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Pastors, elders and other friends who are willing to help the effort to extend the circulation of THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD will be furnished with convenient subscription envelopes, on application by letter to John A. Black, 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. State the number desired. It will be convenient to have one for each pew in your church.

"All this for one dollar!" exclaimed an elder in Missouri, as he held up the first number of THE CHURCH AT HOME AND ABROAD, after reading awhile from it.

What does he say now, after reading its twelfth number? Has he gotten the worth of his money?

If any reader thinks it worth more than a dollar to him, perhaps he can think of some member of the same congregation with him who would value it and is not able to pay for it. If every one who thinks it worth two dollars should subscribe for himself and one friend, his two dollars would be well invested. If any of you cannot find a person on whom to bestow it, the editor will undertake to find one for you-one or more.

The Board of Home Missions has issued a tract of sixteen small pages in commemoration of "Rev. Timothy Hill, D.D. The Man and his Work." It contains extracts from letters written from Indian Territory, and from one written by Rev. John Spaulding, D.D., giving account of Timothy's conversion when only eight years old; remarks of Dr. Thompson at his funeral, speaking of him as a pastor, as superintendent of missions and in the Indian Territory. It closes with extracts from the last paper presented by him to the Board of Home Missions. This tract is intensely interesting. The reading of it cannot fail to give pleasant recollections and wholesome stimulus to any mind in sympathy with the work to which that brave life was devoted. All who knew and loved Dr. Hill-and what Presbyterian did not?-want copies of it. Send for them to O. D. Eaton, 280 Broadway, New York.

The letters from Indian Territory, on page 555, give pleasing illustration of that blending of foreign missions and home missions of which Dr. Hill spoke so eloquently and persuasively shortly before he left this world. That Indian Territory, so dear to 'him, has ceased to be foreign mission ground; the work there is home mission; and the Synod of Indian Territory has taken its place in the honorable roll of our church's synods.

The Inter-Seminary Alliance held a delightful and profitable meeting at Alexandria, Va., October 27-30, in the "Christ Church" in which George Washington owned and occupied a pew a hundred years ago. We may have more to say of this interesting and valuable alliance in a subsequent issue.

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As we go to press, a letter is received from Rev. H. W. Pierson, D.D., written from the City Hospital, Rochester, N. Y., and giving most fervent expression to the emotions stirred within him by the article on Geneseo Collegiate Institute in our November issue, page 459.

Dr. Pierson's father, Rev. Josiah Pierson, and several other persons migrated in 1807 from Connecticut to western New York. The next year they organized the first church west of the Genesee river, on which Rochester is situated. That church was not thirty years old when its pastor and some of its people formed a plan to plant a church and an institution of learning in the great West. They were organized as a church, and had a pastor installed over them; and then “with many prayers and tears the colony, in their covered wagons, started on their long journey to Geneseo, Illinois." ney to Geneseo, Illinois." Dr. Pierson says, "I knew every one of them. Among them were my earliest playmates and schoolmates, and their parents to whom, as a child, I had looked up with reverence."

That child, with such blood in his veins, now a man of seventy years, nearing the end of a life of heroic service in the ministry, in feeble health, in a hospital, lies on his bed and reads Dr. Ganse's appeal for that Geneseo Collegiate Institute, founded by the brave immigrants whom he saw start from the home of his childhood fifty years ago. Is it any wonder that he writes, "I have just read Dr. Ganse's four pages in your November number. I do not know him. I wish I did. I closed THE CHURCH at page 460. I could not see very well to read farther, and I did not wish to change the subject."

We have room in these closing notes for only so brief extracts from a most affecting communication. May that beloved man yet hear of the full endowment of that precious institution, of the genesis of which he gives us so affecting reminiscence.

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We deem it fitting to publish at stated intervals brief epitomes of the life and work of the deceased ministers of our denomination. This step has been taken with a view of supplying a deficiency in the ministerial record of our church. To secure accuracy of statement, it is desired to have the cooperation of the stated clerks of presbyteries and the friends and relatives of deceased ministers. For the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, who kindly prepares these notices, we respectfully request aid therein from his brethren and from other interested parties. He will furnish upon application a blank form specifying the items of information desired. The necrological records given below are based upon informa

tion furnished to the Stated Clerk, and he will prepare such notices of all deceased ministers concerning whom the facts are sent to him. Address Rev. W. H. Roberts, D.D., 950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.

BATCHELOR, WARD-born, Waverly, Pa., January 9, 1850; studied at Cornell University; Chicago Theological Seminary, 1874-76; Auburn Theological Seminary, 1876-78; ordained (Congregational), Morrisville, N. Y., November 20, 1879; pastor (Congregational), Morrisville, 1878-81; missionary, Gurley Chapel (Presbyterian), Washington, D. C., 1881-86; died, Mexico City, Mexico, July 18, 1887.

BRIER, WILLIAM WALLACE-born, Dayton, O., November 6, 1821; graduated, Wabash College, 1846, Lane Theological Seminary, 1846-48; ordained, Presbytery of Logansport, October, 1848; stated supply, Romney and West Point, Ind., 1848-49; home missionary in California, Maryville, 1850-51, Santa Clara Valley, 1852, Centre

ville and Alvarado, 1853-60; district secretary, missionary and stated supply, Alvarado, 1860–75; stated supply and evangelist, Centreville, 187587, where he died, June 3, 1887. CATTELL, THOMAS WARE-born, Salem, N. J., July 10, 1823; graduated, College of New Jersey, 1842, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1847; ordained, West Jersey Presbytery, May 23, 1848; pastor, Cedarville, N. J., 1848-51, Deerfield, N. J., 1855-60; principal, Edgehill Academy, Princeton, N. J., 1851-55, 1860-69; principal, Merchantville, N. J., 1869-73; professor of mathematics, Lincoln University, Pa., 1873-87; died, Lincoln University, Pa., June 29, 1887; Ph.D., from Princeton College, 1867. FRIES, HENRY CONRAD-born, Frankford, Pa., September 29, 1813; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1833-36; ordained evangelist, Lewes Presbytery, April 13, 1837; stated supply, Greensborough, Del., Denton and Mispillion, Md., 1837-40; resided at Middletown, Del., Millville, N. J., and Laurel, Del.; died, Laurel, Del., July 14, 1887. HITCHCOCK, ROSWELL DWIGHT-born, East Machias, Me., August 17, 1817; graduated, Amherst College, 1836; studied theology at Andover Seminary, 1838–39, and also in Germany; tutor, Amherst College, 1839-42; ordained, November 19, 1845; pastor, First Congregational Church, Exeter, N. H., 1845-52; professor Natural and Revealed Religion, Bowdoin College, 1852-55; professor Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York city, 1855-87, and president of the same, 1880-87; died near Fall River, Mass., June 16, 1887. Dr. Hitchcock received the honorary degrees of D.D., Bowdoin College, 1855, Edinburgh University, 1884; and LL.D., Williams College, 1873. He published, Life of Edward Robinson, 1863; Complete Analysis of the Bible, 1869; Hymns and Songs of Praise, 1878; Socialism, 1879; Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, 1884; Carmina Sanctorum, 1885. HOGARTH, WILLIAM-born, Geneva, N. Y., April

3, 1814; graduated, Union College, 1841, Auburn Theological Seminary, 1840-41; ordained, Presbytery Wilmington, December 6, 1841; pastor of the following churches:-Hanover Street, Wilmington, Del., 1841-46; First, Geneva, N. Y., 1846-55; First, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1855-58; Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich., 1858-73; North, Geneva, N. Y., 1873-86; died of disease of the heart, Avon, N. Y., August 18, 1887. D.D., University of New York, 1858. JERVIS, TIMOTHY BLOOMFIELD-born, Rome, N. Y., February 20, 1809; civil engineer, 1826-39; studied at Auburn and Union Theological Seminaries, graduated, Auburn, 1843; ordained by Presbytery of Oswego, July 12, 1843; stated supply, Oriskany, N. Y., 1844-45, Unadilla, 184546; pastor, Richfield Spa, N. Y., 1847–53; stated supply, Oakfield, N. Y., 1853-55, Newport, 1856-59, Oriskany, 1859-64, Burr Oak, Mich., 1865-66, Pine Island, Minn., 1866-69; colporteur, Woodbridge, N. J., 1869-72; pastor,

Wells and Columbia, N. Y., 1872-76; honorably retired, Elmira, N. Y., 1876–84, Rome, 1885-87; died, Rome, N. Y., August 7, 1887.

LINN, SAMUEL POLLOCK-born near Washington, Pa., March 5, 1842; graduated, Washington College, Pa., 1862, Western Theological Seminary, 1865; ordained, Presbytery Western Reserve, May 18, 1866; pastor, Westminster Church, Cleveland, O., 1866-67; Western Seminary, 1868-69; pastor, Wayne, Pa., 1870-71, Shamokin, Pa., 1872-73; residing, Philadelphia, Pa., 1874-77; pastor, Baton Rouge, La., 1877-78; stated supply, Lincoln Park Church, Cincinnati, O., 1879-80; pastor, First Avenue Church, Evans.ville, Ind., 1884; stated supply, Carlisle, Ind., 1885; honorably retired, Washington, Pa., 188687; died of softening of the brain, Dixmont, Pa., July 1, 1887. Mr. Linn published, Living Thoughts, 1869; Golden Gleams, 1881; Words that Burn, 1883.

MILLER, SAMUEL JAMES-born, Lancaster, Pa., June 11, 1802; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1826-27; ordained, Presbytery Miami, October 7, 1829; pastor, New Lexington, O., 1829-36, Pleasant Ridge, 1836-43; stated supply, Bethel and Pisgah, O., 1843-45, Wilmington, 1845-51; pastor, Washington Court-House, O., 1851-66; stated supply, New Holland and Wilmington, 1866-70; home missionary, Washington CourtHouse, 1871-73; honorably retired, 1874, residing at Washington Court-House, O., where he died, September 24, 1887.

NICHOLS, CESAR-born a slave in North Carolina in 1813; ordained by the Presbytery of Transylvania, October 4, 1873; preached as an evangelist, and resided at Danville, Ky., where he died of chronic diarrhoea, August 12, 1887. PORTER, DANIEL CLARK-born, Leonardsburg, O., September 9, 1849; graduated, Wooster University, 1876, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877-79; studied at Edinburgh University, Scotland; stated supply, Martinsburgh, O., 1880–81; ordained, Monmouth Presbytery, July 13, 1881; pastor, Mount Holly, N. J., 1881-87, where he died of typhoid fever, August 11, 1887.

SCOVEL, ALDEN-born, Peru, Mass., April 4, 1801; graduated, Yale College, 1826, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1826-29; ordained evangelist, Albany Presbytery, August 17, 1831; stated supply, Hudson Second Church, Stockport, N. Y., 1831-46, also, Bordentown, N. J., 1846-60; principal Bordentown High School, 1846-60; teacher, Bloomington, Ill., 1860-73; honorably retired, Chicago, Ill., 1874-87, where he died, July 16, 1887. SMITH, HIRAM-born, Westfield, Mass., September 21, 1800; graduated, Amherst College, 1823, Auburn Theological Seminary, 1824-26; or dained (Congregational), Franklin Association, Nov. 10, 1830; licentiate and pastor, Marcellus, N. Y., 1827-34; pastor, Margaretta, O., 1834-38, Almont, Mich., 1838-42; pastor (Presbyterian), Margaretta, O., 1843-63; resident at Hillsdale, Mich., 1864-87, where he died, July 28, 1887.

HOME MISSIONS.

$800,000.

Not less than $800,000 will be needed to meet the most urgent demands of this work for the coming year. We repeat, therefore, our urgent admonition to pastors and ministers generally, as those charged by the Head of the church with submitting his claims to the people, to do their share to secure this increase of funds and to meet these golden opportunities. The Assembly of 1887.

We have no doubt but there will be much

interest taken in the letters from the missionaries printed in this month's "News from the Field." In them is shown a varied experience and faithful work. In Dakota Mr. Parsons has fought boldly and successfully for the Sabbath. In Florida Mr. Foy has seen the rum power "voted out." In Texas Mr. Scott has a "boundless field," half as large as New York state. In Kansas Mr. Haviland works in a moving town. In Minneapolis Mr. Wells has stopped a Sabbath base-ball nuisance. The Indian work is successful in Indian Territory and Arizona. The Mormons, the Scandinavians and the Mexicans are subjects of faithful work by the missionaries. The news is interesting and work hopeful from all standpoints.

We call special attention to Dr. Kirkwood's report to the Synod of Colorado. It is full of information and suggestion. If it seems long, let us remember the varied interests it embraces-schools and churches for Americans, Mexicans and Indians-and the great extent of the field, namely, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona, 437,415 square miles in extent.

"The History of a Decade," by Rev. J. B. Pomeroy, superintendent, is a picture of the growth of our church in southern Da

kota that will richly repay a perusal, but it is not a solitary instance. Other fields in the advancing West have kept pace with it.

We regret to announce to our readers that Rev. S. E. Wishard, D.D., late synodical missionary in Kentucky, has accepted a call to the First Church in Des Moines, Iowa, and has already entered on the discharge of his duties there. Dr. Wishard spent four months last winter and spring doing special and excellent work in Utah for the Board. The Presbytery of Utah at their last meeting nominated him to take charge of their work. But peculiar and personal reasons constrained him to decline their call, and also seek release from his labors in Kentucky. We congratulate the church at Des Moines and the friends of home missions in Iowa on such an accession to their force, and we trust that the church will not be surprised nor reluctant to give him up occasionally when we call for the use of his special gifts and experiences in the behalf of home missions in the state of Iowa.

Reports from all quarters make mention of only large, harmonious and enthusiastic meetings of the various women's synodical societies. We hear it said of them that they were all that could be desired. This is happily in accord with the cheering reports

we have from the school work the Woman's Executive Committee have in hand. Everywhere the work is prosperous. The demand for new schools and new buildings, and for the enlargement of buildings already in use on account of the increasing number of applicants, is very great and must tax all the energies of the friends of school work, both male and female. There seems to be a lack of ministers for our missionary fields, but there is no lack of competent and consecrated female teachers ready for the school

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