52 CENTENNIAL HISTORY fessor of Divinity in Yale College in 1781. In consequence of his last appointment, he resigned the office of Pastor of this church, May 15, 1782. In 1786 he visited Europe in consequence of ill-health, but without permanent benefit. For the last two years of his life he was unable to officiate. He died at New Haven, February 18, 1794, aged forty-six. " He was an excellent preacher," says Dr. Holmes, " and by his distinguished abilities, in union with exemplary piety, he added lustre and dignity to the theological chair." In Mr. Wales we see the great spirit of puritanism revived, but in bonds to a theological and ecclesiastical system. We see justice divorced from love. We see the Christian life bereft of the joy. The fear of disobedience and the sense of unworthiness were unrelieved by the gracious nature of God's forgiveness appropriated through faith. Dr. Wales's ministry covered the period of the American revolution. He served as Chaplain in the army during 1776. On account of war expenses the times were hard and it was difficult to sustain satisfactorily the two congregational societies in Milford. The pastor of the Second Church advocated union. Dr. Wales held they were better apart. Much bad feeling was aroused, and the matter of union was dropped. As a result, however, both pastors soon after resigned. Two years later they called for their sixth pastor, the Rev. William Lockwood. Rev. William Lockwood was born in Wethersfield, and was graduated at Yale College, in 1774. In 1779 he was appointed a tutor in that instution [i.e., institution], and was installed pastor of this church March 17, 1784. In consequence of ill-health he was dismissed from his pastoral charge April 28, 1796, and removed to Andover, Conn. In 1797 he was settled in Glastonbury, but his health failing, he was dismissed in 1805. He died in Glastonbury in 1828. Under Mr. Lockwood there had been a lack of pastoral care owing to the minister's ill-health. In fact, the church had greatly suffered. Need there was then for a well-balanced and