consist in making the sermons easy and short. The rules for preaching are given thus: "This is the age of railroads and steamboats; therefore be brief"; Preach as if you yourself were obliged to telegraph your own sermon across the continent"; "Three words are enough for a sentence, and even a short word is better than a long word at that"; "Imitate the merchant who utters his monosyllable, and is off about his business"; "Some things may be now taken for granted, such as that there has been a flood," etc. But the rule should be, not make your sermon short, not make it long, but make it appropriate to the theme and the occasion. A sermon like one of Dr. Barrow's may exhaust the subject and the preacher and the hearer, and may prompt some persons who have been afflicted with it never to expose themselves to a similar calamity. So an easy and short and superficial sermon may induce other persons to remain at home, and read a sensible discourse, rather than hear remarks utterly inadequate to their theme. We need not wonder why so many members of our parishes disbelieve in "the flood," in the fact of creation, in the substantial unity of the race, in the truth of the Bible, when we shrink from all such topics in our sermons, and treat every doctrine as if it were too frail to be touched. Other methods consist in adorning the house of God, elevating its roof, darkening its windows making it majestic with pillars, introducing marble statues and statuettes, etc. Are all these attractions appropriate to the enforcement of religious truth? So far as they are not, they will cultivate not a taste, but a distaste for evangelical discourses. "Raise me but a barn in the very shadow of St. Paul's cathedral, and with the consciencesearching powers of a Whitefield I will throng that barn with a multitude of eager listeners, while the matins and the vespers of the cathedral shall be chanted to the statues of the mighty dead."

ARTICLE VII.

MEMORIAL OF DR. SAMUEL HARVEY TAYLOR.1

BY PROF. EDWARDS A. PARK.

It is told of Saladin, the champion of Islamism, that after he had retaken the Holy City, subjugated numerous fortresses in Syria, Arabia, Persia, and Mesopotamia, performed so many exploits in the Crusades as to be designated "the Great," he was seized with a disorder which threatened to wither up at once all his garlands of victory. When he saw that death was inevitable, he called his herald, who used to carry his banner before him; took his lance, which had so often been shaken in battle; tied his shroud to the top of his lance, and then said to the herald: "Go, unfurl this shroud in the camp. It is the flag of the day. Wave it in the air, and proclaim: This is all that remains of Saladin the Great, the conqueror, the king of the empire; all that remains of all his glory!"" But when a good man dies, we cannot say that all which remains of him is the coffin and the shroud. He has lived in his thoughts and deeds. He still lives in the remembrance of them; they are like seeds planted by the watercourses; they spring up and bear fruit, and he lives in their perennial life.

When George Whitefield died, he did not pass away from among men. He lived in those of his survivors whose character he had improved. He preached one sermon in

1 The preceding pages of this Number of the Bibliotheca Sacra were corrected for the press by Dr. Taylor. It has been deemed fitting that the Address, which was delivered on the second of February in the Hall of his Academy, should be published in the present Number of the Periodical on which he had expended some of his last labor, and next to the Article which he had himself revised. As the author was absent from Andover on the Sabbath of Dr. Taylor's decease, January 29th, and as he could not begin to write the Address until the following Tuesday, and was obliged to deliver it on the next Thursday, he has added a few sentences which he had not time to insert in the original manuscript.

the native town of the friend who has just left us; and one of our friend's ancestors was morally transformed by the instrumentality of that sermon. That ancestor exerted a marked influence on the mother of Dr. Taylor, and she exerted an obvious influence on him; so that there is one important sense in which George Whitefield has been living through the last three and thirty years in Phillips Academy. There is more than one important sense in which he that believeth in Christ shall never die.

In the latter part of the seventeenth century, in consequence of the persecutions of the Covenanters, a company of devout Scotchmen left their homes for the north of Ireland. In the year 1719, sixteen families of these devoted pioneers came to this land, and established themselves in the old township of Londonderry, New Hampshire. During that and the following year more than four times their number joined them in the new colony. Mr. Horace Greeley, one of their descendants, says: "They were eminently men of conviction. They saw clearly, they reasoned fearlessly, and they did not hesitate to follow wherever truth led the way. I presume," he adds, " more teachers now living trace their descent to the Scotch-Irish pioneers of Londonderry than to an equal number anywhere else." i

1 The hearty and life-long interest which Dr. Taylor cherished in his native town was constantly strengthened by the history of the men who descended from its first settlers. Among the teachers thus descended are Presidents McKeen of Bowdoin, and Aiken of Union College; Professors Jarvis Gregg, W. A. Packard; Joseph McKeen, Rev. James Means. Among the clergymen are Rev. David McGregor, son of the first pastor of the town (Rev. James McGregor), and ancestor of a large and distinguished family; Rev. Samuel Taggart, of Colerain, Mass.; Rev. James Miltimore, of Newburyport; Rev. Rufus Anderson, of Wenham, "who at the close of his life was preparing a historical work on Modern Missions to the Heathen," and whose son, Rev. Dr. Rufus Anderson, of Boston, is the historian of the missions under the care of the A. B. C. F. M.; Rev. Silas McKeen, of Bradford, Vermont; Rev. Dr. Morrison; Rev. James T. McCollom. Among the jurists and statesmen, are John Bell, member of the Provincial Congress; John and Samuel Bell, both Governors of New Hampshire; Judge Jeremiah Smith. Among the military men are Gen. George Reid and Gen. John Stark. Of the Londonderry immigrants and their posterity who have attained distinction in other States the number is not known; but "of those who have become eminent in New Hampshire, six have

One of these Londonderry emigrants was Matthew Taylor. He held the title-deed of his farm from Lieutenant-Governor John Wentworth, and that farm had been previously owned by John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts Colony. On that ancestral land, now within the township of Derry, lived and died Matthew Taylor. There were born his children and many of his children's children. There Samuel Harvey Taylor, a descendant of the fourth generation from Matthew, was born, on the third of October, 1807.1 His father, Captain James Taylor, was a man of sterling integrity and high Christian principle. He was for a long time a deacon of the church in Derry, as his son has been for a long time a deacon of the church on this hill. He was obliged to be absent from home during a large part of Samuel Harvey's childhood and youth; and therefore, even at the age of eight years, our lamented friend was called to discharge a series of duties which are not ordinarily expected of early boyhood. At the age of fourteen years, the conduct of two extensive farms was in large measure committed to him. He superintended the workmen, he mingled in their labors, and learned thus early in life the principles of secular business, the art of government, and the details of hard work. Even then his industry and energy qualified him to exact the same traits from the men whom he employed. been Governors of the State; nine have been Members of Congress; five, Judges of the Supreme Court; two, Members of the Provincial Congress; and one of these was a signer of the Declaration of Independence." - Rev. E. L. Parker, History of Londonderry.

1 The original settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire, emigrated from the city or the neighborhood of Londonderry in Ireland. When that city was besieged, in 1688, by the troops of Lord Antrim, defending the cause of James against William, Prince of Orange, and when some of these troops approa hed the city gate, and demanded that it be opened, thirteen young men, fearing that the mayor and some of the citizens would be treasonable, "rushed to the main guard, seized the keys, after a slight opposition, drew up the bridge, and locked the gate, just as the soldiers were about to enter (Rev. E. L. Parker's History of Londonderry, pp. 10, 11) One of these young men was named Samuel Harvey. This fact suggested the Christian name of Dr. Taylor, one of whose maternal ancestors had the maiden name of Harvey, and perhaps belonged to the family of the resolute young hero of Londonderry.

His example justified his tones of command, and his tones were singularly effectual.

He who understands one thing knows many others; and by learning the processes of agriculture and the methods of dealing with business men, our friend prepared himself for the large variety of miscellaneous affairs which he was called to manage in various departments of life. Until the age of eighteen he intended and expected to cultivate his ancestral acres. He had been accustomed to rise often at three o'clock in the morning, and to labor with unremitted diligence through the day, and had gained a hardihood of constitution which promised a long life of manual toil. It did give him a life singularly free from physical pain. But in consequence of being thrown from a wagon, he lost in some degree his power of physical endurance, and he decided to pursue a literary life. In his mature age, whenever he passed the scene of this accident, he was accustomed to say: "Here I began my education." That one fall from a wagon has resulted in his affecting the character of six thousand pupils.

From his early childhood he had manifested a passion for books, and it was now with intense delight that he began to prepare himself for college. He entered Pinkerton Academy in his native town, and studied with his characteristic vehemence. Being unwilling to lose the time which that Academy devoted to a vacation, he spent one vacation, at least, in Atkinson Academy, and rejoined the school of his native town at the commencement of the new term. Thus at the beginning, as through the progress, of his literary life he kept himself under discipline. He prepared himself to enter the sophomore class of Dartmouth College, after only two years of academic study. The winter vacations of his college life he spent in teaching district schools. Still, he was graduated with honor in the class of eighteen hundred and thirty-two.1

1 Rev. Dr. Noyes, professor in Dartmouth College, where he was a classmate of Mr. Taylor in 1829-32, has made valuable suggestions to the writer in VOL. XXVIII. No. 110.

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