OR FIFTY YEARS' OUTLOOK BY WILLIAM HAGUE D.D. BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS IO MILK STREET NEXT OLD SOUTH MEETING-HOUSE 1888 H147 THE eminent author of this volume closed suddenly his earthly life almost immediately after he had examined the last pages of the appendices of this book. On Saturday, the 30th of July, 1887, Rev. Dr. Hague sent by the mail, to the publishers, the last "proof" pages of this work, which he had examined that morning at his residence in Cambridge, Mass. He had written his final word, and had made his last revision. On the Monday following he visited Boston, and was on his way to exchange congratulations with his publishers on the happy conclusion of his literary labors by the successful completion of his "Life Notes; or, Fifty Years' Outlook," when he was stricken with apoplexy while walking on Tremont Street, and would have fallen to the pavement but for the timely assistance of friends. He died soon after, in the entrance to Tremont Temple, near the place where much of his life-work had been done. Dr. Hague was born in Westchester County, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1808, and was a graduate of Hamilton College, New York, in the class of 1826. He took his theological course at the Newton Institute, graduating in 1829. He was ordained Oct. 20, 1829, as pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Utica, N.Y. There he remained until called to the pastorate of the First Church in Boston: his installation took place Feb. 3, 1831, the Rev. Dr. Wayland preaching the sermon. June, 1837, he entered upon his duties as pastor of the First Church in Providence, over which he was installed July 12, 1837, the sermon being preached by the Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears. The church commemorated while he was pastor the second century of its foundation, Nov. 7, 1839, and he preached an historical discourse on the occasion, which was published. In |