houses of worship were put up to accommodate Sabbath afternoon appointments-one at Johnsonsburg and one at Paulina. In the course of a few years the principal churches were found too small for convenience, and consequently the Hardwick or Yellow Frame church was enlarged, while that of Marksboro' was taken down, and a much larger one erected; thus from the first, one thing became manifest to all, and that was progress in the right direction; like the healthful tree from year to year rooting more firmly, extending its branches by steady growth, and developing new features of strength and beauty.

On this cheering prospect the Sabbath morning sun of May 5, 1867, rose brightly, the atmosphere was cool and bracing, and although for several days previously indisposed, yet he ventured to go to Marksboro' and conduct the morning service, preaching upon the importance of importunity in prayer. From the pulpit he went directly to his sick room and called his physician, Dr. W. P. Vail, who found him in a very alarming state, with typhoid symptoms. All that tender sympathy, assiduous nursing, well-ventilated apartments and combined medical skill could do were employed, but without avail. At the closing hour of Saturday, May 25, 1867, he died of typhoid fever. He married Miss Anna Clark, a daughter of Rev. John Flovel Clark, who, with two sons, survives him.

W. P. VAIL, M. D., of Johnsonsburg, N. J., writes as follows: "He was esteemed by the churches to which he ministered, by his copresbyters and by the general public, as a good and most genial man; as a preacher, earnest, lucid and practical; as a neighbor, kind and sympathizing; as a citizen, intelligent, public-spirited and loyal. The Church in which he was trained he loved, and he was ever ready on all suitable occasions to vindicate her faith, her polity and her order. In the discharge of his high and responsible calling he was constant, zealous and laborious, literally wearing himself out. Inheriting a robust and well-balanced constitution, which he helped to preserve by strict temperance and a due regard to the laws of health, he was enabled, during a pastorate of more than a quarter of a century, to omit no appointed ministration, except in two or three instances of excessively inclement weather. At his obsequies a large concourse was in attendance, perhaps, as ever was gathered on a similar occasion in the county of Warren. His remains were deposited in the Yellow Frame cemetery, over which, by voluntary offering, his friends of the two churches of the Yellow Frame and Marksboro', to whom he had devoted his whole ministerial life of more than twenty-six years, have erected an appropriate monument."

Rev. THANIEL B. CONDIT, of Stillwater, N. J., writes: "As a preacher Mr. McGee was pointed, practical and brief. Christ crucified was his great theme. As a pastor he was without a superior. The writer knew him throughout his ministry, and has yet to hear the first word of disapprobation from any of his people. He was punctual beyond precedent, and of him alone can it be said that for twenty-six years he fulfilled all his appointments, and in no instance did he ask or take a vacation. As a presbyter he enjoyed the esteem and confidence of his brethren, and his unlooked-for departure we most deeply mourn.

MCGLASHAN, ALEXANDER-The son of John and Mary (McNab) McGlashan, was born in Queenstown, Canada, February 23, 1812. His father was a Scotchman, the lineal head of the McGlashan clan, whose estates were seized during the civil wars in Scotland that ended in the expulsion of the Stuarts. On coming to America the family settled at Pelham, near St. Catharine's, Canada. To the stern virtues of his Scottish parentage he doubtless owed

much, but more to his inflexible resolution, as a youth despising idleness and vanity. His natural qualities were of a high order, but he was wont to attribute his success in life, not chiefly to them or his surroundings, but to the grace of God and to the fact of his becoming a Christian in early life. He was attendant on the ministry of Father Eastman, that patriarch whose praise is in all the Canada churches.

He gave himself to the Lord and his service when about twenty years of age, and to him it was no unmeaning act. He endured a great inward struggle as he walked the fields of his father's farm, and when he yielded it was an iron will surrendered to the Lord's guidance, but still it was an iron will. The entreaties and threats even of a mistaken father could not divert him from him from his purpose. He resolved to gain an education and become a minister of the Lord Jesus. He left home about the year 1835, penniless, yet inflexible and honest in his pursuit of an education. He entered the academy in Geneva, N. Y., and supported himself by his own efforts and by manual labor. He never received a dollar of aid from home, but, on the contrary, learning his father was in great need of his aid, he left the academy and devoted one summer to remedying the disorder in his parent's affairs. The result of this was a happy reconciliation between the father and son. Still, it is but justice to add that the son never received at any time any pecuniary assistance from home.

After fitting for college at the Geneva Lyceum, he then entered Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., where he graduated; and after walking his way to Auburn, N. Y., he entered the theological seminary there. From this institution he graduated in 1840. During his theological course he was active and untiring in his outside work for the spiritual welfare of those within his reach. He maintained a Sabbath-school at a little distance, and by his efforts a general visitation and tract distribution was commenced and maintained throughout the city of Auburn. He spent his vacations in the sale of religious books and tract colportage. Several striking instances of conversion have been cited as evidences of his spiritual zeal at this period. He was licensed and ordained by Cayuga Presbytery as an evangelist in 1843. The American Tract Society was not slow to discover his exact adaptation to the work they had then commenced in the Southern States. He was commissioned as a general agent to go thither immediately upon his graduating from the seminary. In these duties he was indefatigable, and accomplished a surprising amount of labor, both personally and in supervising the movements of the Southern corps of colporteurs. While in Mobile, Ala., he often came in contact with seamen in the course of his private efforts. His heart warmed toward them, and the glowing desire that awakened for their salvation never left him to the last day of his life. While still in the employ of the Tract Society he commenced preaching to them and laboring in earnest to bring them to Christ.

By his efforts a mariners' church was built, and a large membership gathered. About this time his services were transferred from the tract and colportage efforts to the cause of the Seamen's Friend Society. He became their general secretary for the Southern States, still keeping his headquarters at Mobile. He abandoned himself to every good work that he found to do. There was then no system of public schools in Alabama. He gathered the poor children into schools and hired teachers at his own expense. Wealthy citizens came forward to his aid, and the schools multiplied and became a system, of which the city corporation soon became the support. For widows and the destitute he put on foot efforts that resulted in the providing of suitable residences and homes for them.

He was the acknowledged apostle of temperance in the city, and the rumseller dreaded the sharp observation of his eye more than that of the magistrate. So efficient was he in putting down the infamous traffic, and exposing the vice of the city, that the rage of those who live upon the degradation of others was provoked. Yet so great was the respect that his presence and character commanded that they trembled, as they confessed, at the idea of molesting him.

At this period of his life he was in the prime of vigor, both bodily and spiritual, and it has been confidently asserted by intelligent citizens that he has done more than any man for the moral interests of Mobile. He had peculiar success in the collection of funds for benevolent purposes, though he often expressed his dislike to business, and was most at home in declaring Jesus Christ and his salvation to needy souls. In private and personal efforts for the neglected he was peculiarly happy and successful. Very many instances of his success in Mobile might be given, and several who were converted under these ministrations became effective preachers of Christ to seamen. But an iron constitution and iron energy cannot last always. In 1852 he was prostrated with yellow fever, and from the almost fatal attack he never entirely recovered. A voyage to Europe seemed to bring back his failing powers, but not to their full extent.

In 1859 he returned from the South and settled himself in his native town. His heart was burdened with desire for the Church there and in the neighboring towns. Of his faithfulness as a Christian minister here I need not speak; hundreds are his virtues. Impelled by his failing health and his love for seamen, he left his charge in Pelham in 1863 for a temporary effort for the cause of the sailor in New York City. His presence there seemed such a necessity that he reluctantly resigned his pastoral charge and gave himself wholly to his favorite labor. God helped him wonderfully, and often as many as eight or ten sailors would follow him home from church to his study for personal conversation as to their sailors' interests, and many are the hearts that were in that study given up to Christ. He engaged in the establishing of a new church, called "the Church of the Sea and Land," the membership of which quickly rose from thirty to seventy-five. He succeeded in raising the funds for the purchase of a suitable edifice in a most populous part of the city, where there is scarcely a church building to be found, and the effect is still crowned with God's blessing, but the strain on mind and body was too great, and in June, 1866, he removed to St. Catharine's, Canada. His design was to rest, and his feeble and emaciated frame seemed to demand it imperatively, but life and labor were two things that he could not separate. He was one of those laborers that work till sunset-till "the night cometh when no man can work." In the winter he went to Mobile, Ala., and by efforts to which he was quite unequal he succeeded in placing the cause of the sailor on its former favorable footing. He returned to St. Catharine's in the summer of 1867, but not to rest. Although excessively feeble, he inaugurated a movement for the sailors of the Welland Canal, which promises to be of great benefit to them. But his sun was going down; laboring to the last, he preached twice but a few days before his death. Still girded for labor, he did not relax till the shades of death gathered about him. He had suffered from chronic diarrhoea, and from utter exhaustion brought on by his continued labor, and on Tuesday, September 6, he was suddenly overtaken by physical and mental prostration; convulsions followed at intervals, till the noon on Monday, September 9, 1867. He died at his residence in St. Catharine's, Canada. He was married, Dec. 16, 1857, to Miss Ellen Buell, of East Bloomfield, N. Y., who, with two sons, survives him.

WILLIAM E. KNOX, D.D., of Rome, N. Y., writes: "I was a fellowstudent and room-mate at Auburn, and I feel that it is due to his memory to testify to his extraordinary Christian zeal, peculiar talents and marked success in a field too little cultivated-namely, that of personal effort for the conversion of souls. I have no doubt McGlashan was a more remarkable man than Page in the very line of religious effort that has secured to the latter such a name in the Church, while in the other departments of activity he was greatly Page's superior. There was no house, office, store, shop, saloon, hotel, railway car, steamboat, stage-coach, where he was not as much at home, preaching Christ and winning souls, as most ministers are in the church or conference-room. I doubt whether he ever let a fair opportunity slip of addressing acquaintance or stranger on the subject of religion. He always had his tract ready and a fitting word with which to speed its mission to the heart for which he designed it.

"The four-page tract was in fact his never-failing occasion and everbright weapon for the service in which he so greatly excelled all men I ever knew-personal religious conversation. Will you take a tract, sir?' was his favorite mode of approach to strangers of every sort, in all situations, practicable and impracticable. As they put out their hands to receive it, he would say, 'You may not prefer this one, and I have others. This is for a Christian; I hope you are one.' Or, This is the tract called the Way to be Saved; perhaps you are already saved and would like another one.' In this way he would elicit an answer revealing the mental condition of the individual, and suggesting other rapid and sharp but skillful thrusts at the conscience, which his interlocutor must have been a good swordsman to parry. "It was rare that this indefatigable worker rode for any considerable distance upon a railway train, steamboat, or other conveyance, without supplying all the passengers with a tract, and holding numerous brief conversations with them. Of Brother McGlashan's labors on the wider field South and East, in the service of the American Tract and Seamen's Friend Society, I have no space to speak. Mobile and New York could tell for him a story that would thrill the heart of the Church. But the record, if made at all in this world, must needs be very imperfect. If Harlan Page had evidence that a hundred souls had been won by his direct instrumentality, I have little doubt that Alexander McGlashan's gains were much greater. It is only a pity that so few like-minded and furnished remain behind to prosecute the labors of which he could say with all sincerity, 'My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work.'

MCKINNEY, JOHN-The son of Isaac and Jane (Fleming) McKinney, was born in Bellefonte, Pa., August 26, 1797, where the early part of his life was passed. He united with the church of which the Rev. John McMillan, D.D., was pastor, while a student in Cannonsburg, Pa., at Jefferson College, where he graduated in 1819, studied theology in the Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey, and was licensed by Philadelphia Presbytery in 1824. His first pastoral charge was at Fredericksburg, Ohio, where he was ordained and installed by Richland Presbytery in 1829. For some time he was pastor at Alexandria, Pa., and was afterward a supply at Oswego, Ill. During the last three years he resided at Hollidaysburg, Pa., because too feeble for the active duties of the ministry.

He was twice married: first, to Miss Sarah McKinney, the second to Miss Margaret Cameron, who, with three daughters, survives him. David McKinney, D.D., of Pittsburg, is his brother, Rev. W. W. McKinney and the late Rev. Isaac N. McKinney are nephews.

He was mild, affectionate, truthful, reliable, kind and eminently righteous. Most of his ministerial life was spent in arduous and self-denying labors in feeble or mission churches. Thus his life was one of real sacrifice and great usefulness in the cause of his Master. He laid the foundations on which others will continue to build. The good seed sown by him will long bring forth its blessed fruit.

MCNAIR, D.D., JOHN-The son of Solomon and Sarah (McMasters) McNair, was born near Newtown, Bucks county, Pa., May 28, 1806. He was reared with an earnest regard to his spiritual welfare, and at an early age made a profession of religion. His mother was an eminently godly woman, and the members of her large family felt from childhood the influence of her piety.

He was educated at Newtown Academy, then under the care of Rev. Mr. Boyd, long the pastor of the church to which the family belonged; then at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa., and graduated in 1828.

He studied theology at Princeton Seminary, N. J., and was licensed by Philadelphia Presbytery in 1831, and soon after removed to Western Pennsylvania, and settled in Warren county, where he was ordained by Erie Presbytery, November 7, 1833. Here he remained one year, and then removed to Philadelphia, Pa., and preached in Fairmount Church in that city. In 1836 he removed to Vincennes Presbytery, Indiana, and soon after he returned East and settled in Milford, N. J. He also preached at Stroudsburg, Pa., and then in Musconectcong Valley, N. J., where he remained three years. In all these places he labored as a missionary, when he was called to Lancaster, Pa., where he continued as pastor eleven years; when he was obliged to resign on account of ill health, he removed to Clinton, N. J., where he purchased a farm and commenced farming in connection with his ministerial labors, which greatly improved his health, and he preached at Clinton for six or eight years.

During the rebellion he entered the army as chaplain of the 31st regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, and exerted himself earnestly and faithfully in behalf of the spiritual welfare of the soldiers of the republic. When the war was over he returned to Lancaster, Pa. Here he was not idle, but preached as he had opportunity, giving his labors to the church in Strasburg, Pa. He died in Lancaster, Pa., January 27, 1867, of typhoid pneumonia, and was buried at Clarksville, N. J.

He married in 1838 Miss Susan Adaline Hunt of Clinton, N. J., a granddaughter of Rev. Holloway W. Hunt, who, with a daughter, survives him. His brother, Rev. Solomon McNair, of Little Britain, Pa., is a Presbyterian minister.

He was a thorough Presbyterian, and loved and preached the great doctrines of the gospel, as set forth in our Catechisms and Confession of Faith. He was highly respected among the brethren in the presbyteries and synods with which he was connected. Those who knew him best will ever cherish his memory, while they do but simple justice to the characteristics of his head and his heart.

Retiring in his manner and deportment, he was ever cheerful and kind, possessing, however, a firmness and integrity of purpose which made itself felt in his expressed opinions, together with a sincerity unquestioned, which gave a high tone to the doctrines he inculcated. His sermons evinced a high order of talent; eloquent, yet plain and unaffected, lucid and easily comprehended.