the week of prayer, and is still in pro
gress. It is one of quiet but deep
solemnity, with little other instrumen
tality than such as any church, with
a faithful pastor may command—the
preaching of the pastor, and the prayers
and co-operation of the people. On the
first Sabbath in March, there were forty
accessions to the church.
In Oeange, Schuyler County, N. Y.,
our Church has eDjoyed a refreshing,
which has resulted in an accession of
fifteen to the communion. The revival,
however, was not denominational, but
growing out of a urfion effort of Presby
terians, Methodists, and Baptists, began
with the week of prayer. The other
Churches received their share of the
blessing.
Watertown, N. Y.—The two Pres
byterian Churches in this large and
beautiful Northern New York Village,
Rev. Messrs. Porter and Baker, pastors,
have an interesting revival in progress,
in connection with a united special
effort. A peculiar interesting feature of
this work is the establishment of a busi
ness men’s morning prayer-meeting,
which is densely crowded.
Cording, N. Y.—A business letter to
this office adds in a postscript: —“ There
were received into our Church on the
first Sabbath in March, fourty-nine per
sons as a part of the fruits of the pre
cious work of grace, which we have en
joyed. Twelve of these were men, heads
of families, and fourteen were ladies,
heads of families.”
Waterville, N. Y. —A note to the
Evangelist says, that our Church in this
place, Rev. C. W. Hawley, pastor, wel
comed to its communion last. Sabbath
thirty-nine new members, thirty-two by
profession. This accession, the largest
in the history of the church for thirty
years, is the partial, fruit of a work of
grace which has been progressing since
the Week of Prayer. Several other
converts wait for the next opportunity
to confess Christ, and Borne inquirers
yet seek Him.
Raoine, Wis. —Our Church here, is
in the midst of a revival which is un
paralleled in its past history. The
preaching is almost entirely done by the
pastor, Rev. W. S. Alexander. Other
Churches in the place are also blessed.
Plymouth, Ohio. —A revival in this
place has brought out on the Lord’s side,
about one hundred persons. A pecu
liarly interesting feature of it is that the
pastor, Rev. J. D. McCord, will receive
to the communion of his Church nearly
all the members of his Bible-class, num
bering about forty. Several Sabbath
school scholars, are also among those
who, it is believed, have come to Jesus.
Large Accessions. —The Evangelist
of last week says that the Lafayette
Avenue Church of. Brooklyn, (Rev. T.
L. Ouyler’s), will receive next Sabbath
one hundred and twenty persons into
membership *, nearly all of them on con
fession of faith. Of this number about
fifty are heads of families. Seventeen
persons are also to be received on a sub
sequent Sabhath at the mission-chapel
connected with the church. During the
six years since it was fully organized
with a pastor, Lafayette Avenue Church
has reached a membership of eight hun
dred and eighty-five; a growth about
equal to that of “ Plymouth Church” in
the same time. »
Revival in Gowanda, N. Y. — Rev
S. Warren, paßtor of the Presbyterian
Church in Gowanda, writing us under
date of March 12th, sayß“ The Lord
has been gracious to this little, feeble
church, which had been declining for
the last twenty-five years. It had suf
fered greatly both from emigration and
death, several of its most efficient
members having died since I became
connected with it, twenty months ago.
Its members consisted almost entirely
of persons in the decline of life, and to
human view the prospect was that it
most soon become extinct, unless visited
with an outpouring of God’s Spirit.
With the beginning of the year we be
gan holding prayer-meetings every even
ing, and continued them two weeks with
increasing evidences of the Spirit’s pre
sence. 1 then invited Rev. William D.
Henry, of Jamestown, N. Y., to come
and aid me.- For five weeks this Hear
brother remained with us, preaching and
visiting from house to house, greatly
endearing himself to all our hearts by
his kind, faithful, and successful efforts
to lead sinners to Christ and to estab
lish believers in faith. Many backsliders
were recovered, some thirty souls hope
fully convened —mostly adults—one
third of them heads of families—and the
general impression left upon the com
munity is most favorable for the steady
growth of the Church. Last Sabbath,
we received fifteen, twelve on profession
of faith as a part of the first fruits, and
probably as many more will join us
soon, while some of the converts will
join other Churches.
« Brother Henry is admirably adapted
to be useful as an Evangelist, to which
work he has devoted himself for several
years past. He preached Christ with
ChrisUike tenderness, excels in family
visitation, and his sweet touching songs
inviting sinners to the Saviour, will
never be forgotten by those who heard
them. We feel that the interest here
awakened is healthy, and likely to prove
of permanent and increasing benefit”
Kingsport, E. Tjsnn. —The Church
at this place, which never severed its
connection with our Assembly, is-enjoy
ing a precious revival. Tweaty five
have been received on-profession and as
manv more are hoping.
Revivals. —Besides those elsewhere j
mentioned as occurring in Churches in |
our connection, we notice as localities |
of unusual religious interest, Nevada, j
111.; Hornellsville, N. Y.; Pern, Ind.;
Canal Dover, Ohio ; Homer, Michigan;
Tremont, N. Y.; Huntington, Indiana,
(about thirty accessions); Monticello,
N. Y.; Savannah, Mo.; Granville, 111.;
Jacksonville, 111.; Lyme, Ohio; Bloom
ville, Ohio; Sandusky, Ohio; Hudson,
Ohio, (the work in Western Reserve
College inclusive); Yellow Springs,!
Ohio; Littfe Mill Creek, Ohio, (church
nearly doubled); Pleasant Ridge, Ind.;
Omaha, Nebraska, and other places not
a few. And yet, amid the glorious record
of the times, there remains many a
Church, many a Christian professor, and
many a pastor, who might well cry-
“ Lord, I hear of showers of blessings,
Thou art scattering full and free —
Showerß the thirsty land refreshing;
Let some droppings fall on me,
Even me, even me.”
Dr. Patterson Declines. — Rev. R.
W. Patterson, D.D., has declined the pro
fessorship in Lane Seminary, his elec
tion to which we recently recorded. In
view of the general interests of our
Churches in the West, this is to "be re-
gretted. Still it does not surprise us.
The Doctor and the congregation in
Chicago which constitutes his long pros
perous and important charge, have
grown into a oneness which is about as
nearly indissoluble as any mortal rela
tions can be. With either party a
separation would be almost equivalent
to a loss of identity.
Rev. Charles K. McHarg, late of
Irvington, near New York City, was
installed pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in Cooperstown, N. Y., on the
14th of Pebruary, by the Presbytery of
Otsego. The sermon was preached by
the Moderator, Rev. Samuel J. White,
of Gilbertsville. The text was in John
iii. 2, and ix. 30. The charge to the
pastor was given by Rev. Samuel N.
Robinson, of Springfield, and the charge
to the people, by Rev. Alfred Ketcham,
of Middlefield Centre.
Mr. McHarg' is thus settled again
among the people of his first pastoral
charge, with encouraging prospects.
Upon several of the Churches of this
Presbytery, showers of Divine grace
have descended during the winter.
Rev. A. Eldridge, D.D., of Detroit,
has accepted from the American and
Foreign Christian Union, an appoint
ment to the Union Chapel in Paris,
France.
Rev. J. G. Atterbury, D.D., has
returned from his foreign travel, refreshed
in body, and has promptly resumed his
pastoral work in the Second Presbyte
rian Church in New Albany, Indiana.
Call. —Prof. D. Swing, of Miami
University, has received a call to the pas
torate of the Westminster- Presbyterian
Church, (N. S.) Chicago, 111.
Commissions to the General As
sembly.—The Presbytery of Saginaw
has chosen as principals, Rev. D. B.
Campbell, of Wenona, and Ruling Elder
Levi Walker, Esq., of Flint; Alternates,
Rev. J. A. Wight, of Bay City, and
Ruling Elder Y. E. Benton, of Linden.
Church; Items —Rev. William N.
Page, a senior in Auburn Seminary, has
accepted the call recently given him by
the Presbyterian Church of Trumans
burgh, N. Y. Rev. Addison K.
Strong, of Galena, 111., haß received and
accepted a call to the Park Presbyterian
Church of Syracuse, and expects to
enter upon his labors in that city in
April. Rev. Nathan Boswortb, of
Pompey Hill, has received and accepted
a call to the Presbyterian Church in
Holley, N. Y., and expects to enter upon
his new field of labor in April.- Rev.
D. H. Evans has accepted a call from
the First Presbyterian Church of Grand
Haven, Mich., and has already removed
to his new and pleasant field. Rev.
Francis B. Wheeler, pastor of the Pres
byterian Church in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y., has been spending a few months in
San Francisco, supplying the pulpit of
the First Congregational Church. He
has returned to the East. Rev. J.
S. Jewell, of Auburn Theological Semi
nary, having received a unanimous call
from’the Presbyterian Church at Preble,
Cortland County, has accepted the same,
and will assume the charge as pastor the
first of May. The Society, at a social
gathering, February 28, made up a purse
of $101), and presented him as a “thank
offering.” Rev. D. C. Blood, after a
pastorate of fifteen years, over the Mas
sillon Church, has recently resigned
in consequence of defective health and
hearing. Recently his friends met at
his house 'and presented him at least
$6OO, mostly in money. Mr. Blood
organized the Massillon Church, and has
received full two hundred to his commu
nion.
A Pioneer Church. —A religious
society iu our connection has bepn or
ganized in Escanawba, on the shore of
the Little Bay de Noquet, at the north
west end of the lakes, and the terminus
of a railroad which projects from the
iron mines of Lake Superior to that
remote region. Rev. G. W. Lloyd, of
Branchville, N. J-, is engaged, for a
missionary pastorate there, and, on his
arrival, a regular Church organization
is expected immediately to take place.
A fiourishing Sabbath-school of about!
fifty scholars is now in operation.
With the exception of a Bethel Church
on the opposite shore of Green Bay,
thirty miles distant, this new organiza
tion will have to reach out. on one side,
seventy miles, and on another, one hun
dred miles to its nearest «neighbor
ing churches.” Such is the way 0 f
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1866.
Christian and church enterprise, and J
such the achievements of a pushing Home
Missionary policy.
City Mission Church. —The First
Presbyterian .Church in Cleveland, Ohio,
has inaugurated a missionary enterprise.
Rev. Aaron Peck, lately in the service
of the American Sunday-school Union,
takes charge of it.
North Church, St. Louis.—Mr.
Starr’s ministry is highly acceptable,
and has already been instrumental in
producing a commendable increase of
activity, and of useful enterprise among
the people. They have addressed them
selves to the labor of rescuing their
church from debt with great vigor and
most encouraging success, having raised
for this purpose over $BOOO since Mr.
Starr’s installation, and their energy
shows no sign of flagging. They have
a very flourishing Sabbath-school, and
are specially and usefully active in be
half of temperance. — H. A. N.,in Ghris-
I tian Herald.
A Pertinent Question. —The New
York Tribune commenting on the sale
of pews in H. W. Beecher’s Church,
says that “ this sale could be easily
paralleled in this city if the congrega
tions would consent to put up their seats
annually at auction. No pew can be
had in Dr. Adams’ Church on Madison
Square. All the seats in the church are
sold, even to the camp stools. A list of.
families in the- hands of the committee
I who are waiting for seats, exceeds one
hundred.” Whereupon the Cincinnati
Herald asks, “ Why don’t these one
hundred families build a church for
themselves, instead of waiting for some
of Dr. Adams’ people to die or move
away ?”
fUlijimts lutellipxcßi
PRESBYTERIAN.
Revivals. —On Sabbath, the 4th of March,
took place the first sacramental services in
the new Presbyterian Church of Johnstown,
If Y. The occasion was one of deep inter
est, and will long be remembered by the large
audience which it called together. There
were added to the communion of the Churoh
one hundred and forty-seven persons, of
whom one hundred and thirty-one were on
the profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ. The First (0. S.) Presbyterian
Church in Catasauqua, Pa., has enjoyed an
unusual measure of spiritual animation since
the settlement, last November, of its pastor,
Rev. James Lewers. On the first Sabbath
in the present month, twenty-five new com
municants —many of them young men con
secrating the golden prime of their days to
God’s service—approached the table of the
Lord. Forty-five persons were recently
received on profession to Dr. Steele’s Church
in Hillsborough, Ohio, and others are anxi
ously inquiring the lyay to Salvation. Lg
fansport, Ind., continues to be blessed.
n tne Church in Upper Path Valley, Pa,,
in connection with the Presbytery of Carlisle,
a revival has been enjoyed, which has brought
forward fifty new communicants. Clear-
Held, .Pa., is among the favored places. There
have been more than fiftyinquirers, manypL
whom have found peace in believing. Re
vivals of considerable interest are in progress
in JBroadhead and Janesville, 111. Meet
ings, says the Presbyter, have been kept up
in the Church at South Salem, Ohio, for'
three weeks, with increasing interest. On
Thursday last eighty persons had. been re
ceived into the Church on examination, and
at least twenty more were known to be inquir
ing the way of life. Thirty-one of those re
ceived were pupils of Mr. Lowe's Academy-
In this institution there are seventy-eight
students on the roll, of whom sixty are pro
fessors of religion. Thirty-tour have re
cently been received, on profession, to the
Church in Kingston, Ohio; more than forty
to that in Chilicothe, Ohio ; and a number to
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Tarle
ton, in the same State.
United Presbyterians in San Francisco...
—Rev. Dr. Cooper wrises to the Christian
Instructor, an interesting account of his sue-*
cessful effort to establish a United Presbyte
rian interest in San Francisco. 11 Old Coun
try” church members flocked around him,
but he seems to have taken the highest care
to build upon avital piety basis. Hesays:—
“ I have been here sufficiently long to see that,
had I been disposed to accommodate the prin
ciples and discipline of the Church to the pre-.
vailing views and practices of the community,'
and urged simply the ifse of the Scottish ver
sion of the Psalms, I would have been able by
this time to have reported a long list of Church
members —members, too, who would no doubt
have liberally supported the cause; but I need
not say to you that while such a course would
no doubt have magnified the reputation of
your correspondent, it would have been at the
sacrifice of his fidelity as a missionary of the
United Presbyterian Church. I have felt that
I was sent here for some higher purpose than
simply to organize a Psalm-singing Church. ’
Oregon. —The Pacific has the notice of a
meeting of the Presb> teryof Oregon, held on
the 16th and 17th of January last. Rev.
William Monteith was received as a member,
of the Presbytery, and assiged to Salem and
Pleasant Grove. The Rev. R. Robe was as
signed to Brownsville and vicinity, and the
Rev. J. A. Hanna to Rogue River Valley.
A committee was appointed to select a loca
tion for an institute of learning, and to re
ceive propositions from the various points
within the'bounds of the Presbytery.
An Important Church Supplied,— The
First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, some
time since made vacant by the resignation of
Dr. Paxton, has received as pastor Rev. Syl
vester F. Scovill, late of Springfield, Ohio.
He was installed by the Presbytery of Ohio,
week before last.
Generous Benefaction.— A member of the
United. Presbyterian Church in Baltimore
has contributed $lOOO toward erecting suit
able and much needed buildings tor the mis
sion of that Church in India. The Christian
Instructor, making grateful mention of the
generosity, says: —“Good as this sum is, it
is both too little and too much—too little to
build with, and too much to be suffered to lie
idle when there is so much need.”
St Augustine, Fla.—The Presbyterian
Church in this place, closed during the war,
was re-opened last November, on the 'arhvaT
of the regularly called pastor, Rev. C 0.
Reynolds. A correspondent of the If. Y.
Observer, without giving any clue to his
notions respecting congeniality for Northern
Christians says: —“ All Christians from the
North wl’ find in this Church a congenial
Sabbath home, and be cordially welcomed by
pastor and members.
Hew Or g^ation.-On a
commenced by Arthur Potts, no longer
back than the last new year, and efficiently
pursued to this result.
Change of Pastorate—Rev. Morris C.
Sutphen, pastor of the Spring Garden Pres
byterian Church in this city, and succesor
therein to the late Dr. McDowell, has accept
ed a call to become co pastor with the vener
able Dr. MoElroy, of the Scotch Presbyterian
Church in New City. The departure of Mr-
S. will be a matter of sincere regret to his
congregation, and to his ministerial brethren
here.
Congregational—There is a very inter
esting work of grace in Mount Holyoke
Sbmitihry,"'Massachusetts. Since the 22d of
February,'when Dr. Kirk went to the Semi
nary and spent a few days, about twenty have
become Christians. These, together with
those who have one by one come out and
joined the ranks of Christians since the
commencement of the seminary year, make
the whole number of converts about fitty.
-j—The largest Sabbath-school of the Con
giegational'denomination in New England is
that of the Berkley Street Church in Boston,
Massachusetts, which has 1446 members.
Bev. Martin Moore died at Lambridgeport,
Mass., on the 11th inst, at the advanced age of
seventy-six. Thirty years of his ministerial
life were spent as pastor of the churches in Na
tick and Cohasset. Subsequently he became
the publisher of the Boston Recorder ,
Congregational papers speak of the prospect
of extensive changes in the ministry of that
Church in New England, during the present
year. The cause assigned is want of support,
ftw qf tbe churches making the addition to
salaries required by the great increase of the
expenses or living. Ministers suffered the ri
gors of the times with patience while the war
lasted, hoping that peace would brihg_ relief.
Disappointed in that hope, the necessity for
some, new resort has become imperative,
r —Our Congregational exchanges are largely
tiled with accounts of revivals, East and West
t among them one in Amherst College, con
ming which a student writes to the
(jhristiaii Mirror: —“A glorious revival
commenced in the Senior class something
like a fortnight since. Two of the hardest
fellows in the class came out openly in the
class meeting and asked for prayers, _ and
they have held on to the Christian
Hope since. On the night of the Annual
College Fast, a Junior, who for almost three
years had never entered a prayer-meeting,
a struggle of some days, came out
on [the side of Christ. Last Sunday he
made the most touching remarks I ever lis
tened to. Others in the Junior class are
deeply interested. In the Sophomore class
the interest is especially strong; The whole
cllafes are mote or less affected. Eight or
feiore of them have come out boldly, among
tjjiem some of the wildest of the class.
Among the Freshmen, the movement seems
genuine and powerful. Six have come out
foldly for Christ.” Rev. H. M. Dexter
has declined the proffered editorship of the
Francisco Pacific, though backed with
ixtremely liberal pecuniary proposals. He
>refers remaining in his pastorate, that of the
lerkeley Street Church, Boston.; —-A re
vival of great power in Chaplin, Conn.,
eceived at itsflbmmeneement an extraordi
lery impetus from the coming forward of
certain men of standing and influence, who
vere not only hopefully converted, but who
itood up very decidedly for God, and became
ictive workers. “Fellow-citizens,” said
me of them, “I believe that last night I
found Jesus. You know me well, and it you
have any faith in my testimony, I urge you
fjbo seek and find Him, for He can do good to
lyour souls.” In response to this brief and
{pointed appeal, ten persons immediately came
forward for prayers. The Andover As
sociation recently licensed eleven candidates
for the ministry, members of the Senior class
it the seminary. Twc of the same class have
}eeu licensed by the Suffolk North Assoeia
;ion. Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., has
iendered his resignation of the pastorate of
Jie Centre Church in New Haven. It has
lot yet been accepted. Can this be connect
'd with his late political effort on the same
jlatform with Doolittle and other supporters
of the President, recently, in New Haven?
HE PRLNCESS ALEXANDRA’S CHRIST-
MAS GIFT.
An English paper tells a little story of the
Princess Alexandra, which admirably illus
trates her domestic habits, her amiable dis
position, and kindness of heart. Crossingthe
hall of Marlborough House late one afternoon,
a few days before Christmas, Her Royal
..Highness observed a young girl of sineularly
“delicate and refined appearance, waiting, and
also-standing, though evidently fatigued and
faint.
The princess kindly told her to sit down,
asked her errand, and discovered that she
had brought home some little garment which
had been ordered for the children; and which
the Princess, who is much interested in
Sewing Machines, and understands their
merits, had desired should be jmade upon the
Grover & Baker Machine. Interested in the
modest, intelligent appearance, and gentle
manner of the girl, Her Highness desired her
to follow her to ber room, which she did,
without the remotest idea who the beautiful
condescending lady was.
After an examination of the articles, the
Princess asked who it was that had executed
the work? The girl modestly confessed that
she herself had done the most of it. The
Princess said it was done very nicely, and
finally drew from her protege the simple facts
of her condition; how she had an invalid
mother, whom sbe was obliged to leave all
alone, while she went to the shop to work;
how the fashionable rage for the Grover &
Baker Sewing had suggested to her to become
a finished operator on the Grover & Baker
Machine, with the hope; 0 1 very, very far
distant, that some time she might own a
machine of her own, and be able to work at
home, and earn something more than bread
for her poor sick mother.
The Princess rang the bell, ordered a bottle
of wine, some biscuits and oranges to be
packed and brought to her. Meantime she
had asked the wondering, bewildered child,
for she was little more, where she lived, and
took down the address upon her tablets with
ber o’wn band. She then gave her the deli
cacies which had been put into a neat ■ little
basket, and told her to take them to her
mother. .
On Christmas morning, into the clean
apartment of the invalid mother and her as
tonished and delighted daughter, was borne a
handsome Sewing Machine, with a slip of
paper, on which were the words: “A
Christmas Gift from Alexandra." — N. Y.
Boudoir.
Life Insurance. —Every one blessed with
a.family feels more or less interest in their
being, left in comfortable circumstances after
demise of their natural protector. The
best mode which can possibly be adopted is a.
life insurance, by which a comparatively small
amount paid per annum will render the near
and dear ones out of the reach of faant in
case of the accidental removal of the head of
the family. The American —a home institu
tion —holds out peculiar attractions in this
respect. Their capital is large, and yearly
u pon the increase. The American depends
upon its own previous history for the patron
age of the public, and one of its best features
are the names of its directors. Persons can
decide from the following list of names, well_
•
known citizens of Philadelphia, who are in
charge whether a company with such a list of
directors is reliable or not: —Alex. Whilldin,
J. Edgar 'Thomson, George Nugent, Hon.
James Pollock, Albert C. Roberts, P. B.
Mingle, Samuel Work, William J. Howard,'
Samuel T. Bodine; John Aikman, Henry K.
Bennett, Hon. Joseph Allison, Issae Hazle
hurst.
DEATHS,
OBITUARY.
EDWARD WELLINGTON CARREL, the subject
of this brief notice, who departed this life on the 3d
inst.. had been a worthy member of Calvary Presby
terian Church in this city, for nearly twelve years.
Few Christians have left to the Church and the world
a brighter example of high integrity and purity of
life, of practical faith, and of cbeerlul submission to
the allotments of Divine providence, than has our de
ceased brother. His conscientious fidelity as a tea
cher in the Sabbath-school, his love for the brethren
and for the prayer-meeting, and his zealous and eiffi
cient labors in connection with the Missionary Asso
ciation of the church will not soon be forgotten. In
whatever he sought to accomplish, his energy and
activity were untiring. During the last years of his
life, impaired health and change of business relations
compelled him to absent much from the city, but
did not lessen his interest in the welfare of 4,he
church or weaken his desire to be useful in tbe ser
vice of the Master. When he returned here, a few
months since, to the house of his brother in Walnut
Street, where he died, it was with a faint hope that
he might regain his health partially, if not fully; but
so soon as it became evident that his disease was fas
tened upon him with a fatal grasp, and that his active
work on earth was done, his resignation to the will of
God in this was complete. No one who witnessed his
perfect composure in view of approaching death, his
ull dependence and unfaltering trust in ttfe only
Redeemer of lost men, his joyful hope and clear anti
cipation of heavenly bliss, and his patient waiting
for life’s brittle thread to part, could fail to be im
pressed with a new and deeper sense of the value of
Christian faith and of its power to sustain the soul
when its earthly house is falling and earthly friends
are helpless to relieve. As reference was made, by a
friend, to " the valley and shadow of death,” he
promptly said, "That valley has no shadows for me,”
" All is bright,” " I’m going home.” Full conscious
ness and perfect peace confined till his latest breath,,
and his spirit passed away so gently that those who
stood near could scarcely tell the moment of his de
parture.
" Sweet is the scene when Christians die.”
** Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.”
ANOTHER NATIONAL MARTYR.
Died, at his home in Chester Co., Pa., on the 27th
of February, Dr. JOHN AIKEN, late Surgeon in the
United States Army, in the 26th year of bis age.
Dr. Aiken was born in Philadelphia, Oct. Bth, 1838,
and was baptized in the Fourth Presbyterian Church,
by Rev. Wm.L. McCalla, aname well known in our
ecclesiastical annals. Having passed his earlier life -
on the farm and in attendance on the schools of his
neighborhood, Mr. Aiken looked forward to a higher
coarse of education* and entered upon the Btudy of
Latin, taking his first lessons from the Rev, W. R,
Bingham, pastor of the Great Valley Presbyterian
Church. The winter of 1859 he spent at the Freeland
Seminary, Montgomery County. On leaving this
school he commenced tbe study of medicine, and
during the summer of 1860 was engaged,in.reading,
under the direction of Dr. "William Gunkle, and in
the autum of the same year entered the Medical De
partment of the University of Pennsylvania,graduat
ing from that Institution in 1862.
Dr. Aiken began the practice of his profession in
East Whiteland, and was thus engaged for three
months, when the loud and imperative calls ot the
army for medical aid. and his deep interest in the
cause of his country, led him to offer hiuself for that
work. He was examined bv the Medical Board at
Philadelphia, and received the appointment of Assis
tant Surgeon to the Seventy-first Regiment Pennsyl
vania Volunteers, then lying at Harrison’s Landing,
Virginia.
Soon he was in the midst of the mostactive service.
for in September of this year he was present at the
terrible battle of Antietam, and soon after the like
bloody struggle at Chancellorsville. In the spring of
1863, Dr. Aiken was promoted to the office of surgeon,
and in July was called to witness, that mighty conflict
on our own soil of Pennsylvania—the battle of Get
tysburg. %
The winter Of 1863:4 he spent encamped on the Ra
pidan in charge of the Second Division hospital, and
in the spring he followed Grant through the battle of
the Wilderness, a name significant of more horror
than that great and terrible wilderness, by which the
Israelites passed to the Promised Land. Dr. Aiken
was now called to a new experience in the hardships
of war, Being left by the mam army in charge of the
sick and wounded, himself with an assistant surgeon
and 500 wounded men were taken prisoners. He was
held for several weeks, but the enemy, failing to ob
tain transportation for sending them all South, pro
vision also being very scarce, and the men dying for
want oi food and medicine, the Doctor and his hospi
tal were released, but not till' theylwere deprived of
everything valuable. He again joined his regiment
in front of Petersburg, whioh, in July, was mus
tered out, and the Doctor returned home. After a
few weeks, however, he felt it hie duty to be again in
the army, and was assigned a place bn the medical
staff of Gen. Grant. He was now putin charge of a
field hospital, Soon the approach of the enemy made
it needful to move their and Dr. Aiken, as
gngeon in charge, superintended the work of prepara
tion. The day was wet and cold, and after its ex
hausting labors, weary and chilled, be slept all night
on that damp field. The next day, he suffered from
inflamation of the lungs. The seeds of a mortal dis
ease had been planted. Hiß health so failing as to
render him unfit to discharge the duties of mat sta
tion, he was appointed to take charge of the Second
Corps hospital at City Point. Here he had work
enough to task the strongest, for under him were no
less than twenty-six assistant surgeons, and from
twenty-five to twenty-seven hundred of the sick and
wounded. This position he held till peace was re
stored and the hospital broken up. Dr. Aiken now
returned home, but only to manifest to all who looked
upon him and loved him, that he too, as so many
others had given his life's blood for the* salvation of
his nation. He e&me home to die. Hiß death was
peaceful. A few weeks ago he made an open profes
sion of his faith in Christ, in the Reeseville Church,
and sat down for the first and last time on earth to
commemorate the Saviour's dying love.
Intellectually, Dr. Aiken was of the higher order.
Hfe rose rapidly in his profession. He had capacity
lor eminence and an ambition to excel. His merits
were at once disoerned by those about him, whiohis
seen by the responsible departments he was so
soon called to fill. He is remembered through his
neighborhood as one who took a lively interest in
whatever, by way of lyceuins and other means, was
fitted to promote the intellectual and moral improve
ment of himself and the young around him.
He was a dutiful, tender son, a kind neighbor. He
was friendly, and as a consequence, had many friends.
He was unselfish, ever seeking the interests of others.
Even in all hi B weakness and sickness he threw the
light of a cheerful countenance and happy temper
uver all around him.
Dr. Aiken was eminently conscientious. He had a
strong sense of duty and love of consistency. Hence,
in his position as surgeon in the army, whatever he
saw could be done for the good of his men, that he
felt bound to do. Publie office with him was no sine
cure. It was a place for something more than honor
and emoluments. Dr. Aiken sleeps in death, but
many a man is living to-day because he was faithful.
He saved others*—himself he could not save. Happy
the poor wounded or sick soldier, whose lot it was to
be cast under his sympathizing eye and skilful hand.
Many a husband and lather has returned to his wife
and little children who would have returned no more
but for his uotiring devotion.
Our young brother sleeps with a noble army of
martyrs. Their precious dust is sown broadcast over
the land, ever 10 keep fresh andgreen amongst ns the
life of liberty and loyalty. The national cemetery is
our wide continent, having for its central monument
the toomb at Illinois. These all died
in the faith that the life of this nation was worth
all thxt it has cost them. And a grateful peo
ple will never forget the men, living or dead, who
have been God’s instruments in the great deliverance;
and millions of happy freedmen and their descen
dants will celebrate, in all coming time, the memor
ies of that struggle, which brought in the birth day of
their liberty. J. McL.
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