the seminary at Allegheny after his licensure. About this time he received a call from Canonsburg, Pa. ; Early Work. 9 also one from the congregation of Fall River, Mass. ; but he felt it his duty to accept the latter, although the more needy and less inviting field. He was ordained by the Associate Reformed presbytery of New York, and installed pastor of the Fall River congregation, June 3, 1851. He spent the summer previous to his ordination in this congregation. In a letter to his friend, Marion Morrison, he gives expression to his feelings in reference to the work in which he was engaged, in these words: "It has been my lot heretofore to be compelled to work. I have got into the way of it I can't keep from it work I must. How do you find it? Is not preaching to souls a very serious business, far different than seminary preaching? Oh, how awful a business! What earnest minister would think of decking his sermons with garlands, made of the flowers of rhetoric? For my part, I feel that the work is too awful for any such trifling. I talk right on the plainest truths of the word naked though they be. I would not polish a truth, gloss it up, until it slips down like an oyster or a sugar coated pill; the rough corners sometimes make the impression." In this connection we will