THE NEW ENGLAND MINISTRY SIXTY YEARS AGO.

THE MEMOIR

OF

JOHN WOODBRIDGE, D. D.

HIS METHOD OF WORK; HIS GREAT SUCCESS IN POWERFUL REVIVALS,

IN HIGH MORAL AND EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCES; HIS

THEOLOGICAL VIEWS, AND THE THEOLOGICAL
CONTROVERSIES OF HIS TIME, BEGINNING
WITH THE "NEW DEPARTURE"

OF STODDARD.

BY

REV. SERENO D. CLARK.

"Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth."

BOSTON:

LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM,

ΤΟ

REV. WILLIAM SEYMOUR TYLER, D. D., LL. D.,

THE ACCOMPLISHED PROFESSOR; THE ABLE PREACHER OF THE
GOSPEL OF PEACE; THE LEARNED AND SKILFUL WRITER;

THE READY HELPER IN ALL CHRISTIAN WORK;

THE APPRECIATIVE FRIEND OF THE REVERED
PASTOR OF HADLEY, AND THE VALUED

FRIEND OF HIS DELINEATOR,

This Memoir,

IN WHICH HE HAS SHOWN AN AFFECTIONATE INTEREST,

IS NOW, AS IT GOES FORTH WITH ITS

MESSAGE OF TRUTH AND

GOOD WILL,

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.