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Begins his Life-work. - Prefers not to settle. - Preaches in several Towns.-
Receives a Call at Woodbridge, Conn. - A few Months of Home Missionary

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General Causes. - Negative and Positive.

Not by thoughtful Care to please his People. Some manage. Wrong Ideas
of Duty. Mr. W. had none of this Managing Spirit. - His Eye elevated to
Truth. His Aim not to captivate the Esthetics of his Hearers. Positive
Causes. Independent Honesty rooted in Humility and Submission.-Com-
munication of this Impression to his People. The felt Permanency of the
Pastoral Relation. The True Affection of Pastor and People peculiar. -
Requires Time...

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A Hard Student.
His felt Necessity of Study. Abstemiousness. -A
Student in the Right Direction. - Gave his first Attention to the Bible. -
His Familiarity with our English Version; with the Greek. --Studies

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Hebrew alone. - Masters it."Mighty in the Scriptures."― Studies the
Bible with much Prayer. — Studies Theology. - Correct Views of Theology.
The Importance and Possibility of the Science. - Noblest of all Sciences.
- Its Relation to Religious Experience; may be easily ascertained. — God
the Centre and Source of Theology. - His Glory highest and best.
Mr.
W.'s Exalted Views of Christ and His Position in a System of Theology. -
His Theology strictly Calvinistic or Pauline. -The Reasons which cause
· some to hate the System led him to love it. A System easily ascertained
when the Heart is right. Difficulties indeed, but vanish when one abso-
lutely loves God in Christ. - Mr. W. studied Theology with Prayer. - Ob-
jections affirming its Narrowness. Its Biblical Character..- No Narrow
System. His Theological Reading. - Admiration of President Edwards
and other New England Divines. - Wide Circle of his Theological Inquiries.
- Becomes an Adept in the Science. - Receives the Degree of D. D. —Studies
Mental Philosophy; Admires it. The Scotch Philosophy rather than the
German. Studies History; Eloquence; General Literature. — Habit of
Prayer. Gift of Prayer. Some Remarkable Instances. - Strengthen his
Influence over his People. - His Type of Piety responsive to his Theological
System, rooted in Love for God's Glory and in Tender Sympathy with
Christ. Instances. Its Subtle Influence.

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Dr. W. as a Preacher. — The Subject Matter and Spirit of his Preaching
greatly strengthen his Influence over his People.

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