CHRONOLOGY

1802. April 14. Birth in Litchfield, Conn.
1805. Removal of family to New Preston, Conn.
1821. United with church in New Preston.
1823. Entered Yale College.
1827. Was graduated from Yale College.
1827-28. Taught school in Norwich, Conn.
1828-29. In New York, as Associate Editor of Journal of Commerce.
1829-31. Tutor at Yale College. Pursued Law studies.
1831. Entered Theological School in New Haven, Conn.
1833. May 22. Ordained Pastor of North Church in Hartford, Conn,
1833. September 13. Married in New Haven to Mary Apthorp.
1840. Invited to become President of Middlebury College, Vermont. Declined.
1841. Received degree of Doctor of Divinity from Weslyan University, Middletown, Conn.
1842. Lectured at Bridgeport, Brooklyn, New York, and Norwich, and gave Commencement ad- dress at Hudson, Ohio.
1845. Visited Europe in search of health.
1849. Hartford Central Association discussed the book "God in Christ." Errors not found fundamental.
1850. Remonstrances and Complaints of Fairfield West Association to the Hartford Central Association upon their action in the case of Dr. Bushnell.
1852. Fairfield West Association again remonstrated in an appeal to the Associated Ministers of the General Association of Connecticut.
1852. North Church of Hartford withdrew from Consociation.
1852. Journey to the West, because of ill-health,
1853. May 22. Anniversary of twenty years' settlement over North Church, Hartford, Conn.
1854. Last measure adopted by Fairfield West Association addressed to General Association of New Haven, Conn.
1854. Protest of the Pastoral Union to the Pastors and Churches of New England.
1855. Journey to Cuba and the South, because of continued ill-health.
1856. Life in California.
1856. Invited to the Presidency of the College of California. Declined in 1861, after securing location, and rendering valuable service in other
1859. Resigned from North Church, Hartford, on account of continued ill-health, and against unanimous wish of people.
1350-60. Life in Minnesota.
1860. Spent in part at Clifton Springs, New York.
1861-75. In Hartford, Conn., writing and occasionally preaching. Visits to the Adirondacks and elsewhere.
1870. Preached sermon at the Installation of the Rev. Washington Gladden, LL. D., in North Adams, Mass.
1876. Received message from Common Council of Hartford, announcing name of "Bushnell

1876. February 17. Death in Hartford, Conn.
1876. Funeral sermon preached in Hartford by successor, the Rev. Nathaniel J. Burton, D. D.
1876. March 26. Memorial sermon, preached in Chapel of Yale 'University by President Noah Porter. D.D.,LL.D.

PUBLISHED WRITINGS

1835. Sermon: "Crisis of the Church," delivered at Hartford, Conn. First sermon published.

1836. Article: " Revivals of Religion," included eleven years later in " Christian Nurture."

1837. Address: "The True Wealth and Weal of Nations." Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University, entitled "Principles of National Greatness" in pamphlet, and earliest of papers in "Work and Play."

1839. Address: "Revelation," before Society of Inquiry at Andover, Mass.

1839. Sermon; "A Discourse on the Slavery Question,' at Hartford, Conn.

1840. Sermon: "American Politics."

1842. Address: " Stability of Change," Commencement at Hudson, Ohio.

1844. Articles: "The Great Time-keeper," in "The National Preacher." "Taste and Fashion," and "Growth, not Conquest, the True Method of Christian Progress," in the "New Englander."

1844. Sermon: "Polities under the Law of God."

1846. Article: "The Oregon Question," published in London.

1846. Sermon: "The Day of Roads," at Hartford, Conn.

1846. Address: "Agriculture at the East," delivered before the Hartford County Agricultural Society. Incorporated in "Work and Play" (in first edition only)

1847. Two discourses: "Christian Nurture," published by Massachusetts Sunday School Society.


1847. Article: " The Christian Alliance," in the " New Englander."

1847. Sermon: "Prosperity our Duty."

1847. Address: "Barbarism the First Danger." Printed by Home Missionary Society.

1848. Oration: "Work and Play," Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard University.

1849. Book: "God in Christ," prefaced by a dissertation on Language.

1849. Address: "The Founders Great in their Unconsciousness," before the New England Society of New York, on Forefathers' Day.

1851. Book: "Christ in Theology."

1851. Address: "Speech for Connecticut," at New Britain, Conn.

1851. Address: "Age of Homespun," at the Litchfield Centennial Celebration. Incorporated in " Work and Play."

1852. Lecture: "Revealed Religion," at Cambridge, Mass.

1853. May 22. Commemorative sermon, on the anniversary of settlement, twenty years previous, over the North Church, Hartford, Conn.

1854. Sermon: "The Northern Iron," at Hartford, Conn

1856. Sermon: "Society and Religion, a Sermon for California."

1857. Address: "An Appeal: Movement for a University in California."

1857. Sermon: "A Week-day Sermon to the Business Men of Hartford."

1858. Book: "Sermons for the New Life."

1858. Book: "Nature and the Supernatural."

1858. Article: "California, its Characteristics and Prospects," in "New Englander."

1859. July 3. Sermon: "Parting Words," on occasion of leaving North Church, Hartford, Conn.

1860. Book: "Character of Jesus," being the tenth chapter of " Nature and the Supernatural."


1861. Sermon: "Reverses Needed," a discourse delivered on the Sunday after the disaster at Bull Run.

1861. Book: "Christian Nurture," published in present form.

1863. Article: "Loyalty," in "New Englander."

1864. Book: "Work and Play."

1864. Book: "Christ and his Salvation."

1865. Oration: "Our Obligations to the Dead," delivered at the Commemorative Celebration held in honor of the Alumni of Yale University who had served their country in the civil war. Incorporated in "Building Eras."

1366. Book: "The Vicarious Sacrifice."

1866. Address: "Training for the Pulpit," delivered at Andover Seminary, published in "Hours at Home," and afterward incorporated in "Building Eras" under title "Pulpit Talent."

1866. Article: "The Natural History of the Yaguey Family," published in "Hours at Home."

1868. Book: "The Moral Uses of Dark Things."

1868. Article: "Science and Religion," published in "Putnam's Magazine."

1868. Article: "Meaning and Use of the Lord's Supper," published in the "Advance."

1869. Article: "History of the Hartford Park," published in " Hearth and Home."

1869. Article: "Progress" published in "Hours at Home."

1869. Book: "The Reform against Nature" on "Woman's Suffrage.

1869. Sermon: "God's Thoughts fit Bread for Children," before Connecticut Sunday School Teachers' Convention.

1870. Address: Commencement, Williams College.

1871-72. Series of articles on Prayer, published in the "Advance."

1872. Book: "Sermons on Living Subjects"
1871 Book: "Forgiveness and Law," afterward incorporated as second volume of " The Vicarious Sacrifice."

1881. Book: "Building Eras."


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