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and essential feature of the city, and whose depart- ure has been an tmdreamdd-of bereavement. It is impossible, however, to conceal from our senses the present probabilities that he will be induced to leave us. He has received from the United Presbyterian Congregation of St. Louis a call to become their pastor, with an offer of a salary of $3,000 and a parsonage. The congregation have just built a new church and parsonage, and paid for them, and have $20,000 in the treasury. So the call may be consid- ered an inducement pecuniarily. President Wallace will doubtless be inclined to accept the call on several considerations. The labors, cares, and responsibilities of his present position are too onerous, and are weighing him down. The worry and mental strain are becoming too much, even for him. Under the change he w r ould be relieved of the great burden of this, and it is not strange that he regards the proposition favorably. For eighteen years he has been laboring ceaselessly and success- fully in our midst, enduring much that was unpleas- ant, vexatious, and trying, and receiving for his un- tiring efforts a paltry consideration. He owes a duty Monmouth Pastorates. 45 to himself and family as well as to others, and as he is becoming advanced in years, the necessity of pro- viding for the future forces itself upon him. His