They sent their committee, Ebenezer Mead, Joshua Knapp and Caleb Knapp, chief men among them, to press the question to an immediate decision, whether Mr. Morgan would quit personally attending his mill (adding this, perhaps, to all other objections, that a white dress was not in character for a Congregational minister), and attend to the parish. If he would not, they were to strike off his official head at a blow, and provide a successor. Now the inventions of our day are wonderful, especially in the line of sharp-cutting machines, mowers, reapers, etc.; but our congregations, I will venture to say, have invented no instrument for disposing of refractory ministers that can go ahead of this ecclesiastical guillotine of 1708. Matters were now brought at once to an issue. Mr. Morgan decided to abide by his mill, and the committee decided to consider the I pulpit vacant and provide a successor." He left there, and settled in Freehold, N. J., 1709. In September, 1728, complaints were made against him to the Synod that he practiced astrology, countenanced promiscuous dancing, and transgressed in drink. But these complaints were dismissed for want of proof. He left Freehold and went to Hopewell and Maidenhead. Here he was again charged with intemperance, and was suspended from the ministry ; but he was finally restored through the kindness of some of his brethren. He published many of

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his sermons and treatises on other topics. He preached a funeral sermon on the death of his son, Joseph, who was graduated at Yale in 1723, and died one year after. His text, Ps. cxxxvii. 1, and Job x. 2. Nothing is heard of Mr. Morgan after 1740. His name disappears from the minutes of Synod. In 1702-3, the people called the Rev.