Ezra Hall Gillett Quotes

Ezra Hall Gillett was an American clergyman and author, born at Colchester Connecticut He graduated in 1841 at Yale, and in 1844 at the Union Theological Seminary, and became pastor of a Presbyterian church in Harlem, N. Y. In 1868 he was appointed professor of political economy, ethics, and history in New York University.

The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

Ezra Hall Gillett
- Rest
- Enjoyed
- Churches
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.

Ezra Hall Gillett
- Future
- Looking
- Ideal