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Life and Character of the Rev. Sylvester Judd o I E-UNIVERS/A .vios-ANCEifj> LlfTi SUIT LIFE AND CHARACTER REV. SYLVESTER JUDD BOSTON: D. C. COLESWORTHY. 1857. 9969 WHOSE FATHER WAS TRANSLATED FROM THEIR HOME BEFORE THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW AND COMPREHEND HIM, IS TENDERLY AND MOST LOTINGLY SettcateH. ' Is the composition of this work, the design has been to make it, as far as possible, an antoKoyrafky. Hot onlj the existence of abundant material for this purpose, but ftft desire that Mr. Judd should be made the exponent of himself, led to die adoption of this count. In mating selections from sermons, lectures, letters, and private pages, that would fifl volumes, such hare been chosen as were thought oest fitted, by their playful touches and varied fights, to present him as he was, going in and out in daily life ; to delineate in their true shades the multiform and shifting phases of his character, both as to individual prominence and collective harmony; to wiMhit the governing principle of his being, in all rela tions, public and private ; and, especially, to show how an earnest seeker after truth and right aped on his way, and with what persevering self-reliance and brave con- scientiousness the battle of fife may be fought If, with this intention, the extracts given shall be deemed too ample, the explanation must be found in the perhaps partial feeling of one who has watched with fond VI from the first interest his every variety of development, to their final close on opening of his eyes in infancy that the rich mass of matter earthly light, manuscript left behind was too good to be lost. The life of Mr. Judd consisted rather in inward pro and of course furnishes gressions than in outward changes, to those who little variety as a story of incident. But, is of feel that a range at large in the field of thought greater worth than a transition from one physical locality to another, that high and noble principles are more honorable than conspicuous stations, and that wealth of soul far outweighs the richest material products, it will not be found wanting in interest and attractiveness. Those who have known Mr. Judd only as an author will readily perceive, that this was by no means the most in but distinctive form which he put forth his powers ; that the author was lost in the man, at the same time, as " has been truly remarked by another, that the author was intensely the expression of the man." As to the plan chosen, it was found quite impracticable to introduce, with that prominence which seemed their due, the important details of his general views and modes of action into the current history of his life, without get ting bewildered in mazy, labyrinthian episodes, the grace ful escape from which would have been difficult to the writer, and the impression produced upon the reader con fused and unsatisfactory. Should it seem that by this method of something repetition occurs, or that any thing is lost as to the general unity and harmonious blending of the whole, it is believed that amends will more than be Vll found in the increased clearness secured, and the greater justice done to salient points. The compiler for to authorship there is little ground of claim has not aimed to pronounce an eulogium on the subject of this history, or to enter into any analysis or critical review of his literary productions. She has sought only, in a simple, truthful manner, to sketch a life and character, which with a most intimate knowledge of the one, and a perfect understanding of the idiosyncracies of the other have impressed upon her own heart the deepest love, the most profound reverence; and the pre paration of which, by leading her to live over again the past in intimate communion, has served, in some degree, to beguile the deep feeling of loss occasioned by the tem porary interruption of sensible communication. ARETHUSA HALL. BEOOKLTX, N. Y., July 4, 1854. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD . 1 CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD AND YOUTH 15 CHAPTER III. PREPARATION FOR COLLEGE AND COLLEGE LIFE .... 28 CHAPTER IV. CHANGE IN THEOLOGICAL VIEWS 70 CHAPTER V. LIFE AT THE DIVINITY SCHOOL 106 CHAPTER VI. SETTLEMENT AND RESIDENCE AT AUGUSTA , . 173 x CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. PACK RELATION TO THE MINISTRY 254 CHAPTER VIII. RELATION TO PROGRESS AND REFORMS 292 CHAPTER IX. As AN AUTHOR 340 CHAPTER X. As A LECTURER 409 CHAPTER XI. HABITS OP STUDY 436 CHAPTER XII. TEMPERAMENT AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS .... 446 CHAPTER XIII. DOMESTIC RELATIONS 467 CHAPTER XIV. DEPARTURE FROM EARTH 511 LIFE AND CHARACTER. LIFE AND CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD. WESTHAMPTON. SYLVESTER JUDD, the third of that name, was born in Westhampton, Mass., July 23, 1813. This is a small town in Hampshire County, about ten miles west of Connecticut River, and one of the four desig nated, according to the principal points of compass, by the name of Hampton. There is no part of it that can very well aspire to the appellation of vil its or lage ; although one church, one two stores, and a few dwelling-houses, sparsely clustered around, form a point of general centralization. It is strictly an agricultural town, and its inhabitants are mostly farmers. The surface of its ground is very much broken, and diversified with abrupt, rocky hills, covered with a variety of forest-trees, thus forming much beautiful scenery of richly wooded hill and shady dell, varied here and there with green pastures and cultivated fields, in the midst of which stand 1 2 PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD. the owner's residence and its appendages, expressive of neatness and taste, industry, good calculation, and thrift, or otherwise, as the case may be. The soil in general is poor, rather penuriously rewarding the toil of the husbandman. Many of the young their fortune in some men go abroad to seek ; and, instances, roads from one part of the town to another, once well travelled, are now closed, and whole farms given up to pasturage. The inhabitants are, in general, industrious and in habits of frugal their ; and many them have, by prudence and economy, amassed what in such small country towns are considered very comfortable little fortunes. They are, in the main, moral in their cha racters, regular church-goers on the sabbath, and a good degree of religious feeling prevails among them. Among the first settlers of the place, about the time of our National Revolution, were several heads of families, well educated and refined for those days, and, if not of the highest order of old-school gen tility, certainly well nigh approaching it. First and foremost among these, and, in the good old-fashioned times when reverence for age and station had not become an obsolete virtue, looked up to by all the young, as well as their seniors, with great deference, was the minister, the Rev. Enoch Hale, the first, and, in those more stable days, for half a century the only pastor of the church. His wife was a kind-hearted, motherly woman, lady-like in manners, and exercising a good deal of taste in per sonal appearance and household arrangements. The influence of the good parson and his lady on the PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD. 8 society of the settlement, in its nascent state, was by no means small, and its favorable effects have been traceable ever since. All of their own large family of sons and daughters received a good degree of gen eral culture. Two of the sons, Hon. Nathan Hale, " long and well known as the able editor of the Bos ton Daily Advertiser," and the late Dr. Enoch Hale, of Boston, a highly respectable physician, were edu cated for the liberal professions. Dr. Hooker, son of the Rev. John Hooker, of Northampton, for many years the only physician of Westhampton, and now sustaining a beautiful green old age of almost ninety years, must be mentioned as the head of another influential family. Many other worthy names might be noticed, were this the place. The temptation is strong to linger a little upon this retired rural retreat, and its quiet, friendly people. But it must suffice to add, that, under the early impetus given to the general tone of things, the mass of the succeeding generations grew up with a very good appreciation of learning and in telligence, and, if not with high refinement, at least with an entire absence of vulgarity. Private schools of a high order have been sustained from time to time to its the town has | and, according population, furnished our colleges with a large number of stu dents, who in due time have held honorable places in the learned professions. THE PATERNAL GRANDFATHER. Holding a prominent place among the first settlers of Westhampton, was Sylvester Judd, senior, the 41 4 PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD., of this paternal grandfather of the subject history. He was a son of the Rev. Jonathan Judd, of South and for ampton, the first clergyman of that place, the same Like all sixty years pastor over people. better clergymen's sons of that day, he enjoyed op portunities for education and general development than were usual. In due course of time, he began to clear and improve some wild land, purchased by his father in a part of the township near the borders of Southampton; he erected a dwelling-house; he married a wife having peculiarities which are often termed odd, and which left their impress in some de gree on the son and grandson with whom this narra tive has to do while a British set ; and, yet subject, up for himself.
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