ARTICLE III.-PRESIDENT WOOLSEY'S DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF REV. C. A. GOODRICH, D. D., PROFESSOR IN YALE COLLEGE.*

ROMANS XII, 11-13.

66 NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS; FERVENT IN SPIRIT; SERVING THE LORD; REJOICING IN HOPE; PATIENT IN TRIBULATION; CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER; DISTRIBUTING TO THE NECESSITY OF SAINTS; GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY.”

It seems as if the great Apostle, in this summary of practical virtues, was unconsciously sketching himself; for who can fail to recall to mind the illustrations which Paul's own life supplied, of the qualities here commended? "Not slothful in business." What statesman with the weight of government on his shoulders, what merchant with a commerce ransacking every quarter of the globe, ever showed more untiring industry, or had a greater burden of cares than the Apostle? "Fervent " or boiling "in spirit." But to this load of duties, this drain on time, his zeal was equal. Instead of being exhausted by the care of all the churches, his soul rose with new desires to spend and be spent for Christ. He seemed to be made of iron, because his spirit kept boiling up through the force of the internal fire of love, and prompting him to new activity. "Serving the Lord," or as the true reading requires us to translate, "serving the time," that is, not time-serving, but watching for and seizing on the right occasions of doing work for God. How characteristic this of Paul, who, instead of contenting himself with what he was doing, was ever on the outlook to do more; who while others were resting or deliberating, had thrown himself into the opportunity, and was reaping the harvest! "Rejoicing in hope." And this untiring zeal, this mass of new labors succeeding to or heaped on the old, could not have been endured or even undertaken without that joyful hope which so marks the Apostle's life. Natively hopeful and inclined to selfreliance, when he "was apprehended of Christ," he gave himself up to his Lord in strong confidence and in that hope which

This Discourse was delivered in the Center Church, New Haven, March 5, 1860.

the divine promises inspire. He felt that there was an arm lifted up for his help: he looked on the bright side: in the discouragements of his old age at Rome, he speaks of his "earnest expectation and hope that in nothing he should be ashamed, but that with all boldness as always, so now Christ should be magnified in his body." Animated by such hope he was "patient in tribulation," " troubled on every side yet not distressed, perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not forsaken," "waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body." And all this while he continued "instant in prayer." One might suppose that he could have had no time to pray, but his epistles rather cause us to wonder that his prayers left any time for action. The fact was, prayer fitted him for business, and gave such a tone and such a spirit to him, that his work was discharged smoothly and well, not in a hurry and without need of revision. And what is well worthy of remark, no man ever prayed more for others: for obdurate Jews, for unbelieving Gentiles, for the churches he had founded, for his intimate friends, his intercessions arose continually. Nor did he stop with intercessions: he distributed to the necessity of saints, and according to his power was given to hospitality. Without a home, without property, he could yet say, "these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me," and he was engaged in distributing to the necessity of saints at Jerusalem a collection which he had instituted among the Gentile churches, when he was seized and denounced by his countrymen.

My friends, I presume that when these words of Paul, verified in his own life, were read, you all felt that they were peculiarly applicable to that departed friend, whom we meet this day to commemorate. He was by temperament of the Pauline type. Some are men of speculation: their diligence and fervor runs into the construction of theological systems, or the presentation of divine truth in due order and sequence before the minds of men; and they have done their work well, when they have enabled the generations of the world to form nobler conceptions of the government of God. Others are rather men of meditation, of feelings tremblingly alive, of shrinking sensitive genius, whose acute perceptions of beauty start back from

a fault of expression almost as if it were a crime. These do their work well, when the sermon at once profound, tender, and beautiful, remains in the memories of men, and fills their souls like an oratorio. Others calm, meek, wise, silent, gently flowing and filling their banks like a peaceful river, show by their balance of character, their self-forgetfulness and communings with God, how faultless a Christian man may become, before he goes to be with Christ. But to the class of speculative, or of meditative, or of calmly practical men, our departed friend did not pertain. He was rather, like Paul, intensely earnest, fervent in spirit, not to say vehement, full of resources and ever ready with counsel, fond of impressing himself upon the events of the world and of shaping them according to his own decided convictions; a man of the present and of the future, who linked together measures and results with far-reaching sagacity; a man, in short, of great practical ability, made for usefulness and for accomplishing important ends among mankind.

The life of a man with such a temperament, must necessarily have stood out before the eyes of his fellow-men more than that of most academical and scholarly persons. Especially would this be the case in an age like ours, where so much preparation is made for every movement by the living voice and in the assembly of hearers, and where he who can advocate the cause of Christian benevolence has so much to do. It is probable, therefore, that those whom I address, especially elderly persons if any such are among my hearers, feel already better acquainted with the traits of character of Dr. Goodrich, than with those of most public men with whom they have been brought into contact. It is not, therefore, for the purpose of conveying new, or of correcting old impressions, but rather for that of presenting in one view the labors of mind, and indications of character, which have been scattered through the last half century, that I proceed to speak of the life and services of Dr. Goodrich.

He was born in New Haven, on the 23d of October, 1790, and was the son of our well remembered townsman, Hon. Elizur Goodrich, a lawyer by profession, who at different times of his life filled important public offices, as those of

Collector of the port, Mayor of the city, Representative in Congress; who was appointed Professor of Law in Yale College, and was for thirty years the Secretary of its Board of Fellows. He, his brother, Chauncey Goodrich, an eminent member of the old Federal party, who was long a Senator of Connecticut in the national legislature, and filled also the of fice of Lieutenant-Governor of the State, and the Rev. Samuel Goodrich, of Berlin, were among the children of the Rev. Dr. Elizur Goodrich, of Durham, who, in his day, was almost at the head of the Congregational ministers of Connecticut, who, at the time of the election of Dr. Stiles, was a prominent candidate for the office of President of Yale College, and for twenty-one years was a member of its Corporation. Dr. Elizur Goodrich, when he became minister in Durham, married the granddaughter of his predecessor, the Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, of an ancient English family, whose first representative in this country was the Rev. Charles Chauncey, second President of Harvard College. From this source our deceased friend derived his first name; his middle name, Allen, came from his own mother, a daughter of Daniel Allen, of Great Barrington, Mass., and a sister of John Allen, who represented this State for several years in Congress.

CHAUNCEY ALLEN GOODRICH, after a training partly at the Hopkins Grammar School in this town, and partly under the Rev. Dr. Perkins of West Hartford, entered College in 1806, the middle year of Dr. Dwight's presidency—and was graduated among the leading scholars of his Class in 1810. Next we find him rector of the ancient school where he received his own training, and in 1812 a Tutor in Yale College, which office he filled until 1814. It was in this year that he gave his first literary labor to the world, (undertaken by the advice of Dr. Dwight,) a Greek Grammar, founded on that of a Dutch scholar, Caspar Louis Hachenberg. The helps at that time accessible for the study of this important language were exceedingly meager. The German philologists, Buttmann and Matthiæ, had either not published their leading works, or these were wholly unknown in this country, and the very indifferent Westminster Grammar was the one in common use. It

was a service to the cause of education, which this young adventurer rendered, when, with the best guide within his reach, he prepared this new grammar, which, by successive corrections and improvements became more and more fitted to accomplish its object. This work stood its ground for nearly a quarter of a century, until new works or translations from the German masters supplanted it. Meanwhile, its author returned to this first path of his literary life in 1832, and afterward by the preparation of a series of Latin and Greek lessons, which were undertaken first to initiate one of his sons into those languages, and when published came into extensive use.

During his tutorship Mr. Goodrich began his studies for the ministry, under Dr. Dwight. From his early youth his mother had supposed him to be under the sway of Christian truth and principle; but he regarded himself as having met with a great religious change while an undergraduate in College. He mentioned to one of his family, that having been for some time more than nsually thoughtful on religious truth, he went one day to the room of a Christian acquaintance, and as he drew near the door heard shouts of laughter from within. "These Christians," said he to himself, "have a right to be happy, but I have not." Under the feeling that there was a void in his heart which only peace with God could fill, he returned to his room, felt in a hightened degree the evil of his sins, and in no long time attained to a state of peace and hope. To the ministry of the gospel he consecrated himself, and when he had resigned his tutorship he preached with acceptance in several places, at Salisbury and Middletown in this State, and in Massachusetts at Worcester, and in the Park Street Church of Boston, where he labored for several months during a winter's residence at Andover. Three calls were

his hands at once from the Park Street Church, from Salisbury, and from Middletown. He chose the call from the latter, and was ordained in July, 1816. At about the time of his settlement he married Julia, second daughter of Dr. Noah Webster.