Select Remains of the Rev. William Nevins: With a Memoir (Classic Reprint)

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About the age of fourteen years, William came to New York, and entered a counting room. But though he was manifestly not indolent, yet it was soon appar ent that his heart was not there. The fire of the love of knowledge was shut up in his bones. He remained, however, for one year. At the expiration of that time, his parents, convinced of the permanency and fervency of his desire to obtain a liberal education, yielded to his requests and the advice of friends, and consented to his returning home. He immediately commenced prepara tory studies, and in due time entered Yale College, where he distinguished himself as a scholar.

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William Nevins was born in Norwich, Connecticut on October 13, 1797, the youngest of the twelve children of David and Mary (Hubbard) Nevins. Possessed of an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, young Nevins entered Yale University in 1812 and graduated four years later. He was well-known for his quickness of apprehension and his witty sense of humor, the latter quality being especially evident in his writings throughout his life. It was during his time at Yale that Nevins became deeply impressed with eternal realities and resolved to enter the ministry. Immediately upon his graduation from Yale, he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary and completed his course of study in three years. He was licensed to preach by the New London Association and first entered the pulpit at Lisbon, Connecticut in September, 1819. He began preaching at the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland in August, 1820 and was installed as the minister the following October. He married Mary Lloyd of Georgetown in 1822 and the couple had five children, only three of which survived their parents. An outbreak of cholera in the city claimed the life of his wife on November 8, 1834 and his own life nearly a year later on September 14, 1835. The present volume, compiled from a series of articles which Nevins had written for the New York Observer, was published posthumously in 1836.

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