. The story of a pilgrim family from the Mayflower to the present time : with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. John Alden in his 83rd year . such rich displays ofhis grace in calling souls from the ruins of sin, to taste hispardoning love. I trust my cold heart did rejoice, but howgreat must have been your joy! If we rejoice, let it be thatsuccess has been given to the cause of truth, and that Godis thereby glorified. It is a glorious thought that mortalmen are permitted to be workers with God, to assist in car-rying out his grand designs. I r
. The story of a pilgrim family from the Mayflower to the present time : with autobiography, recollections, letters, incidents, and genealogy of the author, Rev. John Alden in his 83rd year . such rich displays ofhis grace in calling souls from the ruins of sin, to taste hispardoning love. I trust my cold heart did rejoice, but howgreat must have been your joy! If we rejoice, let it be thatsuccess has been given to the cause of truth, and that Godis thereby glorified. It is a glorious thought that mortalmen are permitted to be workers with God, to assist in car-rying out his grand designs. I rejoice in your prosperity,and hope you may receive a more than corresponding in-crease of faith and personal holiness. I shall ever thank God for giving me this field of labor,where I saw so many rich displays of his love and first year of my residence at Shelburne Falls, I wasmarried to Ann Maria Chamberlain, of Cambridgeport, 54 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN ALDEN. Mass. While there I had two children, Augustus EphraimAlden and Francis Howard Alden. My wife was a greathelp to me, both in teaching and painting in the academy,and as a laborer in the church and Sabbath-school. I have. BAPTIST CHURCH, SHELBURNE FALLS. wondered in looking back upon the six years of doublelabor that it did not ruin my health. Either was enoughfor any one man. The frequent revivals, though theygreatly added to my labors, both comforted and strength-ened me. We had a weekly meeting of all the pious stu- I COLLEGE UFE. 55 dents, very much like the Methodist class-meeting, in whicheach one was asked to express his or her religious state offeeling. The greatest number of professors of religion atany one time was one hundred and twelve. .1 often thinkof those precious seasons with delight. The religious ele-ment aided me very much in the discipline of the had more trouble with a printed law of the school, viz. : The sexes are required to walk by themselves, thanfrom any other source. Two of m
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