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.

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"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. 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 moun tain 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

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.

Jasion 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 armor 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 pas torate 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.