YALE. "The terms and vacations are the same with those in the Academical Department." "Commencement, Thursday, July 27." First term of next year begins Wednesday, September 12; ends December 18. There are three terms in the year. HARTFORD. Not reported. OBERLIN. "The terms and vacations are the same with those in the College department. "The annual Commencement is on the fourth Wednesday of August;" i. e., Wednesday, August 22. “The College year is divided into three terms:- The first term begins the next Monday after Commencement, and ends on the Saturday preceding the fourth Wednesday of November. The second begins on the fourth Wednesday of February, and ends on the fourth Wednesday of May. The third begins the next Wednesday following the close of the previous term, and ends on the fourth Wednesday of August." Also, "in order to accommodate those who wish to teach, there is but one vacation, com mencing on Saturday before the fourth Wednesday of November, and ending on the fourth Wednesday of February. There is also a recess from study of six days, from the close of the second term to the commencement of the third, and of four days after Commencement." Whether the first part of this paragraph applies to the Theological department, is not stated. CHICAGO. Anniversary,-"last Thursday in April;" i. e., Thursday, April 26. "The academic year is divided into two terms, — the Lecture and the Reading term: the former commencing the second Wednesday of September, and continuing till the last Thursday in April; the latter extending from the first Wednesday in June to the beginning of the Lecture term, - a vacation of six weeks intervening between the close of the Lecture term and the commencement of the Reading term." "The Lecture term is to be devoted to attendance upon the regular exercises of the Seminary. The Reading term is intended to be passed by the student under the supervision of some Christian pastor, under whose care he may pursue the course of study prescribed by the Faculty, while at the same time acquainting himself with the details and practical duties of pastoral life. At the close of the Reading term, the student is required to present a certificate, from the pastor, of his diligence in study and propriety of deportment." MONTREAL. - -"The session in the Theological Departments begins on the second Wednesday in October, and ends on the second Wednesday in April." Congregational Necrology. MRS. ANNE G. B. WARNER, wife of Prof. Aaron Warner, D. D., of Amherst, Mass., died July 7, 1865. Mrs. Warner has passed away from a home which she loved, and where she was the object of the warmest affection. She has gone, we do not doubt, to a more blessed world, and entered upon a fellowship incomparably purer and higher than any earthly circle could furnish. We could not recall her if we would, and, though we follow her with tearful eyes, we rejoice both in the memory of what she has been and the knowledge of what she is. There is little need of any formal tribute in her praise. Her memory will always be fresh and fragrant in the hearts which knew her. Few persons could meet her casually and but briefly without an impression of her amiable grace; and no one has ever known her intimately and well but that the first acquaintance with her rare qualities has been followed by a continually increasing respect and affection. She was born in Gilmanton, N. H., April 26, 1800, and died July 8, 1865. During these years, through the varied discipline of grief and joy by which our Lord fits his chosen for his kingdom, she was made meet for the eternal inheritance. Those who knew her most intimately, felt most confidently the sincerity of her faith and the growing strength and fervor of her Christian hope and love. Until separated by her last disease from frequent intercourse with her friends outside her immediate family circle, no part of her life was secluded. She loved and enjoyed the social circle, and yet she lived for her friends more than she lived with them. She sought society less than she attracted it. The light which always shone upon her face and the love which was ever glowing in her heart cheered and charmed whoever approached her. Children loved to visit her. Students in college sometimes passed their happiest hours, with equal profit and pleasure, in her company. People of culture and those whose life was in a different sphere found her alike an appreciative friend. Her quickness to discern and her readiness to respond to the feelings of others, her kindness and sympathy and self-forgetfulness, the unaffected dignity of her manner, and the easy grace of her conversation, rendered her the joy of her home and the delight of the larger circle whose eyes are dimmed by her departure. She is as widely missed as she is tenderly mourned; and the passage of time only renders more manifest their loss to those who loved her. Her funeral was attended from her late residence at Amherst, July 10th, when the following remarks were made by Prof. Julius H. Seelye: "In rising to speak, at this sorrowful house, it hardly seems possible for me to offer words of comfort to others: I feel too much like a mourner, needing myself the consolation which I might be expected to give. But is there one of us of whom the same might not be said? Who that knew this departed one did not love her? and who of all this assembly does not have in this bereavement a keen sense of personal loss? "I can not speak of her virtues. If they were not too many to be enumerated and too rare to be described, they are too precious in our memory, and are associated with too sacred an experience in our hearts, to be thought of at this moment but with tears and in silence. "We do not mourn for her that her pain and weariness have ceased. That she is at rest in the completeness of the eternal life and the blessedness of the divine love, we confidently believe, and in this assurance do most devoutly rejoice. We think of her with the innumerable company towards which our looks and longings increasingly turn as we journey on in life, and, while we follow her with our thoughts, we seem to hear again the utterance, ‘These are they which have come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.' From this blessed fellowship we would not recall her. We even rejoice in her joy, while it is only for ourselves that our tears fall. We mourn our loss. We sorrow, even though we sorrow not as those which have no hope.' "But our sorrows are divinely sent. Is there any ministry wherein God's love and wisdom are more clearly seen than in these afflictions, which work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen'? To the Christian the earth is a probation in two senses. It is a trial scene to see if we will secure the heavenly prize, and a trial scene in order that we may secure it. Judging from the Bible or our own experience, dear friends, can we discover in God's providences toward us any other end than to discipline us for the glorious destiny of his elect children? And is there aught else for us now than to accept the discipline with penitence and thankfulness and love, while we come boldly unto the Throne of Grace to find grace to help in this our time of need? For we have not an High Priest who can not be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but who was in all points tempted and tried like as we are, yet without sin." Rev. ROBERT HARVEY CONKLIN was born in Claverack, Columbia County, N. Y., April 22, 1808. Most of his early life was spent in Schoharie County, but when about eighteen years of age he came to reside in Camden, Oneida County. This place soon after became the scene of a powerful work of grace, which prevailed at that time throughout that section of country. Young Conklin, who had previously been a wild and thoughtless youth, more given to ridicule and scoffing than to serious things, was first arrested by the sudden conversion of a sister, and soon became himself a hopeful subject of divine grace. He entered at once, with the zeal of a new-born soul, upon labors for the conversion of his former companions in folly, and had the joy of seeing many of them embrace the Saviour. His mind became at length much exercised on the question of preaching the gospel, but the difficulty of reaching the sacred profession, on account of his limited advantages and limited means, seemed almost insurmountable. While making it a subject of special prayer, the Rev. Henry Smith, pastor of the church in Camden, making a pastoral call one day, inquired of his mother whether Robert would like to come into his family and study. The offer was gladly accepted, and he remained with Mr. Smith until his death, making good proficiency in his studies. After the death of his pastor he spent several terms at the Classical Institutes in Manlius and Camden, and then pursued a course of theological study with the Rev. Sylvester Eaton, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, with whom he remained until licensed to preach, after which he labored several months among the Seneca Indians. He was ordained as an evangelist at Victor, N. Y., June 7, 1831, bringing to the ministerial work such intellectual and spiritual èquipment as he had been able to secure in the five years succeeding his conversion, without the training of a course of study in college and theological seminary. He brought to the work some natural and spiritual gifts, and among them a ready utterance and an earnest devotedness, which made a speedy demand for his services. Converted in a revival, and in full sympathy with the great movement of which it was a part, he spent most of the early years of his ministry in revival labors in different places in New York. The atmosphere of a revival was always congenial to him, and he retained through life a strong predilection for scenes and labors connected with the special outpouring of the Spirit, and during a ministry of thirty-four years he participated in a great number of such seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. He married Miss Catherine, daughter of Joseph Webb, of Canandaigua. Of his successive residences and fields of labor the writer has no accurate information. He labored for a few years in Springfield, Mass.; for several years after, he ministered to the Free Church in Providence, R. I. He was never installed as pastor of any church, though often solicited to sustain the relation. He labored at three different periods in Ashtabula, O., the place of his latest ministrations, where with the loss of strength he rested from the active duties of the ministry in April, 1864. His constitution was never robust, though he was able to accomplish a good deal of diversified work. Some visible symptoms of a tendency to consumption were matured and confirmed by a visit to the army in the service of the Christian Commission, and he was compelled to desist from preaching, and soon after took up his residence in Detroit as an invalid, to await the development of his disease. Some three or four months before his death he was removed to Cleveland. He was then emaciated and weak, and was still further reduced, month by month, often laboring for respiration, and suffering at times severe pain. Throughout his sickness he was calm, patient, and untroubled, ready to wait the appointed time, and more ready to depart. The faith which he had commended to others, sustained him in the hour of his need; his trust in Jesus was unreserved and unclouded. A few Sabbaths before his decease at his special request, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered in his sick-room, the pastor and deacons of the Congregational Churches near officiating in the service. At its conclusion he expressed the satisfaction which the occasion had afforded him, and returned thanks to the brethren. It was an evident comfort to him that he had been permitted to celebrate this sacred ordinance once more and for the last time, before he should partake of the fruit of the vine new in the kingdom of his Father. From Christian brethren near him, including two physicians, whose services were freely given, our sick brother received many kindnesses, for which he felt deeply grateful. With his mental faculties unimpaired by the wasting of his frame, and with the surety of an unfaltering confidence, knowing whom he had believed, he lingered until the noon of Friday, Dec. 15th, 1865, when in a sinking turn, differing not apparently from many through which he had passed, his spirit was suddenly released from its frail tabernacle, and he fell asleep in Jesus. Our deceased brother was called to severe domestic bereavements. Of the six children whom God gave to him and his companion -a son and five daughters-only a daughter survives. An elder daughter was called away in the opening of her youthful promise, and the only son at the age of fourteen. But with these afflictions, added to the trials incident to the ministerial office, the quiet cheerfulness of our departed brother was not broken down. He was constitutionally hopeful and sanguine, and not desponding, and bore up with good heart and hope to the end. As a preacher our brother was argumentative, and he had a natural facility, both in arranging and expressing his thoughts. His method was logical, and his points were stated clearly. His discourses were seldom written out, and he usually took into the desk a bare outline the leading heads written down on a card. He could speak off-hand with ease, without the least apparent embarrassment under any circumstances; and both in the pulpit and in discussion would often urge his views with a great deal of point and power. His mental schemes and projects may, sometimes, have partaken more of the ideal than of the actual - they may have bordered on the visionary-but when he addressed his fellow-men, he always had a definite aim, and was bold, earnest, and thoroughly practical. On all the moral questions of the day, his position was that of a radical reformer — he could not have been anything else. He took a deep interest in the temperance reformation, and never tired of its advocacy. He was identified with the anti-slavery cause, and of injustice and wickedness in any form he was the unsparing foe. His moral attitude in any exigency could always be calculated on with entire confidence. He was fearless and plain, and sometimes severe in his animadversions; but those who knew him, know that his language was always the utterance of sincere moral conviction, that his spirit was not censorious, and that he was personally amiable, kind, and benevolent. His ministry in Providence was his longest consecutive work, and was remembered by him as the pleasantest section of his ministerial life. He had the support and sympathy of his flock there, and the confidence and respect of all classes. It was a period full of the agitation of moral questions, in which he took a lively interest, and it included the great revival which brought such accessions to the church of Christ throughout the land, and in which he took an active part, the daily prayer-meetings in that city being held much of the time in his own place of wor- purpose, come what would, to serve the Lord. ship. On the afternoon of the Sabbath following his death, the funeral service was attended in the Plymouth Church, Cleveland, and a funeral discourse was preached by the pastor. His remains were subsequently interred in the cemetery in Springfield. S. W. Rev. CHARLES EMERSON BLOOD was born in Mason, N. H., March 1, 1810. His father's name was Reuben Foster Blood. His mother's maiden name was Relief Whiting. While he was a mere child, his father died, leaving the family with very limited means of support. After spending several years on a farm, he went to Royalston to learn the trade of brush-making. There he had little opportunity to gratify an ardent desire for mental improvement, and his associations were such as to greatly endanger his morals. Referring to that period, he afterwards said, "I have wondered many times that I did not become a confirmed drunkard." His removal to Cambridgeport, when about seventeen years old, took him near to his mother and sister, who then resided in Bos ton. The latter, now Mrs. Julius A. Reed, of Iowa, "was an earnest Christian; and, from the time she herself found the Messiah, she sought to bring her brother to him." Through her influence, the subject of this sketch was induced to attend Rev. Samuel Green's preaching (of Essex Street Church) on the Sabbath and also some of his inquiry meetings. For nine weeks was he in a state of great anxiety, constantly surrounded by thoughtless, irreligious, profane companions. They made a mock of everything sacred; and, when they found he was religiously disposed, they tried, but in vain, to laugh all seriousness away." He was advised by his spiritual guides to read Doddridge's "Rise and Progress," which he did, trying hard to follow its directions. It was of service to him, no doubt, for he there more fully learned what he must do to be saved. But he ever afterwards thought "it was the means of delaying his conversion, since he felt he must pass through all the phases of religious experience, described in that book." At length, however, after striving for two months and more, he reached a deliberate, determined Was that the beginning of a Christian life with him? He doubted for a while. But his mind was calm, his heart filled with joy. "From that time, now thirty-eight years," he recently said, "I have never, for a moment, wavered in my purpose." He united with the church in Rindge, N. H., in 1829, and took an active part in prayer and conference meetings; and in other ways did what he could to promote the cause which he had espoused, with intense interest. Soon the question reached him from an unexpected quarter, "How should you like to study for the ministry?" Of that he had not so much as thought. There he was, bound over to an apprenticeship which was to run a year and a half longer, and utterly destitute of means to meet the expenses of an education. But there was a voice in that inquiry that reached and stirred his heart; and he could not rest till he resolved, in humble dependence on the grace of God and the charities of His people, to enter upon, and prosecute a course of study with reference to that highest and most responsible office to which men or angels can be called. We next find him- but not till he has attained his majority- - at New Ipswich Academy, with a few dollars in his pocket. He was aided by the American Education Society and boarded himself, living in a most economical manner. As his scanty funds were completely exhausted at the close of a single term, he returned to the shop, where he had learned a trade, that he might earn a little money wherewith to pursue his studies. The means, thus secured, were spent in defraying his expenses to Illinois College, whither Rev. Asa Turner had directed his attention, and to which he was strongly allured by knowing that Dr. Edward Beecher was its president. That was in 1832, when the institution, about to become his Alma Mater, was two years old. He reached Jacksonville, "with clothes, a few books and fourteen dollars in money," his "whole outfit," as he himself has expressed it, "for eight years course of study," namely, five in college and three in some theological seminary. Many were his dark days. Often was he almost discouraged. But the Lord led him on and carried him through. During the period above named, he earned, by teaching |
