Blood, Rev. Caleb, was born in Charlton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1754.

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Blood, Rev. Caleb, was born in Charlton, Mass., Aug. 18, 1754. His conversion took place when he was twenty-one, “his first serious impres- sions having been received amidst the gayeties of the ball-room.’’ He commenced to preach a year and a half after joining the church, and was or- dained as an evangelist in the fall of 1777. He became pastor of the church in Weston, Mass., and remained such for seven years, and then removed to Shaftsbury, Vt., early in 1788. Here a large blessing was vouchsafed to him. In one revival— that of the winter of 1798-99—175 persons were added to the church. Besides looking after the spiritual interests of his own flock, he performed the work of an itinerant, visiting in his preaching tours the northwest parts of New York and the neighboring province of Canada. The fame of his excellence and success as a minister reached the metropolis of New England, and when the Third Baptist church, then recently formed, were looking out for a pastor, their attention was turned to him. For three years he acted as the pastor of this infant church, and then removed to Portland, Me., where he became the pastor of the First Baptist church. Here he continued until removed by death, March 6, 1814. Mr. Blood was strongly Calvinistic in his doctrinal views, and was a good type of a large class of some of the most worthy and successful ministers of his denomination in the times in which he lived. He was always strongly in favor of “Jaw and order.” His preaching was attended with powerful revivals, but he always discouraged an excess of mere animal feeling, and knew well the difference between the genuine operations of the Holy Spirit and mere human excitement. We are told that ‘‘in the earlier part of his ministry, attending a meeting marked with excitement and zeal, but, as he thought, ‘not according to knowl- edge,’ a good woman, at the close, came to him, | with uplifted hands, exclaiming, ‘Oh, Mr. Blood, did you ever see such a meeting before?’ ‘ No,’ he promptly replied, ‘and I hope I never shall | again.’’’ The reply was the true index of the man, and of the principles by which he was goy- erned through his ministerial life. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from Findagrave Ron R