thus show that that body was not like the old Trojan horse filled with armed men ready to make war on the first occasion offered, upon the very standards which they covenanted to continue sincerely to receive and adopt.

Dr. Wing greatly desired and earnestly labored for the reunion of the church, and sincerely rejoiced over its final consummation, and, if now living, would no doubt honestly stand by the standards which he professed to continue to receive and adopt.

Dr. Wing, in addition to his scholarly attainments as a minister of the Gospel, made himself quite proficient in the Hebrew, Greek and Latin languages, and acquired the use of modern French and German, and was enabled to read and translate some German works.

His recognized ability and elegance as a writer led to his being called upon for the delivery of public addresses on set occasions. In 1861, he delivered the annual address to the Alumni of Auburn Theological Seminary. In May of that same year he delivered the annual address, in behalf of the Presbyterian Historical Society, before the General Assembly at Cincinnati, and an address to the Synod of Pennsylvania, New School, at Wilmington, Delaware, on "America as the special field for the American Presbyterian Church." Most of these, with several Thanksgiving discourses, were published. He contributed several articles to the Presbyterian and Methodist Reviews, and sent many papers to the New York Evangelists and other religious journals. In 1856, in connection with Dr. C. E. Blumenthal, of New York, he translated from the German, Dr. Hase's "Manual of Ecclesiastical History," and in 1868, he translated, with additional copious notes, C. F. Kling's Commentary on the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, in Schaff's American Series of Lange's Commentaries. In 1870, he contributed two articles to McClintock and Strong's Encyclopedia, one on Gnosticism and the other on Federal Theology. In 1877, he published his history of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, and in 1878, wrote an extended sketch of the History of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,

which was published by James D. Scott, of Philadelphia, and in 1880, his history of the Wing family.

On January 10, 1833, he was married to Prudence Maria, daughter of Thomas Young, of Wayne county, New York, with whom he lived for over fifty-five years, she having preceded him only about one year to the eternal world. They had no children, except two whom they adopted and raised. It is thus seen that Dr. Wing was a quiet, industrious and scholarly minister of the Presbyterian Church for nearly sixty years. These were years remarkable for their stir and development, both in Church and State, in all of which he bore his humble and gentle part, and then passed peacefully away to his everlasting reward.

Rev. Joseph Alexander Murray, D. D.

The above well-known and highly-respected member of Carlisle Presbytery, was the youngest son of George and Mary (Denny) Murray. He was born in Carlisle, Pa., October 2 1815. His father was a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and was the first white child born within its city limits, but had spent the greater part of his life in Carlisle, Pa. He was a man distinguished for a high-toned and excellent moral and religious character. Mrs. Murray, his mother, was a woman of good family connection and of cultivated and refined christian character.

Joseph A. was the youngest of several children. His early education was acquired in Carlisle, and he was a student in Dickinson College, in the time of the presidency of Dr. J. P. Durbin, but completed his college course in the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, Pa., from which he graduated in 1837. He entered at once the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pa., from which he graduated in 1840.

During his college and seminary course he was a member of the family of his cousin, the Hon. Harmer Denny a wealthy and distinguished citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa., and for a number of years a member of Congress and prominent and influential. in the politics of the nation. Here, in addition to the educational advantages which he enjoyed, he had the benefit of

contact with a large and influential social circle, and the opportunity of seeing and meeting many of the leading public men of that day. The associations of these years were largely influential in imparting to him those urbane manners and that dignified and courteous address for which he was so well known among his ministerial brethren and in the community generally. Many of the acquaintances and friendships then formed, he continued to keep up by correspondences and interchange of personal visitations through life.

After his graduation from the Theological Seminary he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ohio. For six months he supplied the Presbyterian church of Marion, Ohio, and from it received an unanimous call to become its pastor, which he respectfully declined. During a visit to Carlisle, Pa., he preached to the united congregations of Monaghan (Dillsburg) and Petersburg, and from them received a call to become their pastor, which he accepted and was ordained over the same April 13, 1842. In this charge he continued to labor usefully and successfully for a period of sixteen years.

In 1858, in consequence of impaired health, he felt constrained to seek a dissolution of his pastoral relation.

His request