The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-18

he was ready to receive visitors. Every
hour until bedtime not of the earliest had
its duties and demands.
In the pulpit DR.. Halls predominant char
acterjstics were his sincerity ludicity and
simplicity of thought. The structure of his
sermons showed that progress so vital to
entertaining discourse The manner was
like the matter and the man. 1t was strong
and simple and direct with the charm of a
rich, deep voice in whose accents some dis
covered trace of the land which gave him
birth. His language was the purest Anglo
Saxon. Although he preached without notes
or manuscript Of any kind, yet his sermons
were all carefully written out before their
delivery.
HIS CAREER IN IRELAND
DR.. Hall was descended from a Scotch
family that has lived in the county of
Armagh. Ireland. since 1900. While in coll
lege he became interested in Sunday school
and mission work. He was a missionary
before he reached his majority. He gradu-
ated with honors. At twenty-one he went
to mission station at Camlin in the west
of Ireland. four miles from the town of
Boyle. This mission was established by
Mrs. Irwin, widow of John Irwin, Esq.
whose family for generations previous.
owned the large estates and resided in the
FAMILY mansion of Camlin She belonged
to the Protestant Episcopal Church, but
when it was impossible to secure an Episco-
palian mission there Mrs. Irwin had the
post established under Presbyterian aus
pices. When DR.. Hall was called to the
First Presbyterian Church a Armagh some
four years later, he took Mrs. Irwin with
him as Mrs. Hall.
The Armagh church was one of the most
prominent in the north of Ireland. There
Dr. Hall remained until 1858, when he
was called to the Church of st. Ma
rvs Abbey, Dublin. as assistant and sue
cessor to the aged DIR. Kirkpatrick. The
business district had grown around the
church, but its congregation so in
creased that it erected in a more advan-
r,nir Il II %I.N AAx,
Presbyterian Church. In 1867 Dr. Hall
came to this country with DR.. Denham as
the irish deputation to the. Old School
Presbyterian Assembly of the United States.
He addressed this assembly at Cincinnati,
and ,afterward the New School Assembly at
Dr. Hall spoke by invitation in the Fifth
avenue Presbyterian Church, New York,
June Is, 1867. Its pulpit was then vacant,
and when he returned to Ireland it cabled
him call The urgent Endorsement of his
old friend and distant relative, the late
deciding factor in his acceptance of the call.
He came at a salary of $1,000 in gold, when
gold was at q premium of $50; This was
raised to $4,000 currency, and afterward
increased to $1,000. Meanwhile his congre-
cation erected church and parsonage at
Fifth II avenue and Ff fly o6d street at a
building, at Nineteenth street, to the Cen
trail Presbyterian Church, which removed it
to West Fifty-seventh street. 1t has been
stated that the fees from marriages he has
received amounted to 5000 in a year. This
is mistake. His fees from this and all
other such sources never exceeded and
rarely amounted to $500 year.
The charities of the congregation include
the Alexander Chapel. on King street, the
Romeyn Chapel, on Fourteenth street. a
mission house on Sixty-third street, a Chi
reese mission on East F'ifty-ninth stl eet and
a childrenS home at Atlantic Highlands.
DR.. Hall was foe ten years chancellor
of the New York University, and he was a
trustee of Princeton, of the Union Theo-
logical Seminary and of Wellesley College,
Home Missions. He has written largely.
Among his books are Family Prayers for
Four Weeks QS6S, Papers for Home
Reading" QS7D, Familiar Talks to Boys:
Questions of the Day QS73), Gods Word
through Preaching" $50, Foundation
Stones for Young Builders QSS0), and "A
Christian Home and How to Maintain IT.