the end. He died at his residence in Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 11, 1866, of heart disease.

He was twice married: first, in 1825, to Miss Mary Clark of Orwell, Vt.she died in 1855; second, to Mrs. Rebecca W. Sears, widow of Rev. R. L. Sears; she, with four children of his first wife, survives. His brother, Rev. Otto S. Hoyt, of New Haven, Conn., is a Congregational minister.

Dr. Hoyt was well known to the Presbytery of Kalamazoo, of which he was a member, and to the Synod of Michigan, as reliable and prompt in all the duties devolving upon him in those bodies. He was never absent from their meetings, unless sickness kept him at home, which occurred only once in twenty-five years. He was always at his post, in the congregation and in his more general obligations to the churches. One of the last public duties which he attempted was a visit to one of our missionary churches, under the appointment of Presbytery, to preach on the Sabbath and give encouragement to the congregation. With difficulty he went through the service on Sabbath morning, but was unable to make any further effort. But especially in the last weeks of his life his testimony to the abounding grace of God was most satisfactory. He was able to praise God for the discipline of suffering. And he spoke of it often to those who called upon him as a special favor, that he was continued all those long weeks of sickness that he might finish up his work for Christ. He said that he found it a privilege to urge the claims of the gospel upon all his friends, and seemed rejoiced that he could so easily speak of Christ to those who formerly could not be so readily approached. Often he said, "I am ready to depart and be with Christ," yet he was not impatient of the delay, and only said to his brethren, "Do not pray that I may be continued very long.' He felt that his work was done, and we too, who waited with him on the bank of the river for a few days, felt that he had lived and was giving his last testimony for God's glory, "that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace." He was one of the best workers in that part of the Lord's vineyard where he labored for the last quarter of a century, and few were more glad and grateful than he in having seen the wilderness bud and blossom as the rose. Before going to Michigan he had acquired experience and strength in the ministry, which enabled him to be of great service to his brethren-most of whom were younger than himself as well as to be efficient in the particular field he cultivated. It is hard to tell whether he was best qualified to do the work of a pastor or to guide and promote the more general interests of Christ's kingdom. While he was a pastor he had, in an important sense, "the care of all the churches" in his region, and at the same time was awake and alive to every interest affecting the kingdom of the Redeemer universally. Few men have labored more untiringly and wisely in laying foundations than he. An ardent love for God and man was under the control of a well-balanced and cultivated mind. He had a warm heart, and was cheerful and pleasant in manner, but never was he so fervent and enthusiastic as to be thought extravagant and radical. Good common sense and Christian sincerity were apparent in all he undertook.

Rev. JOB PIERSON, of Kalamazoo, Mich., writes as follows: "Dr. Hoyt was of a genial temperament, free from guile and remarkably inoffensive in his conduct. His conversation was enlivened with sallies of wit and pleasantry, yet he was never wanting in dignity. He was gentle and courteous to all. His home was the abode of Christian hospitality. As a pastor he was most discreet in his words and acts. His influence was always upon the side of peace and love, and his fine social qualities rendered his presence welcome in every family, and gave power to his Christian example. As a preacher

he did not soar to those heights of eloquence which some reach, but his manner was impressive and his matter sound and instructive. As a member of the Presbytery and Synod he was remarkably punctual in his attendance upon all the meetings of these bodies. During a period of twenty-five years he was absent but once, and then because of sickness. His opinions were marked by sound discretion and always had great weight. In his death the churches of Michigan have lost a most valuable counselor and her ministers a sincere and valued friend. As a Christian the piety of Dr. Hoyt was not characterized by raptures, so much as by its uniformity, stability and firm assurance. His death was a fitting close to a beautiful life in its peace and triumphant hope. He died, as he had wished, on the Sabbath, and he died among the people for whom he had for so many years officiated as pastor. His funeral discourse was preached by Rev. M. Bradley, of Richland, Mich., one of his first converts, and whom he advised to enter the ministry."

Warren Isham.

ISHAM, WARREN-Was born in Massachusetts in 1800. But little is known of his early life. He was educated in Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and studied theology privately. He was licensed by Portage Presbytery in 1829, and remained in connection with that Presbytery until he emigrated to the West, making his home in Detroit, Mich. He was ordained as an evangelist by Detroit Presbytery in 1839. He never had a pastoral charge, and preached but seldom, as an affection of his throat and voice prevented him from speaking audibly. He devoted himself to the press, being editor of an agricultural paper for many years. He was an early advocate of the abolition of American slavery, when to be so brought upon him the odium of many, and he was always ready to help any good cause. He removed some years ago to Marquette, Lake Superior, Mich., where he died May 18, 1863, of bilious pneumonia.

He was the author of the "Mud Cabin," a work on the tendency of British institutions; "Travels in the East." He was editor of " The Ohio Observer," published at Hudson, Ohio, previous to his removing to Detroit, where he became editor of a paper devoted to anti-slavery and religion, and in a few years after he edited an agricultural paper, and upon his removal to Marquette he edited a newspaper there. He was all his life connected with the 'press. ." He was a remarkably close observer, quiet and unobtrusive, with very fine powers of description. An indomitable energy enabled him to succeed in his undertakings. He was a person of strong feeling, and actuated by an earnest desire for usefulness.

He was twice married. His widow and three children survive him.

Marre Jenkins

JENKINS, WARREN-The son of Ebenezer and Lydia (Smith) Jenkins, was born in Lee, Mass., April 12, 1804. He received a fair English education. Though in early life he anticipated entering the ministry, he was prevented by a number of circumstances. He was for some years connected

with the press, and was a lecturer on temperance; still he never forgot the desires of his youth, and he was licensed by Franklin Presbytery and ordained by the same Presbytery in 1855. For a year or more he labored in the vicinity of Columbus, Ohio, when he took charge of the church at Hanging Rock, Ohio, in the bounds of Scioto Presbytery, but ill health prompted him to withdraw, and he returned to Columbus. He soon became pastor of the church at Geneva, Ohio, in Franklin Presbytery, and labored acceptably for three years, when he was appointed chaplain of Ohio Penitentiary, and remained in that position, doing faithful and useful service, until ill health compelled him to withdraw.

He died at his residence in Columbus, Ohio, May 11, 1866, of consumption. He was married three times: first, to Miss Marian Dutville; second, Miss Ann Howard; third, Miss Mary M. Curtis. He was the father of nine

children.

Rev. EDWARD D. MORRIS, of Columbus, Ohio, writes as follows: "Brother Jenkins possessed many admirable traits of character; he was truthful, earnest, energetic, manly in a high degree. Though deprived of the privi lege of wide culture, such as colleges are expected to afford, he was intelligent, studious, thoughtful and well informed in practical affairs. As a preacher and pastor he commanded the respect of his hearers, both by his intellectual force and by his strong and manifest desire to win men to Christ. He was intensely interested to the last of life in all that pertained to the cause and kingdom of the Redeemer, and died as he had lived-in the sure hope of the gospel, lamented as well by his brethren in the ministry as by his many personal friends in more private life. After several years of languishing he fell asleep in Jesus, and his remains were buried in our beautiful cemetery, the funeral service being held in the Second Presbyterian Church in this city, among whose founders and early friends he had always held an honored place.'

Oren Johnson

JOHNSON, OREN-The son of Moses and Mrs. Ruth (Reed) Johnson, was born in Colerain, Mass., Feb. 22, 1801. His mother, who was the widow of Rev. Mr. Reed, died when he was four years old. This loss was in a measure supplied by a judicious and patient step-mother, who was endowed with sufficient grace to deal kindly with the child. His father died when he was fourteen, and his uncle cared for him until his twenty-first year, He was anxious to obtain a liberal education, but his opportunities thus far had been very limited. At this time he entered Ashfield Academy, and there prepared for college. He had been surrounded by Baptist influences, and he was troubled in mind about the ordinance of baptism, but about this time, as appears in his diary, he thus briefly states his reasons for disposing of that matter:

After a careful examination of the Scriptures, I came to the conclusion that there is no one mode of baptism made entirely plain in the Bible. In my judgment, it is wisely undecided; so that it may be adapted to any country and condition, whether the climate be cold or hot, or the candidate be in a prison, on a sick bed, or in health.”

He entered Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1826, and graduated in 1829. The same year he commenced his theological studies in the seminary at Auburn, N. Y., and completed them in 1832. He was licensed by the Franklin Congregational Association, Massachusetts, in 1831. He was ordained by Bath Presbytery, Sept. 17, 1833. For eleven years he preached with acceptance and success to the following churches: Woodhull, Jasper, Kennedyville and Avoca, in Steuben county, N. Y., and in Oakland, Tioga county, Pa. In these different fields he prosecuted the work of the gospel ministry with great singleness of purpose, as is clearly indicated by his diary. He spent much time in self-examination, repeatedly set apart seasons for fasting and prayer, and so observed them as to indicate the depth and sincerity of his religious convictions and his dependence upon divine grace to meet his ministerial responsibilities. He seems to have been under a continual and solemn impression that the minister in the preparation and delivery of every sermon should make it his distinct and solemn aim to glorify God and lead sinners to Christ. In his diary he uses this language: a servant of Christ would be useful, he must keep the great end of his ministry in view, which is to honor God and deliver souls from an eternal hell. He must, therefore, ask himself what he expects to accomplish in every serThis he seems to have done with uncommon persistency and con

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In 1844 he removed to Beaver Dam, and devoted himself to home missionary labor. For several years he preached to the feeble churches in Dodge county. Here he manifested the same devotion to his work, the same profound reverence for the Sabbath and the ordinances of God's house, the same high tone of Christian integrity, and the same clear and comprehensive views of the truth and importance of the Calvinistic system of faith, which had characterized his ministry at the East.

In consequence of his declining health he was compelled to retire from the ministry, and was without charge for some years. But he continued in the work of his Divine Master as a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beaver Dam. For many years he conducted a Bible-class, composed of the older members of the church. As a clear, critical and able expounder of the word of God, Mr. Johnson had few superiors. It was in this capacity that his ability as a biblical scholar and a clear-headed theologian was seen and appreciated. His knowledge of the ancient languages, and his thorough acquaintance with the different theological systems which have divided the Christian Church, made him a very instructive Bible-class teacher. He suffered from an internal tumor, of which he died at his residence in Beaver Dam, Mo., Sept. 20, 1866. He married Jan. 3, 1855, Miss Sarah F. Brown, of Newark, N. J., a lady who had returned from Ceylon, having been laboring there as a missionary under the American Board of Foreign Missions, and she survives him.

For two months previous to his death he was confined to his bed. During this protracted confinement his mind remained clear and strong, and his hopes for the future unclouded. He was a man of intelligent and positive convictions, rather than of strong and impetuous emotions. On all the great religious and moral issues of the day he had a mind which could distinguish between truth and falsehood; a conscience which strongly approved the right, and a will which resolutely stood to his convictions. His views of the fullness and freeness of salvation by grace kept his mind in a state of fect peace up to the moment of his death. He expressed the wish that he might leave something on record which would contain his dying testimony to the world in regard to the infinite fullness and freeness of salvation through

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Christ. Such was his deathbed experience: though he had often been troubled with doubts through life, and been sorely tried in his seasons of sharp spiritual conflict, yet as he approached the end of the great warfare his doubts all resolved themselves into solid and joyous conviction. As he drew nearer the evening of life every cloud disappeared, and his sun went down serenely, giving promise that a glorious morning awaited him in the infinite realm.

Daniel Jones

JONES, DANIEL-The son of John Jones, was born in London, England, May 14, 1802. His father was a member of the Baptist Church, and a carriage blacksmith by trade. Mr. Jones did not have the advantage of going to school while young, but by attending the Hoxton Sabbath-school in London, by the time he was fourteen he was able to read and write. In 1816 his mother died, and some months after his father married again, and shortly after his father came alone to the United States, leaving his family in London; at the same time his son went to work for Dr. Parkinson of London. In 1819 Mr. Jones, with the rest of his family, except his two sisters, joined his father in the United States. On his arrival at New York he worked for his father, with the exception of working a while for a Mr. Jay, until he commenced studying for the ministry. After he had lived in New York a while, he and one of his brothers engaged passage for their sisters, and sent for them to come to New York. But as their oldest sister had married in London, she remained there, and their youngest sister came to New York, where she died in 1824.

From twelve years of age Mr. Jones was seriously inclined, and at nineteen he made a public profession of religion. He studied for the ministry with Rev. Mr. Alerton, and afterward with Rev. Dr. Constant. He was ordained by the Associate Presbytery of Westchester at Somerstown, Westchester County, N. Y., June 29, 1825. He then commenced preaching at Yorktown, N. Y. In the spring of 1828 he left Yorktown and became the pastor of the Congregational church of Monroe, Fairfield county, Conn.

While living in Monroe his father and step-mother died in New York with the cholera, and left two children, his half-brother, William Henry Jones, and his half-sister, Harriet Jones, for him to provide for. In the fall of 1835 Mr. Jones left Monroe and went as a home missionary to the West, and located in Leasburg, Kosciusko county, Ind. In the fall of 1838 his house, with nearly everything it contained, was destroyed by fire. He then left Kosciusko county and spent the winter with a church at Middle Fork and Bethesda, and in the spring went to Thorntown, Boone county, Ind. In the spring of 1840 he left Thorntown and went to Lacon, Marshall county, Ill. In the fall of 1843 he left Lacon and went to Keokuk, Lee county, Iowa. While at Keokuk he was tried by Des Moines Presbytery and also by Illinois Synod, at Alton, Ill., for ordaining some elders at Fort Madison, Iowa, that were elected at a meeting of the church that was called by the church without the consent of the session. He was sustained by the Presbytery, and was also unanimously sustained by the Synod. In the fall of 1847 he left Keokuk and moved on some land near Fort Wayne, Allen county, Ind. In the spring of 1848 he went East and visited some of his relatives and