element of Presbyterianism. During the first half century of our Presbytery's existence they divided this field with us. Gradually the questions of division in the old country receded into the distance and lost their importance, while the pressing necessity for co-operation to support the means of grace became yearly more apparent. More and more the minds of Presbyterians have been turned to the importance of a more conspicuous unity and the development of an American Presbyterian church, sound and conservative as to all essentials in doctrine and polity, but liberal and broad enough to include all who naturally belong to our type of christianity. The result has been that more and more as the years have passed away, our brethren have combined with us to assist in realizing this ideal of liberal Presbyterianism. May we not express the hope that the day is not far distant when one American church shall embrace every member of the Presbyterian household in this land.

But my time is exhausted, though my theme never seemed so large as it still looms up before me, "Alps on Alps." I had hoped to tell of the magnificent character and career of Dr. Francis Herron, a prince of preachers and the courtliest of men ; of the bright and saintly Dr. William C. Young, and his far reaching influence as president, for twenty-seven years, of Centre College; of Dr. Jeremiah Chamberlain, who spent his long life in the southwest, the president of three different colleges; of Dr. James Carnahan, for thirty years the honored president of Princeton College; of the Monforts, many and mighty, of mingled Huguenot and Holland blood, who went to the west from Gettysburg, and have taken charge of large interests for the church in the Ohio Valley; of Dr. George Junkin, once a name to conjure with, who began his illustrious career in the old family mansion near to Kingston, and after graduating at Jefferson College and studying theology under Dr. John M. Mason, in New York, became in turn the president of Lafayette College, of Miami University, and of Washington College, Va.; of our own Dr. Robert Davidson, who gave so many years of early service to the Church in Kentucky, and gathered up so lovingly the history of our church on "the dark and bloody ground" of Dr. John M. Krebs, who was born, educated and

licensed within the bounds of Carlisle Presbytery, and was inmediately called to his life-long pastorate in New York city, where he remained at once an ornament and a pillar to the whole church for thirty-seven years; of Dr. George A. Lyon, for more than forty years the beloved pastor of the First church of Erie, and the champion and promoter of every good cause in northwestern Pennsylvania; of Dr. William D. Snodgrass, who was the son of a pastor in this Presbytery, and licensed to preach by your authority, who was confessedly one of the ablest men in the American church, and whose long and useful life has but recently been brought to a close in his ninetieth year; of Drs. Hall, and Neil, and McKnight, and Knox, and the Nevins; but where shall I end? "for the time would fail me to tell of " all the faithful men, who, strong in faith, mighty in the scriptures and tireless in devotion, have gone forth from these valleys to do noble service in the armies of the Lord.

I had wished to more than remind you also of the Buchanans, and the Blaines, and the Griers, and the Hoges, and the Findleys, and the Campbells, and the Wilsons, whose names have been renowned in the service of their country; and every friend of foreign missions is expecting to hear of Dr. M. Simpson Culbertson, Henry R. Wilson, Ashbel Green Simonton, and Oliver M. Green, and many more whose names have been conspicuous as heralds of the cross in heathen or in papal lands; but I forbear. Patient as you are, I will tax your patience no further, but, thanking you for your very kind attention, allow me to give place to my very distinguished brother, Rev. Dr. Paxton, of Princeton Theological Seminary, who is so much more capable of rewarding your very considerate and courteous attention.

OUR REPRESENTATIVES

ON

THE FOREIGN FIELD.

BY REV. GEORGE NORCROSS, D. D.

"Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."-Mat. xxviii : 19-20. (Revised Version.)