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Nathanael Emmons was the twelfth and youngest child of Deacon Samuel Emmons and his wife Ruth (Cone) Emmons of East Haddam, Conn. , both of New England Puritan descent. His father was a miller as well as farmer.
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theologian Congregational minister
Nathanael Emmons was the twelfth and youngest child of Deacon Samuel Emmons and his wife Ruth (Cone) Emmons of East Haddam, Conn. , both of New England Puritan descent. His father was a miller as well as farmer.
Nathanael graduated from Yale in 1767 with little learning, for the college was in an unsettled state and his preparation had been poor.
After graduation, he studied for two years with neighboring ministers, though he did not make public profession of his religious faith until near the end of that preparation, indicating that his interest in theology was primarily intellectual, an indication confirmed by his later career.
For four years thereafter he preached here and there without obtaining a pastorate, doubtless because of his weak voice and unimposing appearance.
At last he was called to the church in what soon became the town of Franklin, Massachusetts, on the border of Rhode Island.
He had surprising success as a preacher because of the pungent quality of his sermons.
Students came to him in greater numbers than to any other man of his time for instruction in theology and the art of preaching.
He returned to America in June 1866.
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The principle of that art he expressed in the words, “Have something to say; say it. ” The peculiarity of his theology was that mental life is merely a series of “exercises, ” the result of divine action, a theory which would reduce men to puppets, were it not that Emmons imputed to them freedom and moral responsibility.
They act of necessity, not from compunction.
Although presenting his own views he insisted that his pupils should think for themselves, and think hard, and placed the writings of his opponents before them, so that their training stood them in good stead, wdiile his doctrinal peculiarities gained no permanent hold.
Many of his pupils rose to distinction.
In person Emmons was a plump little man, with a squeaky voice and a sharp tongue.
He chewed tobacco, a practise more usual when he was young than later.
He stuck to the customs of his youth, and in his later years “his old three-cornered hat, and his breeches and all that” did look queer.
He was a thorough-going patriot during the Revolution, and an equally zealous Federalist thereafter.
His publications, which consist entirely of sermons or parts of sermons, were collected in Works of 1865.
While here he was joined by another American, Arnold Hague with whom he formed a lasting friendship and laid the foundation for future collaboration.
Quotations: The principle of that art he expressed in the words, “Have something to say; say it. ”
He became a member of the Geological Society of London in 1874; of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1877; was a founder of the Geological Society of America, and its president in 1903. In 1892 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
He had an analytic and critical mind, and keen mother wit, but little creative ability.
At the beginning of Jefferson’s administration he preached his noted “Jeroboam” sermon, in which he compared the Democrat now become president to the man “who made Israel to sin. ”