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REV. EDWARD JAMES YOUNG, D.D. BY JAMES DE NORMANDIE.

EDWARD J. YOUNG was born in Boston, April 1st, 1829 — the eldest of twelve children.

His father, the Reverend Alexander Young, D.D., was for nearly thirty years minister of the New South Church, or the Sixth Congregational Church in Boston, at the foot of Summer Street, generally known as Church Green.

Dr. Young was a typical Unitarian clergyman of that day, a cultivated gentleman of a kindly and genial spirit, gifted and accomplished as a preacher, of a grave and rather stern bearing, an intense lover of books, possessing a remarkable library, having a large acquaintance with the best English literature, and was a most exact historical writer.

It is interesting to note in how many ways the subject of this memoir followed in the offices and occupations of his father. Alexander Young studied at the Boston Latin School; graduated with distinguished honor from Harvard College in 1820; was assistant teacher in the Boston Latin School; graduated from the Divinity School at Cambridge; was Secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society; member of the Society for Promoting Theological Education, of the Massachusetts Congregational Charitable Society, and of the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and others in North America, and Doctor of Divinity in 1846. Edward Young was also a member of all these societies, and in every one was esteemed for his fidelity and good judgment.

He attended the Chauncey Hall School, then under the charge of Gideon F. Thayer, and the Boston Latin School when

Epes S. Dixwell was the esteemed principal. Here he received several prizes and the Franklin medal, and had the valedictory upon graduating. At Harvard College he received a detur in the sophomore year, had a part at the junior exhibition, a first prize from the Boylston prize for elocution, and at Commencement delivered the English oration, on "The Reciprocal Influence of the Old World and the New." He was a member of the Institute of 1770; of the Natural History Society, and of the Phi Beta Kappa. He writes in a letter of being so well fitted for college that he had little to do in the first year, that his education was chiefly a drill in memory, and that there was no familiar footing of the scholars with the professors.

Graduating at nineteen, in 1848, he did not feel that he was prepared to enter the Divinity School, and so taught for a while in the Brimmer School and the Public Latin School in Boston, and prepared private pupils for advanced standing in college, spending the money he thus gained for books. In 1849 he considered for a time the plan of going to Philadelphia to establish a classical school. He was urged to do this by several who regarded him as eminently fitted for such a work. John T. Sargent speaks of his singular aptness to teach. Professor Felton writes that he had greatly distinguished himself in college, and had been a very successful teacher; Edward Everett recommended him highly, and Dr. Furness urged him to come. But although enjoying teaching, he felt all the time that his place was in the ministry, and in 1850 he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge. Here for a time he was not a little disturbed at the unsettled conditions of thought in regard to the Bible and in regard to many of what he had considered the essential doctrines of Christianity. The higher criticism, the fruit of great learning and of devout consecration, upon the results of which there is now a general unity of thought among scholars and in which we rest so securely that we know there is not a single point which can disturb our faith in great spiritual verities, was unknown. The tendency to a bold radicalism was strong and increasing. It was the radicalism of some of the German school of theologians which was loudly denounced, but the denunciation seemed to him unfounded, for few of those who denounced it could read German or could fairly enter into their view. In a controversy between Andrews

Norton and Mr. Ripley it was said that the latter could read German but Norton could not. Mr. Young thought there was little thorough work among the students, and he had the scholarly instinct and training to be thorough. At this time he showed a marked sympathy towards Theodore Parker, whose South Boston sermon had stirred the whole community - not altogether towards his views, but because he felt that he was being condemned and persecuted while no one had shown sufficient knowledge to answer him.

After studying for two years in the Divinity School at Cambridge, all the time growing more and more interested in, and more and more perplexed and questioning about, the great questions which were moving the theological world, and feeling that he must go where the leading theologians of the world with profound scholarship were studying them, he borrowed money, insured his life for its payment, and took a sailing packet from New York to Hamburg, to pursue his studies in Germany. The voyage occupied thirty-five days. He spent four years in Germany, one year a student at Göttingen, where he heard lectures by Ewald, Lücke and Gieseler, and then three years at the University of Halle, where he studied under Hupfeld, Julius Müller, Roediger, Tholuck, Erdmann and others.

He entered into the life of a German student with great enthusiasm and joy and diligence. He writes: "An American student in Germany is not distracted by daily news and papers

- there were none. He lives in a scholarly and literary atmosphere. He is in the presence of men who have given their lives to study, are famous by their books, and he catches inspiration from them," and then adds, "It is a great thing to look at one's own country from a distance."

Of some of the students at the university he had not a high opinion. One never went into a lecture-room, but spent his time in fighting duels. He had been there several years and could not graduate. The Emperor William, on a visit to Bonn, expressed the hope that his son would do as all the rest did, drink beer and fight duels.

Mr. Young is enthusiastic about some of the professors. "Tholuck conversed with each one of several nationalities, at the table, in his own language. He said to me, 'When I go to