Excerpt from Memorial of Rev. J. H, Worcester, Containing a Brief Biography and Selected Sermons

When but little more than a year and a half old his father was called to the pastorate of the First Church in Burlington, Vt., and thither he removed with his parents in the month of December, 1846. On the 23d of August, 1848, his mother died, and his boy heart had its first sad, deep sorrow. Although so young when thus bereaved, he never forgot his mother. Her bidding him goodbye and telling him to love the dear Saviour, left an impression which he never lost nor ever disregarded.

On the Hopkins side he was descended from John Hopkins, who came to this country from England in 1634, first living in Cambridge, Mass. In 1636 he re moved to Hartford, Conn., being one of that com pany which made the notable journey from Cambridge, with Mr. Hooker at the head. In the fourth genera tion, Samuel Hopkins, D. D., married Esther, sister of the eminent Jonathan Edwards. His son, also Samuel Hopkins, D. D., was the great grandfather of the sub ject of this sketch. With such an ancestry we are pre pared to understand the life of Mr. Worcester. He inherited intellectual gifts which, used as he used them, made him conspicuous for his mental grasp and grip. But not less did he inherit moral and religious tendencies making attainment of a high order possible. Education and training can do much, but they can create nothing. The most they can do is to develope the native powers to aid in realizing the potentiality which has its limit set before education and training begin.

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