who with but few suggestions approved as prepared, and this, together with one from Dr. Lytle, was sent forth to the church on its errand of peace. Dr. Cooper thus writes: "We had much conversation in relation to this controversy that has to such a degree so painfully agitated our beloved church. We both deplored the introduction of the question in view of the sad separations which it had made among breth- ren. We were both, however, fully agreed that it was one of those things which in the light of Scrip- ture and reason may be regarded as legitimate sub- jects of forbearance and that the controversy never could be settled on any other basis." The twelve months intervening between the adjournment of the Assembly of 1882, and the con- vening of the Assembly of 1883, were months of painful anxiety to many who loved the church of their choice. The question that was frequently 7*2 A Busy Life. asked was, "What will be the result? will there be a division?"' Dr. Wallace was no idle spectator of what was passing. He loved the United Presby- terian Church ; it was the church of his birth, and of his choice. He could not be unconcerned, when her unity, if not her very existence, was threatened. One who was with him that summer at Clifton Springs and Ocean Grove gives the following: