retentive. His information was both minute and extensive. He was a firstrate classical scholar, and had an exact idea and thorough command of the English language. In the Bible and Theology he was a master. In the earlier part of his life his preaching was of the highest order of excellence, being characterized by a depth of feeling, a pathos, a fire which in later years had somewhat abated and it was always eminently exact, simple, Biblical and instructive. He was an admirable expounder and interpreter of the Holy Scriptures, was eminently a man of prayer, and spent much time in secret devotion. Parental duties discharged with great assiduity and faith. He was a man of unflinching moral integrity, of courage seldom equalled, of uncompromising honesty, and of a firm and persistent adherence to duty. His whole life was spent for God, and his end was peace. Said he in death, I am at peace, All is peace. The peace of God which passeth all understanding ruleth in my heart and mind.'

SHIELDS, HUGH K.-Was born near Elk Ridge Church, Giles County, Tenn., December 10, 1806. He made a profession of religion in his seventeenth year, and feeling it to be his duty to become a minister he entered upon a course of study with that object in view, first at an academy near Elk Ridge, then in Jackson College, Columbus, Tenn., where he was graduated. He studied Theology under Robert Harden, D.D., and was licensed by West Tennessee Presbytery, in 1836, and ordained by the same Presbytery, in 1837.

His active ministry lasted twenty-seven years, having been disabled from his work two years before his death. Bethberei, Hopewell, Savannah, Elk Ridge, Cornersville, Richland, Campbellsville and Lynnville Churches, each consecutively enjoyed his ministry; the Elk Ridge the major part. The latter two years of his life he was extremely afflicted, having fallen from a fruit tree in his yard, from which his body was paralyzed, and which finally resulted in his death, September 13, 1865, leaving a widow.

As a Christian, he exhibited to a high degree the characteristics of one who walked with God.

As a minister of the Gospel, he was zealous and efficient, beloved and endeared to all his people. A prominent feature of this lovely man's character was faithfulness in attendance upon, and discharge of all his duties" as a Presbyter.

Although dead, he yet speaketh in a life of unusual piety and faithfulness to his Master's cause, and leaves an example rarely equalled in zeal and devotion to his ministry.

SMALL, ARTHUR M.-Was born in Charleston, S. C. He made a profession of religion in early life and united with the church in Charleston, S. C., under the pastoral care of Thos. Smyth, D.D. He felt it to be his duty to become a minister, and after an academical training in his native city he entered Oglethorpe University, Milledgeville, Ga., where he graduated. He studied Theology in the Columbia Seminary, S. C., and was licensed by Charleston Presbytery, in 1854, and for a few months supplied the pulpit of the Huguenot Church in Charleston. He joined Harmony Presbytery, and was ordained by that body in 1857. He preached for some time at Liberty Hill, S. C. Thence removing to Tuskegee, Ala., he became a member of East Alabama Presbytery. He labored here over two years, and removed to Selma, Ala., in the bounds of South Alabama Presbytery, and as a Christian pastor he fulfilled his ministry with acceptance and useful

ness.

During one of the many raids made by portions of the United States

Army in the suppression of the rebellion, the town of Selma was attacked, and with others, Mr. Small rallied to its defence, where he was instantly killed, in the fight on April 2, 1865. His remains were deposited in the cemetery at Selma, amid the tears and grief of his beloved friends and people. Rev. JAMES WATSON, of Valley Creek Church, Selma, Ala., preached his funeral sermon.

Alabama Synod at its meeting in October, 1865, recorded the following minute: "In youth and manhood our brother was greatly loved and respected. His talents were of a high order. He was courteous in his manners; in his disposition he was eminently social; in his personal appearance he was attractive. With great suavity he blended an inflexible regard to principle, and an unswerving fidelity in discharge of duty. As a Christian, he was humble and devoted, strong in faith, relying with a simple and trusting confidence on the Lord Jesus Christ; possessing and manifesting a spirit of remarkable equanimity, and relying with sweet and cheerful hope, in seasons of heaviest trial, on the arm of the Lord. As a friend, he was warm-hearted, faithful, and enduring. As a preacher of the gospel, he was universally and greatly admired. Few young men have entered the ministry with a greater share of popular favor, and with greater prospects of usefulness to their fellow-men. In preaching, his studious aim was to place before the mind with great distinctness the plain, simple truths of the gospel, unmingled with anything that might detract from their force, or dilute their strength. Those who heard him even occasionally, could not fail to notice this characteristic of his pulpit exercises. He never need be misunderstood. He was both clear and forcible, and on his lips the truth was not shorn of its strength by an inadequate presentation of it. In all his work as a servant of Christ, pulpit and pastoral, he was eminently judicious and zealous, and ever sought to make full proof of his ministry. And wherever he labored, he was encouraged in spiritual results, by the ingathering of precious souls, and the edification of God's people. The churches he served, loved and honored him and so also did the people of God who were not of his own fold; for he felt, and cherished, and manifested a sincere and ardent affection for all who love the Lord Jesus Christ; and was ever ready to unite with them in such means as promised favorably for the advancement of the common faith.

"By this dispensation, God has called us to mourning for ourselves and our Church, that at such a time, such a man, whose piety, talents, and position, were so beneficial to his cause, should be stricken down. But we will not repine, for we are to remember that he is removed to some higher, holier, and happier sphere of service: he, a star in our moral firmament, is removed to burn more gloriously in the firmament of heaven.'

TALMAGE, D.D., SAMUEL KENNEDY-The son of Thomas and Mary Talmage, was born in Somerville, N. J., December 11, 1798. At the age of seventeen he was entirely dependant upon his own resources. During the year 1815 he taught in a classical school at Georgetown, D. C., as an assistant to the late James Carnahan, D.D.* In 1816-17, he was engaged teaching in Maryland. He entered New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., in 1818, and was graduated in 1820. After teaching in an Academy for two years, he was appointed tutor in New Jersey College, which position

A memoir of JAMES CARNAHAN, D.D., is published in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac, vol. II. 1860, pp. 68.

he held for three years employing his leisure hours in studying theology under the guidance of the professors in the Princeton Seminary. In the spring of 1825, he was licensed by Newton Presbytery, and in the autumn following, he was ordained by the same Presbytery as an Evangelist.

Immediately after his ordination he went South as a missionary, and labored one year in that capacity at Hamburg and other points in Edgefield District, S. C. During 1827 he was united with Rev. Dr. S. S. Davis, in supplying the First Presbyterian Church at Augusta, Geo. In 1828 he became Pastor of the Augusta Church, which relationship he sustained till 1836. In 1836 he was elected Professor of Languages in Oglethorpe University, which chair he held until 1840, when he was elected President of the Institution. He continued in the active discharge of the duties of this office from the time of his election till the autumn of 1862, when his health began to fail. During this long period of able and devoted service as a College Officer, his pulpit labors were never laid aside. He preached regularly at the college and at various churches during the college sessions; and often spent his vacations in preaching tours through various parts of the land. After several years of disease and suffering peculiarly painful and trying, he died at Talmage, Geo., September 2, 1865, of Paralysis. He was married to Miss Ruth Stenett, of Augusta, Geo. They had no family. JOHN S. WILSON, D.D., of Atlanta, Geo., writes as follows: "He was a good man, a fine scholar, an able minister and a successful instructor. He was a man of great uniformity of temper, a pleasant companion, an instructive talker, of gentle and winning manners. In one word; He was an eloquent Christian gentleman."

WILSON, CHARLTON H.-The son of William T. and Eunice Wilson, was born in Marion District, S. C., March 6, 1828.* He received his early education at an academy near his father's residence, and spent one year under the tuition of Dr. Alexander Wilson, in Greensboro', N. C. He entered Oglethorpe University, Milledgeville, Geo., in January, 1848, and was graduated with the first honor, in 1850. During his College course he made a profession of religion, and resolved to become a minister. After leaving College he spent one year teaching in Alabama, being associated with Rev. James Woodrow, at the present time one of the Professors in the Columbia Theological Seminary, S. C.

He entered the Seminary at Columbia, S. C., in 1852, completing his course in 1855, and was licensed soon after by Harmony Presbytery, at the Kingstree Church, Williamsburg District, S. C.

He was married to Miss Julia A. Wilson, of Sumter, S. C., May 9, 1855, and on the 1st of June following, they set out to labor as Foreign Missionaries among the Chickasaw Indians, on the western borders of Arkansas. He spent four years among these Indians, having charge of the large and influential school at Wapanucka. He was appointed to this place by the Board of Foreign Missions in New York, because of his known prudence and fine executive talents, and his success proved the wisdom of the appointment, for his prudence, sagacity and Christian frankness and conciliatory manners soon won for him the esteem and respect of all classes. He left the Indian Country on account of the failure of the health of his family, and returned to South Carolina, in 1859. He soon after commenced Missionary labors under the direction of Harmony Presbytery, mainly at

J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D.D., of Columbia, S. C., preached his funeral sermon, in the Great Peedes Church, from which this narrative is taken.

Conwayboro'. In the spring of 1860, he returned to the Indian Country to settle up some unfinished business and whilst absent a call was made out for him by the Great Peedee and Bennellsville Churches, S. C. This was accepted, and he was installed as pastor of the united churches in July, 1860. and this relation lasted till his death, June 4, 1864, of Typhoid Fever in the Officers' Hospital, Richmond, Va.

In the spring of 1862, he entered the Confederate army as a chaplain, but continued only a short time, sickness and loss of voice making it necessary for him to withdraw.

His heart continued in the work, however, and as soon as providential circumstances allowed, he re-entered upon the work, determined to continue it, if God so willed, until the end of the war, but he was permitted to labor only one short month in the cause he had so dear to his heart and for which he seemed so eminently qualified. He was attacked with violent sickness the latter part of May and was removed to the Officers' Hospital at Richmond, Va., where he received every attention that could be bestowed by kind and skillful Physicians, by affectionate brethren in the ministry, and by those noble Christian women of Richmond, who have been so untiring in their efforts to relieve our sick and wounded, and whose names deserve to be embalmed in the memories of every family in the Confederacy. He died on the 4th of June, 1864, having as he expressed himself fully committed himself, his family and his church to the care of his heavenly Father.

The last sermon he preached was to the Cavalry of Holcomb's Legion, from the text, Ps. xc. 12: So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

It would be pleasant to dwell upon the varied excellencies of his character. He was a man of decided and eminent piety; of a sound and highly cultivated intellect, of a remarkably clear and discriminating judgment; open, frank and judicious in all his intercourse with his fellow-men; sincere and earnest as a friend; acceptable and impressive as a preacher; but especially conscientious and faithful in the discharge of every duty that devolved upon him as a Christian and citizen.

THE CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

The FIFTH SYNOD was held in Cole Street Church, Montreal, C. E., June 6, 1865, and was opened with a discourse by the retiring moderator, Rev. John McTavish, from Galatians iv. 19.

Rev. W. AITKEN, of Ottawa Presbytery, was elected Moderator.

BILLS AND OVERTURES.-No. 1-From Paris Presbytery in regard to Baptism, praying that Synod would take action to secure uniformity in the dispensation of that ordinance throughout the church. It was resolved that the overture be sustained and that the act of the Presbyterian Church of Canada be adopted, and that said act be published in the minutes-and it is as follows:

ACT ON BAPTISM.-The Synod having had their attention directed to the subject of Baptism, and the relation in which this initiatory sacrament of the church of Christ stands to the other sacrament of the New Testament; also to the question of public or private administration of the initiatory ordinance, Declare and Resolve

"That, as is already in our excellent subordinate Standards set forth, 'a Sacrament is an Holy Ordinance instituted by Christ, to signify, seal and exhibit unto those that are within the covenant of grace, the benefits of his mediation; to distinguish them from those who are without; and to oblige the partakers of such ordinances to obedience.'

That Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible Church, and so strangers to the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ and obedience to him, but infants descending from parents, either both or but one of them, professing faith in Christ and obedience to Him, are, in that respect, within the covenant, and to be baptized.'

That, adhering to these principles, the Synod earnestly urge on all ministers and sessions to be careful, in administering Baptism, that they who receive this privilege at their hands be such only of whom there is good reason to believe that they are consistently professing the name of Christ and obedience to him; and, inasmuch as one appointed method of solemnly confessing the Saviour, and acknowledging ourselves to be in communion with his followers, is by commemorating his love and death in the holy ordinance of the Supper, they shall satisfy themselves that parents receiving baptism for their children be not neglecting this command of Christ, but that, at the least, they be equally in the intention, as God may afford opportunity, to comply with both ordinances, and giving token of this by willingly waiting on such instructions as it may be judged necessary to impart to them on the nature and design of the Sacraments.

"Parties soliciting the privilege should be informed that as every one taking on himself the baptismal vow, or seeking Baptism for another, does