Williams, G

is on the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society; is ex-president of the Sunday-school Union. Tiis son, sends this additional information: "Dr. Williams had no middle name; the initial ' R having been a umed by him, in early life, because of the annoying mistakes constantly arising from the simple appellation William Williams. He was ordained and installed as pastor of the Amity Baptist Church on the same evening on which the church itself was recognized, Dec. 17, 1832, remaining pastor to the time of his death, never having had another charge, nor his people another pastor. He was the first secretary of the American Baptist Home Mi ionary Society (1832); the first secretary, and one of the draughters, of the •constitution of the Baptist Ministers' Conference, in January, 1833; for many years a member of the board of trustees of Rochester Theological Seminary, in the formation of which, as also of the University of Rochester (both established in 1850), he was actively concerned. He was also for many years on the publishing committee of the American Tract Society, and in that position corrected the proofs of their foreign publications (viz., French, German, Italian, and Spanish); he was one of the vice-presidents of that society, as also of the American Bible Society. He wrote the introduction to [the American reprint of John] Harris's Great Commi ion; or, the Christian Church constituted and charged to convey the Gospel to the World, Boston, 1842; to that of Mi Grigg's Jacqueline Pascal, or Convent Life at Port Royal, New York, 1854; and to [W. W.'] Everts's William Colgate: a Christian Layman, Philadelphia, 1881. His Religious Progre , and Lectures on the Lord's Prayer, were both republished in Scotland [in one volume, Edinburgh and London, 1851]."