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fluence was felt all over the town, in all its interests, and only for good.

As the Memoir of this eminent servant of God has been given to the world by an accomplished author, and is to be found in the hands of many of the citizens of the town, further detail of his singularly-practical and useful life, is not needed. A call was extended to him, in April, 1833, by the Central Presb. church of Philadelphia, which he accepted, and being released, by the Presbytery, from his pastoral charge, he bade his people farewell, May 12, and, June 6th, he was duly installed at Philadelphia. His death occurred, Feb. 13, 1863, nearly 30 years after his removal from this town, the whole interval having been filled with faithful, laborious and effective service in his Master's vineyard. In the churches to which he so happily ministered, in the benevolent and educational Boards of which he was a member, in the Presbytery, the Synod, and the General Assembly (of the last of which he was for eleven years Permanent Clerk, and four years Stated Clerk), his memory is precious. Few men in this or any other community have left behind them a more grateful savor; and to none with more propriety could the Master say at the last-"Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy lord."*

The vacant pastorate was almost immediately supplied by the

REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY.

He was born at Balynaskea, County of Westmeath, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1802. His parents, Nicholas Murray and Judith Mangum were Papists, and of considerable means and influence. His father having died when the boy was but three years old, he was trained by his mother, until 9 years of age, in the dogmas of Popery. Then his mother's sister took charge of him for three years while he attended a village-school near Edgeworthtown, about ten miles from his native place. He entered in his twelfth year a store at Grannard, as a clerk, continuing there but three years, when, owing to the severity with which he was treated, he quit the

• Sprague's Memoirs of Rev. J. McDowell, D.D. Presb. His. Almanac for 1864, pp. 175-187.

place and returned home, greatly to the grief of his mother. He determined to emigrate to America, leaving the inheritance to his brother.

He came to this country in 1818, arriving at New York with but $12 in his pocket. He obtained employment at the printing establishment of the Messrs. Harper, boarded first with their mother, and after two years with Mr. George Kirk (father of Rev. E. N. Kirk, D.D.), then residing in Liberty st., nearly opposite the present Trinity place. He was induced by some of his religious associates to hear the Rev. John M. Mason, D.D., was cured of his Popery, became a probationer in the Methodist church, and soon after a member of the Brick Presbyterian church under the care of the Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D. His developments of mental and spiritual gifts were such as to lead several of his godly friends to urge upon him a preparation for the gospelministry.

He began his study of the languages in the winter of 1821-2, under the instruction of Mr. J. B. Steele, a fellowlodger at Mr. Kirk's, and soon after a minister of the Reformed Dutch Church. Having been adopted as a beneficiary of the Brick church, he relinquished the printing business, in the autumn of 1821, entered shortly after the Academy, under the instruction of Gerard Hallock, at Amherst, Mass., and, in the autumn of 1822, the Freshman Class of Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass., then under the Presidency of the illustrious Rev. E. D. Griffin, D.D. He graduated in 1826, and after a brief Agency of six and a half weeks in Washington County, N. Y., for the American Tract Society, he entered, November 9, 1826, the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J. In May, 1827, he accepted an Agency for Pennsylvania, from the Tract Society, and in November following located himself at Philadelphia, having engaged with the same Society as their agent there for a year. He found time still to prosecute his theological studies, and, at the expiration of his engagement, returned to the Seminary, where he completed, May, 7, 1829, the curriculum of the Institution.