CONTENT S. Birth. --Abandoned by his parents. At the age of five months placed in the family of Deacon Rose.-Eminent piety of the deacon.-Character. istics of the people. --Alarm in a thunder-storm.---Narrow escape from drowning. - Exposure to infidelity when a ploughboy.- Privilege at a common school.-Chimney.corner.-His rule.--Scarcity of books. The HISTORY CONTINUED TILL HE COMMENCES STUDYING FOR THE MINISTRY. His conversion.-Baptized.-Character of his minister.-Successful re- proof of gross wickedness.-Enlists into the army.-Campaigns at Rox. bury and Ticonderoga.— Extract from a sermon.—Extract from a manu. script sermon.-Sickness.—Composes a sermon. - - Reads it Saturday Letter to Deacon A. when in affliction.-Letter on the death of a young female.-Mr. Haynes's sickness.-Extract from his manuscript sermon CHAPTER XI. HIS LABOURS ABROAD. Mission.--Anecdote.-Successful result of an ecclesiastical council 146-150 CHAPTER XII. LETTERS 150–159 CHAPTER XIII. ATTENDANCE AT THE MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF CON NECTICUT Preaches at New-Haven.-Extract of a letter from Professor Silliman.- Letter from Mrs. Hazen.-Sketch of the sermon.--Extract of a letter from D. Judson, Esq.-Extract of a letter from President Humphrey 160-168 CHAPTER XIV. DISMISSION FROM RUTLAND. Political excitement.--Extract from his sermon.-Anecdote.-Dismission. -Letter I.-Letter II.-Letter III.-Letter IV 169208 CHAPTER XV. MINISTRY OF MR. HAYNES AT MANCHESTER. Letter I. from Mr. Haynes to Deacon Atkins.-Letter II.-Letter III.- Letter IV.-Letter V:-Letter VI. from Mrs. Skinner.--Trial and con- viction of the Boorns for the murder of Colvin.-Condemned to suffer Page 209-252 HIS REMOVAL TO GRANVILLE, NEW-YORK. Letter I. to Deacon Atkins.-Letter 11.-Letter III.-Letter IV.-Mr. Haynes's labours and success in the ministry at Granville.- Death of his MR. HAYNES'S LAST VISITS ABROAD. Visits Joseph Burr, Esq., on his death-bed.-Extract of a letter giving an account of his visit at New-York, and at Dr. Sprague's, Albany.- Visit at Granville, Mass.-Sketch of his sermon.-Anecdote.- His visit to the old mansion where he was brought up.-- Visit to the burying-ground. - Visit to the apple-tree where he first found the Saviour.- Brief sketch of his sermon on taking leave of the people where he was brought up As a man, an instructer in theology, and a Christian.- Personal comeliness. -Tenderness and sympathy. - Quickness of perception. — Memory.- - Eminent piety. -Skeleton of a sermon as a specimen.-His preaching discriminating. - His character in the closing scene. His disease a species of gangrene.- His last sermon.-Disease increases.-His last letter.-Interviews with min- isterial brethren.--Solemn interview with his son.-Kindness to all around him.-Triumphant views.—Happy death.--Extract of letters.- Funeral.-Minute of Rutland Consociation.--Epitaph 272--312 Elegy.-"Love in death” 313–314 315-319 APPENDIX 321 321-333 334-345 A 2 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. In consenting to write a few paragraphs introductory to this memoir, I am quite aware that I may incur the charge of indelicacy, in seeming to place myself between the public and an individual so much my superior in age, that his highly respectable standing in the church is the subject of some of my earliest recollections. It is due to myself to say, that, in performing this service, I yield my scruples, on the score of delicacy, to the wishes of a venerated friend and father, in whose neighbourhood it has been my privilege to pass several delightful years of my ministry; and, even if the public should not acquit me of a disposition to be obtrusive, it will be some satisfaction to me to have complied with the wishes of one towards whom I entertain so cordial and affectionate a regard. In the few remarks which I purpose to make, it will be my object to exhibit an outline of the process by which the providence of God usually operates in raising individuals from great obscurity to eminent useful"ness in the church; and then to consider some of the lessons which such events are adapted to inculcate. If I mistake not, it will be found in most cases in B |