beats not in his country's cause.'' A. W. Hazen.)

(From a sermon by Rev.

SAMUEL MILLS, born in Canton, 1752; Yale College, 1776.

While a student at Yale College he either was drafted or volunteered into the government service, and became a lieutenant of a company of "light horsemen;" was severely wounded in the streets of Philadelphia by a British officer, and was taken to a hospital, senseless. Among the young ladies who volunteered to care for the sick and wounded, was a Miss Sarah Gilpin, daughter of Thomas Gilpin, of Philadelphia, who had the care of Mr. Mills. The wounded and the nurse "fell in love" with each other, and were married after the close of the war. He commenced preaching in Wethersfield, but remained there but a short time, and then went to Chester, and was settled there in 1787, and died there in 1814, aged 62 years, and in the 28th year of his ministry.

He had three wives. His first wife died in 1796, his second in 1801, and the third wife survived him but a short time.

For some years he instructed young men, giving them a higher education than could be had in common schools. He was a very successful teacher, and was much respected and beloved as a pastor by his people, and left his mark for good on the character of many who came after him.

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ELIZUR GOODRICH, D. D., born at Rocky Hill, October 26, 1734; Yale College, 1752; settled in Durham, 1756; died, 1797.

"It ought here to be said, to the credit of the American clergy, that the zeal with wnich they entered into our Revolutionary struggle was not a mere ebullition of feeling caught from their people, nor was it owing to any impulse received from the politicians of the day. It was the result of discussions carried on for some years by leading divines among them, in their social meetings, and larger ecclesiastical bodies. All who ever studied under Dr. Dwight, will remember the co

piousness and fervor with which he argued the question of "The Right of Resistance," the exactness with which he laid down the limitations of that right, and the very guarded principles on which alone he admitted its exercise. This was a class of reasonings to which the subject of this sketch formed an early attachment under the teachings of President Clap. He was thus led, at a later period, to the study of such works as Cumberland's Law of Nature, Grotius, Puffendorf, etc.; and one of his sons who had spent most of his life in the conflicts of the senate, once remarked that he had met with no one in all his intercourse with public men, who had entered more deeply into the great principles of law and jurisprudence, or could state an argument on the subject with more binding force. As the result of inquiries thus conducted, he carried the discussion into his pulpit, and urged it upon his people as a religious duty, to lay down their property and their lives in the conflict. It is on this subject alone that I find him rising into impassioned eloquence, in the sermons which he left behind. His zeal in the cause made his name familiar to all the country around, as the following anecdote will show: The Tories having possession of Long Island, carried on an active trade in British goods with the small ports along the Sound, from New Haven to the mouth of the Connecticut river. This awakened great indignation among the people of the adjacent towns, who considered Governor Trumbull (though very unjustly) as too remiss in his efforts to put down. the trade. At one of the May elections they took a curious mode to mark their dissatisfaction. They sent up to Hartford more than a thousand votes for the "Rev. Elizur Goodrich" to be Governor of Connecticut; a singular specimen of the quaint humor which the Puritan race so often intermingled with their gravest concerns." (Sprague's Annals, vol. i, pp. 509-10.)

SAMUEL WALES, D. D., born 1746; Yale College, 1767; settled at Milford, 1770; died, Feb. 18, 1794.

"Being an ardent friend to his country's liberties, he served for a short time, in 1776, as chaplain in the Revolutionary army." (Sprague's Annals, vol. i, p. 711.)

TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D. D. LL. D., born in Northampton, May 14, 1752; Yale College, 1769; tutor at Yale, 1771-7 ; licensed to preach, and a chaplain in the Connecticut brigade, commanded by General S. H. Parsons, Sept., 1777-Oct., 1778; settled in Greenfield, Conn., Nov. 12, 1783; President of Yale College from Sept., 1795, to his death, Jan. 11, 1817. The following poem was written by him between September, 1777, and October, 1778.

It was composed in the buoyancy of his own hopes, and designed to encourage the hopes of his countrymen. It was for many years exceedingly popular in Connecticut. The great heart of the author must have bounded with strong pulsations of patriotism, when giving birth to this grand prophetic ode:

COLUMBIA.

BY TIMOTHY DWIGHT, D. D.

Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,

The queen of the world, and the child of the skies!
Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold,

While ages on ages thy splendors unfold.

Thy reign is the last, and the noblest of time,

Most faithful thy soil, most inviting thy clime;

Let the crimes of the East ne'er encrimson thy name,
Be freedom, and science, and virtue, thy fame.

To conquest and slaughter, let Europe aspire;
Whelm nations in blood, and wrap cities in fire;
Thy heroes the rights of mankind shall defend,
And triumph pursue them, and glory attend.
A world is thy realm: for a world be thy laws,
Enlarged as thine empire, and just as thy cause;
On Freedom's broad basis, that empire shall rise,
Extend with the main, and dissolve with the skies.

Fair science her gates to thy sons shall unbar,
And the East see thy morn hide the beams of her star.
New bards, and new sages, unrival'd shall soar
To fame, unextinguished, when time is no more;
To thee, the last refuge of virtue designed,
Shall fly from all nations the best of mankind;
Here, grateful to heaven, with transport shall bring
Their incense, more fragrant than odors of spring.

Nor less shall thy fair ones to glory ascend,
And genius and beauty in harmony blend;
The graces of form shall awake pure desire,
And the charms of the soul ever cherish the fire;
Their sweetness unmingled, their manners refined,
And virtue's bright image, instamped on the mind,
With peace, and soft rapture, shall teach life to glow,
And light up a smile in the aspect of woe.

Thy fleets to all regions thy power shall display,
The nations admire, and the ocean obey;

Each shore to thy glory its tribute unfold,

And the East and the South yield their spices and gold,
As the day-spring unbounded, thy splendor shall flow,
And earth's little kingdoms before thee shall bow,
While the ensigns of union, in triumph unfurled,
Hush the tumult of war, and give peace to the world.

Thus, as down a lone valley, with cedars o'erspread,
From war's dread confusion I pensively strayed-
The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired;
The winds ceased to murmur; the thunders expired;
Perfumes, as of Eden, flowed sweetly along,
And a voice, as of angels, enchantingly sung :
"Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,

The queen of the world, and the child of the skies."

JOEL BENEDICT, D. D., pastor of the church in Lisbon, 1771-1782, and in Plainfield, 1784-1816.

During the Revolution he showed himself always decidedly and warmly attached to his country's cause. His friend, Dr. Hart, (of Griswold,) and himself sympathized in relation to this subject, as well as almost every other, and though not directly and officially connected with the war, they hesitated not to show themselves, on all proper occasions, in public and in private, the staunch friends and supporters of liberty. (Sprague.)

LEVI HART, D. D.-Griswold, 1762-1808. During the Revolutionary War he showed himself zealous for his country's independence; and while he was distressed by the scenes of bloodshed and devastation by which the war was attended, he had nevertheless the utmost confidence that we were engaged in a righteous cause. In August, 1775, he

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visited the camp at Roxbury, and preached twice on the Sabbath to Colonel Parsons' regiment. In 1783 he delivered a discourse to an assembly convened at Fort Griswold, Groton, commemorative of those gallant men who fell there in defense of their country-Colonel Ledyard at their head-on the 6th of September, 1781. His subject was, "The Causes, the Origin, and Progress of the War, with its Dreadful Effects." It breathed a spirit of patriotism, sympathy, and piety. The original MS. is still in existence. (Sprague, 1: 591.)

MATHER BYLES, New London, 1757-1768; son of the famous witty and loyal pastor of the Hollis Street church in Boston.

He sympathized with his father in his attachment to the government of the mother country, and with his sisters, who lived and died in the old family mansion in Boston, (1835 and 1837,) acknowledging no allegiance except to the British sovereign. On the accession of William IV to the throne, one of them addressed to him a congratulatory epistle, assuring him that the family of Dr. Byles never had renounced, and never would renounce, their allegiance to the British crown.

EPHRAIM JUDSON, Norwich, Second church, '71-'78. An enthusiastic supporter of the Revolution. Slow and monotonous in his speech on other topics, on subjects connected with the liberties of the nation, he would kindle into the fervor of soul-stirring eloquence. In the year 1776, he entered the army as Chaplain of Col. Ward's regiment, and did faithful service for some months. Disabled by the hardships and exposures which he encountered in the camp, and in the field, he returned to his people, a confirmed invalid. In 1778 he tendered his resignation, alleging as one reason, “usefulness obstructed by infirm health." (Calkins, 468.)

BENJAMIN LORD, D D., Norwich, First church, 1717-1784. Dr. Lord was more than 80 years of age at the breaking out of the war. His last appearance in the pulpit was on the Thanksgiving subsequent to the declaration of peace-an