MEMOIR

OF

REV. THOMAS BALDWIN, D. D.

LATE PASTOR OF THE

SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH IN BOSTON,

WHO DIED

AT WATERVILE, MAINE, AUG. 25, 1825.

BY REV. DANIEL CHESSMAN, A. M.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING LETTERS AND HYMNS.

Second Edition.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY ELDER JOHN PEAK,

And Sold by him, No. 4, Snow-hill Place.

Press of J. Howe, 39 Merchants Row.

1841..

0943 Bap. 85 Blub?.85

B182 C524m 1841

ANDOVER - HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

MEMOIR.*

RARELY has it been our duty to record the personal history of a man so extensively known, so universally respected, or so tenderly beloved. Rarely does it fall to the lot of an individual to fill so many and so important stations in the religious world, and to fill them all so meekly and yet so ably. A name so unsullied has not often been written on the tomb, nor has a patriarch often been gathered to his fathers amid so wide spread a burst of filial lamentation. Under such circumstances, we are well aware how difficult is the task which our situation at present imposes upon us. Well might we shrink from it were it not our duty. We know how extensive was the circle of friends to whom the subject of our Memoir was known, how deep and how affectionate was the interest which he never failed to awaken in those who approached him,

*The substance of this Memoir was originally published in the American Baptist Magazine, for January and Febuary, 1826. The additions made are from the diary of Dr. Baldwin.