Deacon Samuel Holmes takes from active career in life one
who has been prominent and useful in many forms of Christian work in
the local church and in broader efforts for the extension of the
Redeemer's kingdom. He was for many years a member and officer in the
Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, and on his removal thirty years
ago to Montclair, N. J., he was one of the charter members of the
growing Congregational Church organized there. He was the first man
elected as its deacon, and to the day of his death was its senior
deacon. At the time of his death, Dec. 9, 1897, he was a member of the
Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association and the
oldest in age and in date of appointment, having held that position
for the third of a century. He was a corporate member of the American
Board and a vice-president of the Congregational Education Society. He
was an officer in the National Congregational Council held in Boston
in 1865, and was one of the committee which convened the National
Congregational Council in Oberlin in 1871. He was also a delegate to
the International Congregational Council held in London in 1891. His
memory will be warmly cherished in the many circles of Christian
service in which he was actively engaged.

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MISS MARY E. McLANE.

The painful intelligence of the death of a most useful and highly
esteemed teacher, Miss Mary E. McLane, of New Haven, Conn., which is
received by us, will be seriously felt in our missionary work.

Miss McLane died at Mobile, Ala., on the 2d of February. Appointed in
the year 1887 to St. Augustine, Fla., Miss McLane had taught in Fisk
University, Tennessee, had been principal of a school at Anniston,
Ala., for four years; was then transferred at her own request to
Athens, Ala., where she was principal, and after three years service
there was appointed as matron in the Teachers' Home of Emerson
Institute, at Mobile, Ala. In a missionary service of more than ten
years Miss McLane obtained a good report as a most faithful and
earnest teacher, thoroughly imbued with the missionary spirit and
always actuated by a missionary purpose.

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MISS ANNA COFFIN.

The death of Miss Anna Coffin occurred at her home in Haverhill, Mass.
At the age of 18 she was graduated from the Salem Normal School.
Having a desire to serve the needy colored people, she accepted a
commission from the Americ