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ture and reason may be regarded as legitimate sub- jects of forbearance and that the controversy never could be settled on any other basis." The twelve months intervening between the adjournment of the Assembly of 1882, and the con- vening of the Assembly of 1883, were months of painful anxiety to many who loved the church of their choice. The question that Avas frequently 12 A Busy Life asked was, "What will be the result? will there be a division?'' Dr. Wallace was no idle spectator of what was passing. He loved the United Presby- terian Church ; it was the church of his birth, and of his choice. He could not be unconcerned, when her unity, if not her very existence, was threatened. One Avho was with him that summer at Clifton Springs and Ocean Grove gives the following: We were intimate companions boarding in the same house, occupying adjoining rooms, and hence were much in conversation, and always enjoyed our morning and evening devotions together. The bur- den of his plans and prayers was an amicable adjust- ment of the difficulties which threatened to disrupt the church, and alienate brethren who had hitherto "taken sweet counsel together" in the work of the Lord. I could not fail to mark the tenderness and earnestness of his petitions for "the peace of our