INCLUDING THE PERIOD FROM 1795 TO 1805.
It was in the year 1795 when I first became acquainted with that extraordinary man, the Rev. ROBERT HALL. He was then pastor of the Baptist church at Cambridge, to which office he succeeded the Rev. Mr. Robinson, on the 23d of July, 1791. I saw him for the first time in the pulpit in St. Andrew's-street meeting. I was too young fully to understand his discourses, but even then they produced an impression upon my mind of wonder and of delight. I sat in a front seat in the gallery, where many of the forms were quite empty. The meeting was small, and there were but few persons of the lower class. In the body of the place were many of the most respectable families in the town, but even here the pews were not filled. The members of the church were also