member some years ago when preaching for him, that he took the opportunity to preach at some half- deserted church, near Wooster. I asked him what he would preach about. ' O,' said he, ' my best Leaving the College. 53 sermon: "Blessed is lie whose transgression is for- ffiA^en, whose sin is covered." I have no doubt it was his 'best sermon,' for he was 'best' on such a subject. ' Sermons,' he said, "are with me the sur- vival of the fittest,' but we have all noticed that they were the ' fittest ' from having the most spiritual life." The doctrines commonly called " the doctrines of grace" were peculiarly dear to him. On all suitable occasions, he sought to expound them. An old acquaintance. Dr. J. T. Cooper, thus writes: One thing which increased my interest in Dr. Wallace, was the clearness with which he perceived, and the tenacity with which he clung to the doc- trines of grace, as they are set forth in the famous work entitled, " The Marrow of Modern Divinity," and in the writings of Thomas Boston, and the Erskines, and the late Dr. John Anderson, particu- larly in his work entitled "Saving Faith." As is well known to his immediate friends, he was brought to embrace these views as the only views which are strictly deserving the name of gos-