mental in securing the union of the rival seminaries, he should regard it as one of the greatest works of his life.

When therefore, in 1864, the removal of the institute from East Windsor to Hartford was under consideration, he deemed it a fit time for again. calling up the question. A committee was appointed at a meeting of the clerical members of the corporation to renew the conference. Dr. Hawes was chairman of this committee.

The plan suggested to this committee was somewhat different from that submitted by the trustees of the institute nine before: years

"They shall appoint their professors, and we ours; and the two sets, as far as rights are concerned within the joint seminary, shall be on an entire equality as it regards teaching and every professional right, exactly as if the seminaries were amalgamated, or constituted an absolute unity.

"We will give all students who resort here the same privileges and rights, and will give the same use to all parties of all buildings, rooms, lecturerooms, libraries, &c., that our students and professors have now.

"All details in the working of the system to be arranged by a joint committee, consisting of an equal number selected by each party."

Dr. Hawes sent a communication to the trustees of the institute, requesting a conference. At their next meeting, the board of trustees made the following response : —

"We accept as a favorable omen the fraternal

spirit which appears in the communication before us, and should rejoice were it in our power to present to the churches the picture of unity which it seeks to effect. But our way seems to lead in another direction. As the guardians of funds consecrated to the cause of sound theological instruction, fidelity to our trust demands of us efforts to enlarge the usefulness of those funds in the direction indicated by the honored donors. There are also providential indications of so marked a character as to encourage the hope that our seminary has an important work to do in the future. There are also difficulties of so formidable a character in the way of the consummation of the proposed union, that we do not feel encouraged in the effort; and would therefore respectfully decline the overture from the corporation of Yale College."

The plan submitted from New Haven did not exactly meet the idea of Dr. Hawes. It proposed rather a closer local proximity than a union of the rival seminaries. Both had at that time, or thought they had, brightening prospects of extension and usefulness. In view of these prospects, Dr. Hawes writes,

"They only increase, in my mind, the desirableness and importance of uniting them. I do not want to see two thoroughly-manned armadas engaged against each other, or even drawing so near as to keep their guns run out of the port-holes, ready to fire upon each other whenever any cause, fancied or real, may occur to provoke attack. This is rather warlike language; but the subject to which

it relates is warlike. I am for peace on broad and equal terms."

He had felt much encouraged in his efforts on account of the doctrinal harmonies disclosed by the correspondence. Most of the New-Haven gentlemen were by no means adherents to the peculiarities of Dr. Taylor's system, and the East-Windsor Confession was found acceptable to the clerical fellows of Yale College as a basis of union. This second failure was, therefore, a great grief as well as disappointment to the good man.

CHAPTER XII.

Mrs. Hawes's Jottings respecting their Children. — Dr. Hawes's Letters to his Son. The Son's Settlement in the Ministry, and Sudden Death.

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T the period to which Dr. Hawes had arrived, he had been blessed in the birth of six children, and been called to the burial of five. Of the first his wife prepared a brief memorial, published by the American Sunday-school Union, under the title of "Louisa, my First-Born."

The jottings, by Mrs. Hawes, of some of these cardinal events, births, baptisms, and burials, — present a picture that no art can adorn.

"Aug. 7, 1819.- A dear little daughter was given me; and on the 8th I presented it to my dear husband, whom I once more embraced after a painful absence. What a moment was that when my first infant was placed in my arms! It seems to me that eternity can never efface from my memory the impressions of that hour.

"Oct. 17.-Dedicated our little one to God in baptism; whom we named Louisa.

"April 16, 1821.-The Lord has given us another daughter, - a lovely child.

"July 15.- Dedicated our little one to God in baptism, and called her name Mary Elizabeth.

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"Feb. 17, 1823. - Another daughter, a dead child. I now know what are the pains and the disappointment of a birth and a death united.

"Sept. 23.-Our dear Louisa sickened on the 11th; and on the 20th, at half-past ten in the evening, she died, aged four years and one month. I was by her side. The whiteness of death was on her countenance, and her eyes turned up to heaven. Her little arms were thrown out on one side one moved a little. Not a feature was distorted, and not a struggle attended her dying moments.

"July 28, 1824. - A little son was given to us at four o'clock on the afternoon of this day, whom we named Thomas Hooker.

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Aug. 21, 1825. The little child was taken from us by Him who gave it, after an illness of four weeks. His father being absent, it was ordered, in infinite wisdom, that I should bear alone the sufferings of the painful scene.

"May 29, 1826. Goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life. Another dear child was given us March 10.

"July 9. To-day, in the house of God, we dedicated our infant son, whom we named Thomas Hooker. It is just a year since, in the same place, and from the same font, we dedicated the dear child whose name is transferred to this one.

"July 23, 1828. - The birthday of our third son, Joel Erskine. May the God of Abraham bless the child!"