FOR THIRTY YEARS A RULING ELDER IN THE FOURTH PRES- RIAN CHURCH OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. BY JOSHUA N. DANFORTH, FIRST MINISTER OF THE FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. "I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears."-PAUL. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY C. SHERMAN & SON, 7-10-50 - Oliver sim gerott 198 gift DEDICATION. TO THE ELDERSHIP OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON: DEAR BRETHREN,— In compliance with the publicly expressed wish of your venerable body, in convention assembled, that a memoir of our departed brother Wilson should be prepared, and at the special request of his family that I would undertake the work, I present you this volume; which I would dedicate to the service and glory of our common Redeemer. No such testimony was needed to enhance your own sense of the great services performed by the deceased to the Church of God; but it was your unanimous opinion, that the record of such a life, written on so many hearts among us, should be committed to the press, that all might have access to a visible and tangible memorial of one, whom all confessed to be an extraordinary man, raised up to be an eminent blessing to the Church of which he was a member. It was not so much the splendor of his intellect, as the (KECAP) 503 976 (u |