SEIRMONS
PREACHED BEFORE THE CONGREGATION OF TIlE
PRESbYTERIAN- CHUIJRCII,
CORNER OF FIFTH AVENUE AND NINETEENTH STREET,
AT TIIE
"MEMORIAL SERVICES"
OCTOBER 9, 1859.
APPOINTED IN REFERENCE TO THE DEATII OF TIIEIR LATE PASTOR,
JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER, D.D.
CHARLES HODGE, D.D.,
AD
JOHN  HALL, D.D.
PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE SESSION OF THE CItUICH
NELW-YORK:
ANSON  D. F. RANDOLPH,
683 BROADIDWAY.
18 5 9.








BY
CHARLES HOD GE, D.D.








SE MON.
" HI, preached Christ."-AcTs 9: 20.
NOTHINCG higher than this can be said of any
man. Angels stand uncovered round the hurmblest tomb on which these words are inscribed.
And so do we. The feeling which has gathered
this audience; which now fills every breast, bows
every head, and moistens every eye, is reverential love for him who in this desk preached
Christ. IHaad he discoursed on any other theme,
though with the tongue of angels, and although
he possessed all knowledge, so as to unfold all
mysteries, he had been admired and forgotten.
Associated as he is with your knowledge of
Christ, your experience of his grace, your hope
of salvation, you at least never can forget him.
1. In preaching Christ, he preached that Jesus
of Nazareth is the true lMessiah. As Paul was




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pressed in spirit, and testified that Jesus was
Christ, and as Apollos mightily convinced the
Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ; so, from this desk,
you have been taught that all the promises and
predictions relating to the person and work of
the ~Messiah refer to Jesus of Nazareth.  You
have been taught that he is the seed of the
woman who was to bruise the serpent's head;
the seed of Abraham in whom all the nations of
the earth are to be blessed; the Son of David
who was to sit as king on Zion; whose dominion
is to stretch from the river to the ends of the
earth; who was to be a light to the Gentiles and
the glory of his people Israel; who was to
bear the sins of many, and make intercession for
transgressors; before whom  the kings of the
earth were to shut their mouths, and to whom
every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess
that he is Lord.
2. -Ie preached that this Jesus is the Son of
God. So Paul preached Christ in the synagogues,
that Ie is the Son of God. Here Christ has
been constantly held up as the second person of
the Godhead, the eternal Word, who created all
things, visible and invisible, and who upholdeth
all things by the word of his power.  For
this incarnate God, your profoundest adoration




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has been demanded, your supreme love, the
obedience of the conscience, and the devotion of
tile life. He has been presented as the proper
object of the religious affections; and you have
been called upon to receive him as God in your
inner life, and taught that spiritual and eternal
life consists in fellowship with the Son of God,
in knowing, worshipping, and serving him. You
have been warned that to deny the Son is to
deny God altogether; that to profess to worship
God, and yet not to worship the Son, is a contradiction; that if to any the glory of God in
Christ be hid, they are lost; that there is no
clearer manifestation of God; that if mzen do
not believe in. light as luminous, they can not believe in light as a fluid diffused through space;
if they do not believe in fire, they can not believe in heat as latent; if they do not believe in
God as seen, they can not believe in God as unseen.  Christ has therefore been here preached
as the true God and eternal life.
3. When beset with all imanner of doubts;
when all around you seemed dark, and no certainty as to truth was from any source to be obtained, Christ has been presented to you as the
fiithful and true witness. IHe has been exhibited
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regard truth as something to be attained by research or received on the testimony of reason.
Reason here sits veiled at the feet of Jesus, and
b]ears from his lips the answer to her anxious
question: What is truth?  His answer carries
with it its own evidence.  Luminous and illuminating, it enlightens the understanding, it harrmonizes with our consciousness, so that every
chord vibrates in unison with his celestial voice.
As the heavens are high above the earth, and
can not be disturbed by the power of man, so
faith founded on the teaching of Christ, is exalted
above all the assaults of skepticism. In this sense
you have been taught that Christ is of God
made unto us wisdom.
4. When burdened with a sense of guilt, and
disturbed by a fearful looking for judgment, a
judgment all the more fearful because felt to be
deserved, and apprehended as inevitable; in this
pulpit Christ has been preached as your righteousness. You have been taught to regard your own
works, all you can either do or suffer, as utterly
unavailing.  You have been pointed to the Son
of God, clothed in our nature, made under the
law, fulfilling all its demands, working out for
you in your name and in your behalf, a righteousnesswhich satisfies all the requirements of justice,
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dignity of Him wliose righlteousness it is. Clothed
in this spotless robe, you feel secure even before the
bar of God. The man by whose instrumentality
you have been thus clothed with the righteousness
of God, and Inade partakers of that peace which
passes all understanding, must have appeared to
you as Paul appeared to the Galatians; as an
angel from heaven, as one sent of God, to deliver you from everlasting perdition, and to place
your feet upon a rock argainst which neither your
own sins nor the gates of hell ever can prevail.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
so has Christ been here lifted up, and you have
looked on hlim, and live.
5. Your lamented pastor ever preached Christ
as your sanctification.  When oppressed with
the consciousness of pollution and helplessness;
when convinced that you could not change
your own hearts, could not repent, could  not
even feel your guilt or mourn over your corrupltions; when your heart as been as a stone,
and your constant lamentation was, that you
could not make yourself holy, or in any ineasure prepare yourself to receive the grace of
God, he endeavored to convince you that you
were acting like a deformed child, who should
try to make itself beautiful before it could trust
its imother's love.  HIe unfolded to yotu the mys1 *x



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tery of sanctification, by showing you that it
is the love of Christ produces holiness, and not
holiness in us that produces the love of Christ;
that he loves us, not because we are lovely, but
makes us lovely by the assurance of his love.
He led you to see that your life is hid with
God in Christ, that it is not you that live, but
Christ that liveth in you; and therefore that the
only possible way in which you can ever be delivered fioln the dominion of sin, and transformed
into the image of God, is not by any efforts of
your own, not by any educational process, not
by acts of self-denial or penance, not by the efficacy of any external rites, but by believing that
Christ loves you, notwithstanding your unworthiness, and by receiving from him the gift of the Holy
Ghost. In other words, Christ has here been presented as the only source of sanctification, as his
righteousness is the only ground of justification.
6. lie who so long filled this pulpit, preached
Christ as a Redeemer, not only in the sense already
mentioned, as freeing us from the condemnation
and power of sin, but as the deliverer from all evil.
He has been here exhibited as clothed with almighty power, imbued with infinite wisdom and
love, pledged to save his people from the allurements of the world, from  the machinations of
Satan, and from the power of their enemnies; as




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raising them above the cares and sorrows of this
life, sustaining them in times of trial and in the
hour of death, and delivering them  at last even
from. the power of the grave, and presenting
thenm faultless in soul. and body, before the throne
of God, as the tropliies of his redeeming grace.
You will bear me witness that he whose departure we so much lament, did preach Christ as
the Miessiah, as the eternal Son of God, as the
only source of truth, as our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.  From Sabbath to Sabbath, publicly, and from house to house, he testified that this is the true grace of' God; and
thus preaching, lie was made of God to you a
savor of life unto life.
Btut how was he so eminently fitted thus to
prieach? His first and most important, and, indeed, indispensable qualification for this work,
was, that lie himself knew Christ.  He, had not
only that knowledge which is attained by the
study of the Scriptures, and learning what is
therein revealed concerning the person and work
of Christ, but that knowledge which is due to
the inward revelation by the Spirit.  Paul says
that it pleased God to reveal his Son in  him, that
lie might preach him among the Gentiles. HIe
does not refer liere to the outward manifestation
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mascus, but to an inward revelation therewitll
connected.  It was a spiritual illumination by
which lie was enabled to see the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ.  One glimpse of that
glory transformed the blaspheming persecutor into
the humble, adoring, devoted servant of the
Lord Jesus.  It was such a revelation that made.your pastor what he was.  Without this, all his
other gifts had been of no account.
It is, howeverl, an instructive fact, that the
apostle who labored, suffered, and accolmplished
more than all the others, was the one most richly
endowed with natural abilities and  acquired
knowledge.  When these gifts are relied upon,
and especially when they are made the ground
of self-glorification, they are like the fire of
thorns, brilliant and noisy, but whiclh soon goes
out in darkness, leaving nothing but ashes to be
scattered bv the wind. But when their possessor
feels as Paul felt, that he is nothing, and can do
nothing; when lie relies, not on his powers of persuasion, but solely upon the demonstration of the
Spirit, then God condescends to use them for his
own glory and for the edification of the Church.
The Rev. James W. Alexander was therefore
what lie was as a preacher of Christ, not only because lie was a devout worshipper of Christ, but
also because lie was endowed with varied natural




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gifts, improved by a long process of culture and
discipline.
He was born March 13th, 1804, in Lonisa
County, Tirginia, in the house of his maternal
glrandfather, the Rev. Dr. Waddel, of blessed
inemory, by whom  lie was consecrated to God
in baptism.  H1is -ather was the late Archibald
Alexander, D.D., the representative man of the
Church for our age and country, to wbom  he was
Iar(gely indebted for hiis religious, literary, and
thlleological training. After enjoying the instructions of the most eminently classical teacher of
hiis day, for some years, in Philadelphia, he completed his academical career in the College of
New-Jerse3y, in the year 1820.  He was appointed  a tutor in that venerable institution
while he was pursuing his studies in the Thleolological Seminary at Princeton.  in 1825 lie was
licensed to preach the Gospel. The following
year he became the pastor of the church at Charlotte Court House, Virginia-a church which his
venerated father had previously served, and to
which his own son has recently been called.  I-e
was forced to relinquish that charge on account
of the failure of his health, and in 1829 he settled in Trenton., N. J., as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in that city. In 1833 he was
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lege at Princeton. He discharged the duties of
that office with eminent success for eleven years.
In 1844 he became the pastor of the Duane
street Church, New-York, whence he was called
by the General Assembly of our Church to fill
the chair of Ecclesiastical History and Church
Government in the Theological Seminary at
Princeton. A few years' experience convinced
him that the sedentary duties of a professor were
not suited to his peculiar constitution, and therefore in 1851 he accepted the charge of this
churcll, in the service of which he remained
until God called him  to a higher service in
heaven.
This recital is sufficient to show how varied and
abundant were his means of culture and experience. He never filled a post which lie did not
adorn, and never left a charge that the people
did not mourn over his departure as a sad bereavelnent. He has died in the rich maturity of
his years and usefulness, leaving behind himn no
superior, and few if any equals in the sphere in
which] he acted. The labors and cares of the
pastoral office over such a church, and in such a
city as this, had so worn on his sensitive frame,
that early in the last spring he was obliged to intermit his services, and seek the renewal of his
strength among the mountains of his native State.




I{E PREACHED CHRIST.          15
Every thing promised speedy and complete recovery. You. were looking forward with confidence to his return to his home and pulpit, when
the sad intelligence reached you, that God had
otherwise ordained. A few days' illness from an
acute disease disappointed all your hopes. Early
on the morning of the last Sabbath of July, just
as the first rays of the sun gilded the tops of the
surrounding mountains, the glories of heaven
broke on his enraptured gaze.
Dr. Alexander united in himself gifts and
graces rarely found in combination. God had
endowed him with a retentive memory and a
perspicacious intellect, with great power of application and acquirement, with singular delicacy
of taste, with a musical ear, and a resonant
voice. These gifts were all cultivated and turned
to the best account. Probably no minister il
our Church was a more accomplished scholar.
I-e was familiar with English literature in all
periods of its history.  He cultivated the Greek
and Latin, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
languages, not merely as a philologist, but for
the treasures of knowledge and of taste which
they contain.  To this wide compass of his
studies is in good imeasure to be referred many
of his characteristics as a writer, the abundance
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pression, and the variety of his imagery. Miany
of his productions are like strings of pearls;
each sentence complete in its own beauty, and
all connected by an invisible thread. His facility
of production was wonderful. HIe would often
accomplish il days what few men could accomplish in as many weeks. H-e used his pen as if
it were a living member of his body, and found
a positive pleasure in its exercise.  He was a
frequent contributor to literary and religious
journals. The Princetonz Review is indebted to
him for many of its most valuable contributions,
not a few of which have been reprinted both in
this country and in England. Mlore than thirty
volumes on the Catalogue of the American Sunday-School Union are firom his pen. To these
are to be added his more elaborate works, long
familiar to the Christian public in Great Britain
and America.
It was, however, not only in the department
of literature that Dr. Alexander was thus distinguished. Ile was an erudite theologian. Few
men were more conversant with the writings of
the early fithers, or more familiar with Christian
doctrine in all its phases.  Ile embraced the
faith of the Reformed Churches in its integrity
with a strength of conviction which nothing
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HE PREACHED CIIRIST.          17
gious experience could produce. A faith founded
on argument may be shaken by argument; but
a conviction of truth arising fromn religious experience, that is, from a state of consciousness
produced by the Spirit of God, is not to be
moved. Theology and philosophy are so related,
that devotion to the former involves of necessity
the cultivation of the latter. Dr. Alexander
was therefore at home in the whole department
of philosophical speculation. His last publication was an able exposition of the views of the
metaphysicians of the middle ages on one of the
most important questions in mental science.
Thus richly and variously was your beloved,pastor endowed. These gifts, however, were but
accomplishments. Underneath these adornments,
in themselves of priceless value, was the man
and the Christian. LHe was an Israelite without
guile. Probably no man living was freer from
all envy and jealousy, from, malice, hypocrisy,
and evil-speaking.  No one ever heard of his
saying or doing an unseemly or unkind thing.
The associations connected with his name in the
minds of all who knew him, are of things true,
just, pure, lovely, and of good report. No one can
think of him without being the happier and the
better for the thought. He was a delightful
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hIis sing'ular power of illustration rendered his
conversation, when in health and spirits, a perpetual feast.  Having been brought early in
life to a saving knowledge of the truth, his religious knowledge and experience were profound
and extensive. He was therefore a skillful casuist,
a wise counsellor, and abundantly able to comfort the afflicted with the consolation wherewith
lhe hiinself hlad been comforted of God.  lie
was eminently a devout man, reverential in all
hiis acts and utterances, fill of faith and of the
HIfoly Ghost.
The pulpit was his appropriate sphere. There
all his gifts and graces, all his acquirements and
experiences found full scope.  Hence the remarkable variety which characterized his preaching; which was sometimes doctrinal, sometimes
experimental, sometimes historical, sometimes
descriptive or graphic, bringing scriptural scenes
and incidents as things present before the mlind;
often exegetical, unfolding the meaning of the
word of God in its own divine form.  Hence,
too, the vivacity of thought, the felicity of style,
and fertility of illustration which were displayed
in all his sermons.  He could adapt himself to
any kind of audience.  When a Professor in
the College, he acted as a voluntary pastor of an
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HE PREACHED CHRIST.             19
him say that lie regarded the sermons which lihe
preached to that congregation the best he ever
delivered. As we remarked in the commencement of this discourse, lie preached Christ in a
manner which seemed to many altogether peculiar.  He endeavored to turn the minds of men
away firom themselves, and to lead them to look
only unto Jesus.  Hie strove to convince his
hearers that the work of salvation had been accomplished for them, and was not to be done by
them; that their duty was simply to acquiesce in
the work of Christ, assured that the subjective
work of' sanctification is clue to the objective
work of Christ, as appropriated by faith and applied by the  oly Ghllost.  I-Ie thus endeavored
to cut off the delays, the anxieties, and misgivings which arise from watching the exercises of
our own minds, seeking in what we inwardly experience a warrant for accepting what is outwardly offered to the chief of sinners, without
money and without price.  lie was eminently
successful in his ministry, not only in the conversion of sinners, but in comforting and edifying
believers. The great charm  of his preaching,
that to which more than to any thing else its
efficiency is to be referred, was his power over
the religious affections.  He not only instructed,
encouraged, and strengthened his hearers, but




20          HE PREACHED CHRIST.
he had, to a remarkable degree, the gift of calling their devotional feelings into exercise. In
his prayers there were those peculiar intonations
to which the Spirit of God alone can attune the
human voice, and at the sound of which the
gates of heaven seem to unfold, and the worshippers above and the worshippers on earth mingle
to gether, prostrate in adoration. Your religious
services, under his ministry, were truly seasons
of devotion, the highest form of enjoyment vouchsafed to Imen on earth. The man who can give
us this enjoyment, who can thus raise our hearts
to God, and bring us into communion with our
Saviour, we reverence and love. This is a power
which no one envies, from which no one wishes
to detract, which surrounds its possessor with a
sacred halo, attracting all eyes and offending
none.
Dr. Alexander's premrinence, therefore, was
due not to any one gift alone; not to his natural
abilities, to his varied scholarship, to his extensive
theological knowledge and religious experience;
not to his divine unction, or to his graces of
elocution. It was the comlbination of all these
which made him, not the first of orators to hear
on rare occasions, but tile first of preachers to
sit under, month after month and year after year.
Dr. Alexander was a man of sorrows. Frle



HE PREACHED CHRIST.           21
quent family bereavements, repeated attacks of
illness, some of them attended by great bodily
agony, a shattered nervous constitution, caused
him a degree of suffering protracted through
many years, known fillly only to God and to his
own heart. As he entered heaven, a voice might
be heard saying: " This is one who has come out
of great tribulation, and has washed his robes
and mrade them white in the blood of the Lamb."'
The death of such a man is an irreparable loss.
God indeed will raise up otber instruments to
carry on his work, but no one can ever supply
his place to his immediate relatives, to his lifelong fiiends, and to his children in the faith.
They all must carry with them  to the grave a
wound which knows no healing. Such sorrow,
however, is not like the sorrow of the world,
which worketh death. It is the tribute which we
willingly pay to those we love. It is not inconsistent with joy and gratitude in the remembrance
of all that he was to us and to the Church. He
was one of the blessed of the Lord. Blessed in
his parentage, in his early conversion, in his
abundant gifts, in his long-continued and eminent usefulness, in the admiration, love, and confidence of the people of God. HI-e has finished
his course, lie kept the faith, and henceforth
there is laid up for him a crown of righteousness




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which the Lord the righlteous Judge will give lim
at that day.
In view  of such a life and such a destiny,
earthly distinctions sink into nothing.  No man
is so hardened, that he would not a thousand
times prefer to be what your beloved pastor was
and is, than to possess all of wealth and power
the world has to give.
As this discourse began with the name of
Christ, so let it end.  The worship of Christ is
our religion; the service of Christ our loyal
duty; and the enjoyment of Christ is our heaven.
The sum  and substance of the preaching ever
heard within these walls, is, that Christ is the
only source of truth, of righteousness, of holiness,
and of eternal life, so that we are complete in
him. To Him, therefore, be honor and glory,
mihllt, majesty, and dominion, world witllout
end.  Amen.




s —'E Pr- AT   Ni
BY
JOHN  HTALL, W1).








SERMON.
" OREOVER, I will endeavor that ye may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance."-2 PETER
1: 15.
THE decease of a minister of the Gospel —-of
one wlho, as well as the writer of this sentence,
may be called " a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ"-is an  event of the most solemn
interest.
It is such to the minister himself, whilst yet
contemplated  by him  in anticipation: for he
knows that, besides his own personal standing at
the final judgment, lie is bound to watch for the
souls of others as one that must give accountand this with joy or grief, according, not only as
he will have to testify respecting those to whom
he has ministered the Gospel, but as lie hinself
hlas been faithfiul to his trust. It is at his decease
he is to discover whether he has both saved him2




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self and them that heard hirn; whether lie shall
receive from. the Chief Shepherd a crown of
glory that fadeth not away, or having preached
to others be himself a castaway.
His own decease is also a solemn conternplation to a minister, because he knows that his
work is to survive him.  iHis preaching, his example, his whole influence, are not as transitory
as his own brief life.  Neither the good nor the
evil of his course will be buried with hin.  I-is
faithfulness or his negligence will primarily affect those whom he immediately served, but the
consequences may descend through that generation to those who will inherit the opinions and
the spirit of their fathers.  He may leave behind
him such permanent records of his life and of his
sentiments, that successive ages will reap the
benefit or the injury, as effectually as if they had
heard his voice, or been familiar with his company. It was the ambition-the "endeavor"of Paul, so long as he was " in this tabernacle,"
so to present the glorious doctrines and precepts
of the Gospel, what he in the text, for the fifth
time in the chapter, emphatically calls " these
things," that believers, consistently with their
obligations and his own, might be able after his
decease to have them always in remembrance.
Thus the decease of a minister is an event of




ALWAYS IN RIEMEMBRANCE.           27
great mnoment also to the Church l  and this in proportion as he reached themn by his preaching, his
intercourse, his writings, his reputation, his personal character.  In all these respects none stand
so close to a minister as the people whom he has
most directly served as a pastor and a teacher.
They knew him  best. They loved himn most.
They can most justly appreciate him. They saw
him; they heard him; they read him. They
remember the tones of his voice, the expression
of his countenance.  They have local, sacred associations with his person; he is recalled to them
as he stood in the pulpit, as he poured forth his
soul in prayer, as he united with them  in the
songs of worship, as lie broke to them  with
tremulous emotion, the bread of the Lord's table,
as he stretched his hands over them  in benediction, as he committed their children to God's
covenant in baptism, as he came to them when
they were in trouble, consoled them in bereavement, soothed them, in sickness, brought them
both temporal and spiritual relief in necessity,
was to them, in all circumstances, not merely an
official or professional attendant, but a sympathizing friend; and above all, or rather in connection with all else, they remember how in private intercourse, as well as in his public ministrations, he sought with the tenderness of a




28:HAVE THESE THINGS
brother and the faithfulness of a messenger of
C!llhrist Jesus, to awaken, or admonish, or comfort,
or instruct, or encourage, or guide; by any
means, and according to the demands of each
case, to bring the soul to the Saviour, to the word
of his grace, to the converting and sanctifying
Spirit, to the full joy and peace of believing.
Ah! my brethren, have I touched your hearts
as this outline has brouglit before you the image
of your own pastor?-our own beloved Alexander?  And do I indeed stand here to-day to
speak of his "l decease"2?to call to your " remnembrance" the things he has said, instead of hearing themn again from his own lips, as you fondly
hoped to do this very day, wmhen, in a manner he
so gratefully appreciated, you prevailed upon
him to suspend his labors that he miglht recover
strength! What a different occasion this fiom
that wlich you anticipated! IHow  little you
thought when Tyou closed your sanctuary a few
weeks ago, that when you should enter it again,
that new tablet would meet your eyes! But the
event was not as surprising to him as to you. I
believe that when he set out on his journey he
was disposed, without any morbid presentiment,
to say: "And now behold I know that ye all,
among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more."




ALWAYS IN REMEMNIBRANCE.           29
But in the midst of these personal sorrows, let
us not overlook either the comforts or the obligations that remain.  Let us listen again to the
instructions of the text, that the influence of a
faithful minister goes beyond his decease, and
that, on the part of his people, both the benefits
and responsibilities of their sundered relation
continue.  If ever a servant and apostle of Jesus
Christ labored less for momentary effect and personal ends, and mere lifetime results, than to lay
such foundations as would cause the saving truth
to be had in remembrance after his departure, it
was he whose voice has scarcely ceased to echo
in this house.  The instructions he imparted were
so weighty as to be worth remembrance, and so
well conveyed as to dcefy all but wilful forgetfnlness.  His decease has not arrested his sermons,
his visits, his counsels, his character.  Being
dead, he yet speaketll; every thing recalls him;
and vour minds, my brethren, will be treacherous to the tenderest and weightiest impressions
that are ever directed to them, if they do not re-.
member both him  and his words. IHe did not
seek your applause; lie did not labor for fame;
he did not graduate h]is love and care for you by
his own brief years; he did not measunre the extent of his responsibility by thle ephemeral judgment of his fbellow-creatnres: it was the perma



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nent, eternal result as to himnself and you, that
lie kept before hinm. And so, if he could speak
to us to-day, lie would not ask us for our eulogies; lie would not be intent on learning the
amount of our admiration, but he would plead
with us again to have always in rem-embrance
"these things" which concern life and salvation;
or as Paul elsewhere says, " By wllich ye are
saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you," (1 Cor. 15;) or as the Divine Master
himself said, after his resurrection, to his disciples: "These are the words which I spake unto
you while I was yet with you... and ye are
witnesses of these things."  (Luke 24.)
Whatever helped to make a minister efficient
whilst living, will contribute to enforce and prolong his influence after his decease. The remembrance of the truth lie ministered will be assisted
by the remembrance of all that qualified him for
his usefulness and characterized it; by all that
mnarked him as designed and authorized to be anl
amnbassador of Christ.  We may hope, therefore,
to aid the practical and permanent olbjects before
us this clay and not depart from their legitimate
connection with the Lord's day and the Lord's
hlouse, by adverting to some of those particulars in
which we may discern the arrangements of Providence to quali-fy our deceased brother for the work




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.            3 
assigned him, and which were completed and
crowned in his ministry with this congregation.
The beginnings of these Providential designs
are to be traced to his pious ancestry, and above
all, to his immediate parentage.  Inheriting the
Christian birthright through both lines of descent,
grandson of the country pastor whose name he
bore, and whose venerable person is an historical
portrait in our literature* —it is as the son of
Archibald and Janetta Alexander, that we of
this day are assured that it was his lot not only
to be baptized in the name, but trained in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord Jesus.  It
was while his enminent father was yet President
of flamrpden Sidney College, that this son was
born, (AMarch 13, 1804,) at the house of his grandfather, Waddeel, in Louisa; bnt he was only in
his fourth year when the residence of the family
was removed to Philadelphia, (December, 1807,)
and lie was not nine when (July, 1812,) they removed to Princeton, upon the opening of the
Theologoical Serninary.
The love for his native southern State and for
the city of his childhood in the  fiddle States,
left marks on his character which show that these
early footsteps of his life had their influence in
expanding his patriotic and Christian affections
* Wirt's British Spy.




32           HAVE THESE THINGS
beyond any sectional or local limits; a quality
of indispensable consequence to the preparation
for a ministry vwhich is to know no man after
the flesh, and to be governed by none of the prejudices or fanaticisms so apt to grow out of the
associations of one's continued residence in the
spot of his nativity, and inexperience in the actual
condition of society in other sections.
His education in the College of New-Jersey,
in the close association of his family with the
Theological school, and the comparatively few
students of its first years, is to be regarded among
the preliminary steps of the youth in the course
of Divine designation. That designation was as
yet concealed; for whilst every thing in the literary and religious life around him, in his own
dwelling and in the public institutions and men
which give fame to the village, was as favorable
as outward circumstances could be to the highest
intellectual excitement and the earliest religious
impressions, it was not until his college course
was closing, that he became thoroughly awakened to his great advantages and responsibilities
in either respect.  But even then, he was only in
his seventeenth year.  At that period, having
been graciously broughlt to a cle:,r apprehension
of his spiritual condition, he made hlis first public profession of faith. (April, 1821.)




ALWAYS IN RETMEM{BRANCE.          33
It was while at College that the saving change
occurred; and the language of' a letter written
some time afterxward strikingly coincides wvith thle
sentiments of his dying-bed, when  he says:
"There can not certainly be on earth any greater
pleasure than to see without doubt one's self condemned justly by God's law, and at the same
tine saved freely by the sovereign mercy of God
in Christ. The satisfaction which I then felt in
cornuiitting all my cares and concerns, my soul
and body into the hands of a Saviour whose infinitely lovely character I then saw, I never expect
to receive from any other source."  Itow silnilar
in sentiment is this to the expression of his last
hours! " If the curtain were now to drop and
I were this moment usllered into the presence of
my Maker, I wrould first prostrate myself in an
nnutterable sense of mny nothingness and guilt;
bnt secondly, I would look up to my Redeemer
with an inexpressible assurance of faitlh  and
love."
Immediately  after his graduation, (August,
1820,) he betook himself to a course of private
study of the subject he had slighted in College.
I-Ie gave two years to this object, and principally
to classical reading, before entering tlhe third
class of the Theological school, which lbe did in
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the students froml  abroad, in th-e edifice itself.
The letters of his years in the Senmiinary are elocquent with description of his enjoyment of the
studies and of the companionship of the band of
congenial minds, with whomn the topics of the
class-room were subjects of animated discussion in
their more private and social encounters. Those
unrestrained communications also reveal thle discipline by which the heart of the future preacher,
pastor, and consoler, was learning hlow to speak
to multitudes fronm the resources of a deep personal experience.  Even in that early period of
his life, he was becoming acquainted with the
violent and sudden alternations to which his delicate temperarment continued subject, from the
highest pitch of joyous excitement to the depths
of melancholy and indescribable misery.
Yes, my brethren, it is a somewhat painful, yet
in all respects an impressive and interesting reflection for those who have obtained so much relief,
so much sympathy, so much instruction from the
tenderness of your late pastor, from the heart-reaching power of his discourses, his conversations, his
whole intercourse, to know that to qualify him for
this service, the wise and gracious foresight of
Almighty God saw it necessary to lead his disciple from his earliest Christian walk, in the path
of some of the most poignant and overwhelming




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.            35
distresses that can oppress the lhuman  soul.
Ascribe it to what immediate cause we may, to
delicate or disordered nerves, to imorbid sensibilities, whether physical or moral, to excessive intellectual excitement, to preternatural susceptibility to the extremes of enjoyment and suffering,
we know from  the result, that this part of experience familiar to him in a greater or less incasure fr'om his youth to his last days, was the means
sanctified to the production and maintenance of
that depth, fullness, and richness of his spiritual
traits, which laid the foundation of and gave the
predominant characteristics and direction to his
piety and his influence.  For you —for us all —he
thus suffered; through these sufferings he was
borne by the same grace which meted them out,
so that I do not believe that the Apostle Paul
could say with more grateful consciousness than
could your pastor': " Blessed be God, even the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies, and the God of all cornfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be
able to comfbrt them which are in any trouble,
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.  For as the sufferings of Christ
abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth
by Christ.  And whether we be afflicted, it is for
your consolation and salvation, which is effectual




36             }HAVE THESE THINGS
in the enduring of the same sufferings which we
also stuffer; or whether we be comforted, it is for
your consolation and salvation."
Think of this fact, my brethren, in estimating
both what it cost to provide you with such a Pastor as you have had, and what responsibility you
are under now —after ]his decease —to have in
your remembrance the rich fruits of such a painful culture.  These were among the signs of his
calling to the discipleship and apostleshlip of the
cross.  He bore in  his body the marks of the
Lord  Jesus.  (Gal. 6.)  But lie could continue,
till the close of his suffering life, to adopt, as he
did thirty-five years ago, the expressions of Madame Guion's hymn, in Cowper's translation, wheen,
personifying Sorrow, it says:
"It costs me no regret that she
Who followed Christ should follow me:
And though where'er she goes,
Thorns spring spontaneous at her feet,
I love her-and extract a sweet
From all my bitter woes."
And with equal sincerity lie appropriated these
other lines from  the same hands:
"Long' plunged in sorrow, I resign
My soul to that dear hand of thine,
WANithout reserve or fear;
That hanl shall wipe my streaming eyes,
Or into smiles of glad surprise,
Transform the falling tear.




ALWVAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.              37
"My soul's possession is thy love;
In earth beneath, or heaven above
I have no other store:
And though with fervent suit I pray,
And importune thee night and day,
I ask thee nothing more."
After about two years' industrious application
in the Seminary lie took advantage of an unexpected opening for the improvement of himself
simultaneously in learning and teaching, by his
appointment as tutor in the College, first of matlhematics, then of the languages, (t824.) This
position involved him in many petty troubles annoying to one of his temperament, but as he
wrote  at the timle: "I need to be buffeted
about a little, to call filthl what little energy and
firmness I imay possess."  Here is another item,
not too insignificant to be regarded in the work
of his preparation for the life of a pastor; that
of counteracting his natural tendency to shrink
friom ever:y thing like authority or discipline over
others.  So earnestly did lie apply himriself to
meet the demands of his office, that he gave six
and a half hours daily to his own private studies
besides what was required in tile recitation-roomn.
These pursuits were not lost upon the discipline
of a mind preparing, as tile event has proved, for
the logical, clear, precise statements and arguments of gospel preaching, and its defence by the
pen, in a style so truly classical.




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It was just at this period, too, that his personal
Christian experience passed through such a taste,
as lie said, of the terrors of the Lord, that it
seemed to him, at the time, as if he had known
nothing before of true conversion. But unow he
writes, (July 10, 1824:) "I have finally been
humbled by the prostration of my own will,
which has been since birth, fiee only to evil, to
the point of entire submission to God. e. God
has in mercy brought rme to a view of my utter
impotence, of the justice of the law which would
condemn me to eternal wrath, and of my being
helpless in the hands of an Almighty avenger.
HIenceforth l1ly single aim is to submit myself to
God as an instrument in his hands to be used for
what he chooses.  Death would be a release,
should it conme this instant; and except to do God's
work, I desire not to breathe another moment."
The occupations of the tutorship did not interrupt his theological reading, nor prevent his giving time to the acquisition of several modern
languages, natural science and general literature.
lie had also begun to employ his pen in contributions to a variety of periodical works, religious
and literary. ThIns his skill in writing and his
literally accomplishments were providing for the
grace, polish and refinement which were to do so
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ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.           39
hearers and reaclers. It is curious for us in this
connection to find himn say in a letter of Decemiber, 1821: " I tried my abilities at preaching the
other night at thel Preaching Society of the Seminary. It was the first regular sermon I ever
wrote."  Perhaps it will not seem less curious to
hear him say some months later: "' Nothing to
which I put my hand ever dissatisfied me so
much as sermon-writing. I am enough cl-lhagrined
after every effort of thlis kind to throw the thing
in the fire. Whatever complacency I may feel
in any thing else, my sermons are trutly mortifying to me."
The next step in his preparation for thle service to which the divine purpose was guiding him,
was his obtaining the practice and experience of
a pastor, in the comparatively small and secluded
bounds of a country congregation. Having been
licensed by the Presbytery of New-Brunswiek,
(October 4, 1825,) he spent some months in Maryland and Virginia, and declining a call to be
colleague of the late Dr. Glendy, in Baltimore,
he was ordained by the Presbytery of H-lanover,
and installed over the church in Charlotte Court
House. (March 3, 1827.)
Short as was the term of this engagement, the
young minister learned valuable lessonsin active
parochial life, and in the practice of preaching




40            HAVE THESE THINGS
sermons which there was not time to write. H-Iere,
too, he underwent the salutary discipline of a
serious illness, which compelled hinm to return to
the Nlorth, and finally to resign his charge. This
made an interruption of a year in his capacity for
active labor.  But the time was not lost.  H-is
faith had a stern probation, and it came all the
stronger prepared for future trials, for a nlore
solemn, earnest treatment of thle work of life, and
for a more sympathetic intercourse with the afflicted.  " Death" (this was his testimony at the
time) " has been viewed by me as a precious entrance into eternal bliss."'
When lhe resumed his public services, (January, 1829,) it was as pastor of what was then the
only Presbyterian congregation in Trenton, NewJersey.  There he continued four years —years,
like all the others of his Christian life, marked
by the most industrious and varied occupations,
by a zealous and successful ministry, by progressive spiritual experience, and in his domestic life
by the  blending of great joys with great afflictions.  During this period, besides his stated enmployment as a pastor, lie had the editorial care
of the B'iblical RIeperZory, and was the largest
contributor to its pages. He was then also employed in that series of writings for the young
and for the 1)lans which specially contemplate




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.           41
their benefit, which gave him, for the rest of his
life, an intirmate connection with the American
Sunday-School Union. This predisposition and
its cultivation by him, deserve to be remembered
among the means of his pastoral efficiency. You
know how he loved your children; how he sought
to do them good; what anxieties he showed for
the youth of this congregation, with all their
privileges, and for the youth of this city, with all
their exposures and destitutions.  You klnow hlow
he worked and pleaded for the promotion of religious instruction and early piety here, and for
the excitement of every patriotic, philanthropic,
and religious motive to provide for the universal
extension of Ch1ristian education.  None know
better than the children and the young men
here, how he loved the souls of youth, yearned
for their salvation and trembled for their perils.
This object always gave a direction to his labors,
caused him to simplify his presentation of truth,
and increased the tenderness of his spirit towards
his people as famnilies.
It was while in Trenton that he tried to stir up
others to do what in subsequent years he himself
did so well, when he asks, " Could not a series
of' Letters to Working  Al~en' be put in some
popular journal, coummending honest labor, asserting the rights of mechanics, but unveiling




42           HAVE THESE THINGS
the deformity of the levelling system?" which
he apprehended was about to inflict irreparable
damage, mnoral as well as political, on onr country. This was the germ  of the thoughts and
counsels that are now so attractively realized in
the volumes of "The American Mechanic" and
"The Workingo Man."  It was while at Trenton
that lie was for some time employed on a laborions commentary on the Gospels, intended for
Sunday-schools, but abandoned on finding th]at
another hand (the Rev. MIr. Barnes) had undertaken a similar work. His pen was never at
rest. In prose and poetry, in books, reviews, and
fugitive pieces; in translations fiomn the Latin
and German; in copious notes on his reading,
which was in all departments of knowledge; in
sermons and letters, his manuscript work was
already portending the vast bulk it attained.
With it all lie never intermitted the daily study
of the Scriptures in both the originals; and as
lie generally observed a methodical theological
course in his morning  discourses, he maintained
through the week a continuous systematic study of
divinity.  His theological studies were at all
times almost purely exegetical.  To discover,
by original research, the meaning of the Bible,
was his first aim; and human opinions in the
shape of bodies of divinity, or commentaries,




ALWAYS IN REMI[EMBRANCE.         43
were only accepted by him as auxiliary to his independent research.  The Greek Concordance
was his great Commentary.  His favorite religious reading was Biography and Experimental
Piety.  "No works," he observed, "have ever
given me healthier impulses in my religious
course than those of the English Nonconformists
of the seventeenth century."  The type, alike of
his Theology and Piety, is indicated by this allusion to his choice books. I mnay further define,
once for all, what I believe to have been his position to the last on these points, by referring to
Russell's' Letters Practical and Consolatory,'
published in Edinburgh  about 1830, and  of
whichl he said in 1834: " I have read no human
production which comes nearer my views of
Calvinism: it is theology without one shred of
scholasticism; orthodoxy without one film  of
mystification; purity without one knot of ecclesiastical harshness."  This opinion of a work, so
unpretending in its design, is eminently demnonstrative of what was your Pastor's estimate of an
experimliental above a merely technical theology,
and of what was the habit of his mind to find the
strongest attractions of the Gospel, in its character as at once "' practical" and " consolatory."
All this, too, with the fnll erudition and power
that when occasion came, showed that if ble was




44           HAVE THESE THINGS
not a polemic by practice, it was not for want of
the requisite ability.
To return to the narrative of his course in
Trenton, (which may also be taken as mar'king
the general course of his pastorates afterwards,)
I remarlk that all Iris engaogements were not at
the expense of hIis more immediate duties as a
pastor, is attested by the congregation, who remember  his punctual and  earnest exercises,
whenever his health did not arrest them.  WVe
may learn soinething of his methods and diligence by such a paragraplh as this in a letter to a
fiiend in 1831: M' Sy breast is quite sore with the
unintermitted exertion of lungs in singing and
prayver and talking.           For the last six
evenings I have attended  meetings in different
precincts.  Last Sunday afternoon I preached to
the convicts in the State's prison.  I think I
never felt more the unspeakable privilege of
preaching the  unsearchable  riches of Christ.
Last week I conversed with those who are in the
cells... I have made some fruitless attempts to have a Bible-class among thle blacks....
Since I lived in Virginia I feel a peculiar yearning over these poor creatures, and sonmetimnes feel
as if I could joyfully devote myself to laboring
amnong them."
It is twenty-eiglht years since the social meet



ALWAYS IN REMEMIBRANCE.           45
ings referred to in this passage were held, but
within a week I have heard one of the many,
who will ever remember himl as their father in
Christ, say, in the recollection of those occasions:
"Oh! how he used to sing! I can now hear his
clear, loud voice leading the hymnn'Iearts of stone, relent! relent 1'"
In a letter of a later date than the one I have
just quoted, alluding to his having declined an
invitation to preach for a vacant congregation in
one of the largest cities, he says: "' If I am to be
a pastor, and nothing but necessity could make
tme willing to be any thing else, I believe I have
more openings to serve Christ here than in any
more laborious charge. [ have counted up about
fifty persons with whom I have had religious conversation, and who are more or less tender.  I
have an access to them which no other person
could have for a long time, and which I should
not have to the same number elsewhere."  You
will recognize in another sentence a peculiarity
of your deceased pastor which was as marked in
his latest as in his earliest years of pastoral
connection.  " Some of my most delightful hours
have been spent in sick-rooms, by dying-beds,
or among poor, unlettered believers, or especially in rejoicing with them  that do rejoice for




46           HAVE THESE THINGS
the first time in Christ."' Yet, he who had such
a heart in his work, whlo was doing so much in
spite of a feeble constitution, and had such testimonies to his efficiency, was aspiring to perform
so much more than he could do, and was so impatient to see the awakening of all the souls about
him, that he was constantly bewailing his lack
of love for souls, the unprofitableness of his ministry, and his insignificance as a Christian workman: shrinking, as it were, into obscurity, from
nwhich, never his own seeking —only a compulsory
Providence dislodged him.
By these experiences his soul was attaining to
deeper humility, his affections to greater tenderness, his zeal for the kingdomn of heaven rising
and expanding with his labors.  Forget not, my
brethren, as we thus follow his path, the main
design of our undertaking —to keep you in mind
of what is to grow out of all this training for his
best days in your service, and to be had in re_membrance by your souls, now after his decease,
as you will have to answer at the great day.
And the spiritual mind, as is so common in the
ways of Providence, was still nurtured by painful trials. It was at this period of his life that
he received from the Lord that most precious of
his domestic blessings which was so graciously
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ALWAYS IN REIME3IBRANCE.          47
but it was now also that sorrowful, often agonizing, years were laid to his lot in the sufferings
and death of children —an anguish to which no
parental heart could be more sensitive than his.
" How it is with others," he remarked, "'I can
not tell; but it seems to me that I need a constant series of inward or outward conflicts to
make me value Divine comforts."
To the trials and the training of' that day must
be added those which a temper so peaceful and
charitable as his sufferedcl, not so much from the
merits of the polemical controversy which then
arcse in our Church, and afterwards divided it,
as from the spirit with which it was too often
waged; so that he was sometimes constrained to
exclaimn:' The greatest heresy is want of love."
"6 Oh! for a cycle of peace," he exclaimed; " Oh!
for a breathing-spell from  these unnatural contentions! I feel as if I could join with any who
would humbly unite in direct and kind efforts to
save sinners and relieve human misery. Can not
a poor believer go along in his pilgrimage heavenward, without being always on military duty?
At judgment, I heartily believe, that some heresies of heart and temper will be charged as worse
than heavy doctrinal errors. To you (he adds
to his correspondent) I may say this, because you
understand nme as holding, not merely that the




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tenets of our Church are true, but that they are
very important. But I see how  easy it is to
Ihold the truth' in rancor and hate, which is
the grand error of depraved human nature."
These few lines may be taken as exhibiting the
moral position which he occupied throughout the
conflict of that clay; and this is sufficient for the
light in which we are now viewing him. It is
more to my purpose to remark, that if he learned
more than ever before of the spiritual evil of prejudice, uncharitableness, bigotry —more of the
weakness of good men under the excitement of
the best motives- more of the evils of strife and
contention —more of the importance of the mind's
being well grounded in sound doctrine as to all
essential truth, and the heart at the same time
moulded to the love and charity of the Gospel,
then his own painful exercises during that crisis
were parts of his discipline for the defence and
exemplification of that meekness and forbearance
towards all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in
sincerity, which marked his intercourse, in the
large field of this city, with evangelical ministers
and Christians of every name, and his sympathy
with every project which his judgment approved,
where co-workers of all such denominations were
combined.  Ixow truly catholic was his spirit
was shown, not in the declamations of the public




ALWAYS IN REKIEM.BRANCE.          49
platform, nor perhaps in making  what is called
the union principle a point of zeal as always the
best system  of doing good, so much as in his
fieedom  as an ecclesiastic from prejudice and
envy, and more especially in his love of holding
ieliowship with, and deriving instruction from,
the unlimited host of good men and practical and
devotional writers of all ages and connections.
Wherever there was warnltl, earnestness, simplicity —wherever there was the spirit of Christ,
there was his heart and hand, and I nmay emphatically add, his voice; singing with Wesley,
or Luther, or Gerllardt, or even firom  the Breviary, as fervently as with Toplady or Watts; and
literally praying " with all prayer and supplication," wherever, in old time or in late, in written
form or in the gush of the rudest unpremneditation, lie found disciples whom Jesus had taught
how to pray.
It was the firuit of this enlarged and comprehensive spirit of Charity that we are called upon
to have in remembrance now, after his decease,
for our own following, as he in it so followed
Christ.  You have seen how this spirit won his
way among all Christian people, gained their confidence, disarmed sectarian mistrust in hearing or
reading him, and thus multiplied the number of
those who will ever bless God for such a minis3




50         HIIAE THESE THINGS
ter and author. In his practice he gave great
weight to the axiom: " The servant of the Lord
must not strive, but be gentle unto all men...
patient: in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves."  (2 Tim. 2.) And, therefore,
he would say even of those whose religion was
most antagonistic to his own: " If, instead of reviling the Catholics, we would surpass them in
schools, in personal charities, in persevering missions, and in the preparation of' our ministers, I
believe we should make more head against them."
Discouraging or refusing applications from
other quarters of much more prominence, your
Pastor remained in Trenton, until his declining
health demanded a suspension of pastoral cares;
and after some hesitation between his appointmnent as a Secretary of his favorite institution,
the Sunday-School Union, and the offer of the
editorial charge of Th/e Presbyterian, in Phila.
delphia, he chose the latter, (1833.) This post
gave him a few months of more direct experience
in the general interests of the Church, and of the
wide-spread and multifarious observation which
a religious journalist must exercise.  But he
thought that a less vexatious, and more retired
department would be better suited to his taste
and circumstances; and therefore, in the course
of the first year of his occupation as an editor,




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.
lie consented to take the chair of Rhetoric and
Belles Lettres, in his own beloved College.
The eleven years (1833-1844) which were then
passed in Princeton, though they were withdrawn
from the more direct work of the ministry, and
this solely on account of the infirmities of his
health, were not absorbed in his literary office,
or lost to the higher interests of the Church, or
to his prospective position in it.  His correspondence, throughout that period, has less of the
tone of the mere scholar or professor, than of a
minister who, in season and out of season, was
seeking to spread divine knowledge and to save
souls. Submitting patiently to the Providential
suspension of his employment as a Pastor, and
doing all that industry could do for the faithful
discharge of his duties as an instructor, yet one
who did not know his professional position, would
conclude from his letters, that he was in the centre of weighty and immediate responsibilities for
multitudes.  His mind labored with schemes for
the diffusion of healthful and conservative influences throughout all classes of society.  Tile
threatenings of infidelity and social disorganization, aroused his anxious efforts to interpose the
Bible and Christianity as the only effectual antidote. IHis main hopes rested in the making of
Holy Scripture the great organ of mental and




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spiritual development in education.  And this,
as usual with him, was a practical opinion. ITe
was all the time working in that field: writing
for children, for young men, for Sunday-schools;
and his publications of every sort will be found
marked with that strong impress of his theory,
itself derived from revelation, (for he never was
a schemer,) that dclangllts, pure, direct, and constant, from the fountain of inspired truth, are the
most salutary and only sufficient remedy for the
evils of the timnes. To this great result were the
incessant productions of his pen addressed, from
the series of miniature toy-books for infants, and
the Sunday-school "'Introduction to the Scriptures," to such profound dissertations as the paper
onil  Transcendentalism"? in the Repelrtory, the
joint production of himself and the late Professor
Dod, the force and ability of which have made it
celebrated as an Evangelical weapon, as well as
an exploit in the field of metaphysics.  Besides
the frequent assistance given, during his professorship, to his brethren in their pulpits, he statedly supplied, for seven years, the colored congregation of Princeton, thus putting himself into
contact with a class of persons whose circumstances made his ministry among them a school
to himself of the simplicity, so important for
every class, but so liable to be forgotten, if not
despised, by the scholar.




ALWTAYS IN REM[EMBRANCEL.
Who can fail to see in this portion of his life
the Providential ordering of circuimstances to
strengthen and expand his philanthropy, and at
the same time to qualify him  for his own active
exercise of it, on a larger field, and for its more
practical inculcation on others?  Hlave the young
men of this congregation, and of this city, and I
migllt include in the address the young men
every where who have caught the spirit of his
writings, reflected that he who threw so mluch
energy and love into their special service, was
placed by the hand of Providence-by a dispensation that seemed at the time disastrous-in
daily intercourse with scores of young men, far
from  their ]omes, as their teacher, as the observer of their minds, dispositions, weaknesses,
dangers, their good points and their bad, to raise
his qualifications to the maturity of which it was
to be your privilege to reap the fruits? And will
you not, in the remembrance of these things,
after his decease, feel, that, not as a compliment
to his memory, not merely as a tribute of your
personal gratitude, but out of most solemn recognition of the hand of God in the whole career of.your departed  friend  and  Pastor, preceding
the bringing of his full and ripe mind to your
service —will you not feel that to forget this now,
to neglect it because he has gone, to do any




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thing but strive the more earnestly to hold fast
and improve whlat you have received, will be a
mournful, a perilous slight put upon himself, and
above all, upon the grace of God, which expended so much to make him what he was to
you?
In the Divine purposes, fifty-five years were assigned for the life-time of this his servant. Forty
of these had now passed in one steady progress
of development to the maturity of character and
of capacity, and at least half of that term in active usefulnesso.  Fifteen-only fifteen-remained.
Yret even fifteen years is a long space in human
life, long enough when it is all industriously
consecrated, and under favorable circumstances,
to make impressions of which centuries shall not
see the eid. Luther, though he died at sixtythree, did his predestined work in fifteen years.
And where were the qualifications, lwhose progress we have been indicating, so likely to find a
theatre for their most complete and permanent
influence, as in this metropolis? What circumstances could be more favorable for counverging
the various kinds of talents, accquirements, habits,
associations, and experience, which had been
combined in the whole preceding career, than
those which brought him  to the Duane street
congregation in 1844-and then, after the neces



ALWAYS IN REMIEMBRANCE.           55
sary interval of rest, furnished by his two years'
retirement to the chair in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, (1819-1851,) and an exhilarating voyage to Europe, restored him to his
pastoral work here, in 1851? These and subseqnent interruptions  of his employment as
Pastor, let me here say, were submitted to by
him  as sacrifices, and only Ln obedience to the
duty of preserving his life.  \When elected to the
Seminary, in 1849, he spoke of " the anguish of
a separation from my charge, if I accept;" and
said: " To k;now that I might remain here, [in
Duane street,] would be a joy unspeakable. No
dreams of mine respecting the social happiness
of the pastoral relation, have rfiled to be realized."
Ie wrote at the same crisis: "1  have seen that my
powers were tasked to a tension which must soon be
fatal: while in the steadier routine of teaching, I
might last a season with ordinary tfavor of Providence." I quote this to show how peremptory was
the necessity of his having relaxation at the time,
and how graciously a door was opened, which at
once gave him relief, supplied an important station for the benefit of the Church at large, added
to his learning, revived his interest in the rising'
ministry, and prepared him to return to the city,
and give the last eight years of his strength and
life to the glreat work reserved for him here.




56. HAVE THESE THINGS
I deliberately pronounce it a great work, and
great not only in the scheme of it, but in its accomplishment.  For when we take into consideration what it was to form a new congregation here;
to fill this spacious edifice; to gather a band of
seven  hundred communicants; to  form  and
maintain a successful Mission churc h; to attract
and keep a larlge body of young Imen; to not
merely win tile acceptance, but enlgage the cooperation of so many, of every age, in his enterprises of doing good; to enlist so much zeal, and
to draw out so much liberality; to satisfy such a
miscellaneous multitude of hearers; to establish
a name and influence outside of his own people,
and acknowledged by the community of all
classes and denominations-I say, this, that by
the favor of God lie accomplished, was a great
work, in a little time.  These walls, this registrv
of commlunicants and pew-holders, would not define the limits of your Pastor's zeal, or of his success.  His soul suffered at tile sigllt of the destitutions, bodily, social, and spiritual, of the large
population of this city, and was always praying
to know whllat he should do for them, and sighli
ing that so little seemed practicable.  Willingly
would he have thrown open all thlese seats for
the poor.  Ie longed  to see tle  day when
chlrches should be as free as the parks or the




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streets to all who would came in. 1Never was he
more animated than when originating or assisting
some method of reaching the ignorant, degraded,
neglected.  His philanthropy was nore tlhan a
lament, a prayer, a whine, a pulpit theory, an
anniversary oration, a newspaper rhapsody. He
not only talked, but acted, and not only acted,
but loved to act; was not only skillful in directing the benevolence of others, but was himself
benevolent, and often did the part of benevolence
which is fair more laborious and self-denying than
that which is accomplished by mere givingthough it is not too mnuch to say that his own
personal unpublished charities were filly equal,
according to the scale of means, to wllat his inflnence obtained from  others.
In estimating his work in this city, what might
I not say of the effect of his personal character,
and that, too, as one of the products of Divine
grace that qualified him for his position? I-ow
could so much of talents and individual influence
have been seen connected with so much of sirnplicity, imodesty, and spiritual affections, andc not
have made a constant impression in favor of his
preaching? A minister of the Gospel may be
worldly, may be ambitious, may be covetous,
may be luxurious, imay be indolent. These are
the temptations of a large city to ministers as




5)8          IIAVE THESE THINGS
well as to other men.  But perhaps the gracious
end of your Pastor's afflictions Awas in no respect
more marked than in the influence they had in
keeping  him, with all the refinement of his tastes,
and all his qualifications for literary and social
life, so content with domestic retirement and the
plodding routine of his parochial work, so conscientious and self-denying as to every thing
dangerous or doubtful, so blameless and with
such a good report of those who are' without."
No Atnerican ever visited Europe with more capacity to relish its natural scenery, its historical
associations, its seats of learning and repositories
of the fine arts, its high refinement and culture;
but both his voyages were submitted to as unwelcome but unavoidable separations from  his
mninistry; and in the language of one of  his transAtlantic letters, (June, 1857,) lhe could honestly
say, "After all, I would a thousandfold rather be
at home!" and he meant his ecclesiastical home,
his parish, more than his domicile, for his family
were  withll him.  No scholar, more than he, enjoyed the employments of literature, but I believe he could always say, as lie did when occupying a professor's chair in the College, and at
the same time preaching for the blacks once a
week:    I believe mly happiest hours are spent
on Sunday afternoons, in laboring among my
little charge."




ALWAYS IN REM:EMBRANCE.           o9
Htis personal piety had such prominent features
that no observer could do otherwise than take
knowledge of its depth and uniformity.  What
habitual reverence! what engagedness in worship! what hearty intentness in every public exercise! making every one fbel that lie was acting
not with the perfunctory solemnity of a sacred
office, but with the personal sincerity of one who
felt himself to be a sinner, yet a rejoicing believer
and a happy worshipper.  How the words of
Scripture seemed to take the tone of his own experience!  how the pathos of his prayers showed
that it was his own soul, as well as yours, he was
lifting up to God in confession, praise, and suppiication! And who that has heard him, especially in more social assemblies or in the worship
at his own fireside, or in the room  of sickness
and the house of affliction, does not remember
how his deep absorption in devotion and the
filial, affectionate nearness of his access to the
Father of mercies and God of all comfort, caused
him to forget what may be called the conventionalities of prayer, and to pour out his soul, indeed with the most abased hIumility and profound adoration, yet with a directness, familiarity, mnfi uteness, freedom of expression, whllich was
like the interviews of the patriarchs with the
Lord God, " face to face as a man speaketh unto




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his friend,' (Ex. 33,) or like those of the apostle
who leaned on his Lord's bosom  at the holy table.
In fact, thlis was the secret of the confidence
he inspired, the affection he won, namely, the
assurance whichl all felt that lie was wvhat lle
seemed, that he experienced what lie declared,
that lhe exemplified what lie taught.  It was his
personal piety, and its abundant fruits that
wrought conviction upon every mind that observed him, that his'C rejoicing" might be that
of the apostle. " The testimony of his conscience
that in simplicity and  godly sincerity, not with
fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he had
had his conversation in the world, and more
abundantly toward yoac."  (2 Cor. L.)  Your
luxurious hospitalities did not tempt himi; the
license, so often pleaded in cities against clerical
straitness, was not taken advantage of by him; hisi
plrivate habits con tiniued in thle'if'tl Aven ue as situple as they were in Charlotte; and when lie refused
your generous proposal to increase his stipend, it
was not (as has been said) because the revenue
fiom  his office was wholy suflicient of itself, but
because lie would do what lie could to obviate
the popular prejudice on that subject.  Should
we not acknowledge all this as a gracious endowmnent that was to enable this follower of Him who




ALWAYS IN REMETMBRANCE.           61
came not to be ministered unto, blut to miniister,
to commend 16 these things" of the Gospel whicl
ihe preached, to your retmembrance after hlis decoase?
It vas this sincerity slowing itself in such
tend(er and affectionate sensibility that made its
way to every heart.  How his eye, his tones, h1is
countenance, his quicek attention. testified the
delicate tenderness of his inmost soul, when any
sor0row, or peril, or joy in another touched his
sympathy   I-e made you feel that lhe was ino
terested for you, and that his expressions were
the feeblest index of the amount of his concern.
I amn persuaded that neitlher his outward activity, nor any other demonstrations, revealed fully
tlhe extent to which his heart glowed with zeal to
see more unity among the followers of Christ,
more practical fellowship and eooperation among
ministers of the Gospel, especially those of the
same conmmunion, more earnest, extended, and
indefatigable labor to reach the miseries and sins
of such a city as 5New-York.  I amn sure it is only
the simple truth I utter when I say that his spirit
groaned in witnessing the extension of crime,
wretchedness, and unbelief, and in the anxiety to
see the whole force of the entire Church of Chrlist
broughlt out to personal devotedness, by direct
activity and humble work, as well as liberal do



62             HAVE THESE THINGS
nations, in the only cause worth living and dying
for.
His views were broad, noble, unselfish, and
unjealous.  His knowledge was universal.*  His
character, intellectual and spiritual, was remarkably complete and uniform; its symmetry was
not broken, ever and anon, by erratic or irregugular deviations; his "6 this one thing I do," was
not some favorite atom occupying his mind  by
itself, but the one great whole of truth and duty
according to the proportions in which it stands in
revelation.  Ile was, consequently, eminently
safe and worthy of reliance; and if I may be
excused  for  resorting  to  a familiar classical
phrase to express it, he was, like the " sapiens"
of the ioman satirist, in himself complete, polished and round,t a man for the whole Church
and for all the world.
And now, my brethren  of this congregation,
and of this comrmunity, having made this too desultory sketch of the life and the character of this
deceased minister, with the main object in view
- His father was remarkable for the extent of his information,
but I remember once making an inquiry of him, and receiving for
a reply: " Ask James, he knows every thing."
f "In seipso totus, teres atque rotundus,
Externi ne quid valeat per loeve morari."
Ieror'. Sat. ii. 7.




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.           63
of making more impressive a sense of your own
privileges and responsibilities, by showing how
lie was trained and guided for your service; what
great endowments lie thus acquired to be expended for your benefit; what a character he by
grace attained, to commend to you the religion
of which lie was a miniister; you must perceive
how appropriate is the application of tlie Apostle's sentiment, thlat now, after the decease of
such a Pastor, you should have always in rememDrance just what the Apostle meant by what lihe
called, "thlese things."  Five times in this one
chapter lie uses the same phrase. At every repetition it is employed to denote the grand practical, indispensable firuits of Gospel truth.  "If
these things' be in you and abound, ye shall
not be unfruitfid in the knowledge of Christ; but
lie that lacketh' these thinlgs' is blind; if ye do' these things,' ye shall never fall; I will not be
negligent to plt you always in renernbrance of
these things;' moreover I will endeavor that ye
may be able after my decease to have'these
things' always in remembrance.."
They were these things -- the great, practical,
saving things of Divine revelation-which were
most prominent in his preaching; and if his
voice could be heard once more, this day, in the
clear, earniest, sincere, affectionate tones in which




64          HtAVE THESE THINGS
you have been accustomed to hear hirn speak to
you from  this spot, it would say: HIave these
things always in remembrance; remember me
chiefly as the ambassador of Christ to you; let
the messages of truth, which I have delivered,
be the most prominent in your recollections;
think more of' Cllrist than of me; let not the
fondness of your personal regard, and the grief
for your loss, cause you to forget, that the imnmutable doctrine I have taught you, survives all
gen - is independent of their ministry.  " I
preached not myself; but Christ Jesus, the Lord,
and  myself; your servant, for Jesus' sake."
(2 Cor. 4.)  " I have not shunned to declare
unto you all the counsel of God."  (Acts 20.)
Yes, my brethren, you know as well as I do, that
if he had the direction of this day's services, lie
wsould have the connection of his name with
them used supremely for the purpose of recalling
to and impressing on your remembrance the
words of Christ.  I call upon you, therefore, this
solemn dcay, to consider by what a long, arduous,
painful process the Divine Providence qualified
your former Pastor to serve you with such fidelity; how  abundantly he instructed you ou t of
the pure oracles of revealed truthl; how every
class, age, and condition of his charge, found in
him  all that can ever be found in such frail




ALWAYS IN REMEMIBRAN-CE.          (
vessels as the best of ministers are; his labors, so
extended and adapted that each finds some special cause to remember what he did for themselves.  I summnion you, in the name of Himn
whose servant he was, to remember how weighty
is the obligation on you all to respond to this influence.  His tilne was, in. your view indeed, lainentably short; but it was long enongll to make
eternal consequences vibrate on the issue as to
each soull-of life unto lifb, or of death unto
death. It was long enouglh, if time were all, to
have converted every one to Christ, to have
brought every believer to Christ's standard of
what his disciples should be.  And I am sure, I
do not exaggerate the fullness with which he declared thle whole counsel committed to hin, whllen
I say that his preaching, his conversation, his catechetieal and other instructions of the young,
have been sufficient, as to their substance, to accomplish these results, so far as the administration
of the means of grace is snffieient.'What a reflection is this for each member of the congiegation to make, as you meet to-day, as it were at
thile silent grave of hilYm who was so lately wearing out his very life to do you good   " My (leceased Pastor has taughnot me enough to convert
me firom the error of mry way, and save my soul
from  death; he has exhibited, by doctrine and




66          EHAVE THESE THINGS
by patterni, what I ought to be as a spirituallyminded believer; he has warned me against
worldliness and fbrmalism, as the great cankers
of piety; lie has shown mie what it is to live in
the grace of our Lord Jesus, the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy Ghost; lie has both
testified and exemplified the obligation of personal zeal for the kingdom'of the Rledeemer, an
untiring, daily concern for the wants and woes of
my fellow-men; in all this, lie was not a mere
philanthropist, not a theorist dreaming new devices for the remedy of social evils, but an accredited  representative of Christ and the Gospel,
and so speaking the authoritative messages of
God himself; and his mission was to mr/e; for it
he was prepared by Providence through long years
of study, of anguish, and the multiform  occupations and experiences of his life, so that it is, as
to my own opportunity and responsibility, as if
all this had been done and endured for myself."
Need I follow out these reflections to their legitimate conclusion? It is too obvious to  be
nmissed. too solemn in the ver.y statement to need
enforcement.  I charge you then, whilst you
weep this day in the affectionate commemoration
of your Pastor, let the great improvement of the
event be, to have in remembrance, now after his
decease, and always, the things which, in the




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.           67
name of his Lord and 1Master, he spake while he
was yet with you. The highest honor to his memory, the best tribute to his character, the most
suitable attestation to his fidelity, will be your
steadfast adherence to the doctrines delivered to
you. This will show that the distinction of his
ministry among you was not that of telnporary
popularity, nor only of personal attachment, but
of his having been received by you for the truth's
sake-for Christ's sake.
Some allow themnselves to become so attached
to a particular minister, that it may almost be
said that their religion consists in admiring him./.
Apart from his 8preaching, they scarcely recognize the value of the ordinances of the Lord's
house: and when lie is removed, they lament as
if nothing was left. But the decease of such a
minister is a still louder call on those who have
heard him, while living, only to be pleased, but
not to be regarded. I am heard by some now
who are reminded of his faithful but tender expostulations with them in private as well as in
public-by notes and letters as well as by pointed
sermons: will you not now perceive that God
has taken away your human reliance, that he
might make you hear more distinctly His own
divine voice: removed the hulman mediator that
you might feel that there is in truth but one effectual Mediator, Christ Jesus, and that to Him




68          lHAVE THESE THINGS
you must go forthwith and directly? If you have
neglected your beloved Pastor, as to the highest
purpose for whichl le was sent to you, beware
how you now put from your remembrance, after
his decease, the things that belong to your peace,
and which, otherwise may, like himself, be soon
hidden from  your eyes.  Listen while I reproduce a fev paragraplhs fiom a well rememberedc
and prophetic discourse which he addressed to
a congregation in this city, but a few weeks
before lie left his pulpit to be seen in it no
more: "AMinisters of the Gospel often lament
in secret over the indifference with which their
messages are heard,  and sometinmes they forecast a time, after their decease, when  their
words lmay come back to these hearers with a
prevailing force. In this way, as well as others,
dead ministers continue to preach.  It is wise to
cherish their meminory.  Remember, them  o..
which have spoken unto you the word of God;
whose faith follow... Ah! my respected but
unconverted hearers, we come to you, after many
trials of preparation and with much consciousness of infirmnity, sermon after sermon, Sabbath
after Sabbatl-, nmontll after month, year after
year; we grow gray and feeble waiting on you
with the Lord's message, which you will not consider; and then we die and you are released from
the distastefufl reiteration of warning and entreaty.




ALWAYS IN REMEMBRANCE.           69
God grant that tile day mray rnot come when you
shall gaze on some marble and wish us back; and
when echo shall seem  to say with Samueli Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the
Lord is departed fromn thee, and is become thine
enemy?' Suppose we could return all ghastly to
stand beside your death-bed, we could bring you
io gospel wiclh you have not rejected. ~Nothing
will hlave come upon you but that whlichl we had
predicted. You have been forewarned; so was
Saul. Hence the prophet whom lie invokes says
to him: I And the Lord bath. clone to him as he
spake by ine.. because thou obeyedst not
thie voice of the Lord.' "
This comes to you now as a voice fiom the
grave of your Pastor- the very voice you once
hleard audibly pronounice these very words, and
at the sound of which you trembled, but said,' Go thy way for this time "-when you return
once more we vwil give heed!
Turn now, every one who has been under this
ministry for years, and only to defer repentance,
and then all that we foolishly call the mtystery of
Providence in causing such a saint to be sucll a
sufferer, and in removing him in the very height
of his power, will be explained, sufficiently at
least for your satisfaction, in mnaking effectual by
the fact of his death what failed to be effectual
by the continuance of his life. You would not




70           HAVE THESE THINGS
turn for the living pastor, oh! turn now in the
remembrance of his warnings, after his decease!
Cherish, people of his charge, cherish and fulfill his plans. They were the result of long and
mature thought,  wide observation, long experience, and fervent prayer, and are not likely to be
suddenly or easily improved. By thus building
on the foundation he has laid, you may continue
to enjoy his wisdom and piety in some of their
mlrost substantial effects: and happy will it be if
the Timotheus who shall succeed this Paul " shall
[in this sense] bring you into remembrance of
HIs WAYs  which be in Christ," (I Cor. 4.) as well
as in the larger sense, call upon you to remember
him who has spoken unto you the word of God;
whose faith follow, considering the end of his conversation, a" Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and
to-day, and forever."  (I-Ieb. 13.) It will then
be as if be were still "abiding and continuing
with you all for your furtherance and joy of
faith:' and it may be, dear brethren, no extravagant or unscriptural conception to continue the
citation, even though we now speak in the name
of a minister after his decease-" only let your
conversation be as it becometh the Gospel of
Christ —that whether I come and see you, or ELSE
BE ABSENT, I may hEAR of your affairs, that ye
stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving
together for the faith of the Gospel."  (Phil. 1.)




ALWAYS IN REMEMKBRANCE.o         1
Oh! you know that nothing colder than apostolic language would express the heartiness, the
warmth, of the interest he felt for your souls! It
was with him, as with the writers of the Epistles
to the Churches, a labor of love to minister to
you. It was without affectation he could address
you as " my bretihren, dearly beloved and longed
for, my joy and crown.  may dearly beloved."'
(Phil. 4.) "6 If I be not an apostle unto others,
yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine
apostleship are ye in the Lord."  (1 Cor. 9.)'We were gentle among you, even as a nurse
cherisheth her [own] children; so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to
have imparted unto you, not the Gospel of God
only, but also our own souls, because ye were
dear unto us.... Ye are witnesses, and God
also, how holily and justly and unblamably we
behaved ourselves among you that believe: as
ye know how we exhorted and comforted and
charged every one of you, as a father cloth his
children, that ye would walk worthy of God, who
hath called you unto his kingdom and glory."
(1 Thess. 2.)
Yes, my brethren, we speak of the decease of
our beloved Alexander: but the word has lost
its true meaning —that of clepcarture-by our customary associations. It is in the original ExoDus,
a going out of, the very word used in the nar



'7 2         HAVE THESE THINGS
rative of tlhe Transfiguration, when -Moses and
Elias spoke of the " decease," the exodus, the
departure, of the Lord Jesus which he should
accomplish at Jerusalem.  (Luke 9.) The decease of Christ was his passage to the Father's
glory: it was as one continuous event with his
Resurrection and Ascension.  And so, that departed but everliving Redeemer, says this day as
truly as when lie spoke similar word, in Bethany,
of one then in his grave, " Our friend Alexander
SLEEPET1I; but I go th]at I may awake him out of
sleep."  Note how the Son of God identifies himself alike with his living and departed disciples
-" otr fiiend Lazarus."'  Then our friend is not
dead: lie sleeps and does well: for the tResurrection and the Life, in whom he believed, has declared that he " shall never die."  Oh! how such
a man must enjoy heaven! What a relish and
capacity for it was his soul acquiring all his life!
What a preparation for this were his years of
sorrow and of toil! Yes! hle was confident he
was approaching all this, when lie cried: "' I
know whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that lhe is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day."  (2 Tim. 1.)
Here we may well stop.  May his God and our
God so keep us all, that we fail not to follow him
and the happy multitudes who through faith and
patience inherit the promises 




INSCRIPTION 01on the Tablet erected by the congregation on the left of the pulpit of the churchl
IN' aMEMORY OF
JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER, D. D.,
FOR 18 YEARS
T 1liEB E   1, O \B L  D   A N  1)  E  E   P1  ) A S' O R
OF TH1-1IS CHURCH;
WILOSE SIN`( ULAR NAT'IURAIL GIFTS,
RIPENE) 13Y (-ENEROUS CULTUCRE.
WIERE SUCCESSFULLY GIVEN
TO HIS SACRLED WOIK:
AND WHO, BY IiS FERVTENT P'IE',TY,
PURE, LIFE,
TEN)DER  AFIFECTIONS, LARG-IE BIIENIEVOLE',NCE,
AND  UNSPARING  LABOUiR,
SO  ENDE1) ARElD  HIMSELF TO0 HI-S'O P EOPLIIE,
TII''  THEIIY MOURN'
AS F      O      1)EAR 1  i0    11'i   N ) BELOVED  F.  1 N D.
HE WAS BO3N  MIARCHI 13S'ir, iS04.
HEli DIED JULY 31ST, 1859,
DECLAR[N(G.
AS TlEl SUNM  OF IlIS FAITHI  AND  1IOPE:'I kntow  evhoM  I have believed, alnd (-uw pn )sarledld
tllat b1e is able to keel. that which 1 have co'titted to
hintl, aqai'tnst thtat da."