Here were educated many men who became eminent in the ministry of the gospel, and among them the four boys who had come with their father from Ireland.

Gilbert, the eldest and most distinguished of them, came in 1727, from his temporary position as tutor in the Log College, to be pastor to the Presbyterian church in New Brunswick, where Frelinghuysen, in the face of opposition from his own brethren in the ministry, had for seven years pursued his deeply spiritual and fruitful work as pastor to the Dutch church.

Whatever debate there may be over the question of an official and tactual succession in the church, the existence of a vital and spiritual succession, binding "the generations each to each," need not be disputed by any.

Sometimes, as here, the succession is distinctly traceable.

Gilbert Tennent was own son in the ministry to Theodore Frelinghuysen as truly as Timothy to Paul, but he became spiritual father to a great multitude.
* * * * * In the year 1730 the total population of Pennsylvania was estimated by Governor Gordon at forty-nine thousand.