MY WORK IN THE PULPIT During the first eighteen months after I graduated from Princeton College I was balancing between the law and the ministry.

Many of my relatives urged me to become a lawyer, as my father and grandfather had been, but my godly mother had dedicated me to the ministry from infancy, and her influence all went in the same line with her prayers.

With the exception of my venerated and beloved kinsman, Dr.Cornelius C.Cuyler, Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, who died in 1850, no other man of my name has stood in an American pulpit.

During the winter of my return from Europe to my home on the Cayuga Lake, one of my uncles invited me to go down and attend an afternoon prayer service in the neighboring village of Ludlowville.

There was a spiritual awakening in the church, and the meeting was held in the parlor of a private house.