My Brothers, now, eleven years have gone

Since first we laid our Shrine's grand Corner-stone ;
Since first our three-fold Ensign was displayed.

What is the score?

Behold the record made!

See from the rough Atlantic main

To fair Louisiana's sunny plain;

E'en from New England's bleak and cragged hills
To where the fragrant orange flower distils
Its sweet perfume, a host has risen to praise
Our glorious Shrine, which in each noon-day blaze,
With full-orbed dome, stands forth in noble mien;
And on its glittering walls are clearly seen
These words enwrit, in brilliant, living light,-
Brave words, proclaiming far a well-won right,-
Stellis Aequis Durando," that they are

As "lasting in duration as a star."

Then, see our worthy Brother-host arrayed
Throughout the world, in every sphere and grade
Of human life, of high and low degree,-
These members of our dear Fraternity.
In Legislative Halls their power is felt;
In Courts of Law as judges they have dwelt;
The altars of the Holy Church have seen
Them serve the Will Divine with humble mien ;

In palaces of opulence and fame;

In homes of humbler wealth and modest name;
In many ways of Science and of Art,

They've found a place and hold a worthy part,-
Exemplars by a high fidelity

Of that which gives our Shrine its right to be.

Long would I dwell upon a theme so grand,
The Shrine and merits of our Brother-band,
But need is none that I should sound their praise;
Wide-known our Shrine, well-sung our Brothers' ways.
My task is done when I but give the toast,-

HALL OF ALPHA MU CHAPTER,
PHI KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY,
225 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.
October 29, 1913.

REV. DR. CLAY MACCAULEY,

TOKYO, JAPAN.

Dear Sir and Brother; At a dinner following the initiation of six new Phi Kaps, Brother H. F. King read "Our Shrine and Our Fraternity." The time for this presentation was more than fitting since the dinner was held in honor of "Founder's Day." The poem coming as it did from the early ages of Phi Kapdom brought closer together those who have labored in the past for the Fraternity, and those at present actively interested.

Upon motion of Brother Dow, the Chapter by a rising vote, expressed its appreciation. for your message and active interest in Alpha Mu.

We are all looking forward to the time when you will be with us once more, and we all join in extending you the best wishes for the future.

Fraternally yours,

CHARLES W. FRY,

Sigma for Alpha Mu Chapter,
Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.

3.

The Pastorate of a Congregational Church in Prospect,

As the last year of my studies while I was a member of the Northwestern Theological Seminary was passing, the desired opportunity for beginning work as a settled minister was offered much earlier then I had expected. Being a member of the Senior Class of the Seminary and licensed to preach, I was invited that winter to the pulpits of several churches in the Northwest, both Presbyterian and Congregational.

I had no intention of taking a pastorate before my graduation, but, at the end of January, 1907, I received a al, pratimously given, to become pastor of the "First Congregational Society" in Morrison, Linois. The call was so gratifying personally and the prospect through it for a satisfactory and useful ministry was se promising, that I égpied my willingness to accept it, not intending, Lowever, to take up permanent residence with the Society until I should have completed the Seminary course.

Immediately, I met with a strong opposition from some members of the faculty and of the Presbytery whose Loentiate I was. Consequently, I wrote on February 6th, 1567, to my Morrison friends;

"I am, as you know, a licentiate of the Chicago Presbytery and as such am under its control. While I continue to be a member of that body, I am in conscience bound to obey its directions. A prominent member of that body has told me that, until I am disconnected from the Presbytery, I have no legal, or moral, right to preach as candidate, or pastor, outside the Presbyterian communion. A professor of the Seminary said to me yesterday that it is his wish that no call should be accepted by a student while in attendance at the Seminary. I can see no other way than to submit to this condition while I am a Seminary student. My obligations to the Church which has reared and educated me are stronger than I had realized, and I must withdraw my acceptance of your affectionate call."

4.

Graduation from the Theological Seminary,

Thereupon I secluded myself to my duties as a Seminary Student. With the spring I was given an honorable graduation. My parents having returned during that year to Chambersburg, which was rapidly rebuilding,

replacing the losses of the great conflagration of two years before, I was left in the Northwest wholly reliant upon my personal resources; confronting my life-work; having been made ready to enter whatever way in my profession that might be opened.

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CHAPTER FOURTH

THE WINNING OF MY FAITH

I.

Ministry at Morrison.

With graduation from the Seminary, I became free to accept a pastorate. On the 9th of May, 1867, the Morrison Church urgently renewed its invitation. Enabled to procure a dismissal from the Chicago Presbytery to "unite with the Northwestern Congregational Association," I accepted the call, and immediately assumed my first charge as a prospective pastor. From the vantage ground I had thereby gained, I felt at liberty to preach as one of the several liberals who were then acceptably in fellowship with Congregational Churches in the West as, also, in New England.

During the ensuing summer I had what seemed to be a notably successful ministry. I heard once that one of the Church officers expressed some concern about the coming to our services of some of "the infidels" of the town. But, all in all, the Society and its minister were happy; and they had good reason to be hopeful of a prosperous and useful future.

a. The Council at Morrison.-On August 7th, a Church meeting was held. It was unanimously voted then that, "Rev. Clay McCauley become the pastor of the Church by being regularly installed as such at the time of