interests, do earnestly call and desire you to undertake the pastoral office in said congregation, promising you, in the discharge of your duty, all proper support, encouragement and obedience in the Lord, and that you may be free from worldly cares and avocations we hereby promise and oblige ourselves to pay to you the sum of three hundred dollars in half yearly payments annually for three-fourths of your time until we find ourselves able to give a compensation for the whole of your time in like proportion during the time of your being and continuing the regular pastor of this church. "In testimony whereof we have respectfully subscribed our names this 25th day of September, Anno Domini 1807. ROBERT CULBERTSON, WILLIAM REED, Elders. JOSEPH DICKSON, JOHN DILL, DAVID NELSON, WILLIAM DOMIGAN, JOSEPH HUNTER, LUCAS SULLIVANT, Trustees. "That this call was prepared and forwarded for Mr. Hoge, with the knowledge and at the earnest request of the whole congregation of Franklinton, is attested to by ROBERT G. WILSON." When it was deemed best to transfer the church from the West to the East Side, with the consent of Presbytery, it was formally accomplished on November 19, 1821, calling him to the Columbus pulpit. He accepted the call in January, 1823. 1n 1850, at Dr. Hoge's request, a co-pastor was elected-Dr. Josiah D. Smith, then of Truro. He was installed in December, 1850, and resigned January 16, 1854, to accept a call to the Westminster Church, of Columbus, O. On December 24, 1855, Rev. David Hall, of the Presbytery of Allegheny, was called as co-pastor, and entered upon his duties in February, 1856. He resigned in April, 1857. The congregation met February 28, 1857, to take into consideration the resignation of their pastor. The Rev. Dr. Smith, of Westminster, being present was invited to preside as Moderator; Mr. Joseph Sullivant then offered the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: "Whereas, This congregation has been notified that their pastor, Rev. James Hoge, has asked leave of the Presbytery of Columbus to resign his charge over this church and congregation, on account of advanced age, and consequent infirmity; and where as, in the long and intimate acquaintance that has existed between us and our beloved pastor for more than half a century, none but feelings of the warmest affection, sympathy and respect have had a moment's place, we are pained at the thought that our long continued connection must be dissolved, and the fond hope relinquished that it should continue as long as our beneficent Father should spare his most useful life; but in this event, as in all that has occurred in our previous intercourse, it is the desire of the congregation to defer to the expressed wishes and better judgment of our beloved pastor. Therefore, be it "Resolved, by the First Presbyterian Church and congregation of Columbus, That we do hereby accede to the request of our pastor, Rev. James Hoge, preferred to the Presbytery of Columbus, to resign his pastoral charge of this congregation; and that his relation therewith be dissolved by the Presbytery at the ensuing spring meeting. "Resolved, That in thus consenting this congregation yields to a belief, reluctantly admitted, that his advanced years and enfeebled health imperatively demands relief from care and constant labor; while submitting to this necessity we yet hope and pray that he may long be spared to exemplify, as heretofore, the Christian doctrine in our midst, and before |