before his departure to India. He was speaking of the Christian's prospect of heaven, and described the retreat of the ten thousand Greeks, their long journey, pregnant perils, hard battles, and, at last, of their attainment of the mountain crest from which they caught a glimpse of their own loved Mediterranean. And his voice swelled with their joy and exultation as he uttered their shout, 'The sea!' 'the sea!' That sea was the narrow strait which to his mind divides the believer from his long-sought home. And he always thought thus of death and heaven. A letter written but a few weeks before his death, and when the fatal nature of his disease had been ascertained, lies before me. I copy a few sentences: All I have to do is to wait till my heavenly Father calls me home. The thought of dying in India does not trouble me. For the past fifteen years I have gone forth bearing precious seed, which I have sown broadcast among this people, and in the great harvest I should like to awake among my sheaves. But it matters not where I end my days. I have had many sleepless nights and suffered a good deal of pain during the last month, but my mind has enjoyed perfect peace. "I know whom I have believed." I have no fear of death. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for this evidence that the religion which I have preached to others is founded on a rock-the Rock of Ages.'

"The same cheerfulness of trust and hope was his to the close. He can scarcely be said to have walked through the valley of the shadow of death. His steps were neither in a valley nor in shadow, except from agonizing physical pain. The last connected conversation which he held with his family and friends bore witness to the buoyancy of his religious nature: 'I am so inexpressibly happy that I must talk to you a little while. I wish to say that I would not exchange this bed of pain for crowns and kingdoms. I did not think that I should be permitted to enter the land of Beulah while here on earth, but I have entered it.' 'Do not think that this is excitement; I am as calm as ever I was, but my peace and joy are beyond expression." 'Oh, can it be that God would thus reveal himself to one so unworthy! Heaven is indeed begun below.' And thus, full of joy and foretasting his reward, he went to his Saviour and his God.

"I have thus sketched in outline some of the traits of one of the most useful and beloved missionaries of our Church. I know that the portrait is a feeble one-more like a photograph taken after death than a living picturebut it may be of some value in preserving the memory of one for whom many hearts will long and tenderly mourn. Yours, sincerely, "A. T. FULLERTON."

Allen & Gallaher

GALLAHER, ALLEN GILLISPIE-The son of Thomas and Mary (Greene) Gallaher, was born in Blount county, Tenn., Oct., 1798.* His grandfather, James Gallaher, with a family of seven sons and two daughters, had removed from Cumberland county, Pa., about the year 1779, and settled in what was then an Indian country. His grandfather was of Scotch-Irish descent, and lived but a short time after their arrival in his new and wilderness home. His father, Thomas Gallaher, had twelve children, five sons and seven daughters, ten of whom reached the years of maturity, and three became Presbyterian ministers, viz.: James, Allen and William.

This memoir was prepared by Rev. JOHN LEIGHTON, of Hannibal, Mo.

His father was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and early instilled into the mind of his son the elements of our common Christianity, and especially the strong and peculiar "doctrines of grace" which distinguish Presbyterians from most other professing Christians. As was realized in Brother Gallaher, those doctrines are, when faithfully implanted in the minds of the young, most tenacious in their hold; and this tenacity may be attributed in part to their consistency with each other, and with man's inmost sense of need; but much more to the faithfulness of a covenant-keeping God, who said to Abraham, "I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee." Exemplifying the divine faithfulness in this covenant, our venerated brother, during a deluge of infidelity which for a generation swept through the land, and notwithstanding the surgings of specious and ever-changing heresies which early surrounded him, remained from first to last firm and unmoved in the faith which, as an heir-loom, he had "received from his forefathers." 2 Tim. i. 5.

As intimated above, the region of country in which our brother was born and reared continued through degenerate times a religious oasis-a green spot-while other and neighboring regions were more or less blasted with error and moral declension. There his early youth was spent under the parental roof. The sturdy Calvinistic faith which there survived left its vigorous impress indelibly upon his character; and his character, in turn, continued to vouch for the excellence of the teachings and influence under which he had been trained.

The youth of our brother was not nursed in the lap of ease and affluence. and his theological attainments and his subsequent career are evidence of what, by the grace of God, may be accomplished as the result of an early Christian education and of an ingenuous mind bent on noble ends. Being brought up in a new and wild country, and being habituated to the dangers and hardships of frontier life, he was the more fitted to endure as a good soldier of the cross, and enabled to perform a vast amount of labor in the service of his divine Master.

Although eminently moral and consistent in his conduct, he did not publicly profess the faith which he afterwards preached till he was twenty years of age-a period which now would, in many places, be thought seasonable; but which, then and there, seems to have been regarded later than it should be. So much for a change in our religious sentiments for the worse!

One brother received his classical education in Washington College, East Tennessee, then under the presidency of Dr. Samuel Doak, Sr. After completing his collegiate course, he spent some years in the good and honorable vocation of teaching school. The mean while he was preparing himself for the ministry under the instruction of Rev. Samuel Doak, Jr. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Holston about the year 1828; after which he spent a few years in teaching and preaching in East Tennessee; and then, in the year 1832, emigrated from the State of his nativity. After spending a few months in Cincinnati, Ohio, he removed West, to Sangamon county, Ill. There he remained one year, still adhering to his twofold calling of preaching and teaching. It was in the spring of the year 1834 that he removed to Missouri, and he came here at the earnest solicitation of the Trustees of Marion College, in Marion county, accepting the position of principal in the preparatory school of that institution; and he held the post until the school ceased to exist. In the spring of 1841 he removed to Lick Creek, Ralls county, where he remained till the close of his life.

Thus we see that our dear brother, like the patriarchs of old, was somewhat of a sojourner, going from place to place at the call of God. And if

he did not, like them, remove always on a strictly religious account, yet in his sojournings conscience and religion were never left out of his calculations. In proof of this it should be recorded that, during a period of more than twenty years, he preached to destitute congregations and supplied vacant pulpits in Ralls and the adjoining counties; and for the greater part of this time he labored without any pecuniary remuneration. To the last, his interest in the churches was undiminished, and his labors for their edification were limited only by his growing infirmities. He died November 19, 1865. As this short memorial of a good man is written simply as a tribute of Christian affection on the part of those who well knew and loved him, for them any labored delineation of his character would be useless. He still lives in all our hearts, and the fragrance of his name, as ointment poured forth, remains fresh in all this region.

Let it be simply said that he was a man of singular kindness and geniality of spirit. Obviously by nature he was gentle, cheerful and easy to be entreated. But, by the grace of God, these natural elements of character were moulded into a form that endeared him to his Christian friends and drew forth the admiration of the unbelieving. Who that was at all acquainted with him is ignorant of his habitual joyousness of spirit, of his words of kindness ever ready, and that vein of humor so original, so pleasant, so free from bitterness? Far remote was he from the charge occasionally laid at the door of conscientious ministers, that with some their strictness is frozen into repulsive severity; while with others, intended pleasantry either evaporates into lightness, or else is turned into a whip whose lash inflicts a smart. He spoke kindly of all. He never indulged in the language of censure, even when it was deserved, except when ministerial duty required, and then his words of disapproval were mingled with regrets and tenderness. Hence it was difficult for any, even the most unreasonable, to be at enmity with our amiable brother. And as for the class that stand especially aloof from too many of us ministers-i. e., the young-Brother Gallaher was a universal favorite with them.

He was not content with the cultivation of these kindly affections in his own breast. As if conscious of the happiness they afforded him, he constantly labored to put others in possession of the same enjoyment by establishing peace and promoting harmony among them. To him truly belonged the benediction, Blessed are the peacemakers." And by his gentle example and by his tender deprecations and his offices of kindly intervention he allayed many a strife and set alienated brethren at one again.

As an evidence of the extent to which his kindliness and good-will were due to the sanctifying truth and Spirit of God, we may cite the ready flow of his emotions whenever that truth, and more especially whenever the touching details of a Saviour's love and devotion were the subject of his meditations. We all have witnessed the frequency with which he was melted down when celebrating with us the sufferings and death of the Redeemer. And particularly, when he was called to officiate on those affecting occasions, we have observed how his breast and eyes filled up and overflowed with spontaneous joy and grief. Often have we known him to stop in the midst of the sacred song-a part of God's service in which he was at home and took delight-to stop, choked with the swelling tide of his rising emotions. His advancing age, his pressing infirmities and frequent acute pains wrought no diminution in these amiabilities of his character-another proof that they were the gift of the Spirit of grace. Nothing is more common than to find men of the world, once possessed of much natural kindliness, lose it all, and become disagreeably sour and even morose, amid the infirmi

ties of old age, and in view of their approaching end. It is thus true that mere "nature dies." It is equally true, as exemplified in our brother's case, that grace lives and abounds and triumphs even amid the decay and dissolution of the flesh. When Christian men like our brother depart this life, we can readily believe that their "souls are, at death, made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory." To complete the work of sanctification little more seems needful than to sever the cord which binds the soaring spirit to the "body of sin and death." As the Bible Protestantism which our beloved brother Gallaher professed rejects all sacrifices for the dead, and repudiates the "masses" which the great apostasy offers even for her deceased priesthood, so also did he, by the growing holiness of his life, and his ripeness for immediate glory, verify and confirm the doctrine he believed.

In view, then, of his removal hence, that which remains for us is to mark his Christian virtues, to copy his lovely spirit, and after him to run with zeal in the course he has finished with joy. To all this we are more and more exhorted and stimulated by the happiness of his Christian life, by the peaceful manner of his death, and by the abiding confidence we have that he now possesses the great reward.

To conduce to these ends of personal fidelity, and no less to signify our affection for the memory of one long held in high Christian esteem, these present written words-not needed for the praise of our departed brotherare thus placed on record.

Sterling M. Halt

GALT, STERLING M.-The son of Sterling and Margaret (Grayson) Galt, was born near Taneytown, Carroll county, Md., February 28, 1837. He was educated in New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., and studied divinity in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J., where he graduated in 1861, and was licensed by New Brunswick Presbytery. He began his labors at Newark and Red Clay Creek, Delaware, within the bounds of Newcastle Presbytery, by which Presbytery he was ordained, in 1862, as pastor of these churches. This was his only charge; and here he labored till October 24, 1865, when he died of typhoid fever, at the house of his friend Rev. THOMAS LOVE, of Loveville, Newcastle county, Del., who writes as follows:

"In every view he was most estimable. He honored me as a father-I loved him as a son. To his Lord and Master he was a servant, faithful even unto death. A clear head, a warm heart and a flowing tongue were manifest in all his public services. To the pious people of his charges-particularly the young-he was a pastor dearly beloved. Praying and preaching, he was ever fervent in spirit, and thereby edifying. At his death great lamentation was made over him.

He was buried from the residence of his brother, in Washington, D. C., whence a friend writes as follows: "He was an humble, devout and exemplary Christian-firm and decided. Strong in faith, possessing a full assurance of hope; a workman in the Lord's vineyard who needed not to be ashamed; rightly dividing the word of truth, and by lucid exposition, cogent reasoning, pertinent illustration and pungent application giving to saints and sinners their portions in due season. He plainly, faithfully and entirely declared the whole counsel of God."

G.

Musgrave Giger.

GIGER, D.D., GEORGE MUSGRAVE-Was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 6, 1822. He entered New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., in the autumn of 1838, and graduated with high honors in 1841, and the labors of an earnest life were ever a connection with his alma mater. He studied divinity in the Theological Seminary at Princeton. He finished his course in 1844, when he was licensed by Baltimore Presbytery; and on the 15th of February, 1860, he was ordained by New Brunswick Presbytery.

Soon after finishing his theological course he was chosen tutor in New Jersey College. This position he held till 1846, when he was elected Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. In the following year he was elected Adjunct Professor of Greek, and in 1854, Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. He held this chair until the opening of the session of 1865, when declining health compelled him to resign. He removed to the residence of his uncle, George W. Musgrave, D.D., in Philadelphia, Pa. Here he lingered until his death, October 11, 1865, of consumption, and was buried in Woodlands Cemetery. The funeral services were conducted by John Maclean, D.D., LL.D., president, and Lyman Atwater, D.D., and John T. Duffield, D.D., professors in the college. Dr. Maclean paid a hearty and affectionate tribute to the memory of his deceased friend and associate. Dr. Giger was ardently attached to the interests of the college with which he was so long connected. He bequeathed to it his library, and it is also a residuary legatee to the extent of thirty thousand dollars, and he also left legacies to Clio Hall, one of the college societies, of which he was a faithful member, and to the Order of Masons.

Rev. J. T. DUFFIELD, Professor of New Jersey College, Princeton, N. J., writes: "I knew Prof. Giger intimately for twenty-seven years, and, so far as I remember, I never knew him fail to perform, to the best of his ability, any duty that devolved upon him. Throughout his college course, I do not believe, that when called on to recite, he was ever heard to say, 'not prepared, and he uniformly recited well. In the Seminary he was distinguished for this same trait of character-always ready for every duty. The habits of industry, regularity and punctuality which he formed thus early characterized him through life. As a member of the faculty, his duties-aside from those of his professorship-were many, and frequently arduous; yet we always felt that whatever he undertook he would scrupulously perform to the best of his ability, and we were never disappointed. Another trait was his gentlemanly deportment; he was always polite, good-natured, obliging; and though differing in opinion from his intimate friends, and never hesitating to express himself frankly and with the earnestness of one whose convictions were conscientious, he always retained the esteem of those with whom he was associated."

As an instructor he was eminently successful, appreciating the difficulties of the students, and securing their respect and esteem. He was pub'icspirited as a citizen. His efforts in the cause of education in repeatedly serving as a school-superintendent, his self-denying labors in behalf of the colored people, preaching for the Witherspoon Street Church in Princeton, a church composed of colored people, his devotion to the Masonic lodge, all show the true greatness of the man, and secured to him the love of all who knew him.

He was held in such high esteem by his Masonic brethren that they