noted physician, a specialist in lung disease, who was very emphatic in his opinion that she could not live in that climate. This decided him to accept the position tendered him in Monmouth College. His resignation of the pastoral charge of the East Boston congregation was accepted by the presbytery, September 10, 1856, and soon after he went to Monmouth to commence what proved to be the great work of his life. CHAPTBE II. COLLEGE WORK. The history of David Alexander Wallace would be but half told if it did not include in its telling his relations with Monmouth College. Indeed, we. who were the most intimately acquainted with the college and her president, had begun to think that they were inseparable the one could not exist with- out the other and. when compelled to consent to a separation, we yielded to the will of a Divine Power that knew best. And this relation was formed at such an early day in the history of the college, that a brief account of its origin will be necessary to complete the story. The thought of establishing Moumouth College originated in the minds of men who felt the need of a Christian school of learning. The first public step taken for the establishment of such a school