26 JUKES— ED WARDS 



3. Shall be able to study more closely, without 

 injury to my health. 



4. Shall need less time for sleep. 



5. Shall more seldom be troubled with the head- 

 ache." 



Mr. Edwards was twenty-three years of age when 

 he was ordained at Northampton as associate pastor 

 with his grandfather Stoddard, then in his 84th 

 year, and the 54th year of his pastorate. Soon 

 after this Mr. Stoddard died and Mr. Edwards 

 became pastor in full charge and remained for 

 twenty-five years. He was a great student and 

 thinker. He rose at four o'clock and spent thir- 

 teen hours a day in his study. It is worth while 

 to follow the personal intellectual habits of the 

 man whose descendants we are to study. When 

 he was ready for the consideration of a great sub- 

 ject he would set apart a week for it and mounting 

 his horse early Monday morning would start off for 

 the hills and forests. When he had thought him- 

 self up to a satisfactory intensity he would alight, 

 fasten his horse, go off into the woods and think 

 himself through that particular stage of the argu- 

 ment, then he would pin a bit of paper on some 

 particular place on his coat as a reminder of the 

 conclusion he had reached. He would then ride 

 on some miles further and repeat the experience. 

 Not infrequently he would be gone the entire week 

 on a thinking expedition, returning with the front 

 of his coat covered with the scalps of intellectual 

 victories. Without stopping for any domestic salu- 



