History Of The Andover Theological Seminary Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from History of the Andover Theological Seminary Third, - He had persevered throughout his professional life in a very systematic habit of keeping on file his voluminous correspondence, and in preserving copies of his own important letters. This history was completed by my grandfather, during the latter years of his life, with the valued assistance of my grandmother as amanuensis and copyist. All that was needed at the time of my grandfathers decease was a careful editorial revision of the manuscript before sending it to the printer, with whom negotiations for its publication were at that time in progress. On the 19th of July, 1854, in anticipation of his near approach to death, my grandfather added a codicil to his will previously prepared, in which appears the following section: "In the first place, if my decease shall take place before the publication of my History of the Seminary is completed, my will is that the manuscripts and documents pertaining thereto shall pass into the hands of my son Leonard and that he shall publish the History as I have prepared it, only making such corrections as he shall see to be called for in order to complete the plan which I have laid out and which I have nearly finished." I judge from the papers collected by the Rev. Leonard Woods, Jr., D.D., which have come temporarily into my possession, that my uncle contemplated enlarging the scope of the History as originally designed, to include the history of Phillips Academy, Andover, on which the Seminary was engrafted, and embracing lengthy biographical sketches of the Phillips' family, whose many generous benefactions so greatly promoted educational interests in New England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.