a church of Christ; in the pioneer and founder of a city that which interests its inhabitants; in truth and piety, clear judgment and sterling character that which interests every good heart,-then our presence here I read aright when I say it means that we all have a deep interest in everything pertaining to the life of him to whose mortal part we pay our last respects to-day.

"There are those among you who, for many years, have known the business life of this man. The whole tenor of that career I commit to the honesty and candor of you who are better acquainted with it and better able to judge of it than myself, not fearing that you shall find it at all discordant with the character of Christ's disciple, and confident that you will ever behold it bending to a higher vocation and waiting upon the discharge of more sacred duties.

"The great interest which our fellow-citizen took in our country is known to all. He gave heartily and proudly two of his sons to its service in the time of its late peril. One, with scrupulous devotion, was permitted to give his efforts and make his patriotic sacrifices until the closing of the great tragedy gave him honorable release. The other was released much sooner, but not less honorably. You know the sad story of that mighty sorrow and the darkness of that funeral day. I would not draw aside the veil which covers those scenes, but to tell how bravely the father rose above it all, like the eagle higher than the storm. He loved his child most dearly, but he could lay his gift upon his country's altar, and say the imperiled interests demanded all. Another marked instance of his patriotism has been more lately manifested, and under circumstances of sacrifice. Public duties of trust called his second son to Washington two months ago, when the father's health seemed to be growing more and more feeble, and his life seemed verily to be ebbing away. If patriotism had not been above paternal affection, he would have said, 'My son, I cannot spare you now; but he said, 'Go, that is your post of duty-duty to your country, duty to your constituents. There you must remain; my needs are altogether secondary;' and when that son came back to the dying, it was at no call of the father.

"It has been my special part to know him as a Christian brother and member of the same ecclesiastical body with myself. I am here to hold up before you the holy mantle of the Christian hero; it is like Elijah's mantle falling from his ascension. If I could only shroud myself and you each in his holy character, we too could go down through life, making a godly name, and the stream of death would know it, as of old the waters of Jordan felt the magic power of the prophet's robe and stood apart.

"His Christian character was that which was to be admired, to be loved, and loved fondly, by all who would approach the holy of holies within him. To that inner temple of tenderness and love any or all gained unchallenged entrance who simply spoke a word of Christ or his kingdom. "You know his worth. His worth is known abroad;

And the elements

So mixed in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This was a man.'

"However, when he put into my hands these selected hymns which we sing to-day, and asked that they might be sung at his funeral, he did not dream of panegyrics that should embalm him before the people whom he had so long and so well loved, for he never lived for the praise of men. If he ever thought of his own memory among you, he knew that your minds needed not

be charged to give him place. The good, plain man said, 'Let the services over my remains be simple.'"*

Rev. D. F. COOPER, of Abion, Mich., spoke thus: "In the three hymns which, as you have already been told, he selected with a view to their being sung to-day, I think we have a key to his character. That selection was evidently made for a purpose; for, tell me, when did you ever know William M. Ferry to act without a purpose? His was an earnest soul, and the most trivial of his acts were dignified by their high and holy aim.

"What was that purpose?

"It was certainly not mere sentimentalism or the indulgence of the emotional nature for its own sake that prompted the choice of these hymns, for his religion was of that robust, healthy sort that repudiated all affectation and mawkish feeling. And, by as much, as for this reason, he was the very last one among men whom we, who knew him, would have expected to select hymns to be sung at his own funeral, we are all the more anxious to discover, if we can, why he did it.

"Though he never breathed his inner thought to a living soul, it is not possible to mistake the purpose of the man. They gave his justification before men for the actions of his life, the belief of his head and the assurance of his heart. First, as expressive of the motive which actuated him in business life:

"With my substance I will honor

My Redeemer and my Lord;

Were ten thousand worlds my manor,

All were nothing to his word.'

There you have it, the glory of God in the accumulation of property.† "Second, as an exponent of the doctrines upon which he relied for salvation he selected the hymn, commencing:

'How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent word!
What more can he say than to you he hath said,
Who unto the Saviour for refuge have fled?

"Oh how precious to him were the doctrines of the Bible and the Church of God! Many an hour have we, Greek Testament in hand, studied together, as developed in the epistle to the Galatians, the leading doctrine of the one, viz.: Justification by Faith, and the divine source of the other as having its origin in the Abrahamic covenant.

"But especially dear to him were those distinctive doctrines which lie at the foundation of the Calvinistic belief, viz.: The Sovereignty of God, the Perseverance in Grace of the Saints, and the Imputed Righteousness of Christ. Upon the immutable promises of God he rested as upon a rock. Third, relying for salvation upon such doctrines as life ebbs away, he

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* In his will he directed that on his tombstone after his name, age, etc., should be this inscription:

First, Toil: then Rest.
First, Grace: then Glory.

The following extract from his will is an illustration of this point of his character. Among other items of his will, the following as succeeding five others in which he had made ample provision for his family and relatives:

"Sixth.-To be permanently invested, and called the Ferry Ministry Fund,' the sum of twelve thousand dollars, the interest thereof to be used to support in destitute places in the State of Michigan, one or more ministers, in conjunction with the people served.

gives expression to the glorious hope which animates his soul when he selects the hymn:

"When I can read my title clear

To mansions in the skies,

I'll bid farewell to every fear,

And wipe my weeping eyes.'

"It is not for me to picture the solemn tenderness of that dying hour, when his children, like the sons of Jacob, gathered themselves together to hearken unto the dying counsel of their venerable father before he finally gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost.' 'I go,' said he to them as the interview closed-'I GO LEANING UPON THE ARM OF MY

BELOVED.

FOOT, GEORGE-Second son of Joseph and Abigail (Baldwin) Foot, was born in Watertown, Litchfield county, Conn., Sept. 1, 1800. His ancestor, Nathaniel Foot, was one of the original settlers of Weathersfield. The parents of Mr. Foot became members of the Church when he was about eight years of age, and sought with great assiduity and success to train their children for God. In a revival of considerable power which occurred in his fourteenth year at West Granville, Mass., where his parents then resided, Mr. Foot experienced, as he hoped, a saving change, and became a member of the Church. His attention was at once turned to the gospel ministry, influenced no doubt by the example of his oldest brother, Joseph I. Foot.*

He was fitted for college by Rev. Timothy Cooley, D.D., of Granville, Mass., and entered Union College, Schenectady, as Freshman in 1819. Wholly dependent upon his own resources, his close application and the privations he underwent seriously impaired his health. Threatened with pulmonary disease, he left college at the end of his junior year and went to Georgia. The change proved beneficial, and he was able to pursue his studies while maintaining himself by teaching. He entered the senior class of the University of Georgia at Athens, and graduated with the highest honors of his class in 1823.

Continuing to teach, he pursued the study of theology under the direction of Rev. Dr. Alonzo Church,† and was licensed, August 7, 1824, and soon afterward ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Hopewell. He entered at once upon the work of an evangelist, and preached abundantly on the destitution of Upper Georgia. Dec. 19, 1825, he was married at Laurenceville, Ga., to Miss Ann Fish, a native of Groton, Conn. Early in 1828 Mr. Foot returned to the North, and supplied, without settlement, several churches in Connecticut and New York. In 1829 he was settled at Fairfield, N. Y., and afterward at New York Mills, March 23, 1831, and Greene, August, 1833, where he remained till January, 1837. These were days of division and weakness in the churches of New York. Settlements were of short duration and easily dissolved. With the errors and abuses rife in that region Mr. Foot had no sympathy. He opposed with all his powers the

*JOSEPH IVES FOOT, D.D., oldest brother of George, was graduated at Union College in 1821, and spent three years in the study of theology at Andover, Mass. In 1826 he was settled as pastor of the Congregational church at West Brookfield, Mass. In 1833 he became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Salina, N. Y.-now Syracuse, First Ward. From 1835-1837 he supplied the church at Cortland, N.Y., and in 1839 he became pastor of the Presbyterian church at

Knoxville, Tennessee. Early in 1840 he was elected president of Washington College, Tenn., and on his way to be inaugurated was thrown from his horse, and received such injuries that he died next day, April 21, 1840, in the 44th year of his age.

A memoir of ALONZO CHURCH, D.D., is publised in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1866.

views and conduct of the men who, however well-meaning, were sowing discord in the churches. In 1837 he went to Cincinnati, expecting to devote himself permanently to the work of home missions in the West. Acting for a time as agent of the Education Society, he did a good work in laying the foundations of the colleges and seminaries just struggling into life, and in turning the hearts of many young men to the gospel ministry. In 1839, while attending the General Assembly at Philadelphia, he was called to the churches of Port Penn and Drawyers, Delaware, under circumstances which seemed to make his duty plain. He accepted the call. Here his longest pastorate with one exception was spent, and in many respects his most important work was done. The field covered the bounds of the old Forest church, the early charge of Rodgers, as well as the original bounds of Drawyers. But these once strong churches were now feeble, and one of them, Forest, near Middletown, had gone utterly to desolation. The labors of Mr. Foot were greatly blessed in the revival of religion and in building up the institutions of the gospel. In 1848, feeling that the prosperity of the Drawyers church was greatly hampered by its location and the unwillingness of the congregation to remove it, Mr. Foot accepted a call to the church at Northumberland, Pa., where, however, he remained but a little time, on account of the ill health of himself and family. Early in 1850 he removed to Newark, Del., and ministered to the churches of Newark and Christiana. In October, 1851, he accepted a call to East Whiteland in the great Valley of Chester county, Pa., where he remained until December, 1855. In November, 1854, his home was made desolate by the sudden death of his wife, who for nearly thirty years had shared the vicissitudes of his life. One of the most lovely and godly of women, her life had been to him an unmingled blessing-her death was a bereavement not easily borne.

In December, 1855, Mr. Foot accepted a call to the Pencader church at Glasgow, Delaware, which, in connection with the church at Christiana, he supplied with great acceptance until laid aside by growing infirmities. In April, 1857, Mr. Foot was married a second time, to Miss Amelia H. Polk, of Wilmington, Delaware, a lady eminently qualified for the responsibilities of a pastor's wife, and who added greatly to his usefulness as well as to his happiness. She survives him. In April, 1866, on account of rapidly-declining health, the Presbytery was asked to dissolve this his last and longest pastorate.

Mr. Foot then removed to Odessa, Delaware, the home of the Drawyers church, which of all his charges he had loved the best. Here he gradually failed in health, until, on the 2d of May, 1867, he fell asleep. Agreeably to his request, he was buried in the Oakland cemetery, at West Chester, Pa., where the remains of his first wife and of three grandchildren are interred. Of six children by his first wife, but one lived to maturity-Harriet Foot married Sept. 19, 1850, to Rev. Wm. E. Moore, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, West Chester, Pa.

Mr. Foot was a man of remarkable character. Strong in all his convictions, he always impressed his own mark upon any community in which his lot was cast. He was a very thorough and accurate classical scholar, and took great delight in instructing young men and aiding them on their way to the ministry. After he was forty years of age he undertook the study of Hebrew, and obtained such mastery of it as to be able to read it with great facility at family worship. As a theologian he was eminently sound and clear. His doctrinal views were Calvinistic, of the type of Edwards and Dwight, though he called no man master. His preaching was almost always doctrinal. He delighted in the doctrines of the Westminster Confession,

and under his hands they stood forth in living forms, full of warmth, vitality and beauty. He was pre-eminently a scriptural preacher. His earlier life in the ministry, spent in itinerating, made him thoroughly familiar with the Bible, and with its power to interest and move the hearts of

men.

As a writer, Mr. Foot was clear, terse and epigrammatic. Most of that which he gave to the press was in the form of newspaper articles, and sermons on special occasions. A series of articles “On the Origin and Progress of the Early Churches in America," published in the Cincinnati Journal, in 1837-8, under the signature of Historicus, attracted great attention and gained for him an enviable reputation as a Church historian. During all the active period of his life he wrote a great deal for the newspapers on the questions of the day, and thus exerted a wide influence in moulding public opinion, A collection of his published writings would furnish several large volumes. But besides a volume of the sermons of his brother, Rev. Joseph I. Foot, D.D., which he edited, a historical discourse on the Drawyers church and a pamphlet containing three sermons on baptism, he left nothing in a permanent form.

Mr. Foot was a man of great personal integrity: sincerely and transparently true himself, he had very little toleration for craft or timeserving in others. His word was always to be taken, and those who differed from him most were won by the frankness and sincerity with which his convictions were expressed. Men sometimes hated him for his opposition to their schemes, but no man who ever knew him failed to acknowledge the honesty of his intentions and the purity of his life.

In him religion was a principle rather than an impulse. Duty was the watchword of his life, but duty as enforced by a conscience which knew no appeal save to the Law and the Testimony. To repress rather than to express his emotions was a lesson learned in early life from the rugged men by whom his childhood was surrounded. He himself felt that it was an element of weakness, and not of strength, that he seemed to be unmoved by the scenes of sorrow or of joy through which he was passing. Yet the fire burned all the fiercer for that it was denied a vent. His afflictions were deep, and his friendships as lasting as life itself. They who knew him best loved him best, and those who were most familiar with his life had the deepest confidence in the sterling character of his piety.

HAYES, HARVEY HALCOMB.-The son of Obadiah and Ahinoam (Holcomb) Hayes, was born at Granby, Conn., May 3, 1796. He was one of several children-another of whom, Gurdon Hayes, is a Congregational minister of the gospel at Muscatine, Iowa.

Mr. Hayes attended Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and graduated in 1823 with the honors of his class. He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1824, and received an appointment as chaplain in the U. S. Navy before the close of his senior year. He was licensed and ordained in 1827 by a Congregational association at Boston, Mass., of which Dr. Lyman Beecher was at that time a member. He entered upon the naval service as chaplain in 1827, and was at sea three years on the Java, and most of the time cruised in the Mediterranean. During this period he received six months' leave of absence, which he spent in traveling in various parts of Europe and Asia. From 1830 to 1833 he served as chaplain at several navy-yards on the Atlantic coast, and then resigned his commission. He preached for a while in various places, and received some invitations to settle over churches, but instead took charge of a manual labor school at Ze