The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-01
DAUGHTERS OF THE
 AMERICAN REVOL U7ION


 taining to the Ustick and Rutland fam. lies was used In the history of the Ustick family in the last paper. other sources from which the sketch below is complied are Cathcart's Baptist Encv- clopedia. Sprauge's Annals of the American Pulpit. and the London mag agine Notes and oueries"
 Rev. Thomas Ustick. A M forn,. l ly. pastor of the First Baptist Cburch Philadelphia, was born in New York City. August 30. 1753 He was he eldest son of Stephen Ustick and Jane | Rutland.
 When a child he was placed in the family or ms uncle. William Ustick, hardware dealer in New York City. He remained employed In his uncle.s business until he was 13 years of age. Having formed acquaintances in fam flies belonging to the First Raptist Church. or which Rev. John Gano was then pastor. he regularly attended a weekly prayer meeting at this church. His consistent and serious conduct at- tracted the attention of both pastor | and congregation. and through their influence and his own deep- seated con victions he was induced to unite with Dr. Ganos church.
 | At his baptism. pr. Gano. in read 1 ing the hymn to be sung. so changed 1t as to read:
 l His honor Is engaged to save
 Tho youngest of his sheep" l Young Ustick, leaning on his ven- | erable pastors arm, and looking up | him: My father, why did you not read | the word as 1t Is. the meanest of his sheep for truly so I am." | In renouncfng the Episcopal pecu- | liarities, in which his parents had reared him. and to which his ancestors | for many generations had been attach l ed. he was strongly remonstrated with. His uncle was especially severe with him: so much so. that arrangements | were made for confning him to his | chamber during the day on which he | was to be baptized. But the dauntless young hero. learning of the design, es- caped too early for 1t to be executed. This" says a relative who knew, twas his only act of disobedience to an uncle who tenderly loved him and to his lat est hour spoke of him in terms of the ! most respectful and endearing"
 | His intense desire to qualify himself for preaching the Gospel, which he considered mans highest honor and re- | sponsibility, and his own evident duty. led to his admission as a student to Rhode Island Academy, at Warren. of which the Rev James Manning was | then principal. Soon this academy was i incorporated at Rhode Island College. which became Brown University of l Providence. On the removal of the col lege to Providence. Dr. Manning be- l came it's president. and young Ustick | continued within its halls. An affection | and intimacy existed between president and pupil. and continued during their l lifetime, as is to be seen by letters I in the Ustick family, creditable to the social and religious characters of both. Our student was graduated in 1771, aged IS years. In 1772 he married Han nah Whitears youngest daughterf of John Whitear. or Whittier, bell-found- | ed of Fairfield. Conn. Thirteen children | were born to them. Most of these chtl- dren reached maturity, and became or naments to their family. an honor to their parents, useful in society, and valuable members Of the church. 1 For a time succeeding .his graduation and marriage. MT. Ustick taught a highly respectable school in New York l city. devoting his talents to lessons in l Greek, Latin and the high mathemati- cal studies, adapted to fit boys for col 1 lege. professional life and other cali- ings. In 1774 he received the well earned degree of Master of Arts, and | was licensed to preach the Gospel. In 1775 when many families left New York | city because of apprehensions that 1t | ish troops, MT. Ustick retired with his family to Fairfield, Conn. Here he re- mained a short time with his wife's relatives. Soon we find him supplying the church at Stamford. Conn. On leaving this church he was given a letter certifying that ''his conduct was | In character with his calling and that he had given such general satisfaction in his public labors. as proved the Apostles declaration. who. after say ing that Christ has ascended on high added and hath given gifts unto men,"
 In 1776, by invitation from the church at Ashford, Conn.,, he removed to that place, and took upon himself the care of that congregation. Both there and in the surrounding region he labored zealously and left the impress of his teachings and life upon the public. In TIT the rites of ordination were admin istered to him. The Presbytery who imposed ordaining hands on him were his revered president, James Manning, D. D., Job Seamans, of Attlehoro, and Rev. William Williams, of Wrentham In l779, MT. Ustick removed to Grafton, Mass. where he discharged the duties of his office with fidelity and success for three years. In 17Sl Dr. Manning finding tho church at Philadelphia des- titute. recommended as a young man in every way calculated to be useful, his friend and pupil, Mir. Ustick. who soon received an invitation from the church to visit them with the view or becoming their pastor. He spent the winter there. and, on receiving unan imous and pressing call so to do, he left Grafton and removed to Philadel- phia, where for twenty-one years he served First Church as It's pastor.
 The history of his protracted pas toral labor was characterized by all the success that a sanguine heart could reasonably desire. He cultivated the most affectionate and friendly inter- course with his flock, and always sought to preserve peace. He subdued alienation that existed between breth- ren, and when 1t was manifested to- ward himself from supposed offense being given, he conscious of never designing it. either bore 1t meekly or lived the offender into love with him. The widow and the therless. the poor and afflicted. were the objects of his sympathy, and he was often found con- soling them. His humility and pru- dence, his conciliatory and Christlike @ department gained in an eminent de- nf vUh E