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nineteen. This work was dedicated to George Wash- 

 ington by permission. At twenty-three, he was in 

 the fore front of the advocates of independence. At 

 twenty-two, General Washington appointed him a 

 chaplain in the army, and personally requested that 

 he accept. His widow received $350 a year pension 

 because of this service. He was a member of the 

 Massachusetts legislature and secured an important 

 grant to Harvard university. He was offered a pro- 

 fessorship at Harvard and could have gone to Con- 

 gress without opposition, but he declined both, and 

 at thirty-two accepted a country pastorate at Green- 

 field Hill, Connecticut. He remained there twenty- 

 two years. His salary was $750. He also had a gift 

 of $1,500 for accepting the call, a parish lot of six 

 acres, and twenty cords of wood annually. This was 

 said to be the largest ministerial salary in New Eng- 

 land. At forty-three he was called from the country 

 parish to the presidency of Yale. His salary as 

 president was $334. Later he had $500, from which 

 he paid $150 for two amanuenses which he required 

 because his sight had failed him. He published four- 

 teen important works. He was largely instrumental 

 in organizing the American Board of Commissioners 

 of Foreign Missions ; the American Missionary Society 

 and the American Bible Society. To him is largely 

 due the establishment of theological seminaries in 

 the country. For forty-six years he taught every 

 year either in a public or private school or college, 

 and all but one year of that time he preached every 

 week and almost invariably he prepared a new sermon. 



