e cross,
Gathered at mid-day--soon the race was won,--
Long e'er the evening shades his labour done!
--Two of the worthies linger of that day--
=LETCHWORTH= and =WISTAR=--hastening fast away.

Shrewd, witty, eloquent,--with ample store
Of all that schools could give of classic lore,
Sarcastic powers opposing views to chill,
When such the purpose of his subtle will,--
A learned lawyer, =NICHOLAS WALN= could sway,
A jury's feelings in his youthful day;
But soon, like Paul, when the unseen One spoke,
Humble he bowed and bore the Christian yoke;
Gamaliel's lessons ceasing to repeat,
He lay a learner at the Saviour's feet.

Simple of heart, and of a feeble frame,
Feeling unworthy even Christ to name,
Yet raised by Him of living hopes to tell,
And show his power,--himself a miracle,--
=JAMES SIMPSON=, like his Lord, from things around,
Fit subjects for important lessons found;
A cloud o'erspreading, or a bird on wing,
Would to the theme in hand instruction bring.
Filled by his Master wonderously he shone,
His emptied vessel scarce could stand alone!

Slow as a traveller wends o'er miry ways,
Whose prudent care his onward course delays,
So =RICHARD JORDAN= preached; at first each word
Came slowly forth, nor life nor feeling stirred;
But soon, the channel cleared, the rippling flow,
In freer volume swifter currents show;
Bolder and higher then it gathers force,
A mountain torrent rushing down its course;
So =JORDAN= ministered in life's mid-day,
A Boanerges thundering on his way!

=BACONS= and =WILSONS=,[3] worthies not a few,
Touched by love's magnet, hither often drew;
=SMITH=, with his venerable locks of snow,
Sedately cautious the right path to know;
Devoted ministers, alas! no more,
And worthy elders who the ark once bore.
--When these were gone,--their bodies to the sod,
Their spirits taken to their fixed abode,
A cloud around our Israel's camp arose,
While from our firesides started up our foes;
When a bold infidel his poison spread,
And with his scorpions hungry children fed;--
Another race, part of the by-gone age,
Yet of the present, then employed the stage.

When boding mists had gathering force and form,
=RUTH RICHARDSON= was taken from the storm.
True to her Master she was free to die,