brilliant. He was therefore always welcome in general society. He was a scholar among students, a savant among philosophers, a political economist among merchants. We well remember being in Detroit, a few years since, when a new building of the Board of Trade was formally opened. Dr. Duffield was among the most prominent in the exercises of the occasion.

As a Preacher, he was vigorous, logical, persuasive. His feelings always lay so near the surface, that they suffused his speech at a touch. As a Philanthropist, he was untiring. As a Patriot, he was worthy of his ancestry. During the civil war, he was instrumental in the establishment of a hospital, and was among the most active in the service of the Christian Commission. He was never old in spirit, and his fire was never phosphorescent. We do but feeble justice to his memory in these unillumined sentences.

We have space only for a few lines respecting his early and consistent advocacy of Presbyterian Reunion. He spoke upon that subject in the Assembly held at Detroit, in 1850, and was a recognized leader in the Assembly held at Washington, in 1852, when that movement was made which resulted in the organization of a distinct Committee on Home Missions. His interest in the subject took him to St. Louis, and also to Harrisburg. He intended to be present at the memorable Union Convention, held in Philadelphia, but was providentially detained. He watched with interest, and aided every judicious step towards the consummation which has at last been realized. Whatever may be or may have been thought of his peculiarities, in explain. ing or impressing our doctrinal symbols, no more ardent friend of the Church can be specified; scarcely any one has rendered it more signal service.

He died as he had wished to die, "in the harness." Delivering an address before the International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association at Detroit, June 24th, 1868, he suddenly paused, and with an exclamation of distress, fell into the arms of those near est him. He was tenderly borne to his home, and there, two days afterward, expired. His remains were borne to the cemetery between two long lines, formed as if out of the whole population of the city. The mourners literally "went about the streets."

It would be impossible to give even a partial com pleteness to our view of the personal influences which have given tone to the life of the New School Church, without definite reference to the efforts of those who have been closely identified with its aggressive work on the frontiers. We have already given a sketch of Dr. Blackburn, the pioneer; but his influence upon the missionary spirit of the Church was indirect. The name of Dr. ARTEMAS BULLARD, Of St. Louis, is intimately associated with the systematic development of Presbyterian Home Missions.

Born at Northbridge, Mass., June 3d, 1802, he was graduated at Amherst College, in 1826. Fitted by natural qualities for a life of enterprise, he was early directed by Providence into lines of usefulness in which only a man of enterprise could be successful. In him, energy and resolution were associated with a sanguine temperament. He is said to have closely resembled in personal appearance, the "Old Hickory" of American Presidents. He certainly resembled him in character. His perceptions were keen, his will was tenacious, his mental movements were quick, and his sagacity was almost unerring. He possessed in a remarkable degree, the constructive faculty, and marshalled principles or men with an equal facility. His frankness sometimes gave offence, his firmness made his opposition formidable. He had, like all men of positive character, his troops of friends, and his experience of enmity. Yet none of his opponents could ever deny him the praise of sincerity and of love for the truth and the Master.

While at the seminary in Andover (1828), he proposed to devote himself to Foreign Missions; but, having formed intimate relations with Dr. Cornelius, and other eminent men in Boston, he was prevailed upon, in 1830, to visit what was then the West, in the service of the American Sunday School Union. He travelled on horseback, as far as the State of Illinois; and in this service displayed such qualities, that when Dr. Cornelius was suddenly laid aside, he was urgently solicited to assume the arduous duties of Secretary of the A.B.C. F.M., in the Valley of the Mississippi. He accepted the appointment, and for some years travelled over his wide field from Detroit to New Orleans. This experience gave him not only an accurate knowledge of the West, but also an ardent sympathy with its wants. And when in 1838, he was invited to accept the pastorate of the only Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, he felt it his duty to comply. He saw in the position to which he was invited, the centre of an influence whose bounds were indefinitely wide. The waste places were on every side. He knew what were the demands of the Home Missionary work, and what the sacrifices of the Home Missionary. He could aid the churches of the wilderness, and encourage those who had gone or might be induced to go to the scattered flocks, as to sheep having no shepherd. He could assist in planting new churches and do much to develop the educational interests of a new and broad region. He threw himself into his new duties with characteristic zeal. He was the faithful pastor of his own flock, the earnest friend of every missionary within his reach. He was a true bishop, making frequent and long journeys to visit the churches which naturally turned to him for counsel and help. He was accurately informed of the condition of all the Presbyterian congregations in the State. No one knew better than he what was a minister's life in a log-cabin, or what the influence of a pulpit in some rude school-house, or ruder sanctuary. Yet he was one of the first to perceive the importance of providing comfortable and attractive houses of worship, as centres of a permanent power. As early as 1845, he undertook under sanction of his synod, to raise a fund of $10,000, to be used for the purpose of church erection in Missouri. He visited the East, to collect a portion of this fund, and to obtain recruits for Home Missionary service. He returned, bringing with him generous donations, and ten clergymen. He was, indeed, remarkably successful in his lifelong efforts to raise the means for carrying on benevolent enterprises. "Come away," said a student to a friend who called his attention to a "speaking likeness" of Dr. Bullard, at the door of a photographic artist: "Come away! he'll have five dollars out of you for a church before you know it."

He was greatly interested in the establishment of Webster College, near St. Louis. The subscription book of that institution was found upon his person, wet and soiled by the rain which beat upon his lifeless body, as, with twenty-nine victims of the disaster of Gasconade bridge, he lay amid the ruins of that wreck which had cost him his life.

He was always a distinguished member of the General Assembly, when he attended its meetings as commissioner. Ardently devoted to every interest of the church in the line of progress; possessed of a knowledge and experience to which all were compelled to defer; fluent, direct, and clear in debate, - he never failed to wield a powerful influence. When he died, every missionary lost a friend, every measure of importance to the Church lost a champion.

Among those whom he was instrumental in introducing to the missionary work of the Church, we will mention one only whose character and career are illustrative of some of the phases of the work itself.

When, in 1849, Dr. Bullard visited the Seminary at Auburn to stimulate the interest of its students in the great West, he became acquainted with FREDERICK STARR, Jr., a graduate of that year, who had already distinguished himself by self-denying labor as teacher and missionary in the Sunday-school of the prison. This young man quickly caught the spirit of Dr. Bullard. He was not unlike him in character. Born in Rochester, January 23, 1826, his development was quick