t on and flourished. President Dwight
raised a considerable fund for it by a course of lectures,
and it continued down to within my own recollection. What
became of the fund which was raised for its support I cannot
tell.

Jeremiah Evarts was born February 13, 1781. He died May 10,
1831. He was the founder and Secretary of the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was one of the
thirteen men who met in Samuel Dexter's office in 1812, to
inaugurate the Temperance Reformation. The habit of excessive
drinking was then almost universal in this country. Liquors
and wines were freely used on social occasions, at weddings
and at funerals. The clergyman staggered home from his round
of pastoral calls, and the bearers partook of brandy or gin
or rum in the room adjoining that where the coffin was placed
ready for the funeral. A gentleman present said it was utterly
impracticable to try and wean the American people from the habit of
drinking. Jeremiah Evarts answered, "It is right, therefore
practicable."

He was a Puritan of the old school. He made a vigorous but
ineffectual attempt in Connecticut to enforce the Sunday
laws. His death was caused by his exertions in resisting
the removal of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia, a removal
accomplished in violation of the Constitution and of public
faith. The Supreme Court of the United States declared the
law of Georgia unconstitutional. But Georgia defied the mandate
of the Court, and it was never executed. The missionary agent
was imprisoned and died of his confinement. Mr. Evarts said,
"There is a court that has power to execute its judgments."

I told this story to Horace Maynard, an eminent member of
Congress and a member of the Cabinet. Mr. Maynard said, "There
was never a prophecy more terribly accomplished. The territory
from which those Indians were unlawfully removed was the scene
of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, which is not far from the
grave of Worcester, the missionary who died in prison. That
land was fairly drenched with blood and honeycombed with graves."

Mr. Evarts edited the _Panoplist,_ a very able magazine which
powerfully defended the old theology against the Unitarian
movement, then at its height.

A well-known writer, Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, published a short
time ago a sketch entitled, "The Greater Evarts," in which
he contrasted the career of Jeremiah Evarts with that of his
brilliant and delightful son. Whe