was ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry. His call bears date Sept. 27, 1819, and the ordination and installation took place soon after. He remained pastor till the fall of 1824. The six years of his ministerial labor here will rank with any six years of his active life in usefulness. His congregation admired his promptness in ministerial duty, his earnestness, his decision of character in doctrine and private actions, and his graceful and impressive manner in the pulpit and his social qualities in his domestic communications.

Mr. Leach was induced to remove from Berkeley and cast his lot in with the young brethren and young congregations in the counties around the college and seminary. He hesitated long before his mind could become satisfied about removal. It was his desire to find his call to leave Berkeley as clear as his call to go there, and he therefore moved cautiously. The Presbytery reluctantly agreed to dissolve the pastoral relation, and transferred him to the Presbytery of Hanover in 1825. He finally fixed his residence in Cumberland county, Va., bordering Prince Edward, about a mile and a half from Farmville, Va. To meet the wants of rearing and educating his family, he applied himself to agriculture in its most profitable form. The production most sure of a market and a remunerative price was tobacco. Like the population around him, he became a planter, as his father had been before him, and united labor in the soil with labor in the ministry.

Dr. Leach was a successful agriculturist, more particularly in the department of planting. It has been observed that if ministers of talent and education resort to occupations for their support other than their ministry, they are apt to press the matter with skill and vigor to success. This success often comes back upon them with the charge (true or false) of neglect of study and ministerial duty, that has ended in worldliness. Sometimes the charge seems to be sustained; in other cases God gives such tokens of His presence and blessing as vindicates His laborious servants.

At the disruption of the Church he took sides with those opposed to the Old School party, believing the action of the Assembly of 1837 unconstitutional, and injudicious if constitutional. In 1857, on the occasion of the organization of the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church, he was a member of that body, and remained so until its absorption in 1864-5 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

He died at his residence at Rochelle, near Farmville, Va., Sept. 4, 1866, of disease of the heart. He married, Dec. 3, 1818, Miss Frances Anderson Venable, daughter of Richard Venable, Esq. They had several children. He retained his activity to the last. On Sabbath, Sept. 2, 1866, he preached at the old Cumberland church, one of his two preaching-places, a sermon in preparation for the communion services to be held in Brown's meeting-house, his other preaching place, on the succeeding Sabbath. His text was: "Who is on the Lord's side? Let him come unto me." Ex. xxxii. 26. His earnest entreaties to become reconciled to God, and to make special preparations for the approaching communion, deeply impressed his hearers, and is remembered by them as a fitting address for a dying pastor, had his speedy dissolution been anticipated; and this was designed as his farewell. On Tuesday, the 4th, he rides to Farmville, and makes his usual calls upon his friends and relations. About noon he returns home, ties his horse as accustomed, enters his house as usual, and laying aside his hat, walks lightly to the room where his daughter was lying sick of typhoid fever, approaches her couch and makes inquiries of her symptoms, says some kind things, bends over her and gives her face a scrutinizing look; then turns and walks lightly with quick and active steps to his room, and seats himself in his arm

chair waiting for the announcement of dinner. Here ends all human knowledge of his last moments.

Dinner is announced, and his daughter goes to his room; on entering the door she stands for a moment paralyzed with alarm to see him in his chair with his head bowed upon his knees; recovering herself, she speaks to him, but he answers not; she goes tremblingly to him and touches him, but he heeds not; she gently raises him to an erect position, but he gives no sign of life. The gathering family lay him on the bed, but there is no voice, no pulse, no motion, no sign of life, no evidence that the body had struggled when the soul departed. A physician was soon at the bedside; and with grief announced to the family that he could not see a symptom of remaining life.

LORANCE, JAMES HOUSTON-The son of John M. and Mary C. (Houston) Lorance, was born in Mount Pleasant, Tenn., June 1, 1820. He was a child of pious parents, and they raised their family in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, his father being for many years an elder in the Presbyterian church in Florence, Ala. In 1840, during a revival of religion under the ministration of the late Daniel Baker, D.D., he made a public profession of his faith, and feeling the call made upon him he resolved to study for the ministry. He was educated in New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., and studied divinity in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J.. graduating in 1846, and was licensed by New Brunswick Presbytery. He commenced his labors at Whitesville, near Huntsville, Ala., and subsequently was ordained by Palmyra Presbytery as pastor at Hannibal, Mo. He removed to Courtland, Ala., in 1851, and continued his pastoral labors there, respected and beloved by saints and sinners, up to the time of his decease.

He died at his residence in Courtland, Ala., June 1, 1862, of typhoid fever, brought on by waiting on the sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, carrying them partly on his own shoulders to their burial. He married Miss Gertrude F. Voorhees, of New Jersey, who, with two sons and a daughter, survives him.

WILLIAM H. MITCHELL, D.D., of Florence, Ala., writes as follows: "In the pulpit he was able and earnest. He seemed to have a just, a high and holy estimate of the duties and privileges of the sacred office, and a strong desire to promote the glory of God and the spiritual well-being of his fellowmen. Although he did not shun to declare the whole counsel of God the theme on which his soul delighted to dwell was Jesus Christ and Him crucified; and the Lord blessed his labors in the conversion of sinners and the edification of his people. Not only was he very useful in the pulpit, but he was successful in his ministrations at the sick bed and in pastoral visitation. "He died in the prime of manhood, in the vigor of intellect, in the zenith of usefulness, at a period in his history when, with untiring energy, he was devoting himself to the discharge of those solemn duties which appertain to the self-sacrificing office of a minister of Jesus. In all the benevolent operations of the Church he manifested a deep interest. As a presbyter, too, we held him in high estimation. Never was a lawyer more punctual in attendance on the courts of his circuit than was our brother in his attendance on the judicatories of the Church, in whose proceedings he participated so acceptably. The duties assigned him by his brethren, he performed cheerfully and well, in such a way as to gain their regard and win their affection.

"He was conscientiously attached to the doctrines and polity of the Church of his fathers, but few men were freer from unhallowed bigotry. His piety was of that catholic character which cordially embraces, in the arms of

charity, all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity; consequently he exerted a salutary and holy influence, not only over his own people, but over the community generally. In social life he was a most agreeable companion. His disposition was genial and hopeful. His countenance, beaming with benevolence, was an index to the kindly spirit which was breathed from his lips, which controlled his actions and gave tone to his character. His manners were pleasing and affable. He evinced firmness without obstinacy, frankness without rudeness. In the domestic circle he was truly attractive. He seemed to realize that' to love the little platoon we belong to is the germ of all public affection.' He was one of the kindest of fathers and most devoted of husbands. His filial tenderness and ardent love for his mother formed one of the most delightful features of his character. One of the 'divine sentences in the lips of the king' he seemed never to forget: 'My son, hear the instructions of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother; for they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck.' "He died poor as to this world's goods, but rich in faith and good works'meet for the inheritance of the saints.' To his bereaved family he willed no wealth, devised no rich domains, but he left them a legacy more precious than rubies-' a good name,' which makes men live long although their lives are short; a reputation which prodigality cannot squander, which slander cannot sully, which the effacing finger of time cannot remove."

MARTIN, JAMES-The son of Alexander and Hannah (Guyton) Martin, was born in Union district, S. C., May 14, 1801. He made a profession whilst young, and decided to study for the ministry; and though his father preferred some other profession, the controlling influence of his pious mother's prayers and the influence of grace upon his own heart enabled him to carry out his desires. He was educated at the North Carolina University, at Chapel Hill, N. C., where he graduated in 1825, and commenced the study of divinity under the care of Joseph Cunningham, D.D., of Concord church, Green county, Ala. He was licensed by South Alabama Presbytery in 1827, and soon after ordained by the same Presbytery, and for three years he labored as a domestic missionary in West Florida and South Alabama. In 1830 he took charge of the churches at Linden, Marengo county, and Prairie Bluffs, Wilcox, Ala. He subsequently moved to Green county, Ala., and took charge of Ebenezer, Concord and Mount Sion churches. In 1837 he moved to Louisville, Miss., and organized a church there and several in adjoining counties. Being greatly afflicted with dyspepsia, he removed in 1841 to Multona Springs, Stalla county, Miss., assumed pastoral charge of a church he organized there, and also conducted a school, preaching and organizing churches from time to time in the adjoining counties. In 1848 he moved to Memphis, Tenn., where he remained two years, teaching school and preaching occasionally, but having no regular pastoral charge. In 1850 he moved to Arkansas and organized several churches in Prairie county, and also a few years later in White county, laboring and preaching as his feeble health and declining years would permit.

He died at his residence in Pulaski county, Arkansas, near Little Rock, Sept. 14, 1863, of exposure whilst a captive. He married, November, 1830, Miss Nancy R. Gillespie, of Alabama, who, with six children, survives him. Rev. T. R. WELCH, of Little Rock, Ark., writes as follows: "Brother Martin possessed a mind peculiarly adapted to the acquisition of knowledge. His education was sound and classical. He was sometimes disposed to carry his speculations farther than was profitable for practical purposes, but he still returned to the infallible rule, and submitted his judgment to the unerr

ing instructions of the great Teacher. During the last years of his life he had no particular charge and did not preach frequently. For this he was sometimes censured by his brethren. Some, however, who were intimately acquainted with him ascribed this failure to depression of spirits, arising from the peculiar condition of his health, suffering from chronic dyspepsia. His spirit seemed to be always solemn and devotional. He was ever ready to converse upon subjects of practical religion, for in later years it was his habitual practice, like Daniel, to retire three times a day for devotional exercises.

"The occasion of his death was as follows: In the autumn of 1863, soon after the occupation of Little Rock by the Federal army, he, in company with his aged wife, had rode out a few miles to visit an afflicted family. On their return, when approaching their residence, they were led to believe, from the frequent report of firearms in that direction, that it was surrounded by soldiers. Knowing that the soldiers of that army had, in many instances, imprisoned and treated with cruelty citizens who had fallen into their hands, without regard to age or circumstances, he drove his buggy some distance from the road into a dense grove and sent forward a faithful servant to ascertain the state of things. When the servant returned he reported that the house was surrounded by soldiers, who were plundering and destroying their property. His wife insisted upon his remaining where he was, and permitting her to go forward and explain the cause of their absence, hoping thus that she could induce them to desist from their work of devastation and permit him to return unmolested. When she approached the house she found it occupied with armed men, who were appropriating to themselves whatever they.could carry away, and destroying much that they could not. While mildly remonstrating with them, she beheld her husband approaching, led and guarded by armed soldiers, as though he had been a felon. He was permitted to remain but a few minutes at home. When his wife perceived that they were about to take him away, she plead with the officers, reminding them of his advanced age, his unwarlike profession and his freedom from any participation in the causes which had brought on the war, as well as his infirm state of health. But all was of no avail. He was hurried away without permission to take with him such articles of clothing as were necessary to his comfort. He was led to Brownsville and kept in confinement, compelled to sleep on the ground or a hard floor, without a bed, and denied comfortable victuals to subsist on. This treatment, in connection with his age, his sensitive mind and feeble condition of bodily health, soon brought on disease, which his enemies perceiving as likely soon to terminate in death, released him, with permission to return to his home, which he reached with difficulty. Here he lingered for about a week, when he was released from his earthly sufferings, and received, as we trust, into that rest which remaineth for the people of God. During his last days his thoughts dwelt much upon his absent children, breathing the most earnest supplications for their future welfare, and speaking much on the blessedness of eternal rest."

MINNIS, D.D., WILLIAM-The son of John and Nancy Minnis, was born in Blount county, Tenn., Dec. 28, 1799. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and inherited those elements of character peculiar to that race. He was educated in Maryville College, Tenn., and studied divinity in the SouthWestern Theological Seminary at Maryville, Tenn., and was licensed by Union Presbytery April, 1825. and the year following was ordained by the same Presbytery as pastor of Westminster church, Tenn., where he labored

till 1838, when he took charge of Salem and New Market, Tenn., where he remained till his death. He became a member of the United Synod at its organization in 1857, having been connected with the (N. S.) Presbyterian Church after the disruption in 1837-8.

He died at his residence in New Market, Tenn., May 5, 1863, of inflammation of stomach and liver. He was married twice: first, in April 26, 1825, to his first wife, who was Miss Catharine Coonse; they had six children, all of whom are living. Second, to his second wife, April 15, 1856, who was Mrs. Eagleton; she survives him.

His character as a minister and citizen was irreproachable. Loved by his congregation and lamented by the whole community at large, he was known as a Union man, and always refused to acknowledge the Confederate government.

JOHN S. MOFFETT, Esq., of New Market, Tenn., writes that he was a man of extraordinary energy, both in the pulpit and out of it, investigated his subjects thoroughly, preached with great earnestness and without writing his sermons or using notes, seemed to take delight in the investigation of deep and difficult subjects, and had a very happy manner of illustrating them and making himself understood.

MCLURE, DANIEL MILTON-The son of John and Mary McLure, was born near Flat Rock, Kershaw district, S. C., Dec., 1835. He made a profession of religion in early life, and began his education under the care of his pastor, Rev. S. Donnelly of Beaver Creek church. He first went to Davidson College, N. C., and subsequently to Oglethorpe University, Ga., where he graduated in 1858. He studied divinity in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., graduating in 1861, and was licensed by Harmony Presbytery in 1861 at Indiantown church. He soon afterward supplied a church in Alabama, but ill health caused him to return to his native State. In April, 1864, a call from Williamsburg church was placed in his hands, and on the 23d of the month he was ordained and installed the pastor of that church. In the summer of 1865 his health gave way, causing him to cease preaching for a while. In the fall he returned to his church and resumed preaching, but he soon became aware that consumption was hurrying him to an early grave. He concluded, as a last resort, to try the more genial climate of Florida, but his people being too poor to pay his salary, the want of money prevented him going. Soon after his voice failed, and he ceased preaching altogether. He felt that heaven was very near, yet he wished to meet his brother presbyters once more. So he came to our last meeting at Manning. Many will long remember the sad scene there presented and the solemn warning then given. In a short time after this event, at the residence of D. H. Thomas, Esq., in Darlington district, S. C., he died, Oct. 25, 1865, of consumption.

The mind of Mr. McLure was of more than ordinary strength. Independence and clearness characterized his thoughts. He formed his opinions deliberately, and could always give his reasons for them. His retiring disposition kept all except his intimate friends from knowing the riches of his mind. If his health had permitted him to prosecute his studies vigorously, he would have been one of our most eminent ministers.

But God ordered otherwise. Death was permitted to take one after another of Mr. McLure's family, until he alone was left, until he was the last of his race. For years he looked consumption, the deadly foe of his family, in the face, and in his steadily declining health he felt that soon he too must become the victim of the fell destroyer. He was asked a few moments be