Obituary.
Rev. C. L. Woodworth, D.D., died in Amherst, Mass., May 23, 1898, on the day after the 78th anniversary of his birth. He was born in Somers, Conn., was graduated at Amherst College in 1845, at East Windsor Theological Institute in 1848, and was ordained to the ministry in the Second Church in Amherst and became its pastor Nov. 7, 1849. He remained there till September 2, 1863 when he resigned to become chaplain to the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment. In this service he remained nearly a year, and in 1865 was appointed general agent of the American Missionary Association for Massachusetts, and in 1866 its District Secretary for New England, with office in Boston, which position he occupied till 1888. In June, 1893, he returned to his pastorate in Amherst where he labored with much earnestness till his death.