A

MEMOIR

OF THE LATE

REV. SAVILLION W. FULLER,

BY REV. ASHER MOORE.

TO WIIICH ARE ADDED

ORIGINAL LECTURES, SERMONS, &c.,

SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF MR. FULLER.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED AND PRINTED BY J. H. GIHON & Co.,
S. W. corner of George and Swanwick Streets.

1840.

17347.67

Haward Hallege Schary

1841

gift of git. Whittemore

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by JoHN H. GIHON & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

DEDICATION.

To the Members and Congregation of the Second Universalist Church of Philadelphia, as a small tribute of respect to them, and as a remembrancer of their late beloved Pastor, this work is most affectionately inscribed, by their sincere friend and brother,

ASHER MOORE.

PREFACE.

I a am well aware that I have neither the ability, nor sufficient means in my possession, to present the public a complete account of the life and character of the distinguished Christian and Philanthropist, to whose memory this volume shall be sacred. But not knowing that any other friend would undertake the task, and feeling unwilling that so good and faithful a man should fall without notice to sleep with his fathers; I have been induced by the wishes of others to preserve some lessons of his history and of his works; and to furnish the public, and especially the denomination of Christians to which he belonged, with the principal facts and most important incidents connected with his life, and labors and death. He deserves a more finished monument to perpetuate the memory of his virtues than my feeble hand can rear.

But

his memorial is the hearts of all who knew him. And even this faint offering of respect to departed worth will not be despised by a suffering Church and an afflicted community.

This work has been prepared in the midst of other and pressing duties. And although I have carefully availed myself of every source of information within my reach, I have been obliged to proceed with very scanty materials; and the work will doubtless be found difficient in many re