Born: Ap­ril 25, 1786, Pitts­ford, Ver­mont.

Died: June 27, 1862, Ge­ne­va, New York.

Hopkins’ ed­u­ca­tion came from self stu­dy, and the tut­el­age of Rev. Hol­land Weeks and Lem­uel Hayes. The Paw­let As­so­ci­a­tion licensed him to preach in 1809, where­up­on he be­came a mis­sion­ary near Lake Cham­plain. In 1809, he re­ceived a call and was or­dained at the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in New Ha­ven, Ver­mont. He was in­flu­en­tial in the lives of stu­dents at near­by Mid­dle­bury Coll­ege, and the school gave him an hon­or­ary D.D. de­gree in 1843. From 1830 to 1846, Hop­kins served at the First Pres­by­teri­an Church in Au­burn, New York.

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Hymns

1. O Turn Ye, for Why Will You Die
2. Why Sleep We, My Brethren