[136] Bangs's History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, Vol. I. pp. 213, 218. [137] Thoughts upon Slavery, by John Wesley, (London, 1774,) pp. 24, 27. [138] Minutes of the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, 1787: Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, p. 540. [139] A Dialogue concerning the Slavery of the Africans; Works, Vol. II. p. 552. [140] The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave-Trade, and of the Slavery of the Africans, (Providence, 1792,) pp. 27-30. Thus, at this time, the Church, in harmony with the Nation, by its leading denominations, Quakers, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists, thundered against Slavery. The COLLEGES were in unison with the Church. Harvard University spoke by the voice of Massachusetts, which already had abolished Slavery. Dartmouth College, by one of its learned Professors, claimed for the slaves "an equal standing, in point of privileges, with the whites."[141] Yale College, by its President, the eminent divine, Ezra Stiles, became the head of the Abolition Society of Connecticut.[142] And the University of William and Mary, in Virginia, at this very time testified its sympathy with the cause by conferring upon Granville Sharp, the acknowledged chief of British Abolitionists, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.[143] [141] Tyrannical Liberty-Men: A Discourse on Negro Slavery in the United States, February 19, 1795, by Moses Fiske, Tutor in Dartmouth College. American Quarterly Register, May, 1840. Weld, Power of Congress over the District of Columbia, p. 33. [142] Kingsley's Life of Stiles: Sparks's American Biography, Second Series, Vol. VI. p. 69. [143] Hoare's Memoirs of Sharp, p. 254. Weld's Power of Congress, p. 34.