try. In richness, purity, and elegance of style, ripe scholarship, and brilliant imagination he had but few superiors.

"His sermons bore the impress of his clear, logical mind, and were deeply imbued with the sterling principles of Calvinistic Theology. Many of them are admirable specimens of logical method, striking thought, and elegant style. He generally read his sermons, and his manner and matter were so attractive that the Sabbath assemblies were very large. He excelled as a preacher rather than as a pastor. In disposition he was peculiarly amiable, and his most intimate friends have never seen him angry. He was modest and unobtrusive, yet when necessity required he was bold and fearless both in thought and action. In the words of one who knew him intimately, (Rev. Dr. J. W. Nevin:) 'Religion was with him a greater interest than learning or science, and it was shown through all my acquaintance with him to be in his case no formal profession simply; but a deepseated principle in the heart, and a reigning power in the life.'"'

CUMMINS, M.D., CHARLES P.-Was born in Franklin County, Pa., in 1803. He received his early education in the schools of his neighborhood. He entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., where he graduated and entered upon the practice of medicine in his own neighborhood. He was quite successful. He was hopefully converted, and the subject of the Christian ministry became an absorbing question for him to decide. The result was that he commenced the study of Theology under the supervision of the late Rev. John McKnight.

In 1836 he was licensed, ordained, and installed pastor of Dickinson church, by Carlisle Presbytery. Here he fulfilled a successful pastorate until 1843. In 1844 he removed to the West and became pastor of the Presbyterian churches of Mount Pleasant and Trenton, Iowa, in the bounds of Iowa Presbytery. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1846 and renewed his connection with Carlisle Presbytery, but receiving a call from the churches of Brookville and Pisgah, Pa., he joined Clarion Presbytery in 1847. This was his longest and perhaps most successful pastorate in the bounds of the Presbytery of Clarion, in the churches of Pisgah and Brookville.

During fifteen years he went out and in among that people, and his coPresbyters bear willing testimony that he labored with earnestness, zeal, and fidelity. God seems greatly to have blessed his efforts by the pouring out of his Spirit in a remarkable manner, resulting in the conversion of many souls. But disease had selected him as its victim, first entirely pros trating him, and then so impaired his vocal organs as to render public speaking painful and dangerous.

He resigned his charge in 1862, removed to Beaver, Pa., and then to Manchester, Pa., in Allegheny City Presbytery, and resumed the practice of medicine. It was not, however, the will of God that this should continue long. His old malady returned-for weeks and months he suffered, until March 22, 1865, when he died of Consumption.

His health had long been feeble, and on many occasions he was hardly able to preach. He was a skillful physician, a good preacher, a laborious pastor, a genial gentleman, and a sincere and earnest Christian.

DUMONT, D.D., A. H.*-The son of Dr. Peter and Elizabeth (Swartwout) Dumont, was born in New York, in 1798. He was educated at Co

* JOSEPH E. NOURSE, D.D., of Washington, D. C., prepared this Memoir.

lumbia College, N. Y., where he was graduated in 1814, and commenced the study of medicine, but finally relinquished it for the ministry. He studied Theology in the Seminary of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at New Brunswick, N. J., under the care of the venerable Rev. Dr. Livingston, and was licensed by the Classis of New York of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in 1826.

After a pastorate near Albany, N. Y., and missionary labor near Pottsville, Pa., he was called to Newport, R. I., where he effected a union between the Congregational churches formerly under Rev. Drs. Hopkins and Styles. He thus laid the foundation for the prosperity of the orthodox Congregational Church, now under the ministrations of the able and excellent Thatcher Thayer, D.D.

In 1841 Dr. Dumont became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Morristown, N. J. On the death of his wife, in 1845, he returned to Newport. After subsequent labors in New Bedford and other places, he preached occasionally only as his health permitted; but he devoted himself to the interests of sound Education, gratuitously building up and perfecting the excellent Public School system which Newport this day enjoys, and always manifesting that tenderness and care for the true development of the young, which endeared him to them.

Dr. Dumont was twice married-his first wife, Miss Julia McKnight, of Bordentown, left to him two children, who still survive; his second, Mrs. Mary G. Clarke, survived him but a few months, being called away as suddenly as her husband, in August of the same year.

Dr. Dumont's mind and culture were of a high order. His power was always felt in argumentative discourse; his impress on the community during his Newport pastorate was very marked and was acknowledged even by the irreligious and skeptical who were numerous in that day. In his later years his power as an Educator and his varied knowledge and genial nature made him a delightful companion. His last public service to the church was rendered as commissioner to the General Assembly, (0. s.,) from the Presbytery of Connecticut in 1863.

He died of Heart Disease, in New York, July 5, 1865, whilst on a visit.

DUNCAN, JOHN R.-The son of John and Elizabeth H. Duncan, was born in Fairview, Ohio, July 31, 1826. He was educated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., where he was graduated in 1848. He studied Theology in the Western Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., was licensed by Steubenville Presbytery, and ordained by Washington Presbytery in April, 1852, as pastor of the church at Moundsville, Ohio. He resigned and took charge of Allen Grove church, in West Virginia; thence to Cumberland, Ohio, as pastor of Buffalo church. This relation existed until his death, Nov. 23, 1864, of Erysipelas.

He was three times married his first wife being Miss Eliza McCurdy, of Pittsburg, Pa.; his second, Mrs. Mary R. Scott, of Illinois; his third, Miss Fanny Chapman. He had three sons. His younger brother, Rev. C. C. B. Duncan, of West Rushville, Ohio, is a Presbyterian minister.

An intimate friend thus speaks of him:-"He was a devoted Christian, an excellent and successful minister, and a Presbyterian of the most tho rough type. As a friend he was warm, sincere, faithful, ever the same. "The friends he had, and their adoption tried,' he bound them to his soul with acts of love. In social life he was modest, discreet, prudent, not loquacious, but a close discerner of men. Hard to offend, easy to please, ready to forgive, polite, courteous. To the aged he was very respectful; to

his equals firm; to children truly considerate. In matters ecclesiastical a wise and active presbyter, a safe counsellor, a good debater, an ardent advocate of order and strict church discipline, a most zealous 'defender of the faith' of his fathers, and a strong opposer of all real or apparent innovations on the established order, doctrine, and polity of Old School Presbyterianism. To him the Book was the rule. As a preacher he was a plain, calm, faithful expounder of God's word. At times, under an especial impulse from the text or the occasion, he would arise to great elegance and power of delivery in both thought and manner. His ministrations were greatly blessed. Over two hundred persons were added to the church of Buffalo during the eight years of his pastorate there. Revivals were frequent, almost annual. As a pastor his labors were numerous, and some of them onerous beyond the lot of most shepherds. Faithfully and readily did he perform them all. Buffalo is the largest church in the Synod of Ohio. The village (Cumberland) being small the members fill the surrounding country, necessitating much physical labor on the part of a pastor disposed to do justice to all in social, pastoral, and special visitations. One who was with him as he was sinking to rest, writes: At his suggestion I read one of the Psalms. He listened to it with great composure and evident satisfaction. His disease had so affected his eyes that he could not see us for some days before his death; yet he knew well our voices, and frequently referred to the Psalin that had been previously read, giving its number and speaking of its appropriateness to his case; and in a voice full of emotion, adding, How beautiful! and O how sweet it is to my soul! How it comforts me in the valley! even here I can rejoice, and be glad in the Lord!" His sufferings were at times_intense. He sank rapidly. When nearly gone I said to him, "Brother Duncan, you are not afraid to die, are you?" Summoning all his energies, he replied, "No, I am not afraid to die!" Then I quoted the well-known verse-“Jesus can make a dying bed feel soft as what, Mr. Duncan?" For a moment he hesitated. At last he said: "Feel soft as downy pillows are. These were his last words. His last service in the church was the administration of the Lord's supper; his last sermon was from the text, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." Heb. iv. 9. So lived, so labored, and so died this good man.'

EASTMAN, JOSEPH B.-The son of Moses and Susan (Bartlett) Eastman, was born in Salisbury, N. H., February 4, 1804. He was quite a bright lad, with an unusual fondness for books. He was graduated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., in 1822. He commenced the study of medicine with his uncle, and in 1825 entered upon its practice. In 1831 he commenced the profession of teacher, which he followed until 1835 when his conversion took place under the following interesting circumstances: Among his scholars were two young ladies professing Christians who feeling that his usefulness would be greatly increased if he was a Christian, agreed to pray daily for his conversion. During this period he was led to inquire, "What have I been doing all my life?" In looking back upon his life he felt that it was "wasted."

At a protracted meeting in his native town he was led to ask publicly the prayers of God's people, and to feel, as he thought, willing to give himself up wholly to Jesus Christ, and to trust to him wholly for salvation. His thoughts turned at once to the ministry. He gave up his school, and commenced the study of Theology in the Andover Theological Seminary, Mass. He was licensed by the Addison Congregational Association, Middlebury, Vt.,

in October, 1842, and soon after joining Troy Presbytery he was ordained in 1844 by that Presbytery. He never was a settled pastor, but served as stated supply for the churches of Caldwell and Sandy Hill, in Troy Presbytery, and when in 1853 he joined Albany Presbytery, he preached at Greenfield and Windsor.

For several years before his death he had devoted much of his time to the instruction of the young. For one year he taught the Academy at Princetown, N. Y., and removed to Windsor, N. Y., in 1856, from which time until the time of his death he had charge of the Academy in that village.

He died of Heart Disease. He suffered much at times during the period of his sickness, which was somewhat protracted, though he was not altogether laid aside, so as to be unable to attend to his accustomed duties. He was living in expectation of his departure, and manifested a firm reliance upon the merits of Christ as the only ground of pardon and acceptance with God, and an abiding trust in him alone for salvation. He delighted in committing himself and all his interests to the hands of the ever living, ever faithful Saviour, evidently feeling that whatever was committed to him was safe." One of his last expressions was, "The Lord doeth all things well."

He died December 31, 1864. He married Mary Huse, who, with a family, survives him.

Rev. P. J. BURNHAM, of Windsor, N. Y., speaks of him as an earnest Christian, with a reputation thoroughly unexceptionable.

FOSTER, JULIUS*--Son of Luther and Ruth (Hedges) Foster, was born in Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., November 26, 1805. In the course of the following year the family moved to Danby, N. Y., in what is now Tompkins' County, because Danby was a better location than Owego for the leather business, which was the business of his father.

The family of Luther Foster was a large family, and a well-ordered one. Among the earliest recollections of Julius was his father's practice of reading the Bible, especially on Sabbath mornings. He not only read it daily, but on Sabbath mornings he read a more extended portion than usual. For this purpose he improved the time while the family were preparing breakfast, and all, so far as the household duties would permit, were attentive listeners. The effect of this on the child's mind was deep and lasting. He says of this period of his life: "Another source of most deep and solemn impression on my mind was the peculiar sweetness and pathos of my father's voice in singing devotional hymns. So that I can scarcely call to mind the time when I had not most solemn feelings and even serious thoughts upon the subject of God and eternity.

His early advantages for education were only such as were enjoyed in the common schools of a country then newly settled, where there were few houses except those built of logs, often containing only one room, with a chamber under the rafters, which was entered by means of a ladder and a trap-door. Mr. Foster's, being superior to those of his neighbors, was entered by a flight of stairs and a regularly made door. The school-houses were also log structures. The most that was attempted was to have a school three months in the winter, kept by a man, and three in the summer kept by a woman. But notwithstanding these limited opportunities, he was able. at six years of age, to read intelligibly the poetry printed on his handkerchief, and even to read numbers expressed in figures.

* Rev. CHARLES C. CORSS, of East Smithfield, Pa., prepared this Memoir.

We find, in this early period of his boyhood the same predisposition to fevers, which accompanied him through life, and which was the means of his death. He was frequently sick "when they lived in the old log-house;" and before he was eight years old was brought so low with typhus fever that his recovery was not expected.

In the winter of 1814, at nine years of age, he went to Montague, N. J., to live with his uncle, Julius Foster, who had but one child, a daughter, then married. His situation and feelings in his new home he thus described fifty years afterwards: "The change was very great, and to all human appearance in every way against me, especially in a moral, or religious, or even intellectual point of view. From a full house of warm affection I went to one where I was the only child. From the most strictly religious neighborhood I went to one where religion was almost unacknowledged. Sabbath was a day of hunting, fishing, playing ball, or of other amusements. The Reformed Dutch Church which embraced that neighborhood had long been without a pastor. The young people were extremely ignorant and superstitious. The neighborhood was almost always in a fever about some ghost story; and stories of this sort succeeded each other with but short intervals. I was soon disgusted with the society, and found my entertainment in my uncle's library. And here I contracted a taste for seclusion, and instead of seeking society I avoided it. This was the judgment and taste of a boy not yet a dozen years old; he chose solitude rather than such society.

In the fall of 1818, being then in his thirteenth year, he became an apprentice in a tannery and shoe-shop under his brother Josiah and a cousin by the name of Armstrong, who were carrying on that business in Montague. But he continued to board with his uncle till some time in the year 1824.

To what extent he had enjoyed the advantages of the common-school in Montague does not appear; but in the winter of 1824-5 he attended such a school four months. In the spring of 1826 his health failed, and he continued ill all the summer. Perhaps he had already impaired his constitution for life by indulging his taste for reading at hours which ought to have been devoted to sleep and repose; for, while all worked till nine o'clock at night in the shop in the winter months, and commenced in the morning as soon as returning daylight would permit, he usually remained in the shop with his books two hours, and probably often more than that after the other workmen had retired to take their needed rest. Among these books the Bible found a place. This he read through as often as once a year, though he then made no pretensions to piety.

In the spring of 1826 his brother Josiah left Montague, and went into a firm in the leather business in Milford, Pike County, Pa. He went to Milford with his brother, and remained there three years. Of his health while in Milford he thus speaks: "The confinement and close application was what injured me before, and though I was not brought down by it in Milford, I was afflicted with headache nearly every day in the year.

After remaining three years with his brother in Milford, he concluded to quit the department of labor in which he had spent eleven years. In allusion to the headaches already mentioned he thus speaks: This, with the fact that my brother was now out of debt, and I had means of my own, encouraged me to indulge my long suppressed desire for study.' Accordingly, in May, 1829, he entered Hamilton Academy, in Madison County, N. Y. In October following he returned to Milford, where he took a school in "the old stone school-house" for the winter.