7 25 Brooklyn 3d Pres. Ch. fr. Sundries 59 32 11 00 Donation fr. J. H. Taylor, Life Director 100 00 2.50 Bleecker St. Ch. coll. by Rev. Mr. Patton 101 62 25 00 20 00-39 00 Cash 5, R. M. Blatchford 10 15 00-141 62 6 35 Bowery Ch. by Mr. Patton, coll. 20 81 23 43 Fr. W. A. and I. Bull 5 00--25 81 Central Pres. Ch. fr. R. L. Nevins 100 00 Miss M'Clenachan's school, a Christmas gift from the Young Ladies 75 95 105 92 Laight St. Ch. fr. A. R. Wetmore 100 00 13 83 Donation of a stranger, a Christmas gift, by Rev. 5 00 Clothing received during the quarter ending Boston, Ms. Mrs. Christian Baker, 6 yds. white flannel, and 6 Cohasset, Ms. Ladies' Miss. Soc. by Mrs. Studley, Tr. 10 shirts and 1 pr. socks. Dover, N. H. Ladies' Benevo. Society, by Miss Elizabeth C. Dover, N. J. a few females, by Miss Caroline C. Allen, a box Holliston, Ms. Ladies, by Miss Irene Dickinson, 2 shirts and 4 Leominster, Ms. Ladies' Aux. Ed. Soc. by Miss Susan Lincoln, Tr. a bundle, valued at $7. New Ipswich, N. H. Ladies' Reading and Char. Soc. by Miss North Rochester, Ms. 7 shirts, 13 collars, and 3 a box, valued at $65. East Hartford, bal. of subs. by Mr. J. O. Pit kin 65 12 Wenham, Ms. Fem. Read. and Char. Soc. by Mrs. Abigail [Brief biographical notices of President Davies may be found in the preface to his sermons; in the funeral sermons of Drs. Gibbons and Finley, generally prefixed to the sermons of Davies; in the second volume of the Panoplist; Middleton's Evangelical Biography; Assembly's Missionary Magazine; State of Religion in Virginia; Rev. David Bostwick's account prefixed to Davies' sermon on the death of George II.; Appendix to Rev. Dr. Ashbel Green's Baccalaureate Addresses; and in President Allen's American Biographical Dictionary. The most copious and interesting biography is found in the second volume, 1819, of the Evangelical and Literary Magazine, published in Richmond, Va., and edited by the Rev. Dr. John H. Rice, afterwards professor of theology, in the Union Theological Seminary. This memoir was from the pen of the editor, and is the result of much careful inquiry by a man of a spirit remarkably kindred to the subject of his sketches. The Sabbath school book, published by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, is, for the most part, a selection from the biography by Dr. Rice. To Dr. Rice's Memoir we are indebted for most of the following statements. Dr. Green has furnished us with some important facts. We have, however, compared all the accessible notices on the subject. We have endeavored by correspondence to secure some original materials, but have been for the most part, disappointed in our efforts.EDITOR.] SAMUEL DAVIES was born November 3d, 1724, in the county of Newcastle, in what is now the State of Delaware.* His father was a farmer of small property, of intellectual endowments rather below the ordinary level, of unpolished manners, but of a blameless and religious life. His mother was a woman of superior powers of mind, of affectionate disposition, and of ardent piety. Her first child was a daughter. Her anxiety to be instrumental in promoting the Redeemer's kingdom, induced her, like Hannah of old, earnestly to pray that God would bestow upon her the blessing of a She believed that the son whom she afterwards bore, was given to her in answer to her prayers, and she determined to devote him to the Lord, for the service of the sanctuary, all the days of his life. President Davies subsequently, in a letter to Dr. Gibbons of London, writes: "I was blessed with a mother whom I might account, without filial vanity or partiality, one of the most eminent saints I ever knew upon earth. I am a son of prayer, like my name-sake Samuel the prophet; and my mother son. Both his parents, it is supposed, were of Welsh descent. In Dr. Rice's memoir, it is stated that "the Christian names of his parents, we know not." Yet Dr. Finley's funeral sermon is dedicated to Mrs. Martha Davies, the mother, and to Mrs. Jean Davies, the widow, etc. |