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 to bring that "great physical vigor" and that physical perfection which were such invaluable aids to this wonderfully useful life.

Descended from a Scotch family, which had settled in County Armagh, Ireland, in 1600; born there in 1829; entering Belfast College at thirteen; graduating with honors; a missionary in the West of Ireland at nineteen; called to the First Presbyterian Church of Armagh; then to St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin; and in 1867 to the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City; at a salary at first of six thousand dollars a year; which was later raised to fifteen thousand dollars; in a church and parsonage which had cost a million; for many years Chancellor of New York University, for several years without any salary; a Trustee of Princeton; of the Union Theological Seminary; of Wellesley College; Chairman of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions; author of A Christian Home, and How to Maintain It; Familiar Tales to Boys; and of many other books on moral and religious themes. After thirty years of steady service, when the Rev. Dr. Hall was about to resign his charge, a prominent New York paper said:

"There will pass from the field of active metropolitan service a minister than whom none who has ever preached here has had a wider fame; and the Presbyterian Church at home and abroad will lose perhaps its most distinguished clerical figure.

"John Hall is one of the long generation of Scotch and Scotch-Irish divines whose racial and individual traits equipped them for stalwart work in the pulpit. Many of them New York has called to the charge of churches. He was one of the first to find his mission here, and for thirty years his personality has been a connecting link between the Presbyterian bodies of the old and new worlds, more direct than is always supposed. In the strongholds of that church in the British Isles his name is as familiar as it is here.

"To the metropolis Dr. Hall is known as the head of the most conspicuous church of his great denomination, as the pastor of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the county, as the active friend of charitable and benevolent agencies, and as the public-spirited citizen who studiously refrained from partisanship,