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Title: Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : John B. Alden
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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At twelve years of age he wasplaced in the family of an uncle, at New London, where he prepared for college,and entered Harvard, as a student, in 1794. He bore the highest honors of theinstitution at his graduation, in 1798. and then went to Virginia, as tutor in thefamily of David M. Randolph, Esq., of Richmond. Ill health compelled him toreturn home, and he prepared for the gospel ministry. He was made regent inHarvard University, in 1801, was licensed to preach, in 1802, and w^as ordainedpastor of the Federal Street Unitarian Society, in Boston, in 1803. Then com-menced his noble labors in the cause of Christianity, whose doctrines he so elo-quently enforced by precept and exatnple. He continued to discharge the dutiesof pastor, without aid, until 1824, when the great increase of his congregation,and the multiplication of his labors, caused his people, who loved him as a father,to employ a colleague for him. H© visited Europe, held communion with some 874 WILLIAM ELLEKY CHANNING.
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of the best minds there, and he returned home with larger views, and moreennobhng thoughts and purposes. For almost forty years, Dr. Channing (thetitle of D.D. was conferred by the Faculty of Harvard University) was connectedwith the same society; and during all that time he was afflicted with ill health,sometimes in only a slight degree. His fervid eloquence made his permanentcongregation a large one, and crowds of strangers attended his ministrations.He wrote much and nobly, for the honor of God and the good of humanity. Hewas an uncompromising advocate for freedom in all its relations and conditions,and yet he urged his plea for humanity with so much gentleness and affectionatepersuasion, that no one could be offended, however unpalatable his truths or hisdoctrines might be. In the Christian world he moved as a peace-maker, labor-ing incessantly to break down the hedges of creeds, and to unite all who lovedrighteousness, under the broad and beautiful banner of a pure practical Chri

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