The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-18

and senseless division of the dollar into ninetieths never afterwards obtained recognition on the statute books of the United States
 At the close of the Revolution Con- necticut found herself a tributary State to her neighbors on each side. Her cit lzens were buying heavily from New York, Newport and Boston importers, and thus paying duties for the benefit of New York. Rhode Island and Mas sachusetts Connecticut consumed, ac- cordng to an estimate by Chief Jus tlce Ellsworth, as late as 17S7, about a third of all the goods entered at the New York custom house, and paid in that way for New York customs some thing like a2o,00O a year-a vast sum for those early days. It was thought that if New Haven were made a free port. and special en- engagement offered to merchants 10 settle there in business, we might be able to import what we wanted for our selves.
 Our first city charter was thereupon issued, and New Haven became city in 1784. with all the privileges of a | free port for seven years. Her city seal devised by President Stiles, still bears the legend, Mare liberum
 Roger sherman was elected it's first mayor. The charter made the term of office during good behavior, and he re- mained the mayor until his death
 Sherman was fond of studying prob lens of controversial theology. The first President Dwight, in summing up his character, described him as "a pro- found logician, statesman, lawyer, and theologian."
 Religion is the philosophy of life and theology is, or ought to be, the phioso- phy of religion. No thoughtful man can avoid occasional reflection on these high themes, It is our good fortune to study them in the light of sciences un- known to him. Put any doctrinal dis cussion of the eighteenth century by the side of those of our day, directed and controlled as ours must be by the truths of biology, the discoveries of archaeologists, and the principles of evolution. and the older statements seem unreal and unsubstantial
 sherman's thought, however, in the ology as in everything else, was clear and plain. In 17S9, he published, in New Haven a sermon of his own compost ton. A year later he exchanged sev- eral long letters with Rev. pr. Samuel Hopkins of Newport, in which he att tackled that divine's peculiar doctrine that a man ought to be willing to suffer eternal damnation, If need be, for the glory of God. Calvin was quoted as an authority for this, by the advocates of aHopkinsianisIn." "Calvinists," replied Sherman, do not found their faith on the authority of his opinions: that would be to entertain an opinion con trary to his, viz, that the word of God Is the only rule of faith in matters of religion"
 Tn 1765 Sherman accepted the posi- ton of treasurer of Yale college, fill- ing it until IT'S, when the cause of American independence demanded all his energies. He came to this office dur ing the last years of President Claps administration, and held it through most of the long lnterregnum during which Professor Daggett was acting president. It was, as ] have said, a dark time for the college; il day of small things. Dagett and Sherman were for some years the only permanent off, ficers. The means of the institution were slender, and the utmost economy was necessary to secure it's mainten- ance. sherman's prudence and business judgment were here of substantial ser vice, though the struggle of the college then was more to live than to grow.
 He was also in q petition to befriend