{"id":1923,"date":"2013-07-01T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2013-07-01T16:07:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:07:47","slug":"the-true-means-of-establishing-public-happiness-is-julys-featured-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/07\/01\/the-true-means-of-establishing-public-happiness-is-julys-featured-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Means of Establishing Public Happiness is July’s Featured Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The true means of establishing public happiness. :\u00a0A sermon, delivered on the 7th of\u00a0July, 1795, before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati\u00a0<\/em>is our featured book for July 2013. \u00a0This short work (approx. 40 pages) was printed in New Haven, Connecticut in 1795 and sold at the bookstore of I. Beers.<\/p>\n

Well known as an author, preacher, and theologian,\u00a0Timothy Dwight was born May 15, 1752 in\u00a0Northampton, Massachusetts. The Dwight family had a long association with Yale College, as it was then known.\u00a0Dwight graduated from Yale in 1769 (when was only 17 years old).<\/p>\n

Licensed to preach in 1777, he was appointed by Congress chaplain in General\u00a0Samuel Holden Parsons’s\u00a0Connecticut Continental Brigade<\/i>. He served with distinction, inspiring the troops with his sermons and the stirring war songs he composed, the most famous of which is “Columbia”.<\/p>\n

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Dwight was the leader of the\u00a0<\/span>evangelical<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>New Divinity<\/span>\u00a0faction of Congregationalism \u2014 a group closely identified with Connecticut’s emerging commercial elite. Although fiercely opposed by religious moderates \u2014 most notably Yale president\u00a0<\/span>Ezra Stiles<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 he was elected to the presidency of Yale on Stiles’s death in 1795.\u00a0<\/span>His ability as a teacher, and his talents as a religious and political leader, soon made the college the largest institution of higher education in\u00a0<\/span>North America<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Dwight’s sermon in The true means of establishing public happiness<\/em>\u00a0was delivered to the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati – a group made up of former Revolutionary War soldiers.\u00a0<\/em>The sermon\u00a0speaks on the necessity of creating a society free from the “pernicious influence of enormous Wealth, and of extended Conquest.” For, if those tendencies dominate, “the national character becomes tainted, of course, with sickliness and corruption.” The “influence of freedom” has roused mankind “with a returning consciousness of energy and action.” That, combined with “religious education” and the “influence of parents,” may be sufficient to stave off evil.<\/p>\n

Special Collections’ copy of\u00a0The true means of establishing public happiness<\/em> is disbound. To view it, come to Special Collections located on the second floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library (off of the North Reading Room).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The true means of establishing public happiness. :\u00a0A sermon, delivered on the 7th of\u00a0July, 1795, before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati\u00a0is our featured book for July 2013. \u00a0This short work (approx. 40 pages) was printed in New Haven, Connecticut in 1795 and sold at the bookstore of I. Beers. Well known as an author, preacher, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}