Samuel Merrill Woodbridge

Eerwaarde Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, DD, LL. D. (5 April 1819 – 23 Junie 1905) was 'n Amerikaanse geestelike, teoloog, skrywer en universiteitsprofessor. Woodbridge was 'n gegradueerde van die New York Universiteit en die New Brunswick Theological Seminary en het sestien jaar lank as 'n geestelike in die Hervormde Kerk in Amerika gepreek.

Nadat hy in New Brunswick, New Jersey, gevestig het, het hy vir 44 jaar as professor in kerkgeskiedenis en kerkregering aan die New Brunswick Theological Seminary onderrig gegee, en vir sewe jaar as professor in "metafisika en filosofie van die menslike verstand" by Rutgers College (nou Rutgers, die Staatsuniversiteit van New Jersey) in New Brunswick. Woodbridge het later die New Brunswick-kweekskool gelei as Dekaan en President van die Fakulteit van 1883 tot 1901. Hy was die skrywer van drie boeke en verskeie gepubliseerde preke en toesprake wat verskeie aspekte van Christelike geloof, teologie, kerkgeskiedenis en regering dek.

 Biografie 
regs|duimnael|Woodbridge het die Tweede Hervormde Kerk in New Brunswick, New Jersey, vir vyf jaar van 1852 tot 1857 bedien.
Samuel Merrill Woodbridge is gebore op 5 April 1819 in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Hy was die derde van ses kinders van ds. Sylvester Woodbridge, DD (1790–1863) en Elizabeth Gould (oorlede in 1851).Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833–1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8.Mitchell, Donald Grant and Mitchell, Alfred. The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Massachusetts. (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1883). (p.140).  Volgens 'n genealogiese kaart wat in 1907 in Munsey's Magazine gepubliseer is, was Woodbridge in die elfde geslag van 'n familie van geestelikes wat terugdateer na die laat 15de eeu.Corwin, Charles Edward. A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (formerly Reformed Protestant Dutch Church), 1628–1922. (5th Edition – New York: Board of Publication and Bible-School Work of the Reformed Church in America, 1922), 598.  Lowell, D.O.S. "The Sons of Clergymen" in Munsey's Magazine 37(6) (September 1907), 704-706; citing Clark, Sereno Dickenson. The New England Ministry Sixty Years Ago: The Memoir of John Woodbridge, D.D. (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877). Die vroegste geestelike in hierdie voorvaderlike geslag, ds. John Woodbridge (gebore in 1493), was 'n volgeling van John Wycliffe.

Woodbridge het aan die Universiteit van New York studeer en 'n Baccalaureus artium-graad in 1838 behaal.Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833–1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8. As 'n voorgraadse student was Woodbridge 'n lid van die universiteit se geheimsinnige, vol manlike Eucleian Society en is verkies tot Phi Beta Kappa. Hy is in 1841 met 'n Magister artium van die New Brunswick Theological Seminary toegeken en is as predikant aangestel deur die Hervormde Kerk se klassis van New York, 'n beheerliggaam wat toesig hou oor kerke in die streek.Corwin, Charles Edward. A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (formerly Reformed Protestant Dutch Church), 1628–1922. (5th Edition – New York: Board of Publication and Bible-School Work of the Reformed Church in America, 1922), 598. Fortieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Rev. S. M. Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D., as Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America at New Brunswick, 1857–1897. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: New Brunswick Theological Seminary Alumni Association, 1897). : bl.4 Op hierdie tydstip het sy alma mater, die Universiteit van New York, sy baccalaureusgraad tot 'n Meestersgraad in die Kunste opgegradeer. Na sy kweekskool het hy as leraar gedien by die Suidelike Hervormde Nederlandse Kerk in South Brooklyn (1841–49), by die Tweede Hervormde Kerk in Coxsackie, New York (1849–52), en by die Tweede Hervormde Kerk in New Brunswick, New Jersey (1852–57).

In Desember 1857 is Woodbridge aangestel in die fakulteit van twee skole in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Hy sou 44 jaar dien as professor in kerklike geskiedenis en kerkregering by New Brunswick Theological Seminary (van 1857 tot 1901) en vir sewe jaar as professor in " Metafisika en filosofie van die menslike verstand" by Rutgers College (van 1857 tot 1864).Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833–1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8.Corwin, Charles Edward. A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (formerly Reformed Protestant Dutch Church), 1628–1922. (5th Edition – New York: Board of Publication and Bible-School Work of the Reformed Church in America, 1922), 598. Fortieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Rev. S. M. Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D., as Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America at New Brunswick, 1857–1897. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: New Brunswick Theological Seminary Alumni Association, 1897). Raven, John Howard (Rev.) (compiler). Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen's College) in New Brunswick, N.J., 1766–1916. (Trenton, New Jersey: State Gazette Publishing Company, 1916). (pp.40, 397).  Beide skole was toe geaffilieer met die Protestantse Nederduitse Gereformeerde geloof.McCormick, Richard P. Rutgers: a Bicentennial History. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966), passim.  Hy is deur die Sinode aangestel in 'n vakature in beide professorate wat deur die dood van ds. John Ludlow, DD (1793–1857), op 8 September 1857. Demarest, David D. Centennial of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, formerly the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1784–1884. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, 1885). (p.128).  Tydens sy ampstermyn by die kweekskool het Woodbridge ook onderrig verskaf in die gebiede van pastorale, didaktiese en polemiese teologie —dikwels wanneer daar vakatures in die fakulteit was. 
regs|duimnael|Emeritus professor Woodbridge (sittende, met wit baard en mantels) met die kweekskool se personeel, omstreeks 1904
In 1883 het die Kerk se Algemene Sinode besluit dat die "oudste professor in diens in die Teologiese Kweekskool te New Brunswick as Dekaan van die Kweekskool aangewys word, en aan hom sal die dissipline van die Inrigting toevertrou word, volgens die regulasies waaroor ooreengekom kan word. deur die Fakulteit." : p.134. Woodbridge het die kweekskool gelei as sy eerste Dekaan van die Kweekskool, en daarna as President van die Fakulteit tot sy aftrede in 1901. Beide posisies was voorgangers van die huidige kweekskoolpresident. Tydens sy loopbaan het Woodbridge eregrade van Union College (DD 1858) en van Rutgers College (AM, 1841; DD, 1857; LL. D. 1883) ontvang.Raven, John Howard (Rev.) (compiler). Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen's College) in New Brunswick, N.J., 1766–1916. (Trenton, New Jersey: State Gazette Publishing Company, 1916).: pp. 339, 346, 362. Hy het in 1901 as 'n emeritus-professor uit die onderwys getree, op die ouderdom van 82.Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833–1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8.

 Huwelike 
Woodbridge het twee keer getrou. Sy eerste huwelik was met Caroline Bergen (wat in 1861 gesterf het) in Februarie 1845; die egpaar het een dogter gehad, Caroline Woodbridge (gebore 1845). Op 20 Desember 1866 trou hy met sy tweede vrou, Anna Wittaker Dayton (1823–1920), met wie hy twee dogters gehad het, Anna Dayton Woodbridge (gebore 1869) en Mary Elizabeth Woodbridge (gebore 1872). Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833–1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8. Mitchell, Donald Grant and Mitchell, Alfred. The Woodbridge Record: Being an Account of the Descendants of the Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, Massachusetts. (New Haven, Connecticut: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1883).: p.192 

 Afsterwe 
Woodbridge is op 23 Junie 1905 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in die ouderdom van 86 oorlede.Alumni Catalogue of New York University, 1833–1905: College, Applied Science and Honorary Alumni. (New York: General Alumni Society of New York University, 1906), 8. Hy is begrawe in 'n familiegraf in die Elmwood-begraafplaas, Noord-Brunswick, New Jersey . Staff. Brief news item in New Brunswick Daily Times (June 27, 1905), page 5, column 2.

Die kerkhistorikus Charles Edward Corwin het opgeteken dat Woodbridge beskryf is as 'n sterk persoonlikheid wat "droë onderwerpe laat gloei van die lewe," en bygevoeg dat hy "baie vas in die geloof was, maar sy liefdevolle hart het hom vriendelik gemaak, selfs teenoor diegene wie se mening hy as gevaarlik beskou het."Corwin, Charles Edward. A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (formerly Reformed Protestant Dutch Church), 1628–1922. (5th Edition – New York: Board of Publication and Bible-School Work of the Reformed Church in America, 1922), 598.

 Werke 
regs|duimnael|'n 1880-afdruk van die New Brunswick Theological Seminary-kampus, waar Woodbridge vir 44 jaar onderrig gegee het

 Boeke 

 1872: Analise van sistematiese teologie (1ste uitgawe)
 1883: Analise van Sistematiese Teologie (2de Uitgawe)
 1895: Handleiding van Kerkgeskiedenis The seminary's Gardner A. Sage Library catalogue  lists "Jersey City, New Jersey: J.H. Pilson, 1895" as the publishing imprint, and its Library of Congress Catalogue number as "XT8 W85m" and "MC2 W85".
 1896: Opsomming van Kerkregering The seminary's Gardner A. Sage Library catalogue  does not list any publishing information available for this volume, but lists its Library of Congress Catalogue number as "OB1 W85" 

 Preke en diskoerse 
Verskeie preke, toesprake en toesprake in die openbaar gehou deur ds. Woodbridge is in koerante en tydskrifte gedruk, as deel van 'n versameling adresse in boeke, en as afsonderlik gepubliseerde pamflette. Hierdie kleiner werke sluit in: Corwin, Charles Edward. A Manual of the Reformed Church in America (formerly Reformed Protestant Dutch Church), 1628–1922. (5th Edition – New York: Board of Publication and Bible-School Work of the Reformed Church in America, 1922), 598.

 1853: "Beginsels van ons regering: 'n Dankseggingsdiskoers" 
 1856: "Preek oor menslike regering", gedruk in die New Brunswick Fredonian 
 1857: "Intreerede as professor in kerklike geskiedenis" 
 1857: "On the Family", gedruk in The Christian Intelligencer Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill. "On the Family" in The Christian Intelligencer of the Reformed Dutch Church (December 24, 1857)
 1865: "Krag van die Bybel", gedruk in Die Nasionale Prediker en Dorpskansel Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill. "Power of the Bible" in The National Preacher and Village Pulpit. (New York: W.H. Bidwell, 1865)
 1867: "Adres" gepubliseer in Richard Holloway Steele se Historiese Diskoers gelewer tydens die Viering van die Honderd-en-vyftigste herdenking van die Eerste Gereformeerde Nederlandse Kerk Steele, Richard Holloway. Historical Discourse delivered at the Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Reformed Dutch Church, New-Brunswick, N.J., October 1, 1867. (New York: John A. Gray & Green, Printers, 1867), 145–148.
 1869: "Toespraak" opgeneem in Verrigtinge by die Eeufeesherdenking van die Inwyding van die Noord-Hollandse Kerk, 25 Mei 1869 "Address of Professor Woodbridge" in Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York. Proceedings at the centennial anniversary of the dedication of the North Dutch Church, May 25th, 1869: and also, at the laying of the corner-stone of the new church, on Fifth avenue, corner Forty-eighth street, on the same day. (New York : Aldine Press, 1869), 48–57.
 1871: "Diskoers oor welwillendheid gehou voor die Algemene Sinode te Albany", gedruk in Christian Intelligencer 
 1875: Faith: It's True Position in the Life of Man: A Discourse, gepreek 22 November 1874, in die kapel van Rutgers College Woodbridge, Samuel Merrill. iarchive:cu31924031450947|Faith, its true position in the life of man: a discourse, preached November 22d, 1874, in the chapel of Rutgers College (New York: Board of Publications for the Reformed (Dutch) Church of America, 1875).
 1885: "Historical Theology: An Address", opgeneem in David Demarest se Centennial of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, voorheen die Reformed Protestants Dutch Church, 1784–1884 Demarest, David D. Centennial of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, formerly the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1784–1884. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America, 1885). : pp.21–44 
 1894: "Kenmerke van Dr. Campbell", opgeneem in 'n Gedenkteken van ds. William Henry Campbell, DD, LL. D., Wyle President van Rutgers College A Memorial of Rev. William Henry Campbell, D.D., LL.D., Late President of Rutgers College (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers College Board of Trustees, 1894), 33–34.
 1897: "Toespraak deur Professor Woodbridge", opgeneem in die veertigste herdenking van die inhuldiging van ds. SM Woodbridge, DD, LL.D., as professor in die Teologiese Seminarium van die Gereformeerde (Nederlandse) Kerk in Amerika in New Brunswick, 1857 –1897 Fortieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of the Rev. S. M. Woodbridge, D.D., LL.D., as Professor in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed (Dutch) Church in America at New Brunswick, 1857–1897. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: New Brunswick Theological Seminary Alumni Association, 1897). : pp.23–38 

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