Remarks on the Perseverance of the Saints: Being the Substance of Two Discourses, Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, April 13, 1823 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Remarks on the Perseverance of the Saints: Being the Substance of Two Discourses, Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, April 13, 1823
But lest this Tract should fall into the hands of strangers unacquainted with the circumstances of its publication, it may be well to mention the cause of its appearance.
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Letters of Paul and Amicus: Originally Published in the Christian Depository, a Weekly Paper (Classic Reprint)
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Arguments on this head might be, multiplied to an indefinite extent; but conciseness is my object. To all this you will object.
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Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert was a Presbyterian clergyman, college president, Licensed to preach in 1817, he served as pastor during almost all his life. Gilbert was elected president of Newark College. He also served for a time as co-editor with Rev. Benjamin J. Wallace of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review.
Background
Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert was the oldest of ten children born to Elisha and Ellen (Vanderpoel) Gilbert, and a descendant of Jonathan Gilbert who settled in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1645. He was born on December 19, 1793, in what is now New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York.
Education
Gilbert 's elementary education was provided by his grandfather, Elisha Gilbert, who came to New York from Hebron, Connecticut, about 1770, and his secondary and collegiate training was secured at Union College, where he graduated in 1813.
He attended the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1814 to 1816 but did not graduate.
Career
Licensed to preach in 1817, Gilbert was ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle in 1818, having been called to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1829 a schism occurred in his congregation over the question of building another church edifice and a majority of the members organized a new congregation, which, with Gilbert as its pastor, established itself at Hanover (now Sixth) and King Sts. under the name of Hanover Street Church.
Gilbert remained as pastor of this church until April 1834. In the meantime, he had been appointed one of the thirty-three trustees of a proposed college at Newark, Delaware, and on April 11, 1833, he was chosen a permanent president of the board.
The next year, September 23, he was elected president of Newark College, which, with two professors, had opened its doors on May 8, 1834.
Entering upon his new duties as an educator the latter part of October, he remained head of the school for less than a year, resigning because he disapproved of a lottery which had been authorized for its support.
Recalled by the Hanover Street Church in October 1835, he served it as pastor for about five years. In the controversy which divided the Presbyterian Church in the late thirties, he was strongly on the side of the New School.
On October 12, 1840, he was again called to the presidency of Newark College, and he accepted on the condition that the lottery scheme be abandoned. His second connection with the institution, beginning in May 1841, lasted almost six years and was known as the “golden age” of its early period.
In 1843, the legislature changed the name to Delaware College; since 1921 it has been known as the University of Delaware.
In the spring of 1847, he accepted a call to the Western Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, where he remained until his death. He also served for a time as co-editor with Rev. Benjamin J. Wallace of the Presbyterian Quarterly Review.
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Personality
Gilbert was a man of clear mind and of decided views; skilled as a controversialist, yet of such courtesy to his opponents, that when the joust was over they were among the first to sit down in his tent. He was ‘mighty in the Scriptures’ and studied them with constant care.
Quotes from others about the person
According to one of his students, David Hayes Agnew, Gilbert “had an intellectual face, was always interesting in the chapel and excellent as a disciplinarian. ”
Connections
Gilbert was married twice: first, on October 21, 1819, to Lydia Munro of Wilmington, who died in 1843; and during his second connection with Newark College, to Mary Ann Singer of Philadelphia.