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THENEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1897.

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MEMOIR OF REV. THOMAS BALDWIN, D. D.

Late Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston.

OUR Number for October con- || know how extensive was the circle tained a brief obituary notice of the Rev. THOMAS BALDWIN, D. D. late senior Editor of the American Baptist Magazine, and Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in this city. In compliance with the intimation there given, it has now become our pleasing yet melancholy duty to present to the public, a more extended account of his life, character, and writings.

of friends to whom the subject of our Memoir was known, how deep and how affectionate was the interest which he never failed to awaken in those who approached him, and that every one will expect us to give to the picture, the living, breathing loveliness of the original; and we well know that to do this will be impossible. There was in Dr. Baldwin's countenance a peculiar charm of expression, which no painter ever succeeded in transfer

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Rarely has it been our duty to record the personal history of a man so extensively known, so uni-ring to the canvas. And there was versally respected, or so tenderly in his mind a striking combination beloved. Rarely does it fall to the of varied excellence, which every lot of an individual to fill so many one has felt, but which we despair and so important stations in the of being able to recal to definite religious world, and to fill them all or even to vivid recollection. so meekly and yet so ably. A shall only therefore humbly atname so unsullied has not often tempt to lay before our readers been written on the tomb, nor has what we have been able to collect a patriarch often been gathered to of his history and what we have his fathers amid so wide spread a observed of his character, sincereburst of filial lamentation. Underly regretting that the task had not such, circumstances we are well fallen into abler hands. aware how difficult is the task which The Rev. THOMAS BALDWIN was our situation at present imposes born in Bozrah, Connecticut, Dec. upon us. Well might we shrink 23, 1753, and was the only son of from it, were it not our duty. WeThomas and Mary Baldwin, both

JAN. 1826.

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WY STAUGHTON, D.D.

President of Columbian Mow. Washington DC.

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