rank as faithful and efficient. He was alive to all the great schemes of the Church for the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom, and his voice was often raised in earnest and pungent appeals in their behalf. He longed for the day when the revered Church of his fathers should be again united, and was one of the earliest advocates of the movement in his Presbytery. His voice was for fraternity in the spirit of Christ, and though he did not see all that he hoped for on earth, we rejoice that he has entered that part of the Church in which there is perfect light and perfect harmony.

Mr. JAMES S. MOORE, of Petersburg, Ill., writes: "Mr. Templeton was preaching a series of sermons on the Prodigal Son, and had come in the course to the prodigal's return, preaching from the text: 'I will arise and go to my Father.' It was the fifth of May and very cold, and he became chilled. Returning home, he went as usual to his study, to prepare for the evening service, but growing unwell he was obliged to desist. The disease proved to be pleurisy, and though he was thought to be quite ill, no especial alarm was felt until Friday, when his mind wandered. During Friday and Saturday his condition seemed much the same. A kind of stupor was upon him, which caused him to be somewhat delirious, but when entirely aroused was perfectly rational. Sabbath morning he was thought to be better, and strong hopes were entertained by his family and friends that he would recover. But about midnight it became evident to his physician, Dr. McClay, that he had not many hours to live. His wife being informed of the change that had taken place, said to him immediately, 'Pa, you are going to leave us. Can you put your trust in the Saviour?' He replied earnestly, 'You know that I can,' and after a moment's pause added, 'The Lord Jesus Christ is a great Saviour,' as if it would be matter of astonishment if he could not trust so great a Saviour. To his physician he said, 'I do not realize that I am dying. I know you all around me;' then after a moment's pause said, 'Well, passing away!' Many words fell from his lips during the remaining hours of his life that will be treasured up as precious jewels by his family and friends, to whom he talked freely and calmly. To his wife he said: 'You must put your trust in the Lord, and if you know that I am happy, cannot you give me up?' He urged his children to seek the religion of their father, that there was provision for them in the gospel, but the responsibility was with them.' He left messages for absent friends. To his brethren in the Presbytery he wished earnestly to be remembered, feeling that they knew how to sympathize with each other. To his Sabbathschool superintendent he said: You have a great work before you this summer in the Sabbath-school.' His mind and heart had long been much drawn out after the young people of his congregation, many of whom, he felt, were under conviction of sin. Even in his semi-delirious state he was speaking continually of the influences of the Holy Spirit, and was almost in an agony of earnestness that older Christians would be engaged in prayer for the influences of the Holy Spirit to be sent down 'Tell my them. upon people,' he said, 'I cannot express my love for them. In reference to his worldly affairs, he said: 'I want my property used for the glory of God and the comfort of my family, and I want the plan that we have agreed on and practiced, that of giving the tenth, still carried out. We did it when we seemed to have but little, and God has blessed us.' After the darkness of that Sabbath night had passed away, and morning light appeared, his spirit left its clay tabernacle and arose to God who gave it. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.'

Rev. JOHN WINN, of Henry, Ill., writes: "It is nearly ten years since my acquaintance with the deceased commenced. At two different times

have I been at his hospitable home, but our intercourse has chiefly been in connection with ecclesiastical meetings, including the journey both ways; and it is with pleasure I record here my growing appreciation of his character to the last. Merit and modesty go together, and so it was eminently with him. The last Synod he attended was held at my own church. Being Moderator, usage made it his duty to preach Sabbath morning. I had him put on the programme for that. He begged hard to have a more competent brother put in his place, but I knew none more competent, and prevailed upon him to preach. He gave us an excellent discourse.

"The day appointed by the authorities for the funeral of President Lincoln, Peoria Presbytery was in regular spring session at the city of the same name. There was a great gathering of the people for this exercise in the First church. What members of Presbytery should officiate? Brother Templeton was named to make an address. He very strenuously declined upon the ground that he had no talent for extempore speaking. I arose and said it was well known we had no more powerful debater upon the floor of this house than Brother Templeton, and that for one I was unwilling he should be excused. He did perform the appointment, and performed it admirably.

"In ecclesiastical law and parliamentary usage there was no one, either in Presbytery or Synod, better informed or more referred to than the subject of this sketch. It is in proof of his brethren's confidence that at the last meeting he attended he was elected Moderator. He was regular and punctual to the courts of the Church, though for the greater part of the time I knew him in feeble health. While inflexibly firm in his principles and unswerving in his attachments to what he regarded right, Brother Templeton was a man for peace. His tone and spirit and his habitual counsels all tended that way. His discernment of human character I always thought was quick and accurate. He abhorred ostentation, and was himself a pattern of simplicity, He was a genial companion, and his pulpit preparations were scholarly. He was from conviction a Presbyterian, yet never wanting in charity toward other denominations, with whom he labored harmoniously as opportunity offered. During the decade of my acquaintance with Brother Templeton our country has passed through a terrific revolution. From first to last he was the unflinching advocate of loyalty and human freedom. A worthy medical practitioner in another part of the State, who was his contemporary and companion from boyhood, said to the writer, after hearing of his decease, 'Oh, can it be so? I loved him as a brother.' Every one present at the fall meeting of Peoria Presbytery, at Elmwood, 1867, will remember how with sorrow and many tears that body reviewed his life and death, and recorded their testimony to his solid worth, their hearty grief and the Church's lamentable loss."

TODD, NATHANIEL The son of George and Lucy (Bradstreet) Todd, was born in Rowley, Essex county, Mass., January 27, 1780. He attended Dummers Academy in his native town, and was educated at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, where he graduated September 3, 1800. He studied theology under Ashbel Green, D.D., of Philadelphia, and was licensed by Philadelphia Presbytery during its session in Bridgeton, N. J., October 19, 1803. After his license he became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Schenectady, N. Y., having been installed and ordained by Albany Presbytery in the summer of 1805, where he labored with success for several years, but owing to the bursting of a blood-vessel it became necessary to resign his charge of that important church. When he had recovered suf

ficiently to resume labor, he performed the twofold duties of pastor and teacher at Woodbury, N. J., for a time. After leaving Woodbury, he was successively principal of an academy at Westchester, Harrisburg, Lebanon, Mifflinburg and Beaver, Pa., and for many years of a classical school in Allegheny, Pa., where many who are now ministers of the gospel, teachers, lawyers, physicians and merchants, enjoyed the benefits of his tuition. Though during the greater part of his active. life he was known to the public as a teacher, yet he always considered the preaching of the gospel to be his great business. While strength permitted he was always anxious to preach when opportunity offered. It was not an unusual thing for him to teach all week, and then ride ten, twelve and fifteen miles that he might have the privilege of preaching the glorious gospel. In nothing else did he delight so much; in his estimation the ministerial office was the highest honor that could be conferred on man. He was an earnest, open-hearted man, decided in opinions and expressing himself without disguise or reserve. In the early part of his ministry he took an active part in the revivals which prevailed at that time in New Jersey.

His manner in the pulpit in his prime of life, it is said, was impressive and at times powerful. His appeals to sinners were pointed and searching. He withheld none of the truths of the gospel, yet while his discourses were alarming to the unconverted, he delighted in exhibiting the loveliness of the religion he taught, and in winning as well as alarming those who were out of Christ. He had good reason to believe that his preaching was crowned in very many instances with success in bringing wandering sheep to the fold of the Shepherd of souls. Of his own Christian character he always spoke in the most humble manner. He always wished to hide himself behind the His trust in his Saviour was strong, and although through life he was greatly impressed with the awful nature of death, he declared a few days before his departure that any doubts he had entertained regarding his acceptance with God had passed away.

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At the time of the disruption of our Church he was a firm "Old School" man, although he always insisted that a little more forbearance on both sides would have been decidedly advantageous in the settlement of the controBorn near the close of the Revolution, and passing his youth among those who had actively participated in it, he was a zealous patriot. No one desired the suppression of the late rebellion more earnestly than he, and no one rejoiced more heartily when it had been accomplished. When the movement for reunion between the two branches of the Presbyterian Church began, he looked on it with but little hope of its success, but he gradually admitted its desirableness, and also that it would most probably be accomplished much sooner than the most sanguine had supposed a few years ago.

The infirmities of age gradually gathered around him, and at the residence of his son, E. Bradford Todd, Esq., Pittsburg, Pa., he died, July 8, 1867. He married May 21, 1806, Miss Eliza Green Bradford, a daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Bradford, of Rowley, Mass.; a daughter, the wife of Cyrus C. Riggs, D.D., of Wilkinsburg, Pa., and a son, survive him.

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present generation was among the very last of those who had seen frequently Washington, Jefferson and their compeers. He had been a close observer, had a retentive memory, and possessed a rich fund of information concerning those distinguished men and the times in which they lived. He was one of the last, if not the very last, of the connecting links between the ministry of the present day and Dr. Rodgers, the first Moderator of our General Assembly, and those who lived and acted with him. Many an hour