ministry in Middlebury. The first occurred in 1799, and resulted in large additions to the church, an account of which appears in the Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, Volume III., 64th and 102d pages, and lately re-published by President Tyler, of East Windsor, one of his spiritual children, and who fitted with him for college. He was dismissed from that people, April, 1809, in the midst of an uncommon religious inquiry, especially among the youth, for daring to reprove sin in an aggravated case, the parties being wealthy, and of high standing in society, to the grief of many of his friends. During the summer following he supplied the pulpit in North Stonington, and in the autumn of the same year he received a unanimous call to be pastor over the church and society in Stonington Borough. He was installed on the 6th of December. For twenty years he continued to discharge the duties of his office, almost without interruption, until within two weeks of his death, which occurred October 29th, 1829. As a preacher he was earnest and popular. He was very ready, no exigency finding him unfurnished with appropriate thoughts and language, many of his best efforts being extempore. He was successful, referring only to the last scene of his labors, the stability, union, and strength of a society that had previously languished from the want of a regular ministry for several years alone furnishing ample testimony. In 1822 sixty were added to the church, and some were added nearly every year of his ministry. As a pastor we have room to mention only one prominent trait in his character. He was distinguished for tenderness and sym- pathy towards the sick and bereaved, and was rendered more so by the loss of his son in 1819—Charles Theodore, of beloved memory— a youth whom his classmates in college will long remember as the most amiable of their number, and as a candidate for the very first collegiate honors, and concerning whom his marble says truly, “of great promise and of hopeful piety.” Though this loss deeply wrung the father’s heart with anguish, yet the man of God triumphed over the feelings of the father, and as he closed the eyes of his son, he said with true Christian dignity, “the will of the Lord be done.” I will add, like Leigh Richmond he mourned over this child of his fondest hopes to the day of his death. It eminently gratified him to be a “son of consolation” to the bereaved, and this trait greatly endeared him to his people. The remote occasion of his death was a severe contusion in his side, received by a fall from his carriage in the middle of September, 1829. He was confined to the house only two weeks. Early in his confinement he said, as if anticipating the result, “Now I want dying grace, and I have it.” Subsequently, of a Saviour supreme and divine he said: “Here is firm footing; here is solid rock. With Hooker I will say, ‘I am going to receive mercy.’” To his wife he