up to adult years and became heads of families. His second was Miss Elizabeth R. Foster, who survives him.

The funeral was attended in the Congregational church of Riverhead, on the 25th ult. An appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. Epher Whitaker, and the Rev. Messrs. Christopher Youngs, William B. Reeve, Clark Lockwood, James T. Hamlin, Henry Clark and Samuel T. Gibbs, pall-bearers, took part in the religious services. He was buried in the ancient burial-ground at Aquebogue.

*

Mr. Luce held a high place in the esteem and confidence of his ministerial brethren. They often elected him to represent the Presbytery of Long Island in the General Assembly. In 1819-21 he was thus chosen for three consecutive years. They also made him the stated clerk in the important period from April, 1836, to August, 1842. He was a great many times elected Moderator, and placed first on responsible commissions and committees. His last election as Moderator was in Southold, Sept. 17, 1861, the first session after the greatly lamented death of the Rev. Daniel M. Lord. He preached the Moderator's sermon at the opening of the Presbytery in Greenport the next spring. His theme was the worth of the Bible, and he unfolded and enforced it with consummate ability, supposing at the time that he was preaching his last sermon before the Presbytery. But that body requested him, as well as the Rev. Daniel Beers, his fellow-presbyter, to preach sermons before the Presbytery the next year, in commemoration of their half century's ministry Mr. Luce complied with this request, and preached at the meeting of the Presbytery in Southold, Aug. 25, 1863, twenty days before the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination. The discourse was replete with personal observations, experiences and reminiscences of great interest and value, and the Presbytery most urgently requested a copy for publication. But now, as habitually, he declined. He closed this sermon with these impressive words:

My threescore years are past and gone. I stand waiting for my Master's call. I hope for acceptance with God, not for works of righteousness I have done. I hope for salvation by grace through the atoning blood of Christ. I know no other way. I desire no other. This is the way our pious fathers went to heaven. They are now with God and his angels. I hope to join their blessed society. Amen."

MARTIN, ASA-The son of John and Elizabeth Martin, was born in Washington county, Indiana, Oct. 19, 1814. He was educated at Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, and studied theology privately. He was licensed by Salem Presbytery and ordained by the same in 1843, and installed pastor of Mount Vernon church, Indiana. In 1848 he became pastor of Hartford church. In 1852 he removed to Bloomfield, Iowa. In 1854 he was stated supply at West Grove, Iowa. In 1861 he removed to Scott, Mahaska county, Iowa, as stated supply to Olivet church. Whilst laboring in this place he died Nov. 9, 1865, of consumption.

He married Miss Martha A. Matthews, who, with six children, survives him. One of his daughters is the wife of Rev. W. Kendrick, a Presbyterian minister.

Rev. SILAS JOHNSON, of Indianola, Iowa, writes: "He was a man of most lovely disposition, very modest and retiring, a devoted Christian, a kind friend and faithful pastor. He was an excellent presbyter. As a preacher he was earnest and sound. During the last two years of his life

*A memoir of Rev. DANIEL M. LORD, is published in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1863, page 305.

he was a constant sufferer. His health was no doubt undermined by too hard missionary labors and preaching in school-houses. During his protracted sufferings he was very patient and resigned. His little church was very much attached to him, and refused to let him resign his charge, but continued his support while he lived. The same faith which had stimulated him to work sustained him in the last trial. To him Christ was precious. Death was robbed of its sting, and heaven was a glorious reality. In a conversation the day before his death, he said he was ready to go, felt a confidence that he had a home in heaven, and only desired to live longer for one thing that was for his family. He wanted to see his children raised, educated and brought into the kingdom. He said he had but little to leave them, but he could leave them to the care of a covenant-keeping God, and commit them with much hope to the care of the Church.

"A large concourse of people followed his remains to the tomb, and all seemed to say. by their sad countenances and silent tears, we have lost a dear friend and a beloved pastor."

MARTIN, WILLIAM WISNER-The son of Rev. William Mulford and Ann Elizabeth (Parmenter) Martin, was born in Rahway, New Jersey, Dec. 18. 1837. His parents bestowed upon him a most careful training, and its kindly influences followed him through life. He ever bore testimony to the impression his father's example as a self-denying, zealous minister of Christ made upon him. He was a peculiarly bright and intelligent lad, and on entering the academy at Brooklyn, N. Y., then under the care of Benjamin W. Dwight, D.D. (now, 1867, of Clinton, N. Y.), he became distinguished for his industry and progress. On leaving the academy he entered Yale College, New Haven, Conn., where he was graduated with honor in 1860, being the salutatorian of his class. He entered the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, in 1860, where he passed the first year of his divinity studies. The second year was passed in the Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., when he returned to the Union Seminary and graduated in 1863. During his seminary course he was well known as an earnest worker in mission enterprises. He was full of zeal, and his life was one of indefatigable energy in his Master's business. On June 18, 1863, he was licensed and ordained by Elizabethtown Presbytery, having accepted an appointment of the Home Missions Committee to labor on the Pacific coast, and on the 23d of the same month he sailed for California. On his arrival there he began his labors in Sonora and joined Sierra Nevada Presbytery. He preached to this people for a year, though going out under a commission from the Home Mission Committee. The church at Sonora assumed his entire support, and under his guidance they grew in grace and numbers. But the energy with which he labored soon told upon a constitution never robust. Hence, at the end of a year, he was obliged to leave for rest. After a time spent in recuperation he supplied the Howard Street Church, San Francisco, for a few months, and he would have settled in the ministry with this people, save for his unwillingness to accept in his youth so responsible a charge. Having received and accepted a call from the church at San José, he removed thither, joining San José Presbytery, and two months were spent in happy labor, greatly beloved and eminently successful. Arrangements were being made for his installation when he was taken violently ill with cirrhosis, or fatty degeneration of the liver. There was a revival in his church during his illness, twenty-one persons having made a profession of Christ, ten of whom were examined by the sessions in his sick chamber.

His installation was to have taken place March 18, 1865, but this was not

to be. His illness was lingering, painful and delusive, and he was at last compelled to admit that his active public career was ended. But who can limit the blessed influences of his earnest labors in his Master's cause? When the physicians pronounced his case as hopeless, his heart turned toward the home of his childhood, to the friends of his manhood, and to those dear Christian friends from whom he had parted but two short years before, as with the gentle dew of their blessings resting upon his heart, he went forth to do battle for the truth as it is in Jesus. Bidding his Western friends farewell, he commenced his toilsome journey of three thousand five hundred miles. One simple cot bore his attenuated and wasting form the whole of that long way from San José, Cal., to Brooklyn, N. Y., which he reached August 25. The genial power of home influences and the change of air revived him, and he was led to speak of recovery, but in vain; the progress of the disease went on until Oct. 16, 1865, when he died.

This is the record of what a superficial judge would call an unsuccessful and an unfinished life. But it adds another testimony to the truth that a human life is to be estimated not by achievements but by aims. The record of its completed results is small, but its worth lies not a little in the fact that its results are not yet all completed. So long as any live who knew him, his memory will be to them a bright illustration of the beauty of the power of early self-consecration to God.

At twelve years of age he publicly devoted himself to the Saviour's service, and when at the age of sixteen was asked how long since he had desired to become a minister, made answer: "I cannot remember ever wishing to be anything else;" and he was assiduous in his endeavors to become qualified for this high service. He not only commanded the respect of his fellow-students by thorough scholarship and by decided Christian principle, but he gained in an unusual degree their hearty affection by his many amiable personal qualities. The affection which he freely won he freely reciprocated. Some of his latest moments were given to messages of love and Christian counsel to friends on both sides of the continent. The quiet energy

and tenacity of purpose characteristic of him found occasion to show themselves throughout his protracted and painful illness; not until the day before his death did he relinquish the thought of recovery. At the same time he contemplated the probable issue of his disease with cheerful submission to the Divine will. Quite unconsciously did he enforce the lesson of his brief, happy, useful life in his dying charge to a younger brother: "Do all the good you can, now."

He married in June, 1863, Miss Fannie Ludlow Hadden, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who, with one child, survives him.

BENJAMIN W. DWIGHT, D.D., of Clinton, N. Y., writes as follows: "He was a pupil of mine for three years, and obtained his whole fitting for college with me, and was after his graduation a teacher in my school for nearly a year. He was a very industrious, labor-loving student, obedient, respectful and genial in his bearing, and full of cheerful brightness of face and manner. In his maturer years the fine early promise of his youth was fully realized in the demonstrations of an active, cultivated mind and beautiful character, which none who knew him failed to see and to enjoy. He seemed to be in perpetual sunshine of feeling and to delight in creating sunshine all around him. I expected noble results to himself and the world from his life, if spared, and felt deeply what a loss the Church suffered when it was so early blasted. His characteristic traits were clear, discriminating habits of thought, a sturdy, unflinching, conscientious will, a great love of work, high earnestness of character, an exceedingly ingenuous, frank and genial disposition,

great purity of motive, an ardent desire to do good in every form and at all times, a trustful habit of mind toward others, and a temper thoroughly humane and thoroughly religious. He would have made a superior teacher had he chosen that high profession, as he seemed just ready to do all the time, from his warm appreciation of its duties and privileges, or a superior preacher and pastor."

CHARLES S. ROBINSON, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., writes thus: "He was a most persevering minister. He recognized no hinderance as insuperable. Believing nothing was invincible to effort and prayer, he impelled himself, with a faith almost sublime, against obstacles which would have daunted many a stronger man.

"He was studious in all his habits. At Yale College he received the high honor of class salutatorian, marking excellent scholarship. At Union Seminary two years, and at Andover one, he left behind him in each institution the remembrance of faithful and successful acquisition. This he bore on with him into his pulpit preparations, and all his attainments he held sacredly devoted to his Lord.

He was full of zeal. His name is known here in the city churches as an earnest worker in mission enterprises while studying for his profession. And the history of his life in California is just one story of toil and indefatigable energy in his Master's business. Of course his reward was great. He lived almost in a revival. He died in the midst of one, and congratulated himself on his sick-bed that he had so delightful a preparation for his departure as it gave him. The inscription he suggested for his own tombstone was: Do all the good you can, now!"?

"He was evangelical in his piety, simple-minded in his reliance on the merits of a crucified Saviour. He sang 'Rock of Ages' when he could hardly find breath to live with. He told me to ask, in my final prayer for him, that he might have a more rapt vision of the Saviour's presence and a deeper trust in God.' And when earliest taken sick he said, 'All my theology comes to this-Jesus died to save sinners.' Distrustful of all pretension, he gave as his explanation of his illness, 'Perhaps God saw that I might become worldly.' But he added, 'Now, at any rate, I feel how much truth there is in what I have so often urged on others-the happiness which a trust in Christ can give.'

"He was affectionate in all his home relations. His letters breathed one simple-hearted, loving interest in all that concerned those who were dear to him. May the story of this young servant of Christ be to others who are entering the ministry an encouragement and an example.

"If need be."

"This little parenthesis of instruction is in most of our Bibles separated from the rest of the verse by dividing lines, thus: 'Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations' (1 Peter i. 6).

"This was the text of his last sermon, and all we can say now is, to repeat this last text: in the wisdom of God IT NEED BE' that he should go to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Oh for a world where such things need not be!"

PARKER, SAMUEL-The son of Elisha and Thankful M. Parker, was born at Ashbridge, Mass., April 23, 1779. He was of Puritan ancestry, noted for their piety and decided character. His grandfather landed at Charlestown, Mass., at a very early date, not long after the settlement of

Plymouth, and soon went to Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Mass. The old family homestead yet stands on "Parker river" in that town. His father was born in 1747, and married Miss Thankful Merchant, daughter of Samuel Merchant, of Bass river, Cape Cod. In 1776 they removed to Ashfield, Mass., where, in 1779, Rev. Samuel Parker was born, on the rough, rocky mountain farm. He began study for college in 1798, with Rev. Mr. Strong, of Williamsburg, Mass., but soon desisted from ill health. In 1801 he again commenced study with Dr. Smith, of Ashfield, and continued until he entered Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1803, being admitted to sophomore standing. He graduated in 1806 with an "Oration by Appointment" and a Colloquy. He was a sober, faithful, good scholar, and made rapid progress. After graduating he taught a year in the academy at Brattleboro', Vt. In the fall of 1897 he went to Shelboro', Mass., and commenced theological study with Rev. Theophilus Packard. Dr. Packard was a plain, straightforward, doctrinal teacher and active pastor.

In the pecuniary straits, as well as the demand for duty, he was licensed at the end of a year (1808) by the Northern Congregational Association of Hampshire county, now known as the Franklin Association, at a meeting at Dr. Packard's house-Rev. Samuel Taggart, Moderator. Four weeks after licensure he had an application to go to Steuben county, N. Y., and to Northern Pennsylvania. He left for this early in December, 1808; spent the first Sabbath at Cherry Valley, N. Y.; the second at Geneva, N. Y.; the third at Wayne, N. Y., and so on during the winter and spring. After three months so spent, he went to Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass., and graduated with the first class of that institution. Immediately after graduating he was sent by the Massachusetts Missionary Society to Middle and Southern New York, and labored from Cherry Valley to Buffalo, and then went south through the southern counties of New York and northern counties of Pennsylvania.

In 1812 he was called to Danby, N. Y., a hill-town, more important and healthy than the county town near by was at that time. December 23, 1812, was ordained and installed by a council consisting of Revs. Woodruff, Osborn, Smith and Wisner, and delegates Holes, Ford, Crosse and Crocker. He was married soon after to Miss H. Sears, at Ashfield, Mass. She was then suffering under consumption and found too ill to go to Danby, N. Y. ; so he left her and spent the winter and spring at his parish. She attempted in the spring to come on, but died on the way, at Richfield Springs, N. Y. December 11, 1815, he married Miss Jerusha Lord, of Danby, N. Y.; they had three children; she died May, 1857. The children are: Jerusha (now Mrs. Van Wick of Ithaca, N. Y.); Samuel (now Samuel J. Parker, M. D., graduate of Amherst College, and M. D. of New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, and resident of Ithaca, N. Y.); and Henry (now Rev. Prof. Henry W. Parker, Professor of Natural Sciences in Grinnell College, Iowa, graduate of Amherst College, Auburn Theological Seminary and Cambridge Scientific School).

After about fifteen years' pastorate at Danby, N. Y., he was dismissed and went as financial agent to New England for Auburn Theological Seminary. The money he collected was very essential to the existence of that institution at that time. About 1830 he removed from Ithaca, where he had made his home after leaving Danby, and was pastor two years and a half at Apulia, N. Y., where he had part in the great revival of 1831. He then was pastor one year at Middlefield, Mass., of the Congregational church there, but left on account of the ill health of his wife. In 1835, '36 and '37 he made his exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the American Board of