Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . erving annu-ally, in private, a day of hu-miliation and prayer duringthe remainder of his life, tokeep fresh m his mind a senseof repentance and sorrowfor the part he bore in thosetrials. Rev. Mr. Mays earlier edu-cation was received principal-ly in private schools in hisnative city. In September,1813, he entered HarvardCollege and was graduated with a class of sixty-seven in 1817. There he distinguished himself by winning sev-eral prizes and achieving high rank as a scholar. In October of that year he wentto Hingham and began the study of theology
Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . erving annu-ally, in private, a day of hu-miliation and prayer duringthe remainder of his life, tokeep fresh m his mind a senseof repentance and sorrowfor the part he bore in thosetrials. Rev. Mr. Mays earlier edu-cation was received principal-ly in private schools in hisnative city. In September,1813, he entered HarvardCollege and was graduated with a class of sixty-seven in 1817. There he distinguished himself by winning sev-eral prizes and achieving high rank as a scholar. In October of that year he wentto Hingham and began the study of theology under the Rev. Henry Colman, assist-ing also in teaching a small classical school. Not liking this he returned in May,1818, to Cambridge, where he resumed his theological studies in the Divinity School,then hardly organized, but under the direction of Rev. Dr. Ware, whose counsel andadvice had a marked effect upon the subsequent character of Mr. Mays life. In 1819he made the acquaintance of Noah Worcester, D. D., and until the latters death. Rev. Samuel Joseph May. 8 ONONDAGAS CENTENNIAL. enjoyed his warm friendship. Dr. Worcester was the author of The Apostle ofPeace, and in 1814 published his Solemn Review of the Custom of War, both ofwhich impressed Mr. May, who, in speaking of the venerable author, said, He wasthe most holy man I ever knew. The first great Christian reform that I ever em-braced was the one inaugurated by him—the attempt to abolish the custom of war. In 1820 he began to preach, first at Nahant, and early in 1821 in Brooklyn, had espoused the doctrine of Unitarianism, to which he adhered throughout 13, 1822, he was ordained to the ministry in Chauncy Place church, Boston,and four days later commenced his labors as minister of the First EcclesiasticalSociety of Brookh^n, Conn., where, in January, 1823, he began the publication of• The Liberal Christian, a fortnightly paper in which he expounded the principlesof his religion. He was inst
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