The Dartmouth (Volume 3) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DARTMOUTH. Vol. III. FEBRUARY, 1869. No. II. EDITOES.?OLASS OP '69. JOHN W. GRIFFIN. OMAE W. FOLSOM, HENRY C. CRANE, JAMES B. BROOKS, WILLIAM J. RRADLEY, Samson ccum. The name of this Indian preacher should be familiar to every student of Dartmouth, he being one of the early proteges of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, the distinguished founder and first President of this Institution. Occum belonged to the Mohegan tribe, but proved an honorable exception to his poor unfortunate race. During his course of study, his ability was so marked, and his Christian conduct so faultless, that he was regularly ordained by a Long Island Presbytery as a minister and missionary to the Indians. In the vicinity of Lebanon, Conn, where he afterwards preached, he attracted crowded audiences. When Dr. Wheelock began his project for founding an Indian College in the wilderness, which, by the way, proved the nucleus of Dartmouth, he sent Occum to England to solicit donations. This he did with wonderful success, creating a great sensation. He was invited to preach before the Queen, and I've no doubt, Her Majesty looked upon him as afair(?) type of the' dissenting clergy in her far-away rebellious dominions. Vol. m?is. At all events, the red aboriginal of the forest brought home honor, reputation and funds. Dr. Dwight who heard him preach twice, says of him, "his discourses were decent, and his utterances in some degree eloquent." I am sure his Theology was sound, and orthodox enough to suit even a Jonathan Edwards. I was forcibly reminded of the intense style of that Calvanistic Divine in reading a few days since, a production of Occam's, printed almost a century ago. This rare specimen of queer old paper and queerer typography belongs to a gentleman in Boston, who holds it,...