cheerful, he could easily accommodate himself to persons of different characters and conditions in life, and was cordially welcomed by every circle into which he was thrown. He was distinguished for sobriety of mind rather than versatility, was reflective rather than imaginative. He was accustomed to write his sermons out at full length, and deliver them from memory, except that in the summer, his morning discourse, which was a lecture on some portion of the New Testament, was usually delivered without preparation. He had a remarkably clear voice, and expressed himself with great solemnity and impressiveness. One of his manuscript sermons—a sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Samuel Waugh*-I have had the opportunity of perusing, and it shows that he was a correct writer, and an instructive, methodical and earnest preacher. He was uncommonly devoted to the interests of his flock, giving no inconsiderable portion of his time to pastoral visitation. In his family, and indeed in all his relations, he was a fine example of Christian dignity, tenderness and fidelity."

* Samuel Waugh was a native of Carroll's Tract, in Adams county, Pa., was graduated at the College of New Jersey, in 1773, was settled as pastor of the united congregations of East Pennsborough and Monaghan, in 1782, and continued in this relation until his death, which took place in January, 1807. One of his parishioners (Judge Clendenin) says of him :-"He was a sound divine, a very acceptable preacher, and highly esteemed by his people."

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FREDERICK SMITH, ESQ.

IN the 3d of May, 1861, Frederick Smith closed a life of labour, honour and usefulness in Chambersburg. He was born in

Friends' Cove, Bedford county, Pa., February 6th, 1796, and received his classical education at Washington College, After completing the study of the law, he removed to Chambersburg, and was admitted to the bar in 1818. Soon establishing a reputation, he was appointed District Attorney for Franklin county, and filled the office creditably for a number of years. A prominent member of the Democratic party, he served several terms in the Legislature, and was twice elevated to the Speakership. Although he abandoned active participation in politics, early in his career, he always occupied a high position in his party, and was frequently prominently brought forward as a candidate for gubernatorial nomination. During the greater part of his life, he enjoyed a lucrative practice at the bar, and won distinction in his profession. At the expiration of the term of Hon. Alexander Thomson's judgeship, he was unanimously recommended by his brethren at the bar for appointment to the vacancy.

An ardent friend of education, he took a lively interest in our schools and colleges, and was for many years Treasurer of Pennsylvania College, and one of its most energetic trustees. Although laboriously occupied in his profession, the concerns of his church, the Evangelical Lutheran, elicited his warmest interest, and he diligently attended upon its services and worked for its welfare. The Sabbath school engaged his best efforts, and for a long period he was its Superintendent-from July 13th, 1832, to February 3d, 1856.

No man of his day won more completely the confidence of the community, and none exerted a wider influence. A more stainless name was never borne in the society of his adopted home; his word was never weighed; his promises were accepted without questioning, and his endorsements passed without the discount of a doubt.

In manners he was remarkably plain, his demeanor was simple and unostentatious, his disposition exceedingly amiable and winning. With the agricultural community he was an especial favourite, and to him they flocked with their business, and came for advice in all the affairs of their lives, trusting him with implicit faith and veneration.

The beneficent influence which the lives of such men exert over their

neighbours and acquaintances who come long under their operation, cannot be estimated; and it is not too much to say, that the good Frederick Smith did lives after him, and that his memory shall be loved and honoured when more brilliant citizens will be forgotten.

He brought up a large family, all but one of which survived him. The only exception was his eldest son, Alfred H. Smith, Esq., who graduated with high honour at Pennsylvania College, and was admitted to the bar of Franklin county. He died in his twenty-eighth year, after having acquired a billiant reputation as an editor, and as the most remarkable literary genius that his native place produced; having given abundant assurance of his becoming one of the most eminent men of letters of our day.

FRANCIS LAIRD, D. D.

THE REV. FRANCIS LAIRD, D. D., became the pastor of the churches of Plum Creek and Pike Run, in the Presbytery of Redstone, Pa., in 1800, where he continued till 1831, when he resigned this charge and accepted a call for the whole of his time to the church of Murrysville, Pa. Here he continued closely and lovingly devoted to the pastoral duties of his charge, till 1850, when he resigned on account of the infirmities of old age. He died April 6th, 1851, in the eighty-seventh year of his age-the fifty-fourth of his ministry.

He graduated at Dickinson College, during the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Charles Nisbet, and received the honorary title of D. D. from Jefferson College. He was a man of studious habits through life, well learned, especially inclined to biblical criticism, and well qualified for it. Many a young minister profited by his kind, clear and correct suggestions in this line. Even to the last days of his life, his supreme delight was the study of the sacred Scriptures in the original tongues. When his eyes had become dimmed, so that he could no longer read with the subdued light of his room, he would stand out of doors in the sun, its light blazing full on the page of the Hebrew Bible spread before him, while with quivering finger he essayed to follow the words of the Holy Book.

He strove to draw the truth from the very fountain head, and he was content with nothing less.

Equally well he loved to communicate it, when possible, in the very language in which God had given it to man. During the last moments of his life, this desire knew no abatement and was his ruling passion. Almost the very last words he uttered, faintly whispered into the ear of a sympathizing friend, were the Greek of St. Paul: Ta panta kai en pasi Christos; Christ is all and in all. Col. iii, 11.

THOMAS CREIGH, D. D.

HE HON. JOHN CREIGH, the grandfather of the Rev. Thomas Creigh, emigrated from Ireland to Carlisle, Cumberland county, Pa., in the year 1761, his paternal ancestors having left Germany about the year 1640, on account of the religious persecution then existing against Protestants. From a private letter from the minister of the Presbyterian Church at Carmony, Ireland, it appears that the great-grandfather of the Rev. Dr. Creigh was a ruling elder in that church in 1719, while his grandfather filled the same office in the Presbyterian Church in Carlisle. To this we may add that Judge Creigh was an ardent defender of the principles of the American Revolution, and his grandson, Dr. Alfred Creigh, of Washington, Pa., has his commission bearing date April 29th, 1776, “in defence of American Liberty."

Such were the paternal ancestors of the Rev. Dr. Creigh, while his maternal ancestors--the Parkers and Dunbars-coming from Scotland, settled on the banks of the Conodoguinett creek, a few miles from Carlisle, near the old Presbyterian Meeting House, as early as 1730, some of whom filled the office of elder.

Dr. John Creigh, the father of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Creigh, was born in Carlisle, educated at Dickinson College, and received his degree of M. D., in Philadelphia, and after an eventful life, devoted exclusively to the arduous duties of his profession, died in Carlisle on November 7th, 1848. Dr. John Creigh and Ellen Dunbar Creigh, had six sons and four daughters, of whom Thomas was the fourth son, who was born in 1808; of these ten children, but three sons and one daughter survive.

Thomas Creigh received the best English education, which being completed, he entered the Latin Grammar school, and in due time became a student of Dickinson College. For four consecutive years he pursued his collegiate studies under Rev. Dr. Wm. Neill, (President,) Prof. Henry Vetake, Rev. Alexander McClelland, Rev. Joseph Spencer and Dr. John K. Findley, men who ranked high in their profession, and through whose instrumentality the graduates of that college were each prepared to act a distinguished part in the active duties of life. Among his twenty-one classmates who graduated with him in 1828, six became ministers, viz: Rev. Dr. Robert Davidson,