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him home. In June of 1883, the Board of Trustees of West- minster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, elected him to the office of president. This position, 70 A Busy Life. after careful consideration, he felt it his duty to decline. He felt that the work which would be required of the president of that institution, would be entirely beyond what his failing health would warrant him in undertaking. He was appointed by the presbytery of Mansfield, a delegate to the General Assembly which met in Pittsburgh, May 23, 1883. The question of the use of '-Instruments in the worship of God" came before this Assembly. It had been decided by the previous Assembly, that the law forbidding the use of instru- ments had been repealed. Those opposed to the use of instruments felt themselves aggrieved, and asked that this Assembly "declare 'explicitly that in none of the congregations under the care of the Assembly can instrumental music be lawfully used in worship until the church shall have decided by constitutional enactment that such music in worship is divinely authorized and prescribed." It is not our intention to speak of this discussion, only to state the position of Dr. Wallace upon this question. When the rule was adopted in 1867, he, with one other member of