.<ll 
 
 
 ^%. 
 
 ^0. 
 
 ■^- ''-^*>\> 
 
 IMAGE EVALUATION 
 TEST TARGET (MT-3) 
 
 1.0 
 
 I.I 
 
 1.25 
 
 M 
 
 m 
 
 IIIM 
 lU 
 
 1 2.0 
 
 
 1.8 
 
 i-4 11.6 
 
 ^^ 
 
 <? 
 
 /}. 
 
 ■c^l 
 
 /: 
 
 /J. 
 
 
 o 
 
 7 
 
 Photographic 
 
 Sciences 
 
 Corporation 
 
 73 WEST AAAIN STREET 
 
 WEBSTER, NY. US80 
 
 (716) 872-4503 
 
vV 
 
 CIHM/ICMH 
 
 Microfiche 
 
 Series. 
 
 CIHIVI/ICMH 
 Collection de 
 microfiches. 
 
 Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut Canadian de microreproductions historiques 
 
 1980 
 
Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques 
 
 The Institute has attempted to obtain the best 
 original copy available for filming. Features of this 
 copy which may be bibiiographically unique, 
 which may alter any of the images in the 
 reproduction, or which may significantly change 
 the usual method of filming, are checked below. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Coloured covers/ 
 Couvert'ire de couleur 
 
 I I Covers damaged/ 
 
 D 
 D 
 
 \^ 
 
 D 
 D 
 
 D 
 
 Couverture endommagee 
 
 Covers restored and/or laminated/ 
 Couverture restaur^e et/ou pellicul6e 
 
 Cover title missing/ 
 
 Le titre de couverture manque 
 
 I I Coloured maps/ 
 
 Cartes gdographiques en couleur 
 
 Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ 
 Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire) 
 
 □ Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ 
 Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur 
 
 Bound with other material/ 
 Relid avec d'autres documents 
 
 Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion 
 along interior margin/ 
 
 La reliure serree peut causer de I'ombre ou de la 
 distortion le long de la marge intdrieure 
 
 Blank leaves added during restoration may 
 appear within the text. Whenever possible, these 
 have been omitted from filming/ 
 II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajoutdes 
 lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte, 
 mais, lorspi. cela 6tait possible, ces pages n'ont 
 pas 6t6 filmmis. 
 
 L'Institut a microfilm^ le meilleur exemplaire 
 qu'il lui a 6t6 possible de se procurer. Les details 
 de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-dtre uniques du 
 point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier 
 une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une 
 modification dans la mdthode normale de filmage 
 sont indiquds ci-dessous. 
 
 □ Coloured pages/ 
 Pages de couleur 
 
 □ 
 
 n 
 
 Pages damaged/ 
 Pages endommagdes 
 
 Pages restored and/or laminated/ 
 Pages restaurdes et/ou pelliculdes 
 
 Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ 
 Pages ddcolordes, tachet6es ou piqu6es 
 
 Pages detached/ 
 Pages d6tach6es 
 
 I I Showthrough/ 
 
 Transparence 
 
 Quality of prir 
 
 Qualiti in^gale de I'impression 
 
 I I Quality of print varies/ 
 
 I I Includes supplementary material/ 
 
 Comprend du materiel supplementaire 
 
 Only edition available/ 
 Seule Edition disponible 
 
 Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata 
 slips, tissues, etc., have been refilmed to 
 ensure the best possible image/ 
 Les pages totalement ou partiellement 
 obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une pelure, 
 etc., ont 6t6 film6es d nouveau de fagon d 
 obtenir la meilleure image possible. 
 
 D 
 
 Additional comments:/ 
 Commentaires suppl^mentaires; 
 
 This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ 
 
 Ce document est filmd au taux de reduction indiqud ci-dessous. 
 
 10X 14X 18X 22X 
 
 12X 
 
 y 
 
 16X 
 
 20X 
 
 26X 
 
 30X 
 
 24X 
 
 28X 
 
 32X 
 
The copy f jmed here has been reproduced thanks 
 to the generosity of: 
 
 Ralph Pickard Bell Library 
 
 Mount Allison University 
 
 L'exemplaire filmd fut reproduit grdce d la 
 g6n6rosit6 de: 
 
 Ralph Pickard Bell Library 
 
 Mount Allison University 
 
 The images appearing here are the best quality 
 possible considering the condition and legibility 
 of the original copy and in keeping with the 
 filming contract specifications. 
 
 Les images suivantes ont 6t6 reproduites avec le 
 plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et 
 de la nettet6 de l'exemplaire film6, et en 
 conformity avec les conditions du contrat de 
 filmage. 
 
 Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed 
 beginning with the front cover and ending on 
 the last page with a printed or illustrated impres- 
 sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All 
 other original copies are filmed beginning on the 
 first page with a printed or illustrated impres- 
 sion, and ending on the last page with a printed 
 or illustrated impression. 
 
 Les exemplaires originaux dont la couverture en 
 papier est imprim6e sont film6s en commenpant 
 par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la 
 dernidre page qui comporte une empreinte 
 d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second 
 plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires 
 originaux sont filmds en commenpant par la 
 premiere page qui comporte une empreinte 
 d'impression ou d'illustration et en terminant par 
 la dernidre page qui comporte une telle 
 empreinte. 
 
 The last recorded frame on each microfiche 
 shall contain the symbol ^^ (meaning "CON- 
 TINUED "), or the symbol V (meaning "END "), 
 whichever applies. 
 
 Un des symboles suivants apparait. a sur la 
 dernidre image de chaque microfiche, selon le 
 cas: le symbole — »- signifie "A SUIVRE", le 
 symbole V signifie "FIN". 
 
 Maps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at 
 different reduction ratios. Those too large to be 
 entirely included in one exposure are filmed 
 beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to 
 right and top to bottom, as many frames as 
 required. The following diagrams illustrate the 
 method: 
 
 Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre 
 filmds d des taux de reduction diffdrents. 
 Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre 
 reproduit en un seul clichd, il est filmd d partir 
 de Tangle supdrieur gauche, de gauche d droite, 
 et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre 
 d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants 
 illustrent la mdthode. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
r^ 
 
 5 
 
 -■— ^^^V-:-, — ^.W^.Mlfc>; 
 
memorial 
 
 ife 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV, JAMES GEORGE, D.a 
 
 v.. 
 
 PRIVATELY PRINTED. 
 
 
H 
 
il 
 
 
 , 
 
Memorial 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV. JAMES GEORGE, D.D. 
 
 Privately Printed for His Family. 
 
 TORONTO: 
 WILLIAM BRIGGS, 
 
 29-33 RICHMOND STREET WEST. 
 1897. 
 
& 
 
 < 
 ] 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 F 
 
 F 
 u 
 
 t( 
 
fIDemorial 
 
 OF THE 
 
 REV. JAMES GEORGE, D.D. 
 
 REV. JAMES GEORGE was born in Perthshire, 
 Scotland, in 1800. He was educated in Dollar 
 Academy, and in St. Andrew's and Glasgow colleges, 
 and having finished his theological course, he came 
 to America in 1829. He was pastor of churches in 
 Philadelphia, in Monticello, and in Fort Covington, 
 N.Y. Letters from members of each of these 
 churches expressed their great esteem for him, and 
 regret at his leaving them. But he had carried with 
 him an ardent love for his native country, and the 
 unfriendly feeling to Great Britain that was then the 
 prevailing sentiment in the United States, was so 
 painful to him that he chose rather to live and work 
 under the old flag in the woods of Canada. He came 
 to Scarboro' in 1834'. 
 
The first church had been only a short tinio com- 
 pleted, and they built for him a manse. To it he 
 brought his beloved young wife, only to carry out 
 from it the next year, the desire of his eyes, and lay 
 her in the newly-made graveyard. She was a woman 
 of much force of character and great personal l)eauty. 
 Her early death was a grievous loss to him. 
 
 The property belonging to the first church of Scar- 
 boro' comprised an acre, bought from D^ivid Thomson, 
 on which stood the church, and another acre adjoining, 
 bought from James A. Thomson for a glebe, on which 
 was built the manse. This acre, with seven acres 
 additional, bought from Elder James Thomson, by 
 Dr. George, and presented to the congregation, forms 
 the beautiful glebe of St. Andrew's. Beyond the 
 church officers, to whom he made over the gift, 
 but few of the congregation knew to whom they 
 were indebted for the addition to their property. 
 The moneys with which the seven acres of the glebe 
 was bought was a gift to him from the Colonial Com- 
 mittee of the Church of Scotland, of the sum of forty 
 pounds sterling, given to him at the recommendation 
 of Dr. Norman McLeod, as some recompense for early 
 missionary labours through the adjoining townships. 
 He would not accept it as a personal gift, but took it 
 on condition that he might apply it to the purchase 
 of the glebe for St. Andrew's. 
 
The first chui'ch was a frame building, with 
 Htair built on the outside, to give access to a 
 gallery, added when the congregation grew too 
 large for the ground floor. The church was seated 
 with plain pews. A long narrow table extended 
 from before the pulpit nearly to the door, a long pew 
 on each side of it. A short table and pews were 
 placed across the end of the church, each side of the 
 pulpit. These were the communion tables. The 
 pulpit, a high enclosed place, was reached by a stair. 
 The precentor's seat, directly beneath the pulpit, was 
 also enclosed. 
 
 The order of service, beginning with prayer, sing- 
 ing, reading Scripture, prayer, singing, followed by 
 an exposition of Scripture, often going through a 
 certain book consecutively, which was as carefully 
 and laboriously thought out as the sermon, filled up 
 two hours. There was then an intermission of twenty 
 minutes, when the people repaired to the spring at 
 the foot of the hill to eat lunch and drink the pure 
 cool water bubbling up through a bed of white sand. 
 The rest of the time was spent visiting the graves of 
 friends, or enjoying the "crack in the kirkyard." 
 Refreshed and rested they returned to the church for 
 the sermon. Such a thing as anyone going home 
 before all was concluded was unknown. In winter 
 
6 
 
 the sermon followed the lecture without an intermis- 
 sion, the two services lasting four hours. Many of 
 the people came six, eight and nine miles. The Gibson 
 and Hood families, nine miles away, were regular as 
 the day and prompt. In the early times they walked 
 that distance and carried the little ones. When roads 
 and means improved vfagons and carriages came in 
 use, and it was a pleasant sight to look on the long 
 stream of vehicles driving away after service. The 
 preached word was precious in those days. Mrs. 
 Hood, who came nine miles, talked thirty years after 
 their delivery, of a series of lectures on the Book of 
 Job. " I could not," she said, "let anything make me 
 miss one of those lectures." But in all his ministry 
 he gave his best. It was beaten oil he brought to the 
 sanctuary. Behind the manse, between two pines, 
 was a smooth worn path, where he paced back and 
 forth preparing for the Sabbath, aye, and with 
 fasting and prayer. There were days when he took 
 no food save a piece of dry bread and glass of 
 \7ater — shut within his study, from which could be 
 heard the sound of supplication. Then when he 
 entered the pulpit, his whole being was so possessed 
 by his theme that voice and countenance answered 
 like a mirror to the noble thought. Sometimes his 
 face seemed, indeed, to shine ; again, would seem to 
 
gather blackness. His utterance vibrating with feel- 
 ing, now soft and low, or loud and vehement, was 
 accompanied with spontaneous forceful action. 
 
 The Lord's Supper was observed once in midsum- 
 mer, and again in winter. Several brother ministers 
 assisted in the services, which followed the Scottish 
 order. Friday was a fast day, as religiously ob- 
 served as the Sabbath. No work was allowed. Our 
 swing was tied up that day. Two sermons were 
 preached. On Saturday the Session received the 
 young communicants, who had previously visited the 
 manse for examination. A sermon was preached. 
 The elders arranged themselves on each side of the 
 pulpit, and intending communicants went forward 
 for the tokens. These were made of metal, a cup 
 embossed on it, and the words, "Do this in remembrance 
 of me." The services on Sunday began at 10, an 
 hour earlier than usual. The tables were covered 
 with linen cloths, and the elements were placed on 
 the one in front of the pulpit. The communicants 
 filled the tables as they entered church. A sermon 
 was preached. Then came the solemn event of the 
 day. The ministers descended and stood at the head 
 of the table, the elders on each side, two passing 
 around to take the tokens. The "tables were fenced," 
 that is, the character of worthy communicants set 
 
» 
 
 forth, the communicants encouraged to partake, and 
 the unworthy earnestly warned from the ordinance. 
 An address was given ; the prayer of consecration. 
 The bread was broken and handed to each at the 
 head of the table, then the wine, the elders passing 
 to the foot of the table to bring back the elements 
 which had passed from hand to hand. Now there 
 was a solemn hush, while each one communed with 
 the Lord. After another ad<lress that table was 
 dismissed, going from the table singing the 103rd 
 Psalm, lined out that day l)v the precentor. The 
 tables were filled three or four times. Addresses were 
 given to each table as before. A sermon in conclusion, 
 and the congregation was dismissed about 4 o'clock. 
 The communicants and others usually left the church 
 at the changing of the tables to refresh themselves at 
 the spring, mothers and feeble ones finding a cup of 
 tea provided in the manse. On Monday the thanks- 
 giving sermon was preached. It was a holy convoca- 
 tion, a high solemnity, a time for deep heart-searching 
 and preparation for drawing near to God, and must 
 have greatly conduced to evoke true religious feeling 
 and reverence for God and His ordinances. 
 
 Then at those times, what a feast of high converse, 
 of genial, joyous intei-change of thought there was in 
 the manse between those men of God. Dr. Bayne, of 
 
Gait, that man of oiant mind and lovinfjr heart in tlie 
 early days ; Dr. Lambie : the saintly yount^ Mr. 
 Galloway, of Markham, so early called home ; Dr. 
 Bell, and Mr. McDonnell, are among those remem- 
 bered most distinctly. 
 
 Baptism was always administered in the church. 
 The Sabbath School met an hour before church in a 
 little log school-house in the corner of the graveyard. 
 The children brought their Bibles, repeated the Scrip- 
 ture and psalm and paraphrase they had connnitted 
 to memory. The teachers explained and talked about 
 what they had learned. James Thomson had charge. 
 Our father visited the school occasionally and talked 
 to the children ; and once in the summer there was 
 a day in the church when a sermon was given 
 specially for the children. On Monday our father 
 had his Bible-class in the manse ; the young people 
 attending from all parts of the township. 
 
 Twice in the year Dr. George visited every family 
 in the congregation pastorally, usually accompanied 
 by an elder. The children were catechised and 
 taught. There was religious conversation, reading 
 Scripture and prayer ; so he kept in close touch with 
 all his flock. If there was trouble anywhere they 
 came to him as one whose sympathy and counsel 
 they valued, and could freely ask for. He used to 
 
w 
 
 set out early ami come home late, often over the 
 worst kind of roads. Old Elder Telfer, riding home 
 one evening after such a hard day, passed the road 
 loading to his home. Our father reminded him he 
 had come to his road. " Oh," he said, " I'll go to the 
 next concession ; I thocht I micht maybe hovvk a little 
 mair oot o' ye." He was a pictures(iue old Scotchman, 
 dressed in knee breeches, thick ribbed stockings, a 
 plaid wrapped around him, and his venerable white 
 head covered with the blue bonnet. 
 
 For irreater comfort and freedom of action in 
 preaching, our father decided to wear a gown. This 
 was looked on by some as a great innovation. " Have 
 you heard the news ? " said one to a neighbour, who, 
 according to his yearly custom, was just starting off 
 with a generous load of hay from the meadow for his 
 minister's stable. " The minister has got a gown to 
 preach in ! " " Has he so ? Turn the load of hay 
 back to the barn." However, the gown continued to 
 be used, and when the new church was built a very 
 handsome new silk gown was presented by the 
 congreofation. 
 
 When the old church became too small, and the 
 people felt themselves able to have a better church 
 home, apparently without very great effort, money 
 was subscribed to build the present St. Andrew's, and 
 
■f 
 
 I 
 
 11 
 
 to dedicate it free of debt. They liad long before 
 that put up extensive sheds to shelter their horses. 
 The fine groves of pine which shade them were only 
 saved, after many a battle with the managers, by our 
 father ; and many a fine tree spared or planted to be 
 a beauty and joy around the homes, owes its life to 
 him. People who had waged such a warfare clearing 
 the forest giants off their land, could hardly be 
 expected to see much beauty in trees. Those growing 
 in front of St. Andrew's were procured and planted 
 by his own hand. 
 
 The people of Scarboro' were now prosperous, and 
 exchanged their first dwellings for handsome houses 
 of brick or stone, beautifully finished. The first 
 manse with successive additions was not uncomfort- 
 able, but the good people resolved that their minister, 
 too, should have a new house. It was built the last 
 summer of his ministry, but he never lived in it. 
 
 They were a hospitable people, and man^^ a large 
 crowd gathered in the homes for a sociable evening. 
 A wedding then was an event where the guests often 
 numbered more than a hundred. The ministers 
 genial presence was a welcome addition. 
 
 Dr. George, wishing to foster a taste for good liter- 
 ature, aided in the effort to obtain a public library. 
 A subscription paper was sent around. An excellent; 
 
 II! 
 
 'p 
 
 >^ 
 
12 
 
 selection of books was procured to begin with- a 
 house belonging to Mr. J. A. Thoinso.i ueir iiis hoi'ne 
 held the library. Here the books were oxchanoed' 
 once a fortnight ; afterwards they built a house near 
 the churchyard for both library and Sunday School. 
 Dr. George's strong love for his country has been 
 mentioned. His influence must have done much to 
 strengthen the loyalty of his people. When the 
 Mackenzie rebellion came to a head, as far as I know 
 there were not any rebels in the township- certainly 
 none m the congregation. One evening the news 
 came to the township that an attempt to seize Toronto 
 was going to be made by the rebels. . The men did 
 not wait for a call, but set off that evening to defend 
 Toronto. A large company of them called at the 
 manse ; at ojice our father resolved to go with them. 
 They walked in to the city, gathering numbei-s as they 
 went ; but unarmed as they were, they would easily 
 have been captured had they encountered the rebels. 
 Within a few miles of Toronto they were met by a 
 man who told them several hundred Americans had 
 crossed the lake and landed near the city, that the 
 Don bridge was burnt, and advised them against pro- 
 ceeding farther. A halt was made to consider this 
 warning. Dr. George, suspecting this man to be a 
 rebel sent out to prevent men from the country iroincr 
 
 r 
 
 . 
 
I 
 
 13 
 
 to the city, declared that if there was one man who 
 would accompany him he would proceed. An Irish- 
 man (who had been in the British army) stepped for- 
 ward saying, " I'm the man, sir ! " All decided to go 
 forward. On reaching the Don, the bridge still stood. 
 An attempt was made to burn the bridge, as the 
 blackened timbers w^itnessed for many years after. 
 They reached Government House about midnight. 
 The Governor at once went with a few trentlemen. 
 among whom was our father, to the arsenal, to get 
 arms for the volunteers. It was a scene of confusion, 
 for no one of them knew what boxes held the differ- 
 ent parts of the arms they wanted, so they had to 
 break open box after box till they found the right 
 ones. Had the rebels come to Toronto that evenino- 
 they would have found the Government unprepared 
 to resist them ; they kept guard a few days. Mac- 
 kenzie and other leaders fled to the States, and the 
 rebellion at that point was ended. 
 
 On this occasion our father preached his only 
 political sermon, on the duties of subjects to their 
 rulers. A request presented by the congregation that 
 it might be given to them for publication, was com- 
 plied with. 
 
 The stipend paid by the congregation was four 
 hundred dollars a year, doubtless all that could be 
 
 .1 I 
 
T 
 
 14 
 
 raised when he went to Scarboio'. It was punctually 
 paid, but never increased until the 'ilergy reserve 
 money came. Doubtless the closest economy was 
 needed to live on it, but we did not suffer privations. 
 A servant was kept ; a few books were added yearly 
 to the library— Blackwood's Magazine, The Albion, 
 and Toronto Colonist were taken. There was the 
 horse and cow, poultry and bees, besides many a pre- 
 sent that came to the manse from the farmers' and 
 housewifes' stores. 
 
 Looking back on the relation of pastor and people 
 in Scarboro' at that time, it seems an ideal Presby- 
 terian parish, the minister doing his whole duty 
 to the utmost of his ability ; the people doing theirs. 
 Harmony and contentment reigned. The sympathy . 
 and friendship between a people who had struggled 
 and helped each other through the privations and 
 toils of making homes out of the forest wilds, still 
 bound their hearts together. The people in Scarboro' 
 were largely Presbyterian. The question of denom- 
 inationalism was not there to detract from higher 
 thinofs. 
 
 Whether for good or ill, this condition was changed 
 when the disruption of the Church of Scotland took ; 
 place. To our father's intense grief the division of ' 
 the Canadian Church followed. He opposed the 
 
 
T 
 
 L._- 
 
 , 
 
 
 15 
 
 division to the utmost of his po^^'or, and was the one 
 appointed by th*^ Church to reply to the " Protest and 
 Dissent " of the Free Church party. 
 
 His own congregation was torn in t\v o ; a spirit of 
 uncharity, unknown before, appeared. Those who 
 can remember that time, will bear out the statement 
 that that spirit was never fed by word or act of his ; 
 and he was among the first, if not the very first, to 
 begin the movement toward reunion, that has later 
 been so happily accomplished. 
 
 The following year a deputation, Dr. Norman Mc- 
 Leod being one of them, came out to Canada to explain 
 the position of the Church of Scotland to the Cana- 
 dian churches. Dr. McLeod held a meeting in Scar- 
 boro', and was guest in the manse for nearly two days. 
 The two men were congenial, and a friendship sprung 
 up. Dr. McLeod corresponded with our father, after 
 his return to Scotland, urging him to come to Scot- 
 land, assuring him a good parish would be given him. 
 He did not feel it would be right to leave Canada at 
 that crisis, and the tempting offer was refused. Other 
 influential churches in Canada intimated a desire to 
 have him as their pastor about that time. These pro- 
 positions were also refused. Some years after a call 
 came to him from the Church in Belleville, which he 
 accepted. He went there in the fall. In the early 
 
1 
 
 
 16 
 
 spring of the following year, Elders Wni. Patterson 
 and James A. Thomson appeared unexpectedly in 
 Belleville church one Sunday morning — their errand, 
 if possible, to bring him back to Scarboro', offering a 
 larger stipend than they gave before. He accepted 
 the call, but refused the increase of stipend, and was 
 again minister of his old charge within the year> 
 The short pastorate in Belleville had been a very 
 pleasant one. 
 
 Soon after this he was chosen by the Synod to 
 supply the chairs of Mental and Moral Philosophy 
 and Logic in Queen's College, going to Kingston for 
 three months in winter, his pulpit meanwhile being 
 filled by the Synod. This was done for three or lonr 
 winters ; then the Synod chose him to fill the chair 
 permanently. This he accepted, but not till after 
 much deliberation and weighing as to his duty. It 
 was no easy thing to sever the tie that had lasted for 
 twenty years, where he had seen th children he bap- 
 tized grown up, and now filling tlieir place in the 
 Church. 
 
 Many most kind and highly appreciative words 
 regarding him, by his old students and others^ 
 have appeared from time to time in the public prints^ 
 even up till now, showing that his memory and work 
 in Kingston are still a power for good. N I 
 
 3? 
 
 " 
 
 .4' 
 
17 
 
 \:, 
 
 
 
 It was soon after fi^oing to Kingston tlmt, to his 
 ti^roat surprise (for he had had no hint of it), a Scotcli 
 newspaper was received, in which he found his name 
 ♦gazetted, as having* had conferred on liiin the degree 
 of D.D. by his Ahna Mater, Ghisgow College. A 
 letter from Principal McFarlane informed him that ho 
 and Dr. Norman McLeod had presented his name for 
 the honour. This, of course, greatly enhanced the 
 distinction in his esteem. 
 
 In the college his labours were even more arduous 
 than as pastor. In addition to his own classes, he 
 taught for several years the theological class, and in 
 the summer vacation visited and canvassed the 
 churches for money to buy the Sumner Hill property 
 and for other college halls built there. In the fall of 
 1862, feeling his health breaking down, he resigned 
 his professorship in Queen's College, and accepted a 
 unanimous call to St. Andrew's Church, Stratford, 
 "Nvhere he laboure '• faithfully until his death, in 1870. 
 
 The congregation of St. Andrew's had been vacant 
 
 for a few years, and previously had been ministered 
 
 to rather irregularly by a neighbouring minister, so 
 
 that it was very much reduced in numbers, and in a 
 
 bad condition spiritually, and politics had entered in 
 
 to make dissensions. It was a hard field for one up 
 
 in years to undertake, but never for a moment did 
 2 
 
 r. 
 
18 
 
 his loyalty to his Master fail him. Here was his 
 work, here his corner of the vineyard to keep and to 
 cultivate, and the more barren the ground, the more 
 need xor his very best; and he gave these people, who 
 were neither highly cultured nor very much in earn- 
 est after heavenly things, the ripeness of his later 
 years. His great intellectual powers were not im- 
 paired, and the discipline of life had only increased his 
 pei*sonal consecration and faith in One whom he knew 
 " had done all things well." He never for a moment 
 doubted that the loving, guiding hand of his heavenly 
 Father had given him this place and work. No mur- 
 muring word ever passed his lips, but with true 
 Scotch pluck he " buckled to his work." The greater 
 number of the congregation were country people, 
 many of them living some distance from the town — 
 some as far as seven and eight miles — scattered over 
 a large district. He held weekly prayer-meetings in 
 alternate neighbourhoods, as well as weekly prayer- 
 meetings in the church, and never once was it known 
 that storm or drifted roads hindered him from keep- 
 ing an appointment, and that at the hour announced. 
 Punctuality was a virtue he always insisted on in 
 others, and never failed to practise it himself when 
 within the bounds of possibility. 
 The church property, as was to be expected, was 
 
 ■' 
 
 , 
 
19 
 
 • 
 
 much deteriorated when lie went there. A frame 
 church, which was wretchedly cold in winter, made 
 a poor church home for the concri-ogation, and a small 
 four-roomed cottage was all the manse provided, so 
 that he was necessitated to purchase a home. A com- 
 fortable brick house, with ten acres adjoining (juite 
 near the town, was secured. He remarked when he 
 removed his family to it, " Now this is our home until 
 death or the sheriti' takes us hence." Now, that func- 
 tionary had never had any dealings with our grand- 
 father s descendants, so far as is known, and was not 
 likely to get a footing in that home, so it continued 
 to be our pleasant and comfortable home until death 
 removed him to a better and an abiding one in 1870. 
 The Session was very small, only two elders — good 
 men both — but where was he to find other men suit- 
 able to add to that small working force ^ Ah, where 
 indeed ? This was a great grief to him. His ideal 
 of the office was so high that he would rather con- 
 tinue on with these than add any men not wholly 
 consecrated and fit. And so the Session never was 
 increased in his day except by the coming from a dis- 
 tance of one who had been an elder in another church. 
 Perhaps no one outside of the minister's family can 
 really realize what a loss — what a curtailing of use- 
 fulness to a minister and congregation — is a weak 
 
 
20 
 
 session. And so ho bmvely struggled on, liandicapped 
 in many ways, and the congregation grew, and in 
 time a handsome and commodious church was built. 
 
 His last illness came suddenly upon him, as heart 
 disease often does. He had only had the slightest pre- 
 monition of any trouble existing, until the spring o^ 
 1870. His illness lasted four months; he died on the 
 26th of August. 
 
 The pain suffered was very great before the end 
 came. He got no sleep except by sitting up in his 
 chair and leaning his head on another with a pillow 
 in front of him. Night after night for many weeks 
 this was the only way in which he got any rest, 
 and that only fitful and broken by spasms of pain. 
 His days, too, were filled with pain and weariness, 
 and yet no murmur passed his lips. The lesson 
 to all about him was one not to be forgotten. His 
 constant attendant through these trying weeks and 
 months was his devoted wife, and latterly a son-in- 
 law, who came and remained to the last. Few 
 were permitted by his physician to visit him, as 
 the strain was too great. He never wearied of hav- 
 ing the divine Word read, and next to that was 
 Baxter's "Saints' Everlasting Rest." He seemed in 
 spirit to live already in the atmosphere of the other 
 world to which he was hastening. 
 
 It' 
 
 ! 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 

 I 
 
 I 
 
 Some extracts from his journal may show better 
 than any other words the spirit in which he passed 
 tlie last few months on earth : 
 
 January 1st, 1870.— This is the first day of the 
 year. All my family are in good health, and all 
 are in possession of many comforts. How thankful 
 I ought to be to the merciful and gracious God. His 
 goodness has continued and followed me all through 
 the year. ... I have often and often put the 
 question, " What more or what other can I do for my 
 people?" I should, perhaps, have more frequently 
 put the question, " What more or what other can I do 
 for myself and for the inner life of the soul / " O 
 Lord, teach me, make me what I am not, but what I 
 must be before this people become what they shouid 
 be. Amen ! 
 
 March 10th.— I received this day very painful 
 news -my brother Peter died a few days ago. He 
 was a sincere, though very modest Christian,''a most 
 kind-ho.irted and cheery man, with a considerable 
 portion of true Scotch wit. He is the first that has 
 died of father's family. Who shall go 7iexU O my 
 (iod ! prepare me :or going when the call comes. 
 
 April 7th.— The love of Clod rightly felt influences 
 all other love. This right, all will be right. Oh, for 
 more of it ! 
 
22 
 
 May 10th. — I have felt very unwell for two weeks 
 past. I have thought for some time there was some- 
 thing wrong with my heart (palpitation), but never 
 severe until now. It is now very serious and accom- 
 panied with a great want of breath at the slightest 
 exertion, accompanied with great pain. my God 
 and Father, if it is to be death, prepare me. 
 
 May 11th. — I am still very poorly in health and 
 feel the palpitation very much to-day. Maj^ I be 
 prepared for the will of the Lord. If for death, may 
 it be to die in the Lord ! If there is to be a length- 
 ening out of life, may it be spent in the service of 
 my God. 
 
 May 17th. — I have had several days of great pain. 
 Last night, however, I slept well. There is a sleep 
 that God is said to give to His beloved. I hope it may 
 have been somewhat of this. But whether sleeping 
 or waking, may I be thine, O Lord. 
 
 May 30th. — This is now the fourth Sabbatli I have 
 not officiated I do not remember such a thing 
 before in the whole course of my ministry. What a 
 thouglit is this ! Nearly forty years of constant work 
 of one kind and another, O Lord, was it for thee ! 
 Alas ! alas ! Yet I do hope some of it was. Oh, 
 that it had all been for thee, tlioroughly consecrated 
 to thy service, to the seeking of the salvation of souls. 
 
 
II' 
 
 I ■ 
 
 t 
 
 i 
 
 2S 
 
 June 27th. — No better, but worse. I grow weaker 
 every day. When heart and flesh faint and fail, may 
 the Lord not fail me. Lord, be my hope ; Lord, be my 
 shield. Let the Saviour be my portion for time, for 
 eternity. In thee is all my trust. 
 
 And the Lord did not fail His servant who had put 
 his trust in Him, for no other power could have sus- 
 tained him through this trying time. 
 
 As the days passed, he looked almost longingly for 
 the Messenger to come. Once after a very severe 
 paroxysm of pain had passed, he sank back, exclaim- 
 ing, " NoWy my God, let trouble cease. Noiu let 
 thy servant die in peace." And another morning 
 after a terrible night of sutlering, he opened the 
 blind, and in answer to one who said, " It is a lovely 
 morning," he said, " Yes, but not the morning I ex- 
 pected to see." Again, after a severe spasm of pain, 
 " Oh, come Lord with thy benign salvation. Come 
 and give me rest and peace and joy which thou 
 gavest to thy children." At another time he said, as 
 if speaking his own heart communings, " How precious 
 is that promise, ' He that knocketh, to him it shall 
 be opened, and he shall come in and sup with me and 
 I with him.' " And again, " What a mighty indispen- 
 sable matter is salvation, and yet we treat it with 
 indifference. We do not bring it into our social life 
 
24 
 
 as we ought." " How rlili^ent we should be while 
 we have time and health. I have not spoken as I 
 should when I had them, and now I cannot." At 
 another time after hearing the 53rd Psalm he ex- 
 claimed, '' Oh, what a Saviour ! He not only died for 
 us, but continually makes intercession for us." 
 
 On Sunday morning, August 21st, he awoke from 
 a troubled sleep unconscious, and continued so until 
 the end, with only partial gleams of consciousness ; 
 and at 3 o'clock in the morning of August 26th 
 he passed from all loving human care into the care of 
 the Divine One, for we do not doubt that there was 
 a mighty arm for him to lean upon when he went 
 down mto the dark river, and a glad and holy 
 throng awaiting his ransomed spirit on the other 
 side. j^ ^ 
 
 M. B. 
 
 The first part of this article was written by Mrs. Ross for the 
 Centennial volume issued at Scarboro' in 1896. 
 
 I 
 
 r 
 
25 
 
 r 
 
 THE OLD MANSE. 
 
 Oh, blessed home, with its walls so gray, 
 
 ( >h, happy times gone by, 
 Where'er it is my lot to stray, 
 
 Still be thy memory nigh. 
 Still on my path thy grateful shades 
 
 Refreshing influence throw, 
 And when the flowers of spring must fade, 
 
 Cheer me with memory's glow. 
 No fl(>wers like thine, oh, i)ast, can be, 
 No pleasure bloom so sweet for me. 
 
 How long and bright the sunnner days 
 
 When 'neath the i)ine8 we played, 
 Or roamed upon the grassy ways 
 
 O'er hill and woody glade. 
 To cull the darling flowers of spring, 
 
 How well their haunts we knew. 
 Down by the brook meandering, 
 
 Where earliest still they grew, 
 Cowslips, mayflowers, and dearest violet, 
 With countless sisters fair, in wild profusion set. 
 
 Do you remember the merry eve, 
 
 Out in the pastures green, 
 We crowned you, dear, with ivy bloom 
 
 A bright Titania ((ueen ? 
 And in later years the quiet strolls, 
 
 Round by the old ash tree, 
 Or seated on clover-dappled knolls 
 
 With Shakespeare for company. 
 
26 
 
 No sound to stir the fragrant air, 
 
 Save the thrush and the whip-poor-will, 
 And the milky mother's contented low, 
 And the lambs at play as they homeward l/o 
 
 'Twas pleasant on the garden seat, 
 
 'Neath the willow's drooping bough, 
 ' When the purpled west still smiled to'meet, 
 
 The moonbeam's modest glow. 
 Lovingly, touching the gold and red 
 
 Of the roses blooming there, 
 While the honeysuckle's luscious breath I 
 
 With perfume filled the air. I 
 
 'Twas sweet to sit surrounded thus. 
 And nmse and talk as pleased us. 
 
 How lovely was the Sabbath there 
 
 Through the school-room's oi>en door, 
 So soft and calm the Sabbath air. 
 
 Balm breathing stealing o'er. 
 And pleasant in the evening tide 
 
 With arms entwined to stray 
 From stone to stone in the graveyard wide, 
 
 Where a congregation lay ; 
 One reverent pause at that holiest spot, 
 And then the sunset hill we sought. 
 
 And blest for aye be the study hearth 
 
 Where well we loved to be, 
 Where wit and wisdom for childless ears 
 
 Were lavished unstintingly. 
 Thank God for that secluded home 
 For those quiet days— whate'er may come. — K. R. - " 
 

 The followinfj (wtide, written b,/ one of his old stxdents (the Hev 
 Robert Campbell, D.D., now of St. Gabriel's Clwreh, Mont- 
 
 . real), appeared in " Th, Presbnterian " a few months afhr 
 Dr. Geonje's death : 
 
 OBITUARY* ■ 
 
 "Died at Stratford, Ontario, on the 2(ith August 
 last, of valvular disease of the heart, the Rev. Janies 
 George, D.D minister of St. Andrew's Church, Strat- 
 ford, in the 70th year of his age." 
 
 This is an announcement which lias been already 
 read with sincere sorrow by many both in and out of 
 Canada, who knew and admired and loved tlie man 
 whose decease it intimates. 
 
 James George was born in a Httle farmhouse in the 
 parish of Muckart, half way between Dollar and the 
 famous Caldron Linn, a few rods from 
 
 " The clear winding Devon, 
 With green spreading bushes and flowers blooniint/ fair " 
 
 It was in these terms that Scotland's greatest poet 
 described the landscape in which the subject of this 
 sketch spent the impressionable years of childhood, 
 and from which he drank in, both consciously and 
 unconsciously, those aliments which went to nurse in 
 him the gifts of genius with which nature endowe.l 
 
28 
 
 him. Whoever lias driven from the bridcre of Allan to 
 Kinross, skirting the base of the Ochils, green to the 
 very top, and has followed the course of the 
 " Burn of Care," up to the ruins of " Castle Gloom '^ 
 and has climbed to the top of Ben Cloch, and thenco 
 surveyed 
 
 " The green valleys, 
 Where Devon, sweet Devon meandering flows," 
 
 has seen perhaps the sweetest pastoral view in Scot- 
 land, and can trace the source of those conceptions of 
 the beautiful in natural scenery which Dr Georo-e 
 possessed in an eminent degree, and to which he gave 
 such sweet and eloquent expression in one of his 
 most delightful published essays, - The Poetic Element 
 in the Scottish Mind." James George was a poet 
 born. His nature, as the true poet's always is was 
 as sensitive to the circumstances which surrounded 
 him as iodine is to light; and while his imagination 
 and taste were moulded by the scenery of the Devon 
 his character and principles took their complexion 
 from the simple yet intelligent rural population amonc 
 whom his youth was spent. The spot is still shown 
 with pride by the companions of his boyhood who 
 have followed his career with watchful interest, where 
 he used to perch on a crooked tree overhangino- the 
 
J 
 
 29 
 
 Devon, and from it as a pulpit declaim, like Demos- 
 thenes of old, at the sur^rin<r waves that rolled below, 
 which, when swollen with spates, and tawnv with the 
 earth washed down from the mountains, leajx^d over 
 each other like hungry ca<red lions awaitin<r their 
 food. "" 
 
 There was somethin<r strikin<,r and noble in the 
 mien and presence of the man. Of medium hei<rht 
 square built, with thick set shoulders, laroe ch^'est', 
 broad face, wide nostrils, expansive open b^ow, and 
 hau' which in his youth might have stood for Milton's 
 picture of Adam's, nobody could look upon him with- 
 out feeling that he was an extraordinary man. The 
 head, countenance and frame all conveyed the impres- 
 sion of massiveness and strength, and lie was one of 
 those who in the heroic age would have been made a 
 Divinity of, were it for nothing else than his wonder- 
 ful physical grandeur. And this outward greatness 
 was, as we shall see, only a fair index to his qualities 
 of mind and heart. A melancholy earnestness rested 
 upon his features in moments of mental abstraction, 
 which gave place to a bright glow in moments of 
 passionate utterance ; but withal there was at times 
 a tenderness, a genial though covert humour playing 
 about his mouth and kindling his light blue eye. 
 His youth, like that of many other distinguished 
 
30 
 
 Scotchmen, was passed in an humble occupation in 
 Auchterader, where he fell under the notice of the 
 Rev. William Pringle, D.D., a member of the Calvin 
 Translation Society, and one of the most accomplished 
 scholars and elegant conversationists in Scotland, who 
 two years ago was the recipient of a handsome testi- 
 monial from those persons in Scotland who had 
 witnessed his labours for the cause of truth for fifty 
 years, Ou the occasion of his jubilee; who is still 
 fresh and vigorous after a ministry of fifty-two years, 
 and who will learn with regret that his distinguished 
 pupil pnd life-long friend is no more. That gentle- 
 man discovered that Mr. George was a young man of 
 great promise, capable of better things than mere 
 mechanical labour, took hold of him, encouraged him, 
 as he has not a few who have risen to distinction 
 both in his own and in other churches, and gave him 
 private lessons for a time. In 1822 young George 
 quitted Auchterader and attended Dollar Academy ; 
 in the following year he matriculated in the College 
 of St. Andrew's, but he took the greater part of his 
 literary course in Glasgow University, completing it 
 in 1825. His father was a staunch member of the 
 Church of Scotland ; but as it was a Secession minister 
 who first took notice of him, as admission into the 
 dissenting church was easier to one in his circum- 
 
81 
 
 stances, and as at that time his sympathies and con- 
 victions probably favoured a church free from State 
 connection, he set imself to prepare for the ministry 
 of that church. To that end he be<^an the study of 
 Divinity under Dr. John Dick, by whose prelections, 
 not of the dry-as-dust order, but full, scholarly and 
 instinct with religious life, he profited largely : and 
 any of his students who are familiar with " Dick's 
 Theology " can discern the hand of Dr. George's^ 
 master in this department of inquiry, although, as 
 sometimes happens, the pupil, of a higher order of 
 genius than the teacher, has excelled him in the 
 luminous and forcible exposition of truth. At this 
 period young George had for his fellow-student, friend 
 and companion, Robert Pollok, author of the "Course 
 of Time," whose own course of tirne was so early 
 ended. In Mr. George the youthful poet found an 
 ardent sympathizer, and one who lent a willing ear 
 to his tales and verses ; for he, too, had drank at the 
 Castcdian fount, and was trying to climb the slopes of 
 Parnassus. On the appearance of Polloks great 
 work, his friend wrote in a popular magazine what 
 was admitted to be the best criticism of it that 
 appeared at the time. About this period he himself 
 composed a poem of considerable length, which, how- 
 ever, never saw the light, and it is not likely ever 
 
S2 
 
 will now, l)ut which, com[M'U'iit jndj^es who have 
 read it .say, woiiM have fj^iven him a rij^ht to a niche 
 in the; "Poets' Corner," liad his severe taste permitted 
 him to publish it. . 
 
 It was when he was a student that the ^reat a^^ita- 
 tion, led hy the E<Uvhuri/h I{f'viev\ a<^ainst Lord 
 Liver[)0()l and his tor// collea;;ue in Scotland, Lonl 
 Melville, was at its hel<^ht ; and like all youni,^ poets 
 of ardent temperaments he ranked himseU' on the side 
 of democracy and a<(ainst the privile^od classes, his 
 acquaintanceship with the radical weavers of Auchter- 
 ader having no doubt helped him to his advanced views. 
 80 stron;;" were his leanin<;s in this direction that he 
 resolved to quit his native land rather than witness 
 what he then looked upon as the tyranny exercised 
 by the governing*' classes of Great Britain, and find 
 for himself a home in the Western Republic, the 
 boasted *' land of the free and home of the brave." 
 This was in 1(S29, just after his college course was 
 completed. He took up his abode at the foot of the 
 Alleghanies, in Delaware County, State of New York, 
 where several of his brothers with their families have 
 continued to reside. Soon after this he applied to 
 the Presbytery of Saratoga, Associate Reformed 
 Church, to be taken on trial for license, and being 
 successful in obtaining it, he remained in the United 
 
 I 
 
l- 
 
 :i3 
 
 States a couple of years, preaching with great accept- 
 ance for a time in Philadelphia, and afterwards in 
 Fort Covington, having declined a call to the former 
 place. This brief sojourn in the United States cured 
 him, he was wont to say, of his youthful republican- 
 ism ; and he was glad once more to place himself 
 under the old flag by removing to Upper Canada. 
 Like many others that have been rampant liberals in 
 their youth, when mere plausible theories have great 
 attraction for them, he exchanged liis early Utopian 
 principles, which he found it necessary from further 
 reading, thought and experience to abandon as im- 
 practicable, for a sturdy conservatism and admiration 
 of the British constitution. So hearty did his loyalty 
 to the old rule soon become that he was found in the 
 troubles of 1887-8 marching to Toronto at the head 
 of the " Men of Scarboro' " to aid in quelling the in- 
 cipient rebellion, ready to do battle, if need be, j^'^o 
 avis et focis; and his matured views on limited 
 monarchical institutions, thrown into the shape of a 
 lecture on the " Mission of Great Britain to the 
 World," formed one of his latest publications. 
 
 At the time of his settlement in Scarboro' in 1 834 
 his congregation adhered to the secession church, 
 known as the Synod of Upper Canada ; but in the 
 
 year 1884, he and three other ministers of that body 
 3 
 
^ 
 
 34 
 
 s* 
 
 III 
 
 with their congregations were achnitted into the 
 Presbytery of Toronto in connection with the Church 
 of Scotland, the Church in which he was born and 
 baptized. And here it inay be remarked th^it he was 
 a moderate churchman, occupying an intermediate 
 position between those who look upon an establishment 
 and endowment as essential to the existence of a 
 Christian Church, and those who can see nothing but 
 evil in a connection with the State. He was fully 
 alive to the advantages and disadvantages of all ecclesi- 
 astical systems ; but on the whole he inclined to the 
 belief, that while establishments were not essential to 
 a Cliurch, they, when practicable, afforded the condi- 
 tions most favourable to the maintenance of religion, 
 pure and undefiled, in any country. His resuming 
 his connection with the Church of his fathers was 
 not, therefore, a matter merely of convenience, but of 
 deliberate choice ; and in the stormy days of the 
 disruption none of our ministers did better service 
 than he in battling for the old standard. His 
 memorable speech in seconding the motion of Dr. 
 Cook, which carried in the Synod of 1844, on the 
 relations of the Synod to the Church of Scotland^ 
 helped to confirm not a few waverers and to prevent 
 the secession which followed from being more dis- 
 astrous than it was. He was selected lo draw up an 
 
J 
 
 3.5 
 
 answer to the " Dissent and Protest " which the with- 
 <lnunn^ nnnority had tabled; and like all h iot t 
 p.-oduct,ons ,t bears the n.arks of a master m„d 
 gra,sp,ng the heart of truth, exposing sophistry S 
 mg by eonsftntional principles, and^at the J. W 
 b STre^ p7^\^"'^— t— d.s the secedi g 
 
 pEe t Je'Te'lit^r J ^TTol ' 'T"^ 
 identified with all its best ail t:d'r.teZ 
 
 Canal ''"r""°" °' *'" "'''"'' «*" *'- Church In 
 Canada, and conservative though he was never wel 
 
 connng any change merely o^ the ground of ^s' 
 
 novelty, he saw that much of the n,aohi„ery o the 
 
 Church of Scotland was unsuited to the exigencL o 
 
 such modificafons m ecclesiastical polity as e.peri 
 ence had shown to be necessary ^ 
 
 The Synod early showed its appreciation at once of 
 
 1. s personal qualities, and of the position whi h ht 
 
 had already made for hin>self, by placing hin. i the 
 
 Moderators chair in 1«41. -For twenty-fi^e yea4 no 
 
 ame appears in the Synod Records a'ssociafed with 
 
 ore useful reports and motions, and these were 
 
 alaos uniformly adopted. After the resignatiorby 
 
 Si'in V n"" '^""«''-'«'>'P ->J P.-ofe:sorship o^ 
 
 JJunnty in Queens College in 1840, Mr. George 
 
If - 
 
 m 
 
 was appointed interim professor of Systematic 
 Theology, and from that date till 1853. when 0"'^! 
 mT'T °* '^' Prineipalship by the late Dr 
 Bor ot Mental and Moral Philosophy and Lo<ric " h^ 
 
 Sr^nt 'r'"" ''" '''" '-""/points in d1 nity 
 every winter for mx weeks, the Presbytery of Toronto 
 undertaking to supply his pulpit in h s abLnce It s 
 thus seen that he had a hand, more or less in tniin n. 
 almost every minister that went forth frj Queenf 
 
 arv deSe o '"'^^^.^f''--' "PO" him the honor- 
 
 thedtlwin v-ru^^^" °^ their appreciation of 
 tiie distinction which he had attained 
 
 His ministry in Scarboro". which evfpn^o^ f 
 
 1«.32 to ,853. excepting an inrer: of all t i^': 
 
 months during which he was settled at BelW lie "I^ 
 
 a most earnest and laborious one. and one the ruit of 
 
 which are still visible in that community. The "ol 
 
 south of Scotland, quite capable of appreciating. tZ 
 best productions of his gifted mind. soTatt hac ' a 
 constant stimulus to study. And how dil g itlf he 
 performed this part of his ministerial work will 
 appear when it is stated under his own Zd tb 
 during the period of twenty years he preaCtd on' 
 
 I 
 

 .S7 
 
 wincl. weie all carefully written out. In this labor! 
 ous productiveness, we trace the secret o 1 h etll' 
 
 ness and fulness of information on subjects bearin. 
 
 Sis : f" "'^-f ^"^"''^'^"-'^ ^'""- Such f 
 CMcnt with his capacity could not fail to ama.ss i„ 
 
 .at penod a large fund of knowled.^e reZ in 
 
 thmgs new and old. His readin. w.ts nof S 
 
 hfh™tar-^'^'^'"^'"=- ^^--'l-witr-peS 
 "1 Hand, taking copious notes, and when h.^ w.lL. i 
 
 ».n:», ,„...; T,z i~L.s;° ;':- 
 
 kept .W of „,, u,„., i„ I ,,i„| "'""'''; '"' 
 
 ^po v»z s "■','"•"■■■ '»"" ~"" '■" '^"'■-' 
 
 "Pon youth „ the l,,e i„t „; „ | 
 
 G.o,g. w„ ... „, th. .u... „,., „„, 2^;J'', 
 
38 
 
 teacher.. No student, that was not entirely frivolons, 
 
 ever passed out of his class, who did not feel himself 
 
 more of a man than when he entere.l it He con 
 
 ducted h.s pupiLs into the intricate apartments of their , 
 
 own ,mnd.s: introducing them to a new region of 3 
 
 thought he taught them the response of the Greek 
 
 oracle, - know thyself," so that entering his class was 
 
 an epoch m their mental history. His success lay in 
 
 inspiring h,s students with ardour in the pui-suit of 
 
 learning and earnestness in preparation for their 
 
 future work. He was an edacator after the manner 
 
 of Dr. Arnold, of whom he was a great admirer. 
 
 Many professors might help to convey into the mind 
 
 and memory of their students, the theories and facts 
 
 ot science to a greater extent than he did; but he 
 
 he d, and held rightly, that the business of colleo-es is 
 
 not so much to impart information as to .jualify'men 
 
 and put them on the right track for obtaining it for 
 
 themselves in after life. To whet the intellectual 
 
 powers, and to possess the student's mind with 
 
 enthusiasm for his studies, was in his estimation a 
 
 more important consideration than to .\vt him a 
 
 learned knowledge of other men's notfons, which 
 
 would be of no practical value in life. His manner 
 
 of teaching logic was rather by exemplifying its 
 
 legitimate use in his own prelections, than by laying 
 
 4 
 

 .•JD 
 
 down artificial .ulcs. He was himself a prince anions 
 reasoners. His powers of analysis were specially 
 acute and searching. He saw at the first glance ricrht 
 into the heart of a proposition, and could lav opeiHts 
 proper meaning with a facility that every student 
 envied. In his .system of mental and moral i.hil- 
 osophy, he belonged to the Scottish .school, inclining 
 rather to Brown than to Reid and Stewart. But to 
 quote the words of an esteemed correspondent "he 
 was not a close follower of other men's systems, and 
 tor the most part confined himself to the subiect of 
 I'-ycholofiy, preferring its rich and tempting fields of 
 observation and inquiry to the colder and more 
 barren regions of pure metaphysics. Intensely earnest 
 m the search after truth, the tracing out of the work- 
 ings of the Divine mind in the phenomena of the 
 human one, was to him a most interesting study 
 The difference between the human intelligence and 
 what we call instinct in animals was also a favourite 
 branch of his subject, into whose mysteries he was 
 always endeavouring to penetrate. Of animals he 
 was a lover and careful observer, and most who knew 
 him well will remember how he was wont to study 
 and e.xpatiate upon the wonderful ways of the bees " 
 The perfection of the Divine nature, and the will 
 proceeding therefrom, was the basis of his system of 
 Moral Philosoplaj. 
 
40 
 
 ng o the nch and e o-juent utterances of Dr. George, 
 from the professors desk, will recall with melancholy 
 pleasure h.s remarkable countenance, now with a 
 severe expression upon it, as he is deahng wiih error 
 and especally soplnstry ; now radiant vWth pleasure 
 when he speaks of the grace and goodness 'of God 
 and now kn.dled up with a kindly humour as he tells 
 
 ome amus,ng anecdote. But no part of his pro- 
 fessional work was more fruitful of good to his 
 s udents than his criticism of their comptsitions lo 
 
 o i ttl! ? r"". P'''""' ^'^^'^ '''■ - '"-e tolerant 
 of httle faults, as he .sat back in his chair and closed 
 
 h.s eyes, listening with impassive face to their often 
 crude es.says; but he always estimated their produc- 
 tions at their proper worth, never doing tl em an 
 
 Ton; r'; ''%™-'>'*-'< ^-ir composition^ 
 out of their hands. When he did indulge hi fault- 
 
 ere doing tiieir very best, and they generally did 
 their very best for M.^, as Arnold's students iL to ' 
 do, his rebuke was all the more telling that it was 
 Ton :" :,'^""">-.'-'f-J'>kingmanner. "hIs exan^:! 
 atioi s on the subjects of his own prelections were 
 ".valuable as he had then an opportunity of throwi , 
 ." an anecdote or piece of scientific or curious general 
 
41 
 
 information tliat could not find a place in tl.e written 
 .h.scou,.e Here again we ,„ote the wor,ls of 
 corespondent already n.entioned. whose tostin.on, 
 cannot be accused of partiality, as it is that of one 
 who never attended his classes : " Few professo 
 have been more loved and valued by their' studel 
 than he was by his. His interest in then, by no 
 
 room , ,t followed them to the battle of life and it 
 always gave him hearty gratification to hear ;f the 
 •success in a wider arena Ar.,n,, ^p ti, 
 voithy nnnis ers of our Church, and others hold posi- 
 
 and n distant parts of the world ; bnt one and all 
 
 1? TTr^r "" ''""•« ^P-^"* "' '»« «'-- '-oon 
 ovv he delighted then, with the warm glow of ...eniu 
 
 hat inspired his prelections, and ki,idl.;:i theirs u 
 isasm from his own. 
 
 " Of I'is powers as a public speaker those who have 
 heard him need only to be remivde,,. Without os 
 sessing the more studied graces of rhetoric oTelocu- 
 tion, his oratory derived its power from tl.e vigour an.l 
 ongnia Ity of thought and the fervid intensit;,, f " 
 ng hat characterized the man as well as his pro.luc. 
 t ons. One platform addre.ss of his, in which he 
 alluded to the atrocities of Lucknowlthen f^esli in 
 
I 
 
 42 
 
 the pubhc ,n,n.l_will long be ,-e.no>nl.ored by thos^ 
 «-ho hear<l .U..o,„ tl,e tkrUH,,, effect of "his 'almost 
 .Ira nmfc presentation of ti>e borro.-s of heathenism." 
 AmUlns was almost surpassed by another remarkable 
 orafon on the .,uestion of raising a monun.ent to the 
 renowned hero Sir William Wallace, in which hi 
 lo^eof h,s native Scotland, his humour, pathos and 
 sympathy w.th freedom all found eloquent expression 
 amid the tumultuous cheers of the audience 
 
 "As a preacher he combined intense fervour of 
 speech and delivery with great comprehensiveness 
 and elevation oi thought: and while his sermons were 
 long for modem days, they were listened to with 
 more sustained attention than is often vouchsafed to 
 far shorter ones. His addresses at the Communion 
 table were especially warm and impressive, as he 
 dwelt with deep feeling and pathos on the wondrous 
 ••edeeming love which the ordinance commemorates " 
 A sermon of his on Rev. iii. 12, delivered in St. 
 Andrews Church, Kingston, in October, 1,S54, on the 
 evening of the Communion Sabbath, is still vividly 
 remembered by his students for the passages of su,-- 
 passing beauty and eloquence it contained 
 
 "A noticeable trait in his character was the rich 
 vein of genuine hum .ur pervading his conversation, 
 and on suitable occasions his public speaking, playing 
 
4S 
 
 in 1802, imich to the recrret of hw ..„ r • , 
 in Kingston, l,e resi.morl I.T . "^' ^'■"""''' 
 
 luiuess, ann with scarce v ess fhan fK. • 
 of his prime, till in the spri.f. TtS .'"^'°"' 
 
 for ever laid aside from eSv lln T"" '" '""' 
 of valvular dise-..^ !f *i ^ "'"•" V an attack 
 
 period o^^:::'z:LZ^ i,':i '- ^^^'^^ -^ 
 
 home jnst as the limit'-^f XlelrVt^.: rtT„' 
 had been almost readied 
 
44 
 
 1 
 
 ,r 
 
 (T 
 
 I """ 'r '"f* ''''""•^ '»■" '^O'"" P«''li«l.c.,l writings 
 
 I -a ^■ynt.tl.d . The Sabbath ScL.l of tho Chul^ 
 
 and the F.re.s.de '-full of sound thought and wise 
 ooun.sel, and several lectures, delivered at vaHou 
 penods an.l published by request." Glowing as tl'se 
 
 loftnessof h.sgen>us, still they are mere f ra.nnentarv 
 .v^ences of the fertility and power of hi: tetl^h ^g 
 
 The press of Stratford united in paying tributes to 
 the earnestness and success of his nfinitry therind 
 
 ot w ,ch, rehgious and educational, found in liim an 
 
 2S r* r'T*^ ^"' *"'-^"^- ^" Monda the 
 29th August, a large assemblage, many being f^n a 
 
 hs^ance, congregated at his late residue to^pay he 
 vvit the directions left by the deceased, Mr, Gordon 
 
 1 e^ T;- '"' '"■• '''='^"''^"' '' Winchest: o"d 
 nansT ^ '»« o^"' """''"cted the services at the 
 nianse. Mr. Gor.lon read appropriate passa^.es of 
 Scripture, and addressed some piLtical rena\ to 
 the sorrowing congregation, concluding with a few 
 personal reminiscences of him whosof death tle^ 
 
4 ' 
 
 4.5 
 
 ■"ourned. Mr. McKwoniiiTf,;,,,,, „ ,„:.,,,, 
 
 when the funeral oo,./,y „.„„,;, ",;"""'^'^' l"-">'«^'-. 
 
 gravey«r,l,where,,un,Mthet"r o „ ""^ '" "'" 
 tl>e .nortnl re.nains of tl eir •''°'™^"'K fl.>ck-, 
 
 terrod directly behi:! t J I r„ui:"'"'' T '"" 
 On the Sabbath following, a I i„l tJll'T "'""''• 
 'l»est of Ur. Geortro ^.f ,''""""= ^ '''c <lym<f re- 
 funeral sern.onwafl '/'?'"'' •»"<' «PP>-Pn-ate 
 
 attentive eo„;: ItforV ^ ^f it ''77^"^ 
 
 Canada Presbyterian minister of ri f"','' ^^''"' 
 friend, in conLet;,, ., °^ t,odench, hi.s old 
 
 earnes'tly, P JZtl.iriiTa.X''"'' "'''°"^^'" 
 «hare in the public work of theXno 1 to l" " T"" 
 a union of all Presbyterians irida"^ t"* 
 seems to have lookp.? nr.r ii '-^"aaa. He thus 
 
 tin, the union IvlrL'^r r ^^ ''" ■"'*"^- 
 to be approachincr/'" ' ''"'' "°'^' appears 
 
 m.nute was framed, and a copy of T 1 ''""^ 
 
 transmitted to Mrs. beorge ^ *"''''''' '" '^'^ 
 
 "Ina.sm„chaswe have been called upon since the 
 
^ 
 
 4G 
 
 last rc^uljir iiu'ctiii;^ of our Presbytery, to inourii tlie 
 loss of one of our ineiii])erH — the Rev. Dr. Geort^e — 
 this Presbytery would in liuniility bow to that dis- 
 pensation (sad and severe thou^^h it be) of the All wise 
 and Almighty Disposer of all tinners, which has de- 
 prived us of the Christian sympathy, the wise counsel 
 and ^reat talents of one who was early led to conse- 
 crate himself to the work of the Gospel ministry, and 
 who, so far as man can jud<^e, was eminently success- 
 ful in his Master's service. 
 
 " As a minister of this Church, which he joined in 
 its infancy, about 36 years ago, his career has been 
 marked by great pulpit power, fervid zeal, an<l con- 
 scientious discharge of duty ; and, by the blessing of 
 God, his labours have been abundantly fruitful in 
 Scarboro' and Stratford, where his pastoral life w^as 
 spent. In the former place he found the congrega- 
 tion weak and struggling, and left it one of the most 
 prosperous in numbers, wealth, and healthy piety on 
 the roll of the Synod. In the latter, as is well known 
 to the members of this Court, the congregation, which 
 was in a very low condition wdien he assumed the 
 oversight thereof, is now in every way prosperous. 
 
 " Nor can this Presbytery overlook or fail to ac- 
 knowledge the valuable services rendered by Dr. 
 George to the whole Church, while he so ably tilled 
 
47 
 
 lie 
 
 tile cimir of ,Sv.st,.,„atic TI„.ol„„v In ,1 i-- • 
 of Quo,.,.', Coilojj... : Hn,l t^ t: J ' """'''"^ 
 
 time in.stit.IZ "" '""' *'°'"' ^'''''-"I'''y in 
 
 views, he was i„ael,te,l not ■ li i" f r'^yj^'^"^'^'^ 
 
 «ou„dand healtl^y piety win f^°""' '^^' " 
 
 ">e man, i"!; ^^^l^: ^Ij^.^-f *<> -le of 
 their studies under him 'a .j 'T, ? P'-^^^-'ting 
 Presbytery would ta J H ' fu''tl'«nnore, the 
 
 ;o Mri GL;"'i,;thet,::,,r's:ir rr 
 
 this dispensation of the Alnii 'htv H • f 'i^'"' ^^ 
 
48 
 
 land, will be read with mournful interest. As it was 
 his wish to die in harness, ho solicited the Presbytery 
 a few months before his death to allow his congrega- 
 tion to clioose a colleague, leaving him first mhiister 
 of the charge. This they gladly granted. The latter 
 part of the letter, which \Nas his last legacy to his 
 people, refers to the proposed arrangement. 
 
 My Dear Friends,~It is now nearly eight years 
 wanting but a few months, since I began my labours 
 among you. But that which was, I trust, by the 
 Divine appointment, is now by the same Divine 
 appointment apparently brought to a somewhat sud- 
 den close. It is into the hands of the Presbytery, 
 according to the rules of our Church, that I shall have 
 to resign my present position. That will be done in 
 proper for.n in due time. Yet as your pastor, I can- 
 not withdraw from my present position without 
 making a few observations which may be suitable for 
 the exigencies of the occasion. Although I was 
 advancing to old age when I assumed the charge of 
 the congregation, yet in all bodily health and in all 
 mental powers I felt as fully capable of discharging 
 all the duties of the ministry as I had ever been in^'my 
 life. And in some senses I felt better prepared,^ as I 
 had all the experience of my past ministerial life to 
 aid me. But now, surely, at a period such as this it 
 
49 
 
 becomes both me and you to look back with solemn 
 consideration. No minister can be connected with a 
 people, even for a short period, without solemn 
 results. If he has wrought for God, even this to him- 
 self will be matter of joyous reflection. If he has not 
 wrought for God, these reflections will in many ways 
 be very painful. But when we think of this kind of 
 labour going on for many years, if it has been good, 
 how precious the retro^^pect : if bad, how sad that 
 retrospect ! I cannot enlarge on this topic. I may be 
 permitted, however, to say a few things ; first as to 
 myself ; next as to you. As to myself, I think I can, 
 in the solemn circumstances in which I am now placed, 
 look back and say I have in my public ministry among 
 you fought the good fight and have kept the faith ; 
 and on all occasions have striven to disclose that faith 
 for the conversion of sinners and the edification of 
 saints. I have not knowingly kept anything back 
 which I thought my God bade me disclose, and I have 
 not glossed over any matter which my God bade me 
 present in all the nakedness and simplicity of grandeur 
 and truth. This is what conscience affirms ; and I 
 know well that there has been much weakness and 
 much sin in all that I have done and said, for I know 
 well that the marks of my sinful hands have been left 
 
 on the purple robe of gospel truth. Yet I cannot but 
 4 
 
w 
 
 50 
 
 testify to this that what I preached was the everlast- 
 ing gospel of the Lord Jesus, and in which I believe 
 and did believe was the only good news for sinners — 
 was the only remedy for guilt, and was the only and 
 certain cure for a diseased soul. I have no hope for 
 the salvation of my own soul but in this gospel, this 
 faith, this free, this all-sufficient gospel. It is this 
 which I have striven to unfold to you. Now, in as 
 far as you have attended on my ministry with the 
 view of knowing the glorious principles of this gospel, 
 you have done well. But can I believe that this has 
 been generally done, or must justice compel me to say 
 that this has not been done by you all ? Oh, my 
 friends, we must not pay groundless compliments or 
 trifle with truth on any matter, but more especially 
 on a matter so momentous as this, and at such a time 
 as this. Let your own conscience be judge. Have 
 none of you ever carelessly absented yourselves from 
 the house of God when this gospel was being preached ? 
 Have you never spent the Sabbaths in sloth and fri- 
 volous pursuits while the great message of salvation 
 was being delivered in this house ? You were not 
 there, and you had no sufficient excuse for your 
 absence. Yet you were absent while those sermons 
 were being delivered which had been the subject of 
 earnest study during the previous week, an<i which 
 
51 
 
 had been prayed over again and again. Was this 
 right ? Was this not absenting yourselves from the 
 assembly of God's people while the Bread of life was 
 broken, but broken in vain as to you ? It is not what 
 / say to this, but what says conscience ? And it may 
 be that many who have attended have attended with 
 but little profit. There has not been the prayerful 
 preparation nor the self -application which should have 
 been. Nor has the message been thought over and 
 conversed over by you in private. 1 say again I do 
 not sit in judgment. I cannot but let conscience 
 speak, and that God judge, in whose work both you 
 and I should have felt that we were engaged. But 
 there are those of whom I hope better things, persons 
 that sought preparation in their closets and families — 
 persons who came up to the house of God with hearts 
 set upon knowing His will, and who listened and in- 
 deed went throudi all the duties with faith and love. 
 To those of you I can say that I hope the house of 
 God was a place of profit and repose, of refreshment 
 for your immortal souls. 
 
 There is one matter on which, after all that I have 
 spoken, I would wish to say a few words. That 
 matter is a debt on the church. That <lebt is no great 
 thing if there were a universal willingness to meet it. 
 There are certain of your members who stand legally 
 
^ 
 
 ll ! 
 
 52 
 
 ji bound for this. But every one of you connected vrith 
 
 i| the congregation ought to feel himself solennly and 
 
 morally bound to see that this debt is paid to the last 
 penny. If that is not done, and done instantly, it 
 may greatly perplex your future movements. It is as 
 far as possible to obviate all embarrassments on this 
 score that I lose not a moment in resigning my present 
 position to the Presbytery. What the position shall 
 be which I propose to assume is briefly this : That I 
 resign all claims on you for pecuniary support at the 
 meeting of Presbytery ; and what I should propose is 
 that the salary which you have paid to me (and, all 
 things considered, that has been very well paid) shall 
 go to meet the salary of the assistant minister whom 
 you may call. Anything that may now need explan- 
 ation on this I will give to the elders and trustees of 
 the congregation at an early day. This seems the 
 only feasible course under the trying circumstances 
 for the good of the congregation ; and what I ask for 
 myself in retaining the status of your minister, while 
 the Lord may continue life, is surely not inconsistent 
 with the justice which you owe to me. I cannot but 
 hope that the Presbytery in its wisdom will see meet 
 to fall in with this arrangement. It will be needful 
 that you appear by your representatives at the meet- 
 ing of Presbytery to get these matters, as well as the 
 
53 
 
 matter offuture supply for tl>e pulpit, fully arranged, 
 toi oh : It ... ,„y earnest wish and prayer that the 
 cause ot pure axd undefik-d religion niay ever flourish 
 and prevail in tliis church. 
 
 And now I say, what I have often said in your hear- 
 ing.- May the grace of tlie Lord Jesus Christ, an.l the 
 lov-e ot God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be 
 with you all. Amen. 
 
 Yours, very faithfully, 
 
 James Geop •'^ 
 
 
 "Thanks be to God thnt hucIi liuve been, 
 
 Altliough they are no more, 
 More lionielike seems tlie vast unknown 
 
 Since tliey have entered there. 
 To follow them will not l)e hard, 
 
 Wherever they may fare ; 
 They cannot be where G(^d is not. 
 
 On any sea or shore. 
 Whate'er l)etides, Thy love abides, 
 
 Our God ftjrevermore I " 
 
 LEAvix(i us AN' Example." 
 
' :\ 
 
 roiMi^Jriy of Kingston, a taAii.^--*' »'^'' 
 vigour c^ntl grasp of mind, originality 
 of thought and the intensit/ of nature 
 and feeling which is tlj^ 80urqp...i(>f all 
 *»'9ft"*ife"^'*^ "*** Idflf, it ma?, bi'safe- 
 ly said, hut few equals in the Dominion. 
 A native of ScotUnd, lie removed to 
 the new world soon after completing 
 his University course and his studies 
 for the Church, and after a brief resi- 
 dence in the United Stiites, which, as 
 he was wont to say, cured him of his 
 youthful fancy foi a democratic form 
 of government, he finally settled in 
 Canada, and became the minister of the 
 Scottish Presbyterian congregation of 
 Scarboro. Here for many years he 
 |iiithfnlly laboured, much beloved by 
 JnS*|feople who still faith fuHu^cherisIr 
 the memory of his ministfUtiou^ and of 
 his intercourse among them. As an 
 r instance flif the enthusiastic loyii^y and 
 patriotism which characterized him, it 
 may be mentioned that during the 
 troubles arising from the threatened re- 
 bellion of 1837 and '38, ^le marched 
 into Toronto at the head of his parish- 
 ioners, ready, if necessary, to do battle 
 with the rebels and their allies, |??'o 
 arts et focis 
 
 A few years after the establishment 
 of Queen's University at Kingston, he 
 was i-equestorl to lecture during a por- 
 tion of each session upon mental phil- 
 osoi>hy, of which, on the completion of 
 more permanent arrangements, he be- 
 came Professor, and took lip his resi- 
 dence i\\ King^fept(,^_i^o\»' ' -^ ^IIimT 
 
 ,■ 
 
^-,..11* 
 
 ttowU 
 
 
 less (listinguisbed iu 
 through 
 
 which 
 
 that iin{>ortant chair ; how he delighted 
 his Rtudents with the wann glow of 
 geuiiw that in8j)ired liii pi-elections, 
 kiudlinp^ thsirentliusinsm from his own 
 aud by his iuteresting aud original 
 method of treating the subject, will 
 long be vividly leniembered by nmny 
 now holding honourable nnd important 
 positions in the Dominion, nnd by 
 somo who are no 
 the far distant lands 
 thev Hre scattered. '^ 
 
 He was not a close follower of other 
 men's systems, aud he preferred the 
 more tempting doniaia or Psychology, 
 with its i-ich field of observation and 
 inqni»*y, to the colder and more barren 
 regions of pure metaphysics. He was 
 intensely enthusiiistic in search after 
 truth and in tracing out the workings 
 of the Divine mind, as revealed in the 
 characteristics ©f the human, and even 
 oi t\\Q hrute mind, a fa von rite subject 
 into whose mysteries he was always 
 endeavouring to penetrate. .;: ,*,„,,,, -I., ,^ 
 
 Of his powers as a public speaker, 
 those who ind(,e jiad the |>rivilege of 
 heartng4iim ^n u^ Kingston platform 
 will only need to be reminded. With- 
 out i)03se3sing the more studietl graces, 
 (Either dt TfN^tovicoi>44ocuti(^. his ora- 
 tory derived its power f rohi the vigour 
 aiid originjility of tiiought and thb fer- 
 vid intensity of feeling that character- 
 ised the man aa well as till his produc- 
 tions. Onf* platform address of his, 
 while the atmcities of Lucknow wem 
 still J*i*esh in the public mind, thrilled 
 his audience by its graj)hic, almost 
 dramatic presentation of the horrors of 
 heathenism. As u preacher ho united 
 the fervour of speech and delivery 
 
which impressed, with the compiolicu-- lutebsc as were the snOcnng, of his 
 Hivwiww of "'^— wgf-wMch inter(Jstedj.^3t ^^y^^ they were brlgljtenecl by the 
 
 "^ t\^ ^^'■'"""^Chmtum faith anU hope which had 
 
 unfa ^^o^hocn Ilia Rtay and Hupport duriDg fl 
 
 )ughoutg^,.^,]y tried life, a* faith nnd hope of 
 
 18 oftfiOwhich those abont him felt' it ft privilege 
 
 to witness the i)ower, at a time when 
 
 ■X'J^iJ 
 
 \\ 
 
 with mo 
 
 vouchsafe 
 
 A noticeably' 
 was the fftiik»of g#i 
 pervac|aj|^$^DOQ 
 occasid^' hiH'' publid^ 
 and s|Mli^|iBy|[ abou 
 
 aiuliduco "iiwiiid ||Sf«cted witli the 
 biiiufht geniality oflefl3ingso overflow- 
 ing in the speaker. But on occasioos 
 tliiit called for more serious earnest- 
 nest^ this vein completely disappeared 
 in the sometimes terrible intensity 
 with which lie grappled with m 
 momentous sebjects. 
 i« Pii'186'2, much to th regret bf his 
 many fiionds in Kingston, he resigned 
 his pi'ofeflsorship, and aco -pted a call 
 from tlje conjjre^'itlon of Stratford* 
 
 His new charge, at first a very small 
 oQ,e, bccime under his earnest ministry 
 so large and flourishipg as to overflow 
 its limited accommodation, and two or 
 thrfee ye^rs ago bnilt a large and hand- 
 some church, which is an ornament to 
 the thriving town. In it he continued 
 
 character ^^j other stivy could bo of any avail. 
 
 our which He has left some published writings 
 
 ,«nfittingi,p|,i„j him- a work entitled the "3un- 
 
 ng; playing j^y ^^^],oq1 ^^f ^^^ Church and the Fire- 
 
 3#j^t till the..^Jp M f^ii ^f sound thought apd wise 
 
 :>unsel; and several lectures delivered 
 k various times,and published by re- 
 est, charactorized by his |»eculiar tone 
 thought and enthusiastic patriotism. 
 ift Ikst of these was upon the "Euglish 
 Li£:ua";e or '^ Great Britain's mknior I 
 ) the world," treating the subject 
 Riy original and interesting ^mannfef) ' 
 But Ms published writings convey' 
 ut a faint idea of their effect when 
 uforced by the earnestness cif the liv- 
 Qjj voice. One so intense in all his ' 
 eeliugs, and so decided in his opinions 
 md sometimes i-athor intoieiaut of those 
 ivho differed from him, could scarcely 
 ail, in the course of an evenful life, of, 
 nakingr some enemies. But the warmth , 
 lud geniality of his character, and his j 
 , , 1 . 1 , . loyalty of nature, won for him many | 
 
 to preach the gospel with hi8 accustom, ptauuch, true-harted fiiends, who will j 
 ed pow^r, zeal, and faithfulness, and r ^^^^ j^^^ ^^^^th as a personal loss, and 
 with Ba;rcely less than the vigour of f.j^ ^^^j .^^jj^^^ to sav as they remem- 
 his prime, till, in the spring of this ^^,,, ^j^^ ^^^^^ .^^ ^^1 j^; ,,^3._ ^ 
 
 ye*ir, he was lor ever laid aside from ! ,;t\ i i 
 
 xi 1 1 I 1 1 1 j: It' -'It may be lonjf ' 
 
 earthly labours by valvular disease ©fL, , i, , i . • i-i • « 
 
 th« h^»rt, which Ls, after » period of P™ >*''-' "'"'" '"*''' »P"" '"' ''''« "S*'"" 
 
 suffering, removed him to his eternal 
 
 home, just as the limit of "threescore 
 
 years and ten" had been almost reached. 
 
'•»ni of his 
 necl by the 
 ^^iiich had : 
 
 duriog ft 
 id hope (.f 
 ft privilege 
 ioie when 
 
 -avail, 
 d writings 
 
 the "Sun- 
 I the Fii-e- 
 
 apd wise 
 
 delivered 
 ed by le- 
 ntiar tone 
 atriotlsm. 
 
 "English 
 's mnsioi I 
 Ijject ' 
 
 'mannfe/; / 
 8 convey ' 
 'Ct when 
 ' the liv- 
 1 all his ' 
 opihiohs 
 t of those 
 
 scarcely 
 I life, of 
 i warmth 
 
 Jind his 
 ini many 
 who will 
 loss, and 
 
 re mem - 
 
 again. 
 
 »> 
 
 rft'u.^:jr_ .