ry attitude that it was not easy
to find an able and influential man with sufficient courage to accept
its presidency. But the man was found. Hon. William Jackson, a citizen
of Boston, and an active and successful business man, was so deeply in
sympathy with the poor slave that he was willing to assume the
position, and all the more because others shrunk from it. Mr. Jackson
was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, and afterward was
elected to Congress, and was subsequently reelected for another term
by an almost unanimous vote. He was selected by the Liberty Party as
its first candidate for Governor of the State of Massachusetts. He was
a warm and efficient advocate of the temperance cause. He devoted much
of his time and energies to the establishment of railroads in
Massachusetts--among others the Boston and Albany, Boston and
Worcester, and Providence and Worcester. In various capacities as
director or general agent he rendered efficient service in the work of
these roads. But the charm of Mr. Jackson's life was its Christian
element. At the age of thirty-seven he moved to Newton, Mass., where
he spent the remainder of his life. He was actively engaged in the
erection of the church edifice and gathering the new church, and was
steadfast in his attendance at the prayer meeting, monthly concert,
Sunday-school, and other exercises. Advancing years and failing health
led him to make a somewhat extended trip through Europe. But life was
coming to its end, and it closed with him in deepening interest in the
cause of Christ at home and abroad, and in the strongest assurances of
a triumphant faith.

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S'KOKOMISH MISSION.

The venerable Dr. Cushing Eells left behind him many mementoes of his
remarkable activity in promoting educational and missionary work in
Oregon and Washington, on the Pacific coast. Nor with his decease has
his good work ceased. Two sons of his have gone forward in similar
lines of effort. His son, Major Edwin Eells, was one of the first
nominees of the American Missionary Association under General Grant's
Peace Policy, and he was renominated by us so long as we were allowed
to make nominations, and he has been continued ever since, making a
total service of twenty-three years and a half. During this time the
Indians have received titles to their lands and have become citizens.
His effective hand has been seen in all their improvement. But now we
learn th