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l.-|>< ( ially do we offer to the family, bereft of a devoted father, our hands and hearts, accompanied by our prayers, that in this time of sore distress they may feel "underneath them the everlasting arms," and that they may hear the voice of Jesus saying: " Let not your hearts be troubled; ye believe in God; believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you."

As for ourselves, in view of the event which calls us together to- day, each one of us would say: " Let me die the death of the right- eous, and let my last end be like his."

Copies of this action of the session are ordered to be sent" to the family of our deceased brother, and to the session of the Second Presbyterian Church.

ROBERT P. KERR, Moderator.

ROBERT T. BROOKE, Stated Clerk. Richmond, Va,, January 7, 1899.

THE COLORED PRESBYTERIANS.

The resolutions adopted by the First (colored) Presbyterian Church say in part:

" In view of his eminent piety, his fruitfulness in Christian labors, his willingness to render service, whether among the lowly and unlearned or among the influential and learned, we feel that our church, in common with his own Zion, has sustained a loss in the death of this Christian friend and brother.

"The Presbyterian Church of Virginia, and all other Christian churches of the State, deeply regret the death of* Dr. Hoge, who, taken for all in all, was a Christian whose concern for the salvation of man was as broad as humanity.

"As a church, we tender his family and the Second Presbyterian Church our sympathy, and this tribute of respect to the memory of the sainted man of whom it may be said he

" Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle; He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;

to those men who sought him, sweet as summer."

STREW FLOWERS AMONG THE POOR.

How it does seem, sometimes, that every act and word of a good