are to be found almost everywhere. A glance at the lists of names shows how widely scattered and how well placed they

are.

Nearly one thousand names appear in the Directory. It would be natural to expect that New York state, which sends the Seminary one-third of its students, should receive most largely from its graduates. About one-third of the Alumni are located in New York. In every state and territory except Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Arizona and Nevada, are found Auburn men. This includes Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. And they are scattered with lavish hand. Pennsylvania has 52, Ohio 40, New Jersey 36, Michigan 34, Illinois 31, California 27. The western states are full of them. Oregon has 13, Washington 10, Minnesota 17, Montana 6, North Dakota 11, Colorado 10.

All of the provinces and some of the territories of the Dominion of Canada have Auburn representatives.

They are found in Mexico, Cuba, the West Indies and South America. Centers for the leavening influence of the Kingdom of Heaven are occupied by Alumni of Auburn in Japan, China, Korea, Laos, India, Persia, Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey in Europe, Bulgaria and in Africa.

They have gone into all the world to preach the gospel. And succeeding classes, like the sparks from an anvil, leave the Seminary knowing neither direction nor boundary. Their field is the world.

Auburn City's

Greatest
Institution

We may be pardoned for calling the attention of the citizens of Auburn to the fact that the Seminary is easily the most important of all its noble institutions. This is not to the discredit of the many other and splendid religious, charitable and educational enterprises of this beautiful city. They are necessarily local institutions, to meet local needs, and ministering to Auburn residents. They fill well their several places.

But the Seminary is the one among them all that is

world-wide in its clientele, in its influence, in its reputation. . The fact that our students last year came from twenty-four different states and countries, thirty-two different universities and colleges and seven different Christian denominations shows the far-reach of our good name. The fact that there are about a thousand men now living in forty-five of our states and territories, and in all of our island possessions, in all the Canadian Provinces, in Mexico, Cuba, South America and in all of the great counties of Asia and Africa, who are vital, virile, leaders in the thought and life of their respective communities, made such in large measure by this Seminary, this fact or rather group of facts, shows the far-reach and potency of the influence of our Seminary. The city of Auburn has no institution that does so much to carry its fair name to the ends of the earth. Wherever in the world you find a Presbyterian minister or missionary, and there are over 7,000 of them, you will find the name of Auburn is known and honored, for even where the man has not been a student here, he knows about the Seminary. In most of the more than 7,000 Presbyterian churches, the name of Auburn is held in high esteem. The same may be said of religious circles connected with other churches, for the Seminary which bears the name of this city is widely known throughout the religious world. This has been the case for over eighty years. Who can measure or even guess what this all means in the way of influence, power, effectiveness in the interest of the highest and best things of society and mankind! The citizens of Auburn are justly proud of their Seminary, but it is not improbable that even the most interested of them has failed to realize its magnitude, and its preeminence among our institutions in purpose, mission, influence, friends, repute and value to the city and the world. All these will be vastly increased when the plans for the enlargement of the Seminary materialize. Toward this enlargement no citizen of Auburn can do too much, and every citizen ought to volunteer, without being asked, to do something.

BY HENRY A. NELSON, D. D., 1846.

I am asked to furnish to THE SEMINARY RECORD, "A sketch of the class that has been away from Auburn sixty years-something of those days in Auburn and of the men of the class."

As my "days in Auburn were providentially extended ten years beyond the three of that class in the Seminary, this very gratifying invitation gives me large liberty of reminiscence. I must be careful not to indulge myself too largely. That class began its existence in the autumn of 1843, shortly after the Chair of Christian Theology became vacant by the death of its first occupant, Dr. James Richards. It remained vacant during our Junior year. We suffered no loss on that account, as at that time the curriculum was so arranged that instruction in that department began with the middle year. Thus it came to pass that Dr. Laurens P. Hickok had us for the first class of his pupils. As a class we became admirers of him, and I counted myself peculiarly favored, when he surprised me by an invitation to board at his table during our Senior year. This privilege I shared with Samuel T. Seelye, a nephew of Mrs. Hickok, who entered the class at the beginning of that year, having been previously a pupil of Dr. Hickok at Hudson, O. His younger brother, Julius H. Seelye, entered Auburn Seminary in 1849, and was graduated from it in 1852. Others of that class were Edward D. Morris, Robert R. Booth and Ransom B. Welch, afterwards Professor of Christian Theology there. It is my privilege to have now as a near neighbor, Prof. W. T. Seelye, a son of President Julius H. Seelye. Dr. Morris of the class of 1852, became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Auburn immediately after graduating, six years after my installation. We soon learned that we had the same

*This was the year in which the classes of 1846 and 1856 would have had their sixtieth and fiftieth anniversaries respectively, if it had been possible. As it was not possible, we asked Dr. Nelson and Dr. Beecher to give us the following articles.-EDITORS.

birthday, Oct. 31, he having been born in 1825 and I in 1820. Our relations became intimate during our years at Auburn, and so continued most happily through his twelve years at Columbus and mine at St. Louis, followed by our six years together at Lane Seminary, and unbroken by our separation in places of residence. He is now in his 81st year and I in my 86th year. We have dined together or exchanged letters on every Oct. 31 since 1852.

The names of my class as copied from the printed list of the class of '46 and the general catalogue, are Henry Hopkins Doolittle, Frederick Johnson Jackson, James Hatch Kasson, Edward Lord, Silas McKinney, Henry Addison Nelson, Henry Webster Parker, Porter Brown Parry, Parsons Stewart Pratt, John Harris Sage, Samuel Taylor Seelye, Addison Kellogg Strong, Edward Taylor, William Wallace Williams, Morgan LeRoy Wood. Besides these, who were graduated together in 1846, five others are given as having been with us in some part of the course. These were William Webster Belden, Asahel Brooks, George Bushnell, James H. Capon, Alexander Dick, Horace Lyman, Montgomery Morgan Wakeman.

I had the happiness of officiating at the marriage of three of my classmates-Doolittle, Parry and McKinney, soon after our graduation, and Parker a few years later. The brides of the first and second were not members of my congregation, but of two neighboring congregations which were without pastors. McKinney's bride was my sister Fanny, who was with him as a missionary in Zululand for twelve years. Her grave was made there in 1861, and beside it that of an infant daughter. One who had seen it told me ten years ago, that the Cypress tree which her husband planted there was then eighty feet high. Her husband desired to continue in that mission, but the professional judgment of physicians did not permit it. He was a faithful pastor and home missionary for several years, and died in Auburn in 1888. Four of his children survive, three of

whom are parents. Parker's bride was a beautiful and beloved daughter of Elder Abijah Fitch of Auburn. At another wedding, Feb. 23, 1847, Professor Henry Mills, D. D., was the officiating clergyman, and I was the brideThe bride was his daughter Margaret,

groom.

"That being beauteous who unto my youth was given.
More than all things else to love me,

And is now a saint in Heaven."

My classmate Parker was for some years pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Aurora and quite naturally was often at Auburn, and I sometimes at Aurora. While he was a professor in the Agricultural College at Amherst, I had the pleasure of sitting with him at the table of our revered teacher, Dr. Hickok, and also of visiting Parker in his own home after the decease of his wife. He showed me many portraits of her, among others one, a pencil sketch by his own hand, of her lying asleep upon a sofa shortly after their marriage. While we were enjoying these, I said to him: 'Parker, do not you remember a life-size French photograph that was for sale in Wynkoop's book store, which we all admired as an ideal of womanly beauty-all the more because it so strikingly resembled Miss Helen Fitch? " He turned in his chair and pointed to that very picture, where it hung upon the wall behind us. Very naturally he had made himself the owner of it while his classmates did not know that she was more to him than to us all. My only wonder was that I could have entered the room without seeing it. Parker himself who was no mean artist and poet said that it was the best likeness of all that he had of her.

My classmate Strong was an alumnus of Hamilton College, but not in the class of 1840, of which I was a member. My teaching three years before going to Auburn Seminary brought us together there. I think it was in our first year there that I was conversing with Miss Margaret Mills in her home, and happened to be expressing my opinion of the value of a sister to a young man. I said that I thought I could