it was but 
 to enter, after a brief respite, upon others in a more conspic- 
 uous station. It has been stated by high authority that the 
 finances of the school were managed by him with extraordi- 
 nary skill during almost a quarter of a century. Not a penny 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 31 
 
 was either lost or wasted. Vigilance, promptness, personal 
 supervision, were everywhere manifest. The lands, build- 
 ings, investments, students, and even the professors, seemed 
 to be under the treasurer's eye from September till June. 
 With inexhaustible vigor and hope he sustained the burden 
 which was laid upon him, and secretly rejoiced, I doubt not, 
 in the opportunity of expending a part of his superfluous 
 energy for so good a cause. To serve a good cause is indeed 
 the highest glory of man ; and to serve such a cause with 
 unconquerable purpose and inward assurance of success, has 
 been the rare privilege of our brother, now president of the 
 trustees. The treasury was strengthened by his administra- 
 tion, and we are indebted, under God, to him, with a few 
 others, for the preservation of our cherished school in the 
 darkest hour of its financial history. 
 
 Thomas Nickerson, Esq., has proved himself a worthy 
 successor of Gardner Colby, carefully and gratuitously 
 attending to the duties of his office, and guarding with con- 
 scientious strictness the fiscal integrity of the Institution. 
 Though declining from the first the responsibility of looking 
 after the buildings and grounds, and restricting himself more 
 closely to the care of the treasury, his services have been 
 sufficiently arduous, and have been gratefully appreciated by 
 the Board. 
 
 It is quite impossible for me to speak in particular of all 
 the trustees who have been in a marked degree loyal and 
 useful to the Institution ; but one other name must be men- 
 tioned here ; to wit, the name of Rev. Ebenezer Thresher, 
 of Dayton, Ohio. For, according to the records of the 
 Board and the traditions of the students, he was a wise and 
 tireless friend of Newton. Through many years, he was on 
 almost every committee which had work to do, and it is not 
 too much to affirm, that, for wisdom in council and energy in 
 action, he had then no superior. And when he removed to 
 the great West, he did not lose his interest in education, or 
 in this seminary, though, as was natural, he directed his 
 
32 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 attention, for the most part, to the Baptist college of his 
 adopted State. 
 
 Having referred to the care of the trustees in answer to the 
 question, "How has the Newton Theological Institution been 
 sustained?" I must also speak of the liberality of its friends 
 in the same connection. Of the founders of Newton, there 
 were three men who distinguished themselves by munificent 
 contributions for its support. You anticipate their names, — 
 Nathaniel K. Cobb, Levi Farwell, and Jonathan Bach- 
 eller. They are said to have given in the aggregate, dur- 
 ing life and at death, $57,150, or a little more than $19,000 
 each. Three others, Michael Shepard, Elijah Corey, 
 and Nicholas Brown, gave, in nearly equal sums, $19,961. 
 These gifts were made when the wealth of our denomination 
 was small, and the givers might well be called munificent 
 friends of learning. Yet I am not prepared to affirm that 
 our brethren of former days were more liberal in the use of 
 their money, for benevolent purposes, than are those of the 
 present time. For when I consider what has been given to 
 this Institution by Gardner Colby, J. Warren Merrill, 
 B. F. Sturtevant, Geo. S. Dexter, Sam'l C. Davis, Law- 
 rence Barnes, Thomas Nickerson, H. S. Chase, Geobge 
 Cummings, Isaac Davis, Lewis Colby, J. H. Walker, 
 E. O. Fuller, Geo. Lawton, Alva Woods, O. H. Green- 
 leaf, Geo. D. Edmands, Gardner E. Colby, Jas. Upton, 
 Thomas Griggs, J. W. Converse, the brothers Pevear, 
 Alfred Peabody, Geo. L. Johnson, Chas. S. Kendall, 
 Mrs. A. E. Waters, and many others, both ministers and 
 laymen, in sums quite as large in proportion to their ability, 
 as have been contributed by the persons whose names I have 
 read, it is impossible to doubt the grace of God to men of 
 our own day, or to hesitate in believing that they have rarely 
 been surpassed in the virtue of giving. In saying this, I 
 take into account the circumstance, that, while they have 
 remembered Newton, they have been no less liberal to other 
 objects. Brown and Colby and Worcester have been largely 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 33 
 
 assisted by some of them, while the cause of missions at 
 home and abroad has felt the quickening impulse of their 
 charity. Nor could it, in the nature of the case, be other- 
 wise. For, when the Lord opens the heart of any person, 
 whether rich or poor, so that he feels a genuine interest in 
 the welfare of his kind, and hopes to serve his generation 
 usefully, he will be sure to find many causes worthy of his 
 support, and may, perchance, discover at last that all good 
 enterprises are one in their ultimate tendency. 
 
 It would be interesting to know the number of contributors 
 to the funds of Newton, but I presume there are no means in 
 existence for ascertaining that number with any considerable 
 degree of accuracy. Yet I observe that for the $100,000 
 endowment, completed July 1, 1853, about four hundred 
 names, besides those of three churches and one benevolent 
 society, are reported ; while for the additional endowment of 
 $200,000, completed March 31, 1871, about three hundred 
 and thirty names, besides those of three churches, are re- 
 ported. Sixty-three persons contributed the money for the 
 erection of Colby Hall, the smallest sum given being $5, and 
 the largest $11,000. For Sturtevant Hall the Institution is 
 indebted, so far as special gifts are concerned, to the honored 
 gentleman whose name it bears.* 
 
 But this Institution has been sustained by the work of its 
 professors, as well as by the care of its trustees and the liber- 
 ality of its friends. Indeed, the faculty of such a school is 
 the centre of its life and power. Let the faculty be weak 
 or unfaithful, and the school will languish. No degree of 
 fidelity on the part of others will compensate for lack of 
 character or culture in the board of instruction. It has been 
 said, somewhat roughly, that the elements of a good school, 
 beginning with the least and ending with the most important, 
 are bricks and books and brains ; which is true, if the word 
 brains is used to signify not only intellect and knowledge,, 
 
 * See Note A. 
 
34 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL IXSTITUTION. 
 
 together with skill in imparting that knowledge, but also 
 Christian character, earnest purpose, and enthusiastic labor. 
 By all these, as I am disposed in this charitable hour to think, 
 have the professors of this Institution, from its origin to the 
 present time, been characterized. In genius, culture, taste, 
 and temperament they have differed greatly from one an- 
 other, but none of them have been found either mentally or 
 morally unworthy of the trust reposed in them. Permit me 
 to refer very briefly to those who are no longer members of 
 the faculty, and especially to those who have finished their 
 work on earth. 
 
 Of the first professor, Rev. Irah Chase, D.D., I have 
 already spoken. His patient research, his accurate knowl- 
 edge, his love of biblical study, his fatherly interest in the 
 students, and his admirable spirit in controversy, are admit- 
 ted by all; and besides, he had the special privilege of im- 
 pressing on the Institution his owu view of theological 
 education. 
 
 Of the second professor, Rev. Henry J. Ripley, D.D. 
 (d. May 21, 1875), I would gladly say far more than circum- 
 stances permit. But it is well, perhaps, that my words must 
 be few ; for even " words fitly spoken," though " like apples 
 of gold in pictures of silver," would add nothing to the im- 
 pression of his worth already made upon your minds. He 
 was a native of Boston, and a medal scholar of its Latin 
 school. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1816, 
 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1819. He was 
 ordained in his native city, but labored for several years as a 
 missionary pastor in the State of Georgia. And then, in 
 1826, at the beginning of the second year of this school, he 
 entered in this place upon the principal work of his life, and 
 for a period of thirty-four years held and filled a professor's 
 chair in the Newton Theological Institution. As a teacher 
 and writer, he was accurate in knowledge, perspicuous in 
 language, and earnest in spirit. He was loved and revered 
 by his pupils, trusted by his brethren in the ministry, and 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 35 
 
 respected by Christians of every name. He was firm without 
 harshness, gentle without weakness. In controversy he united 
 the utmost candor with a strict adhesion to truth. In my 
 intercourse with him during a period of thirty years, I never 
 discovered a trace of unfairness in his judgment, of self-will 
 in his temper, or of obliquity in his conduct; and of him, 
 more emphatically than of any other man whom I have known 
 so well, can I say, " Mark the perfect man and behold the 
 upright, for the end of that man is peace." This I wrote 
 before he was translated, and this I retain as the best expres- 
 sion of my feeling now. 
 
 Of the third professor, Rev. James D. Knowles, I can 
 only repeat what I have read or heard. His collegiate and 
 theological studies were pursued in Columbian College ; " for 
 nearly seven years he was pastor of the Second Baptist 
 Church in Boston; and for nearly six years, and until the 
 time of his death (May 9, 1838), professor of Sacred Rhe- 
 toric and Pastoral Duties in the Newton Theological Institu- 
 tion." On the monument which marks his resting-place are 
 these words : "As a scholar and an author, he consecrated 
 his rare powers to the service of God and of man ; as a min- 
 ister of the gospel, he preached, earnestly and faithfully, its 
 everlasting truths ; as a theological teacher, he commended 
 to his pupils the accomplishments of learning and the beauty 
 of holiness ; as a man, faith in Christ exalted his affections 
 and his aims, regulated his discharge of every duty, and an- 
 imated his desires for the purity and the rest of heaven." 
 Dr. Stow thus speaks of him : " Few knew him as well as 
 myself. Hundreds admired him for his superior talent, his 
 pure taste, his literary culture, and his refinement of manners, 
 but only those whom he admitted to his confidence under- 
 stood the warmth of his heart. With the appearance of cold 
 reserve and self-satisfaction, he was really one of the most 
 simple-hearted and childlike of men. ... I have never 
 known the man whom I loved more, or who proved himself, 
 on long acquaintance, worthy of greater respect." 
 
36 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Rev. Barnas Sears, D.D., LL.D., the fourth professor, 
 was a graduate of Brown University and of Xewton Theological 
 Institution. Of his ability, character, and influence, it would 
 be idle for me to speak. His reputation has long been national. 
 As president of this Institution, as secretary of the Massachu- 
 setts Board of Education, as president of Brown University, 
 and as secretary of the Peabody Fund, he has been a leader 
 in the cause of education forty years, and his power over the 
 minds of men is everywhere recognized. As a teacher of 
 Christian Theology, he brought all his varied attainments to 
 bear upon the student's mind with remarkable skill, and suc- 
 ceeded wonderfully in stimulating thought and research. He 
 made his pupils feel the greatness and richness of the treas- 
 ures to be sought in the domain of inspired truth. I shall 
 never forget, and, I may almost say, I shall never lose the 
 sense of delight with which I followed his course of theolog- 
 ical inquiry and suggestion ; and as I now look back upon 
 it, I think that the great charm of his teaching was due in 
 part to his enthusiasm, in part to his confidence in the ability 
 of his pupils to judge for themselves, and in part to his habit 
 of pointing out and commending to them the sources of 
 knowledge. They were made to feel that, without concealing 
 his own belief, he would give them, as nearly as possible, 
 "all sides of every question," and lead them to' answers 
 founded on reasons, rather than on authority. But whether I 
 have discovered the secret of his power or not, the alumni of 
 this Institution who enjoyed his instruction will unite with me 
 in saying that he was a great and inspiring teacher, and in 
 blessing God for his work. 
 
 And the same is true of Rev. Horatio B. Hackett, D.D., 
 the fifth professor selected by the trustees. A graduate of 
 Amherst College and of And over Theological Seminary, he 
 was then for a time professor of Greek in Brown University, 
 where he proved himself a thorough and accomplished teacher. 
 In 1839, he entered upon the professorship of Biblical Liter- 
 ature in this Institution, and for a period of thirty years, 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 37 
 
 save one, performed the duties of his office with rare ability. 
 To-day, as before he resigned his professorship, we gladly 
 do him honor as a true scholar, ever increasing his stores of 
 knowledge by study or by travel, and as an eloquent, enthu- 
 siastic and faithful teacher, kindling in the hearts of his pupils 
 a glowing desire to read the oracles of God in the very words 
 employed by David, or his greater Son. The reputation of 
 Dr. Hackett as a biblical scholar is equal, I suppose, to that 
 of any man in America, and that reputation has been fairly 
 and nobly won. It would, then, be an act of supererogation 
 should I attempt to show the value of his services to this In- 
 stitution ; for many of you have been his pupils, while all of 
 you are familiar with his name, and can readily imagine the 
 power of his influence. Yet I may be permitted to remark 
 that, for a considerable period, at least, his was the name 
 that attracted young men to this school, and his the ability 
 which retained them here. Not only by the accuracy of his 
 knowledge, but also by the singular beauty of his language, 
 did he charm and inspire the classes under his charge, and 
 wield a potent influence in favor of Christian culture. 
 
 The Eev. Robert E. Pattison, D.D. (d. November 21, 
 1874) , the sixth professor, was a man whom it was only neces- 
 sary to know in order to trust. He was a thoughtful student 
 of the Scriptures, a sound theologian, an effective preacher; 
 and there were also in his spirit and manner a certain inde- 
 scribable sincerity, friendliness and frankness which secured 
 the love and confidence of his pupils. They found in him, 
 not only a teacher, but a counsellor and a father, and I have 
 heard them speak with marked admiration of the episodes in 
 his lessons, when, giving free play to his rising emotions and 
 illustrating his thoughts by incidents drawn from his own 
 experience, he strove to kindle in their hearts a holy ardor for 
 the work of God. It was no easy thing to be the successor 
 ©f Dr. Sears and the associate of Dr. Hackett in the work 
 of instruction; but for a period of more than five years, and 
 until he was called to undertake a second time the presidency 
 
38 XEWTOX THEOLOGICAL IXSTITUTIOX. 
 
 of TTaterville College, he filled the chair of Christian The- 
 ology with credit to himself and advantage to the school. 
 During his lustrum of service, and in pursuance of his advice, 
 the trustees obtained a modification of the charter, by which 
 their number was doubled, and the duty of electing one-half 
 that number assigned to the Northern Baptist Education 
 Society. By this change it was hoped to bring the Institu- 
 tion nearer the hearts of the people, and secure for it in full 
 measure the confidence and support which it was supposed 
 to merit. 
 
 Of the seventh professor in the order of appointment, I 
 know both too much and too little to speak with any con- 
 fidence. 
 
 Of the eighth, the Eev. Albert N. Arnold, D.D., I 
 should be happy to say many things, had his connection with 
 the seminary been longer. As it is, I cannot deny myself 
 the pleasure of bearing witness to the singular and beautiful 
 union of culture and principle, of courtesy and firmness, of 
 wit and learning which was revealed in his conversation, 
 making his presence a well-spring of delight and his friend- 
 ship a Christian benediction. The hour when he resigned his 
 chair in Newton was to me an hour of deep sorrow. Yet I 
 now perceive that his resignation, occasioned by a fiscal 
 crisis, was meant for good, as it gave Professor Arnold ere 
 long the privilege of teaching in a department for which he 
 was preeminently fitted by his early studies and his residence 
 in Greece. 
 
 Rev. Arthur S. Train, D.D., the ninth professor (d. 
 January 2, 1872), was a graduate of Brown University, and 
 for some time tutor in the same. He then became pastor of 
 the First Baptist Church in Haverhill, Mass., an office which 
 he filled with marked ability and usefulness twenty-five years. 
 Next, he was professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Du- 
 ties for a week of years in this seminary, when he resigned 
 his chair and resumed his favorite calling in Framingham, 
 Mass. In this town, where he was born, and with the church 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 39 
 
 which his father, the Rev. Chakles Train, had served so 
 well before hirn, he spent the rest of his life. During his 
 connection with the Institution, he lived by my side, and hon- 
 ored me with his friendship ; and though to a stranger his 
 bearing may have seemed very self-reliant and almost care- 
 less of the opinion of others, yet upon close acquaintance I 
 found him to be gentle as well as manly, sympathetic as well 
 as resolute, tender-hearted as well as conscientious. Natu- 
 rally a superior scholar, he was also distinguished for good 
 sense and practical sagacity ; but owing, if I mistake not, to 
 his long and effective ministry in Haverhill, the functions of 
 a Christian pastor seem to have been more delightful to him 
 than those of a professor. 
 
 Of the tenth professor, Rev. G. D. B. Pepper, D. D., it 
 will be enough for me to say that his force and penetration 
 as a thinker are only equalled by his excellence as a man. 
 The rising ministry and the churches of Christ may justly 
 expect from him important service. It would be natural for 
 me to use far stronger language than this ; but I forbear, lest 
 my words should seem to be those of an admiring teacher 
 and friend, rather than those of an impartial historian. 
 
 The Eev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., was the eleventh 
 professor, and his term of service was seven years. So 
 recently has he left us, and so well is he known to you all, 
 that any attempt on my part to delineate his character or his 
 work would be, at least, superfluous. Tha*t he was an able 
 and energetic officer you all know, and I have the special 
 satisfaction of numbering him with my friends and with those 
 who will be sure to honor any position which they may be 
 called to take. 
 
 The four professors not yet* named are my honored asso- 
 ciates, Heman Lincoln, O. S. Stearns, E. P. Gould, and 
 S. L. Caldwell. May they serve the cause of truth in this 
 Institution long, as I am sure they will serve it well ! 
 
 That this succession of teachers has cooperated with the 
 trustees in sustaining and building up the seminary, no one 
 
40 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 will doubt. But has not their task been an easy one? A 
 task free from care, doubt, or fear? A task comparatively 
 small, and very attractive ? Perhaps so, I answer ; for I have 
 spent a large part of my life in teaching, and cannot, there- 
 fore, compare it with employments to which I am a stranger. 
 But if any brother imagines that it is a release from care or 
 doubt or fear, he is more ignorant of teaching in a theologi- 
 cal school than I am of farming or politics. Let me recall 
 the history of a single year. On the 16th of July, 1857, the 
 resignation of Professor Aenold was reluctantly accepted. 
 During the next year the board of instruction consisted of 
 Drs. Ripley, Hackett, and myself, all of us doing, as we 
 conceived, nearly double duty. On the 15th of July, 1858, 
 Dr. Hackett was voted leave of absence from the Institution 
 for one year, to perfect himself in the studies of his depart- 
 ment by residence in Greece. I do not readily give way to 
 fear, but the night after this was certainly a very long one, 
 and the next morning I turned to the mirror half expecting 
 to see my head white as snow. The work of the Biblical 
 Department was assigned to Dr. Ripley ; Sacred Rhetoric 
 was committed to Dr. R. W. Cushman, who spent about one 
 day a week in Newton ; and instruction in Pastoral Duties to 
 Dr. Baron Stow, who came out a dozen times or more in 
 the second term and gave the senior class the benefit of his 
 rich experience. Christian Theology and Church History 
 were left for me. The year was one of perpetual anxiety 
 and sufficient labor on my part, and before its close the health 
 of Dr. Ripley was seriously impaired. I call it the dark 
 year ; yet there was light amid the gloom, for such men as 
 Drs. Pepper and Robins, with others of kindred spirit, 
 were students in the seminary at that time. It may not be 
 improper to mention that for a period of eight years from the 
 date of Professor Arnold's resignation nothing was paid by 
 the trustees for the instruction which was regularty given by 
 one of the professors in Church History. The funds of the 
 Institution were insufficient. 
 
historical address. 41 
 
 What has Newton Theological Institution Accom- 
 plished? 
 
 To this question no one can give more than a partial 
 answer ; for the best influence of such a school is spiritual 
 and unseen. It goes into intelligence, culture, principle, 
 character, into clearness of thought, justness of expression, 
 breadth of view and consistency of action ; but in this proc- 
 ess it mingles with a thousand other spiritual forces, and 
 becomes indistinguishable by the eye of man. Yet nothing 
 pertaining to this world is altogether spiritual, and the peo- 
 ple are not far from right in judging an institution like this 
 by what it may be seen to accomplish. True, the Master of 
 us all has said, " Judge not according to the appearance, but 
 judge righteous judgment," and this language forbids us to 
 make hasty inferences from effect to cause, from conduct to 
 character; but He has also said, "By their fruits ye shall 
 know them," and this language forbids us to believe that a 
 good cause will produce an evil effect, or an evil cause a good 
 effect. 
 
 But an institution of learning must have time for its work. 
 Its beginnings are often feeble. The winds of heaven seem 
 too rough for it. The caprices of men threaten its existence. 
 It is at first a stranger, and therefore some withhold their 
 confidence. It speaks a language but half understood, and 
 therefore some are distrustful. It is only a candidate for 
 public favor ; and not until it has many sons who know its 
 character and appreciate its worth, and who are themselves 
 known by the people, can it be sure of life. Not till its 
 fruits are manifest will it be fully indorsed, and many years 
 may pass before this end is reached. But at the close of 
 half a century a school of sacred learning should be able to 
 point to a goodly band of alumni, and say : Lo, these are 
 the fruit of my toil, the proof of my faithfulness, and the 
 crown of my rejoicing. To the alumni of Newton I gladly 
 refer as evidence of what it has accomplished. And if this 
 
42 NEWTOy THEOLOGICAL iySTITUTIOy. 
 
 designation be freely applied to all who have been connected 
 with the Institution as students, the whole number will be 
 more than seven hundred. This certainly is a very consider- 
 able number, making an average attendance of perhaps thir- 
 ty -five a year for the whole time, and an average of fourteen 
 going out from the school every year. But the usefulness of 
 a seminary depends less upon the number than upon the 
 work of those who go out from it yearly. I will therefore 
 call your attention to the service which Newton students have 
 rendered to the churches and the people. 
 
 The course of instruction prescribed for students in this 
 school is intended to prepare them for the pastoral office, and 
 as nearly as I can ascertain three-fourths of them have served 
 the churches of Christ in our land. To these, therefore, I 
 give the first place in my account of the work which has 
 been done for mankind by the alumni of Newton. And of 
 these, very many have been simply intelligent pastors, able 
 to instruct the people by truth drawn from the Sacred Eecord, 
 and content to labor for the Master wherever the providence 
 of God directed their way. Many of them, though little 
 known to the world, have been earnest and wise builders of 
 the Lord's house. And it is to this class of ministers that 
 churches located in county villages, East and West, have 
 been indebted for much of their intelligence and stability, 
 while it is from these churches that many young men of ster- 
 ling worth find their way to the academy, the college, the 
 seminary, and the pulpit. By the advice of a country pastor, 
 who studied in this Institution, my own purpose to obtain a 
 liberal education before entering the ministry was fixed, and 
 words are wanting to express the gratitude which I have 
 sometimes felt to him, while studying the Scriptures in the 
 very words employed by the Saviour and his Apostles. That 
 scores of men better fitted for the ministry than myself have 
 been led to the same conclusion by similar advice, is certain. 
 The influence of a village pastor in a rural district, if he is 
 well-informed, sound in faith, pure in life, and earnest in 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 43 
 
 work, is something which an angel might covet. And many 
 such pastors have gone out from Newton to their work. 
 With little reputation beyond their own parishes, and with few 
 even there who fully appreciate their ability or service, they 
 are yet, in the truest sense, men of God, and their record is 
 on high. It would be unwise for me to mention the names 
 of any who may perhaps belong to this class, but I may cer- 
 tainly, without offence, express the conviction that they have 
 no occasion whatever to look upon their labor as being in 
 vain in the Lord. 
 
 Other pastors there have been who have served for the 
 most part country churches, but, nevertheless, have been 
 widely known and respected, their influence pervading, it 
 may be, a whole State. Premising that I cannot refer to 
 all of this class, and that those who are not mentioned 
 are no less deserving than those who are, I will venture 
 to name in this connection Elijah Hutchinson, D. D. 
 (d. April 5, 1872), who was so long pastor of the church in 
 Windsor, Vt. ; Cornelius A. Thomas, D. D., who has min- 
 istered to the church in Brandon forty years ; Daniel W. 
 Phillips, D. D., now at the head of the Freedman's School in 
 Nashville, Tenn., but formerly pastor in Medford, and after- 
 wards in South Keading, Mass. ; Charles M. Bowers, D. D., 
 who has made the town of Clinton a household word to the 
 Baptists of our Commonwealth ; William H. Eaton, D. D., 
 who has served Baptist churches in Salem, Mass., Nashua and 
 Keene, N. H., besides the work which he has done for the 
 cause of education; No yes W. Miner, D. D., pastor in 
 Massachusetts, then in Springfield, 111., for a period of many 
 years, and at present in Oshkosh, Wis. ; Daniel M. Welton, 
 who served the Baptist Church in Windsor, Nova Scotia, 
 fourteen years, and has recently been appointed professor in 
 the Theological Department of Acadia College. Of men like 
 these, some distinguished for wisdom in counsel, some for 
 practical energy, some for knowledge of the Scriptures, and 
 some for winning and persuasive address, a considerable 
 
44 XETTTOX THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 number might be named who completed their preparatory 
 studies for the ministry in this Institution. Without pos- 
 sessing the gift of eloquence in any remarkable degree, so as 
 to draw after them the multitude, hungry for excitement, 
 they haye known how to speak well and to the point, com- 
 mending truth to the minds and hearts of men, and their 
 influence upon the churches has been stimulating and salu- 
 tary. 
 
 Still others have been called to labor for the most part in 
 cities, and by their conspicuous position, as well as by their 
 acknowledged power, haye been known throughout the land. 
 Of these it may not, perliaps, be invidious to name TTilliam 
 Hague, D. D., distinguished alike for his eloquence of tongue 
 and of pen, for his power iu the pulpit and on the platform, 
 for his expositions of the divine \Yord and of current events, 
 and for facility in adapting himself to new fields and new 
 minds, without losing his interest in the old; Eollix H. 
 Xeale, D.D., who still dwells with his own people, and 
 renews his youth like the eagle : who is ready for a voyage to 
 Europe and a scramble among the Alps, or a trip to Califor- 
 nia and a ride on horseback through the snow to the Yosem- 
 ite Valley : who is willing to address the students of his 
 alma mater or the children of your Sabbath-school, and happy 
 to drink a cup of tea, as "the honorary member," with the 
 Baptist Social Union of Boston : who is in stature a Saul and 
 in love a John, — welcome everywhere, and yet pastor of the 
 First Baptist Church by preference, and for life ; Samuel B. 
 Swaem, D. D. (d. January 30, 1865) , a large, earnest, sincere, 
 friendly man, "great in mental power and great in heart," 
 who is said by one to have been " transparent as glass and 
 solid as marble," and, by another, to have possessed "gigan- 
 tic common-sense " : who was a variable but withal a scrip- 
 tural, a practical, and often a powerful preacher, " striking 
 for the roots of thought, and caring very little for the foliage," 
 and who seemed to me to be nobler in his Christian manhood 
 than in his greatest work ; Joseph TT. Pakkek, D. D., whom 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 45 
 
 I think of habitually as a mau "without fear and without 
 reproach," upright, hopeful, resolute, equal to an emergency, 
 but content with humble service, proud in his bearing as an 
 English lord, } r et kind as a father in his spirit, — a good 
 preacher, a wise pastor, and a genuine philanthropist, after 
 the model of Paul ; Jonah G. Warren, D. D., who has often 
 astonished me by his faith, cheered me by his hope, and 
 thrilled me by his speech : who has appeared to me a veri- 
 table man of God, a sort of prophet or seer, furnishing the 
 best illustration which I have ever known of a style of utter- 
 ance that is full of power to move the soul, and who has 
 used with fidelity the ten talents intrusted to him by the 
 Lord, whether acting as pastor, first in a growing village, 
 and then in a considerable city, or as secretary of a great 
 organization for giving the gospel to every creature ; and 
 William Lamson, D. D., whose transparent language reveals 
 as by a mirror the purity of his character and the beauty of 
 his thought ; whose message, drawn from the Word of God, 
 falls upon the ear in tones of natural eloquence, arresting 
 attention, inspiring confidence, and kindling emotion, and 
 whose influence as a Christian pastor and friend is so pre- 
 cious, that we seem quite unable to spare him from our ranks. 
 And what shall I say more ? for time would fail me to 
 speak of Zabdiel Bradford, L. G. Leonard, D.D., Jere- 
 miah S. Eaton, Jacob R. Scott, Lemuel Porter, D.D., 
 David Burbank, LL. D., George Knox, and many others 
 among the dead ; or of William H. Shailer, D. D. , William 
 Howe, Elias L. Magoon, D. D. , Thomas D. Anderson, D. D. , 
 Robert C. Mills, D.D., George W. Bosworth, D.D., 
 A. H. Granger, D.D., J. C. Stockbridge, D. D., N. M. 
 Williams, Franklin Wilson, D.D., J. W. M. Williams, 
 D. D., Edwin T. Winexer, D. D., Nathan Burton, D. D., 
 J. Wheaton Smith, D.D., George D. Boardman, D.D., 
 James B. Simmons, D.D., George Bullen, George B. Gow, 
 Alfred Owen, D.D., Henry A. Sawtelle, D.D., H. K. 
 Pervear, D. W. Faunce, John B. Brackett, D. D., Com- 
 
46 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 fort E. Barrows, Henry G. S afford, Henry M. King, 
 A. J. Gordon, Nelson J. Wheeler, Granville S. Abbott, 
 Henry F. Colby, Frank T. Hazlewood, and many more 
 among the living, who may be said to have always abounded 
 in the work of the Lord. It would be very pleasant to cull 
 them all by their names, in this family meeting, and to speak 
 of the service which each one has been able to render ; but I 
 dare not detain you so long. 
 
 But the work of the ministry includes the evangelization of 
 heathen as well as the public service of Christ where his 
 name is known, and theological training is quite as useful to 
 those who go far hence to the Gentiles as it is to those who 
 preach the gospel in their native land. Hence any account 
 of the alumni of Newton which should omit an emphatic 
 reference to foreign missionaries educated here, would be de- 
 fective and misleading. I do not indeed regard missionary 
 service in India or Burmah, in China or Japan, as a synonym 
 for martyrdom, nor do I infer that a pupil of mine is just on 
 the verge of complete sanctification, t because he devotes his 
 life to that service. But I am sure that the tie which binds 
 men to their fatherland is strong, and that almost every one 
 who contemplates the missionary work abroad, finds the sun- 
 dering of that tie painful. Then, if never before, thinking 
 of his native soil, he says,— 
 
 " I love thy rocks and rills, 
 Thy woods and templed hills," — 
 
 and feels that his relinquishment of America for India is a 
 personal sacrifice which cannot be made without a pang. It 
 is therefore, in my opinion, just to look upon foreign mis- 
 sionaries as men who have been moved by the Spirit of God 
 to undertake a work of greater self-denial than that accepted 
 by pastors at home. And the same may be said, though 
 with less emphasis perhaps, of missionaries laboring in the 
 Southern or Western States. In so far, then, as the religious 
 atmosphere and instruction of a theological school tend to 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 47 
 
 foster a missionary spirit, may that school be regarded as 
 doing good service to the cause of Christ. And in this 
 respect I claim for Newton an honorable record. For it ap- 
 pears that fifty -four young men, more than one a year since 
 the Institution was founded, and more than one in fourteen of 
 its students, have gone into foreign fields. A few of these 
 may properly be named. John Taylor Jones, D.D., (d. 
 September 13, 1851), pursued his theological studies in 
 Andover and Newton. He was a missionary in the East 
 twenty years, eighteen of which were spent in Siam. He 
 started our mission among the Siamese, and translated the 
 whole New Testament into their language. He was a con- 
 sistent Christian, an instructive preacher, a superior scholar, 
 and his labors for the Siamese were attended by the blessing 
 of God. Francis Mason, D.D. (d. March 3, 1874), a 
 classmate of Dr. Jones in the seminary, preceded him about 
 three months in the voyage to Burmah. His term of service, 
 first in Tavoy and afterwards in Toungoo, extended over a 
 period of about forty-four years. He was studious, hopeful, 
 enterprising, "a mathematician, a naturalist, a linguist, and a 
 theologian " ; he translated the Scriptures into the Sgau 
 Karen dialect ; he published two works on Burmah ; to wit, 
 "Tenasserim; or, Notes on the Fauna, Flora, Minerals, and 
 Nations of British Burmah and Pegu," and "Burmah; its 
 People and Natural Productions " ; he wrote also a memoir of 
 his second wife, and a "Life of Ko-Thah-byu," and still later 
 " The Story of a Working Man's Life." For a brief period 
 his path was overshadowed by a cloud, but the sun shone 
 upon it brightly again before his death ; and on the whole he 
 must be pronounced one of the most useful missionaries in 
 the Burman field. Re v. William G. Crocker, (d. February 
 24, 1844), finished the regular theological course in 1834, 
 and in July of the next year embarked for Liberia to preach 
 the gospel among the Bassas. Within less than nine years 
 his work was finished, and he was called to his reward. But 
 his missionary record was a noble one, for during that short 
 
48 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 period he endured extraordinary hardships on the burning 
 and sickly coast where he was stationed. Mr. Crocker is 
 said to have been distinguished for sweetness of temper, sim- 
 plicity of manners, large common-sense, and intense activity. 
 Josiah Goddard (d. September 4, 1854), was graduated 
 from this seminary in 1838, and sent out the same year as a 
 missionary to the Chinese. For this people he labored ear- 
 nestly and wisely sixteen years, first in Bangkok, next in 
 Shanghai, and lastly in Ningpo. Besides his work as a 
 preacher, he translated the whole ]S T ew Testament and the 
 first three books of the Pentateuch into a dialect understood 
 by the people. He was a man of fine judgment, scholarship, 
 and temper, mastering the difficulties of the Chinese language 
 as few Americans can, and accomplishing a very important 
 service in a comparatively short period. In his place, and 
 worthy of his name, labors to-day a son, Josiah R. Goddard, 
 also a graduate of this Institution. John W. Johnson 
 (d. October 21, 1872), was my own classmate for two 
 years in this school, a man of excellent spirit and fair 
 scholarship, respected by his teachers, and loved by his 
 fellow-students. His missionary life was divided by a 
 change of location into two parts, nearly equal; for he 
 labored about twelve years in Hong Kong, and about thir- 
 teen in Swatow. He was a man of many attractive quali- 
 ties, a true Christian, and a good missionary. Benjamin 
 C. Thomas (d. June 10, 1869), of the class of 1849, sailed 
 for Burmah soon after graduating, and labored for the 
 Karens twenty years in Tavoy, Henthada, and Basseiu, 
 though more than half of his missionary life was passed in 
 Henthada. His temperament was ardent and poetic, his 
 piety deep and fervent ; but he was at the same time a man 
 of sound judgment and practical spirit. His enthusiasm was 
 intense, but it was guided by reason. He was aflame to 
 move men, but always m the right direction. I have been 
 told that very many of the hymns used by the Sgau Karens 
 in worship were either translated or composed by him. He 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 49 
 
 was an effective preacher, a wise counsellor, a devout Christ- 
 ian, uniting in himself nearly all the qualities most useful to 
 a missionaiy. 
 
 In addition to these, and several more of kindred spirit, as 
 Eeastus Willard, Cephas Pasco, Judson Benjamin, and 
 the ever-to-be-lamented Kelley, who have finished their 
 course on earth, I would gladly mention the names of some 
 who still live, as Isaac M. Wilmarth, missionary to France, 
 and now resident in Pemberton, N. J. ; Nathan Brown, 
 D.D., for more than twenty years a missionary in Assam, 
 and, after a residence of more than fifteen years in his native 
 land, once more engaged in the foreign work, — a man of vigor- 
 ous intellect and unbending principle ; Edward A. Stevens, 
 D.D.,now almost forty years connected with the Burman 
 work, — a veteran, but still strong, with clear head and true 
 heart, ready to serve the cause till death ;* Joseph G. Binney, 
 D. D., who was in this school for a time, and whose service 
 to the Karens as head of our theological seminary has been 
 invaluable, — a sensitive, high-souled, resolute, and Christian 
 educator, who has spent about twenty-four years in the for- 
 eign field ; Durlin L. Brayton, who was also for a time 
 connected with this seminary, who has been in missionary 
 service little less than forty years, and who is still a courage- 
 ous and efficient soldier of the cross ; Lyman Jewett, D. D., 
 of Nellore, whose gentleness of manner and of spirit is only 
 surpassed by his unswerving devotion to the will of Christ and 
 his heroic purpose to give the gospel to the Teloogoos ; and 
 Arthur R. R. Crawley, of Henthada, whose fearless and 
 manful nature has been consecrated for twenty-two years to 
 
 * Edward 0. Stevens, son of Dr. Stevens, and missionary to the Burmans, is also a, 
 graduate of this seminary. In the Catalogue of Newton, the names of father and son . 
 appear several times, already, among the graduates ; e. g., John E. Weston and Henry. 
 G. Weston, John T. Jones and Howard M. Jones, Enoch Hutchinson and John S. 
 Hutchinson, Hervey Fitts and Lonzo L. Fitts, Mark Carpenter and Chapin H. Car- 
 penter, Samuel B. Swaim and Joseph S. Swaim, Thomas D. Anderson and Thomas D. 
 Anderson, Jr., Josiah Goddard and Josiah R. Goddard, Edward A. Stevens and. 
 Edward 0. Stevens, Charles M. Bowers and Charles A. Bowers, Edwin B. Bullard. 
 and Edwin Bullard. There may he other instances which have escaped my notice. 
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50 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 untiring labor for the salvation of the Burmese. And with 
 these I might join the names of such younger men as Car- 
 penter and Smith, Goddard and Cushixg, Bunker and 
 Partridge, with others of equal age on the field ; and even 
 then there would be left a considerable number of more 
 recent recruits of whom I expect to hear good reports for 
 years to come. 
 
 This is our roll of honor ; these are the names which we 
 love to recall, when asking ourselves what Newton has accom- 
 plished. We lift them up into the sunlight, and read them 
 over to our hearts, to assure ourselves in every hour of de- 
 spondency that the Spirit of the living God, the spirit of love 
 and self-sacrifice, have been with us in the seminary from the 
 beginning until this hour. May the percentage of laborers 
 for the foreign field never diminish, until the gospel is 
 preached to every creature, and the whole world is subject to 
 Christ ! 
 
 But while the direct object of this school has been to assist 
 young men in preparing for the ministry of the gospel, at 
 home or abroad, it has also, through its students, rendered 
 important service to the cause of liberal and theological edu- 
 cation ; for the work of this Institution, though religious, 
 is yet in the highest sense educational, and the method and 
 spirit which it has illustrated are such as tend to qualify 
 men for the office of teaching. Indeed, it would not be rash 
 to assert, that some men, who have had the benefit of colle- 
 giate discipline, have been aroused, for the first time, in this 
 seminary, to a sense of their own power, and have learned 
 here, as never before, the infinite value of truth to the human 
 soul. Hence, their education, in the true sense of the word, 
 has been begun in this place. I do not, however, mention 
 these instances for the purpose of emphasizing them. As 
 exceptional cases, which they clearly are, it is enough to 
 have given them a passing notice. But what may fairly be 
 emphasized is this : that the mental and spiritual training of 
 Newton has been of such a character as to carry on the edu- 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 51 
 
 cation begun in the academy and continued in the college, so 
 that a young man, leaving the seminary, has been better 
 qualified to do the work of an educator, in almost any posi- 
 tion, than he was when graduated from college. Of this I 
 entertain no doubt whatever; and I will even venture to 
 repeat, what I said in Philadelphia three years ago, that pro- 
 fessors of the natural sciences would be much better prepared 
 for their high office, at the present time, if they were to take 
 a course in theology before entering upon that office. 
 
 My information may not be exact, but I think that about 
 fifty-five students of Newton have been, for longer or shorter 
 periods, either presidents or professors in colleges or theo- 
 logical seminaries. Whether they have done as much for the 
 advancement of true religion, by teaching, as they would 
 have done by giving themselves exclusively to the ministry 
 of the Word, I am unable to say; but of their ability and 
 usefulness in the posts filled by them I can speak with entire 
 confidence. It may be proper to remark that I do not 
 include in this number the heads of our important schools 
 for the freedmen: as D. W. Phillips, D.D., in Nashville, 
 Tenn. ; Chakles H. Corey, in Richmond, Ya. ; Henry 
 Tupper, in Raleigh, N. C. ; and G. M. P. King, in Washing- 
 ton, D. C. ; for the schools over which they preside are neither 
 colleges nor distinctively theological seminaries, though much 
 nearer the latter than the former, since their primary object 
 is to provide a suitably instructed ministry for the colored 
 people of the South. But whether the honored brethren at 
 the head of these schools be called missionaries or presidents, 
 or, rather, be supposed to unite these two forms of Christian 
 service in one person, they are doing a great and good work 
 in a very satisfactory manner, and we number them among 
 the choicest jewels which adorn the brow of our alma mater. 
 
 Time will not permit me to speak of all the presidents and 
 professors who have been indebted to this Institution for some 
 part of their training, and it is difficult to make any selection 
 from the list of names before me without passing by those 
 
52 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 who are no less worthy than the ones selected. Yet you 
 would scarcely pardon me if I should pass over in silence all 
 the names belonging to this list. In the class of 1826 was 
 Eli B. Smith, D. D., for a long period president of the New 
 Hampton school, and professor of Theology, — a teacher of 
 deep convictions, sound views, and high integrity, by whom 
 many excellent ministers were taught the principles of our 
 holy religion. In the class of 1828, Barnas Sears, D.D., 
 president of this Institution, and professor of Christian The- 
 ology, and, at a later day, president of Brown University, — 
 a teacher anjia man who will never cease to be honored by 
 his pupils. In the class of 1831, James G. Binney, D. D., 
 president of Columbian College, and now head of the 
 Theological Seminary in Rangoon, by whom more Karen 
 preachers have been educated than by any other man ; and 
 Joel S. Bacon, D. D., president of Georgetown College, 
 Kentucky, professor in the Hamilton Literary and Theo- 
 logical Institution, and president of Columbian College, — a 
 man of good repute in all the offices which he filled. In the 
 class of 1832, John S. Maginnis, D. D., w T ho was called to be 
 a systematic theologian by the cast of his own mind, as well 
 as by the grace of God and the voice of his brethren, and who 
 is remembered by his pupils of Hamilton and Rochester with 
 grateful esteem. In the class of 1835, David N. Sheldon, 
 D. D., for some years president of Waterville College, a keen 
 metaphysician and a perspicuous writer. In the class of 
 1836, James L. Reynolds, D.D., professor in the Furman 
 University, South Carolina, — a most admirable Christian 
 scholar and teacher. In the class of 1840, John L. Lin- 
 coln, LL. D., the eloquent and accomplished professor 
 of the Latin language in Brown University ; and James 
 Upham, D.D., for a considerable period head of the New 
 Hampton Institution, then located at Fairfax, Vermont, and 
 professor in the theological department. In the class of 
 1841, Albert N. Arnold, D.D., professor in this Institu- 
 tion, in Hamilton, and in Chicago, to whom I have before 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 53 
 
 referred. In the class of 1842, James S. Mims (d. 1855), 
 for eleven years professor in the theological department of 
 Furman University, — a conscientious, manly teacher, who 
 "stimulated the mental activity of his pupils, and inspired 
 them with something of his own ardor"; Robert A. Fyfe, 
 D.D., since 1860 principal of the Canadian Literary Institu- 
 tion, in Woodstock, Canada, and professor of Theology in 
 the same ; and Ezekiel G. Robinson, D. D., who served for 
 a time as professor in the Covington Theological Seminary, 
 was for twenty years the pride and glory of the Rochester 
 Theological Seminary, and is now president of our oldest 
 university, where he is still, as many before me can testify, 
 a wonderfully captivating and stimulating instructor. In the 
 class of 1843, George W. Samson, D. D., — a man of catholic 
 spirit, indefatigable industry, and varied attainments, who 
 was for many years president of Columbian College ; Martin 
 B. Anderson, LL. D., professor in Waterville College, 
 editor, and now for a long time president of Rochester 
 University, — an educator, a statesman and an orator ; and 
 Henry G. Weston, D.D., president of Crozer Theological 
 Seminary, who is winning, original, independent, suggestive, 
 and successful in everything which he undertakes. In the 
 class of 1844, Peter C. Edwards (d. 1867), professor in 
 Furman University, South Carolina, — an able teacher and a 
 noble Christian, of whom Professor James C. Furman writes, 
 "As to his character, I must say, that a man so large-hearted, 
 pure in purpose, and scrupulously conscientious, so steadfastly 
 devoted to high aims, yet so wholly unassuming and modest, 
 it has seldom been my lot to know." In the class of 1845, 
 Ebenezer Dodge, D. D., president of Madison University, 
 and professor of theology, — a man of lofty thoughts as well 
 as lofty stature, and worthy of the double sceptre which he 
 wields ; Kendall Brooks, D. D., president of Kalamazoo Col- 
 lege, — a mathematician, a statistician, and a scholar ; Samuel 
 L. Caldwell, D.D., whose preeminence in culture and 
 knowledge of literature is readily conceded by all; and 
 
54 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Heman Lincoln, D.D., who, as an editor, a writer, and a 
 teacher, has won a high place in the esteem of his brethren, 
 the last two being now professors in this Institution. In the 
 class of 1846, Oakman S. Steabxs, D.D., who is at once 
 sensitive and true, enthusiastic and discreet, a professor also 
 in his alma mater. In the class of 1847, Basil Manly, 
 D.D., for a period of years professor in the Southern Theo- 
 logical Seminary at Greenville, South Carolina, and now 
 president of the Georgetown College, Kentucky. In the 
 class of 1850, John B. Foster and Samuel K. Smith, both 
 of them professors in Colby University. In the class of 1851, 
 Fletcher O. Marsh, professor in Denison University. In 
 the class of 1853, Edward C. Mitchell, D.D., professor in 
 the Union Theological Seminary, Chicago ; and Artemas W. 
 Sawyer, D.D., president of Acadia College. In the class of 
 1855, Samson Talbot, D.D., late president of Denison 
 University, a man who had accomplished so much, and who 
 gave promise of accomplishing so much more, that his death 
 seemed strangely inexplicable. In the class of 1860, George 
 D. B. Pepper, D.D., professor in Crozer Theological Semi- 
 nary. In that of 1861, Joseph H. Gilmore, of Rochester 
 University, and Henry C. Robins, D.D., president of Colby 
 University. In the class of 1862, David Weston, too soon 
 removed by death from a sphere of labor to which he seemed 
 peculiarly adapted ; and in the class of 1868, Ezra P. Gould, 
 professor in this Institution, who exhibits, in all his work, 
 exact scholarship, logical discrimination, and independent 
 thought; and George A. Whittemore, whose culture, 
 courtesy, and literary attainments are recognized by all who 
 know him. 
 
 It is for you to judge whether these men have achieved 
 anything for the cause of truth ; whether their work has been 
 a blessing to mankind ; whether their names are an honor to 
 the seminary that nurtured them. It is for you to judge from 
 their fruits whether they have done anything for the character, 
 the literature, the Christian enterprise of our beloved denom- 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 55 
 
 ination ; whether they have been men of faith and hope, of 
 foresight and progress, encouraging the hearts and strengthen- 
 ing the hands of their brethren ; whether they have served the 
 cause of truth in building up other schools of the highest 
 character and usefulness, as Rochester University and Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Furman University, and Greenville Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Crozer Theological Seminary, and many 
 others which it is needless to mention. 
 
 This Institution led the way in establishing a three years' 
 course, and insisting on thorough and deliberate investigation 
 of the Scriptures, as a preparation for the sacred office. 
 These men are a part of the fruit. Is it good ? 
 
 But the alumni of Newton have not only served the world 
 as ministers, missionaries, presidents, and professors, but also 
 as writers and editors. I am unable to give the number of 
 those who are known as authors, but it is certainly respect- 
 able, and the volumes which they have given to the public 
 would make a library worthy of any man's attention. In the 
 list of authors might be placed the names of such men as 
 Barnas Seaks, William Hague, Francis Mason, Joseph 
 Banvard, David N. Sheldon, William Crowell, Elias 
 L. Magoon, Albert N. Arnold, George W. Samson, John 
 C. Stockbridge, Samuel L. Caldwell, Ebenezer Dodge, 
 Lucius E. Smith, Joseph A. Goodhue, H. Lincoln Way- 
 land, Daniel W. Faunce, and A. J. Gordon, with others 
 of equal merit. In the list of editors could be placed Barnas 
 Sears, Nathan Brown, William B. Jacobs, Enoch Hutch- 
 inson, William Crowell, Ezekiel G. Robinson, Martin B. 
 Anderson, Henry G. Weston, William C. Child, Kendall 
 Brooks, Heman Lincoln, Franklin Wilson, Edwin T. 
 Winkler, John H. Luther, Samuel K. Smith, John B. 
 Foster, H. Lincoln W^ayland, Elisha Budd De Mill, 
 Lucius E. Smith, Henry S. Burrage, Thomas S. Rogers, 
 •and many more. And in the list of frequent contributors to 
 the " Christian Review and Baptist Quarterly," or to some of 
 our ablest religious papers, might be placed a still greater 
 
56 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 number of names which deserve to be mentioned. In this 
 way the sons of Newton have made their influence felt in ten 
 thousand homes for the last forty years, and contributed 
 their part to the intelligence and progress of our people. 
 
 How can Newton Theological Institution be Impeoved ? 
 
 To some of you this question may appear unseasonable, 
 and you may perhaps say in your hearts : " The occasion is 
 sacred to the past. Let us recount the mercies of God, and 
 offer him thanks for the good that has been done. Let us 
 rest from labor, and be jubilant to-day, without peering into 
 the future, or anticipating the work which must then be per- 
 formed." Far be it from me to mar the satisfaction which 
 any one of you may feel in reviewing the history of this In- 
 stitution ! Nay, " I call you to record this day that I have 
 not shunned to declare" the grace of God to the founders, 
 the guardians, the benefactors, the teachers, and the students 
 of this school. But the future is separated by an invisible 
 line from the past, and while we are thinking of the one we 
 are gliding into the other. It is true that we have taken a 
 glance backward ; but it has been taken, as it were, over the 
 shoulder, without arresting for an instant our onward steps. 
 The goal is before us, and, like the apostle, we shall do well 
 to press eagerly forward until we reach it. And if there is 
 any lesson which our glance backward teaches, it is this : that 
 the Institution located on yonder hill is not yet perfect, but 
 is capable, rather, of indefinite improvement; for every step 
 of its progress thus far has but opened the way in due time for 
 another step. Funds, buildings, books, teachers, have been 
 increased from time to time, and in almost every instance the 
 addition has been a permanent gain to the working power of 
 the Institution ; but there are deficiencies yet to be supplied, 
 improvements yet to be made. 
 
 To begin with that which is external, the Mansion House, 
 or rather, as it is affectionately called, " The Old Mansion 
 House," belongs evidently to the aroi^u of a former seon, 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 57 
 
 to the rudiments of an earlier dispensation, and it may there- 
 fore in the course of nature be expected soon to vanish away. 
 The same also may be said in respect to the old carpenter's 
 shop, or gymnasium, as called in later times, an edifice which 
 is sadly out of harmony with the age and the place. Instead 
 of these, buildings adapted to the present necessities of the 
 school should be erected. 
 
 But the Institution is capable of internal improvement as 
 well as external. To say nothing of the progress which may 
 be justly hoped from the several professors in the range, 
 accuracy and method of their instruction, a progress which 
 need not soon be arrested, I am satisfied that more time 
 and attention should be given to elocution ; that is, to the 
 proper culture of voice and manner in speaking. For the 
 primary object of this school, is to assist men in preparing 
 for the ministry, and the work of the ministry was never 
 more important than it is to-day. For the presentation of 
 Christian truth with the living voice is the distinctive feature 
 of that work ; and surely, if Christian truth ever needed rein- 
 forcement by look and tone and gesture, by weight of per- 
 sonal character and conviction, by putting eye to eye and 
 heart to heart, it needs this in our own day. A training in 
 elocution, so well directed and persevering as to overcome 
 diffidence and secure a natural, earnest, impressive utterance, 
 both of thought and feeling, would double the power of the 
 ministry ; and though provision has already been made by 
 the liberality of a far-sighted friend for a certain amount of 
 such training, I am persuaded that much more can yet be 
 done in this part of education for the ministry, and I trust 
 that at no distant day the work of discipline for vocal utter- 
 ance will be extended through our entire course. 
 
 Moreover, for the sake of bringing to our candidates for 
 the sacred office, the wisdom, the experience, the example, 
 and the inspiration of able men in the service, I believe 
 that three or four lectureships ought to be established in con- 
 nection with this school, one of them perhaps on the oriental 
 
58 NE1VT0N THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 systems of religion, one on Christian missions in the broadest 
 sense, one on the relations of religion and science, and one 
 on the various practical duties of the ministry. In this way, 
 more of the actual life and stir of the age might be intro- 
 duced into the seminary, without interfering with a careful 
 and reverent and thorough study of the living oracles. And 
 if I am not in error, there is at least one generous brother 
 who is prepared to begin the work by founding the first lec- 
 tureship. 
 
 Another suggestion may properly be made ; namely, that 
 the Institution is in need of scholarships to assist young men 
 in meeting the expense of a course of study. It has indeed 
 a few already, but not as many as its circumstances require. 
 The "Knowles Scholarship" was founded in 1830, by the 
 M Young Men's Baptist Education Society of Boston," and it 
 has rendered its most useful assistance to one student a year 
 for almost half a century. At different periods since 1830, 
 seven others have been founded, and five out of the seven by 
 Christian women. But I am confident that the seminary 
 could use twenty-five scholarships instead of eight, without 
 affording help unwisely.* 
 
 Thus, then, looking into the immediate future, the decade 
 just before us, and making no attempt to pierce the darkness 
 beyond, I see that the Institution can be improved, and I 
 doubt not the same will be true after all has been done that 
 is now suggested. I commend it, therefore, to the favor of 
 God and to the liberality of his children. Born of faith, 
 protected by Providence, matured by age, and yet capable of 
 indefinite growth, we hand it over to the second half of its 
 first century. It has survived the perils of childhood and 
 the uncertainties of youth, and we may confidently hope that 
 fifty years hence its eye will not be dim nor its natural force 
 abated. God bless Newton Theological Institution ! 
 
 * See Note B. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 59 
 
 NOTES 
 
 [A.] 
 
 It was obviously impossible to mention the names of all who have con- 
 tributed to the pecuniary support of the Institution in an address to be read 
 before a popular assembly. But it may be interesting to the friends of 
 Newton to see the names of contributors for the original purchase of the 
 estate and repairs of the buildings ; also of contributors to the erection of 
 Colby Hall, to the $100,000 Endowment Fund, and to the $200,000 additional 
 Endowment Fund. 
 
 Original Subscription. 
 
 (Copied from Records.) 
 The Committee appointed to purchase, in behalf of the Trustees of the 
 Newton Theological Institution, the Peck Estate in Newton (so called), and to 
 put the same in repair for the use of the Institution, and to solicit and obtain 
 in behalf of said Trustees subscriptions to meet the expense of said purchase 
 and repairs, have attended to the service assigned them, and ask leave to 
 report that the whole expense of purchase and repairs is as follows, viz.: — 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1. To Cash paid for said Estate, $4,250 00 
 
 Whole expense of repairs, 3,748 45 
 
 $7,998 45 
 
 To meet the above expense the Committee acknowledge the following 
 subscriptions, viz. : — 
 
 John B. Jones, Boston, . $500 00 
 
 Ward Jackson, Boston, . 500 00 
 
 Heman Lincoln, Boston, . 500 00 
 
 Nath'l R. Cobb, Boston, . 1,070 15 
 
 Ann M. Lane, Boston, . . 100 00 
 
 Jon'a Carlton, Boston, . . 300 00 
 
 Ichabod Macomber, Boston, 300 00 
 
 Ensign Lincoln, Boston, . 250 00 
 
 John Sullivan, Boston, . 200 00 
 
 John Tappan, Boston, . 
 Thomas Kendall, Boston, 
 Elijah Mears, Boston, . 
 Jeremiah Fitch, Boston, 
 David R. Griggs, Boston,' 
 E. & A. Winchester, Boston 
 Ezra Chamberlain, Boston, 
 J. A. Lamson, Boston, . 
 John H. Smith, Boston, 
 
 . $100 00 
 
 . 100 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 , 50 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 . 20 00 
 
60 
 
 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL IXSTTTUTIOX. 
 
 Samuel Beals, Boston, . 
 
 A Friend, Boston, 
 
 Estate of Lydia Sparhawk 
 
 Boston, 
 Jona. Bixby, Newton, . 
 Eeuben Stone, Newton, 
 Josiak Bacon, Newton, 
 M. Davis, Newton, 
 Miss Bunding, Newton, 
 William Jackson, Newton, 
 
 . $50 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 . 1,000 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 6 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 Levi Farwell, Cambridge, . $1,070 15 
 Edward Bacon, Cambridge, 10 00 
 Jona. Bacheller, Lynn, 
 Elijah Corey, Brookline, 
 Eleanor Dana, Brighton, 
 Old Norfolk and Middlesex 
 Missionary Society, . 
 
 1,070 15 
 400 00 
 100 00 
 
 20 00 
 
 $7,998 45 
 
 The Committee further report that good and sufficient deeds of the 
 premises above alluded to accompany this report, all of which is respectfully 
 submitted. 
 
 LEVI FARWELL, 
 JONA. BACHELLER, 
 NATH'L RIPLEY COBB, 
 HEMAN LINCOLN, 
 ENSIGN LLXCOLN, 
 
 Committee. 
 Newtox, September 14, 1826. 
 
 Subscribers to the $100,000 Fuxd. 
 
 Arnold, Francis R., 
 Allen, Stephen G., 
 Anderson, T. D., 
 Andrews, Win., . 
 Adlam, S., . 
 Allen, H., . 
 Alden, John, 
 Ammidown, EC., . 
 Alden, A., . 
 Adams, A., . 
 Allen, L. B., 
 Aldrich, Jonathan, 
 Adams, N., . 
 Bacheller, Jonathan, 
 Blake, Wm., 
 Blackington, Sanford 
 Bacon, J., . 
 Baldwin, Margaret D 
 Bellows, A. J., . 
 Bosworth, Geo. W., 
 
 ^1,000 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 375 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 10 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 6,500 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 375 00 
 
 Banvard, Joseph, 
 
 8400 00 
 
 Burlingham, A. H., . 
 
 375 00 
 
 Boynton, N., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Babcock, George, 
 
 300 00 
 
 Brown, Newell, . 
 
 150 00 
 
 Brooks, Kendall, 
 
 150 00 
 
 Baldwin, J., 
 
 150 00 
 
 Burr, E., , 
 
 200 00 
 
 Brooks, Benj. F., 
 
 150 00 
 
 Brown, F. G., . . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Bemis, Edward, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Bradley, B., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Budlon, Jas. E., . 
 
 75 00 
 
 Bartlett, James, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Baldwin, James, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Bacon, Agnes, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Brooks, Geo., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Brooks, Kendall, Jr., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Bowdlear, W. A., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Benton, Caroline A., . 
 
 25 00 
 
FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 61 
 
 Byrne, M., . 
 
 $30 00 
 
 Cushing, S. T., . 
 
 $30 00 
 
 Blanchard, Geo. S., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Corey, Henry, . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Barrett, Charles, 
 
 30 00 
 
 Coolidge, John, Jr., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Bronson, B. F., . 
 
 20 00 
 
 Comey, J., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Beecher, Mrs. Wm,, . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Caldwell, S. L., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Ballard, G., . . . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Cole, E. H., 
 
 15 00 
 
 Barker, A. J., . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Cheney, M., 
 
 15 00 
 
 Belcher, Samuel, 
 
 2 00 
 
 Carpenter, N., 
 
 10 00 
 
 Brown, James, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Davis, Isaac, 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 Cummings, Geo., 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 Dodge, Solomon H., . 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 Church, 1st Bap., Beverly 
 
 119 00 
 
 Downs, H. S., . 
 
 1,500 00 
 
 Church, W. Dedham, Bap. 
 
 40 26 
 
 Dane, Nancy, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Church, 1st Bap., Salem, 
 
 101 12 
 
 Dana, Samuel, . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Converse, J. W., 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 Duncan, J. H., . 
 
 400 00 
 
 Colby, Gardner, . 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 Demerest, S. C, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Corey, Elijah, . 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 Dyer, E. C, . . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Chase, H. S., ... 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Dexter, Geo. S., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Cummings, John, 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Dodge, E., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Cummings, Daniel, . 
 
 800 00 
 
 Dennison, F., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Carleton, Geo. J., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Driscol, James, . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Chamberlin, Edward, 
 
 500 00 
 
 D. F. of F., . . . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Chilson, Gardner, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Davis, Mial, 
 
 15 00 
 
 Colby, Lewis, 
 
 375 00 
 
 Davis, S. S., 
 
 15 00 
 
 Caswell, Alexis, . 
 
 400 00 
 
 Dalton, A., . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Caldicott, T. F., . 
 
 400 00 
 
 Emerson, E. C, . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Converse, Benjamin B., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Edmands, J. Wiley, . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Chamberlin & Foster, 
 
 200 00 
 
 Eaton, James, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Cummings, Elizabeth, 
 
 250 00 
 
 Elwell, J., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Coolidge, Josiah, 
 
 200 00 
 
 Edwards, B. A., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Coggshall, J., 
 
 150 00 
 
 Eaton, J. S., 
 
 75 00 
 
 Coolidge, D. S., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Frost, Jonathan, 
 
 300 00 
 
 Chipman, Geo. W., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Frost, Eliza A., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Cutting, S. S., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Foss, S., . . . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Child, Wm. C, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Forbes, Gustavus, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Chapman, Khodes B., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Field, A., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Carpenter, Cyrus, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Field, S., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Chase, Geo. J., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Farnum, J., Jr., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Capen, E., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Fyfe, K. A., 
 
 48 00 
 
 Coggshall, Elizabeth, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Frost, Mary W., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Cochran, G. W., . 
 
 125 00 
 
 Fuller, N., . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Couch, E. P., . . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Foster, J. W., . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Clark, David, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Frost, V., . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Converse, J. W. ; 
 
 50 00 
 
 Felch, A., . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Crane, 0., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Friend — widow's mite, 
 
 1 00 
 
 Coolidge, John, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Geo. & H. E. Farwell, 
 
 10 00 
 
 Chandler, Albert F., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Felt, John G., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Child, S. P., 
 
 60 00 
 
 Female Benev. Soc, Three 
 
 ) 
 
 Crosby, J. S., 
 
 75 00 
 
 Eivers, 
 
 15 00 
 
Q2 
 
 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Fosdick, Carter & Co., 
 
 $7 50 
 
 Hubbard, Mrs., . 
 
 $25 00 
 
 Fairbanks, Geo. G., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Hill, C, 
 
 30 00 
 
 Griggs, Thomas, . 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 Hodges, J., . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Green, C. E., 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Hadley, Moses, . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Glover, H. E., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Harkness, A., 
 
 10 00 
 
 Gilmore, J. A., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Hanson, J. F., . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Granger, James N., . 
 
 400 00 
 
 Howe, C, . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Goodnow, Joseph, 
 
 300 00 
 
 Howe, Jared S., . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Greenleaf, Thomas, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Hunt, Betsy, 
 
 5 00 
 
 Girdwood, J., 
 
 200 00 
 
 Howland, N"., 
 
 10 00 
 
 Gould, F., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Ives, Hope, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Gould & Lincoln, 
 
 600 00 
 
 Ingalls, C, . 
 
 60 00 
 
 Gammell, Wm., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Jones, J. B., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Gould, Thomas, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Jacobs, A. A., & Co., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Gammell, A. M., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Johnson, Geo. S., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Gunderson, J. G., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Jackson, Henry, . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Green, Wm., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Jacobs, Hiram, . , . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Grulb, Wm., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Johnson, Earl W., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Gilkey, Royal, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Jackson, Susan M., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Greenough, B., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Joyce, Geo. F., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Graves, J. M., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Jones, Lewis, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Granger, A. H., . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Kingsbury, J., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Green, H. M., 
 
 3 00 
 
 Knowles, Willard, 
 
 300 00 
 
 Gould, A. H., . 
 
 5 00 
 
 Kelly, Hall J., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Hill, Francis, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Kemp, N. P., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Howe, William, . 
 
 375 00 
 
 Kelly, M. J., 
 
 15 00 
 
 Holman, John, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Knox, George, . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Hill, J. P., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Kendall, Chas. S., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Hovey, Wm. B., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Kingsbury, L., . 
 
 5 00 
 
 Hovey, Alvah, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Lady and others, for libr'y 
 
 , 1,750 00 
 
 Hail, Geo., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Low, Ariel, . 
 
 750 00 
 
 Hayes, Joshua, . 
 
 250 00 
 
 Lawton, Geo., 
 
 600 00 
 
 Hill, Amos, Jr., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Ladies' Mite Society, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Hopkins, Franklin, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lewis, John G., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Holmes, J. A. & J., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lane, Charles, . 
 
 800 00 
 
 Hall, Enoch, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Little, Geo. W., & Co., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Hill, Phoebe S., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Locke, Asa, Jr., . 
 
 250 00 
 
 Hyde, T. R., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lincoln, H. E., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Hill, William, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lincoln, John L., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Hutchinson, Jacob H., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lincoln, Heman, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Husten, H., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Locke, Asa, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Horton, D. W., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Locke, Josiah, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Hart, H. B. & H. M., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Locke, Elbridge, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Hammond, Thomas, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lincoln, Rev. Heman, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Harvey, A., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lewis, Simeon H., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Hunter, Wm., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Locke, Hannah C, 
 
 58 00 
 
 Hutchinson, Thos. 0., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Lamson, Wm., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Hill, Samuel, 
 
 30 00 
 
 Lothrop, Manly, 
 
 25 00 
 
FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 63 
 
 Locke, John A., . 
 
 $25 00 
 
 Pingree, S. P., . 
 
 $100 00 
 
 Leonard, L. H., . 
 
 1 00 
 
 Parker, Jonathan, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Leonard, N., 
 
 5 00 
 
 Parkhurst, J. W., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Lovering, Mason, 
 
 3 00 
 
 Pryor, John, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Merrill, J. W., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Pratt, D. D., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Mumford, Louisa D., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pendleton, E. B., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Martin, Sylvanus G., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pendleton, J. M., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Manning, C, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pope, Wm. G., and wife, 
 
 25 00 
 
 Mills, R. C, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Phillips, D. W., . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Miller, Ann Eliza, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Parker, J. W., for friend, 
 
 5 00 
 
 Magoon, E. L., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Quarles, S., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Mason, Geo., 
 
 75 00 
 
 Quincy, J., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Munroe, James, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Richardson, Thomas, . 
 
 . 1,100 00 
 
 Mclntire, Charles, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Ripley, H. J., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Merriam, F., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Reynolds, Susan D., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 March, Geo. N., . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Rockwood, J. M., 
 
 30 00 
 
 March, Delano, . 
 
 20 00 
 
 Rogers, E. B., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Massey, J. T., 
 
 20 00 
 
 Rogers, H. A., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Moorhouse, Joseph, . 
 
 2 00 
 
 Richardson, Wm. S., . 
 
 150 00 
 
 Mixter, D., . 
 
 3 00 
 
 Rugg, Geo. W., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Newell, A. H., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Richardson, J. M., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Neale, R. H., 
 
 375 00 
 
 Redding, C. W., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Newell & Daniels, 
 
 200 00 
 
 Read, Jas. W., . 
 
 75 00 
 
 Nickerson, Thomas, . 
 
 250 00 
 
 Ripley, S., . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Nixon, Warren, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Russell, Levi F., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Newton, William, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Shepard, Michael, 
 
 6,000 00 
 
 Noyes, Samuel, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Sanderson, Daniel, 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 Nutting, P., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Sanford, James A., 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Nelson, Ehen A., 
 
 10 00 
 
 Spence, John, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Noyes, G. S., 
 
 10 00 
 
 Slater, Sarah J., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Nichols, Chas. H., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Stetson, Lucy Ann, . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Olmstead, J. W., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Swaim, S. B., 
 
 375 00 
 
 Owen, Wm. B., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Samson, G. W., . 
 
 375 00 
 
 Peahody, Alfred, 
 
 1,500 00 
 
 Stow, Baron, 
 
 400 00 
 
 Pond, Moses, 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Stockhridge, J. C, 
 
 375 00 
 
 Patch, Abijah, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Spence, G. S. G., 
 
 375 00 
 
 Pond, Moses W., 
 
 20 00 
 
 Stackpole, R. M., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Perkins, S. S., . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Seccomb, E. R., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Pattison, R. E., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Stillman, O. M., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Plummer, J. L., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Seccomb, E., 
 
 250 00 
 
 Parker, John A., . . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Stowe, Phineas, . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Parker, Mrs. Mary B., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Smith, Thos. P., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Phillips, Sampson & Co., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Safford, Henry, . 
 
 150 00 
 
 Parker, J. W., . 
 
 400 00 
 
 Simmons, Wm. B. D., * 
 
 200 00 
 
 Porter, Benjamin, 
 
 400 00 
 
 Swan, T., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pratt, John C, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Shailer, Wm. H., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pike, Jonathan, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Sears, E. G., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Palmer, Wm. H., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Smith, E. A. & H. W., 
 
 100 00 
 
 
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 Sharp, Daniel, . 
 
 $50 00 
 
 Warren, J. G., . 
 
 $375 00 
 
 Smith, S. F., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Warren, M. C, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Smith, S. T., 
 
 50 00 
 
 White, Daniel W., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Sears, Barnas, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Wetherell, H. H., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Stearns, 0. S., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Washburn, H. S., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Seavey, Eben, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Wiswall, Samuel, 
 
 150 00 
 
 Smith, Lucius E., 
 
 30 00 
 
 Wyman, Abner P., 
 
 180 00 
 
 Stickney, Samuel, 
 
 30 00 
 
 Wyman, John P., 
 
 150 00 
 
 Stone, Josiah, 
 
 25 00 
 
 Wallis, Margaret, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Stow, B., for friend, . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Whiting, Martha, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Scott, J. E., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Wheeler, Jesse, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Sargent, S. G., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Whiting, Rufus W., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Scott, Chas., 
 
 10 00 
 
 WiUard, F. A., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Shailer, D. T., . 
 
 375 00 
 
 Whitney, Salmon, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Smith, Elbridge, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Wilson, F., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Sherman, Wm. M., 
 
 5 00 
 
 Wiggin, P. L., 
 
 100 00 
 
 SaDford, M., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Williams, Rev. Mr., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Tyler, D. S., . . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Wilson, Leonard, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Tiffany, Lyman, . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Waterhouse, J. W., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Turner, H. E., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Watriss, Wm., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Thurber, Chas., . 
 
 650 00 
 
 White, L., . . . 
 
 36 00 
 
 Tufts, Otis, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Witherbee, J. M., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Ticknor, Wm. D., 
 
 25 00 
 
 White, Eben, . 
 
 10 00 
 
 Teel, George S., . 
 
 150 00 
 
 Whiting, Christopher, 
 
 20 00 
 
 Tirrell, J., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Wilcox, Wm. R., 
 
 15 00 
 
 Tripp, Susan, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Whitman, James, 
 
 10 00 
 
 Tainter, Daniel A., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Woodard, C, 
 
 15 00 
 
 Taylor, J. E., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Wyman, Mary Ann, . 
 
 1 00 
 
 Tuck, S., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Williams, N. M., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 True, Samuel, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Winn, D. D., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Torrey, M., . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Welch, S., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Upton, James, . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Wakefield, E. W., 
 
 25 00 
 
 L T pham, Henry, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Wyman, Mary, . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Vinal, Albert, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Wheelock, D., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Ward, Andrew, . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Complimentary R. R. tick- 
 
 
 Wilson, E. C, . 
 
 500 00 
 
 ets to agents, in value, 
 
 600 00 
 
 Williams, J. M. S., . 
 Woods, Alva, 
 
 600 00 
 500 00 
 
 
 
 Total, . . . i 
 
 £117,228 38 
 
 Ward, J., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 
 
 Subscribers 
 
 j to the Library Building Fund. 
 
 
 Blake, F. D., 
 
 $25 00 
 
 Bray, Mellen, 
 
 $25 00 
 
 Blanchard, S. S., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Briggs. W. D., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Bowdlear, W. A., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Brooks, Sam'l, . 
 
 5 00 
 
 Borden, Jefferson, 
 
 300 00 
 
 Brown, S. N., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Bolles, M., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Butters, C. S., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Boynton, N. ; . 
 
 1,100 00 
 
 Brooks, B. F., . . 
 
 25 00 
 
FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 65 
 
 Carpenter, Cyrus, 
 Chase, H. S., 
 Chipman, Geo. W., 
 Colby, Gardner, . 
 Colby, Gardner R., 
 Clark, Caroline S., 
 Converse, J. H., . 
 Converse, J. W., 
 Cummin gs, Geo., 
 Dexter, Cbas. W., 
 Dexter, Geo. S., . 
 Daniels, Chas. E., 
 Daniels, J. E., 
 Davis, R. S., 
 Eaton, W. H., . 
 Edmond, Jas., . 
 Edmands, Geo. D., 
 Fitz, E. C, . 
 Fuller, Robt. O., 
 Fosdick, Wm., . 
 Forbes, Gustavus, 
 Gross, John A. D., 
 Goodwin, Geo. C, 
 Glover H. R., . 
 Hill, S. P., . 
 Haynes, A., 
 
 $50 00 
 
 1,025 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 11,000 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 400 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 5,500 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 40 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 400 00 
 
 250 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 200 00 
 
 400 00 
 
 200 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 25 00 
 
 Holman, Jobn, . 
 
 $75 00 
 
 Heath, Wm., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Jacobs, H., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Kendall, Chas. S., 
 
 550 00 
 
 Lincoln, Joshua, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Lamson, A. D., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Lawton, Geo., 
 
 1,500 00 
 
 Mann, N. P., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Merrill, J. Warren, . 
 
 6,000 00 
 
 Nickerson, Thomas, . 
 
 1,250 00 
 
 Pratt, John C, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Parker, T. W., . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Pevear Bros., 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Read, F. O., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Richardson, Thos., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Richardson, W. T., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Stinison, A. G., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Story, Joseph, . 
 
 75 00 
 
 Upton, James, . 
 
 700 00 
 
 Wilson, E. C, . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Warren, M. C, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Wentworth, , 
 
 25 00 
 
 Warren, J. G., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Williams, J. M. S., . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 $39,145 00 
 
 Subscribers to the $200,000 Endowment Fund. 
 
 Aldrich, Albert M., . 
 
 $1,000 00 
 
 Butterfield, Stephen, 
 
 $30 00 
 
 Ames, R. W., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Byam, C. F., 
 
 10 00 
 
 Abbott, Mrs. Ruth, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Byara, E. G., 
 
 200 00 
 
 Brown, C. H., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Borden, Jefferson, 
 
 200 00 
 
 Butler, Chas. S., 
 
 . 1,000 00 
 
 Buttrick, John, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Brooks, B. F., . 
 
 350 00 
 
 Blanchard, S. S., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Bowdlear, S. G., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Beard, Wm. A., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Boyden, Addison, 
 
 500 00 
 
 Beals, William, . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Bowdlear, Wm. A., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Burt, Augustine, 
 
 25 00 
 
 Brown, S. N., Jr., 
 
 360 00 
 
 Bard well, J. B., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Badger, Erastus B., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Barker, A. J., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Benton, A. W., . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Bemis, Edward, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Brooks, Geo., 
 
 600 00 
 
 Blodgett, Wm. A., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Bogman, Geo. E., 
 
 200 00 
 
 Brooks, Rufus F., 
 
 72 00 
 
 Barnes, Lawrence, 
 
 10,000 00 
 
 Brown, Newell, . . < 
 
 60 00 
 
 "Bap. Ch., Old Cambridge 
 
 258 30 
 
 Brooks, Mrs. Mary A., 
 
 8 00 
 
 " " Cambridgeport, 
 
 262 00 
 
 Butler, H. V., . 
 
 5 00 
 
 Blanchard, Wm., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Bowdlear,W. A., for friend 
 
 , 1 00 
 
 Blake Ezekiel, . 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Bolles, Matthew, 
 
 . 1,000 00 
 
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 Colby, Lewis, 
 
 $5,000 00 
 
 Chase, H. S., 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 Cole, B. E., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Cunningham, Lucy S., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Converse, B. B., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Carr, John, . . . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Capen, Edw. W., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Carpenter, Cyrus, 
 
 . 1,000 00 
 
 Chase, H. Lincoln, . 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 Coolidge D. S., . 
 
 ■100 00 
 
 Corey, Mrs. Elijah, . 
 
 50 00 
 
 Carnes, Geo. W., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Colhy, Jos. L., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Colby, Chas. L., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Capen, Ezekiel, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Coolidge, Mrs. Mary S., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Coolidge, Josiah, 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Clapp, G. W., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Cook, Josiah W., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Colhy, Gardner, . 
 
 18,000 00 
 
 Clarke, Wm. N., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Colburn, E., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Chester, D wight, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Crosby, David, . 
 
 15 00 
 
 Cross, H. Jane, . 
 
 6 00 
 
 Chase, Walter, . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Cummings, Geo., 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 Chase, J. G., 
 
 150 00 
 
 Cook, Mary E., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Coolidge, John, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Conant, F. F., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Clark, W. N., for boy, 
 
 1 00 
 
 Duncklee, B. W., 
 
 70 00 
 
 Davis, Sam'l C, . 
 
 10,000 00 
 
 Dexter, Chas. W., 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Davis, Robert S., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Dorr, Cornelius, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Daniels, Chas. E., 
 
 50 00 
 
 Duncan, Mary W., 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Dexter, Geo. S., . . 
 
 6,000 00 
 
 Dexter, Mrs. Geo. B., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Daggett, C. K. ; . . 
 
 12 00 
 
 Daniels, S. V. R., 
 
 100 00 
 
 Dizer, M. C, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Davis, Isaac, 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 Eaton, Nathaniel L., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Edmond, James, 
 
 1,500 00 
 
 Edmands, George D., 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 Evans, T. C, . . 
 Edmond, Miss Helen, 
 Edmond, Miss Emma, 
 Eaton, W. H., . 
 Earle, E. B., 
 Earle, J. H., 
 Friend, by J. W. M., 
 Ford, D. S., 
 Freuch, Miss Ellen, 
 Fuller, Levi K., . 
 Fuller, Robert O., 
 Friend, per J. W. Converse 
 Fitz, E. C, . 
 Forbes, Gustavus, 
 Friend, per D. F. Lam 
 
 son, . 
 Francis, Jas., 
 Friend of J. C. Hartshorn 
 Gonld, Thomas, . 
 Gordon, A. J., 
 Griggs, Thomas, 
 Goodnow, Joseph, 
 Glover, Henry R., 
 Gross, John A. D., 
 Gould, Ezra P., . 
 Gardner, G. W., . 
 Greenleaf, O. H., 
 Green, Augustus A., 
 Green, Mrs. A. A., 
 Gilkey, Royal, . 
 Goodwin, Mrs. H. B., 
 Hibbard, S. P., . 
 Hart, Nath. O., . 
 Hawes, Richard A., 
 Holman, John, . 
 Holmes, Joseph A., 
 Holmes, Frank M., 
 Hayward, D. H., 
 Hill, S. P., . 
 Howard, Gen. O. O., 
 Hovey, Alvah, . 
 Hough, Geo. T., . 
 Hatch, Geo. C, . 
 Hewins, L. G., . 
 Homer, Geo., 
 Hartwell, J. B., . 
 Hartshorn, J. C, 
 Holbrook, C. F., . 
 
 $1,200 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 60 00 
 
 60 00 
 
 300 00 
 
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 100 00 
 
 120 00 
 
 5,500 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 1,550 00 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 200 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 200 00 
 
 100 00 
 
 500 00 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 150 00 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 200 00 
 
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 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 30 00 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 25 00 
 
FUND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 
 
 67 
 
 Hawes, Saml. C, 
 
 . $500 00 
 
 Jacobs, Hirain, . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Johnson, Geo. L., 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 Jackson, C. E., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Jackson, Mrs. Antipas, 
 
 5 00 
 
 Kendall, Chas. S., 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 King, H. M., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Kirby, Clias. K., 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Kingsley, Chester W., 
 
 600 00 
 
 Kelso, Jona. G., . 
 
 60 00 
 
 Keese, Levi, 
 
 i 300 00 
 
 Knowles, Thomas, 
 
 20 00 
 
 Kimball, Wales, . 
 
 30 00 
 
 Lincoln Joshua, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Little, G. W., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Lamson, Wm., . 
 
 250 00 
 
 Lincoln, H. B. 3 . 
 
 60 00 
 
 Lawton, George, 
 
 5,000 00 
 
 Lincoln, Heman, 
 
 300 00 
 
 Learnard Geo. E., 
 
 120 00 
 
 Mann, N. P., Jr., 
 
 1,500 00 
 
 Mann, N. P., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Merrill, J. Warren 
 
 18,000 00 
 
 Merrill, T. Watson, per J 
 
 
 W. M., . 
 
 12 70 
 
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 30 00 
 
 Mitchell, S. P., . 
 
 250 00 
 
 Merrick, Timothy, 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Manning, J. B., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Munroe, James, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 March, Delano, . 
 
 250 00 
 
 March, Geo. N., . 
 
 250 00 
 
 Newton, John F., 
 
 150 00 
 
 Nickerson, Thomas, . 
 
 6,000 00 
 
 Noyes, Samuel, . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Nbyes, Mrs. Mary, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Olmstead, J. W., 
 
 1,200 00 
 
 Parker, J. G., 
 
 25 00 
 
 Perkins, S. S., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Putnam, John, . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pond, Moses W., 
 
 600 00 
 
 Perkins, Jos. J., . 
 
 200 00 
 
 Paine, J. S., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Parsons, Solomon, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Pratt, John C, . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Paine, Sarah A., . 
 
 1 00 
 
 Pevear, G. K. & H. A., . 
 
 6,000 00 
 
 Parkhurst, J. W., 
 
 300 00 
 
 Potter, Mrs. Elizabeth D., 
 Pope, Mrs. Wm. G. E., 
 Peabody, Alfred, 
 Penniman, Dea., 
 Priest, D. H., 
 Reed, F. O., 
 Reed, Jos. W., . 
 Richmond, Geo. B., 
 Randall, David, . 
 Richardson, Jas. M., 
 Story, Joseph, . 
 Stevens, Jos. C, 
 Spooner, Hon. W. B., 
 Spoouer, Mrs. L. H., 
 Shed, J. G., . 
 Stackpole, R. M., 
 Smith, Franklin W., 
 Sawyer, Joseph, 
 Stimson, A. G., . 
 Seaverns, Thos., . 
 Swaim, Mrs. A. D., 
 Sands, Albert J., 
 Shawmut Ave. Bap. Ch. ; 
 Seaverns, Geo. W., 
 Snow, S. B., 
 Sanger, Warren, 
 Sawin, S. D., 
 Sargent, Prentice, 
 Seymour, Friend, 
 Sturtevant, B. F., 
 Sanborn, John H., 
 Stearns, O. S., 
 Sanborn, Geo. O., 
 Stearns, Dan'l, . 
 Slater, H. N., . 
 Stevens, Mrs. E. C. 
 Small, Mrs., 
 Safcord, Mrs. H., 
 Taylor Simeon, . 
 Taylor, Mrs. N. M., 
 Tingley, T. C, . 
 Tappan, Lewis, N., 
 Toles, R. G., 
 Tucker, Aaron E., 
 Tiffany Lyman, . 
 Thing, Sam'l B., 
 Teele, J. W., 
 Teele, Samuel, . 
 
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 Tucker, Thos. W., 
 
 $120 00 
 
 Thomas, Mrs. Sylvanus, 
 
 50 00 
 
 Tinkham, H. N., 
 
 500 00 
 
 Tainter, D. A., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Upton, James, . 
 
 3,000 00 
 
 Yiall, Chas. A., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Vinal, Albert, 
 
 1,000 00 
 
 Wilbur, Asa, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Wood, Mrs. M. W., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Woodworth, A. S., . 
 
 500 00 
 
 Wheeler, G. W., . 
 
 25 00 
 
 Warren, M. E., . 
 
 300 00 
 
 Waters, Mrs. Annie E., 
 
 2,000 00 
 
 Whittier, A. S., . 
 
 5 00 
 
 Webber, Mrs..S. T. Gridley, 
 
 125 00 
 
 Wade, Francis W., . 
 
 100 00 
 
 Weld, Miss Susan, 
 
 100 00 
 
 Weld, Nathaniel, 
 Weld, John, 
 Witherbee, J. B., 
 Weld, Eben, 
 Warren, A. T., . 
 White, Jos. M., . 
 Winn, Dan'l D., . 
 Wilson, Mrs. Clarissa, 
 Woods, Alya, 
 Whipple, Mrs. Arnold, 
 Wilcox, Chas. F., 
 White, B. L., 
 White, L. L., 
 Walker, Jos. H., 
 Wellington, Catherine, 
 
 $100 00 
 
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SCHOLARSHIPS. Q$ 
 
 [B.] 
 
 SCHOLAESHIPS. 
 
 The following resolutions were adopted by the Trustees of Newton Theo- 
 logical Institution, April 21, 1830 : — 
 
 " Resolved, That scholarships he established for the support of students, as 
 soon as funds can be obtained for that purpose. 
 
 "Resolved, That such scholarships consist of not less than $1,000 each, which 
 shall be invested in some productive stock, and the interest only" shall be 
 applied to the support of students." 
 
 The " Knowles Scholarship" was founded January 1, 1830, Jby the "Boston 
 Young Men's Baptist Education Society." Present amount, $1,720. 
 
 The " Read Scholarship " was founded April 28, 1845, by James H. Bead, 
 Providence, E. I. Present amount, $2,285. 
 
 The " Ripley Fund," practically a half scholarship, was originated July 6, 
 1852, by the will of Mrs. Abigail Eipley. Present amount, $500. 
 
 The " Isaac Davis Scholarship " was founded January 20, 18b*6, by Hon. 
 Isaac Davis, Worcester, Mass., for the benefit of students who engage to 
 preach, as a rule, without the use of a manuscript. Present amount, $1,000. 
 
 The " Susan Tripp Scholarship " was founded by a bequest of Mrs. Susan 
 Teipp, New Bedford, Mass., received February 20, 1866. Present amount, 
 $1,000. 
 
 The " Mrs. Watts' Scholarships " were founded by Mrs. Annie E. Waters, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. (included in the Additional Endowment Fund of $200,000), 
 paid 1871 and 1872. Amount, $2,000. 
 
 The " Swaim Scholarship " was founded by Mrs. Aurora D. Swaim, Cam- 
 bridgeport, Mass., in memory of her late husband, Eev. Samuel D. Swaim, 
 D. D., paid in 1871, 72, '73. Amount, $1,000 (taken from the Additional 
 Endowment Fund). 
 
 The " Betsey Hamlin Scholarship " was founded, 1873, by Mrs. Carollne H. 
 Eossiter, Great Barrington, Mass., in memory of her mother, Mrs. Betsey 
 Hamlin. Amount, $1,000. 
 
 The "Potter Scholarship" was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Potter, 
 New Bedford, Mass., in memory of her late daughter, Deborah N. Potter, 
 paid 1871, '72, '73. Amount, $300 (taken from the Additional Endowment 
 Fund). 
 
 This last is of course only part of a scholarship, though used for the 
 benefit of students like a full scholarship. It should perhaps be called the 
 " Potter Fund." 
 
 
70 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Since the preceding address was delivered another scholarship has been 
 pledged by a friend. 
 
 Besides the scholarships just mentioned, the Institution has the following 
 trust funds, viz. : — 
 
 The " Fenelly Fund," created by the will of Mrs. Elizabeth F. Gurney, 
 October, 1856, being an estate at the corner of Salem and Prince streets, 
 valued at $8,000 ; one-half the income of which goes to the general purposes 
 of the Institution, the other half goes to the Fatherless and Widows Society. 
 
 The " Isaac Davis Library Fund," established by the Hon. Isaac Davis, of 
 Worcester, Mass., June 3, 1868, " the annual income to be applied to the pur- 
 chase of books relating to the history of Baptists." Amount, $500. 
 
 The " Alva Woods Elocution Fund," established by the Eev. Alva Woods, 
 D. D., of Providence, R. L, July, 1868, " the income to be appropriated 
 toward paying for the services of a teacher of elocution for the students of 
 the Institution." Amount, $5,000. 
 
 The legal name of the seminary is Newton Theological Institution, 
 and in gifts or bequests it should be so designated. 
 
 [C] 
 
 A fortnight, more or less, before the time for completing this subscription 
 expired, a meeting of the subscribers was held in Tremont Temple, Boston, 
 at which Dr. Eaton stated that he had secured pledges to the amount of 
 about $177,500, but could not obtain the required sum, $200,000. Thereupon 
 Gardner Colby and J. Warren Merrill were appointed a committee to 
 raise the subscription to $210,000. The time for doing this was short, and it 
 is rumored that there was some pretty bold and fast driving through the 
 streets of Boston for a few days, with two fine-looking gentlemen, in middle 
 life, intent on business, in the carriage. At any rate, the task proposed was 
 accomplished. 
 
SEMI-CENTENNIAL POEM. 71 
 
 CD.] 
 NEWTON'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL 
 
 BY REV. S. F. SMITH, D. D. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — and reverend men 
 Have gathered on this sacred liill 
 
 To tell — as young life thrills again — 
 Who sleep in death, who linger still. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — the arching skies, 
 The distant peaks, the leafy grove, — 
 
 O'er all, the summer beauty lies : 
 Peace breathes around, and peace above. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — the men, whose deeds 
 In reverent trust their children keep ; 
 
 No praise their noble labor needs : 
 
 God took them all, — in Christ they sleep. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — the names we knew, 
 
 Clustered with thronging memories, wake, 
 
 Fragrant as blossoms pearled with dew, 
 Dear for their own, for Zion's sake. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — the aged form 
 Of Grafton rests beneath the sod ; 
 
 Life's ocean crossed, and hushed life's storm,- 
 Safe in the Paradise of God. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — the men revered, 
 Who blessed the infant's natal hour, 
 
 Ripened, are gone, but still endeared : 
 We hail the fruit, — we miss the flower. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — the priests of God, 
 Who watched at sacred learning's shrine, — 
 
 Champions of living truth, they stood ; 
 Translated, like the stars they shine. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — our loving eyes 
 
 Life's roll and death's memorials trace; 
 
 Resting in hope, what form here lies ? 
 The patient, trusting, faithful Chase. 
 
72 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
 
 Mature in grace, and full of days, 
 
 Crowned with fresh laurels, Ripley sleeps ; 
 
 Love's golden fingers weave his praise, 
 Peace her fond watch around him keeps. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — what battles gained • 
 We trace, hill of God, to thee! 
 
 What souls for heavenly glory trained ! 
 What songs of joy and victory ! 
 
 'Tis fifty years — new harvests wait, 
 Where earlier reapers toiled and fell ; 
 
 And many a sickle waits, and craves 
 New and brave hands to wield it well. 
 
 As when on battle's gory field 
 
 The strong give way, the mighty fall, 
 
 New and brave hands their strength shall yield, 
 New and brave hearts shall heed the call. 
 
 'Tis fifty years — we rear to-day — 
 Not in the strength which nature boasts — 
 
 A new memorial-stone, and say, 
 Our helper is the Lord of hosts. 
 
HISTORICAL ADDRESS 
 
 DELIVERED AT THE 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION, 
 
 June 8, 1875. 
 
 By ALVAH HOTEY, D.D., 
 
 President, and Professor of Theology. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 WRIGHT &. POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, 
 
 79 Milk Street (corner of Federal). 
 
 1875. 
 
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