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The children of George S. Miller and Julia Young, married November Ist, 1800, were: 1. Sarah, who married Alexander Blake; 2. Samuel H., who studied law, but through ill-health has not pursued the practice, married (1) Susan Weeks, (2) Elsie Blake ; 3. Charles, who married Helen Young ; 4. Cor- nelia Maria, who married Gilbert G. Weeks; 5. William Young, who entered the ministry, married (1) Julia Phillips, (2) Elizabeth Johnston; 6. Theodore, who died at the age of twenty-two ; 7. Elizabeth Young, who married Samuel Knapp. Samuel H., Charles, Cornelia Maria, and William Young, are still living, though the first of these has approached so near to the confines of the heavenly home, that his purified spirit may have returned to his God, ere these pages are in the hands of the reader. The children of Charles and Helen Young Miller-George S., Julia Y., Gilbert, and Charles A .- have all preceded them to the better land. They remain to finish their work; and God be praised for the presence with us of all who have so far climbed the steep of life that rays from the celestial world are already falling upon their brows. From
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such seem to come back to us, who are in the heat of the con- flict, the words of pilgrim song :
"Let saints below in concert sing With those to glory gone ; For all the servants of our King In earth and heaven are one.
One family-we dwell in him- One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, - The narrow stream of death.
One army of the living God, To his command we bow; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now."
III. THE TRUSTEES.
IT would afford us pleasure to give as full an account of the TRUSTEES as of the ELDERS, if only to show an apprecia- tion of their work, for a great measure of the success of a church depends upon the prompt, thorough and judicious management of its finances. But this cannot be done. In the first place they cannot be as fully ascertained, and even if they could their number would be too great to enlarge upon.
That there were trustees in the congregation from an early date is clear ; but it is not so clear that they have always attended to what would now be considered in the line of their duty. The following fragment, which is about the only record, in detail, of the financial affairs of the congregation for years, will be of interest :
" A Record of the Votes of the congregation of Good-Will from Dec" 12-1770 Decr 12-1770 At a meeting of the congregation of Good-Will, taking into consideration the Repairs yet wanting in the Parsonage House, what is yet to be done to the Meadow to make it fit for grass, and the Barn to be raised on said Parsonage ; in order to accomplish the aforesaid Purposes, it is unanimously agreed to raise the sum of 100 {, one-half to be paid in the sygning ; the other, unless it should appear that less would be sufficient, to be paid in the Fall follow- ing, to be collected by the Elders along with the sallary. that Messrs. James Barclay and John Milliken, formerly appointed for that Purpose, proceed in em- ploying Hands to clear the Meadow, excepting what the congregation may see proper to do by their own Labour. Messrs David Jagger and James Herald are appointed Managers with respect to the building of the Barn. & whereas Mr Nathan1 Hill who had been appointed a Manager along with Mr. Thom® Gim- meral with respect to repairing the Galleries of our Church, has declined on ac- count of bodily infirmity ; Mr. William Cross is appointed in his stead.
Jany 3 .- 1771 At a meeting of the congregation of Good-Will it was agreed that the barn to be raised on the Parsonage should be covered with shingles. Also
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agreed that ten men should be chosen as a committee of the congregation for one year, who should meet as often as they should see necessary, to consult & transact the affairs of the congregation, and when they shall judge it necessary, shall call the congregation together to lay such matters before them as appear of such im- portance as to require their Explicite Approbation before they be carried into Execution, & that a new choice shall be made once a year, if the congregation shall find this Method useful. Messrs John Younge, James Herald, James Crawford Sent., James White, Abraham Caldwell, James Milliken, David Craig, Samuel Miller, Samuel Hains and Thomas Neilly were chosen a committee for the ensuing year.
Messrs Arthur Parks and John Davison were appointed a committee to settle the accounts of the congregation with the managers for the repairs of the Parson- age House, the Treasurer of the Collection Money, the Treasurer of the Sallary Money, or any other accounts of said congregation that may come before them, & to make a Report to the congregation or their committee the first opportunity.
March 7 .- 1771 the Committee of the congregation of Good-Will mett. Mr. Craig absent, and taking into consideration the necessity of obtaining an outlet in order to drain the meadow, it is agreed that Mr. Crawford shall take Mr. Dickinson with him on Saturday next & go to Mr. Goldsmith in order to agree with him for the Priveledge of an outlet through his grounds, & fix the place of it."
It will be observed that this synchronizes with Mr. Blair's ministry, and, had he lived, with this working force of men thus mustered for service, "the meadow," now less elegantly styled "the swamp," would, no doubt, have been reclaimed. But in the whole record there is an utter ignoring of the trustee office, though in 1765 there were special trustees " for the building of the Meeting House," who " balanced 'their accounts' with the new trustees ;" and in 1766 the names of John Neilly, Jr., Robert Hunter, Nathaniel Hill, and James Barkley, as trustees, were incorporated in the deed of the parsonage farm.
The first two of these names will be recognized as belong- ing to the Neely and Hunter families who were among the first settlers.
NATHANIEL HILL.
When Nathaniel Hill came to the precinct is not known, though it was at an early day. He lived on or near the Dwass Kill, in what is now the town of Crawford. He died May 5th, 1780, aged 75 years. According to his will which was made in March, 1780, he had three sons, James, William
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and Peter, and six daughters, Mary, Catherine, Martha, Mar- garet, Susannah, and Eleanor. James lived and died in the town of Crawford, and there his descendants are still to be found. Jane Hill, who married Joseph Hunter, was his daugh- ter. Of William it can only be said that the church records indicate the marriage of William Hill and Magdalen Boggs, January 25, 1798, and the baptism of three of their children, Mary Lisk, February 10th, 1799; James Boggs, June 5th, 1800, and Rhoda, February 15th, 1802. Peter married Isabella Trimble, daughter of Alexander Trimble. Of the daughters, Catherine married Abraham Caldwell, December 14th, 1769 ; Mary married James Milliken, July 5th, 1770, and Margaret married David Hunter, August 25th, 1778. Of the others there is no record.
Peter settled on the farm on the turnpike, some three miles east of Montgomery village. The land was bought by his father at different times-in 1767, 1771 and 1774. The brick house thereon was erected about 1774, and occupied by Peter, who purchased the whole farm in 1779. The children of Peter and Isabella Hill, aside from two sons and a daughter who died young, were: I. Sarah who married Dr. Charles Fowler; 2. Nathaniel P., who married Matilda Crawford ; 3. Isabella, who married Charles Borland, and 4. Peter, who married Margaret Miller.
To Nathaniel P. Hill, who remained at the homestead, and his wife, Matilda Crawford, were born six sons: James King, now a successful lawyer in New York; Nathaniel P., now U. S. Senator from Colorada ; Moses Crawford, Charles Bor- land, Augustus, Alden, and Crawford, who died when a child, and one daughter, Isabella. Charles Borland Hill died in 1873, aged 36 years.
JAMES BARKLEY.
In reference to the ancestry of this the fourth of the trustees in 1766, we can only suggest the inquiry: Was he identical with or more probably the son of James Barkley,
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whose name appears among the Clinton company of immi- grants in 1729 ?
His descendants have been and are numerous in the county. To him and his wife, Mary Moffat, were born five sons and one daughter :
I. John, born in 1745, married Mary Crawford, daughter of James and Jean (Crawford) Crawford and granddaughter of James and Mary Wilkin Crawford. Their children were : I. William ; 2. Nathan ; 3. Jane, who married a son of James W. Crawford.
II. James married Elizabeth Crawford, sister of his brother John's wife. Their children were : I. John ; 2. Ellen-Mrs. Daniel Hunter ; 3. Betsey ; 4 Daniel ; 5. Samuel ; 6. Joshua, and 7. Moses.
III. Thomas married Sarah Crawford, also a sister of his brother John's wife, Dec. 7th, 1779. Their children were : I. James ; 2. Mary-Mrs. Archibald Crawford ; 3. David ; 4. John ; 5. Jonathan ; 6. Jane-Mrs. Nathan Haines ; 7. Isaiah ; 8. Margaret-Mrs. Johnston Young ; 9. Thomas ; 10. William Moffat ; II. Elizabeth-Mrs. David Arnot.
IV. Samuel married (1) Catherine McClaughry, Dec. 28th, 1769, and (2) Agnes McCurdy, Feb. 15th, 1787. Their children were, First : I. Samuel ; 2. Thomas ; 3. Mary-Mrs. Peter Millspaugh ; 4. Jane-Mrs. Henry Crist ; 5. Elizabeth- Mrs. George Pitts. Second : I. Catherine-Mrs. Robert S. Crawford ; 2. James ; 3. Robert; 4. Margaret ; 5. Andrew ; 6. Marcus ; 7. Nancy-Mrs. Leander Crawford.
V. William married Sarah Gasten. Their children were: I. Joseph ; 2. James ; 3. Hugh ; 4. William ; 5. Jane-Mrs. John Millspaugh ; 6. Mary.
VI. Margaret married James Sears. Their children were: I. Mary : 2 William ; 3. James ; 4. John ; 5. Samuel ; 6. Eliza.
For the benefit of any who may wish to trace the family further, it may be stated that there was also a John Barkley. probably a brother of James, who had :- 1. Sarah-Mrs. John Crawford ; 2. Nancy; 3. Mary-Mrs. James Crawford : 4. Margaret-Mrs. David Harris; 5. Robert: 6. John: 7. Samuel.
THE PRESENT ORDER OF TRUSTEES was instituted June 7th, 1785, under an act of the legislature of the State of New York entitled, " An Act to enable all the religious denomina- tions in this State to appoint Trustees, who shall be a body corporate for the purpose of taking charge of the temporalities of their respective congregations, and for other purposes
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therein mentioned," passed April 6th, 1784,
The trustees chosen at this date were :
Robert Hunter, Samuel Barkley, Peter Hill,
James Hunter, Henry Van Keuren, John Barber, all of whom will be recognized as belonging to families already noticed.
Of one of the trustees under the new order, who has recently passed away, we cannot forbear a brief account, if only on the ground of personal friendship.
CHARLES H. SLY.
June 10th, 1757, Samuel Sly, the grandfather of Charles H., purchased from William Young and Elizabeth, his wife, a portion of the Hume patent. The language of the deed indicates, however, that he was already a resident of the precinct of the Highlands. When he came cannot be ascer- tained. He married Letitia, daughter of William Hamilton, one of the Clinton company of immigrants. She died Sept. 6th, 1776, in the 56th year of her age, and he Sept. 4th, 1876, in his 76th year. Their children were: I. Samuel; 2. John; 3. William ; 4. Elizabeth; 5. Mary; 6. Catherine. The three daughters married three brothers by the name of Cross. Of the three sons, all of whom served in the war of the revolu- tion :
I. Samuel, married Margaret McMichael. Their children were : I. George ; 2. Mary-Mrs. James Strachan ; 3. Letitia-Mrs. Robert Cunningham ; 4. Nancy ; 5. Lilly.
II. John, married Margaret Simpson. Their children were : I. Letitia-Mrs. Robert Carlisle ; 2. Catherine-Mrs. John Milliken ; 3. Janet ; 4. John ; 5. Hamilton ; 6. Robert; 7. William. John (4) served in the war of 1812, and Robert (6) was a member of the legislature in 1836 and again in 1841.
III. William, born Feb. 14th, 1760, died Nov. 17th, 1843. He married Ann Gouldsberry Barber, daughter of Arthur Barber, a brother of Patrick Barber. She was born Dec. 23d, 1758, and died August 11th, 1825. Their children were: I. Charles Hamilton ; 2. Arthur Barber, and 3. Maria Gouldsberry. Arthur Barber. (2) married Catherine Johnston, sister of Rev. John Johnston, D. D., of Newburgh. One daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, survives them. Maria Gouldsberry (3) married Joseph Dill. Their children were : I. William S .; 2. Henry ; 3. David ; 4. Ann Eliza ; 5. Maria.
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Charles Hamilton (1) married (1) Susan Haines, to whom was born one daughter, Susan Haines, now the widow of Franklin Mulliner. He afterwards married Sarah Johnston, sister of his brother Arthur Barber's wife and of Rev. Dr. Johnston, of Newburgh. Their children, aside from two sons who died young, were : Jane Ann, and Catherine Johnston- Mrs. Charles Woodruff, both of whom survive them.
Samuel Sly bequeathed his farm, which contained two hundred and thirty-three acres, to his sons John and William, and William's portion, handed down through his son Charles H., is still in the family. Charles Hamilton Sly was born May 14th, 1792. He was second lieutenant under Capt. Alex. C. Burnet in the war of 1812, and was captain of the 14th regi- ment, 34th brigade, of the militia in 1823, afterwards ranking as major. He was a man of soldierly bearing and great affability in manners. He served the congregation as trustee for upwards of fifty years, having been reëlected to the office as often as his term expired, and while he never made a public profession of his faith in Christ, the last nearly six years of his life, during which he was well known to the writer, he was not only a regular attendant on public worship so long as his health would permit, but he also encouraged the worship of God in his family, and apparently with great satisfaction. He died August 7th, 1875, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
IV. NECROLOGY.
THE following members of the church have died during the present pastorate :
March 30th, 1870 .- SARAH THOMPSON, aged 42 years ; wife of David Thomp- son.
August 2d, 1870 .- MARGARET HARRIS, aged 56 years.
September 20th, 1870 .- ROBERT LIPSETT, aged 76 years.
March 7th, 1871 .- SARAH ELIZABETH SHERWOOD, aged 33 years ; daughter of Alfred and Elsie Bowne and wife of Egbert S. Sherwood.
October 6th, 1871 .- ELIZABETH FOWLER, aged 68 years, 9 months, and 3 days ; wife of David Fowler.
December:27th, 1871 .- DEBORAH HARRIS, aged 29 years ; daughter of N. Hill and Sarah E. Harris.
December 16th, 1871 .- ROSINA WILLIAMS, aged 21 years ; daughter of William and Susannah Williams.
December 25th, 1871 .- ERASMUS DARWIN DRURY, aged 49 years ; son of Dr. John W. and Jemima Drury.
February 10th, 1873 .- JONATHAN TEARS, aged 70 years, 9 months, 20 days.
April 8th, 1873 .- EMMA E. MILLER, aged 30 years ; daughter of David and Elizabeth Fowler and wife of Moses B. Miller.
May 19th, 1873 .- JANE ARNOTT, aged 73 years ; wife of George Arnott.
May 10th, 1874 .- MARY ELLEN HURD, aged 23 years, 4 months, and 28 days ; daughter of Burr and Elizabeth Hurd.
July 10th, 1874 .- MILLECENT COOK SCOTT, aged 86 years, I month, and 16 days ; widow of James Scott.
September 26th, 1874 .- JAMES H. LAUGHLIN, aged 23 years ; son of Jas. and Ann Eliza Laughlin.
April 23d, 1875 .- SUSIE R. LOSKAMP, aged 43 years ; wife of Conrad Loskamp.
April 25th, 1875 .- RUTH PARSHALL, aged 88 years, 6 months, 17 days ; widow of Moses Parshall.
July 13th, 1875 .- JANE NIXON, aged 87 years and 6 months ; wife of Enoch B. Nixon.
-, 1875 .- SARAH E. HASBROUCK, aged about 17 years. -
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October 31st, 1875 .- MARGARET A. BOWDEN, aged 13 years, I month, and 19 days ; daughter of McLeod W. and Rachel A. Bowden.
August 27th, 1877 .- ELMIRA McCORD, aged 66 years.
October 7th, 1877 .- MINERVA JACKSON, aged 68 years, 3 months, and 20 days; widow of William Jackson.
December 15th, 1877 .- ANDREW NEELY YOUNG, aged SI years, 4 months, and 20 days. (See Elders.)
February 26th, 1878 .- ANN MANNEY, aged 40 years ; daughter of David and Julia McWhorter and wife of William T. Manney.
March 20th, 1878 .- CHARLES W. DRUEY, aged 29 years ; son of Erasmus Dar- win and Mary Elizabeth Drury.
April 2d, 1878 .- ISABELLA WALLACE, aged 15 years, 10 months, and 25 days ; daughter of John C. and Margaret Wallace.
April 24th, 1878 .- SARAH M. HAINES, aged 78 years, 5 months, and 25 days ; widow of John S. Haines.
April 26th, 1878 .- JONAS HAWKINS, aged 67 years, and 6 months.
July 5th, 1878 .- MARY FRANCES HOWELL, aged 44 years ; daughter of Rens- selaer and Olive (Belknap) Howell.
July 19th, 1878 .- SARAH E. HARRIS, aged 60 years ; wife of N. Hill Harris.
August 22d, 1878 .- ELSIE BOWNE, aged 68 years ; wife of Alfred Bowne.
January 17th, 1879 .- MARGARET BOWNE, aged 62 years, 3 months, and 3 days ; wife of James W. Bowne.
March 27th, 1879 -ELSIE MILLER, aged 79 years ; wife of Samuel H. Miller.
September 1Ith, 1879 .- ELLEN H. HAINES, aged 59 years ; daughter of John S. and Sarah M. Haines.
October 26th, 1879 .- SAMUEL FINLEY, aged 63 years, 8 months, and 10 days. (See Elders.)
March 12th, 1880 .- THOMAS KENNEY, aged 73 years.
March Sth, ISSO .- GEORGE B. HARRIS, aged 64 years, 10 months, and 25 days.
This list of the departed contains some of the noblest names that stood on the church roll. Some of them had attained to a great age, and were waiting their decease with Christian patience, " having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better." Some were in the strength of their years, and apparently had work yet to do; while others were young-some of them scarcely more than children, in whom is the hope of the church. But in the Master's time they were called away.
One feels prompted to weave a wreath for the brow of the faithful parent-the true father or mother, the loving husband or wife, the dutiful child, the earnest sabbath-school teacher, the trusted friend. But "a voice from heaven" says " Write,
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Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them"-and " blessed " are such, one and all. To the glory of Christ be it said, through whom alone they have attained to the home of the redeemed,
"'T was through the Lamb's most precious blood They conquered every foe ; And to His power and matchless grace Their crowns of life they owe."
With this they all would have us leave them if, from the bright land beyond, their voices could reach us.
And yet, for the sake of the young men who were under her care, it seems eminently fit that a brief record further should be made of one of them-
MRS. MARGARET BOWNE.
She was the daughter of Robert and Rachel (Hamilton) Warrell, and from a child she seems to have been somewhat remarkable, for the old men of to-day who knew her then, many years younger than themselves, speak of her in the same strains as do those who were her associates in later years.
August 29th, 1843, she married James W. Bowne, now in the eldership.
Her home, the generous hospitality of which was fully equal to her means, was the home of the orphan, who found in her a mother. The poor never appealed to her in vain ; her benevolence even sought them out in order to relieve their wants. For the salvation of souls she was ever anxious, and many can testify to the word fitly spoken which has been blessed to their spiritual good. She was eminently domestic, and yet her efforts and prayers were never restricted to her own domestic circle. When our Sabbath School, in its pres- ent form, was organized some eight years since, the young men, many of whom had been under her instruction before, chose her as their teacher. The result showed the wisdom of the choice; for so long as she was able, and even when her
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health had so failed that she really was going beyond her strength to do it, she met her class, with the most careful pre- paration, and urged upon them the claims of the Gospel, and their duties and privileges under it. If any of the members of that class are lost, it will not be because they have not had the path of duty clearly and lovingly laid before them, and that by one who, in more favorable circumstances in life, with greater opportunities, would have stood the peer of any of the noble women whose names, with their works, have passed into history. "Men will praise thee when thou doest well to thy- self," but she chose "that good part, which shall not be taken away from her," and all such " the Master praises." She trusted in Him whose " name is as ointment poured forth," and who makes the fragrance of the names of His people to abide. Through their good works the whole house is often filled with the odor of their ointment.
V.
THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
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GOODWILL CHURCH.
AT the regular autumnal meeting of the Presbytery of Hudson, in the Goodwill Presbyterian Church, on Monday evening, September 15th, 1879-the Rev. CHARLES BEATTIE, Moderator-the committee on arrangements recommended that on to-morrow evening a memorial service be held in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Goodwill Church, which recommendation was unanimously adopted.
TUESDAY EVENING, Sept. 16th, 1879.
The Presbytery convened for the memorial service-a large audience, filling the house to its utmost capacity, being present.
The Moderator, in opening the services, announced the Hymn commencing
"Come we who love the Lord, And let our joys be known; Join in a song of sweet accord, And thus surround the throne;"
which was sung by the congregation, after which Rev. W. D. SNODGRASS, D.D., of Goshen, the senior pastor in the Presby- tery and the pastor of the senior church, led in prayer as fol- lows :
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"O LORD, the great and the mighty God, whose name alone ; Jehovah, the self-existing, unchangeable, and eternal one, efore whom it becomes every knee to bow and every tongue o confess : we adore Thee in view of all Thou art and of all hat Thou hast been to us in our creation, in our preservation, nd especially in the provision which Thou hast made for our ecovery from the state of bondage and misery into which our ins have brought us. We thank Thee that Thou hast sent Chine only begotten Son into the world to be our Saviour, und for the unlimited assurance that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. We thank Thee for the gift of Thy Holy Spirit to convince the world of in, of righteousness, and of judgment; to show them their leed of a Saviour, and to lead them to the exercise of faith ind confidence in Him. We thank Thee for the full revela- ion which Thou hast made to us concerning this way of sal- vation ; that having spoken in times past unto the fathers by the prophets, Thou hast in these last days spoken unto us by Thy Son and by His inspired servants. We thank Thee, O God, for the establishment of a church in the world resting upon the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets, of which Jesus Christ himself is the chief corner-stone. We thank Thee for the promise that against this administration of Thy grace and mercy the gates of hell shall not prevail. Thou hast fulfilled this promise in the past, and we rejoice in the assurance that Thou wilt fulfill it in time to come. We thank Thee, O Lord, for the origin and continued existence of Thy church in the land in which we dwell; for the care Thou didst exercise over it during the infancy of our being as a nation, and for every- thing pertaining to its advancement until now. We thank Thee for the early establishment of a church of our name and denomination in this place. We thank Thee that Thou didst put it into the hearts of Thy people who took up their abode in this neighborhood to form themselves into an association for the worship of God, for the support of the Christian minis- try, and thus for the administration of the Word and the ordi- nances of God among them. We thank Thee for all Thy favor
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toward it during the one hundred and fifty years that hav elapsed since its organization. We bless Thee for all Thec servants that have fulfilled their ministry here and gone to their reward in heaven; and we bless Thee that those still in the land of the living, who either have been, or still are, con nected with this church and people. And we bless Thee tha so many are gathered together on this auspicious occasion t look back upon the past with gratitude, and to renew with in creasing faith their determination to serve and glorify The in the use of all the means which Thou has brought within their reach. And we now unitedly beseech Thee to look down upon this congregation and let Thy blessing rest upon it-that blessing that maketh rich and that addeth no sorrow. Oh de Thou give to Thy servant, who ministers to this people now a double portion of Thy Spirit, and enable him to go in ance out before them as one who knows the truth, who has felt it; power, and who can divide it rightly, giving to each on among his hearers a portion in due season. And we pray Thee that from time to time Thy increasing blessing may res upon all the efforts that are made here to promote the inten ests of that kingdom which is "not meat and drink, but right eousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." We thank Thee, Almighty God, for all the churches in the region round about us that have been established from time to time, and that under Thy favor and blessing have had a useful existence until now. Oh that Thy blessing may rest upon them all Let Thy blessing come down this night upon the ministry and eldership of the Presbytery which is here assembled, and upon all the churches under its care. Be with us in all the services of this evening. Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in Thy sight ; and grant that we may depart from this place with our faith strengthened, our zeal increased, our love abounding more and still more for that which concerns the interest of Thy kingdom, as well as the spiritual welfare of our own souls And to God, only wise, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit shall be present and everlasting praise. Amen."
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