external means of grace, but I have likewise an ear to hear the voice of the eternal Son of God, so that I may justly say, the lines are fallen to me in pleasant places, I have a goodly heritage." *

Dr. Elliott closes his account of Dr. Power in these words: "Dr. Power appears to have been an excellent man, and a useful minister, of a remarkably mild disposition, and uniform deportment. He was a graceful speaker, and a polished gentleman-neat and exact in his dress and habits, and courteous in his manners. He had a remarkable faculty for retaining the knowledge of names and faces. The Trustees of Jefferson College testified their respect for him by conferring on him the Degree of Doctor of Divinity, in 1808. Besides the daughter already mentioned, he had two other daughters married to ministers-one to the Rev. William Swan, and the other to the Rev. Thomas Moore."

One who, from his boyhood, knew him well, and who was probably baptized by him, tells us, "He was of remarkably easy manners, and graceful in and out of the pulpit—at all times maintaining the high dignity of a minister of the gospel of Christ. He had no enemies. When he came to my father's house, he always spoke to the boys and girls, shook hands, and named them. When seated, he was apt to look at each individually, as if to identify them afterwards. He had a sweet voice, spoke with great ease, emphasizing very distinctly every sentence. He always appeared in his element when lecturing on a Psalm. He was plain and very neat in his dress."†

Dr. Carnahan says of him, "He was a polished, gentlemanly man-remarkably neat in his dress-a very correct and graceful speaker. His power of remembering names, and of recognising persons, was very remarkable. For several years he preached at three places, Mount Pleasant, Tyrone, and Sewickly. From one extremity of his parishes to the

* Appendix to Life of Macurdy. † John Plummer, Esq.

other was at least 30 miles.

Yet he was in the habit of visit

ing every family under his charge, accompanied by one or more of his elders. And after he visited the families in a neighborhood, he called them together, and had an examination on the doctrines of the gospel-the heads of families, the young people, and the children, in separate divisions. I have heard of men and women, 60 years of age, saying the Assembly's Catechism, giving the proofs from the Bible, and the explanations of Fisher. His habit was, when he visited a family, to ask the names of the children, in the order of their ages, and also of domestics; and at future visits he was sure to recognise each member of the family, and to call each by name. Yet this man could not, some years before his death, recognise his own children, after a short absence, or distinguish one from another."

This last fact is remarkable; but, like he never forgot the Lord Jesus Christ. peace, at a patriarchal age.

Bishop Beveridge,

He died in great

Such was the man who renounced all the comforts of more refined society, and all the prospects of this world's emoluments and enjoyments, and became the first settled minister in the bounds of the Old Redstone Presbytery. He had buried his wife some years before his own death. She was a woman admirably adapted to her station-an excellent manager, taking off Mr. Power's hands much of the cares and distractions of his domestic affairs, and giving him time to devote himself to his Master's work.* They lived long and happily

* It is not very easy to form a just estimate of the cares and trials of this early pioneer. In a very few years after his settlement in the West, he had a family of eight daughters to provide for, and train up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. But he and his brethren, Smith and M'Millan, were blessed with wives that were truly "gifts of the Lord." They were eminent not only for their piety and energy of character, but for their economical and judicious management of their households. "They did their husbands good, and not evil, all the days of their lives. They sought wool and flax, and wrought willingly with their hands. Their husbands were known in the gates, when they sat

together, and raised a lovely family of daughters, every one of whom married well, and, with one exception, raised families, now widely scattered over the West. May they all be gathered, at last, into the family above!

Since the foregoing was written, we have met with the following sketch, believed to be from the pen of Dr. Carnahan, published, not long since, in the Presbyterian Banner :

In his person Mr. Power was slender and erect, of a medium height, and at no period of life became corpulent. In his dress he was always plain, and at the same time remarkably neat; so that it was a matter of surprise that he could ride on horseback ten or fifteen miles in a rough country, over muddy roads, and appear in the pulpit, or rather on a preaching stand in the woods, as neat and clean as if he had the minute before come from his toilet. He always rode a good horse, and it was believed he was a good judge of that animal, and that he selected one with such a movement as would not

among the elders of the land. They looked well to the ways of their households, and did not eat the bread of idleness." Prov. 31. "Their husbands were known in the gates, when they sat among the elders." In illustration of this—at a meeting of Presbytery, one of the members, giving reasons for absence from the last meeting, told them about his building a spring-house or smoke-house, and some other matters of a similar character, which prevented his coming to Presbytery. Whereupon Mr. Power expressed his regret that the brother should find, in such domestic cares, an excuse for absenting himself; and then remarked, that he himself had never staid away from Presbytery for such reasons, and hoped he never would. "No thanks to brother Power," said Mr. Porter, without rising from his seat, "for all his bragging about his punctuality. We all know what sort of a wife he has to manage for him, at home.”

We have already stated that Mr. Smith's family furnished wives for four ministers-Dr. M'Millan's, also, for three. Dr. Power likewise supplied his full quota: for besides the two ministers already mentioned, the Rev. Thomas Moore and the Rev. William Swan found their partners in his family. It was rather a remarkable incident in Dr. Power's domestic history, that he himself performed the marriage ceremony for two of his daughters, standing with their husbands before him at the same time.