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Rh to prepare the plan of Reunion, and he entered with all his heart into the work, and into the rejoicing over its accomplishment. It was a great delight to him to take part in the adjourned meeting of the Assembly, which took place at Pittsburg, in November, 1869. All the jubilation over Reunion was entirely after his own mind. There was no happier heart in the procession, as Old School and New, after pouring out of their respective places of assembly, met in the street and formed ranks anew, “the Old and New grasping each other, and amidst welcomes, thanksgivings, and tears, they locked arms and stood together in their reformed relations.” At the end of the grand Reunion meeting in the First Church of Pittsburg, “the Moderator called on Mr. Robert Carter, Ruling Elder from New York, to offer prayer. This he did with great unction, and, in hearty sympathy with the occasion, the great Assembly melted together at the throne of grace.”

The following year Mr. Carter met again with the reunited Assembly at Philadelphia, and bore his share in the great work of reorganization. He was afterwards a delegate to Baltimore and Buffalo, but was obliged to leave Buffalo before the close of the session, and was told by his physician that a man of his age should not again attempt sitting in a deliberative body.