16 JUKES EDWARDS 



New York Prison Commission when it employed 

 Mr. Dngdale to make a study of the Jukes, the 

 appropriateness of the contrast was more than ever 

 apparent 



In this study the sources of information are the 

 various genealogies of families in which the de- 

 scendants of Mr. Edwards play a part, various town 

 histories and church and college publications, but 

 chiefly the biographical dictionaries and encyclo- 

 paedias in which the records of the men of the 

 family are chronicled. It would be impossible to 

 follow out the positions occupied by the various 

 members but for the pride they all feel in record- 

 ing the fact that they are descendants of Jonathan 

 Edwards. A good illustration of this may be had 

 in the current announcements of the marvelously 

 popular novel, "Richard Carvel," in which it is 

 always emphasized that Mr. Winston Churchill, the 

 author, is a descendant of Jonathan Edwards. 



Only two Americans established a considerable 

 and permanent reputation in the world of Euro- 

 pean thought prior to the present century, Ben- 

 jamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards. In 1736, 

 Dr. Isaac Watts published in England Mr. Ed- 

 wards' account of the beginning of the great 

 awakening in the Connecticut valley. Here more 

 than a century and a half ago, when the colonies 

 were small, their future unsuspected and the ability 

 of their leaders unrecognized, Jonathan Edwards 

 " erected the standard of Orthodoxy for enlightened 

 Protestant Europe." Who can estimate the elo- 



