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Henry Clay Trumbull was an American clergyman and author.
Background
Henry Clay Trumbull was born on June 8, 1830 in Stonington, Connecticut. He was the sixth child of Gurdon and Sarah Ann (Swan) Trumbull, and a younger brother of James Hammond Trumbull. He was of Puritan stock, a descendant of John Trumbull, mariner, who settled in Charlestown, Massachussets, about 1636, and of William Cheseborough and Walter Palmer, earliest settlers of Stonington.
The boy's father was a man of varied business interests--whaling and sealing, the New York and Stonington Railroad, and the local banks-- who served at different times as postmaster, representative and senator in the General Assembly of Connecticut, and commissioner of the state school fund.
Education
Henry attended Stonington Academy and Williston Seminary, but because of ill health had little formal education after the age of fourteen, being employed in later youth as a clerk in the Stonington bank. Beset by lung trouble, he gave up thought of a college education.
Career
When he was twenty-one, he removed to Hartford, where he became a clerk in the offices of the Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad. Under the influence of revival meetings conducted by Charles G. Finney, he became superintendent of a mission Sunday-school in April 1852, and on June 1 united with the historic First (Center) Church in Hartford.
From 1856 to 1858 he was an apothecary, an editor, and a cotton and wool broker successively.
As secretary of the first Connecticut Sunday-school Convention, 1857, he prepared so thorough and pointed a report that plans were made, with the cooperation of the American Sunday School Union, to employ a state Sunday-school missionary, and he was offered and accepted the post, giving full time to its duties after September 1, 1858.
On September 10, 1862, he was ordained in order that he might qualify for the chaplaincy of the 10th Connecticut Regiment, then stationed at New Bern, N. C. , where he joined it.
He was captured by Confederates while ministering to the wounded after the assault on Fort Wagner in July 1863, and was held prisoner, suspected as a spy, for four months.
After exchange, he was in active service on the Virginia front until the end of the war, being mustered out with his regiment, August 25, 1865.
Refusing attractive offers in various editorial, educational, and business relationships, he resumed his work for the Sunday-schools, becoming secretary for New England of the American Sunday School Union.
As chairman of the executive committee of the National Sunday School Convention, he issued the call for the meeting of 1872 which initiated the International Uniform Sunday School Lessons.
In 1875 he became editor and part owner of the Sunday School Times, and removed with his family to Philadelphia, which was henceforth his home.
In 1888 he delivered the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale, which were published under the title The Sunday School, Its Origin, Mission, Methods and Auxiliaries (1888). Visiting Palestine in 1881, he succeeded in identifying the site of Kadesh-Barnea, and his book entitled Kadesh-Barnea, published in 1884 after two years of further study and research, remains the most important work on this subject.
From 1886 to 1897, he served as chaplain-in-chief of the Loyal Legion. Trumbull was an effective speaker and a stimulating and resourceful writer. He was, in the best sense of the term, a nineteenth-century Puritan.
He wrote thirty-three books, notable among which, besides the two already mentioned, are: Teaching and Teacher (1884), The Blood Covenant (1885), Hints on Child-Training (1891), Friendship the Master-Passion (1892), A Lie Never Justifiable (1893), War Memories of an Army Chaplain (1898), Border Lines in the Field of Doubtful Practices (1899), Illustrative Answers to Prayer (1900), Individual Work for Individuals (1901), How to Deal with Doubts and Doubters (1903).
Trumbull died at his home at 4103 Walnut Street in Philadelphia on December 8, 1903, after suffering a stroke.
Achievements
Henry Clay Trumbull became a world-famous editor, author, and pioneer of the Sunday School Movement. He was also the author of 38 books.
He contributed powerfully to the development of the Sunday-school movement in the United States and throughout the world, and gave stimulus and guidance to the spread of Bible study under the regimentation of the uniform lesson system.
In 1852, Trumbull joined the Congregationalist church and, while continuing to work for the railroad, became the superintendent of a mission Sunday-school under the Connecticut State Sunday School Association.
Upon moving to Philadelphia, he became a member of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church. Among his associates was evangelist Dwight L. Moody.
Trumbull was known for his commitment to "personal evangelism" which entailed telling friends and acquaintances about spiritual salvation through Christ's vicarious atonement. In this way, he was an early practitioner of modern-day Evangelical Christianity.
Politics
He was prominent in the state campaigns of the newly organized Republican party.
Views
Quotations:
"Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces. "
"The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself. "
"In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship. "
"Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. "
"Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors. "
"There is no human love like a mother's love. There is no human tenderness like a mother's tenderness. .. .. .In all ages everywhere, the true children of a true mother 'rise up and call her blessed'; for they realize, sooner or later, that God gives no richer blessing to man than is found in a mother's love. "
"Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved. "
"A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste. "
"It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child. "
"There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble. "
"A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible. "
"If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight. "
"No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry. "
"It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth. "
"All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty"
"Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point. "
"Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him. "
"Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony. "
Connections
Trumbull was married to Alice Gallaudet (1833-1891), daughter of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet.
At his death he was survived by six of his eight children.
