asm in the seminary by these lectures, he was very stimulating in all his work, and the benefits result- ing therefrom lasted through the rest of the session." At the meeting of the Board of Managers in March, 1883, he was nominated to the synods hav- ing control of the seminary, for a professorship. The synods at their meetings in the fall elected him to this position. After careful consideration he had decided to accept and was preparing to move to Xenia, to enter upon this work ; but his Master called 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 It had been decided by the previous Assembly, that the law forbidding the use of instru- ments had been repealed.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