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apolis, and endeared himself to his brethren by his
gentleness and the maturity of all the christian
graces; he was a wise leader in church development.
He moved to Greensburg, and after several years of
ministerial service there died in 1898.
Miss Mary Thompson of the Franklin church;
going in 1876 she spent several years in missionary
work in Swatow, China, but finally in 1885 declining
health obliged her to come home. But she was not
at rest; when her strength began to return she asked
to be appointed as a missionary of the American Bap-
tist Home Mission Society, with work in the west.
For a time her work was on the west coast for the
Chinese; afterwards she went among the Indians as a
missionary. She-is not able for that kind of service
now, but still she is not idle; she goes over the State
sometimes for the Women's Home Mission Society
and sometimes for the Foreign Society.
The Rev. Wallace St. John, after serving the Frank-
lin church as pastor for several years, felt impressed
with the duty of going to the Foreign mission field.
Accordingly upon his application he was appointed to
Burma, and he and his. family sailed for their new
home. The work assigned him was that of teaching
in Rangoon College. They had not been there a great
while till Mrs. St. John sickened and died; the hus-
band still remains at his post.
And what shall we say more? Many of those once
pastors in the Association have been called to other,
and in some cases larger, fields. The Rev. C. E. W.
Dobbs, D. D., the exact scholar and effective preacher,
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has gone back to his native south; the Rev. W. C.
Taylor, D. D., the genial friend, earnest pastor and
able preacher, has also returned to the south; the Rev.
D. J. Ellison, D. D., who soon became known as the
mighty preacher and evangelical pastor, followed the
two last named to the south land; and the Rev. T. J.
Villers, D. D., probably the best loved of any minister
who ever came into the State, on account of his genial
sympathy with men, his absolute adherence to the old
gospel and his quiet and easy leadership of his breth-
ren in the work of the denomination in the State, was
at length called to the Peddy Memorial church, New-
ark, New Jersey, and accepted the call. But sorrow
soon came to his home; his wife, the genial companion
and friend, for weeks foresaw that her Lord would
take her; and when the summons came she was fully
ready, for she had made all preparation, even as to
minute detail, and died as if she had fallen asleep.
The Rev. E. S. Gardiner resigned the pastorate at
Franklin to accept a chair in the college; this he filled
with signal ability, and after several years resigned
and went to California to accept a chair of the Bap-
tist College of that State. He had mastered a very
wide field of literature, and was considered one of
the best informed men in the west.
MORGANTOWN ASSOCIATION--(COUNTIES OF MORGAN
AND JOHNSON).
This Association was organized in 1892 in Mor-
gantown; five churches went into the organization--
Amity, Beech Grove, First Mount Pleasant, Morgan-
