24 JUKEB EDWARDS 



Resolved, to live with all my might while I do 

 live. 



Resolved, to be endeavoring to find out fit 

 objects of charity and liberality. 



Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge. 



Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of 

 anger towards irrational beings. 



Resolved, never to speak evil of any one, so that 

 it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no 

 account except for some real good. 



Resolved, to maintain the strictest temperance 

 in eating and drinking. 



Yale in the days of Mr. Edwards was not the 

 Yale of the closing year of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury. It has now 2,500 students and has had 

 19,000 graduates. It had a very humble begin- 

 ning in March, 1702, the year before Mr. Edwards 

 was born. It began with one lone student. The 

 father of Jonathan Edwards had been greatly inter- 

 ested in the starting of the college. In 1701, Rev. 

 Mr. Russell, of Branf ord, a graduate of Harvard, as 

 was the senior Edwards, invited to his home ten 

 other Connecticut pastors of whom nine were 

 graduates of Harvard. Each brought from his 

 library some of his most valuable books, and lay- 

 ing them upon Mr. Russell's table, said: "I give 

 these books for the founding of a college in this 

 colony." This produced a profound impression 

 upon the clergymen of Connecticut, notably upon 

 the graduates of Harvard. The first year the col- 

 lege was nominally located at Saybrook, but as 



