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 After the close of my course at Andover, I spent a year in editorial labor in Boston. Then I became vil- lage pastor in Waterville, Maine; was ordained Feb- ruary 12, 1834, and at the same time became Professor of Modern Languages in Waterville College, afterwards known as Colby University. During the course of eight years, on account of a vacancy in the Depart- ment of Latin and Greek Languages (for one whole year) all the Greek taught in the college was added to my department of instruction.

On the 16th of September, 1834, I was married to Miss Mary White Smith, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, grand-daughter of Dr. Hezekiah Smith, chaplain for six years in the Revolutionary Army, and an intimate friend of Washington, also one of the founders of Brown University, in the State of Rhode Island.

My double service in Waterville continued until Janu- ary, 1842, when I became editor of the Christian Review (Quarterly), and took up my life residence at Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Becoming pastor of the First. Baptist Church, I still retained my editorial chair till 1848 (seven years), and filled the pastorate for twelve years and a half. Meanwhile I fitted my children for college, the two elder, a son and a daughter, for the sophomore grade of college study. After resigning the pastorate, I served as the editorial secretary of the Missionary Union, fifteen years, still preaching almost constantly as a stated supply.

In 1875, accompanied by my wife, I spent a year in Europe.

In 1880, we undertook a second journey, which in- cluded Southern Asia in its itinerary, being absent. from the United States more than two years. This