Commissioners of Foreign Missions; and the result was the establishment of several missions, all of which are now, without sufficient cause, abandoned. That among the Nez Perces and Willamette Indians and others beyond the mountains was broken up, as it is believed, by the Jesuits, who were introduced by De Smet-Dr. Whitman and wife being murdered. The Indians yet observe family worship, singing, and will not work on the Sabbath, as he taught them, although the Church has left them over twenty years with no teacher or pastor or leader of any kind. After his return he wrote his book on Oregon; spent several years in lecturing and supplying pulpits temporarily. In December, 1847, while temporarily supplying the pulpit of the church in Volney, N. Y., he was disabled by paralysis. From that time until his death he did but little of active ministerial duty.

He was in character a bold, decided man, full of energy and resolution, doing with his might whatever he undertook. His preaching was sound, doctrinal and scriptural. He was a distinguished counselor in church polity and discipline. Naturally a fine scholar, he took an interest in languages, science and art, as well as in the practical duties of life, until the last. He never was from motives of policy even tacitly on the wrong side of any moral question. He opposed the division of the Presbyterian Church in General Assembly, and the wrongs that led to that act and the war. Whatever he did he did openly. He was devotedly pious, observing the strictest duties of prayer and Bible reading, and a conscientious life. His great work was the gathering of the germs of churches in Middle and Southern and Western New York. He has often said he believed he was the means, under God, of establishing directly, or indirectly, over one hundred churches, yet these churches have mostly forgotten him; and during the last twenty-five years of his life they and the rich men converted under his preaching forgot their friend when old age came upon him, thus showing an oversight on the part of those to whom he preached, as well as a serious defect in the organization of the Church; and in no instance did he live in a MANSE.

He died of congestive inflammation of the lungs. His last two nights on earth were very painful, but his mind clear and calm. He was sedate and quiet in view of death. His sheaves are gathered before the Lord, and are not a few. When the day comes to honor the pioneer, then will his name be held eminently worthy of remembrance. He is buried in the beautiful cemetery of Ithaca, N. Y.

Could the Pilgrim law, of "nothing but God and his holy law," rule in every heart as it did in his, the world would be the better and more immutably fixed in its stern "holiness to the Lord.' Gathered to the dead with the honor of one who, to use the words he loved to quote, "builded not on another's foundation," but in the forest wild, who was twice plunged through the frozen rivers to keep religiously his appointments, in perils oft, alone with the Indians and rude settlers oft, and whose reward was not of this world, we leave him as ever we do those whom earth honors not enough, and knows but little of.

Jesion Partington

PARTINGTON, JOSIAH-The son of Charles and Elizabeth Partington, was born in Manchester, England, Dec. 25, 1801. He was educated

privately and studied theology under the care of a minister. He emigrated to the United States, and was licensed and ordained by Niagara Presbytery in 1832. He preached for the churches at Knowlesville and Byron, N. Y., Pelham, Canada West, and in Youngstown, N. Y., where he died, Feb. 14, 1864, of typhoid pneumonia.

He married Miss Jane J. Boyd, who, with a family, survives him.

Rev. CHARLES R. BURDICK, of Youngstown, N. Y., writes thus: "He was a brother beloved, of sterling piety and earnest zeal for his Master. As a preacher he possessed a good command of language, good reasoning powers and strong concentration: filled with the greatness of his themes, and aided by the Holy Ghost, he led many souls to the Saviour of sinners. As a pastor he was sympathizing, untiring in his attention to the afflicted, liberal to those in want and genial withal, spending a large portion of his time among his people, not neglecting pulpit preparation in his study, but by knowing his people and their necessities reaching their hearts. During the last rebellion his sympathies were strongly with his adopted country, and his utterances never misunderstood. He died with his armior on, in the full triumphs of faith in Jesus.

SQUIER, D.D., MILES POWELL-The son of Wait and Hannah (Powell) Squier, was born in Cornwall, Vt., May 4, 1792.* The family was of English origin, settling in Connecticut in the days of the Pilgrim Fathers. Their descendants inherited the sterling virtues of their ancestors, and were men and women of distinction and prudence; the parents of Mr. Squier were natives of Berkshire county, Mass. He was trained with assiduous care, and at fourteen entered the academy at Middlebury, Vt., where he was prepared for college, and in August, 1807, he matriculated in Middlebury College, Vt., and graduated in August, 1811, with honor. During his career at college he made a profession of his faith in God and dedicated himself to the ministry. In the autumn of 1811 he commenced his theological studies in Andover Seminary, Andover, Mass., and finished his course in 1814, and was licensed by a Congregational Association in the spring of that year. On leaving the seminary he began his labors as a supply to the Congregational church, Oxford, Mass., for a period of two months; thence to Vergennes, Vt. He remained with that people till the spring of 1815, when he accepted an appointment of missionary to the western part of New York State. On May 3, 1816, he was ordained by Geneva Presbytery as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N. Y. He was the first pastor, and the relation existed till 1824.

In 1817 he was a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which met in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1825, after closing his pastorate in Buffalo, N. Y., he returned to his father's house in New Haven, Vt., and spent a short time in agricultural pursuits for the benefit of his health. During this time he supplied the congregations of Springfield and Bennington, Vt. In 1826 he accepted the secretaryship of the Western agency of the American Home Missionary Society at Geneva, N. Y. In this work he spent eight years. After closing his connection with the American Home Missionary Society in 1833, his time was occupied in superintending the affairs of the Geneva Lyceum, which he had founded, and as health permitted he supplied the churches at Junius, Newark, Castleton and West Fayette, N. Y., and the winter of 1839-40 in Philadelphia, Pa.,

This memoir has been prepared from the miscellaneous writings of MILES P. SQUIER, D.D., with an autobiography, edited and supplemented by Rev. JAMES R. BOYD, 12mo., pp. 408. Geneva, N. Y.

where he took charge of the Southwark Presbyterian church in that city. He subsequently spent some time in New York City, and for one year he had charge of a Presbyterian congregation in New Bennington, Vt. In 1845 he attended a convention of Presbyterian and Congregational churches in Detroit, Mich., when he was induced to visit Beloit, Wisconsin, where it was proposed so establish a college or university, and he resolved to indentify himself with its interests. In 1846 the charter was obtained, and in 1847 the corner-stone was laid, and soon after the college went into operation. In 1849 he was elected Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. This appointment, after due consideration, was accepted, and in the spring of 1851 he entered upon his duties. It was at first his intention to remove to Beloit, but circumstances prevented him from doing so, hence he sojourned during the season of lectures and remained the balance of his time in Geneva, N. Y. The subjects of his lectures at Beloit College were as follows: The Truth of Religion; The Method and the Acquisition of Knowledge; Mental and Moral Habits; The Value of a Philosophical Mind; The Value of Moral Sciences: The Generic Properties of Mind; Philosophy and its Uses; Elements of Moral Science, and on subjects connected with his visit to Europe.

In August, 1861, he went to Europe and attended the Evangelical Alliance in Switzerland, extending his visit to France and England, and his trip was one of pleasure and edification. Whilst abroad he received the attention due his exalted position as a Presbyterian minister and a popular educator. His health during the latter years of his life was somewhat precarious. He lectured in the college for the last time in 1863, and by reason of increasing infirmities he made arrangements for a successor, he retaining a place in the catalogue as Emeritus Professor. The chair he had endowed at the commencement of the college by a gift of $10,000.

For several months before his death he manifested an uncommon degree of interest in the promotion of the Redeemer's kingdom. The morning Union prayer-meeting in Geneva, N. Y., which commenced the second week in January, was blessed of God, and Dr. Squier attended it as long as his bodily health permitted, but nature gradually gave way. For nearly a week before his death the interviews with his friends were most gratifying and instructive. He longed to depart and be with Christ. To his physician, Dr. Merrill, he inquired, "Do you think my dear Redeemer is coming for me to-day? I am peaceful and happy, but anxious to go and to be with Jesus; I want you and other friends to pray for my speedy departure, if the good Lord be willing I have done with earth; I want not things past nor things present; I have only to do with the future." His physician remarked, "You want to go so much, that it is hard to benefit you by medicine; it does you no good." He replied, "I will take your medicines, and do all you direct, but this old body you cannot raise up-its work is done." To his wife he said, "I love you, but I want to leave you; be a cheerful Christian; don't cover your face with a black veil, as though you were offended with God; 'tis a heathenish practice, not Christian; don't go about hanging your head; let all see that you are cheerful under affliction." He gave specific directions about his coffin, his dress therein, the place the coffin should occupy at the funeral exercises, the course of the procession to the grave. He suggested who should preach his funeral sermon. He requested his brother-in-law, Dr. Hastings, to sing his favorite Psalm (the 90th): "O God, our help in ages past. The last time the household were gathered around his bed for family prayers, he looked around on them and said: “I love you all, but I desire to leave you.' The last part of 1 Cor. chap. xv. was read, and the 23d Psalm, The Lord is my Shepherd," was sung.

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