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Third Generation. 2 _3
after a sufficient wrangling in conventions, was
at last quieted, only to be renewed under Dr.
Ripley, his successor, who went through the
usual process of having his society split, owing
to religious dissensions. This process of seces-
sion seems to have ceased when the society
became so small that there was nothing left to
secede fi'om. Perhaps, in prophetic' foresight
of this ecclesiastical harmony, the town received
its name of " Concord."
Mr. Whiting, as a preacher' was of the
(then) old school, quiet, modest, gentle, and
persuasive. He spoke without passion. His
idea was, that the power of Christian truth
could be received into the soul, when heard in
the "still small voice " of God's love and holi-
ness, better than when clothed with the lurid
glare and harrowing imagery of an excited
imagination, presenting pictures of fictitious
horrors of the unseen world, dethroning rea.
son, understanding, and even truth itself. " He
was a man," says Shattuck, "of wealth, learn-
ing, influence, and talents; and," as his mod-
est epitaph infonzns us, "a gentleman of sin-