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THE 
 
 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL, 
 
 A RECORD 
 
 OF THE PSOCEEDINQS ON THE OCCASION OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE 
 
 ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 St or THK 
 
 OF LITTLE BEITAIN, N. T. 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 Of the completion of onu-third of a century of the pastoral relation to this 
 Ohnreli of Kev- Eobert H. WalI/ACE, D. D. 
 
 AND, ALSO, 
 
 The proceedings connected with the Installation of Rev. R. Howard 
 
 Wallace, as an Assistant Pastor, consisting of a Sermon, Addresses, 
 
 Presentations, Communications, etc- 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 A SKETCH OP THE CLINTON PAMILT, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, ETC. 
 
 EDITED BY 
 
 ARCHIBALD C. NIVEN. 
 
 i;«to |0rfe: 
 
 ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 
 530 Broadway. 
 
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PREFACE, 
 
 That eccentric individual, Sir Thomas Browne, whose kindness 
 of heart seemed to run parallel with his great eccentricity of char- 
 acter, says : " I cannot contentedly frame a prayer for myself, in 
 particular, without a catalogue for my friends : nor request a, happi- 
 ness wherein my social disposition doth not desire the fellowship of 
 my neighbor. I never heard the toll of a passing bell (though in 
 my mirth) without my prayers and best wishes for the departing 
 spirit. I cannot go to cure the body of ray patient, but I forget my 
 profes.sion and call unto God for his soul. I cannot see one say his 
 prayers, but instead of imitating him, I fall into a supplication for 
 him, who, perhaps, is no more to me than a common nature ; and if 
 God hath vouchsafed an ear to ray supplications, there ai'e surely 
 many happy who never saw me and enjoy the blessing of my un- 
 known devotion.'' 
 
 Such a frame of mind is truly to be coveted — it leads us to follow 
 out the Apostolic injunction : " Look not every man on his own 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 things, but every man on the things of others :" — " to rejoice with 
 those that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep." It stirs up 
 the better feelings of our common humanity, engages our sympa- 
 thies and makes us to rejoice in that brotherhood, which, through 
 many ancestral generations, the greater part of which are lost in 
 oblivion, is traced up to Him of whom the inspired record declares : 
 " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and 
 breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living 
 soul." 
 
 This creature, man, is, doubtless, to some extent — perhaps, to a 
 great degree, a selfish being — having much less regard for others 
 than for himself; yet, there are but few, indeed, who live without 
 some participation of feeling in that which deeply interests others. 
 Examples of this are spread out in historic lore ; and our own indi- 
 vidual experience confiima the record. 
 
 The biblical student, however mentally phlegmatic, finds his teuder- 
 est sympathies enlisted in the story of the patriarch Abraham, as he 
 journeys in obedience to the divine command, with Isaac, to the 
 summit of the mount, there to offer him in sacrifice ; or, if he turns 
 to the eventful life of Joseph, cast into a pit in the wilderness by his 
 orethren whom he visited upon an errand of mercy — taken from the 
 pit, sold into captivity, thrown into prison and forgotten there ; or 
 if he peruses the history of Job, when visited with loss of property, 
 and children, and health, to which is superadded the insane advice of 
 
PBEPACE. V 
 
 the wife of his bosom and the condemnation and reproach of his 
 visitors, will he not find all his moral instincts agitated in behalf ot 
 these instances of suffering humanity 1 And these are but two or 
 three of the many Instances brought before the mind of the biblical 
 student, and which draw out the feeling of the most selfish. 
 
 So, also, in regaid to the classical student who runs his eye over 
 the page which records the sufferings of some ancient hero of historic 
 renown : his feelings are imperceptibly awakened and enlisted, while 
 yet he is unaware of the trial that has been made upon the emotions 
 of his soul. 
 
 What North Briton, even at this day, does not teel his deepest 
 sensibilities enkindled at the name of Wallace, or the recollection 
 of the Bruce and Auld lang syne I Or, to come nearer to the 
 period in which we live — how utterly feeble and impotent is the at- 
 tempt to control the feelings of those (selfish in everything else,) 
 whose ancestry were rocked in the cradle of the Covenant and bap- 
 tized in a baptism of blood ; when his recollections are turned to- 
 wards the battle-field at Bothwell Bridge ; or, more recently, when 
 the Christian world was permitted to witness the exodus of the 
 Scottish Church, under- the leadership of Chalmers and his co- 
 adjutors ? 
 
 This same feeling is lunate every where, thougli in a greater or 
 less degree, varying according to the shades of individual character, 
 or the circumstances which initiate the action of the mind. 
 
 Now, among the many things which are calculated to arouse a 
 1* 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 deep interest, when we can withdraw ourselveB ftom the supreme 
 considerations of " What shall we eat and what shall we drink 
 and wherewithal shall we be clothed," are, the affairs of the church 
 in our own land — its planting, its watering, its culture, its growth — 
 are matters in which we can but feel deeply interested ; and as the 
 church at large is but the aggregation of individual congregations, 
 our feelings are as naturally drawn towards the fractional parts as 
 towards the whole. Turning our thoughts to any particular- spot 
 where, for successive generations, the vestal fire of religious truth has 
 burned (albeit, at times thfe fire was deeply buried, yet needing only 
 the breath of the Lord to kindle it,) we love to fix our thoughts on 
 that spot, to talk of it, to trace the influences that have radiated 
 from it as a central point, and then permit the imagination to carry 
 us far down and along the vista of the future, when the fire shall 
 burn and " shine brighter and brighter unto the perfect day." 
 
 Such a spot is that to which our little volume is consecrated. We 
 do not expect that persons into whose hands it may fall and whose 
 " local habitation" is elsewhere, will feel as great an interest in these 
 pages as though they had first breathed the fragrance of these hills, 
 chased the butterfly over the green meadows, or strolled along its 
 streamlets, imbibing juvenile inspiration from the music of its ripple 
 or the song of birds. Or, as if in mature age, they had reverently, 
 from sabbath to sabbath, entered the sanctuary and worshipped the 
 God of their fathers there. Yet even a stranger, whose eyes trace 
 these lines, may imbibe some portion of that spirit which should 
 
PltEFACE. Vll 
 
 animate all " that in eTery place call on the name of Jesus Christ 
 our Lord, both theirs and ours." 
 
 Should the inquiry be started, " What object is to be attained by 
 the publication of this unpretending volume ?" — ^It would suffice to 
 reply by stating what is not the object. It is not a desire to add 
 to the literature of the country. We have no such promptings. So 
 far back as the days of Israel's wise monarch, he seemed to have 
 arrived at the delicate conclusion that " of making many books 
 there is no end." The rage of book-making has been on the in- 
 crease from that period until the present time ; and, now, it may be 
 said, that in a numerical point of view, the leaves of books almost 
 equal the leaves of trees. The essayist — the critic — the poet — the 
 novelist — the biographer — the historian — the theologian — the man 
 of art and science, and the nondescript writer who cannot be 
 enrolled under any particular classification — all are in "labors 
 more abundant." 
 
 It is not a desire to receive a pecuniary return from any labor 
 bestowed on this compilation. No such motive has found a place 
 in our thoughts. 
 
 It is not to build up any interests, local, sectional, denomina- 
 tional or personal, that it is prepared for the press. 
 
 It is not that we are ambitious of placing our name before the 
 public in connection with this volume— on the contrary, we desiis 
 
Tin PREFACE. 
 
 no notoriety, and were it not that it seems to be necessary to give 
 a name in reference to its authorship in order that several matters of 
 a historical nature introduced into its pages, might rest upon 
 something more than the assertion of an anonymous writer, our 
 name would have remained a secret. 
 
 What then is the object? The answer is brief. A congrega- 
 tion, which in a country comparatively new, can trace its con- 
 tinued existence for a century without change of ecclesiastical 
 organization — without departure from the principles embodied in its 
 creed — which amid all the vicissitudes and revolutions, political, 
 social and ecclesiastical which have occurred around it, has con- 
 tinued to go forward steadily — which, at times, like Horeb's burn- 
 ing bush, has burned but is not consumed — such a congregation 
 desires to have its annals rescued from tbrgetfulness. A pastor, 
 too, who in this era of uneasiness in the churches, when the restive 
 spirit which pervades all associations, religious or otherwise, con- 
 tinually demands new things and cries for more, can move forward 
 in the path of duty, for a third of a century, planting himself 
 upon the truth of God as the sum and substance of his minis- 
 trations, who still lives in the grateful affections of his flock, may 
 with great propriety be held up to those who are young in the 
 ministry as an example of what may result from a " patient con- 
 tinuance in well-doing." 
 
 It may not be improper to state, however, that there is one 
 motive which has had its Influence in bringing out this volume. 
 It has been already stated that no sectional or denominational 
 
PRBFAOK. IX 
 
 interests led to it; but on the contrary, a desire to exhibit the 
 centennial celebration proceedings as deyeloplng a truly catholic 
 spirit on ]the part of the congregation and its pastors. The spirit 
 of the one universal church is the spirit of its glorious King and 
 Head ; and His spirit was, and is pre-eminently, a spirit of love 
 and union — not a union with one sect or band of the church, to 
 the exclusion of all others ; but a union with all who hold " like 
 precious faith," although differing, it may be, in regard to the form 
 of church government, or matters of practice in things non- 
 essential and which are of man's device — ^in reference to which 
 there is not to be found : " Thus saith the Lord." 
 
 The great object of our publication, then, is to promote the divine 
 glory, by recording the faithfulness of the Head of the Church 
 to this branch of Zion. 
 
 It will be seen that it is a work of compilation mainly, the 
 principal object being to embody the proceedings connected with 
 the installation of the junior pastor of the Little Britain Church, and 
 of the Centennial Celebration. These proceedings include the 
 installation services, charge to the pastor, addresses, etc. 
 
 As the history of the church is virtually a history of the neigh- 
 borhood, and as the Clinton family, (honorable in the annals of 
 our country, and not less so from inherent worth,) is cloisely 
 identified with the church and its locality, we have obtained, 
 through the kindness of one of the surviving members of that 
 
X PREFACE. 
 
 fajnily, an historical account of the Clintons and their settle- 
 ment in the immediate vicinity of the church. We have taken 
 the liberty of inserting this account, and it forms a very inter- 
 esting portion of the volume. 
 
 Nor could we give its pages to the press without furnishing 
 something of a memoir of the senior pastor. This, of course, is 
 very imperfect. Much of deep and pervading interest might be 
 said, with great propriety, in reference to the " labors of love," of 
 this servant of the Lord,- among the people of his charge and 
 elsewhere ; but as his usefulness and faithfulness are frequently 
 alluded to in the proceedings, the record of which forms a por- 
 tion of this volume ; and knowing our friend to be particularly 
 unassuming, we abstain from much that the claims of both jus- 
 tice and friendship would induce ns to say. 
 
 The arrangement, compilation and, indeed, the whole work, 
 was assumed by request, and is intended as a testimony to the 
 goodness and mercy of God unto those who put their trust in Him. 
 
 The weather, on the day of installation, was inclement and 
 inauspicious, but the attendance at the church was very large, 
 composed of persons of various denominations. A large number. 
 of ministers of the Gospel were present, several of whom parti- 
 cipated in the proceedings, as the reader will perceive. 
 
Missing Page 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A MEETING of the members of the church and 
 congregation was held at the church, on Decem- 
 ber 29, 1856, to make arrangements for the per- 
 manent supply of their pulpit, in view of the 
 continued ill health of their pastor. 
 
 PiEESON Genung, Esq., was called to the chair. 
 The following preamble and resolutions were 
 unanimously adopted. 
 
 Whereas, In consequence of the continued fee- 
 ble state of our pastor's health, and his consequent 
 Inability to labor in word and doctrine among us; 
 and. 
 
 Whereas, There exists a very- general desire 
 
 that he should spend the remainder of his days 
 2 
 
XIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 in our midst, where for nearly one-third of a 
 century, he has diligently labored — bearing the 
 burden and heat of the day — in breaking to us 
 the bread of life ; and 
 
 Whereas. To accomplish this, it becomes 
 necessary to make some permanent arrangement 
 for the supply of our pulpit. Therefore, 
 
 Resolved, I. That we will invite the Rev. R. 
 Howard Wallace to remain with us perma- 
 nently, as colleague with, and successor to, his 
 father, Rev. Robert H. Wallace, as pastor of 
 this church and congregation. 
 
 Resolved, II. That this invitation be pre- 
 sented to him for his acceptance, together with 
 the concurrent preamble. 
 
 Resolved, III. That in case of his informal 
 acceptance, the constitutional steps be taken 
 to procure a formal installation. 
 
INTRODUCTION. XV 
 
 At a meeting of the Presbytery of New- 
 York, held 20th October, 1867, resolutions were 
 adopted approving the course proposed to be 
 pursued by the Little Britain Congregation in 
 celebrating their Centennial, and, also, the long 
 period of their pastor's services ; and appoint- 
 ing T. M. NiVEN, Esq., Dr. McCarrel, and 
 Hon. A. C. NiVEN, a committee to represent 
 them on that occasion, and take the part as- 
 signed them in the exercises. 
 
 A meeting of the congregation was held at the 
 Church, December 3, 1857, for the purpose of 
 making arrangements to celebrate the Centennial 
 of their history. After a presentation of facts, 
 in regard to the history of the Church, its 
 pastoral relations, etc., by the Rev. R. How 
 ARD Wat.lace, it was resolved to appoint a 
 committee to arrange for the suitable celebra- 
 tion of this interesting epoch. The celebration 
 
XVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 was appointed to take place on Wednesday, 
 30th December. 
 
 The following gentlemen constitute the com- 
 mittee : 
 
 HON. ISAAC Wood, 
 
 JAMES W. MORRISON, BURR KURD, 
 
 PIERSON GENUNG, CHARLES E. KNAPP. 
 
 On motion of J. W. Morrison, Esq., it was, 
 
 Resolved, That this Congregation embrace the 
 opportunity, presented by the interesting anni- 
 versary, now approaching, to present their pas- 
 tor, Rev. Robert H. Wallace, with a suitable 
 testimonial of their esteem and affectionate re- 
 gard ; and that 
 
 JAMES PATTEN, JOHN M. SHUART, 
 
 R. WALLACE GENUNG, 
 
 constitute a committee to procure such testi- 
 monial. 
 
IMEODUCTION. XVll 
 
 Several meetings of the Centennial Commit- 
 tee were subsequently held, and the necessary 
 measures adopted for carrying into effect the 
 proposed object. 
 
 Various Sub-Committees were appointed on 
 correspondence, music, etc., who readily respond- 
 ed to the call made on them, and by diligent 
 effort made as perfect as possible the arrange- 
 ments for the celebration. 
 
 The Committee desire to acknowledge their 
 obligations to Benjamin Weight, Esq., of 
 Cornwall, the leader of the choir, and to those 
 who assisted him on this occasion. 
 
OFFI CERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 A. R. iPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 
 
 OF LITTLE BRITAIN. 
 
 SESSION: 
 
 REV. ROBERT H. WALLACE, 
 " R. HOWARD WALLACE, 
 WILLIAM H. DENNISTON, 
 PIERSON GENUNG, 
 INCREASE S. GOLDSMITH, 
 JARVIS KNAPP. 
 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES: 
 
 HON. ISAAC WOOD, 
 GEORGE DENNISTON, 
 BURR KURD, 
 JAMES PATTON, 
 JOHN B. KERNOCHAN, 
 ALEXANDER D. ROGERS, 
 JOHN M. SHUART, 
 JOHN S. WFAR, 
 GEORGE ARNOT. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 PREFACE, 3 
 
 INTRODUCTION 13 
 
 INSTALLATION SERVICES, 38 
 
 SERMON, by Rer. Dr. McCaerel, 41 
 
 PRESBYTERIAL CHARGE, to Associate Pastor, hj Rev. 
 
 Joseph Kimball, 61 
 
 ADDRESS, by Rot. James Peestly 69 
 
 CENTENNIAL EXERCISES, 78 
 
 LETTERS, from 
 
 Rev. Samuel H. Cox, 85 
 
 Hon. George W. Clinton, 89 
 
 Rev. M. N. McLaren, D. D 93 
 
 " President NoTT, D. D 95 
 
 " John B. Dales, D. D 96 
 
 " J. McElkoy.D.D 101 
 
 " Henry Ward Beeohee, 103 
 
 J. L. Knapp, Esq., 105 
 
 Prof. John f ostee, 106 
 
 Rer. John Sellick, 109 
 
 Prof. Jonathan Pearson Ill 
 
 Hon. John W. Beown, Ill 
 
 " Chaeles a. Clinton, 112 
 
XXU CONTENTS. 
 
 LETTERS from Page- 
 Han. J. T. Headley, 114 
 
 W. G. Shuakt, Es(1., 114 
 
 Hon. S. J. Wilkin, US 
 
 Rev. J. H. Seelye 116 
 
 " C. Irvino, 117 
 
 " J. Van Vechten, D. D 118 
 
 " J. MoNuLTY, 118 
 
 " E. HAi.LEy,D. D., and others, 120 
 
 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, by Rev. R. H. Wallace, D. D... 126 
 
 ADDRESS, by Committee of Presbytery of New-Tork, 133 
 
 PASTORS OF LITTLE BRITAIN, by J. McCarkel, D. D. . . . 138 
 
 ADDRESS, by A. C. Niven, Esq, 148 
 
 POEM, by Charles S. Vedder, Esq., 158 
 
 SECETRITy OF THE CHURCH, by Rev. James Prestly, 162 
 
 PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH, by Rev. James P. Fisher, 175 
 
 TESTIMONIAL to Rev. Robert H. Wallace, D. D., 184 
 
 PRESENTATION to Rev. R. Howard Wallace, 191 
 
 COMMUNICATION from Elders of Little Britain Churoli 195 
 
 COMMUNICATION from Church at Kortright, N. V 199 
 
 CLOSING HYMN, by Mrs. Sioourney, 209 
 
 RE-UN ION, 210 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF REV. ROBERT H. WAL- 
 LACE, D. D , by John Forsyth, D. D 211 
 
 SKETCH OF THE CLINTON FAMILY, by Hon. Charles 
 
 A. Clinton, 224 
 
 OBITUARY NOTICES, 241 
 
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 ^The Installation Services were commenced with 
 Invocation by Rev. Gideon P. Judd, D. D., of 
 Montgomery, N. Y. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Foesith, of the Theological Seminary, 
 Newburgh, read a selection from the Scriptures. 
 
 Rev. Andeew Johnson, of Hopewell, N. Y., 
 addressed the Throne of Grace. 
 
 The one hundredth psalm, in the old Scotch ver- 
 sion, was then sung. 
 
 PSALM 100. 
 AH people that on' earth who dwell, 
 Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. 
 Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell ; 
 Come ye before him and rejoice. 
 
 Know that the Lord is God indeed ; 
 Without our aid he did us make ; 
 We are his flock, he did us feed. 
 And for his sheep he doth us take. 
 
CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 39 
 
 O enter then his gates with praise, 
 Approach with joy his gates unto; 
 Praise, laud, and bless his name always, 
 For it is seemly, so to do. 
 
 Because, the Lord oiu' God is good, 
 His mercy is tor ever sure ; 
 His truth at all times firmly stood. 
 And shall from age to age endure. 
 
 After which the Sermon was preached by the 
 Rev. Dr. McCakkell, Senior Professor of the The- 
 ological Seminary, Newburgh. 
 
SERMON. 
 
 EZBKIEL 3 : 17. — Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto 
 the house of Israel : therefore hear the word of my month, and give 
 them warning from me. 
 
 The ministry of reconciliation are appointed to 
 publish to men, in his name, what Jehovah, the only 
 true and living God shall say unto them. That part 
 of his charges to them, which respects themselves, 
 they are called upon to contemplate this day on 
 occasion of appointing a watchman to this part of 
 the walls of Zion. About thirty-three years ago, 
 I performed, by appointment of the Associate Re- 
 formed Presbytery of New York, on occasion of the 
 ordination and installation of Rev. Robert H. Wal- 
 lace, a similar service to that in which I am engaged 
 to-day, by appointment of the same Presbytery, on 
 occasion of the installation of his son, Robert H. 
 Wallace, junior, as colleague and successor to his 
 father. 
 
 That we may be more impressed with the solemni- 
 ties of our office, and employ them with greater fidelity 
 and diligence, in the discharge of its duties, allow me 
 
42 CENTENMAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 to Stir up your pure minds, by way of remembrance, 
 while I direct your attention to the Names, Charac- 
 ters and Kelations, Duties, Trials, Encouragements 
 and Responsibilities of the ministry of reconcilia- 
 tion. 
 
 1. The Names by which these are called, are de- 
 scriptive of their office, and each of them is a 
 moral painting, " like an apple of gold in a picture 
 of silver,"' by the hand of the Divine Artist, the 
 Holy One of Israel. 
 
 The ministry are watchmen, appointed by 
 Emmanuel to guard the city of Mansoul, from the 
 surprise and incursions of its enemies, and to see to 
 the promotion of all its interests, or part with their 
 own souls if they neglect their duty.' 
 
 The appointment of Ezekiel to the prophetical 
 office, was ushered in by a vision of the divine glory, 
 [chapters 1st, and llth.] " He sees the heavens 
 opened and Jehovah Emmanuel appear on, his throned 
 chariot of glory, borne by the cherubim and the 
 wheels, and arched by the rainbow of the covenant 
 of grace. As the divine Limner traces on the retina 
 of the prophet's eyes the splendid picture ; he sees, 
 at first obscurely, a glorious person, under circum- 
 stances most striking and peculiar, and as the Spirit 
 adds one stroke of his pencil after another, the same 
 
SERMON. 43 
 
 becomes more and more distinct, until the prophet 
 sees four living creatures, the cherubim, resembling 
 the lion, the ox, the eagle and the bear, each having 
 four vsrings and covered with eyes on every side ; 
 with them were four wheels, also covered with eyes 
 and animated with the same spirit, whose harmoni- 
 ous and simultaneous motion conveys the chariot, 
 whose bottom, over their heads, was an expanse of 
 saphire and gold, resembling the starry heavens ; on 
 this was a throne, and on that throne the appearance 
 of a man. 
 
 This was an illustration of the ministry into which 
 Ezekiel is now inducted. The living creatures in 
 conjunction with the wheels, bear the throne of 
 Emmanuel's manifold glory, now removed from Jeru- 
 salem to the river of Chebar, in Chaldea. The lion, 
 describing the boldness, the ox, the diligence and 
 patience, the eagle, the elevated and towering and 
 heavenly aims and aspirations, and the man the wis- 
 dom, which should characterize the embassador of 
 Grod, to sinful men. 
 
 The wings show their promptness, for they ap- 
 propriate each ; and the eyes their watchfulness, 
 and the hands of a man, their expertness and pru- 
 dence, discharging their arduous and difficult duties. 
 
44 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 The wheels, actuated by the same spirit of life, 
 and, also, covered with eyes, describe the rest of the 
 church of the redeemed, co-operating with the min- 
 istry in extending through the world, the savor of 
 the Redeemer's name. 
 
 These wheels were all alike, so that each might 
 be seen in the other, as a wheel in a wheel, indicat- 
 ing that the work of the Holy Spirit is identically 
 the same in all the subjects of his grace, for each is, 
 or will be perfect, like himself. And it was said to 
 the wheels in my hearing, " roll, roll on, the chariot 
 of Jehovah's glory ! " / 
 
 This is the first distinct and particular description 
 of the cherubim, frequently mentioned in the Word 
 of God. Its meaning is confirmed and illustrated 
 by a corresponding vision of John, the last of the 
 Prophets, on the occasion of his being inspired to 
 communicate to the church, and the world, the last 
 and clearest, and lullest view of the history of the 
 church and the world, to the end of time. [Rev. iv : 
 5.] In Ezekiel's vision, the throne is in motion, 
 in John's, it is at rest. In Ezekiel, the prominent 
 figures next to Him upon his throne, are the emble- 
 matic animals called the living creatures, and also 
 the cherubim. In John, they are called beasts. It 
 
SERMON. 45 
 
 should be living creatures, for tiie word is the Greek 
 translation of the Hebrew word, used by Ezekiel, 
 and translated living creatures. In John, as in 
 Isaiah, these living creatures have each six wings, 
 with twain he covered his face, with twain he 
 covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. The first 
 pair, was used to protect his face from the over- 
 powering rays of the divine glory, the second to ex- 
 press his humility in the divine presence, and the 
 third to fly, chiefly to perform the bidding of the Lord. 
 The first pair are wanting in the vision of Ezekiel, 
 because the cherubim are under the throne, and 
 therefore, not exposed to its consuming glories. 
 These living creatures, the same described by 
 Ezekiel, are seen as in the temple and tabernacle, on 
 the throne, and surrounding its outer circumference. 
 The interior of the throne is occupied by one ap- 
 pearance, like a jasper and a sardine stone. He sees 
 arranged in concentric circles round about the throne, ■ 
 twenty-four elders on thrones, in another and re- 
 moter circle ; he sees the angels and the whole field 
 of vision above, around, beneath, in worlds on worlds, 
 unnumbered through the regions of illimitable space ; 
 its grandeur and magnitude scarcely approached by 
 telescopic vision ; its infinite minuteness barely indi- 
 
46 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL, 
 
 cated by microscopic views of a world, in a drop of 
 water or a blade of grass. 
 
 The living creatures, the cherubim, lead in the 
 anthem of the universe to God and the Lamb, and 
 sing a song in which they are joined by the elders, 
 but which angels cannot sing. " Thou art worthy 
 to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for 
 thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to G-od by thy 
 blood, out of every tribe and tongue, and people 
 and nation, and hast made us unto our God, kings 
 and priests." These cherubim are the redeemed 
 from among men ; and that part of them that are 
 officially nearest the throne and first in song, 
 defines the ministry of reconciliation. They are not 
 angels, for they occupy a difierent place, and sing 
 another song. Least of all are they, the Trinity, for 
 they are the worshippers of the worshipped. 
 
 On occasion of his call to the work of a Prophet, 
 Isaiah has a similar vision of the glory of Jehovah 
 of Hosts, Adored Emmanuel. Ch. vi: 1, 7; 
 
 The emblematic beings are here called seraphim, 
 but the place they occupy is above the throne, as in 
 John, and they cry " Holy, holy, holy is the Lord 
 of Hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory," and 
 their wings prove the identity of the meaning. This 
 
SERMON. 47 
 
 vision also shows most distinctly, what is the great 
 and peculiar work of the ministry, to bring the sin- 
 ner into communication with the atoning sacrifice 
 of the Son of Grod for the remission of sins, and 
 the enjoyment of all the blessings of the everlasting 
 covenant : " Then flew one of the seraphim 
 unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which 
 he had taken with the tongs from off the altar. 
 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, lo, 
 this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is 
 taken away, and thy sin purged." This illustrates 
 the declaration of Paul : " Grod forbid that I should 
 glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by 
 which I am crucified to the world, and the world is 
 crucified unto me. I am determined to know nothing 
 among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 
 
 The prototype of all these persons and of -the cor- 
 responding workmanship in the tabernacle and tem- 
 ple, was exhibited to Adam and Eve when they 
 were expelled from Paradise. " So he drove out 
 the man and placed at the east of the garden of 
 Eden, the cherubim and a flaming sword which 
 turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of 
 life." aen. iii : 24. 
 
 While all hope of eternal life, by the broken 
 
48 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 covenants of works, is shown to be vain by the 
 fiamiug sword, another door of hope is opened up 
 through the better covenant of grace, illustrated by 
 the cherubim upon the mercy seat, where God con- 
 descends to dwell with man through the atonement 
 of the seed of the woman who should bruise the 
 serpent's head. 
 
 At first Adam and other heads of families, after 
 him, were the ministers of their households. But 
 afterwards, when men multiplied upon the earth, 
 different offices were - distributed among different 
 persons. 
 
 The first notice we have of a priest, is in the 
 account of Melchizedeck, priest of the Most High 
 God. [Gen. xiv.] An illustrious example of Christ, 
 the Most High Priest of our profession. He was a 
 royal priest, and in that respect more like the Mes- 
 siah than the priests of Aaron's line. [Ps. ex : 
 Heb. vii.] The priest's office was a type of the 
 Messiah, to offer sacrifices of slain beasts, and make 
 intercession for, and bless the people. He was also 
 to instruct them in divine things. " The priest's 
 lips should keep knowledge, and they should learn 
 the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of the 
 Lord of Hosts." This name is no more given to 
 
SERMON. 49 
 
 ministers under the New Testament dispensation. 
 There is no priest now but our Great High Priest, 
 who is gone into the heavens, there to appear in 
 the presencp of God for us. 
 
 Prophets were instructors in divine things, inspir- 
 ed to predict future events, and also ministers, 
 extraordinary and plenipotentiary, from the court of 
 heaven, whose authority superseded for the time be- 
 ing, that of the ordinary kings and priests. Elijah 
 in the presence of Ahab, ordered the priests of Baal 
 to execution. 
 
 Under the new covenant dispensation, when the 
 prophet, priest and king, of his church, ascended 
 up on high, he obtained gifts for men, and he gave 
 some apostles and some prophets and some evangel- 
 ists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting 
 of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the 
 edifying of the body of Christ, until we all come 
 in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the 
 Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the 
 stature of the fulness of Christ. 
 
 All these were ministers of the word, by a com- 
 mon authority. But besides the ordinary ministry 
 of the word, apostles and personal witnesses of the 
 resurrection of Christ, were empowered to lay the 
 
50 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 foundations of the Christian Church, built upon the 
 foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ 
 himself being the chief corner stone. Evangelists 
 were personal attendants and aids to the apostles, 
 and what was more than the ordinary ministry, with 
 them, was terminated with the life of the last of the 
 apostles. When the primary luminaries were with- 
 drawn, the satellites also disappeared. 
 
 Pastors and teachers remain called indiscriminate- 
 ly. Bishops and Elders. [Acts xx : 17, 28. Titus 
 i: 5, 7.] 
 
 They are called ministers, stewards, embassadors, 
 stars and angels, not as their official names, but as 
 descriptive of their work and office. 
 
 2. The characteristics of the minisi^ry are emblem- 
 atically set forth in the cherubim, the lion describ- 
 ing their moral courage, the ox the laborious and 
 patient diligence, the eagle their spiritual and 
 heavenly mindedness, and the man their wisdom and 
 descretion, the wings their promptitude in the dis- 
 charge of duty, and their many eyes within and 
 without, their watchfulness for the spiritual inter- 
 ests of their own souls and the souls committed to 
 their care ; with the full comprehension and striking 
 description of the instrumentality which God, the 
 
SERMON. ,51 
 
 Saviour has associated witii himself in the accom- 
 plishment of iiis work, the book of Grod begins and 
 ends. 
 
 He hath- put the treasure into earthen vessels, 
 that the excellency of the povp^er may appear to be 
 of God and not of us ; vs^hen in the wisdom of Grod, 
 the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God, 
 by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that 
 believe, for the Jews require a sign and the Greeks 
 seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, 
 to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks 
 foolishness, but unto them that are called Jews and 
 Greeks, Christ tlie wisdom of God, and the power 
 of God. 
 
 3. The relations of the ministry are the most 
 honorable of all the relations which God has esta- 
 blished with his creatures : — 
 
 " Nearest the throne and first in song-, 
 Men shall their hallelujahs raise, 
 While angels that suiTound the throne, 
 Shall swell the chorus of his praise." 
 
 The redeemed from among men, are honored 
 above every other order of created beings. They 
 are the sons and di?.ughters of the Lord Almighty ; 
 and he that sits upon the throne of the universe, and 
 
62 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL.. 
 
 wields the sceptre of all the world , is their brother. 
 He is not ashamed to call them brethren : "Go to 
 my brethren, and tell them, I go to my father and 
 your father, and to my God and your God." For as 
 much as the children are partaking of flesh and 
 blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same. 
 But the ministry of reconciliation are officially near-* 
 est of all to the excellent glory on the throne, and 
 round about the throne ; they lead the worship of 
 the redeemed. They begin and they close the An- 
 them of the universe. 
 
 They represent the King Eternal iii proclaiming 
 his gospel, and expounding his law. Now, then, we 
 are embassadors for Christ, as though God did be- 
 seech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be 
 ye reconciled to God. " He that receiveth you re- 
 ceiveth me, and he that receiveth me, receiveth him 
 that sent me, he that despiseth you despiseth me, and 
 he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me." 
 "Therefore hear the word from my mouth and give 
 them warning from me." 
 
 Duties. — 4. These were summarily comprehended 
 in the charge of our risen, but not yet ascended Re- 
 deemer, to the first ministry of the new dispensation. 
 " Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptising 
 
SERMOK. 53 
 
 them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, 
 and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all 
 things, whatsoever I have commanded you, and lo, I 
 am with you always, even to the end of the world." 
 [Mat. xxviii. 19, 20.J As stated by Peter, " We will 
 give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the 
 word." It consists in preaching the gospel, that 
 sinners may be brought by faith and repentance, and 
 a credible profession, into the Church, and then 
 teaching them the whole counsel of God for their 
 edification and salvation and comfort ; warning every 
 man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that 
 they may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 
 Knowing, therefore, the terrors of the Lord, we per- 
 suade men to be reconciled to God, through the 
 death of his Son, and then to walk in all the statutes 
 and ordinances and commandments of the Lord, 
 blameless. Ever since the fall, God and man are 
 by nature alienated from each other ; all are by 
 nature children of wrath ; God is angry with the 
 wicked every day, and the natural mind is enmity 
 against God; it is not subject to the law of God, 
 neither, indeed, can be. 
 
 To meet this difficulty the covenant of grace was 
 devised in the counsels of eternity, and Jesus ap- 
 
54 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 pointed its mediator ; and He has ' instituted the 
 ministry of reconciliation to be His agents, with the 
 accompanying influence of the Holy Spirit, in bring- 
 ing back rebellious men to their allegiance to Grod, 
 and to establish the reign of righteousness and peace 
 and joy in the Holy Ghost, in this apostate world. 
 Now the end of this charge is love, out of a pure 
 heart and of a good conscience, and of faith un- 
 feigned. 
 
 5. The discouragements of the ministry are many, 
 derived from the remainder of indwelling corrup- 
 tion, the want of a strong faith and greater earnest- 
 .ness in the great work, in which they are engaged, 
 and from the want of success in their ministry, caus- 
 ing them to cry out with the Prophet Isaiah, " Who 
 hath believed our report ? and to whom is the arm 
 of the Lord revealed ?" From the careless and in- 
 consistent walk of professors, giving occasion to them 
 who seek occasion to speak reproachfully, from the 
 lukewarmness of friends and the opposition of false 
 brethren, from the ensnarements of the world on the 
 one hand, and its persecutions on the other, and from 
 Satan, the god of this world, who blinds the minds 
 of them that believe not, lest the light of the know- 
 
SERMON. 55 
 
 ledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ 
 should shine into them. 
 
 6. But if their discouragements are great, they 
 are not without encouragements corresponding with 
 their duties and perils as leaders of the sacramental 
 host of God's elect. They are not sent on this war- 
 fare at their own charges ; the Master who sent 
 them has promised, "Lo, I am with you always, 
 even unto the end of the world." " My grace shall 
 be sufficient for you, for my strength is made per- 
 fect in your weakness." Most gladly therefore may 
 we glory in infirmities, that the power of Christ 
 may rest upon us. They are assured of ultimate 
 success in the cause in which they are engaged, in 
 subduing the world to the obedience of the faith, 
 and that those who are employed by the Kedeemer, 
 as his instruments, in making many wise, shall shine 
 in the resurrection of the just, as the brightness of 
 the firmament, and they that turn many to righteous- 
 ness, as the stars, for ever and ever. Their condition 
 in the Church triumphant, will correspond with that 
 which they occupy in the Church militant. " Him 
 that overcometh, will I make to sit with me upon my 
 throne, even as I also overcame and am set down 
 with my Father on his throne." 
 
56 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAI>. 
 
 The faithful minister, as he presents himself, and 
 those whom he has been the honored instrument of 
 bringing to the knowledge of the truth, and of 
 securing for heaven's Lord, will receive such a 
 welcome from the Lord of glory, as shall make him 
 forget all his sorrows and toils, and dangers and 
 sufferings. " Well done good and faithful servant, 
 thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will 
 make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into 
 the joy of thy Lord. 
 
 7, The responsibilities of the gospel ministry are 
 awful; they are intrusted with the highest interests 
 of the glory of God and the salvation of men ; and 
 for the manner in which they fulfil the trust, they 
 must give an account at the last day. We must all 
 appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that 
 every one may receive the things done in his body 
 according as he hath done, whether they be good or 
 bad. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we 
 persuade men, and in proportion as the ministry are 
 stimulated by the terrors of the Lord, as they will 
 be exhibited on the last day, will they be faithful, 
 and diligent in the discharge of their official duties. 
 If any are neglected by them, and lost, their blood 
 will be required at the watchman's hand ; that day 
 
SERMON. 57 
 
 will derive its terrors from the suddenness of its 
 coming ; the resurrection of the dead ; the change of 
 . the living ; the conflagration of the world ; the ap- 
 pearance of the Judge ; the progress of the trial ; 
 the pronouncing of the sentence, and its beginning 
 execution. 
 
 On that day, for which all other days were made, 
 if any be found faithless to their sacred charge ; if 
 they have not instructed, warned, expostulated with, 
 and entreated sinners to be reconciled unto God : 
 then shall they appear second only to Satan in sin ; 
 they will stand next, but to him in woe, and down, 
 down, from the presence of the Judge shall sink ac- 
 cursed, while pre-eminent in misery as pre-eminent 
 in guilt, the unfaithful minister sees in the lowest 
 deep, a lower deep wide open still threatening to de- 
 vour him. If Paul deems it necessary to keep under 
 his body and bring it into subjection, lest having 
 preached to others, he himself should be a cast- 
 away ; if he was stirred up to faithfulness and dili- 
 gence not only by, love to Christ and love to souls, 
 but by the terror of the Lord as exhibited on the 
 great day of final judgment, how much more should 
 we, who are following at so great a distance his illus- 
 trious example. But we have a greater example 
 
68 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 than Paul, for the propriety of drawing considera- 
 tions and motives from the eternal state, to stimu- 
 late and to ennoble in ministerial duty — looking 
 unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who 
 for the joy that was set before him, endured the 
 cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the 
 right hand of the throne of God. Leave, then, for 
 those whose hearts are aching for them, the empty 
 honors of a dying world, and press after the crown 
 of glory that fadeth not away, which God, the 
 righteous judge, will give unto you and unto all 
 them also that love his appearing. 
 
 And you who enjoy the labors and prayers of the 
 ministry of reconciliation, suffer also the word of 
 exhortation ; be grateful to God for the gift. To 
 them, under God, you owe the diiFerence in your 
 condition from that of the degraded and miserable 
 inhabitants of heathenism. To whom much is given 
 of them will much b« required. Adorn the doc- 
 trine of God the Saviour by a life of holiness. And 
 as the harvest is great and the laborers are few, 
 pray ye the Lord of the harvest "that he would send 
 forth laborers into his harvest, and prove the sin- 
 cerity of your prayers by contributing of your sub- 
 stance and your labors, of mind and body, for the 
 
SERMON. 59 
 
 attainment of the promised blessing. Many shall 
 run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased. 
 The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord 
 as the waters cover the sea. 
 
 Remember, hearer of the Gospel, that the mes- 
 sage borne to you by the embassadors of Christ is not 
 their's but God's, and the Eedeemer will deal with 
 you according to your treatment of his messengers, 
 as if he had been the speaker in his own person. 
 "Because I called and ye refused : I stretched out 
 my hand and no man regarded. But ye set at 
 naught my counsel, and would none of my reproof; 
 I will, therefore, laugh at your calamity, and mock 
 when your fear cometh ; when your fear cometh, 
 as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a 
 whirlwind : when distress and anguish cometh 
 upon you, then shall ye call "upon me but I will not 
 hear, ye shall seek me early but ye shall not find 
 me." " Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, ' to-day 
 if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts.' " 
 
60 CENTENNIAL MEMOEUL. 
 
 The constitutional questions were then proposed 
 to the candidate by Dr. McCabrell, Moderator of 
 the Presbytery, and an expression of the wishes of 
 the people taken, which were found to be unani- 
 mous in favor of the Candidate. 
 
 The installing prayer was offered by the senior 
 pastor, Rev. Robekt H. Wallace. 
 
 The Address, to the associate pastor, was then 
 delivered by Rev. Joseph Kimball, of Brockport, 
 Monroe County, N. Y. 
 
PRESBYTERIAL CHARGE 
 
 ADDRESSED TO 
 
 REV. R. HOWARD WALLACE. 
 
 My Young Brother : 
 
 Upon this auspicious day I give you greeting. 
 A noble band of God's dear people has called you 
 to be their servant for Christ's sake. You have 
 consented so to be ; and now, because, as I pre- 
 sume, of the memory of other days, which neither 
 you nor I can forget, it becomes my grateful privi- 
 lege to address you oji this, the occasion of your in- 
 stallation. 
 
 While the debate was going on in my own mind 
 as to the propriety of accepting the kind invitation, 
 the head pleaded hard against the acceptance, and 
 referred to others whose maturer wisdom could far 
 better discharge the important duty ; but then the 
 heart rose up, and before its resistless pleadings, 
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62 CENTENNIAL MEMOEIAL. 
 
 reason, as is so often the case, was overpowered; 
 yet, let us fondly hope that in the issue, the cool 
 head will deal mercifully with the precipitant heart. 
 My brother, from this day you are to be known 
 as the standard bearer of this people, beside your 
 venerable father who, through the third part of a 
 century, has borne it manfully and alone. His eye 
 now begins to grow dim and his natural force to 
 abate ; the trials and struggles of a long campaign 
 have done their work upon him, and, in the course of 
 nature, he must soon be called away from the "good 
 fight" in order to receive at the hands of his loved 
 Master the " crown of life," and the freedom of "the 
 city." The burden of armor will be exchanged for 
 the " weight of glory," and the shouts of battle 
 will be all hushed in the songs of victory. But the 
 hour of his release yet tarries ; and amid the many 
 consolations that cheer, him in these his last days, 
 none is sweeter than that which springs from the 
 sight of you, his only son, joining him, as you do 
 this day, in the support of that glorious standard, on 
 this very field, where he has borne it so long and 
 so well. 
 
 I charge you, therefore, to "honor thy father." 
 Times may come when it will be your duty to 
 
PKESBYTEEIAL CHARGE. 63 
 
 moderate the impetuosity of your youth by the 
 cautiousness of his age. You will not knowingly 
 neglect this. But as to err is human, so you will 
 pause long and ponder well before, in the case of 
 opposing judgments, you prefer your own to that 
 which comes from the fuller experience of maturer 
 life. Many of the difficulties which spring up be- 
 tween a pastor and his people are the results of the 
 pastors ignorance, or forgetfulness of what is his 
 legitimate business. Be it, therefore, your study to 
 know what is yours to be done. If there be a 
 speciality in all the earth it belongs to the minister 
 of Christ, and the closer that he confines himself to 
 it, the better it will be, both for him and his. To 
 shine like the stars in the firmament is the promis- 
 ed future of the Christian ministry — to move like 
 stars in the firmament is the present duty of that 
 ministry. Grod has assigned us our orbit, and no 
 right have we to go out of it ; the temptation is 
 often strong for the pastor to do things that are in- 
 consistent, simply with his official character. Earn- 
 est zeal to do good will sometimes lead him to take 
 hold of what he has no business to touch, and he 
 only finds out that he has done wrong when the ma- 
 chinery of his parish begins to clatter and break up. 
 
64 CEXTENXUL MEMOEIAL. 
 
 Let, then, my brother, this question always come 
 up in your mind when on the eve of action : — Is 
 this my lusincss ? 
 
 With reference to two things there is no manner 
 of doubt, there can be none. 
 
 First. — Your business is to preach Christ, to preacii 
 him jmiiitedhj. There are many ways of preaching 
 Christ. He may be preached beautifully ; he may 
 be preached gracefully ; he may be preached zeal- 
 ously. These are all needful, but the greatest matter 
 is to preach him iiointcdly. Go into the field think- 
 ing more about the edge of your sword than about 
 its glitter. And as you stand before your fellow 
 men, let it ever be your aim so to present Christ 
 crucified as to make that stubborn heart of depravi- 
 ty, which fronts you, to tremble at the thought of 
 sin. 
 
 And as you preach Christ pointedly, so preach 
 him fearlessly. To the precision of the soldier add 
 his boldness, and press home upon- the sinner the 
 startling truths which you find in the letter of 
 your instructions. In order to acquire that fear- 
 lessness of character, which so becomes a Christian 
 minister, let your heart be filled with the fear of 
 
PEESBTTERIAL CHARGE. 66 
 
 God, and there will appear nothing in the circum- 
 stances of man to occasion for you the least hesita- 
 tion. 
 
 Preach Christ covfidenthj. Not that the power of 
 your demonstrations will overcome the power of 
 unbelief, but that the truth, as it is in Jesus, will 
 prove itself the incorruptible seed out of which is 
 sure to spring, by God's blessing, sooner or later, 
 here and there, a newness of life. There is a vast 
 deal of happiness which the minister of Christ 
 looses by not expecting his labors to be blessed. He 
 goes often as if upon a hopeless errand. He preach- 
 es, for " woe is me if I preach not the Gospel ;" 
 but there is not enou<2:h of that sublime confidence 
 which there ought to be in the certainty of success. 
 Surely we have no reason to doubt, for the promises 
 are direct and full. The word of God shall not re- 
 turn unto him void, and our labors shall not be in 
 vain in the Lord. The possibility, or probability, of 
 our not seeing here on earth the fruits of our labor, 
 should never be allowed to detract from our happi- 
 ness, to any great e.xtent, so long as we know that 
 God will bring good out of our ministry. Accustom 
 yourself, then, my brother, to preach the Gospel with 
 all confidence. It is no vain work at any time. Each 
 
66 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 day, when from this place, or elsewhere, you shall 
 proclaim the blessed Gospel of God's dear son, you 
 are a man scattering the richest gems and coins, as 
 it were, in the dark. You may not see who finds 
 them, or into what desolate homes they are the 
 means of bringing joy unutterable, and wealth un- 
 bounded, yet yours is the delightful consciousness, 
 that a sorrowing world is much the better for your 
 ministrations. 
 
 Preach Christ affectionately. No where does 
 manner tell more powerfully- than in the pulpit, or, 
 I should rather say, no where does the want of an 
 appropriate manner make so repulsive an appear- 
 ance as in the Christian minister. There is nothing 
 in the Gospel to excuse or palliate a cold, harsh, cen- 
 sorious mode of preaching. So much of love and 
 grace and pity mark the Gospel, that, to preach it 
 coldly, seems like wrapping a shroud around a living 
 mother. Preach pointedly as you can, and fearless- 
 ly as you can, and confidently as you can, but, oh, 
 preach aifectionately — iGt your heart lie close against 
 Christ's, that, from its generous and mighty pulsa- 
 tions, yours may learn how to throb aright. 
 
 But do not satisfy yourself with preaching Christ. 
 Coincident with that, be it yours to live Christ. Let 
 
PRKSBYTERIAL CHARGK. (37 
 
 your shield ever display as its motto, " For me to 
 live is Christ." There is a keen perception on the 
 part of the world in the way of detecting discrep- 
 ancy between profession and reality, and one of the 
 most dangerous stumbling blocks in the way of the 
 unbelieving, is an officer in Christ's household who 
 fails to put on Christ. Oh ! what a spectacle is 
 presented to the world, when he who claims to bear 
 the vessels of the Lord, shows aught of*malice or 
 dishonesty, or pride, or covetousness, or falsehood, or 
 vindictiveness. Beware, my brother, of ever be- 
 coming open, even to suspicion in that way. Let 
 Christ, the meek, the loving, the forgiving, the long- 
 suffering, be ever your model ; and then to the tes- 
 timony of your pulpit life, will be added that of 
 your social life, all on behalf of truth and righteous- 
 ness. 
 
 Many dear friends, of you, my brother, are look- 
 ing with gladsome hearts upon the scenes of this 
 day within these walls. But if the inmates of hea- 
 ven are permitted to view the transactions of earth, 
 or if intelligence of what is done here be communi- 
 cated to them there, there is one whose joy over 
 this scene transcends the joy of any other ; it was 
 the darling hope of your loved mother, in the days 
 
68 CENTENNIAL MEMOEIAI,. 
 
 when she used to sit in yonder seat, that you, then 
 a mere boy, might become, by the grace of God, an 
 able minister of the New Testament. Does she 
 know what we are doing now "? Does her loved 
 Redeemer, who knows it, tell her of what is occur- 
 ring ? We cannot say. But be thojj faithful unto 
 the death, and there will be joy in heaven when, at 
 the close of your earthly career, you' pass with the 
 seals of your ministry into the home of the reedeeih- 
 ed, there to know even as also you are known. 
 
 And now unto Him, who is able to keep you from 
 falling, and to present you faultless before the pres- 
 ence of his glory, with exceeding joy, I commit and 
 commend you, my dear young brother. 
 
 The address to the congregation was then deliver- 
 ed by Rev. .Tames Prrstly, of the city of New York. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 I Thess. V : 12, 13. " We beseech you, brethren, to know them 
 which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and ad- 
 monish you ; And to esteem them very liighly in love for their work's 
 sake. And be at peace among yourselves." 
 
 Dear Feiends : 
 
 Our address to you to-day will be very brief. 
 We shall do little more than present some topics for 
 your consideration, leaving them to be elaborated in 
 your own minds, and trusting that they will pro- 
 duce righteous fruits, by the blessing of God, in 
 your hearts and lives. And, 
 
 1. Receive him as the minister of Christ. What- 
 ever may be your personal likings or dislikings, re- 
 ceive him as Chrlsi's ambassador, " and esteem him 
 very highly, and love him for his work's sake." 
 " Wo are ambassadors for Cluist, as though God did 
 beseech you by us, we pray you, in Christ's stead, 
 be ye reconciled to God." Remember this person has 
 
70 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 DOW, by the ordinance of God, in his own appoint- 
 ed way, been placed " over you in the Lord." He 
 that honors him honors Christ, and he that despises 
 him despises Christ. " He," says Christ, " that 
 receiveth you receiveth me, and he that rejecteth 
 you rejecteth me, and him that sent me." 
 
 2. Look, upon yourselves, and teach your child- 
 ren and dependents to look upon him, as " the man 
 of God," and treat him with all that reverence and 
 respect that is becoming his high office as an ambas- 
 sador of the Lord of Hosts. Take no undue famili- 
 arities with his person, his office, or his message ; 
 neither permit it in others, whether in his presence 
 or behind his back. Reverence him, esteem him, 
 for his personal worth, but especially, " very highly, 
 in love, for his work's sake." 
 
 3. Be careful of his good name. God says : 
 " Touch not mhie anointed, and do my prophets no 
 harm." You are his guardians. As General Wash- 
 ington was passing along the streets of Philadelphia 
 a foreigner asked of bis friend, an American, who 
 stood by him, "where is his body guard ?" " The 
 people are his guard," was the noble and truthful 
 answer. What the people were to the " Father of 
 his Country," let this congregation be to their aged 
 
ADDRK.SS*. 71 
 
 pastor, and his more youthful associate, his son, this 
 day inducted into the charge of your souls. Let no 
 son of mischief do them harm. Remember that 
 any person, no matter how insignificant or degrad- 
 ed he may be, can start a slander or an inj urious 
 report, and give it currency, which, if it remain un- 
 contradicted and counteracted, would tend to injure 
 the fairest reputation on earth. Nothing on earth 
 is more valuable, and especially to a minister, than 
 his good name. Withoiit this his usefulness is at 
 an end. Be very tender, therefore, of your pastor's 
 reputation. 
 
 4. Sustain him by your sympathy, and support 
 him by your prayers. What Aaron and Hur were 
 to Moses, that be ye to him. An Aaron and a Hur 
 would make of many a poor and oppressed minister 
 a Moses, if he had them to hold up his hands. Are 
 there any Aarons or Hurs in this congregation ? 
 Men who will sustain their minister in the full and 
 faithful discharge of his duty with their whole heart 
 and power ? 
 
 5. Yield him a generous support. Let not the 
 carking cares of the world distract his attention 
 from nobler and higher objects. Let him partake 
 of your good things as ye are partakers in his» 
 
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72 CENTENNIAL MEMOEIAL. 
 
 This is, compared with some other things, a small 
 matter, but the neglect of attention to it sometimes 
 magnifies it into matter of vital importance, telling 
 most disastrously on the spiritual interests of pastor 
 and people. 
 
 C. In a word : stand by your minister. In a great 
 majority of cases, you will find this to be the safe, 
 as it is the more generous and noble course. He 
 manifests little of the spirit of a gentleman, to say 
 nothing of the Christian, who is constantly arrayed 
 against his minister, who by the very instructions 
 of his Master, in putting him into office, is forbid- 
 den to be " a brawler " or " striker," but an exam- 
 ple of all gentleness and meekness, after the exam- 
 ple of him who " gave his cheek to the smiter and 
 to them that plucked off the hair :" " who, when 
 he was reviled, reviled not again ; when he suffered, 
 he threatened not, but committed himself to him 
 that udgeth righteously." The world and satan 
 love to have ministers traduced ; and it fills hell its- 
 self, and the world with joy, when they find, as 
 they sometimes do, congregations of people, profess- 
 ed Christians, ready to play into their hands, and 
 sometimes ready even to do their dirty work for 
 them. 
 
ADDRESS. 73 
 
 7. Do your minister, and your minister's Master, 
 the credit of cultivating, and in some good degree 
 possessing, the great Christian characteristic, " peace 
 among yourselves." Cultivate this great ornament, 
 and reward "in itself, of Christianity. Peace ! the 
 last earthly gift of Christ to the children of God,' 
 the God of peace. There can be no advance, worth 
 recording, in the divine life, when this grace of the 
 Holy Ghost does not flourish. It is as necessary 
 for the congregation as for the individual heart. 
 Oh '. brethren, let the peace of God, to which you 
 have been called, reign in your hearts. " Be at 
 peace among yourselves," and then, by the influ- 
 ence of the Holy Ghost, shall " the peace of God, 
 which passeth all understanding, keep your heart 
 and mind through Jesus Christ." 
 
 May the relation, this day formed, be for the 
 glory of God and the promotion of the best inter- 
 est, temporal and spiritual, of pastor and people. 
 This, may God grant, for Christ's sake. Amen. 
 
 Rev. Alex. McWilliam, of Walden, read a se- 
 lection from the one hundred and forty-fifth psalhi, 
 which was sung by the congregation. 
 
74 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL, 
 
 PSALM 145. 
 
 Lord, thou art my God and King ; 
 Thee will I magnify and praise ; 
 
 1 will thee bless, and gladly sing 
 Unto thy holy name always. 
 
 Each day I rise I will thee bless, 
 And praise thy name time without end. 
 Much to be prais'd, and great God is ; 
 His greatness none can comprehend. 
 
 Race shall thy works praise unto race, 
 The mighty acts show done by thee. 
 I will speak of thy glorious grace. 
 And honor of thy majesty. 
 
 Rev. R. Howard Wallace, addressed a few 
 ■vvords to the people of his charge, — the church in 
 the midst of which, he had grown up to manhood — 
 where first he " named the name of Christ," and to 
 whose interests he had ever been closely allied. 
 
 Expressing the earnest wish, that the Divine bless- 
 ing might rest upon the relation this day establish- 
 ed, that the word at his mouth might prove a 
 " savor of life unto life" to each of them, and while 
 relying on the gracious assurances of the word of 
 the Lord, invoking also, the prayers and co-opera- 
 tion of each officer and member of the church and 
 
INSTALLATION HYMN. 75 
 
 congregation, referring with deep feeling, to the oft- 
 repeated prayer of his sainted mother, that he might 
 be fitted for the place in which God, in his Provi- 
 dence, had so unexpectedly placed him, and entreat- 
 ing every one, to " lay aside every weight," to burn 
 every "root of bitterness," and to "run with pa- 
 tience, the race set before them, looking unto Jesus." 
 After which he pronounced the apostolic benedic- 
 tion. 
 
 The entire assembly then arose and united in 
 singing, with great effect, the following 
 
 INSTALLATION HYMN. 
 Written expressly for this occasion by Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney. 
 
 Praise to the Giver of our joys, 
 
 Who, 'mid life's changeful day — 
 While dealest treasures fail or fade, 
 
 And firmest props decay — 
 Hold's up our aged Pastor's hand 
 That guides us to the Better Land. 
 
 Praise to the Author of our trust, 
 
 Who, 'ere his step was staid, 
 A younger Sheperd to his side 
 
 Hath called — his steps to aid. 
 A filial arm, his arm to stay — 
 And lead the flock in wisdom's way. 
 
76 CEXTE\XIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Praise to the Fountain of our life — 
 Through whose unbounded grace 
 
 This double gift of love we share — 
 And may an unborn race 
 
 Eecord, like us, in grateful lay 
 
 The memories of this sacred day. 
 
EXERCISES 
 
 The exercises connected with the Centennial 
 Anniversary, were introduced by Rev. R. Howard 
 Wallace, who offered a brief statement in regard 
 to the history of the church, and nominated, as 
 President, John J. Monell, Esq., of Newburgh, 
 who was chosen by acclamation. 
 
 Mr. Monell, upon taking the chair said : — 
 
 Cheistian Brethren : 
 
 Permit me to express my gi-atitude at being called 
 upon to preside at this celebration. 
 
 You have appropriately determined to comniemo- 
 rate, at this time, in connection with the ordination 
 services just closed, the era which marks the long 
 existence of this church. 
 
 By the schedule of exercises placed in my hands, 
 it appears that several persons are to address you on 
 this occasion. In place of speaking hereafter as 
 
EXERCISES. 79 
 
 might be expected, I will occupy your attention 
 now for a few moments. 
 
 We find upon examining the history of this con- 
 gregation, that a century has elapsed since its organ- 
 ization. - About eighteen years before the Revolu- 
 tion, a few Scotch and Irish emigrants found their 
 way up the Hudson River, and came out into this 
 neighborhood to reside. The remembrance of the 
 psalms sung by their fathers on the hill-sides of their 
 native land, and of that religion which had sustained 
 them in times of persecution, led them to erect, in 
 the midst of a beautiful grove, on the spot where 
 we now are, an Associate Reformed Church. Some 
 of the trees are still standing, and 
 
 " What taJes, if there were tongues in trees 
 These grand old oakes coifld tell." 
 
 This country was then under the government of 
 Grreat Britain, with her splendid church establish- 
 ment, rich, powerful and anxious to support alF its 
 branches in the New World. These early settlers, 
 poor, few in numbers, in a strange land and wilder- 
 nesss, had crossed the ocean to enjoy religious 
 liberty and an independent service, therefore they 
 determined to adhere to their faith, maintain their 
 principles, reject all government assistance and tiust 
 
so CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 in God for success. Taxation without represen- 
 tation was the immediate cause of the first oiit- 
 break in the Revolution, but it was the spirit of the 
 founders -of this church that aroused, united and 
 sustained our patriot fathers during seven long years 
 of war. It was the spirit of the Waldenses, of thfe 
 Huguenots, of Calven, Luther and Knox, that kept 
 bright the watch-fires of liberty when all was dark- 
 ness and gloom around. 
 
 How much we owe to the influence of these men 
 no tongue can tell. It was quiet like " the still 
 small voice," but all-pervading, untiring and un- 
 yielding till truth and the right prevailed. 
 
 These early settlers are all dead, and their child- 
 ren and grand-children are dead. Many of them 
 sleep in yonder graveyard, so located that all who 
 enter its gate must pass by this sanctuary for wor- 
 ship^ 
 
 They sleep in peace beneath the shade of the 
 church awaiting their immortal birth. Christian 
 mourners were comforted around their bier, and 
 from the stillness of the hour was heard : 
 
 "The Ecssurrection and tbe Life, 
 Believe and die no more." 
 
EXERCISES. 81 
 
 They have gone before, but the church they 
 founded remains and is prosperous. It has stood 
 through all the political and revolutionary changes 
 of the government and of society, resistmg the pro- 
 gress of infidelity and wicliedness, softening the 
 asperities of life, comforting, cheering, and sheding 
 the light of heaven on the path of the afflicted and 
 weary pilgrim. 
 
 The influence of a church organization on the 
 manners, habits, and customs of the surrounding 
 neighborhood cannot be calculated particularly in 
 the first settlement of a country. The elevation to 
 which society has attained in this vicinity is owing, 
 in a great measure, to the general truths of the 
 gospel first taught by the founders of tliis church, 
 and which have ever been maintained by their de- 
 scendants. 
 
 The edifice first erected has decayed, and the one 
 in which we are now assembled was built in its 
 place. This in time will be torn down and enlarged 
 or may be removed, but the church, consisting of its 
 sincere worshippers, will last while the world stands, 
 still enlarging and exerting a never ending influence 
 for good. 
 
 Let our hearts, then, be warmed and our faith be 
 
82 CENTBNMAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 strengthened as we this day meet on the spot so 
 long ago dedicated to sacred purposes; let us re- 
 embalm in our hearts the long line of Christians who. 
 have worshiped here, and call up our own experi- 
 ences and pleasant memories. The chain that binds 
 us to this place is more than golden, and every link 
 grows brighter and stronger as age advances and as 
 distance intervenes between us and it. 
 
 Some have moved away and joined other denom- 
 inations, but here are the tombs of our fathers in 
 Israel, and shall we not visit them ? Here are the 
 pews in which they sat, the table from which the 
 holy communion was administered, and the desk 
 from which the gospel has been preached for so 
 many generations, and shall we not come near that 
 our hearts may be touched as with fire from off 
 God's altar? We may worship in other buildings, 
 we may visit other spots of interest, we may sur- 
 round our homes with all the comforts and luxuries 
 of life, 
 
 " We may build more splendid temples, 
 
 But we cannot 
 Buy with gold these old associations." 
 
 Through, life this day will be remembered by all 
 
EXERCISES. 83 
 
 present. It is to us the year of jubilee, and as the 
 tribes went up to Jerusalem, so have we come up 
 to our Zion. 
 
 Centennial Aimiversaries like the present are rare 
 in the history of our country. They will, however, 
 continue and increase as time advances and sheds its 
 hallowing light over the past. They will during 
 the future be looked upon as golden mile-stones in 
 the track of ages by which are determined the pro- 
 gress of families, of generations, of our nation and 
 of the Church in their onward march through time. 
 
 And now assembled on this mount of privilege 
 with hearts full of gratitude and crowded with ten- 
 der associations it is appropriate that the Ancient of 
 Days, He who is a present help in the time of need 
 should be invoked to' grant us his blessing. 
 
 The chairman then called on Eev. Robert H. 
 Wallace to lead the devotions of the Assembly, 
 in thanksgiving to Cod, for his abundant mercies to 
 this church and people during one hundred years. 
 
 On motion of J. W. Morrison, Esq., the follow- 
 ing persons were chosen Vice-Presidents and Secre- 
 taries : 
 
S4 CENTENKIAL MEMOEIAL. 
 
 J AS. Pattox, Hon. Isaac Wood, 
 
 Geo. Dexxiston, William Cowsee, 
 
 Samuel Hall, David Fergusox, 
 
 Jaevis Kxapp. 
 
 Sttrtlmcs : 
 
 Jxo. B. Keexochax, Alex. Elliott, 
 Wm. H. Milleb, Alex. D. Rogers, 
 
 Jonx Obe. 
 
LETTERS. 
 
 Geo. a. DE]Sl^fISTON, Esq., Chrairman Committee 
 on Correspondence, presented a large number of 
 letters, from distinguished sources — breathing, uni- 
 formly, sentiments of kindliest regard and cherished 
 sympathies. A portion of which were read. 
 
 Rev. Samuel H. Cox, D. D., writes: — 
 
 Ingham University, Leroy, Dec. 19, 1857. 
 
 Rev. and dear Sir : 
 
 In reply to yours of the 16th inst., much as I 
 should rejoice, other things favoring, to be with you 
 on the occasion to which you refer, the fact, that I 
 am previously engaged to preach in Batavia, at the 
 time specified, before a large County Convention of 
 all religious denominations, on the subject of The 
 Lord's Day, its perpetuity, its change, its obliga- 
 tion, and its rich mercy to man, (29th and 30th inst.) 
 will demonstrate to you the impracticability of the 
 
86 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 idea. The occasion is one of such historical, sym- 
 bolical, social, and christian associations, that I could 
 easily kindle with its spirit, and enjoy with you all 
 its copious and cheering inspirations. 
 
 May you, and your venerable father, be held both 
 as stars of pure radiation in the right-hand of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and shine hereafter in the firma- 
 ment of his Own New Creation, and to his own 
 praise, for ever and ever ! 
 
 I would venture a compliance with your alterna- 
 tive request, as to sentiments suggestive and ap- 
 propriate, leaving them to your own prudential 
 order and disposal consequent. 
 
 1. Presbyterianism ; its faith, its polity, its excel- 
 lence ; the j)re-eminent system of religion, which, 
 superior to the miserable inventions of men — all of 
 them, and brooking no earth-born substitutes, stands 
 adamantine and moveless, a cubic mound of granite 
 and of glory, on the Eock of Ages. Isa. xxvi : 4, 
 (original,) Rev. xxi: 16, like the light of the sun, its 
 radiance is celestial, unbounded, direct, genial : it 
 glories in the reality alone of the Divine sanction, 
 the Divine testimony, that authenticates its peerless 
 worth and anticipates its universal triumph among 
 the nations of the millennium. 
 
LETTEES. 87 
 
 2. Our christian principles ; they made the glori- 
 ous Reformation ; they marii and measure the 
 ascendency of the iiingdom of heaven ; they favored 
 and helped the cause of Washington and the Amer- 
 ican Congress, when others v^ere found recreant to 
 it, in the agony of the Eevolution; they are at home 
 in our country, as the soil of civil and religious 
 liberty ; they bless and promote together the cause 
 of duties and rights, as no others can, in every place 
 and nation under heaven ; and under their Author, 
 God, when every plant that He hath not planted shall 
 be rooted up, they shall prevail, with none to doubt 
 their excellence, or question their origin, or obstruct 
 their blessed jurisdiction, in all the world and over 
 evenj creature. 
 
 3. Our ecclesiastical order: adapted incompara- 
 bly to our noble country, in every locality of its 
 grandeur and its vastitude ; not monarchy, like that 
 of the man of sin in its impious falsity ; not oli- 
 garchy, like that of imparity, and prelacy, and or- 
 ganic ambition, from which popery was natively 
 developed ; not democracy merely, with its uproar, 
 its schism, its infidel independence, and its proverb- 
 ial variations ; but legitimate and spiritual theocracy, 
 under the sole government of our Lord and Saviour, 
 
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 Jesus Clirist, its King and Owner, ubiquitous and 
 ininiutabl(> ; whose authority alone is ministerially 
 declared and wielded in his church, to its joy and 
 edifying, by all his own ambassadors, to his accept- 
 ance and glory ; it honors both the right and the 
 duty of individual judgment ; it is the grand custo- 
 dian and propagator of order and liberty, in church 
 and in State ; it is incomparably The System, 
 adapted, analogous, congenerous, and mutually aux- 
 iliary, though for ever superior and for ever distinct, 
 for our own beloved country, the United States of 
 America. 
 
 4. Presbyterians : let them improve from the 
 past, learning how immense is the majority of their 
 common and their cardinal interests ; how glorious 
 the oneness of their mission and their destiny ; and 
 how powerful their obligation to endeavor more 
 and more to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of 
 peace ! 
 
 5. The Church of Christ : whose young antiquity 
 of a century we celebrate this day; its pastorate 
 of sire and son now so happily constituted : peace 
 and prosperity to their temporal and their eternal 
 history ! May its candlestick be never removed from 
 its place ; and may a succession of stars shine on it, 
 
LEl-rKBS. 89 
 
 of pure and heavenly brightness, owned and blest of 
 Christ, till his second coming, in glorious majesty, 
 to finish the mystery of God, and consummate the 
 glory of all the ransomed millions of his elect, in 
 heaven. 
 
 Fraternally, and truly yours, in the Lord Jesus 
 
 Christ, 
 
 SAMUEL H. COX. 
 
 Kev. R. HowarJ Wallace, A. M. 
 
 Hon. Geo. W Clinton, writes : — 
 
 Buffalo, Dec. 21, 1857. 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 I regret that. I cannot participate in the celebra- 
 tion of your centennial on the 30th instant, and in 
 your commemoration of the completion of one-third 
 of a century of the labors of your esteemed pastor. 
 Regard not this as the customary expression of po- 
 liteness. I assure you, that, God willing, nothing 
 but inexorable duty could keep me from enjoying a 
 pleasure so great, and improving an occasion so filled 
 with tender memories, so replete with instruction, 
 and so adapted to inspire gratitude to God. 
 
90 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Your recognition of my right to be regarded as not 
 a stranger in Little Britain, and as a christian man 
 who sympathizes with your congregation, touches 
 my heart, and I cannot but give expression to its 
 feelings. If I write too freely, or unwisely, regard 
 me as your friend, and a most unworthy servant of 
 our Master, our glorious Redeemer and our God, and 
 I am sure you will overlook or pardon the fault. 
 
 Your congregation has existed a century in Little 
 Britain. It must be more than forty ye^rs since I 
 was there. I can recall no village, and I see in the 
 mind's eye, no venerable spire pointing to heaven, 
 I remember only, and that dimly, a white wooden 
 farmhouse, a sluggish brooklet, by the door, half- 
 choked by the brown leaves of autumn, stone 
 fences : and myself, with an older boy or boys, 
 in a neighboring grove of nut trees. In that house 
 my grandfather lived many years, a useful, and not 
 altogether undistinguished life, and there my father 
 prattled as an infant, and went from it when he en- 
 tered upon his battle with the world, I suppose 
 that it was built by my great-grandfather, the 
 founder of our family. I cannot but grieve a very 
 little at the tliought that it is about to disappear ; but 
 the builder, I know, feels no touch of sorrow. Judg- 
 
LETTERS. 91 
 
 ing from tradition, and from his will ( in which he 
 asks that his coat-of-arms may be engraved upon his 
 tombstone, and begs his children to pardon that last 
 instance of his vanity,) he was a true and humble 
 follower of our Lord, and had founded another 
 house upon the imperishable Rock. You liave but 
 done me justice, in assuming, that I have a warm 
 attachment for Little Britain, though I know it not. 
 Oar family has been uprooted and scattered thence, 
 but we must all look back upon it as the happy 
 point from which we started. 
 
 Your congregation has endured a century. This 
 is good ground of chastened joy. , May the great 
 Head of the Church bless and keep it ! May it 
 never be like the church in Sardis, but be always 
 fruitful of good to man and of glory to his Maker. 
 Not one of you saw the beginning of that century ; 
 and few of you will see the middle, and probably, 
 not one of you the end of the second century of 
 your congregation. So we perish from the earth; 
 but the church, like its Creator and Redeemer, is 
 eternal. A particular church or cono;regation is -but 
 a branch of the imperishable Vine, and its members 
 are the clustering grapes, of which some mildew 
 and drop off, and some are matured and gathered 
 
92 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 thence for heaven. How full of sad and chastening, 
 as well as joyous memories, must be the old among 
 you, who have watched, year after year, the blossom- 
 ing and the growth ! And the venerable man, who 
 for one-third of a century, like a valiant soldier, has 
 led your congregation in its warfare with the powers 
 of darkness, and who, like the Great Shepherd, 
 whose servitor he is, has gathered the Lambs with 
 his arm, and carried them in his bosom, what must 
 be his feelings on a day like this t But it would be 
 profanation to intrude upon such memories and feel- 
 ings. May God sanctify them to his and your eter- 
 nal benefit ! Our Redeemer will pardon short-com- 
 ings and errors, and, it is for you, now that old age 
 is creeping upon your faithful pastor, and his 
 strength faileth, to show, as I doubt not you will, - 
 that you are gallant christian soldiers, full of that 
 charity, without which we are but tinkling cym- 
 bals. You have selected his son to hold up his 
 hands, and will carry him in your arms till his feet 
 touch the brink of the dark river, where angels will 
 receive and waft him over, leaving you to remem. 
 ber how beautiful those feet were upon the mount- 
 ains. Blessed is he in seeing my friend, his son, an 
 inheritor of his faith ; most blessed in enjoying his 
 
I.ETTERS. 93 
 
 companionship in the holy work. The spectacle of 
 such a happy union of filial piety and of zeal for the 
 service of our Creator, is lovely. May it be fruit- 
 ful on earth and consummate in heaven ! Believe 
 me, 
 
 Your true and thankful friend, 
 
 G. W. CLINTON. 
 
 Messrs. Isaac Woud, James W. Morrison, Chas. E. Knapp, Burr 
 Hurd, and Pierson Geuung, Centennial Committee, S(C. 
 
 Rev. M. N. McLaren, D. D., writes : — 
 
 Newburgh, Dec. 18, 1857. 
 
 Rev. and dear Brother : 
 
 Your favor expressing the united request of your- 
 self and the Cantennial Cammittee that I " would 
 be present at the coming Anniversary and Installa- 
 tion Services, and occupy a portion of the time with 
 a brief address," is lying before me. 
 
 It would be very gratifying to me, could I be 
 present on that interesting occasion, and take the 
 part so kindly offered me, in its pleasant and 
 solemn services. On account of other engagements, 
 
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 partly of a public, and partly of a domestic nature, 
 I shall be under the necessity of denying myself the 
 pleasure. 
 
 It is encouraging to witness the many instances 
 with which God favors his church, of his covenant 
 faithfulness in extending the saving influences of the 
 Holy Spirit to the offspring of those who take Him 
 as their God and the God of their seed ; — and, par- 
 ticularly, that, so frequently, the sons of the pro- 
 phets are called and qualified to be preachers of the 
 gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Allow me to congratulate you, the pastor elect, 
 and the people of your anticipated charge, on the 
 sacred and endearing relation about to be consum- 
 mated ; — and also your fiither, that when, in the 
 providence of God, he is, in a measure, disabled for 
 the more arduous duties of his profession, he is per- 
 mitted the joy of having his only son so kindly as- 
 sociated with him in the counsels, the labors, the 
 trials, the hopes, and the triumphs, of the pastorate. 
 
 Will you have the goodness to convey to the 
 Committee on Correspondence, Messrs. Denniston, 
 Keeler and Wear, my acknowledgement of their 
 note, and of their friendly invitation, as well as my 
 
LETTERS. 96 
 
 sincere regret that it will be out of my power 
 to attend. 
 
 Wishing you, on the approaching Anniversary 
 and Installation, all that is desirable, in the natural 
 elements without, and in the mental and spiritual 
 elements within, — and praying that the adorable 
 Lord Jesus, whose we are, and whom we serve, 
 will make your labors in his Vineyard more extend- 
 ed in years, and more abundant in usefulness, than 
 have been those of your father, who for thirty years 
 has so faithfully and successfully preached there the 
 glad tidings of salvation through our Divine Ee- 
 deemer. 
 
 I am. Rev. and dear brcrther, very sincerely, 
 yours in the Lord, 
 
 M. N. McLaren. 
 
 Kev. R. Howard Wallace. 
 
 Rev. President Nott, writes : — 
 
 Union College, Jan. 31, 1858. 
 
 Rev. and dear Sir : 
 
 You are correct in assuming that absence was the 
 reason why you did not hear from me. Had I been 
 
 5* 
 
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 home, and had my duties permitted me to attend, 
 it would have given me pleasure to have been vpith 
 you. These centennial celebrations are always in- 
 teresting. They are land-marks planted along that 
 ; great high- way, the generations of men are travel- 
 ing. Of all the members of the congregation alive, 
 one hundred years, ago, probably not one was pre- 
 sent on the late occasion — and of all those present 
 on the late occasion, probably not one will be pre- 
 sent at the next centennial celebration. Where are 
 all the men and women and children alive one hun- 
 dred years ago ? Gone to eternity, and their acts 
 are sterreotyped ; and to that same eternity, will all 
 who are now alive have gone, ere another centen- 
 nial shall return. Solemn thought. Let us, then, 
 my son, act well our part while life lasts. 
 
 " How long or short to heaven permit." 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 ELIPHALET NOTT. 
 
 Rev. R. Howard Wallace. 
 
 Rev. John B. Dales, D. D., writes : — 
 
 Philadelphia, Dec. 24, 1857. 
 My DEAK Beothee : 
 
 Your favor of the 10th instant, inviting me to 
 
LETTERS. 97 
 
 attend the Centennial Anniversary of the Little 
 Britain Church, came duly to hand, and I had hoped 
 to respond to it by being with you and participating 
 in some way in its interesting exercises. But as I 
 find, with much regret, that I shall not be able to do 
 80, I beg leave to assure your committee of my 
 deep interest in all that is proposed to be done on 
 that day of hallowed memoi'ies and congratulations. 
 
 The Associate Reformed Church of Little Britain 
 is among the earliest and most cherished of my 
 church associations. Founded near the troublous 
 times of the old French and Indian war, and com- 
 posed mainly of a noble class of Scotch and Irish 
 emigrants who rigidly brought their religion with 
 them to the New World, it had its commencement 
 in the devotions and efforts of men, who, not content 
 with having the closet and family altar, and the 
 fellowship or society meeting, from week to week, 
 would not rest until, they had an " high place " also 
 for the worship of the God of their Fathers. Thus 
 they erected their first house of worship, in 176-5, 
 and settled their first pastor in 1768. Precious too, 
 and fraught with future blessings, were the seasons 
 which were enjoyed in those early days, when dur- 
 ing the intervals of worship on the Sabbath, little 
 
9S CENTEXNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 groups were accustomed to seek different parts of 
 the grove that in its native wildness surrounded the 
 place, to pour out their souls in the fervent and 
 effectual prayer of righteous men ; and hovs^ their 
 hearts burned within them as they thought and talked 
 of the love of Christ. The preaching, too, of that 
 day, though not always studiedly in the enticing 
 words of man's wisdom, was eminently in the words 
 which the Holy Ghost teacheth, and was the mes- 
 sage which God gave in answer to prayer. On one 
 occasion, when the Lord's Supper was to be dispens- 
 ed, it had been arranged that the elder Dr. Mason, 
 of New- York, should assist the pastor. But on his 
 not arriving in time to preach on Thursday preced- 
 ing the sacramental day, the pastor ascended the 
 pulpit and commenced the services. Just as he 
 announced, his text Dr. Mason came in and was an 
 attentive, and it was observed, anxious and prayer- 
 ful listener. At the intermission, he retired to the 
 grove, and returning at the appointed hour, entered 
 the sacred desk, and rising up with much solemnity, 
 after a prayer of remarkable unction and power, 
 stated that on coming to that place he had sought 
 to be guided and helped of God, the Spirit, to a 
 message that would be in season. " But," said he, 
 
LETTKKS. 99 
 
 " ray text was the one from which my brother dis- 
 coursed this morning; and, now, though I have 
 anxiously sought another, God has shut me up to it. 
 The truth is, therefore, to be doubled, because the 
 thing is established by God. Hear ye the word of 
 the Lord." And re-announcing the text, he preach- 
 ed a sermon that brought conviction to sinners and 
 edification to saints. 
 
 Planted under such auspices, and watered with 
 the dews of the Divine Spirit, the Littlp Britain 
 Church, though having, from time to time, its share 
 of difficulties, has been, and still is, an evergreen in 
 the garden of the Lord ; and with you all I rejoice 
 to feel that it gives such promise of still having a 
 name and being, a praise among its sister evangeli- 
 cal churches throughout the land for a long time 
 yet to come. 
 
 Among the most pleasing items in its history is 
 the fact, that though extending over a century in 
 its existence, and that a century of unexampled 
 changes in all departments of churches and state, 
 that congregation has had only four men in its 
 pastoral charge. Nor is it common to find four such 
 men, called in succession to the charge of any one 
 
100 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 chprch : Robert Annan, Thomas G-. Smith, James 
 jSckimgeour, and Robert H. Wallace, are men 
 whose praise is in the churches, iind whose works 
 do follow them, while many have risen, and will 
 yet arise, to call them blessed. 
 
 In view of your anniversary, I desire especially 
 to congratulate my own and my father's friend, the 
 Rev. R. H. Wallace, for his long continuance in 
 that charge, and for his many pleasing proofs, from 
 time to time, that his labors have tjot been in vain 
 in the Lord. Long may his bow abide in strength, 
 and on his successor, and on all who may occupy 
 that pulpit in a long future ; may his mantle, and 
 that of his predecessors, richly fall. 
 
 I cannot close without congratulating the con- 
 gregation on its continued and still prosperous 
 state, and expressing the heart's desire and prayer 
 to God, that grace, mercy and peace from Grod the 
 Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, may be multi- 
 plied upon the pastor and pastors, the elders and 
 members and entire congregation, and that the 
 name of the Associate Reformed Church of Little, 
 
LETTERS. 101 
 
 Britain, as a holy city of God, may long, long 
 be — The Lord is there. 
 
 With great respect, I am yours, in the Gospel, 
 
 J. B. DALES. 
 
 Rev. J. McElroy, D. D., writes : 
 
 New- York, Bee. 22, 1857. 
 My dear Sir : 
 
 Your kind invitation, on behalf of the Com- 
 mittee of the church of " Little Britain," to at- 
 tend their Centenary Festival, '-has been received. 
 Such observances are eminently proper. Indeed, 
 there seems to be something in our veiy nature 
 inclining us to them ; and, accordingly, it has been 
 customary in all ages to couple grateful events 
 with external expressions of social joy. I cannot 
 well conceive of an occasion of greater interest 
 than the one before you. That for one hundred 
 years the light of truth has shone purely and 
 brightly among you ; that during this long period 
 the God of. providence, and grace has kept you in 
 being, as a church, and that, too, mainly out of 
 
102 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 materials already belonging to you, instead of the 
 fathers taking the children ; that with all the in- 
 firmities of human nature, and even of sanctified 
 human nature, you should have been favored with 
 80 large an amount of peace and harmony and 
 brotherly love ; these mercies demand a distinct 
 and grateful and public recognition. 
 
 Then, too, how interesting the fact that, for a 
 third of a century your able, faithful and devoted 
 pastor has been permitted to go out and in before 
 you, breaking to you the bread of life ! How 
 many of you, during this time, have received at his 
 hand, the ordinance of holy baptism ? How many 
 of you have been brought, through his instrument- 
 ality, to a participation in the blessings of redemp- 
 tion ? Over how many of you will he rejoice in 
 the day when he shall give account of his minis- 
 terial stewardship, as " the children which God has 
 given" him ? And scarcely less interesting is it 
 that, on the joyous occasion before you, the son, 
 the only son of your beloved pastor, is to be in- 
 stalled as his associate. How delightful to see the 
 child thus enter into the labors of the parent, the 
 one to reap what the other hath sown, " that both 
 he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice 
 together." 
 
LETTERS. 103 
 
 When you reflect how thoughts like these affect 
 the mind and heart of a man who has reached the 
 close of the sixty-fifth year of his age and the 
 forty-first of his ministry, you will be able to ap- 
 preciate my regret that, controlling circumstances 
 render it impossible for me to accept the invitation 
 with which you have honored me to take part in 
 your festivities. I will, however, be with you in 
 spirit, and my prayer is, and shall be, that the bless- 
 ing of God, our covenant God, may descend and 
 abide upon pastors and people, that you may be 
 long continued benefits and comforts to one another, 
 bearers of each other's burdens and sympathize in 
 each other's joys, and through grace, all at last 
 meet in the upper sanctuary. 
 
 Truly yours, 
 
 J. Mcelroy. 
 
 Charles E. Knapp, Esq. 
 
 • From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 
 
 Brooklyn, Dec. 28, 1S57. 
 
 * * * I hope that you may be inspired to main- 
 tain the advanced position to which, in God's provi- 
 dence, you have been inclined. The Gospel of Christ 
 
104 CBNTENNIAFi MEMORIAL. 
 
 is always aggressive, though not quarrelsome. And 
 every faithful man who brings the great doctrines 
 of God's Word to bear upon selfishness, pride and 
 self-indulgence, in the ten thousand changing forms 
 in which they spring up in society, will not fail to 
 meet opposition and reproach. But no crown so befits 
 a minister's head, as reproach, for faithfulness for 
 Christ's sake. He wore thorns, and we are called 
 to wear only hard words, which are very easily and 
 rejoicingly borne for our Master's sake. 
 
 Every young man, of any generosity, begins with 
 zeal and enterprise. By-and-bye God puts him to 
 proof whether he will sacrifice something for the 
 sake of liberty to testify to the truth. When he 
 begins to get a reputation, and has gotten up, as the 
 fruit of fidelity, a good church, then he is yet more 
 dangerously tempted. Many men there are who 
 put their reputation, and :what they call their use- 
 fulness, into the scale every time a painful duty is to 
 be performed, or rejected. At length they come 
 into that low and dreadful condition in which they 
 will do nothing that is not safe, and that is not 
 respectable. They have transferred their allegiance 
 from God to their own interests, and to the opinions 
 of their fellow-men. These things develop gradu- 
 
LETTERS. 106 
 
 ally and insidiously. And there is no effectual 
 renriedy, except a habitual life, as in the presence of 
 Grod — a daily presence of Christ, which shall be- 
 come more to the soul than all company and all 
 human honor. 
 
 When one goes through all these trials and pro- 
 bations, and asserts for himself the right to say freely 
 whatever his conscience dictates, will find in the 
 end, that by sacrificing his life he saved it. 
 
 I hope that you may be spared long, and to do 
 great good in the church. 
 
 I am truly yours, 
 
 H. W. BEECHER. 
 
 This letter was received after the anniversary, but is deemed emi- 
 nently worthy of a place here. 
 
 From J. L. Knapp, Esq. 
 
 New-York, Dec. 29, 1857. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 It was with much pleasure I received an invite^ 
 tion to attend the Centennial Anniversary of the 
 A. R. Church with which you are connected ; to be 
 present at the services attending the commemora- 
 
106 CEXTEXXIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 tion of the close of so long a period of your estima- 
 ble pastor's faithful ministry ; as, also, to witness 
 the installation over you of his son — upon whom 
 his mantle has so worthily and fittingly fallen. I 
 had promised myself much gratification in attending 
 the above interesting epochs in your church's his- 
 tory, but a sudden and severe illness will, I find, 
 deprive me of that privilege. 
 
 I rejoice in the abundant assurances which your 
 congregation are rendering, that your highly re- 
 spected pastor " still lives" in the hearts and affec- 
 tions of his people. 
 
 Greatly regretting iny inability to attend, and 
 
 feeling satisfied your anticipations will be more than 
 
 realized, 
 
 I remain, yours respectfully, 
 
 J. L. KNAPP. 
 
 Messrs. G. A. Denuistou and others, Committee. 
 
 From Prof. John Foster. 
 
 Union College, Dec. 25, ] 857. 
 Mt dear Sir: 
 
 One hundred years since the establishment of the 
 
LETTERS. 107 
 
 church in Little Britain ! — an event occurring only 
 one hundred and forty-eight years after Henry 
 Hudson first entered the harbor of New- York, and 
 in his little bark, Half Moon, sailed up the " Great 
 River of the Mountains," which still bears his own 
 name. One turns involuntarily to examine the 
 state of affairs in 1757 and finds it an era, second in 
 importance to no other in the history of the New 
 World, one of those grand crises which determine 
 the future of single nations not only, but of w^hole 
 continents. The question was demanding a de- 
 cision, whether Great Britain or France should 
 exercise the controlling influence in the colonization, 
 and, therefore, in the political, moral and religious 
 character of North America ? Whether the New 
 England or New-York of to-day, or Canada East 
 should be the prevailing type ? It was a dark day 
 for Protestantism, for civil and religious liberty. 
 The French held possession of Louisiana, together 
 with nearly all that now constitutes British Amer- 
 ica, and by a connecting chain of military posts 
 were seeking to shut up the English colonists 
 within boundaries annually growing more and more 
 contracted between the Alleghanies and the Atlan- 
 tic coast. Three successive companies organized to 
 
lOS CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL 
 
 break this chain and to annihilate or, at least, 
 cripple Grallic power, had ended in almost total 
 disaster and disgrace to British arms. 
 
 George Washington, at the early age of twenty- 
 five, in varied scenes of difficulty and trial, had 
 exhibited those mental and moral qualities which 
 afterwards made him " first in war, first in peace, 
 and first in the hearts of his countrymen." In this 
 hour of despair, by the merciful providence of God, 
 and in obedience to the urgent and unanimous 
 voice of the people, William Pitt, earl of Chatham, 
 was called to the secretaryship of State. His wis- 
 dom, integrity and energy at once infused confi- 
 dence and activity into every branch of the public 
 service, and within the space of two years, by the 
 capture of Louisburgh and Quebec, and the Forts 
 Niagara and Duquesne, the contest for the do- 
 minion of North America was decided in favor of 
 Great Britain. 
 
 The history of a quiet and retired church cannot, 
 indeed, comprise events of this stirring character, 
 for its members have professed to be the followers 
 of Him, whose " kingdom is not of this world." 
 And yet, who can estimate the influence, direct or 
 indirect, of a church which has attained the full 
 
LETTERS. 109 
 
 age of one hundred years V There must be, too, no 
 common interest about the history of a church 
 occupying a region settled by the Clinton family 
 — a family which has furnished one of the most 
 efficient generals of the revolutionary war, and no 
 less than two, equally esteemed governors of our 
 State. 
 
 I remain, truly yours, 
 
 JOHN FOSTER. 
 
 Rev. R. Howard Wallace. 
 
 From Rev. John Sillick. 
 
 Mortonville, December, ]S57. 
 
 Dear Brother: 
 
 * * * The centennial celebration of the history 
 of a church of Christ, in this country, located so 
 near the spot where the American army, with 
 Washington, at its head, lay during our revolutionary 
 struggle, reminds one of times which tried men's 
 souls. It carries us back, to a time when the 
 American churches were few and far between, — to a 
 time when the army of Christ, on this continent, 
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110 CENTENNIAIi MEMORIAL. 
 
 was small and feeble. How pleasing the contrast 
 between the past and the present ! 
 
 The Associate Reformed Church of Little Britain 
 has cause for gratitude, to the Great Head of the 
 Church, that she has been permitted to do one 
 hundred years' service, in producing that contrast. 
 Your venerable father has also great cause to 
 rejoice that his life and labors have been connected 
 with one-third of that period ; and, that, when he 
 can no longer do the full duties of his charge, God 
 has given him a son to be an associate with him in 
 so glorious a work. May the mantle of your rever- 
 end father fall upon his honored son, and may you 
 be successful in leading the ilock, committed to 
 your care, to those high attainments of piety whiph 
 shall fully qualify them to enter that rest prepared 
 for the people of God. 
 
 Yours, fraternally, 
 
 JOHN SILLICK, 
 Pastor of M. E. Church, New Windsor Circuits 
 Kev. K. Howard Wallace. 
 
LETTERS. Ill 
 
 From Prof. Jon'athan Pearson. 
 
 Union College, Dec. 21, 1857. 
 Dear Sir : 
 
 * * * I trust that in reviewing the past you will 
 take courage for the future, and that the dawning 
 century will witness a church strong and united ; 
 guided by a young pastor who shall receive the 
 mantle of the aged prophet when he shall be called 
 hence to a higher place in the Kingdom of his 
 Father. 
 
 Very respectfully, yours, &c., 
 
 JONATHAN PEARSON. 
 
 To Mr. Charles E. Kuapp, Little Britain, N. T. 
 
 From Hon. JoHX W. Browx. 
 
 Newhurgh, Dec. 19, 1857. 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 * * * It would give me great pleasure to be 
 present on an occasion so interesting, for there must 
 be many delightful and noble associations connected 
 with the origin and subsequent annals of a congre- 
 gation which carries us back beyond the memory of 
 
112 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 living men — almost to the early settlement of the 
 country, and some of whose members have borne a 
 conspicuous and honorable part in its history. 
 I am, very respectfully, yours, &c. 
 
 JOHN W. BROWN. 
 
 G. A. Denniston, Ebenezer Keelev, John S. Wear, Esq's., Com. 
 
 From Hon. Charles A. Clinton. 
 
 New-YorJc,T>ec. 21, 1858. 
 Rev. and dear Sir : 
 
 To Little Britain and its inhabitants I am attach- 
 ed from family reminiscences and cherished tradi- 
 tions. My venerable ancestor was one of the 
 founders of your settlement, and the bones of my 
 ancestors are among you. The place that knew 
 them once, shall know them no more forever ; but 
 my,heart beats with joy when I know that their 
 memories are still honored among you. 
 
 Convey my best respects to your venerable father, 
 that faithful servant of the Lord, who has filled his 
 christian office with so much credit to himself, and 
 I doubt not, so much to the good of others. May 
 
LETTERS. 113 
 
 his life be preserved to a good old age, and when 
 the film of coming death passes over his eyes, may 
 he still have strength to say, " Thy will, O Lord, 
 not mine be done." May it be no dread hour to 
 him ; and may the recollections of a well-spent 
 life enable this old soldier of the Cross to meet the 
 dissolution of the body with a composure none can 
 enjoy but the christian. " He that believeth inme, 
 though he were dead, yet shall he live : and who- 
 soever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die." 
 
 If in my power, and it meets your convenience, 
 I should like to hear you preach, in your own church, 
 next summer. I should be delighted to see your 
 venerable father, and shake hands with the descend- 
 ants of the men who worshiped in the same church 
 with my ancestors ; fought with them at Frontenac 
 in the French war, at Newtown and in the highlands 
 of the North River, during the Revolution ; who 
 aided them in giving liberty to America — who 
 shared with them in the cares and struggles of this 
 life, and I trust, are now enjoying a blessed immor- 
 tality with them, in heaven. 
 
 With great respect and esteem, 
 
 C. A. CLINTON. 
 
 Bev. R. Howard Wallace. 
 
114 CENTENNIAL MEMOKIAL. 
 
 From Hon. J. T. Headlet, 
 
 Newburgh, Jan. 7, 1S57. 
 Mt dear Sir: 
 
 I did not receive your polite invitation to the 
 celebration at Little Britain till the day after it took 
 place. I am sorry I could not have been with you. 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 J. T. HEADLEY. 
 
 Eev. E. Howard Wallace. 
 
 From W. G. Shuart, Esq. 
 
 Wldtneifs Point, Broome Co., Dec. 23, 1857. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 * * * It would afford me great pleasure to be 
 present on an occasion so interesting, and to meet 
 again with those with whom I have so oitcn met 
 for worship, in days and years gone by, and " with 
 whom I have taklin sweet counsel, and been made 
 to sit together in heavenly places." 
 
 And it would be equally gratifying to me to cele- 
 brate, with you, the close of one-third of a century 
 
LETTEKS. 1 15 
 
 of the labors of your present, and my former much 
 esteemed pastor, and to witness the services con- 
 nected with the Installation of his son , as associate 
 pastor. 
 
 But as I cannot be present, I beg leave to inform 
 you, that my heart will be with you, and my prayer, 
 that the occasion may be one of deep interest and 
 profit to all who ai'e present, and that the connec- 
 tion which has so long subsisted between pastor and 
 people, may be prolonged, and that the additional 
 connection that shall then take place, may be lasting, 
 that it may prove a blessing to all concerned, and 
 be owned and blessed by the great Head of the 
 Church, for the furtherance of His cause, and the 
 promotion of His glory. 
 
 I remain, dear Sirs, yours respectfully, 
 
 W. G. SHUART 
 
 To Messrs. G. A. Denniston, E. Keeler and John S. Wear, Com. 
 
 From Hon. S. J. Wilkin. 
 
 Goshen, Dec. 22, 1857. 
 Gextlemen : 
 
 * * * Allow me to express my sincere thanks for 
 the honor of your invitation, and a hope that the 
 
116 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 occasion ruay be a source of high gratification to 
 the individual members of your congregation, and 
 of great spiritual advantage to the venerable church, 
 whose centennial you propose to commemorate. 
 
 I am, with great respect, 
 
 Your humble servant, 
 
 S. J. WILKIN. 
 
 Messrs. G. A. Denniston, B. Keeler and J. S. Wear. 
 
 From Rev. J. H. Seelte. 
 
 Schenectady, Dec. 28, 1857. 
 My deae Brothee : 
 
 * * * I have no doubt that the occasion will 
 be one of great interest, and hope that it may be 
 also of great spiritual profit. May the same hand 
 which has upheld the church and continued your 
 father's ministry so long, still guide them, and 
 abundantly bless you in your life and ministry. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 J. H. SEELYE. 
 
 Rev. R. Howard Wallace. 
 
LETTERS. 117 
 
 From Rev. C. Irving. 
 
 Kortright, Dec. 23, 1857. 
 
 My dear Brother : 
 
 It vpould be a source of very great pleasure to 
 me to be present at your coming celebration, as you 
 well know. , 
 
 Pleasing associations always connect themselves 
 with your church and its venerated pastor. 
 
 May God spare his life yet many years, that he 
 may continue to receive the blessings of multitudes 
 ready to rise up to this intent, ere he pass to his 
 eternal reward, there to cast at our Redeemer's feet 
 his crown, set with many " stars." 
 
 Accept my best wishes for your own prosperity, 
 and for the success of your labors in the church of 
 your nativity. Your centennial committee will re- 
 ceive a communication from the elders of my 
 church. You need not to be assured that the senti- 
 ments therein fully and very cordially receive my 
 approbation. 
 
 Affectionately yours, in Christ, 
 
 CLARK IRVING. 
 
 Rev. E. Howai'd Wallace. 
 
118 CEXTEXKIAL HEMOBIAL. 
 
 From Rev. J. Van Vecuten. 
 
 Albany, Dec. 21, 1S57. 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 Your kind note, inviting me to attend the inter- 
 esting exercises to be held in your church on the 
 30th inst., has been received. No doubt it will bo 
 an occasion for awakening very pleasant remin- 
 iscenses of the past, as well as anticipations for the 
 future. I deeply regret my inability to attend. 
 
 Yours, with much respect, 
 
 JACOB VAN VECHTEN. 
 
 Messrs. Denniston, Keeler and Wear. 
 
 From Rev. J. M. McNcltt. 
 
 Clarhon, Dec. 28, 1857. 
 My dear Sir: 
 
 I received your invitation, on behalf of the Cen- 
 tennial Committee of the A. R. Church of Littlo 
 Britain, to attend the pleasant and interesting 
 exercises, to be held on next Wednesday. 
 
LETTERS. 119 
 
 I am sorry to have to respond to such an invita- 
 tion by writing. Present circumstances, hovpever, 
 forbid my being with you. I have ever enjoyed the 
 society of Father Wallace ; and it would be 
 especially interesting, in connection with the period 
 of his ministry among you which you propose to 
 celebrate, to see his son — a companion of mine 
 from my youth up — whom I was permitted to 
 address at his entrance on the ministry, and who has 
 been a highly esteemed co-presbyter, to see hira 
 invested witli the charge of his father's flock, would 
 be no ordinary gratification. Long mny fiither and 
 son be permitted to stand side by side, the vigor of 
 youth staying up tlie increasing infirmities of age, 
 till both are " gathered to their fathers," to receive 
 the eternal reward. 
 
 With thanks for your invitation, I remain, 
 Yours in the best of bonds, 
 
 JOSEPH M. McNULTY. 
 
 G. A. Denniston, Esq. 
 
 G* 
 
120 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 From Rev. E. Halley. 
 
 Albany, Dec. 26, 1857. 
 Dear Friends : 
 
 I was favored w^ith yours of the 23d inst., re- 
 questing my attendance at the interesting services 
 enumerated in your letter. You will give me cre- 
 dit for sincerity, when I state to you, that nothing 
 but the pressure of professional duty would have 
 made me deny myself the high gratification of' 
 being present on such a solemn and exciting occa- 
 sion. Such periodical conventions are highly use- 
 ful to a church when conducted as, I have no doubt, 
 yours will be. While they painfully remind us 
 of the blanks that death has made in the removal of 
 those hoary-headed champions of orthodoxy, whose 
 venerable presence once graced our religious assem- 
 blies, they also bear testimony to the watchful care 
 and guardianship of the Great Shepherd over his 
 flock, as able to guide them in every emergency and 
 protect them in every danger. While there is 
 much, also, in the history of every particular 
 church, which eternity alone will reveal ; there are 
 occurrences which are known, and epochs in its 
 history which deserve to be commemorated with 
 
LETTERS. 121 
 
 gratitude, such as fears for its preservation, which 
 have been dissipated, clouds of despondency rolled 
 away, ordinances sealed with divine efficacy, and 
 " Seasons of refreshing when the arm of the Lord 
 was revealed." The Church of Little Britain has, I 
 know, in periods of its past history, been eminently 
 refreshed with these showers of Divine influences ; 
 and, I trust, that their cordial and devout obser- 
 vance of this day, will be such as to warrant the 
 assurance that, " He who has blessed them hitherto 
 will bless them still." 
 
 This interesting duty is, if possible, to be deep- 
 ened by the pleasing event vdth which it is to be 
 incorporated, namely, the installation of a col- 
 league to your worthy pastor. I regret, also, my 
 absence from the service, for not only should I have 
 been edified by the many Interesting truths to which 
 I should have listened, but should also have enjoyed 
 the opportunity of reviving feelings which I have 
 affectionately cherished. 
 
 I was, during the space of ten years a minister of 
 the Associate Reformed Church, and then formed 
 friendships with some of its ministers, the impres- 
 sion of which will never be forgotten by me. It 
 
122 CEXTEXXIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 would have been a source of no ordinary gratifieo/* 
 tion to have seen some of those dear brethren, face 
 to face, and interchange with them the sentiments 
 of affection and regard. It was my privilege to 
 rank among them your esteemed pastor. His dis- 
 tance from my field of labor, and the fact also of 
 his belonging to a different presbytery, prevented 
 me from forming liis intimate acquaintance ; but I 
 met him often at the Synod where I had oppor- 
 tunity to witness the high esteem and respect 
 witii which he was regarded by his brethren, as 
 along with others, I admired the masterly talent 
 and skill and prudence with which alPhis public 
 appearances on tliose public questions that engaged 
 the attention of Synod were uniformly characterised. 
 I congratulate him in the pleasing circumstances in 
 which providence has placed him. An aged pastor, 
 though an arrangement of this kind may become 
 necessary by the infirmities of years, has yet often 
 looked forward to it with dread, and found that it 
 subjected him to many annoyances ; in the present 
 instance, the intimate relation subsisting between 
 them, forbids the possibility of difficulties maring 
 the sacredness of the relation, and gives you the as- 
 surance that, " in one spirit and with one mind 
 
LETTERS 123 
 
 they will strive together for the faith of the Gospel.'* 
 I desire respectfully and affectionately to be re- 
 membered to my old friend, Mr. Wallace. It is 
 only what I expected from what I knew of the 
 Ciiurch of Little Britain, that they would respect 
 to the end their beloved pastor and lighten the pres- 
 sure of his labors, as advancing infirmities taught 
 him tliat his shoulders sliould be relieved of a part 
 of the burden. I congratulate jj^our new pastor in 
 cnterina; on his ministerial labors under the aus- 
 pecies of such a parent, and in the service of a peo- 
 ple whose generosity to a revered parent affords a 
 safe guarantee to the kindness and affection with 
 which tliey will watch over him. Permit me, dear 
 friends, to conclude, witii assuring you of my fer- 
 vent prayers in behalf of your church, that the re- 
 lation established among you may be productive of 
 harmony and long-continued usefulness ; and that 
 your young pastor, after many years of active labor, 
 may close his scene of earthly toil in peace and tri- 
 umph ; and on the great day of final retribution, 
 may he able to point to many among you as his 
 crowns of joy and rejoicing. 
 
 I am, with great regard, yours sincerely, 
 
 EBENEZER IIALLEY. 
 
 HessTS. Demiistoti, &c., Committee. 
 
124 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Letters were also received from William Board- 
 man, Esq., Albany, Albert Cotes, Esq., Otsego Co., 
 J. H. H. Hasbrouck, Rev. John Brash, New-York 
 City, W. T. Sprole, D. D., Rev. Henry Connelly, 
 Newburgh, Andrew J. Yates, Esq., Fultonville, 
 Rev. S. Mills Day, Havana, and many others, ex- 
 pressing deep regret in view of their inability to 
 attend the anniversary ; full of kindest wishes and 
 heartiest prayer for the Divine blessing upon the 
 Church, and those connected with it. 
 
 At this stage of the proceedings, J. McCarrel 
 Leepeb, Esq., with a few appropriate remarks, 
 presented to the congregation, on behalf of the 
 donor, a vory beautiful design, in evergreen, the gift 
 of Mr. Andrew Maythorne, gardener and florist of 
 Newburgh. 
 
 The age of the church is designated by figures, 
 indicating the extremes of the century, while across 
 the centre is placed, " in living green," the motto, 
 
 — a motto inscribed, in unfading characters, on many 
 hearts then in the sanctuary. 
 
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 The acknowledgments of the congregation were 
 tendered to Mr. Maythorxe, by the junior pastor, 
 coupled with the earnest wish, that, whether in the 
 " evergreen" of life, or in the " sere and yellow 
 leaf," he may be able to adopt as his own motto, 
 " Hitherto hath the Lord helped " me. 
 
 The following Historical Discourse, by the Rev. 
 Robert H. Wallace, was then read : 
 
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 
 
 BY REV. ROBERT H. WALLACE. 
 
 LiTTT.E Britain, according to the best authority 
 which we have on the subject, originally extended 
 from the village of New Windsor to the town 
 line of Montgomery, and from Washingtonville of 
 the south lines of Ncwburgh and Montgomery. If 
 Buch were the case, its limits were much larger than 
 at present, and not very accurately delineated. Its 
 boundaries are yet somewhat indefinite. Should 
 we say that it embraces something more than one-half 
 of the town of New Windsor, the western portion, we 
 would not be far from the truth. It was settled at 
 an early period, but it would be difficult to fix the 
 exact date. The village of New Windsor is be- 
 lieved to be the oldest village in the county of 
 Orange. Col. Chakles Clixton, the father of 
 GEOitQE and James Clivto.v, and grandfather of 
 that illustrous statesman, DeWitt Clintox, whose 
 name is an honor to our country, is said to have 
 
HISTOEICAL DISCOURSE. 127 
 
 been among the early settlers. He came to this 
 town in 1731, and formed the nucleus of that in- 
 dustrious and intelligent body of Presbyterians who 
 located in and about Little Britain. 
 
 The Associate Reformed Church of Little Bri- 
 tain was constituted in 1760 — such is the tradition 
 — ^but on what authority, I know not. But from 
 the difficulty which was experienced in those early 
 times in procuring church organizations and church 
 erections, in connection with the ascertained fact, 
 that the first church was built in 1765, it is 
 evident there must have been a body of worship- 
 pers in this place for years before that time. There 
 can be no doubt that more than a hundred years ago, 
 God was worshiped in this place by those who, 
 though strangers, in a strange land, still adhered to 
 the covenant of their Grod ; and, who, while yet 
 dwelling in " log cabins," had it in their heart to 
 build a house for the name of the Lord. Mathew 
 McDowell, Patrick McClaughrt and John 
 Waugh were the first elders of the church. 
 
 The first house of worship here was built in the 
 year 1765, ninety-three years since. 
 
 In the year 1768, just ninety years ago, Robert 
 Annan, the first pastor of this church, was installed — 
 
128 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 a man, of whom it might, in truth, be said, that he 
 was " strong in the Lord and in the power of his 
 might." I rerpember to have heard my venerated 
 father and friend, JoHX McJimpsey, D. D., say of 
 him, that he was the most commanding person in 
 the pulpit he ever saw. 
 
 The Kev. Thomas G. Smith, the second pastor 
 of Little Britain, was installed May 1, 1791. 
 
 The Rev. James Scrimgeouk, the third pastor of 
 this church, was installed May, 1812. Mr. Sceim- 
 GEOUE was a man of finished education. His style 
 was chaste, flowing and elegant. He was mighty 
 in the scriptures, an able minister of the New Tes- 
 tament. 
 
 Mr. ScEiMGEOUE died February, 1825. His re- 
 mains rest beside these walls, waiting for the 
 resurrection of the just. These all, Annan, Smith, 
 ScRiMGEOUE, have long since passed away from the 
 land of the living. " They rest from their labors 
 and their works do follow them." 
 
 " Where are the prophets ? Gone to rest ! 
 Yon hallowed churchyard tells us where, — 
 Yon swelling mounds in verdure drest, 
 Yon silent tombstones sadly fair." 
 
 In September, 1824, thirty-three years and four 
 
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 129 
 
 months ago, just one-third of a century, I com- 
 menced my labors in Little Britain, my first pres- 
 byterial appointment. My worthy predecessor was 
 still living, but unable to preach. 
 
 On the 6th day of October, 1825, I was ordained 
 and installed pastor of the church and congregation 
 of Little Britain. 
 
 To form a correct estimate of what has been 
 accomplished, it would be necessary to go back and 
 take a view of the field at the commencement of 
 that period. The church at that time, owing to 
 various adverse influences, was in a very depressed 
 condition, and in thfe view of those who loved her 
 most was on the verge of dissolution — almost ex- 
 tinct. The church was small, and the state of 
 religion low. Take in connection with this the 
 fact, that had I declined the invitation to labor 
 here, it seemed to be a settled point that no further 
 effort would be made ; and then in view of the large, 
 . respectable, influential and liberal church , which 
 now exists in this place, in possession of valuable 
 congregational property, free from debt, united, 
 prosperous and happy, may I not say, with grati- 
 tude to Him who giveth the increase, " Are not ye 
 my work in the Lord ? If I be nof an apostle unto 
 
130 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 otherp, yet, doubtless, I am to you, for the seal of 
 mine apostleship are ye in the Lord." ist Cor. ix ; 
 1, 2. 
 
 Let ine state some of the results : During the 
 thirty-three years of my ministry, I have baptised 
 three hundred and seventy-seven in infancy, and sixty- 
 four adults, on the profession of their faith. There 
 have been added to the communion of this church 
 four hundred souls, making one, on an average, for 
 every month of the whole period. Of this number, 
 two individuals — both in a measure — one almost 
 wholly, trained by my hands, have entered on the 
 work of the ministry, and are proclaiming to their 
 fellow-men, the glorious gospel of the Son of Grod, — 
 workmen, I may be permitted to sa^^ who need not 
 be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth — 
 while a company of youth have been trained in our 
 midst, fitted to reflect honor upon any congregation, 
 manifesting, from year to year, a deeper interest in 
 the welfare of Zion, and giving promise that here, 
 in coming time, there shall be " displayed a banner 
 because of the truth." In all that long period, we 
 have not, in a single instance, been prevented from 
 celebrating the Supper of the Lord at the appointed 
 season, and there has been but one communion, in 
 
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 131 
 
 the whole time, in which there have not been ad- 
 ditions to the church. In the meanwhile, our com- 
 munity has been steadily advancing in all that 
 which constitutes the excellence and glory of a peo- 
 ple — presenting a standing illustration of the power 
 of the pulpit, under the blessing of Him who hath 
 said of Zion, "This is my rest forever: here will I 
 dwell, for I. have desired it." 
 
 *' Walk about Zion, and go round about her : tell 
 the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, 
 consider her palaces ; that ye may tell it to the genera- 
 tion Jollowing. For this God is our God forever and 
 ever : he will be our guide even unto death." Psa. 
 xlviii: 12, 14. 
 
 Thirty-three years, what a period ! A whole 
 generation have passed away from the earth. A thou- 
 sand millions! And how many of our number have 
 gone to swell the list 1 Where are they ? Thirty- 
 three years ! When another such period shall have 
 rolled away, where shall we be found ? O, where ! 
 
 And these years take hold on eternity, 0, the vast 
 results which lie beyond the scenes of time ! 
 " They that be wise shall shine as the brightness 
 of the firmament, and they that turn many to 
 righteousne^is as the stars for ever and ever " 
 
132 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL 
 
 " Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we 
 have received mercy, we faint not. But we have 
 fhis treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency 
 of the power may be of God and not of us. We 
 are troubled on every side, but not distressed ; we 
 are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but 
 not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed, always 
 bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord 
 Jesus, that the life also in Jesus might be made 
 manifest in our body." 
 
 Let us, then, with one heart, join in the prayer of 
 the pious mail of old : " So teach us to number 
 our days, that we may apply our hearts unto 
 wisdom. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, 
 and thy glory unto their children: and let the 
 beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and estab- 
 lish thou the work of our hands upon us ; yea, the^vork 
 of our hands, establish thou it." 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 BY COMMITTEE OK 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF NEW-YORK. 
 
 Thorxtox M. Niven, Esq., Chairinan of a Com- 
 mittee of the Presbytery of New- York, presented 
 the following address : 
 
 At the regular meeting of the Associate Reformed 
 Presbjtery of New- York, held in Jane Street Church, 
 in the city of New-York, in October last, it was 
 intimated that the congregation of Little Britain 
 intended celebrating their Centennial Anniversary, 
 at the present time^ and in view of the interesting 
 fact that a century had elapsed since the organiza- 
 tion of this church, and that one-third of a century 
 had passed since the present venerated senior pastor 
 of the congregation assumed its oversight, the Pres- 
 bytery resolved to appoint a committee of its mem- 
 bers to attend and participate in the observance. 
 The undersigned were appointed such committee. 
 
 And, on behalf of the ecclesiastical court they 
 
134 CENTEXXIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 represent, the committee desire to express their 
 gratification that God hath put it into the hearts of 
 this people to erect this pillar of memorial, thia 
 "Ebenezer," in view of what He has done for them, 
 as a church and congregation. In the review of the 
 past, what reason his the churcii of Little Britain 
 to sing of mercy^ and not of judgment! 
 
 For an hundred years has the light of the Gospel 
 radiated from this point, where it was first planted 
 by a handful of humble,^ but faithful, presbyterians 
 — exiles from Ireland. They came from the homes 
 and the graves of their fathers, beyond the seas, 
 that they might assist in planting and. establishing 
 " a Church without a Bishop, and a State without a 
 King." God made them and their descendants emi- 
 nently instrumental in bringing about that glorious 
 political, civil and ecclesiastical result ; and the 
 fathers of Little Britain deserve, as they have re- 
 ceived, a prominent place in the list of worthies, 
 who, under God, were engaged in laying the founda- 
 tions of our free institutions, and planting and nur- 
 turing the blessed truths of the Gospel of Christ ia 
 this western world. 
 
 " But the fathers, where are they V and the pro- 
 phets, do they live forever?" Nay, the present 
 
ADDRESS. 135 
 
 reminds us of the change and mutation which at- 
 taches to all earthly things. The fathers who planted 
 this church have long since been gathered to their 
 graves, and all of them that was mortal, has long 
 since resolved itself back, to its native earth. But 
 may we not cherish the hope that the spirits of 
 many of them have for long years been in the full 
 enjoyment of the fruition of all their hopes in the 
 paradise of God. 
 
 And how many strange and startling phenomena 
 have burst upon the world since the eloquent voices 
 of Clakk and Asnax and Sckimgeol'r and others, 
 who occasionally, occupied the high places of this 
 Zion, have become silent in death. 
 
 What solemn and impressive lessons should we 
 gather from a retrospect of the past ! Those who 
 have gone before us have " ceased from their labors." 
 Therefore, " what our hands find to do, let us do it 
 with our might." 
 
 A"-ain, we desire to recognize the goodness of 
 God in the preservation of the life and continued 
 usefulness of the pastor of Little Britain. Of the 
 members of the Presbytery, who assembled in this 
 place thirty-three years ago, to set him apart to the 
 
J 36 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL 
 
 work, of the Grospel ministry iu this field, but one 
 survives. The rest " are not, for God hath taken 
 them." And it is a remarkable fact, that the bodily 
 health of the then young soldier of the Cross, seemed 
 so precarious that his fellow-presbyters deemed hii 
 future labors, in the church militant, as promising 
 but brief duration. They supposed, that in all human 
 probability, the day was not distant when the young 
 herald would be called to lay off the armor and 
 take up the palm of victory. 
 
 But " God's ways are not as our ways, nor his 
 thoughts as our thoughts." For one whole generf.- 
 tion, embracing the third part of a century, has he 
 labored among you, and is yet at your head. H® 
 has presided at your bridals, he has baptised your 
 children, he has ministered in your sick chambers, 
 he has buried your dead, he has mingled in your 
 joys, he has sympathized in your sorrows. 
 
 In short, with all the weaknesses and infirmities 
 of a feeble physical nature — although but an 
 " earthen vessel," the result clearly shows that he 
 has made full proof of his ministry among you, and ' 
 that God has prospered him in his work. In all thi» 
 is abundant reason for gratitude and thanksgiving to 
 God ; and the contemplation should incite the kind- 
 
ADURESS. 137 
 
 liest afFectiou for him who is now the aged spiritual 
 father of this flock. 
 
 And, finally, the committee, on behalf of the 
 Presbytery they represent, would extend their con- 
 gratulations to the congregation of Little Britain, 
 who are now, if God will, to enjoy the ministra- 
 tions of the youthful co-pastor, who has this day 
 been installed as a fellow-worker in the Lord's vine- 
 yard, with a venerable father who has grown gray 
 in the service. 
 
 And, especially would we congratulate the aged 
 pastor of this flock, in having for his helper, in the 
 ministry, his own son by the ties of nature, as well 
 as his own son in the Gospel. 
 
 Finally, brethren, old and young, pastors and 
 people, " farewell." " Be perfect, be of good com- 
 fort, be of one mind, live in peace : and the God of 
 love and of peace shall be with you." 
 
 T. M. NIVEN, 
 JOSEPH McCARREL, 
 A. C. NIVEN. 
 
 Rev. Di\. McCarrel, from the same committee, 
 presented the following paper on — 
 
PASTORS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CHURCH OF LITTLE BRITAIN. 
 
 The watchmen who have stood successively on 
 these v^alls of Zion, and uttered their warnings for 
 the last century, are Revs. Robert Annan, Thomas 
 G. Smith, James Sckimgeodr and Robert H. 
 Wallace. 
 
 Rev. Robert Axnan, one of the fathers of the 
 Associate Reformed Church, and active in its formar 
 tion, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, about the 
 years 1741-2. He studied theology under the vene- 
 rable Alexander Moncrief, of Abernethy, the first 
 professor of divinity to the Antiburgher branch of 
 the Secession. 
 
 Among his fellow-students were John Mason, 
 father of the celebrated John M. Mason, of New- 
 York, James Proudfit, afterwards pastor of the 
 congregation at Salem, and father of Dr. Alexander 
 
TASTOES OF LITTLE BKITAIN. 139 
 
 Proudfit, whose praise is in all the churches, and 
 William Marshall, who were all subsequently 
 among his fellow-laborers in this country. He was 
 licensed by the Associate Presbytery of Perth 
 when only nineteen years old, and was very sooit 
 afterward ajipointed by the Synod, to go out as a 
 missionary to the American colonies. Mr. Anxas 
 arrived in New- York in the summer of 17G1, and 
 was ordained and installed at Neelytown in 17G5, 
 having charge, at first, of what are now the congre- 
 gations of Little Britain, Hamptonburgh, Graham's 
 Church and Bloomingburgh, but ultimately he con- 
 fined himself to one of them. He was installed, as 
 pastor of Neelytown, in 1765,- and of Little Britain 
 in 176S, in connection with the Neelytown church 
 
 During the time of his connection with these 
 churches he preached to the people wlio afterwards 
 composed the congregation of Graham's Church, 
 in the town of Crawford, and also to the people ol 
 Bloomingburgh, in Sullivan county ; but at that 
 time there was no organization at either of the 
 places last named. After being connected with the 
 church about eighteen years, during which occurred 
 the war of the Revolution, and the formation of the 
 Associate Reformed Church, in both of which Mr 
 
140 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL, 
 
 Annan took a very deep interest and an active part, 
 he received and accepted a call from the Federal 
 Street church in Boston, in or about 17S3. 
 
 The Associate Reformed Church was formed by 
 a union of Seceders and Reformed Presbyterians. 
 The Seceders were called the Associate Synod. The 
 united church combined the two houses and formed 
 the Associate Reformed Church. The union was 
 under consideration from 1775 or 1776, until the 
 14th of June, 1782, when it was consummated. 
 The present constitution was adopted at Grreen- 
 castle in 1799. 
 
 The congregation in Boston, to which Mr. Annan 
 was called, was originally an Irish Presbyterian 
 congregation, and was founded about the year 1730 
 by the Rev. Mr. Moeehead, an Irish minister, who 
 continued in the pastoral charge of it until 1793. 
 During Mr. Annan's residence in Boston he held a 
 high rank among the ministry in that city. In 
 point of pulpit eloquence he was acknowledged to 
 to be without an equal. Nor was he altogether 
 unknown as a man fond of scientific research. In 
 the first volume of the Transactions of the Ameri- 
 can Academy of Science, at Boston, there are sever- 
 al papers written by him, one of which contains the 
 
PASTOKS OF LITTLK BRITAIN. 141 
 
 earliest published accounts of the mammoth re- 
 mains discovered in Orange county. 
 
 lu 17S6, Mr. ANNA^ received and accepted a call 
 from the Old Scots Church, Spruce Street, Phila- 
 delphia, where he continued until ISOl or 1802, 
 when he removed^ to Baltimore to take charge of a 
 congregation that had been recently formed in that 
 city. In this, his last charge, he remained till 1812, 
 when he resigned, ar.d was soon after succeeded by 
 Rev. John" M. Duscax, afterwards celebrated for his 
 opposition to creeds and confessions. 
 • He continued to preach in vacancies with great 
 acceptation till the day of his death, which occur- 
 red in ISIS. 
 
 He was on his way to supply a vacancy when he 
 was thrown from his carriage. He was taken up 
 senseless, and remained in tiiat condition until he 
 expired. Like a good soldier of the Cross, he fell 
 in the field of battle with his armor on. 
 
 About the period of this event, I heard a mother 
 in Israel lamenting that so distinguished a minister 
 of Christ, who had filled so large a place in its his- 
 tory, and whose pulpit eloqiience was unrivalled in 
 his days, should have been allowed to slip from the 
 world almost without notice. 
 
142 CKSTENNIAL MEMOltlAL. 
 
 He had the boldness of the lion, the diligence of 
 the ox, and the soarings of the eagle, in such lofty 
 strains of pulpit eloquence, that those who heard him 
 have declared, there were none like him. Now, if in 
 anything he was wanting, it was on account of the 
 eccentricity of genius in the discretion and prudence 
 of the man, so that a christian friend once said to 
 him, " Mr. Annan, when I hear you in the pulpit I 
 wish you would never leave it, and when I see 
 you out of it, I wish you would not go into it 
 again." He was the principal writer in the Associ- 
 ate Reformed Church, in its earliest days, and was 
 the author of the Overture, a valuable commentary 
 on the Confession of Faith. 
 
 He took an active and useful part in two events 
 in which we are especially interested — the Revolu- 
 tion, which gave birth to the freest and happiest 
 nation on earth, and the formation of the Associate 
 Reformed Church, which only claims to be a small 
 one among the thousands of Judah, and born in the 
 struggling of the Revolution, is the most purely 
 American of all the churches, and regards with^ 
 sisterly affection the whole Israel of God. 
 
 The second pastor of the Church of Little Britaiii, 
 
PASTORS OP LITTLE BlUTAIX. 143 
 
 was Mr. Thomas Gibson Smith. He was ordained, 
 at Little Britain, May 6, 1791. 
 
 His pastoral relation was dissolved 14th May, 
 1800. But little is known or recorded respecting 
 him. Some months after the dissolution of the 
 pastoral relation with this church, Mr. Smith joined 
 the classes of Ulster, was settled as a pastor at 
 Klein Esopiis, and afterwards at Tarrytown, where 
 he died. 
 
 The third pastor, of this church, was the Rev. 
 James Scrimgeoue. He was a native of Scotland, 
 born about 1757. He studied theology under the 
 direction of Johx Browx, of Haddington, and was 
 settled as pastor of a congregation in Berwick, in 
 the Burger connection. He was one of the minis- 
 ters that came to this country with Dr. Maso.v, at 
 the instance of the Associate Reformed Synod, in 
 the year 1S02. In August, 1S03, he accepted a 
 call from the Associate Reformed congregation at 
 Newburgh, and was for some years pastor of that 
 congregation. 
 
 The last twelve years of his life and of his minis- 
 try, were spent in Little Britain, having been called 
 by that congregation and installed in his cbarge, 
 7* 
 
144 CENTENJflAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 January 24, 1812. He terminated his ministry and 
 his life in the faith and hope of the Gospel, which 
 he preached, Feb. 4, 1825, in the sixty-eighth year 
 of his life, and left with his friends, who bless his 
 memory, the cheering hope, that when Christ, who 
 is his life, shall appear, then shall he also appear 
 with Him in glory. As a man, he was frank, sin- 
 cere and friendly ; as a son, a husband, and a father, 
 faithful and affectionate ; as a christian, an Israelite 
 indeed, in whom there is no guile ; and as a preach- 
 er of the Gospel, as thousands, both in Scotland and 
 America who were long edified and delighted with 
 his ministrations, can witness, " Simple, grave, sin- 
 cere, and tender in address, as well becomes a 
 messenger of grace to guilty men ; in doctrine 
 uncorrupt, in language plain, and plain in man- 
 ner ; decent, solemn, chaste and natural in gesture; 
 much impressed himself, as conscious of the awful 
 charge, and anxious, mainly, that the flock he feeds,, 
 may feel it too." 
 
 His ministry, in a remarkable manner, illustrated 
 the work of the seraphim, or rather, was illustrated 
 by. it, bringing the sinner into communication 
 with the atonement of the Saviour. The theme 
 on which he delighted to dwell, was the person and 
 
PASTORS OF LITTLE BRITAIN. 145 
 
 work of the Redeemer, exemplifying the apostolic 
 determination, to know nothing among his people 
 but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 
 
 The fourth, and present senior pastor of this 
 church, is Rev. Robert H. Wallace. 
 
 Mr. Wallace was originally a member of the 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, under the pastoral 
 care of Rev. James R. Wilsox, D. D. Tliinking 
 proper to change his ecclesiastical connection, he 
 was taken under the care of the Associate Refjrm- 
 ed Presbytery of Xew-York, as a student of theo- 
 logy. His studies were directed, by our late and 
 lamented father. Dr. Johx McJinPSEr. 
 
 He was, in due time, licensed to preach the Gospel 
 as a probationer for the holy ministry, and after 
 preaching about a year, principally in Little Britain, 
 he was solemnly ordained and installed as pastor of 
 this congregation, on the Gth of October, 1S3-3. Mr. 
 Wallace, in 1S21, was employed by the Synod of 
 New- York, for a short time, as their first domestic 
 missionary. 
 
 Although from the beginning of his ministry he 
 has seemed, to, himself, as a dying man preaching to 
 dying men, he has had the honor and the pleasuro 
 
146 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 of preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ for 
 the third of a century. Few churches have been 
 favored with more uninterrupted accessions to the 
 number of communicants and more continual evi- 
 dences of the divine blessing attending the ministry 
 of the word. And, although our brother has not 
 been without his trials, which were painful to flesh 
 and blood, he may see the divine intention in all 
 such dispensations in the history of Paul, who was 
 visited with a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of 
 Satan to buffet him, to teach him humility, lest he 
 should be exalted above measure, through the abun- 
 <lance of the revelations. The first ordination ser- 
 mon I was ever called to deliver, was on the occasion 
 of the induction of my friend and brother into the 
 ministry and pastorate of this congregation ; the last 
 one to-day, is on an occasion which must fill a 
 father's heart with joy, the induction of his son into 
 the same office, in the same place as his co-pastor, 
 and, if need be, his successor. Heaven has fulfilled 
 one of the gracious promises of Zion's King, in- 
 stead of the fathers he will take the children and 
 make them noble princes in all the earth. With 
 the prayer of the psalmist I close these remarks, in 
 which, I doubt not, you all will unite : " Let thy 
 work appear unto thy servant, and thy glory unto 
 
PASTOKS OF LITTLE BRITAIN, ETC. 147 
 
 their children : And let the beauty of the Lord 
 our God be upon us ; and establish thou the work of 
 our hand upon us : yea, the work of our hand estab- 
 lish thou it." 
 
 A. C. NiVEN, Esq., who had been invited to de- 
 liver an address, on the occasion, communicated the 
 following paper, but which was not read before 
 the meeting. It is now inserted at request of the 
 committee : 
 
ADDRESS 
 
 A. C. N-IVEN, ESQ 
 
 On an occasion like the present, and under the' 
 circumstances connected with this assemblage, 
 many pleasing and some deeply interesting con- 
 Biderations force themselves upon our minds. A 
 christian congregation, over whose spiritual inter- 
 ests a beloved pastor has watched and prayed for 
 one-third of a century, invites him to accept, as a 
 colleague, his only son : and that son presents him- 
 self, on this occasion, to assume, in connection with 
 his parent, the pastorate of this people. Such in- 
 stances are rare. How few pastors are, in the pro- 
 vidence of God, permitted to remain, for so many 
 years, as watchmen upon the walls of Zion, in that 
 very spot where they were ordained and set apart 
 to their solemn work ! And how " few and far 
 between " are those cases, where, after one generar 
 
ADDRESS. 14^ 
 
 tion, under his pastoral care, has passed away from 
 earth, his flock are found cherishing for him an un- 
 wavering attachment, and in his declining years, 
 providing for him a colleague in the person of a 
 son — his only son ! 
 
 Since the organization of this congregation what 
 stupendous events have transpired on the world's 
 theatre ! Kingdoms, once powerful, have been blot- 
 ted out of existence. Thrones, once thought imperish- 
 able, have crumbled into dust. Crowns, baptized in 
 blood, have been the subject of avaricious traffic. 
 Monarchs have swayed the sceptre and occupied the 
 scaffold. Nations have sunk into non-existence, and 
 other nations have been bora. Systems of religi- 
 ous belief have been invented and proclaimed : 
 they have flourished — ^then waned, and are no more. 
 " hm " has followed closely upon the heels of "ism^' 
 — the fog of scepticism — the mirage of delusion 
 and the dense mist of infidelity have bewildered 
 nations and individuals — the light of philosophy 
 (falsely so called) has shone brightly, then flicker- 
 ed, then expired ; while those who furnished oil for 
 its lamp, have gone down, (in the language of 
 Scott) : 
 
 " To the vile dust, from whence they sprung, 
 Unwept, nnhonored, and unsung." 
 
150 CESTENSIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 And yet this congregation of worshippers, under an 
 organization perpetuated and acknowledged, has 
 survived these changes, of which facts we are this 
 day witnesses. He who walketh in the midst of 
 the golden candlesticks, has been to it, as He will 
 be to His church at large, " a wall of fire round 
 about and the glory in the midst." 
 
 Most assuredly this is a suitable occasion for us, 
 not only to let the overflowings of grateful hearts 
 go forth to God, for the gracious exercise of His 
 sovereignty in watching over this vine for a century 
 past ; but to indulge in some practical thoughts, 
 although they may be desultory, connected with 
 the prosperity of this congregation : Doubtless, 
 all must be attributed to the over-ruling providence 
 of the Most High. In all things. His will is the 
 centre — His purposes, the circumference. But 
 what have been the means employed — ^the instru- 
 mentality, by and through which the blessings of 
 Divine protection have come down and rested upon 
 you and your ancestry here ? " Your ancestry," I 
 repeat ; and here, let me digress for a moment, that 
 we may permit our thoughts to dwell upon the 
 memory of the " fathers and mothers in Israel," the 
 exhalations from whose sleeping dust we breathe 
 
ADDRESS. 151 
 
 this day. Surely there is inspiration in the fragrance 
 wliich ascendeth from the graves of the pious dead ! 
 Their spirits rejoice with our spirits as we come 
 together to celebrate the continued existence of the 
 Church of their " prayers of faith and labors of 
 love." " Strong-minded men" — aye, and " strong- 
 minded women" were they ; but their strength was 
 not presumption, they were " strong in the Lord 
 and in the power of His might." May their mantles 
 hang gracefully from the shoulders of those who 
 have succeeded them ; and as each successive gene- 
 ration shall look back upon a bright example, may 
 it also look up, and in prophetic rapture say, ♦' My 
 father, my father : the chariot of Israel and the horse- 
 men thereof." 
 
 But I return from this digression to inquire, once 
 more, into the instrumentality by which your identi- 
 ty, unity and prosperity have been preserved : 
 
 Here, I may say, the truth of God's word in its 
 purity and simplicity and plainness has been pro- 
 mulgated, from generation to generation ; for which 
 reason, error, that noxious plant, which so often 
 luxuriates in the church, has not vegetated here. 
 Drawing their principles from the scriptures, in 
 
152 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 their plain and obvious import, the worshippers in 
 this place are not, nor have they been, of that 
 class of whom it is said, they are " tossed to and fro 
 and carried about with every wind of doctrine." The ' 
 truth, then, infused into the minds of worshippers, 
 by the ministrations of the sanctuary, has, in my 
 judgment, been the prominent cause of the pros- 
 perity and perpetuity of this congregation. 
 
 If this be so, is it out of place and impertinent to 
 add a few words on the subject of the ministry and 
 its influence ? Perhaps this subject should not be 
 discussed by a layman ; nevertheless, if I err in 
 alluding to it, I can solace myself with the thought, 
 that I am chargeable with folly, rather than with 
 crime. 
 
 At an age, like the present, when so many doors 
 are thrown open by the god of this world, and so 
 many inducements offered for young men to enter 
 upon a career which promises earthly fame and 
 worldly honors or riches ; it would be uncharitable 
 to fituppose, that any enter into the ranks of the 
 christian miinistry, except those who can truly say, 
 " The love of Christ constraineth me." That kind of re- 
 nown which descends upon distinguished men in the 
 other walks of life, he may not expect. Influence, 
 
ADDRKSS. 153 
 
 however, he may look for. Influence, the christian 
 minister will have — respectability, he can have — use- 
 fulness, he should have- — and faithfulness, he mws^ have. 
 But his influence and respectability and usefulness 
 and faithfulness, are altogether different things with 
 him and with the mere worldling ; with the latter, 
 extensive business arrangements — great financial 
 skill — a large accumulation of wealth — political 
 power — and even unsanctified intellectual attain- 
 ments may give him position, influence, respecta- 
 bility, usefulness — while in regard to the former 
 — the christian minister, — all these result from a 
 well-regulated, holy life and from being enabled to 
 say to those around him, "Unto me, who am less 
 than the least of all saints, is this grace given, 
 that I should preach — the unsearchable riches of 
 Christ." His very humility, invests him with an 
 influence, which an arrogant person cannot possess. 
 
 Brethren, sisters, friends : we often mistake the 
 nature of our obligations to the ministers of Christ, 
 even as we mistake in regard to our obligations to 
 their Divine Master. Nor is it unkind to add, that 
 they often err in the discharge of their duty to us. 
 
 The asceticism of monkery forms no part of min- 
 isterial character. They do not cease to be social. 
 
164 CENTENNIAL MEMOlilAL. 
 
 when they become clerical. They err and impair 
 their influence, when they come forth from their 
 " study" at long intervals, as a monk would issue 
 from his cloister: cold, cheerless and stift in his 
 contact with his fellow-man. With warm hearts 
 should they mingle with their fellows, manifesting, 
 in their ordinary intercourse, that while the christian 
 religion imparts dignity, it is eminently cheerful in 
 its character, and purifying in its effects. 
 
 And how should they be met by us l I answer, 
 with a reciprocated cheerfulness and affjction, with 
 all that tender consideration which is the blossoming 
 and fruitage of a root of holiness, implanted in our 
 own hearts, which calls out our love to those who 
 are endeavoring to obey the injunction of the 
 Chief Shepherd : " Feed my sheep." 
 
 But the influence of the christian ministry should 
 only be exerted through legitimate channels. In- 
 deed, it will have no influence over the minds of 
 the " masses" when it oversteps the limits of its 
 appropriate sphere. AVhat that limit is may not be 
 a useless inquiry. The world is je.ilous of its pre- 
 rogatives. It supposes that the ministry has its 
 peculiar functions, and it disallows the claim of f<ny 
 minister of the Gospel to obtrude upon the domain 
 
ADDEESS. 155 
 
 of others. " Go preach the Gospel," is the phrase- 
 ology of the commission under which he acta. 
 Wlien, therefore, he mingles the affairs of a secular 
 calling with his ministerial duties, he necessarily 
 lowers the standard of the latter ; he involves him- 
 self in the cares and perplexities of a sliding scale of 
 cent per cent. ; and his arithmetical knowledge is 
 often puzzled to ascertain whether his loss has been 
 greater in foro conscieiitlo, or in the estimation of 
 his fellow-men. 
 
 Nor should the influence of ministerial character 
 be put forth in the political squabbles which often 
 excite and furiously agitate our land. These ques- 
 tions often have a moral aspect ; but, nevertheles, if 
 they form the staple of any political party and are 
 the principal element of party strife, it is hazardous 
 to the peace of the church and destructive of the 
 influence of any minister of the Gospel to make 
 these matters the theme of ordinary conversation 
 or of his pulpit ministrations. ''Let the potsherds: 
 strive with the potsherds of the earth," but let 
 those who bear the vessels of the Lord ever remem- 
 ber that their weapons are spiritual and not carnal. 
 
 In literature, in scienoe, in morals, in the varied 
 
156 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 arrangements into which social life is divided and sub- 
 divided, as well as in matters purely religious in their 
 character, the influence of the clergy is very great. 
 By uniting an ordinary amount of discretion with 
 their general attainments, and both these with the 
 acknowledged sanctity of the ministerial calling, 
 they may give tone, as well as impulse, to all the 
 prominent movements of the age. 
 
 I have made allusion to social life, and this depart^ 
 ment, above all others, is the place were ministerial 
 influence may be exerted on the broadest scale. 
 Whose doors are not thrown open to welcome the 
 man of God, whose life is an epitome of the Gospel? 
 What housewife does not spread her table, with 
 cheerfulness, when he is the guest ? What child or 
 domestic does not greet with a smile him, who 
 Cometh pleasantly, speaking " a word in season ?" 
 Only let him be what he should be to his flock and 
 his influence is unlimited. If not seen, it is felt. 
 Wicked, profligate men seldom offer indignity to 
 one who " walks worthy of his high vocation." 
 Let us, then, ever cherish sentiments of high regard 
 toward him who is placed over us as a spiritual 
 guide — so shall we greet him sincerely with the 
 
ADDRESS, ETC. 157 
 
 scriptural salutation : " Blessed is he that cometh 
 in the name of the Lord." 
 
 But, enough. May this congregation continue to 
 be a receptacle for the truth ; may it flourish under 
 the care of the Head of the Church until another 
 century shall have elapsed ; may another generation, 
 then gather here, as we have gathered together 
 now, to enjoy union and christian fellowship with 
 all who hold " like precious faith." And, now, 
 Oh, Thou! that dwellest between the cherubims 
 shine forth ! 
 
 The choir now led^in singing the 133d Psalm, in 
 the Scotch version : 
 
 Behold ! how good a thing it is, 
 
 And how becoming well, 
 Together such as brethren are 
 
 In unity to dwell ! 
 
 Like precious ointment on the head. 
 
 That down the beard did flow, 
 Ev'n Aaron's beard, and to the skirts 
 
 Did of his garments go. 
 
 As Hermon's dew, the dew that doth 
 
 On Sion's hills descend ; 
 For there the blessing God commands, 
 Life that shall never end. 
 8 
 
POEM. 
 
 BY CHARLES S. VEDDER, r:SQ., SCHENECTADY, N. Y. 
 
 When fast by Jordan, rapt Elijah stood, 
 
 To look his last upon the storied flood, 
 
 Whose waves gave place to Israel's welcome tread, 
 
 And made safe highway for the chosen seed, 
 
 And whose proud stream had too but now obeyed 
 
 His own command, and backward fled afraid. 
 
 That Jordan, too, near by where Cherith ran, 
 
 Whose ravens fed the man-forsaken man — 
 
 Where heavenly aid dispelled the faithless fear. 
 
 And nature taught a God forever near. 
 
 As fast by Jordan, on that sacred day. 
 
 When Death was cheated of expected prey : 
 
 When Sin's great forfeit was again denied, — 
 
 As if to witness of his power defied — 
 
 Elijah stood, low at his willing feet, 
 
 Elisha bowed, his parting word to greet — 
 
 " His parting word !" — prophetic fear had seen 
 
 Afar the gloiy of that coming scene. 
 
POEM. 159 
 
 ■'Ask' me to give," the elder prophet said, 
 "Whate'er thou wilt, ere I to God have sped." 
 "Let me but have," the sad Elisha prest, 
 " Two-fold thy spirit on my head to rest." 
 The prayer was answered, and the fiery car, 
 That bore Elijah from his sight afar. 
 Gave back a lustre that to all confest : 
 "Elijah's honors on Elisha rest!" 
 
 Methinks the record of this wondrous scene 
 Repeated here, in various sense hath been. 
 Though our Elijah speeds him not away — 
 No night of death before his endless day — 
 The accustoined harness of the heavenly race 
 So stoutly borne, and with so swift a pace, 
 Grown cumbrous now, with weight of gathering years, 
 And tireless labors, cares and doubts and fears, 
 Must yield its place, when ripened fields demand 
 The strength and vigor of a younger hand. 
 The well-spent life, fast verging to its closs, 
 From well-loved labors now may seek repose ; 
 Hecall with wonder and delighted praise. 
 The ceaseless mercies of its many days, 
 Mark o'er the path a faithful God has led; 
 Sit by brook Cherith, where His hand has fed ; 
 Ascend some Carmel of this earthly path 
 
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 Where He appeared, at first in seeming wrath — 
 
 The whirlwind's rage, the earthquake's sullen groan, 
 
 Devouring fire, and then the loving tone, 
 
 Whose oft-heard music made the heart rejoice, 
 
 And know its Saviour in the " still small voice : " 
 
 Live o'er again in thought and thankful prayer. 
 
 Each hour of love and providential care. 
 
 And as the warrior when the strife is done, 
 
 Surveys the field whereon the fight was won, 
 
 Sees where his strength, and where his weakness lay, 
 
 And notes the lesson for some needful day, 
 
 So may this veteran of the christian field, 
 
 A life-time taught the Spirit's sword to wield. 
 
 And wise from use, to wage successful strife 
 
 With sense and sin, and for a higher life, 
 
 Be skilled to point with well-familiar hand. 
 
 Where gathering years forbid his feet to stand, 
 
 That rightly-furnished for the expected field. 
 
 The Son, the Father's gathered power may wield. 
 
 With added force of younger hand and heart. 
 
 And youthful zeal to act a faithful part. 
 
 Oh! who the bliss of such a part may tell. 
 
 When heaven-bestowed, and wisely done and well ? 
 
 Oh ! who the glory of their crowns foresee. 
 
 Whose heavenly calling and whose lives agree ? 
 
 O Thou, the author of that gracious plan 
 
POEM. 161 
 
 That thus to heaven exalts and blesses man ; 
 
 Whose faithful love hath watched from year to year, — 
 
 The fruitful vineyard thou hast planted here. 
 
 Till now the honors it so meekly bears 
 
 Are garnered harvests of a hundred years, 
 
 And whose kind hand hath never failed to bless 
 
 Its days of drought with needful dews of grace ; 
 
 With faithtul laborers in the Work and Word, 
 
 And plenteous trophies of a conquering Lord ! 
 
 All Gracious One ! bestow thy Spirit's power ! 
 
 Look down and smile upon this favored hour — 
 
 This warfare ended, and this life begun, 
 
 When father's mantle falls on willing son ; 
 
 When gathered people loath to say, " Farewell," 
 
 Repress the utterance, to exclaim, " all hail ! " 
 
 The sire's loved presence in the son behold — 
 
 Renew their pastor, yet retain the old. 
 
 And may thy love a bond of union be 
 
 Of each to other, and of all to Thee ! 
 
 Rev. James Prestlt, of New- York, then deliver- 
 ed the following address on — 
 
"THE SECURITY OF THE CHUECH." 
 
 Deab Friends : 
 
 It has been assigned to me to address you on 
 " The Security of the Church." My remarks, in 
 view of the lateness of the hour and of those who 
 are to succeed me, will necessarily be brief. 
 
 The subject presents itself to us under the 
 following heads : The Church ; and, secondly, the 
 Security of the Church. 
 
 The church ! What is the church ? The church 
 of Grod, which, he has purchased with His own 
 blood ? In its visible form, it is the body of pro- 
 fessed believers in the Lord Jesus Christ — professed 
 children of G-od. In its invisible sense, or spiritual- 
 ly, it is the whole body of true believers, real 
 christians of every name, nation and complexion, 
 who have ever lived, do live, or shall hereafter 
 live on the earth. This is the one universal church 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ, purchased by his blood, 
 
THE SEOUKITY OF THE CHUliCH. 163 
 
 and regenerated, sanctified, perfected, and being 
 completed by the Holy Spirit. 
 
 A part of this church is now in heaven enjoying, 
 as triumphs, all the blessings of the heavenly state ; 
 another portion of it exists, as yet, only in the pur- 
 pose of God ; and another portion, that with which 
 we have chiefly to do, is now on the earth doing bat- 
 tle for Christ and His cause. On this account it is 
 called militant — fighting, — the church militant. 
 And though the fight be carried on -but poorly, and 
 much might be gained for Christ that is not, still 
 the church is dear to Christ, and it is by it he has 
 ordained to bring back this rebel world, to its alle- 
 giance, to His authority. 
 
 The church waging this warfare is surrounded 
 by many and powerful enemies. " The god of this 
 world," the prince of the power of the air, the spirit, 
 that now worketh in the childern of disobedience.'' 
 Satan and his legions of spirits, evil like himself, 
 are to be met and overcome. " We wrestle not," 
 says an apostle, " against flesh and blood, but 
 against principalities, against powers, against the 
 rulers of the darkness of this world, against spirit- 
 ual wickedness in high places," and he exhorts to take 
 to us " the whole armor of God, that we may be 
 
164 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 able to stand against the wiles of the devil — ^that 
 we may be able "to quench all the fiery darts of 
 the wicked." 
 
 But the church is called to fight, not only against 
 the devil and his angels, but against wicked men, drawn 
 in by his temptations and their own evil natures 
 and passions to oppose her principles, her work and 
 her progress. These, when possessed of worldly 
 standing, learning, and influence, are powerful 
 against the church, and especially when they wield 
 great political powpr and influence ; but they have 
 contended against her in vain. The learned and 
 eloquent have attempted to write her down, or 
 speak her down, and for a while may have seemed 
 to succeed well ; but the next generation saw their 
 theories scattered to the winds, and the truth of 
 God and the mission of the church more fully 
 acknowledged and established than ever. Kings 
 have resolved to destroy the church by the strong 
 hand of persecution. Fires have blazed and gibbets 
 have been erected, and thousands and millions have 
 suffered only to prove that " the blood of martyrs 
 is the seed of the church." The church stands 
 to-day more beautiful and powerful than when sh-e 
 received the promise of Grod by the pen of Isaiah, 
 
THE SECURITY OF THE CHURCH. 165 
 
 " No weapon that is formed against thee shall pros- 
 per, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in 
 judgment thou shalt condemn ;" or when David 
 said of her : " Beautiful for situation, the joy of 
 the whole earth, is Mount Zion — the city of the 
 Grreat King. Grod is known in her palaces for a 
 refuge." " Glorious things are spoken of thee, 0, 
 city of God." " There is a river, the streams 
 whereof make glad the city of God, the holy place 
 of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the 
 midst ot her ; she shall not be moved : God shall 
 help her, and that right early. The Lord of Hosts is 
 with us : the God of Jacob is our refuge." 
 
 Viewing the church as Zion, the city of God, 
 the following considerations, taken in order, will 
 more assure us of her security. 
 
 1. The position, foundation and defences of this 
 city of God — the Church. Important as these are 
 in modern, they were still more important in an- 
 cient warfare. God himself is the founder and 
 defender of this city. He has founded her on the 
 " Rock of Ages." " His foundation is in the holy 
 mountains." "Beautiful for situation, the joy of 
 the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the 
 north, the city of the Great King." 
 
166 CENTEKNIAL MEMOBIAL. 
 
 The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is, to 
 drop all figurative language, the foundation and 
 defender of the church. " Behold," says God" by 
 Isaiah, " I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a 
 tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure founda- 
 tion : he that believeth shall not make haste." 
 The Apostles, Paul and Peter, each applied this 
 passage to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the foundation 
 of the church. Paul says, " Other foundation can 
 no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 
 
 Isaiah says, " In that day shall this song be sung 
 in the land of Judah : we have a strong city ; salva- 
 tion will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.' 
 "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is 
 stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee. Trust 
 ye in the Lord for ever : for in the Lord Jehovah is 
 everlasting strength." 
 
 Zachariah says, " For I, saith the Lord, will be 
 unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the 
 glory in the midst of her." 
 
 Our Lord, referring to himself, says, " On this 
 rock, will I build my church and the gates of hell 
 shall not prevail against it." The reference here 
 cannot be to Peter — a man, but undoubtedly, is to 
 
THE SECURITY OF THE CHURCH. 167 
 
 the Lord himself, in accordance with the whole 
 teaching of Scripture. 
 
 In speaking further of the security of this city T)f 
 God, I would refer you — 
 
 2. To its government and laws : These are essen- 
 tials to the security of any city or country ; and in 
 proportion to their excellence will be the position 
 of such city or country among the cities or 
 countries of the world ; and the security of life 
 and property, and of the peace and happiness of 
 their citizens. 
 
 What are the laws of this city ? Where are they 
 to be found ? In the Word of Grod, of which David 
 well says, " Thy statutes, Lord, are wonderful." 
 " The law of the Lord is perfect ;" and in regard to 
 which he prays, " Teach me, O Lord, the way of 
 thy statutes." " Give me understanding, and I shall 
 keep thy law." 
 
 The Lord is the lawgiver of the Church. He is 
 to it instead of a legislature. Isaiah rejoicingly 
 says, " The Lord is our lawgiver." Of His laws, 
 our Lord Jesus Christ says, " Not one jot or tittle 
 
 of them shall in aay wise pass away until all be 
 
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168 CENTENKIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 fulfilled." They are of perpetual obligation. Found- 
 ed in eternal justice and right, they shall never pa»s 
 away. 
 
 Who administers the laws in this city of God? 
 God himself, in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ ; 
 and to him, also, is subjected all things in heaven 
 and all things in the earth for the good of the 
 church. " God hath made him to be head over all 
 things to the church, which is His body, the fullness 
 of him that filleth all in all." 
 
 The prophet Isaiah speaks rapturously of the 
 fact, that God is not only the lawgiver, but the 
 king of this city : " The Lord is our judge, the 
 Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king, He will 
 save us.'' 
 
 In the time of her deep distress, as depicted by the 
 pen of Jeremiah, when her enemies were strong 
 and successful against her, Jeremiah takes comfort 
 in the thought that God, her king, was still in her to 
 prevent her final overthrow. Says he, "Is not her 
 king in her ?" And when David contemplated the 
 relation of God, as a father to his children, and the 
 happiness, glory and honor which accrue to them 
 from this relationship, he breaks forth in the excla- 
 
THE SECURITY OF THE CHURCH. 169 
 
 mation, " Sing unto the Lord a new song, and His 
 praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel 
 rejoice in Him that made him : let the children of 
 Zion be joyful in their king." 
 
 3. The stability and security of a city or country 
 depends very much on the character, number and 
 prowess of its citizens : and the security of the city 
 of Grod will the more appear if we consider the 
 character, numbers and warlike power of its 
 citizens. 
 
 I. Their character. David calls them God's holy 
 ones : "Ye that are his holy ones." Isaiah, speak- 
 ing of them, says, " Thy people shall be all 
 righteous." Paul styles them', " Fellow-citizens 
 of the saints ;" and when they take citizenship in 
 her they are to remember that they are " called to 
 be saints." The reputation of its citizens makes up 
 the reputation of any city, and gives it standing 
 among the cities of the world. A law-abiding, 
 order-loving citizenship is the glory of any city or 
 country. This is the saintly character of those that 
 inhabit the New Jerusalem above, and ought to be 
 of those who now dwell on God's holy hill, Zion. 
 
 II. Their number. The promise of God contem- 
 
170 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 plates them as being as numerous as the drops of 
 dew, as the stars of heaven, and the sand of the sea- 
 shore for multitude. 
 
 The promise is, that they shall rapidly increase 
 from within and from without. " A little one," 
 says Isaiah, " shall become a thousand, and a small 
 one a strong nation." Of her recruits from without 
 it is said : " Who are these that come as a cloud 
 and as doves to their windows?'' Of the kingly 
 dominion of this king, Q-od says, " In his days shall 
 the righteous flourish ; and abundance of peace so 
 long as the moon endureth. Hp shall have dominion 
 also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the 
 ends of the earth." Prophecy, looking down the 
 vista of time, declares, that "in heaven they shall be 
 as the sand which is by the sea-shore, innumerable," 
 " A great multitude which no man can number." 
 
 m. What is the personal prowess of the inhabi- 
 tants of this city of God, and who are their allies ? 
 These considerations are of the greatest importance 
 in calculating the security of any city or country. 
 In these points this city is peculiar. The personal 
 valor of these citizens is very great, and their ally 
 is none less than God himself. It is said of them 
 
THE SECURITY OP THE CHURCH. 171 
 
 that they resist the devil and he flees from them : 
 they are not " afraid of ten thousands of people that 
 have set themselves against them, round about." 
 Whenever they have gone into battle in the manner 
 directed by their Great Captain, the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, they have always been successful. He has 
 pledged himself to bring them off " conquerors 
 and more than conquerors." It is declared of 
 them, " the people that do know their God shall 
 bestrong, and do exploits." " One " of them 
 " shall chase a thousand." " One shall chase a 
 thousand and two put ten thousand to flight." 
 But however great their personal courage and 
 success may be, it is in God they are used to 
 boast : it is in Him they are eminently and especial- 
 ly courageous and successful. He leads them. He 
 teaches them to fight, so that bows of steel are 
 broken by their arms. God girds them with strength 
 unto the battle, and subdues' under them all that 
 rise against them. God is their fortress, their 
 shield, their strength, their deliverer ! Who can 
 prevail against this people saved of the Lord ? They 
 have an abiding confidence in Him who has deliver- 
 ed them in six troubles and will not forsake them in 
 seven. In their greatest reverses their eyes turn to 
 
17'2 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Him, and He delivers them out of their distresses. 
 " Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy," is their 
 language, " when I fall I shall arise ; When I sit in 
 darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me." In 
 their conflicts they are accustomed to sing, 
 " Through God we shall Ro- valiantly, for He it is 
 that shall tread down our enemies." The right 
 hand of the Lord doeth valiantly : I shall not die, 
 but live, and declare the works of the Lord." 
 " The Lord is on my side, I will not fear ; what can 
 man do unto me?" 
 
 These persons are not only valiant and very 
 strong and eminently successful in their ally, but 
 they are well provided for the conflict. This is a 
 very important matter. What would an unarmed, 
 or badly armed, man be able to do against one well 
 armed and expert in the use of his arms ? These 
 warriors are provided with the whole " panoply of 
 G-od,"'offensive and defensive, and they are exercis- 
 ed in its use daily. The order is, " Finally, niy 
 brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of 
 His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that 
 ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the 
 devil. For we wrestle, not against flesh and blood, 
 but against principalities, against powers, against 
 
THE SECURITY OF THE CHURCH. 173 
 
 the rulers of the darkness of this world, against 
 spiritual wickedness in high places ; wherefore take 
 unto you the whole armor of Grod, that ye may be 
 able to withstand in the evil day, and having done 
 all, to stand. Stand, therefore, having your loins 
 girt about with truth, and having on the breast- 
 plate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the 
 preparation of the gospel of peace ; above all, 
 taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be 
 able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 
 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of 
 the Spirit, which is the Word of Grod ; praying 
 always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, 
 and watching thereunto with all perseverance." 
 
 From this presentation of the subject, however 
 lame, we may, I think, justly conclude that this 
 city of God, the Church, is secure. " If God be for 
 us, who can be against us ?" He it is who subdues 
 our enemies under us — who in the last conflict, 
 with the greatest of our enemies, enables us to ex- 
 claim, " 0, grave, where is thy victory ? 0, death, 
 where is thy sting," and who brings us off conquer- 
 ors and more than conquerors. These redeemed 
 ones will praise him for their deliverance through 
 endless ages in heaven. " Thou art worthy to take 
 
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 the book and to open the seals thereof: for thou 
 wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy 
 blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and peo- 
 ple, and nation ; and hast made us unto our Grod 
 kings and priests : and we shall reign in the 
 earth." " Unto Him that loved us, and washed us 
 from our sins, in His own blood, and hath made us 
 kings and priests unto God and his Father, to Him 
 be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen." 
 
 The Chairman next introduced Rev. James P. 
 Fisher, of Johnstown, N. Y., who delivered the fol- 
 lowing Address : 
 
THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 AN ADDRESS, 
 
 BY EEV. JAMES P. FISHER, 
 
 JOHNSTOWN, .^. Y. 
 
 Mh. President : 
 
 The Church of Christ is one. " There is one 
 body and one spirit, even as ye are called in one 
 hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one bap- 
 tism. One God and Father of all, who is above all, 
 and through all, and in you all." 
 
 True, there are different names. You, sir, the 
 Rev. Mr. Wallace, are of one, and I am of 
 another, and my brother, here. Dr. Brown, is still 
 of a different name, but we are all one in G hrist 
 Jesus, to the glory of Grod the Father. 
 
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 This one church, is the body of Jesus Christ, ani- 
 mated, inhabited by His Spirit. And he has pro- 
 mised to make and present it to his Father, a 
 glorious Church, without spot or wrinkle, or any 
 such thing. And our blessed Master and Saviour is 
 now engaged in fulfilling that great and gracious 
 promise. He is now engaged in redeeming his peo- 
 ple unto Grod by his own blood, out of every 
 nation, and kindred under the whole heaven. 
 
 And you, sir, my brother, and all who love 
 our Lord Jesus in sincerity, are employed in His 
 service ^ we are laborers together with Him, in 
 the accomplishment of His vast designs. We are 
 called and commissioned to labor in His vineyard, 
 and to gather fruit unto life eternal. 
 
 And it must be a source of joy and thanksgiving 
 to you, my brother, that our adorable Lord and 
 Saviour, has permitted you to labor in his service, 
 ministering to this particular church, during the 
 third of a century. You have been permitted to 
 sow and to reap. You have seen the fruit of your 
 labors. And especially must you rejoice, as we do 
 with you to-day, that under your ministry, so many 
 souls have been turned to righteousness and added 
 to Christ's visible Church ; that so many souls have 
 
THK PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH. 177 
 
 been given as seals of your ministry, and as your 
 crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus. 
 
 On an average more than one soul a month has 
 been added to the flock over which the Holy Ghost 
 hath made you overseer. And in the aggregate, 
 more than four hundred precious immortals have 
 professed their faith in Jesus Christ as the Saviour 
 of sinners ! What triumphs of the power and 
 grace of the gospel which we preach ! 
 
 And have so many jewels been gathered by your 
 labor to deck and adorn the Redeemer's crown ? 
 and to shine as the brightness of the firmament in 
 the kingdom of our Father for ever and ever ? 
 
 And will they be seen in that day when he shall 
 make up His jewels, and be crowned with His many 
 crowns ? Then is this a day of peculiar joy and 
 thanksgiving. The Lord hath done great things for 
 us whereof we are glad. And you have especial 
 reason to " thank God and take courage." 
 
 And what changes have taken place in the chris- 
 tian world since the formation of this church, with- 
 in the century of its existence ? How has Zion 
 lengthened her cords and strengthened her stakes ! 
 What multitudes have come bending unto her and 
 
178 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 bowed themselves down at the soles of her feet, 
 and called her the City of the Lord, the Zion of the 
 Holy One of Israel I 
 
 And so, by God's blessing, " A little one has be- 
 come a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. 
 Surely the Lord hath done great things for us 
 whereof we are glad." 
 
 But especially in her missionary efforts has the 
 Church been prospered and blessed within the past 
 century. Indeed, it is not yet half a century since 
 the cause of Foreign Missions was first seriously 
 considered by any portion of the Church in this 
 land. And hardly a generation has passed away 
 since the work was first undertaken and mission- 
 aries of the Cross were sent forth to preach the 
 Gospel and make known the way of salvation to 
 those who were " sitting in the region and shadow 
 of death," and "famishing for lack of vision." 
 
 One of the first band of five missionaries sent 
 forth from this country to heathen lands, still sur- 
 vives. The others have fallen asleep. But before 
 they fell asleep they were permitted to see the fruit 
 of their labors among the dark-minded and debased 
 people to whom they were sent. They sowed the 
 
THE PROGRESS OB" THE CHURCH. 179 
 
 seed, and were permitted to gather much precious 
 fruit. They went forth weeping, but they returned 
 again bringing their sheaves with them, and still 
 their works do follow them. Others have entered 
 into their labors. But instead of five, who at first 
 represented the American churches in heathen lands, 
 there are now hundreds of laborers, in almost all 
 parts of the heathen world, preaching the Gospel, 
 translating and publishing the Holy Scriptures, in 
 different languages, and raising up a native minis- 
 try to make known among their own people the 
 unsearchable riches of Christ. 
 
 And who, does not know that the Spirit has been 
 poured upon them from on high, and that multi- 
 tudes have thereby been turned to righteousness ! — 
 translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the 
 kingdom of God's dear Son, and have had a new 
 song put into their mouths, even praise unto our 
 God ! 
 
 " People that sat in darkness have seen a great 
 light, and to them that sat in the region and 
 shadow of death, light has sprung up. The wilder- 
 ness and the solitary place have been glad for them, 
 and the desert has rejoiced and blossomed as the 
 
180 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 rose. The islands of the sea have received His law, 
 and Ethiopia is beginning to stretch out her hands 
 unto Grod." 
 
 Yes, verily, the Lord hath done great things for 
 us, whereof we are glad. " Our mouth is filled 
 with laughter, and our tongue with singing : for the 
 Lord is a great Grodand a great king above all Gods." 
 And he is giving to His Son the heathen for an in- 
 heritance, and the uttermost parts of the eai'th for 
 a possession. 
 
 Less than a half a century ago, the heathen world 
 was shut up to all evangelical efforts. It was dif- 
 ficult to find a place where the Lord's servants 
 could gain a foothold and enter upon their work. 
 There were no laborers to go forth, neither was 
 there any place in which to labor in the missionary 
 work. 
 
 But in the good providence of Q-od, the valleys 
 were exalted and the mountains and hills were made 
 low : the crooked was made straight and the rough 
 places plain ; and the way of the Lord was pre- 
 pared among the nations. Then laborers were 
 ready and waiting to go forth. And now, wide and 
 effectual doors are opened, and inviting fields are 
 
THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH. 181 
 
 white unto the harvest. The darkness of generq,- 
 tions and ages has begun to flee away and_ the true 
 light to shine. The Sun of Righteousness has 
 arisen upon them with healing in His beams, arid 
 they are rejoicing in the dawn of a brighter day. The 
 kingdom of Q-od is preached, and they are pressing 
 into it. Indeed, many have already been gathered 
 into our Father's house above. They have believ- 
 ed the word which was preached unto them, and 
 have been saved. They have died in the faith, and 
 gone to be with Christ. They have washed their robes 
 and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, 
 and are now before the throne, rejoicing in the light 
 of His countenance, and drinking from the river of 
 His pleasure. 
 
 Thus, a great work has been commenced and 
 many victories obtained — many triumphs secured 
 unto Jesus our king. And though every battle of 
 the warrior, is with confused noise, and garments 
 rolled in blood, yet these have been peaceful tri- 
 umphs, bloodless victories. For in this warfare 
 our Captain and Leader is the Prince of Peace. 
 And of the increase of His government and peace 
 there shall be no end. 
 
 Our adorable Lord and Redeemer, who has all 
 9 
 
1S2 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 power in heaven and in earth, and who is head 
 over all things to the Church, will carry on this 
 work, till the earth shall be filled with the know- 
 ledge of the glory of God, as the waters cover the 
 sea. 
 
 " Heathens, at the sight are singing : 
 Joyful times are near at hand ; 
 God, the mighty God, is speaking 
 By His word, in every land." 
 
 The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this. 
 
 Then " the mountain of the Lord's house shall be 
 established m the top of the mountains, and shall 
 be exalted above the hills : and all nations shall 
 flow unto it." 
 
 Then, in every land, and among all people, 
 churches will be planted, and sanctuaries will be 
 opened for the worship of the Lord of Hosts. And 
 the Chief Shepherd will send them pastors after His 
 own heart, to go in and out before them, and break 
 unto them the bread of life. And then may be 
 witnessed, in all lands, what we here witness to- 
 day, and which is the occasion of such deep and 
 tender joy : the union of pastor and people in re- 
 counting God's gracious dealings with them in times 
 
THE PROGRESS OF THE CHIKCH, ETC. 183 
 
 that are past, and in erecting their Ebenezer, saying, 
 hitherto the Lord hath helped us. 
 
 " Blessed jubilee ! 
 Let the glorious mornings dawn." 
 
 Two verses from Bishop Heber's inimitable 
 hymn were then sung : 
 
 " Shall we, whose souls are lighted 
 
 With wisdom from on high, 
 Shall we, to men benighted, 
 
 The lamp of light deny ? 
 Salvation ! O, salvation ! 
 
 The joyful sound proclaim, 
 Till earth's remotest nation 
 
 Has learned Messiah's name. 
 
 " Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, 
 
 And, you, ye waters, roll, 
 Till, like a sea of gloiy, 
 
 It spreads from pole to pole ; 
 Till o'er our ransomed nature, 
 
 The Lamb for sinners slain, 
 Redeemer, King, Creator 
 
 In bliss returns to reign." 
 
TESTIMONIAL 
 
 EEV. ROBERT H. WALLACE. 
 
 James Patton, Esq., chairman of a committee 
 of the congregation, appointed to procure a testi- 
 monial, to be presented to the senior pastor, came 
 forward, bearing with him a magnificent chron- 
 ometer, and addressing the President, said : 
 
 Me. President : 
 
 At a meeting of this congregation, held in this 
 place, some time since, it was unanimously resolved 
 that we would procure and present to our respect- 
 ed pastor, a suitable testimonial, in view of his past 
 services to us. 
 
 A committee was appointed, of which I am a 
 member, to procure this testimonial, to be present- 
 
TESTIMONIAL. 185 
 
 ed on this occasion, which has been done, and which 
 we now wish to present him, by the hand of our 
 esteemed friend. Rev. Joseph Kimball. 
 
 Tendering the watch to Mr. Kimball, Mr. Pat- 
 ton continued : 
 
 Sir, — We wish you to present this watch to our 
 beloved pastor, as a token of our love and friend- 
 ship for him, and our appreciation of his long-con- 
 tinued and arduous duties, as our friend and heavenly 
 adviser, and trust that he will receive it in the same 
 light in which we present it, not on account of its 
 intrinsic value, but as a lasting memorial of his con- 
 gregation. 
 
 Mr. Kimball presenting this memorial to Rev. R. 
 H. Wallace, said : 
 
 My dear Brother : — This, to you,' is a day long 
 to be remembered. Fully one-third of a century 
 has passed away since your ministerial labors, in 
 the midst of this people, began. Of those who in- 
 vited you to this pulpit not one is here. 
 
186 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 The fathers are gone, and in their stead another 
 generation has risen up to call you blessed ; who, 
 with other friends, have to-day assembled to review 
 the past, and to bless God that for an hundred years 
 he has, in this place, preserved his church and spared 
 your life for so long a period as its affectionate and 
 honored pastor, and made you the instrument, in his 
 hand, of such abundant blessings to them. 
 
 And upon this gladsome day — a day of bright 
 and joyous, though saddened memories, your affec- 
 tionate people take the opportunity of testifying, 
 through me, their grateful appreciation of your 
 labors, as a faithful minister of Christ. 
 
 As a memento to you, of their strong attachment 
 and unabated regard, they desire you to accept this 
 token of their affection. 
 
 Earnestly commending you to the grace of our 
 Lord Jesus Christ, with the prayer, that the evening 
 of your days may be glorious — illumined by the 
 Divine presence. 
 
 And that when the cross is resigned, the Lord, the 
 righteous judge, may grant to you. the crown, be- 
 stowed on those " who turn many to righteousness," 
 and who shall " shine as the stars for ever and ever.' 
 
TESTIMONIAL. 187 
 
 Take it, my brother, as the companion of the 
 remainder of your days, and in each " tick " recog- 
 nise a throb of affectionate regard, and let the 
 pleasing associations, connected with its presenta- 
 tion, fill your heart with gladness here, and lead 
 you, in vision, to brighter scenes, which shall trans- 
 pire when time shall be no longer. 
 
 Accepting this gift from the hand of his friend, 
 Mr. Wallace responded to these sentiments, as 
 follows : 
 
 My deae Brother: 
 
 It is with emotions which I cannot express, that 
 I accept this beautiful and valuable gift. " What 
 shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits?" is 
 the language of sincere, heartfelt gratitude, and it is 
 the language I am constrained to adopt this day. 
 
 And is there not cause V I am surrounded by a 
 people, who for the third of a century, have been 
 "my hope and joy, and crown of rejoicing:" A 
 people from whom I have only received kindness — a 
 kindness, which has increased with increasing years 
 up to the present moment. 
 
188 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 And are not the things which " mine eyes have 
 seen and my ears have heard" to-day, sufficient thus 
 to fill my heart? 
 
 To day, sir, I surrender, practically, the charge of 
 this people, and give it into the hand of one born 
 and reared in their midst, one of themselves — my 
 only son — who, encouraged by the many expressions 
 of regard and confidence which he has received from 
 them during the period, almost two years, in which 
 he has supplied their pulpit, has been led to under- 
 take the responsibilities of a pastor among them. 
 Thus has God blessed me beyond the common lot of 
 man. In the review of the past, I find great cause 
 of thanksgiving, in the survey of the present abun- 
 dant sources of joy and praise. 
 
 And, sir, if the doings of the church on earth are 
 known to the spirits of the "just made perfect," 
 there is joy in the presence of God over the scenes 
 of this day. The tears of the saints are not forgot- 
 ten, nor their prayers lost. 
 
 Again, I thank you for this treasure, most valua- 
 ble as a memorial of the sentiments prompting its 
 presentation, and highly creditable to the commit- 
 tee into whose hands the selection of a Testimonial 
 
TESTIMONIAL, 189 
 
 was given. Till life's latest day I shall preserve it 
 as a remembrancer of the kindness and love of my 
 cherished charge. It shall keep the tally of my 
 few remaining days on earth ; and when I shall 
 pass away to that land where the passing cycles are 
 not measured by such appliances, it shall pass into 
 other hands to be preserved from generation to 
 generation as a memorial of- the loving kindness of 
 the Lord. To every one of those yon represent, as 
 to yourself, my dear brother, would I say, in the 
 gratitude of my heart, " God bless you." 
 
 The watch, which was selected by the committee, 
 was of the best London manufacture, inclosed in a 
 beautifully chased hunting case, and bears on the 
 inside case the following inscription handsomely 
 engraved : 
 
PRESENTED 
 
 BY HIS CONGEEGATION, 
 
 AS A TOKEN OF THEIR AFFECTIONATE ESTEEM FOE HIM AS A 
 
 CHEISTIAN GENTLEMAN AND MINISTER 
 OF CHRIST, 
 
 DEC. 30, 1857. 
 
PRESENTATION 
 
 REV. R. HOWARD "WALLACE. 
 
 James G. Roe, Esq., chairman of a committee 
 from the Presbyterian Church of Cornwall, N. Y., 
 and other friends in the vicinity, presented him elf, 
 bearing with him, as a gift, to Rev. R. Howard 
 Wallace, a beautiful copy of 
 
 "THE VOYAGE OF LIFE."* 
 
 Mr. Roe said : 
 
 It is with no ordinary degree of pleasure, my 
 dear brother, that I am permitted to convey to 
 you, to-day, on behalf of the congregation with 
 which I am connected, and others of your friends 
 in Cornwall, this series of picture writings, so ex- 
 
 * This fine series of beautiful paintings, four in number, represent- 
 ing childhood, youth, manhood and old age, is by the distinguished 
 American artist Thomas Cole. 
 9* 
 
192 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 ptessively delineatitig " the voyage of life," as an ex- 
 pression of our gratitude to you for your ministerial 
 services on our behalf; and, also, of our high regard 
 for you, as man and as a minister of the Gospel of 
 Christ. And while it is, to us, a matter of great 
 regret, that your sense of duty toward thepeople of 
 your native place, prevented you from accepting the 
 pastoral office in our midst, at our earnest solicita- 
 tion, we, nevertheless, " rejoice with them that do 
 rejoice," in this portion of the great vineyard. 
 
 Allow me, my dear friend, to congratulate you 
 upon the auspicious circumstances which surround 
 you to-day ; and thus, as you descend, a voyageur on 
 the tide of life, may the blessings, both of God's 
 grace and providence, ever go with you, and in the 
 end, may you receive the crown of life. 
 
 In response to these remarks — 
 Mr. Wallace said : 
 
 I accept this gift, my dear friend, with gratitude 
 to God, and to yourself, and to those you represent, 
 
PRESENTATION TO E. HOWARD WALLACE. 193 
 
 gratified alike by the spirit which prompted the 
 gift, and with the beautiful paintings which you 
 have selected, as the token of your regard. 
 
 Accept, for yourself, dear sir, and convey to my 
 friends in Cornwall, assurances of the appreciation 
 in which I hold them, and of the pleasure they have 
 conveyed by this renewed evidence of their sinceri- 
 ty and kindness. 
 
 May the blessing of the Master of Assemblies rest 
 on your congregation, and speedily send you a 
 shepherd, breaking to you the bread of life : making 
 him the instrument of conveying to you blessings 
 which shall be " as the dew of Hermon, and as the 
 dew that descends upon the mountain of Zion." 
 
 May you all be stirred up, my brother, to active 
 energy in the work of the Lord, " for as much as 
 ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." 
 Speedily will the "voyage" be ended; then, in 
 faith, let us perform the work committed unto us, 
 " with our might," that we may receive the crown 
 of life, and enjoy a season of " rest," when this 
 life's river shall have expanded into the broad eternal 
 ocean. Not soon will I forget the delightful Sab- 
 baths I have spent in your beautiful locality, nor the 
 visits to the room where were gathered the children 
 
194 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 and youth of the fold, over which you, my dear 
 friend, are privileged to preside. 
 
 Call to their attention, on my behalf, the lessons 
 conveyed in these brilliant conceptions of our artist's 
 mind. Teach them hovp ephemeral are earthly 
 visions ; and if they vp^ander, point them to a spirit 
 grieved, and bid them believe v?hile the Holy Ghost 
 says, " To-day if ye will hear his voice." 
 
 And in the day when the crown jewels of our 
 King shall be brought forth, may you all be there to 
 the praise of His glory. 
 
 PiERSON Genung, Esq., senior member of the 
 Session of this church, presented the following com- 
 munication, addressed to the senior pastor, signed 
 by all the elders. 
 
COMMUNICATION 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 ELDERS OF LITTLE BRITAIN CHURCH. 
 
 Rev. and dear Sir : — Since, in the gracious pro- 
 vidence of our God, you first proclaimed to the 
 congregation of Little Britain the unsearchable 
 riches of Christ, one-third of a century has rapidly 
 passed away. 
 
 Assembled, as we are, with others, to commemo- 
 rate this event, as well as the centennial of the 
 church, we cannot resist, if we would, the solemn 
 reflection that presses on the mind — of the little 
 band that listened to your voice at that time scarce 
 one remains. Although then, and yet, in feeble 
 health, you have well nigh outlived the generation, 
 which, a stranger, you found here ; preserved of God 
 for the full accomplishment of your work in our 
 midst, it could hardly be, that in so long a period 
 
196 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 of faithful labor, you had not been called to endure 
 many trials which have sufficed to strengthen both 
 your faith and hope. Esteeming the trials which 
 test our confidence — no strange thing — we turn 
 with delight to the blessings which it hath pleased 
 the Head of the Church to make you the instrument 
 of conveyance to this congregation, during the long 
 period in which you have gone in and out before 
 us, breaking to us the bread of life. Before the 
 Great Shepherd and Bishop of ^ouls, we bow in 
 adoration, and bless him for all his benefits, not the 
 least of which, by far, is that of a permanent min- 
 istry. We desire to bless Him, before heaven and 
 the world, for the abundant mercies of which He 
 hath made us each, both pastor and people, the re- 
 cipients. 
 
 Like Israel of old we would erect our altar and 
 inscribe thereon, Jehovak-nissi : " The Lord our ban- 
 ner," and set up our pillar in confident faith in the 
 future, with the inscription upon it, " Ebenezer :'' 
 hitherto hath the Lord helped. 
 
 The Church of Little Britain stands to you, dear 
 sir, in a peculiar relation ; the record of the past 
 shows, that you have buried our fathers — have 
 visited our sick — and gone down with them near to 
 
COMMUNICATION. 197 
 
 the dark river ; to the mourner, you have proffered 
 the consolations of the Gospel of Grace ; to most 
 of us you administered the seal of the covenant in 
 our early childhood ; many, of two generations, you 
 have united at the marriage altar ; you have faith- 
 fully and earnestly declared to us the whole counsel 
 of God, whether men would hear or forbear. And 
 we rejoice that here so many have been gathered into 
 the garner of the Lord, whom we trust, Christ will 
 bring with him and cause to shine as stars in your 
 eternal crown. Receive from us, very dear sir, as 
 representatives of this church, assurances of our 
 strong affection and unabated regard, and of our 
 gratitude for your labors as a faithful ambassador of 
 the Cross of Christ. As officers, with you, in this 
 house of the Lord, we desire to recall the many 
 seasons of delightful intercourse we have enjoyed 
 in seeking the Divine blessing, and striving together 
 to promote the glory of God and the good of souls, 
 wherein has been preserved the unity of the spirit 
 in the bond of peace. We rejoice with you in all 
 the blessings of your life, especially of this day, and 
 pray that its evening may be glorious, and its close 
 like the setting of the morning star, which " goes 
 not down behind the darkened west, but melts 
 
198 CENTENNIAL MEMOKIAL. 
 
 away in the light of heaven ;" then shall you abide 
 in the house of the Lord forever, and the crown of 
 glory and of life be thine. 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 PIERSON GENUNG, 
 
 W. H. DENNISTON. 
 
 I. S. GOLDSMITH, 
 
 JARVIS KNAPP, 
 
 Elders. ' 
 To Eev. Robert H. Wallace. 
 
 This letter drew forth the following response : 
 
 Mr. Wallace said : 
 
 By this action you have taken me by surprise, 
 and yet I should not be surprised, as its spirit is the 
 spirit which I have always recognised in you and 
 your worthy associates — truly the " Aarons" and the 
 " Hurs" — by whom my hands have been stayed up. 
 In prosperity we have rejoiced together ; in days of 
 adversity, you have stood immovable in the discharge 
 of the sacred obligations imposed on you by the Head 
 of the church ; meriting, as you receive, the double 
 honor due to those who rule well in the house of 
 God. 
 
COMMUNICATIONS. 199 
 
 Soon, dear friends, will these days of toil be over; 
 then may God grant to you the right to gather fruit 
 eternally from the Tree of Life, and forever to sing 
 the song of redeeming love. 
 
 COMMUNICATION 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 CHURCH AT KORTRIGHT. 
 
 At the request of the Chairman, the Rev. R. How- 
 ard Wat.lace then read the following communica- 
 tion from the presiding officers of the Associate Re- 
 formed Church of Kortright, Delaware County, 
 N. Y. 
 
 At a meeting of the Session of the Associate Re- 
 formed Church of Kortright, Delaware County, 
 N. y., held Dec. 21, 1857, the following paper 
 was unanimously adopted : 
 
 To the A, R. Church and Congregation of Little 
 Britain, Orange County, New-York: 
 
 Greeting : 
 
 It is with unfeigned pleasure that we have heard 
 of your intention to celebrate the centennial of 
 
200 CENTEKNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 your existence, and the close of one-third of a cen- 
 tury of your pastor's labors among you. Such 
 occasions afford a fitting stand-point from which to 
 take a retrospect of the past, which cannot fail 
 to be both instructive and interesting. 
 
 Few churches have enjoyed such high privileges 
 as have yours. One hundred years ! 
 
 Few spots in our land have been so greatly favor- 
 ed, the last century being unusually prolific in 
 incident and change, having important bearings 
 both on the church and the world. 
 
 Amid all these the congregation of Little Britain 
 has, in the good providence of God enjoyed, almost 
 without interruption, the means of grace ; and we 
 believe that such blessings should be thankfully 
 recalled and suitably commemorated. 
 
 And, further, in consideration of the cordial 
 christian sympathy that exists between us, as sister 
 churches in Christ, which feeling, on our part, is 
 greatly enhanced by the fact, that our highly 
 esteemed pastor, Eev. Clark Irving, is a ministeri- 
 al son of your church, reared under the pastoral 
 care of one, who for the past third of a century, 
 has so faithfully labored among you in word and 
 doctrine. 
 
COMMUNICATIONS. 201 
 
 And, further, in view of the important events 
 transpiring among you. Therefore, 
 
 Resolved, I. That it is with great pleasure we are 
 assured of your present prosperity, and future pros- 
 pects. 
 
 Resolved, II. That this Session entertain senti- 
 ments of the highest esteem and regard toward 
 your very worthy pastor. Rev. Robert H. Wal- 
 lace, both as a christian and an able minister of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Resolved, III. That it is with mingled feelings of 
 regret and pleasure that we are informed of a neces- 
 sity for any change in your pastoral relations ; of 
 regret, that the infirm health of your present pastor 
 unfits him for the full discharge of his duties ; of 
 pleasure, that in God's good providence, he is per- 
 mitted to transfer a leading portion of the labors of 
 his cherished charge to the hands of his only son. 
 
 Resolved, IV. That we will ever pray that the 
 great Head of the church may still be with him and 
 make him greatly useful ; and when his work ia 
 done may say unto him, " Well done, good and 
 faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy 
 Lord." 
 
202 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Resolved, V. That his son, called to be his col- 
 league and successor in your pastorate, Eev. R. 
 Howard Wallace, has our prayers at a throne 
 of grace, that in his labors he may be abundantly 
 blessed, and that of him it may be truly said, " The 
 mantle of Elijah has fallen on Elisha." 
 
 Resolved, VI. That it is our earnest desire and 
 prayer, that on the favored spot where sire and son 
 have so long proclaimed the truth, the ordinances 
 of the gospel may be enjoyed, pure and entire, until 
 our Lord Jesus Christ shall come in millennial 
 glory. 
 
 Yours, in the bonds of the Gospel, 
 
 EDWAED R. McLAURY, 
 WILLIAM SIXSMITH, 
 PETER McCASLIN, 
 JAMES McKIE, 
 
 Elders. 
 
 The following resolution was introduced by Hon. 
 Isaac Wood and seconded by Wm. Couseb, Esq., 
 and unanimously adopted : 
 
EESOLUTIONS AND ADDEESS. 203 
 
 Resolved, That this congregation desires to-day, 
 with devout thankfulnesss, to recognise the good 
 hand of their God upon them, in graciously preserv- 
 ing them amid all the changes of a century, in con- 
 ferring upon them the ordinances of his grace, and 
 in permitting them to enjoy the benefits of a per- 
 manent ministry, and to bless Him for the abundant 
 success with which he has crowned the labors 
 of their present esteemed senior pastor, Rev. 
 Robert H. Wallace, during the'past one-third of 
 a century. 
 
 And they pray that the crown of life may be his 
 eternal reward. 
 
 " The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof 
 we are glad." 
 
 The following resolutions were introduced by 
 Rev. Dr. Foksyth, and sustained by him in a brief 
 address : 
 
 Resolved, That this assembly, composed of vari- 
 ous religious denominations, desire to place on record 
 their thanksgivings to God for the special providen- 
 tial care which he exercises over His church in the 
 
204 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 world, and which is so forcibly illustrated in the in- 
 stance of this branch of the great vine, whose Cen- 
 tennial is celebrated to-day. 
 
 Resolved, That we rejoice in the practical carry- 
 ing out of the principles of Christian liberality, wit- 
 nessed to-day, and pray that the period may be 
 hastened when all christians shall preserve the unity 
 of the spirit in the bond of peace ; then, speedily, 
 shall the " righteousness of Zion go forth as bright- 
 ness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that 
 burneth." 
 
 Resolved, That we rejoice with our friend and 
 brother, Rev. Robert H. Wallace, in the retro- 
 spect of the past, and the cignal blessings of this 
 day. 
 
 May his bow abide in strength, upon himself and 
 his associate in the pastoral office, and upon the peo- 
 ple to whom th€y minister, may the abundant 
 blessing of the gospel of peace ever descend. 
 
 Dr. Forsyth, said : 
 
 Mr. President : 
 
 I am glad that the idea of celebrating the centen- 
 nary of this church occurred to our friends in Little 
 
RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESS. 205 
 
 Britain, and that they have so pleasantly and suc- 
 cessfully carried it into effect. There are not many 
 churches in this country old enough to hold such a 
 celebration as the present, and those who are more 
 immediately concerned in it, can never hope to see 
 another. When the next centennary of this church 
 occurs, not one in this large assemblage will be here 
 to join in it. Even the youngest now before me 
 vnll be sleeping the long sleep of the tomb. 
 
 The exercises of this day must give great satis- 
 faction to my respected friend and brother, who has 
 so long presided over this ancient church, as he con- 
 siders on the one hand the vicissitudes of its history, 
 and on the other hand the results of his own minis- 
 ■ try. There have been times -during the century, 
 just closed, when it seemed as if the church must 
 cease to exist ; and if I have been rightly informed, 
 the prospect was dark and discouraging, when our 
 friend was invited to become its pastor. But as he 
 looks around him to-day, he has ample reason to 
 exclaim, " What hath God wrought !" It is, how- 
 ever, needless for me to repeat the sentiments so 
 well uttered by the gentlemen who have preceded 
 me. 
 
 This church, allow me to say, is associated with 
 10 
 
206 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 some tender personal associations. In this pulpit I 
 preached my first sermon. To be sure, I was not 
 then a minister, nor even a licentiate. It was dur- 
 ing my first year of study, and ouly a few months 
 after I had left college. Still, the preaching was in 
 public, before the people as well as the presbytery, 
 and the sermon was the first I ever pronounced. I 
 never can forget my ride from Newburgh on that (to 
 me) memorable morning, nor the feelings with 
 which I came in sight of the church, and especially 
 those with which I entered this pulpit. Since that 
 day I have spent many pleasant hours within these 
 walls, in yonder parsonage and among this people. 
 I am sure I express the feelings of all present, 
 when I say, that the* members of the congregation 
 have done honor to themselves in the honor they 
 have shown their pastors — the father who has so 
 long served them, and the son who has been to-day 
 set over them in the Lord. The beautiful time- 
 piece, presented a few moments ago to the former, 
 not only marks the rapid flight of the hours and 
 moments, but it is perpetually saying to us, "the 
 time is short," " work while the day lasts." I am 
 Buret hat my reverend brother does not need to be re- 
 minded by me of the brevity of life, or to be stimu- 
 
RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESS. 207 
 
 lated to greater diligence during the years that may 
 remain to him. And I am no less certain that you 
 will all join me in the earnest wish and prayer that, 
 the day may be distant when he shall look for the 
 last time on this symbol of his people's affection ; 
 and when its tick shall cease to be heard by the dull- 
 ed ear of death. 
 
 The friends of my young brother have also mani- 
 fested their regard for him in the fine and fitting 
 works of art which we see around us — the pictured 
 ideals of the voyage of life. Long may they adorn 
 the walls of his manse. And as he daily looks up- 
 on them, may he not only think of those from whom 
 they came, but ponder the solemn lessons they 
 suggest. May his bow abide in strength, and after 
 many years of labor for Christ, may he receive the 
 welcome plaudit, " Well done, good and faithful 
 servant." 
 
 This church, from its foundation until the present 
 moment, has remained a unit. Difference of opini- 
 on there may have been in regard to particular 
 matters, such as may be looked for in every society 
 of men accustomed to think for themselves, and 
 free to speak their sentiments. But there has been 
 no division. During the long period of a hundred 
 
208 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 years peace has been, in a remarkable degree, with- 
 in these walls ; and I am confident that all will join 
 me in the prayer, that pastor and people may ever 
 continue to be knit together in love — ^that their 
 peace may flow like a river, and their righteousness 
 • like the waves of the sea. " For my companion's 
 sake, now, will I say, peace be within thy walls, 
 and prosperity within thy palaces." And as the dew 
 descends upon Hermon, so may the blessing of the 
 Lord here abide, even life that shall never end. 
 
 These resolutions were secondeS by Rev. John 
 Brown, D.D., rector of St. George's Church, New- 
 burgh, and adopted. 
 
 The chairman, in accordance with a resolution, 
 appointed Messrs. John Oer, W. H. Miller and 
 I. S. Goldsmith a committee of publication. 
 
 After which the whole audience arose and sung, 
 with marked 'eiSect, to that " grand old tune,'' Old 
 Hundred, the following 
 
CLOSING HYMN, 
 
 WRITTEN EXPBESSLY FOR THE OCCASION, 
 
 nr MRS. L. H. SIOOURNEY. 
 
 Tour fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do thejr Eye 
 forever ? — Zachariah, 1 : 5. 
 
 Where are the fathers — they who chose 
 'Mid these green vales, their peaceful lot f 
 
 Here, where their favorite streamlet flows, 
 We call them — but they answer not. 
 
 Where are the fathers ? Tell us where t 
 
 By wintry fire-side, sparkling clear. 
 At household board, in house of prayer. 
 
 We seek them, yet they are not here. 
 
 Where are the prophets ? Gone to>iest ! 
 
 You hallow'd churchyard tells us where — 
 Yon swelling mounds, in verdure drest, 
 
 Yon silent tombstones, sadly fair. 
 
 Where are the prophets ? Gone to God ! 
 
 Those faithful laborers for the skies ; 
 Oh ! may we keep the path they trod, 
 
 And join in Heaven, earth's broken ties ! 
 
 The benediction was then pronounced by Rev. 
 Robert H. Wallace. 
 
EE-UNION 
 
 In the evening the annual congregational re-union 
 took place, at the parsonage, at which a large as- 
 semblage was gathered, including a number from 
 other churches. 
 
 Prominent among the pleasing incidents of the 
 evening, was the presentation, to the senior pastor, 
 of a splendid copy 6f Virtue's Illustrated London 
 Bible, accompanied with the following note : 
 
 Eev. and deae Brother : 
 
 Please accept this bible, from myself and a few 
 others who were formerly connected with your 
 church, as a token of our still cherished regard, and 
 of fond remembrance of those days in which, under 
 your ministrations,. we first acknowledged Christ as 
 our Master and Lord. 
 
 Let this book — the guide of your youth — ^become 
 
 the staff of your old age. 
 
 Very affectionately, 
 
 CLARK IRVING. 
 December 20, 1857. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 REV. ROBERT H. WALLACE, D. D. 
 
 BY JOHN FORSYTH, D. D. 
 
 Mr. Wallace was born in the town of Montgo- 
 mery, Orange County, New- York, on the 12th 
 November, 1796. His parents were natives of the 
 North of Ireland, and were warmly attached mem- 
 bers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. Though 
 comparatively poor in this world's goods, they were 
 rich in faith. They reached a good old age, and 
 having adorned the doctrine of Grod their Saviour, 
 during many years, by holy lives, we have every 
 reason to believe that they are now, with the great 
 multitude, before the throne. 
 
 Their son, the subject of this sketch, belongs to 
 the class- of men which is popularly described as 
 " self-made." As the pecuniary resources of his 
 
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 ■m ^ 
 
 parents were limited, he was early thrown upon his 
 own energies, and was forced to work hiS own way, 
 amid difficulties, to the profession upon which his 
 heart was fixed. His disadvantages were much in- 
 creased by the removal of his parents to Susque- 
 hanna County, Pennsylvania, at that time a newly 
 settled region, with no institutions of learning above 
 the common school. 
 
 Mr. Wallace began his course of classical study, 
 at the Montgomery Academy, then under Rev. Dr. 
 Mc JiMPSET, between whom and his pupil there was 
 formed an intimate and lifelong friendship. In his 
 eighteenth year, Mr. Wallace had made a personal 
 profession of his faith in Christ, in connection with 
 the church of which his parents were members ; 
 but in 1821, he withdrew from that body and united 
 with the church of Neelytown, to which Dr. Mc- 
 JiMPSEY then ministered. In the autumn of the 
 same year, he was received, by the Associate Re- 
 formed Presbytery 'of New- York, as a student of 
 theology. The Presbytery then included such men 
 as Drs. John M. Mason, McJimpsey, Phillips, 
 ScEiMGEOUR and McLeod, and it was then usual to 
 subject those who applied to be admitted to the 
 study of divinity, but who had not gone through a 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 213 
 
 regular academic course, to a thorough examination 
 in the various branches of literature and science. 
 Mr. Wallace bore this test, applied as it was, by 
 such men as have been named, and his attainments 
 were declared to be equivalent to those gained in 
 the ordinary collegiate curriculum. * 
 
 As the operations of the Theological Seminary 
 (then at New- York, but subsequently removed to 
 Newburgh) were suspended in consequence of the 
 failing health of Dr. Mason, the principal professor, 
 Mr. Wallace put himself under the directions of 
 his former tutor, and venerable friend. Dr. McJimp- 
 SET. He remained with him, prosecuting his theo- 
 logical studies three years, the usual time requir- 
 ed by the law of the A. R. Church, and was in due 
 course licensed by the Presbytery of New- York, to 
 preach the Grospel, at a meeting of that body held 
 in Newburgh, l-5th September, 1824. 
 
 For several years previous to his licensure, Mr. 
 Wallace, in working his own way to the ministry, 
 had been compelled to perform the double task of a 
 teacher and a theological student. He had charge 
 
 * In 1834, Mr. Wallace was admitted A. M. by Union College, 
 and more recently had the degree of D. D. conferred on him by the 
 same institution. 
 
214 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 of several schools during this period, and in all of 
 them he won the warm esteem of pupils and parents. 
 But he found, as many others have done, the double 
 labor of the school-room and study too much for 
 his physical strength ; and now, just as he had gain- 
 ed the object on which his heart had been so long 
 fixed, it seemed as if he were destined to retain it 
 in his grasp only for a moment, and must then part 
 with it forever. 
 
 At the time of his licensure, disease appeared to 
 have taken such firm hold of him, that his physi- 
 cians were very dubious about his recovery ; and, 
 in any event, judged that he must seek a field of 
 labor in the mild regions of the south. He prepar- 
 ed, at once, to act upon this advice ; but while 
 "man proposes, God disposes," and it was soon evi- 
 dent that his Divine Master had other plans in re- 
 gard to him. 
 
 He was appointed by the Presbytery of New- 
 York to supply the church of Little Britain, then 
 virtually vacant in consequence of the feeble health 
 and bodily infirmities of its venerable pastor, Mr. 
 ScEiMGEOUE. But it so happened that through an 
 exchange, his first sermon was preached in the pul- 
 pit of his friend and theological instructor, Dr. Mc- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 215 
 
 JiMPSET, at Neelytown. With this excellent man, 
 Mr. Wallace lived on terms of intimate friendship, 
 which was broken only by death. Besides occa- 
 sional visits, the two friends were accustomed, dur- 
 ing many years, to assist each other on sacramental 
 occasions in the spring and autumn. Nothing but 
 some providential hindrance, was ever allowed to 
 interfere with these stated occasions of fraternal 
 christian communion. Dr. McJimpset was a man 
 whom none could know and not love him. Though 
 he was not ranked among the great theologians 
 and preachers of his day, and though he spent the 
 greater part of his ministry in cultivating a small 
 and comparatively obscure field, his presence in the 
 pulpit was always welcomed by those who relished 
 the simple truths of the Gospel proclaimed with 
 the earnestness and unction of one who knew their 
 preciousness. Few men have been called to en- 
 dure sharper trials than those which fell to his lot, 
 yet a stranger would not have suspected it, who 
 observed only the plain serenity of his temper, his 
 unvarying patience, and his genial disposition. 
 
 But to return : Mr. Wallace spent the second 
 Sabbath after his licensure, in Little Britain, and 
 thus was introduced into the field, which he then 
 10* 
 
216 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 expected he might never see again, but which he 
 was destined to cultivate amid many tokens of 
 divine favor, for more than thirty years. This first 
 visit to Little Britain was made in Sept., 18^4. He 
 was instantly and strongly urged to remain here as 
 the pastor of the church, but he declined, as he 
 wished to make an extended missionary tour in the 
 service of the Board of Domestic Missions of the 
 A. R. Synod of J^ew-York. He was, in fact, the 
 first miissionary employed by that Board, and he 
 continued in their service until the following Sep- 
 tember. During this tour he visited Bloomingburgh, 
 White Lake, New Milford, Lawsville, Bethany, 
 Mount Pleasant, Penn., Ithaca, Erin, York, Caledo- 
 nia, N. Y., and even vvent so far west as Detroit, 
 then on the confines of civilization. 
 
 His journey was performed on horseback, over a 
 region then covered for many a weary mile with the 
 unbroken forest, but which is now thickly studded 
 over — so marvellous are the changes wrought by 
 enterprise in our country — with countless farms and 
 villages. The appliances of comfortable travel were 
 few and far between. Often the rude log hut was 
 bis only shelter. It was, in a word, a rough ser- 
 vice, but we have no doubt it afforded him the in- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 217 
 
 vigorating exercise, the health-inspiring medicine 
 needed by his enfeebled frame. 
 
 At that time, there was, as we have been assured, 
 only one steamboat plying on Lake Erie. Pruden- 
 tial considerations determined Mr. Wallice to 
 embark at Buffalo in a schooner which happened to 
 be " up" for Detroit, and to make in her the round 
 trip, as he would then be able to stop at various in- 
 tervening ports. 
 
 In the course of the voyage he spent a Sabbath 
 near an island in the Detroit river, inhabited by a 
 few families of so rude a character that the cap- 
 tain was very doubtful whether they would allow 
 religious services. However, when the proposal 
 was made they cordially assented to it, and the first 
 sermon which had ever been heard on the island 
 was preached by the young missionary. On their 
 return home, they encountered one of those sudden 
 and violent tempests, to which at that season of the 
 year, the lakes are liable, and for a time the vessel 
 and those on board were in great peril. 
 
 Early in the autumn, Mr. Wallace returned to 
 Newburgh, to attend meetings of Synod and Presby- 
 tery, and then to proceed to the South, where he 
 
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 proposed to spend the winter. Meanwhile, a press- 
 ing call was put into his hands from the then vacant, 
 church of Caledonia, and also from other places 
 which he had visited, proposals to settle were 
 made to him. These he declined ; and at the earn- 
 est solicitation of the fathers and brethren of the 
 Presbytery, he abandoned his plan of a southern 
 journey, and accepted the call from the congrega- 
 tion of Little Britain, He was ordained and in- 
 stalled in this charge on the 6th October, 1825. 
 
 As the history of this congregation is to be found 
 in another part of this volume, it would be out of 
 place to enter into it here. Yet we cannot forbear 
 to say that few iields presented, at this time, a more 
 unpromising aspect than that into which Mr. Wal- 
 lace was led, that he might cultivate it in the 
 name of the Lord. The church was old and dilap- 
 idated. The congregation was, as the French 
 would say, demoralize ; the number of communi- 
 cants were small ; piety was at a low ebb in the 
 church, while outside of it, vice and irreligion 
 abounded. And, now, as we contrast the moral 
 and spiritual condition of the community and the 
 church, as it was thirty years ago, and as it is now, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 219 
 
 and has long been, we have ample cause to exclaim, 
 " What hath God wrought !" Very soon after the 
 settlement of Mr.* Wallace, measures were taken 
 for a complete remodeling and an enlargement of 
 the old church ; a comfortable parsonage was pur- 
 chased ; the congregation rapidly increased ; a new 
 life began to manifest itself ; and, in a word, it was 
 plain that old things were passing away. 
 
 The life of a christian pastor, whether in town 
 or country, usually flows on in an even current, 
 unmarked by any of those stirring events which 
 awaken general interest. The study, the pulpit, 
 the prayer-meeting, the chamber of sorrow and of 
 sickness, combine to make up the sphere which 
 enlists his sympathies, and calls out his energies. 
 While aiming to be all things to all men in the hope 
 of gaining them to Christ ; while cultivating, so far 
 as he can, relations with persons of all classes and 
 conditions, and watching the " course of this world" 
 in its politics, its literature, its commerce, so that 
 he may be the better able to give point and emphasis 
 to the lessons of the pulpit, the faithful minister of 
 Christ will, at the same time, make it manifest that 
 he is not " of the world," that he is neither a politi- 
 cian, nor a mere man of business, nor a mere scho- 
 
220 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 lar. And hence, as we have before said, there can 
 be little in his daily life to awaken the special inter- 
 est of others, unless extraordinary success is vouch- 
 safed to his labors, or he is called to endure 
 extraordinary trials. As the years passed, Mr. 
 Wallace grew in the affections of his own people, 
 and more and more won the warm regard of the 
 neighboring churches, with whose pastors he has 
 maintained the most fraternal relations. 
 
 In New-York, Newburgh and elsewhere, his ap- 
 pearance in the pulpit was ever a welcome sight to 
 multitudes, whose only regret was, that the privi- 
 ledge was one so rarely enjoyed by them. He has 
 been, indeed, always noted for his close keeping at 
 home ; rarely, if ever, did he leave his own pulpit, 
 unless at the call of public duty, or to recruit his 
 enfeebled energies for a few weeks during the heat 
 of summer. 
 
 From the time of his admission into the Presby- 
 tery of New- York, as a student of theology, until 
 the present moment, Mr. Wallace has always ex- 
 hibited a warm affection for the Associate Reformed 
 Church. Though the state of his health would not 
 allow him to take a large share in what may be 
 
BIO»BAFHICAL SKETCHES. S31 
 
 called the public business of the church, he haa 
 been a regular attendant at the meetings of the 
 Presbytery and Synod ; and when topics of impor- 
 tance have been under diseifssion, he has taken a 
 pirominent part in the debates. His views of the 
 ground occupied by the Associate Reformed Church, 
 on those subjects, viz : psalmody, communion and 
 slavery, which have occasioned, at various periods 
 in her history, more or less agitation, are the views 
 advocated by Annan, Mason, McJimpsey, Pbodd- 
 FIT, and other fathers of the church ; and as oppor- 
 tunity offered he has supported them with ability. 
 Were it possible, we would gladly reproduce some 
 of the speeches he delivered in Synod, especially on 
 the question of close or catholic communion, as fine 
 specimens of ecclesiastic eloquence. Unfortunate- 
 ly, no report of them has been preserved, and they 
 live only in the •recollection of those who heard 
 them, and who listened to the speaker with the most 
 profound attention. 
 
 Mr. Wallace has ever believed that the basis on 
 which the fathers of the Associate Reformed Church 
 meant to plant her, may be described in the well 
 known sentence, " in essentials unity, in non- 
 essentials liberty, in all things charity." And there 
 
222 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 can be little doubt that if her ministers and mem- 
 bers had been of one mind, in regard to this funda- 
 mental principle, her history and present position 
 would have been very diiferent from what they are. 
 Her energies have been paralyzed, and her aggres- 
 sive movements have been impeded by debates and 
 divisions growing out of attempts to fix by law 
 what must, in the nature of things, be left to the 
 christian discretion of pastors and sessions, by those 
 who somehow, could not distinguish between a 
 principle and the mode of its application ; who not 
 content with the recognition of the truth that 
 the psalter should be used in the worship of God, 
 must needs tie men down to a particular version of 
 it, because, forsooth, they deemed it the best one 
 extant. The vantage ground held by the church in 
 her earlier days was soon lost, and once forfeited it 
 could never be regained. • 
 
 On the occasion of the Centennary, Mr. Wal- 
 lace said, that an old friend had remarked to him, 
 " that he ought, indeed, to be a happy man in the 
 review of the past and in the survey of the pre- 
 sent." The whole assembly, gathered on that 
 occasion, doubtless, adopted the sentiment. His 
 ministerial course, when he entered upon his work. 
 
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 seemed as if it must be a brief one, yet he has been 
 permitted to " fulfil his course," for many years, to 
 proclaim through all those the glorious Gospel, to 
 build up one of the old wastes, to prepare many 
 souls to become jewels in the Redeemer's crown, 
 and who shall be, we trust, his own joy and crown 
 in the day of the Lord Jesus. Though he has al- 
 ready done a great deal of work for Christ and his 
 Church, we are sure that all his friends will join in 
 the prayer, that he may be enabled, for many a 
 year to come, to do a great deal more ; and at last, 
 in a good old age, have an abundant entrance into 
 the everlasting kingdom of the Lord and Saviour. 
 
SKETCH 
 
 / or THE 
 
 V 
 
 CLINTON FAMILY, 
 
 BT THE 
 
 HON. CHARLES A. CLINTON. 
 
 Mt dear Sir: 
 
 In compliance with your request, I send you the 
 following brief notice of the members of my family, 
 who were either born in or among the first settlers 
 of Little Britain, in Orange, then Ulster County : 
 
 Charles Clinton, my great-grandfather, was 
 the grandson of William Clinton, who was an 
 adherent of Charles I., and an officer in his army. 
 After the dethronement of that monarch, he took 
 refuge on the Continent of Europe, where he re- 
 mained a long time in exile. He afterwards secretly 
 visited Scotland, where he married a Miss Kennedy, 
 
BI06BAPHICAL SKETCHES. 226 
 
 and then for greater security, passed over to the 
 north of Ireland, where he died, deprived of his 
 patrimony and leaving James, his son, an orphan two 
 years old. When James reached manhood he went to 
 England to recover his patrimonial estate, but was 
 not successful. While on this visit to the country of 
 his ancestors, he married a daughter of a captain 
 Smith, in Cromwell's army, which connection 
 enabled him to maintain a respectable standing in 
 the country which he had selected for his residence. 
 
 Chaelbs Clinton, the only son of James, was 
 born in the county of Longford, in Ireland, in 1690. 
 He resolved in 1729 to emigrate to British America ; 
 and having persuaded a number of his friends and 
 relatives to join him, he chartered a ship for the pur- 
 pose of conveying his colony to Philadelphia. The 
 name of this "good vessel or ship," was the 
 " Greorge and Anne," of Dublin, burthen about 
 ninety tons, and was chartered by Charles Clin- 
 ton, George Lille, Eobert Frazer, William 
 Hamilton and Thomas, Dunlop, for themselves and 
 sixty-five others. 
 
 On the 20th May, 1729, the ship left Ireland. 
 After being at sea for some time it was discovered 
 
226 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 that the captain had formed a design of starving his 
 passengers to death, either with the view to obtain 
 their property or to deter emigration. Several of 
 the passengers actually died, among whom were a 
 son and daughter of Mr. Clinton. In this awful 
 situation it was proposed by the passengers to seize 
 the captain and commit the navigation of the ves- 
 sal to Mr. CLI^TON, who was an excellent mathe- 
 matician ; but the officers of the ship refusing to 
 co-oporate with them, they were deterred from this 
 proceeding from the apprehension of incurring the 
 charge of piracy. They were finally compelled to 
 commute with the captain for their lives by paying 
 a large sum of money; who, accordingly, landed 
 them at Cape Cod on the 4th of October. Mr. 
 Clinton and his friends continued in that part of 
 the country until the spring of 1731, when they 
 removed to the county of Ulster, in the province of 
 New-York, and formed a flourishing settlement called 
 Little Britain. Here he devoted himself to agricul- 
 ture and occasionally acted as a land surveyor. He 
 was soon appointed a justice of the peace, and a 
 judge of the county of Ulster. 
 
 In 1756, he was appointed by the governor, Sir 
 Charles Hardy, lieutenant-colonel of the second 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 227 
 
 regiment of militia for the county of Ulster. On 
 the 24th March, 1758, he was appointed a lieuten- 
 ant-colonel of one of the battalions of the regiment 
 in the province of New- York, of which Oliver 
 Delancy was colonel. In this capacity he acted 
 under the command of General Bradstreet, as the 
 captain of Fort Frontenac. 
 
 When G-EORGE Clinton, the father of Sir Henry 
 Clinton, was installed governor of the province in 
 1 753, an intimacy took place between him and Mr. 
 Clintoa', in consequence of which, and their distant 
 consanguinity, the latter was earnestly solicited by 
 his namesake to accept of a lucrative and distinguish- 
 ed office, which overture he promptly declined, pre- 
 ferring the charms of retirement and the cultivation 
 of literature to the cares of public life. 
 
 Mr. Clinton's wife was Elizabeth Denniston, 
 a relative of one of his fellow emigrants. She was a 
 woman of great excellence and of highly cultivated 
 mind, as appears by one or more of her letters now 
 in my possession. By her he had four sons born in 
 this country : Alexander, born April 17, 1732. 
 He was educated at Princeton, New Jersey, and 
 practiced until his death, as a physician. He died, 
 unmarried, in March, 1757. Charles, born 20th of 
 
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 July, 1734, and died, unmarried, April 30th, 1791. 
 He was also a physician and a surgeon in the army 
 which took Havana, in the island of Cuba. Colonel 
 Charles Clinton-, died at his place, in Ulster 
 County, on the 19th day of November, 1773, in his 
 83d year. By his will he made provision for the 
 family graveyard, that now exists in Little Britain, 
 and directed that his executors should procure a 
 suitable stone to lay over his grave, " whereon I 
 would have the time of my death, my age, and 
 coat-of-arms cut. I hope," says he, " that they will 
 indulge me in this last piece of vanity." 
 
 My grandfather, James Clinton, was his third 
 son, and was born on the 9th of August, 1736. In 
 common with his brother, he received an excellent 
 education. The study of the exact sciences was his 
 favorite pursuit, but the predominant inclination 
 of his mind was for a military life. After having 
 held several offices in the provincial troops, he was 
 appointed by lieutenant-governor Colden, captain 
 commandant of the four companies in the pay of the 
 province of New- York, raised for the defence of the 
 western frontiers of the counties of Ulster and Or- 
 ange, and shortly after- a lieutenant-colonel in the 
 militia in Ulster county. In the French war of 1756, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES- 229 
 
 he was a captaia under Bradstreet, at the capture 
 of Frontenac. After the termination of this war he 
 married Mary DeWitt, a young lady of great 
 merit, whose family emigrated from Holland. 
 When the American Revolution was on the eve of 
 its commencement, he was appointed by the Conti- 
 nental Congress, colonel of the 3rd regiment of 
 New-York forces, and after various promotions, a 
 ■ brigadier-general in the service of the United States, 
 and at the close of the war a major-general. In 
 1775, his regiment composed part of the army of 
 General Montgomery, in the invasion of Canada. 
 In Oct., 1777, he commanded at Fort Clinton, which, 
 with Fort Montgomery, was under the command of 
 his brother, governor Gteorge Clinton. These 
 posts were assailed by Henry Clinton, with an 
 army of four thousand men ; and although imper- 
 fectly fortified, and occupied by only five hundred 
 men, which, with the exception of Lamb's company 
 of artillery, were all militia, were defended with 
 great obstinacy, but were finally carried by them. 
 General Clinton was the last man who left the 
 works, and not until he was severely wounded by a 
 bayonet, pursued and fired at by the enemy, and his 
 attendant servants killed. He was subsequently 
 11 
 
230 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 with Sullivan's expedition against the six nations, 
 which resulted in their disastrous defeat at New- 
 town. For a considerable portion of the war he 
 was stationed at Albany, where he commanded in 
 the northern department. Here was he distinguish- 
 ed for his vigilance and great energy. He was 
 afterwards at the siege of Yorktown and capture 
 of BuRGOYNE, and his brigade had the honor 
 of receiving the colors of the enemy. His last 
 appearance in the army was on the evacuation of 
 the city of New- York, where he bid his commander- 
 in-chief a final and afiectionate farewell, and retired 
 to his estate. He was, however, frequently called 
 from his retirement by the unsolicited voice of his 
 fellow-citizens. He was appointed commissioner to 
 adjust the boundary line between Pennsylvania and 
 New- York, and was also selected by the legislature 
 to settle controversies respecting lands in the 
 west. He also represented his native county in the 
 Assembly and in the Convention that adopted the 
 Constitution of the United States. He was elected, 
 without opposition, a senator from the middle dis- 
 trict, and a delegate to the convention of 1801, for 
 the purpose of amending the State Constitution, all 
 of which trusts he executed with integrity and 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 231 
 
 ability, and to the perfect satisfaction of his consti- 
 tuents. The temper of General Clinton was mild 
 and affectionate ; but when roused by unprovoked 
 insult or unmerited injury, he exhibited extraordi- 
 nary energy. He died on the 22d of December, 
 1812, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and was 
 interred, in the family burying place, at Little Bri- 
 tain, in Orange County. 
 
 George Clinton, vice-president of the United 
 States, was born in the county of Ulster, N. Y., July 
 26, 1739, and was the youngest son of colonel Chas. 
 Clinton. In 1768, he was chosen to a seat in the 
 Colonial Assembly, and continued in it, and was one 
 of its most conspicuous members until the Revolu- 
 tion. He was appointed, April 22, 1775, a dele- 
 gate to the Continental Congress, and took his seat 
 on the 15th May. On the 4th of July, 1776, he 
 was present at the Declaration of Independence, 
 and assented, with his usual energy, to the mea- 
 sure ; but having been appointed a brigadier-general 
 in the army, was obliged to retire from Congress, 
 immediately after his vote was given, and before 
 the instrument was transcribed for the signature of 
 members, for which reason his name does not appear 
 
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 among the signers. In April, 1777, he was elected 
 both governor and lieutenant-governor of New-York, 
 and was continued in the former office for eighteen 
 years. He continued during the progress of the 
 war to render the most important services to the 
 military department. It was owing greatly to his 
 influence that the army was prevented from being 
 disbanded, tod to his exertions that the southern 
 and northern States were not separated by the in- 
 tervention of the British. On being apprised, in 
 October, 1777, of the advance of the enemy from 
 New-York, up the Hudson, to form a junction with 
 BuRGOYNE, he prorogued the Assembly and too^ 
 command of Fort Montgomery, in which he made 
 a most gallant defence ; but being overpowered by 
 superior numbers, with his brother James, escaped 
 under the cover of the night. In 1801, he was 
 again chosen governor, and in 1804, advanced to the 
 vice-presidency of the United States, and continued 
 in the office until his death, which took place at 
 Washington, April 20, 1812, in the seventy-thud 
 year of his age. He possessed a discriminating in- 
 tellect, the most undaunted courage, and gi'eat 
 energy of character. He was distinguished as a 
 soldier, an able statesman, and an ardent patriot, 
 
BIOaRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 233 
 
 and filled the several public stations, to which he 
 was elevated, with an ability, uprightness, and use- 
 fulness, which placed him, both in public esteem 
 and on the pages of history, among the most illustri- 
 ous worthies of the Revolution. In early life he 
 married Miss Cornelia" Tappan, of Ulster county, 
 and left but one son, whose only son died some 
 years since, unmarried, so that the family name has 
 disappeared in this branch of the family. Governor 
 Clinton, dying at Washington, was buried in the 
 Congressional burial ground. 
 
 My grandfather had four sons : Alexander, born 
 1765, who was drowned in crossing from Pawlus 
 Hook, now Jersey City, in a ferry periagua. He 
 was young at the time of his death, but was in 
 the battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and 
 distinguished for his gallantry in that desperate ac- 
 tion. He was well educated, and much beloved 
 and respected. Charles, the second son, was bom 
 in 1767, and was versed in the exact sciences, and 
 was much employed in his profession as a surgeon. 
 My uncle G-eorge, the youngest son, was born in 
 1771. He was a well educated and accomplished 
 gentleman, and at different times represented the 
 city of New- York in the State legislature and in 
 
234 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Congress. I have not the dates of the death of 
 either of my uncles. 
 
 Of my father I shall speak very briefly, as his 
 biography is in the course of preparation, and will 
 be published in due time.> He was the third son of 
 G-eneral James Clinton, and was born either at 
 Little Britain, at the fort on the Minisink, then 
 under the command of his uncle. Colonel DeWitt, 
 or at New Windsor, in a house now shown as his 
 birth place. This diversity of opinion is mentioned 
 in Eageb's History of Orange County, and I have no 
 means of determining this controverted matter. He 
 was primarily educated by the Rev. Mr. Moffatt, 
 the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Blooming 
 Grove ; was subsequently removed to the academy at 
 Kingston, in Ulster county, and completed his educa- 
 tion at Columbia College, graduating with the high- 
 est honors. He studied law with Samoel Jones, 
 one of the most learned jurists of the day. And 
 was admitted to th9 bar, where it appears by his 
 Register that he had an excellent business. On the 
 death of his brother Alexander, he was appointed 
 private secretary to his uncle, Grovernor GrEORfiE 
 Clinton, which was the most probable cause of 
 his implication in the politics of the day. In 1796, 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 235 
 
 he married Maria Franklin, the daughter of an 
 eminent merchant in New-York, of the quaker per- 
 suasion. She was a lady of great beauty and highly 
 accomplished. This union was a happy one, but 
 was dissolved in 1818, by her death. She left a 
 family of four sons and three daughters, of whom 
 only my brother George and myself and one daugh- 
 ter survive. She is described as a lady of retiring 
 and domestic habits ; as a warm-hearted and most 
 amiable woman, devoted to the happiness of her 
 husband and children, and her death was an irrepa- 
 ble loss to her family. Mr. Clinton held various 
 elective offices : was a member of Assembly, and 
 subsequently of the State Senate and Council of 
 appointment ; and in 1801, when thirty-two years 
 of age, was elected a member of the United States 
 Senate, being one of the youngest men who have 
 ever taken a seat in that august body. Here he 
 distinguished himself in the debate on the Mississippi 
 question. He contiuued in this situation for two 
 years, when he resigned his office in consequence of 
 his being appointed mayor of New- York. This 
 office he held for several years, but was eventually 
 removed from it in 1815, an adverse political party 
 having the control of the appointing power. While 
 
236 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 in this office he was distinguished for his energy and 
 great efficiency. As judge of the Mayor's Court, 
 (the Common Pleas not being then in existence,) he 
 displayed great legal acquirement and judicial 
 talent, and the possession of the former is also 
 manifested in his opinions in the Court of Errors. 
 He gave an efficient support to the war of 1812, 
 not only by his aid in effecting government loans, 
 and by working with his own hands on the fortifica- 
 tions on Long Island, but also in his charges to the 
 grand juries, and in his speeches to our victorious 
 naval and military commanders on their glorious 
 victories. Holding the commission of major-gene- 
 ral, in the militia of this State, he applied for an 
 active command in the field, which was refused in 
 consequence of the jealousy of the then dominant 
 party. 
 
 As an executive officer, he was singularly vigor- 
 ous and efficient. He promptly suppressed the 
 most dangerous mobs, alv^ays riding on horseback 
 at the head of the police force. The promptitude 
 of his action, his well known resolution and deter- 
 mined courage, and the admirable organization of 
 the police force, promptly suppressed every mob 
 that appeared, and struck terror in the hearts of the 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 237 
 
 enemies of public order, so that it may be truly 
 said, that law and order reigned triumphant ; the 
 sacredoess of the pulpit was not violated, as threat- 
 ened, nor the freedom of the press invaded. 
 
 In 1817, he was triumphantly elected governor 
 of the State, which office he held, with a short in- 
 terruption, until his death, on February 11, 1828. 
 His remains rest in G-reenwood Cemetery, in a 
 vault beneath a colossal bronze statue, erected in 
 honor of his memory, by several of the most intel- 
 ligent and respectable gentlemen in the city of New- 
 York. 
 
 While governor, he successfully inaugurated and 
 perfected the splendid system of internal improve- 
 ments, which has made New- York one of the greatest 
 commercial emporiums in the world, and the State of 
 New- York the empire state of the Union. On this 
 subject I shall not dwell. It is sufficiently well un- 
 derstood to render further remark unnecessary. 
 He also identified himself with the great cause of 
 religious freedom — the keystone, — and education 
 and political enlightenment, the corner stones of a 
 great republic. He was, also, the friend and advo- 
 cate of the struggling mechanician, Fulton ; the 
 
238 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 patron of the accomplished naturalist, Wilson, and 
 the generous benefactor of merit and talent when- 
 ever it came under his observation. His society- 
 was sought for by all intelligent foreigners visiting 
 this, then comparatively unknown, country ; his 
 messages, as governor, were published in the London 
 papers, and he was a member of most of the learn- 
 ed societies in Europe. He was an excellent classi- 
 cal scholar ; an admirable satirical writer ; a far 
 seeing political economist, and a correct naturalist. 
 He was free from the vices which too frequently 
 disfigure the lives of public men, and omitted no 
 opportunity to avow his entire belief in the Chris- 
 tian revelation. As a politician, he was firm and 
 determined, but while he strove for political ascend- 
 ency, his success was always identified with the 
 promotion of the public interests, and this was so 
 well understood by the people, who conferred hon- 
 ors upon him, that they never failed to elect him to 
 office, whenever he came before them as a candi- 
 date. Although a vigorous political opponent, he 
 was always kind and considerate, placable and 
 forgiving ; and if time and space allowed, I could 
 mention several remarkable instances of his gener- 
 osity and magnanimity in overlooking wrong and for- 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 239 
 
 giving injury. In speaking of him, in these terms, 
 my language is not dictated by filial ailection, but I 
 will not be deterred from doing justice to his memo- 
 ry from the consideration of my near connection 
 with him. He has ceased from his labors and has 
 long been in his grave. Upwards of thirty years 
 have elapsed since his death, and he has now become 
 one of the historical characters of the country. I 
 speak of him, as he was, — as he was known to those 
 who enjoyed his friendship, and as he 'is regarded by 
 the present generation. 
 
 I have now finished this brief sketch of my family, 
 and regret that I have not been able to compress it 
 within a more limited space. I have written it hastily, 
 without emendation or correction, extracting liber- 
 ally from the writings of others, and making no pre- 
 tence to originality. I was my father's private 
 secretary during the latter part of his life, and al- 
 though a boy, participated liberally in the contests 
 of the day. I saw and was well acquainted vsrith 
 the violent struggle for and against the canal. I 
 personally knew many of the participators in this 
 great controversy, and with this knowledge of those 
 interesting days, I feel justified in speaking some- 
 what authoritatively. 
 11* 
 
240 CKNTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 If my ancestors rendered services to the public, 
 they were recognized by their fellow-citizens ; 
 and if their good works live after them, their memo- 
 ry will be honored. 
 
 With assurances of great respect for yourself and 
 the members of your committee, 
 
 I am, with great esteem, sincerly yours, 
 . ^ C. A. CLINTON. 
 
 Eev. E Howard Wallace. 
 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 
 
 The burying ground at Little Britain is one of 
 the oldest in the country. Moss-covered tablets 
 reveal the influences of accumulated years. Names 
 novsr nearly obliterated by the tooth of time, v^hile 
 scarce do they indicate the place where rests the dust 
 of the departed, bear witness to the truths of Grod's 
 revealed word. Happy they to whom belong 
 " the resurrection and the life," who first shall rise, 
 to meet their Lord in the air, " When he shall come 
 to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all 
 them that believe." 
 
 Amid the multitudes in this unpretending enclo- 
 sure, are the early pillars of this church, its ofiicers, 
 and one of its pastors. Rev. James Scrimgeoue, 
 whose clarion voice oft proclaimed in this temple 
 the great truths of Redemption. 
 
 " They that be wise shall shine as the brightness 
 of the firmament : and they that turn many to 
 righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever." 
 
2*2 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 Sad, though pleasant memories cluster around 
 the place of the dead ; of these a few have been 
 furnished for record here : 
 
 ROBERT BLAKE, 
 
 Mr. Robert Blake died at Coldenham, Orange 
 County, New- York, on the 3rd November, 1849, in 
 the seventy-sixth year of his age. The following 
 tribute is paid to his memory by his former pastor, 
 Rev. Dr. McElroy : 
 
 " Some twelve or fifteen years ago, Mr. Blake 
 removed to the place of his late residence, from the 
 city of New-York, where he had long been a mem- 
 ber and a ruling elder in the Scotch Presbyterian 
 Church. 
 
 " Though the deceased was a plain, unassuming 
 man, with little or no pretension to exterior polish, 
 yet seldom do we meet with so many excellencies 
 in a single character. 
 
 " Professing religion in the morning of life, the 
 influence of -vital Christianity in him, was ever visi- 
 ble in all the relations he sustained; and at his 
 advanced age he went down to the grave pos- 
 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 243 
 
 sessing the respect and confidence and esteem of all 
 who knew him. According to his means and oppor- 
 tunities, it is sincerely believed, that few men have 
 done more for advancing the best interests of the 
 church and of the world. 
 
 " He was a man of great simplicity of character, 
 altogether above the petty acts of inferior minds. 
 
 " He was distinguished for his integrity, governed 
 strictly by moral principle in all the transactions of 
 life. He was a generous man ; though not possess- 
 ed of great wealth, yet he was always among the 
 wealthiest in contributing to benevolent purposes. 
 
 " A man of peace himself, he was a peace-maker, 
 wherever it was practicable to be so ; he could not 
 breathe the atmosphere of strife and bitterness. 
 
 " In his friendships he was ardent and enduring, 
 ever ready to meet the wishes of those who had 
 any fair claim upon his kindness, and not to be 
 shaken in his attachments without good and suffici- 
 ent cause. 
 
 " His crowning excellence, however^^was, that he 
 was a firm believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 "This is the principle from which sprung the 
 virtues, just mentioned, and the many other virtues 
 which adorned his character. 
 
244 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 " What a blessing it is to the world that such men 
 are spared to a good old age ! By their prayers, by 
 their example, by their influcDce, they greatly pro- 
 mote all the essential interests of human society. 
 They are the salt of the earth ; and were they not 
 suffered to remain amidst the mingled mass, how 
 speedily would a moral putrefaction ensue ! 
 
 ". Whilst, therefore, the writer of this brief tri- 
 bute, to the memory of one he highly valued, 
 mourns his departure with unfeigned sorrow, he 
 would also be thankful for the good he has been in- 
 strumental in effecting, and rejoice in the assurance 
 that he has gone to reap a corresponding reward." 
 
 MRS. NANCY WALLACE. 
 
 Mrs. Nancy Wallace, wife of Rev. R. H. Wal- 
 liACE, died at Little Britain, on the 5th June, 1848, 
 in the fifty-eighth year of her age. Although the 
 state of her health had been feeble and declining 
 for some years preceding, yet her death occurred 
 suddenly, and to her friends in an unexpected hour. 
 But the last enemy that remained to be conquered, 
 found her waiting his attack, clad in the armor of 
 
OBITUAET NOTICES. 245 
 
 spiritual resistance, and resting on the Rock of eter- 
 nal truth. It was on the morning of the Sabbath, 
 the day preceding her death, that her strength be- 
 gan rapidly to fail, and she seemed ready to enter 
 on that scene where 
 
 " Congregations ne'er break up, 
 And Sabbaths have no end." 
 
 But reviving again, she was spared to renew her 
 testimony to the faithfulness of God. To her hus- 
 band, who had been absent during the day, laboring 
 in a neighboring parish, but who returned to find 
 her still able to converse, she said, " My trust is in 
 Jesus ; he is very precious to me. I would sit with 
 Mary at his feet and leavn yet more of Him." Re- 
 ference being made to the severe trial her faith had 
 experienced in being deprived of the privileges of 
 God's house, from which she had been detained for 
 several years, she said, " He has done all things 
 well. I love to hear the Bible read. I love the 
 gospel of Christ ;" and referred with delight to a 
 meeting for prayer, which had been held at the par- 
 sonage, a few days before. She had often been in 
 bondage, through fear of death, but he who heareth 
 
246 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 prayer was pleased in this, also, to give her the vic- 
 tory. Her physical nature gradually failed until 
 Monday morning, when calmly she passed away to 
 other — and who shall doubt it ? — to brighter scenes, 
 " where the wicked cease from troubling, and the 
 weary are at rest," — to that " eternal world of joy" 
 where 
 
 " Every power finds sweet employ." 
 
 A large concourse followed her remains to the 
 tomb, where they shall rest in hope, under angelic 
 guard, until the resurrection morn. 
 
 The following extract is from a brief tribute, by 
 one who knew her well, addressed to her son, who 
 was absent at college at the period of her death : 
 " As a token of sincere affection for her, who was 
 so suddenly called to ' put on immortality,' whom 
 none knew but to regard with affection.'" 
 
 " Why grew thy eye so tearful ? 
 Thy soul so dark and sad? 
 
 " Didst thou forget she sung a song, 
 Sweeter than angels sing ? 
 (For their songs echo, but their tone 
 Her's of redemption ring.) 
 
OBITUAKT NOTICES. 247 
 
 "Did you not read in her sweet face 
 Though spread with death's pale gloom, 
 The language irresistible, 
 
 ' Weep not for me — Tm home !' " 
 
 " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, 
 from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that they 
 may rest from their labors, and their works do fol- 
 low them." 
 
 The following extracts are from a notice of her 
 death, and from the sermon preached on the occa- 
 sion of her funeral by Rev John McJimpset, D.D. : 
 
 " To the honor of her memory, it may be justly 
 added, that her dying exercises, as a christian, were 
 in perfect accordance with the excellence of her re- 
 ligious character. 
 
 *' On her own profession, her name was enrolled 
 among the followers of Christ, nearly thirty years 
 before. The whole tenor of her subsequent life 
 furnishes the most satisfactory evidence, that the 
 Christian profession she then made, was sincere; 
 and that she, indeed, gave herself away to the Lord 
 in an everlasting covenant, never to be forgotten ! 
 
 " Some of the leading and excellent traits of char 
 
248 CEISTEKNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 acter, were the humility and meekness of her spirit, 
 her uncommon prudence, the kind reception, and 
 hospitable treatment she gave her friends and ac- 
 quaintances who called at her house ; her regard for 
 the peace and prosperity of the church ; .her affec- 
 tion for the people of God ; her delight in social 
 prayer and religious conversation. 
 
 *' She was distinguished, also, in an uncommon 
 degree, for her attachment to, and her regular at- 
 tendance upon, the public worship and ordinances of 
 the Lord's house, so long as the state of her health 
 permitted 
 
 " The mamory of the just is blessed. It will be 
 held in affectionate remembrance by her christian 
 friends and acquaintances, and ought to have a 
 happy influence in recommending the religion of 
 Christ to others, that they may, like the friend who 
 has finished her course, be useful and respected in 
 fife, and blessed in death. It is for this purpose we 
 would record the memory of the excellent ones of the 
 earth, and hold up their example as worthy of imi- 
 tation, that all may be stimulated and encouraged 
 to be ' followers of them, who through faith and 
 patience inherit the promises.' 
 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 249 
 
 "If the gospel aifords us such assurances of 
 the christian's triumph over the last enemy, the 
 subject opens up a source of rich consolation when 
 called to mourn the death of dear relatives vs'ho 
 gave evidence of their christian character. 
 
 " Their death, the gospel warrants us, to view as 
 a safe and happy death. It was the hour of their 
 victory over their last enemy. In regard to them 
 he was then actually and truly destroyed. He had 
 lost his sting, and, therefore, had no power to hurt 
 or destroy them ; yea, more, through the death and 
 power of the Redeemer, who had vanquished death, 
 he was changed into a friend and a blessing, so that 
 instead of being inflicted as a curse, it was unspeak- 
 able gain. The emancipated spirit has gone to be 
 with Christ, and the body sleeps in Jesus until the 
 resurrection morn, to be raised up in life and im- 
 mortality. Qalled then, as some of you are this 
 day, to mourn the loss of a dear and beloved friend, 
 the subject opens up to you a source of rich conso- 
 lation. What ought to mitigate your grief in a 
 special manner, and lead you to resignation under 
 this sudden and afflictive bereavement is, that you 
 have not been left to sorrow as those who have no 
 hope. Your deceased friend, there is no reason to 
 
250 
 
 CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL. 
 
 doubt, has been blessed in her death, and gone to be 
 with Christ, which is far better. It is not my inten- 
 tion, neither would time permit, on the present 
 occasion, to dwell on the evidence or excellence of 
 her christian character. The evidence of it does 
 not rest solely on her last exercises in a dying hour, 
 satisfactory as they wore, but on the whole tenor of 
 her life, as a professed follower of Christ. Long 
 did she sustain the character of an humble and con- 
 sistent christian. It was my privilege to be person- 
 ally acquainted with her for a long period. Nearly 
 thirty years ago, under my ministry, she united her- 
 self with the church of her choice in a pubhc 
 christian profession, and partook of the precious 
 memorial of her Saviour's death ; and the whole 
 course of her life since that time has furnished the 
 most satisfactory evidence of the sincerity of her pro- 
 fession. If kindness and meekness of temper — ^if re- 
 gard to the peace and prosperity of the church — 
 if affection to the people of God — if delight in so- 
 cial prayer and hearing the scriptures read — if at- 
 tachment to, and a regular attendance upon, the 
 worship of Grod and the ordinances of his house, 
 are to be accounted any evidence of christian char- 
 acter, then may she be ranked among the excellent 
 
OBITUARY NOTICES. 251 
 
 of the earth, and her example held up as worthy of 
 imitation. While the mourners, bereaved of such a 
 dear friend, cannot but sensibly feel their loss, let 
 the thought console them that it is her gain. This 
 may well alleviate your sorrow, and tenderly urge 
 you to resignation, and to adopt the sentiment of an 
 eminent saint of Grod, in a season of deep affliction 
 and bereavement — ' The Lord gave, and the Lord 
 hath taken away, blessed be the name of the 
 Lord.' " 
 
830 Broadtray, November, 1859. 
 
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