the Western Reserve has a deep interest. Every farmer and mechanic, every friend of religion and intelligence, has an abiding interest in the issue of this struggle. But the church is especially and most deeply interested. 6 "The College was, at the laying of the corner-stone, dedicated To Christ and his Church. It is the offering of our churches. It was founded by and for the church, especially for the churches of the Western Reserve and the West. To train up a sound, thoroughly educated, indigenous ministry, was the primary object in its establishment. It is fast accomplishing the object for which it was founded. Of its 153 graduates, about one-half of those living are either in the ministry or in actual preparation for it. Besides these, a considerable number, who were graduated elsewhere, have studied theology in this Seminary, and are now actively engaged in the work. Six became missionaries of the American Board: four of these are still living, and the labors of some of them have been eminently blessed of God. Most of the graduates, however, are toiling in the West. And if all Heaven rejoices over one sinner that repenteth, who can estimate the blessed results the College and Seminary have already achieved? "Western Reserve, which is so highly favored with the institutions of religion and education, owes its pre-eminence above many other portions of the West in no small degree to the Colleges and Theological Seminaries of New England. The early Missionaries here were, nearly all of them, graduates of those institutions. They were men of solid attainments in learning, and brought with them all those healthful influences which men well trained there would naturally exert. These were the men who conceived the idea, and formed the plan, and raised the means of establishing the College and Seminary whose existence is now in peril. "Henceforward our reliance for Domestic Missionaries must be mainly upon those educated on the ground, who know from their own personal observation the destitution of the region, and whose knowledge elicits true Christian sympathy. Viewed in this light, our own Theological School has the strongest claims to the patronage and prayers of the friends of religion and learning on the Western Reserve and all the adjacent region. The young men educated here can with difficulty be retained in the Seminary till they have completed their course of study, the calls for their services are so many and so important. Were our numbers greatly enlarged, and our means of aiding those who are in needy circumstances also increased, the salutary effect upon the churches would be felt speedily, powerfully, and permanently." "We believe that God hears and answers prayer. Human efforts are futile without the blessing of God. The Ministry is God's instrumentality for the conversion of the world. Colleges and Seminaries are God's means for training up a learned and efficient Ministry. The effort to found and sustain such institutions is one whose success is essential to His plan for the world's conversion. Such efforts are therefore pre-eminently appropriate subjects for prayer. There are among the readers of this article hundreds to whom the welfare of the Western Reserve College is now a subject of special interest. The fact that the present effort is the final struggle, that the issue is to be either the downfall of the College or its establishment upon a permanent basis; and the fact, that the danger of failure is imminent, have awakened deep solicitude among the friends of Zion. What can be done?' and What ought I to do?' are questions which now meet us from every side. There is one thing we can all do. We believe that God is a prayer-hearing God. We can, at least, pray for the success of the effort to endow the College. A pious widow, in a recent conversation, assured me that for many years before the death of her husband, she never heard him offer a prayer at the family altar in which he did not pray for Colleges, and especially for the Western Reserve College. 6 No wonder that, while on earth, he so labored for its prosperity-and no wonder that the family which he has left are ready to do their utmost to aid the College at the present crisis. If such a spirit were general-if such prayer were offered at the altar of every family where the Observer is read-if our 'churches could see the disastrous consequences of the failure of this effort-if they would pray and labor, and labor and pray, as the magnitude of the object requires, the result would not long be doubtful." The "result" thus far reached, we give in the language of President Pierce : "The people of the Reserve have shown a zeal, liberality, and self-denial, that will hardly find a parallel in the history of modern benevolence. The Reserve is about equal in extent and population to the State of Connecticut, while the members of Presbyterian and Congregational Churches are in numqer only about one-fourth as great as in that State. In its more than two hundred townships, the number of settled Pastors of these churches will not much exceed forty; and in only eighty of these townships is there stated preaching every Sabbath, and this, in part, is furnished by the American Home Missionary Society; while nearly thirty townships are without Churches. Some seventy feeble Churches are asking for some one to break unto them the bread of life.' "The country is still new, and the people have hardly finished clearing and paying for their farms, and building their dwelling houses and houses of worship; and besides, they have contributed largely for the establishment of the College in former years; yet, they are expected to give at least three-fourths of the $100,000 now to be raised, and have already brought the effort near to its consummation. The donations there made are not from large estates or resources received by inheritance. They are from the hard earnings of farmers and mechanics, and the prudent savings of lawyers, physicians, and ministers of the gospel. Many feeble Churches have contributed $500 for the establishment of a permanent charity scholarship, and many individuals have given a like sum to establish a scholarship for their families and lineal descendants. "It is said, by those best acquainted with the facts, that the salaries of ministers on the Reserve do not average more than $300, and yet thirty ministers have given $3,000, or an average of $100 each. The Faculty of Western Reserve College, with small salaries and few other resources, have pledged $10,000. The Alumni of the College are young, and have struggled hard to obtain an education, and have had but little opportunity to gain property and yet, they have attempted to raise a Professorship among themselves, and have actually subscribed $8,000. "These facts are furnished, not by way of boasting, but to stimulate like benevolence, and refute the assertion, sometimes made, that the people of the West are too much disposed to rely upon Eastern aid, and not to help themselves." In view of statements like these, we cannot, for a moment, believe that the final result will be doubtful. There are yet eight weeks left for operations on the Reserve, and if the effort at the present time is "near its consummation," the people who have already done so nobly will not let the enterprise fail. The responsibility of a failure is now thrown entirely upon the friends of the College in its own vicinity, and so much of the Puritan spirit has been developed during the prosecution of the enterprise hitherto, that we have a right to regard it as a sure pledge of the successful completion of this great effort. But the accomplishment of this work will draw in its train results of the deepest interest. A noble Institution will have been saved to the cause of learning and religion, and a work achieved whose influence will be felt by coming ages, and we doubt not that from the distant future multitudes will look back upon the large-hearted benefactors through whose bounty it was accomplished, with feelings similar to those with which are now regarded the far-seeing and generous men to whose munificence, under God, we are indebted for the establishment of those noble instititutions which have come down to us as a most precious inheritance. The The benefaction which gave to Yale College its name, was less than five hundred pounds sterling, and yet it sent a thrill of joy through the hearts of those colonists, who were struggling to lay the foundations of a nation, and who, in their feeble beginnings, were doing a work for all time. They themselves felt that they were doing such a work. Trustees of the College did with one consent agree, determine, and ordain" that it should be "called by the name of its munificent patron"- that the "Province. of Connecticut might "keep and preserve a lasting monument of so generous a gentleman, who by so great a benevolence and generosity, has provided for their greatest good and the peculiar advantage of the inhabitants, both in the present and FUTure ages." "On Commencement Day morning (Sept. 12th, 1718), this monument, both of generosity and gratitude, was with solemn pomp read off in the college hall, both in Latin and in Engglish;" then the procession moved to the meeting-house to attend the public exercises of the day, where "the Rev. Mr. John Davenport, one of the Trustees, at the desire of the body," made an oration, "wherein he largely insisted upon and highly extolled the generosity of Gov. Yale. And the Hon. Gov. Saltonstall was pleased to grace and crown the whole solemnity with an elegant Latin oration." At first we may feel disposed to smile at all this, as unmeaning paradebut when we look at it through the medium of results, which have accumulated through a period of nearly one hundred and fifty years in the history of Yale College, it excites only our admiration as the index of the most noble impulses, and breadth of view, which stretched onward over FUTURE AGES. So, when the present effort of the Trustees of Western Reserve College shall be viewed through the results * Alumni of Yale who have held the more important Offices under the Federal and State Governments, with the date of graduation. Signers of the Declaration of Independence.-Philip Livingston, 1737; Lewis Morris, 1746; Oliver Wolcott, 1747; Lyman Hall, 1747. Members of the Convention for framing Constitution.-Wm. Livingston, 1741; Wm. S. Johnson, 1744; Jared Ingersoll, 1766. Vice-President U. S.-John C. Calhoun. Members of the Cabinet.-Oliver Wolcott, 1778. Secretary of the Treasury; Peter B. Porter, 1791, Secretary of War; John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War; Geo. E. Badger, 1813; Secretary of the Navy; John M. Clayton, 1815, Secretary of State; Francis Granger, 1811, Post Master General. Foreign Ministers.-Silas Deane, 1758, to France; David Humphreys, 1771, to Spain and Portugal; Joel Barlow, 1778, to France; Ralph J. Ingersoll, 1808, to Russia. Senators U. S. Congress.-Wm. S. Johnson, 1757; John S. Hobart, Simeon Olcott, 1761; Stephen M. Mitchell, 1763; Theodore Sedgwick, 1765; Abraham Baldwin, 1772; James Hillhouse, 1773; Stephen R. Bradley, 1775; Samuel W. Dana, 1775; Chauncey Goodrich, 1776; James Watson. 1776; Nathaniel Chipman, 1777; Uriah Tracy, 1778; Israel Smith, 1781; Ashur Robbins, 1782; David Daggett. 1783; Rajah Greene, 1784; Return J. Meigs, 1785; Stanley Griswold, 1786; Christopher Ellery, 1787; James Lanman, 1788; Jeremiah Mason, 1788; John Elliott, 1794; Samuel A. Foot, 1797; Horace Seymour, 1797; Gideon Tomlinson, 1802; Isaac E. Bates, 1802; John C. Calhoun; Jabez W. Huntingdon, 1806; *John Davis, 1812; Elias K. Kane, 1813; John M. Clayton; Thaddeus Betts, 1807; * Samuel S. Phelps, 1811; *George E. Badger, Roger S. Baldwin, 1811. * 30th Congress. Judge U. S. Court.-Henry Baldwin, 1797. Judge U. S. District Court.-William Bristol, 1798. Governors-Connecticut.-Oliver Wolcott, 1747; John Treadwell, 1767; Oliver Wolcott, 1778; Roger Griswold, 1780; John Cotton Smith, 1783; Samuel A. Foot, Gideon Tomlinson, Clark Bissell, 1806; William W. Ellsworth, 1810; Roger S Baldwin. Massachusetts. - John Davis. Vermont.-Israel Smith. New Jersey-William Livingston, 1741. Georgia.-Lyman Hall; Nathan Brownson. Ohio.-Samuel Huntington, 1785; Return J. Meigs. Chief Justices Supreme Court-Connecticut.-Eliphalet Dyer, 1740; Richard Law, 1751; Andrew Adams, 1760; Stephen M. Mitchell, 1765; Zephaniah Swift, 1778; Stephen T. Hosmer, 1782; David Daggett, Thomas S. Williams, 1794; Samuel Church, 1803. Vermont.-Enoch Woodbridge, 1774; Nathaniel Chipman; Stephen Jacob; 1778; Israel Smith. Ohio-Samuel Huntington; Peter Hitchcock, 1801. Associate Justices of Supreme Court-Connecticut.-William S. Johnson; Jonathan Sturges, 1759; Benjamin Huntington, 1761; Jonathan Ingersoll, 1766; John Trumbull, 1767; William Edmonds, 1777; Ashur Miller, 1778; Oliver Wolcott, 1778; Jeremiah G. Brainard, 1779; Roger Griswold, John Cotton Smith, James Lanman, 1788; John T Peters, 1789; Asa Chapman, 1792; Roger M. Sherman, 1792, William Bristol, 1798; Clark Bissell, 1806; Jabez W. Huntington, 1806; Henry M. Wait, 1809; William W. Ellsworth, 1810; William L. Storrs, 1814 Massachusetts.-Simeon Strong, 1756; Theodore Sedgwick, Samuel Hubbard, 1802. Vermont.-Noah Smith, 1778; Daniel Farrant, 1781; Joel Doolittle, 1799; Milo L. Bennett, 1811; Samuel S. Phelps. New-York-John Woodworth, 1788; James Southerland, 1807. Ohio. Return J. Meigs, J. N. Couch, 1802; Edward Avery, 1810; Frederick Grimke, 1810. Kentucky--Silas Robbins, 1808; Thomas A. Marshall, 1815. North Carolina.--George E Badger. South Carolina.--Abraham North, 1787. Georgia.--Augustus B. Longstreet, 1813. Mississippi.-John P. Hampton, 1824; George Winchester, 1826. Louisiana.-Thomas Slidell, 1825, Chancellors, New-York.--James Kent, 1781; Samuel Jones, 1790. The last Triennial of Yale, was published in 1847; the whole number of alumni at that time, was 5678, of whom 2882 were living." [Boston Traveller.] NOTE. In the House of Representatives, 30th Congress-Massachusetts.-George Ashmun, 1823; Julius Rockwell, 1826. Connecticut.--Samuel D. Hubbard, 1819; Truman Smith, 1815. Alumni of Yale College, distinguished as Theologians, Clergymen, and Authors, from 1702 to 1815. 1702 Nathaniel Chauncy, Durham, Ct. Cler. 1705 Samuel Whittelsey, New Haven, Ct. Cler. of a century and a half in its history, in what a light will be placed the $100,000 which gave the Institution to posterity! But the interest of this result is by no means limited to that one Institution. The Society will now be enabled to 1706 Jared Eliot, Killingworth, Ct. Cler. 1706 Jonathan Dickinson, D. D., first Pres., Nassau Hall, Author. 1714 Benjamin Lord. D. D., Norwich Ct. 1714 Samuel Johnson, D. D., Pres. King's Coll., N. Y., Author. 1720 Jonathan Edwards, the Great Author. 1724 Henry Caner, D. D., Minister of King's Chapel, Boston, Author. 1732 William Hart Saybrook, Author, wrote against Edwards and Hopkins. 1733 Eleazer Wheelock, D. D, founder and Pres. Dart. Coll.; Benjamin Pomeroy, revival preacher. 1735 Aaron Burr, Pres., Nassau Hall; Joseph Bellamy, D. D., Author, Theol. 1738 Chauncy Whittelsey, New Haven. 1741 Samuel Hopkins, D. D, the Theologian; Samner Buel, D. D., eminent preacher of the Edwards school; Noah Wells, D. D., Saybrook, Theol. influential writer; James Sproat, D. D., Phil. dis. preacher. 1743 Eliphalet Williams, D. D., East Hartford. 1744 William Samuel Johnson, Pres. Columbia Coll., not Cler. Author. 1745 Thomas B. Chandler, D. D., Elizabethtown, N. J., dis. Epis. Cler. and Theol. 1746 Ezra Styles, D. D., Pres. Yale Coll. 1748 Samuel Seabury Bishop of Conn.; Naphtali Daggett, Pres. of Yale. 1749 Samuel Hopkins, D. D., Hadley; Gideon Hawley, Miss. to Indians. 1752 Elizur Goodrich, D. D., Durham. eminent Cler., Theol. 1754 Joseph Lathrop, D. D., West Springfield, preacher and teacher of Theol. Students. 1756 John Smalley, D. D., New Britain, Theol writer and teacher. 1757 Abraham Beach, D. D., Epis. Cler. New-York City. 1759 Joseph Sumner, D. D.; Benjamin Trumbull, D. D., North Haven, Theol. and Hist. 1760 Levi Hart, D. D., Preston, Conn., influential Cler. ; Joseph Dana, D. D., Ipswich, Mass. 1761 Abraham Jarvis, Bishop of Conn. 1762 John H. Livingston, Pres. of Queen's Coll. N. J., dis. Theol. and Prof. of Theology in the Ref. Dutch Ch.; Joseph Huntington, D. D., Author of Calvinism Improved. 1764 Samuel J. Mills, Torrington. 1767 Samuel Wales, D. D., Prof Theology. Yale Coll.; John Treadwell, Gov. Conn., Theological writer; Joseph Lyman, D. D., Hatfield, Mass., Theol, and Theol. instructor; Nathanael Emmons, Theol; John Trumbull, Poet. 1769 Timothy Dwight, D. D., Pres. Yale Coll., Theol, Poet; David Ely, D. D., Huntington, Conn.; Nathan Strong. D. D., Hartford, Preacher and Theol. 1770 Joseph Buckminster, D. D., Portsmouth, N. H. 1771 Gen. David Humphreys, Poet. 1777 Nathanael Chipman, dist. writer on Law; Ebenezer Fitch, D. D., first Pres. Williams Coll. 1778 Joel Barlow, Poet, Pol. writer. 1781 James Kent, Legal writer; Noah Webster. 1783 Samuel Austin, D. D., Pres. Univ. Vt., Preacher and Theologian; Jedidias Morse, Geographer. 1784 Chauncy Lee, D. D., Author, Poet. 1785 Abel Flint, D. D., Hartford, Author; Timothy Pitkin, Historian and Polit. writer. 1786 Stanley Griswold, New Milford, Preacher and Polit. 1787 Azel Backus, D. D., Bethlem, Pres. Har. Coll. 1789 Asahel Hooker, Goshen, Teacher of Theol., students. 1790 Edward Dorr Griffin. 1792 Roger Minott Sherman. 1795 Jeremiah Day. 1796 Henry Davis, Pres. Harv. Coll. Thomas Miner, Medical writer; Benjamin Silliman. 1797 James Murdock; Lyman Beecher. 1799 Eli Ives, Botanist; James L. Kingsley; Moses Stuart. 1802 David D. Field, D. D., Statistical and Misc.; Daniel Haskell, Pres. Univt. Vt.., Geography. 1803 Sereno E. Dwight; Horace Holley, Pres. Trans. Un, Unit. Preacher. 1804 John Pierpont, Poet and Preacher; Bennett Tyler, Theol. 1805 Thomas H. Gallaudett; Heman Humphrey, D. D., Pres. Amherst Coll. Theol. and Misc. ; F. Jarvis, D. D., Eccles. Hist.; Gardiner Spring, D. D., Theol. 1807 Luther Hart, Preacher and writer; Nathaniel W. Taylor; Thomas S. Grimke, Polit. and Lit. 1808 Matthew R. Dutton; Nathaniel Hewitt; James A. Hillhouse, Poet and Essayist; Jonathan Samuel Knight, Med. 1809 Josiah W. Gibbs, Phil. 1810 Ethan A. Andrews, Grammar; Eleazer T. Fitch; C. A. Goodrich; Frederick Grimke, Misc. ; Samuel F. B. Morse. 1811 Ralph Emerson, D. D.; Joseph E. Worcester, Geog. Hist. Dict. 1812 Calvin Colton, Theol. Lit., Political. 1813 Elias Cornelius, D. D.; William T. Dwight, D. D., Portland; Alex. M. Fisher, Math.; Denison Olmsted. 1814 Nathanael S. Wheaton, Pres. Wash. Coll, Book of Travels; Leonard Withington. 1815 Henry E. Dwight, Travels: Horace Hooker, Misc.; JAMES G. PERCIVAL; William B. Sprague, D. D. |