Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 65His three sons graduated at this academy, and because of temporarytroubles at Geneva, Armour and Joseph enteredMiami University, and William at a later date, graduated fromWashington and Jefferson.These three sons graduated from our Seminary inAllegheny.Our Seminary in Allegheny this last winter could havehad its full quota of students if parents half did their duty.The grandchildren of this West Bedford storekeeper arecollege-bred. This day, one is a doctor of medicine; one is ateacher, and another is a missionary in the employment ofthis Synod.Some benefit their generation in one way and some inanother. One gives attention to the improvement of stock—the cattle and the horses, the enriching of the soil of thefield; others to the character of the endowments they manageto have imparted to their children.Some children are fortunate because born in this house;some are not fortunate because born in that house.Taine in his "Literature" in discussing Milton, in a footnotequotes from Masson's "Life of Milton" these words: "Myfather dest(ned me while yet a little child for the study ofhumane letters."In April of 1862, Mr. McFarland was married to MissTillie Gregg, daughter of David Gregg and wife, of honoredmemory. On the death of this wife, at a later date, he marriedMiss Mary C. Crozier, daughter of Rev. John Crazier,of Elizabeth.Dr. McFarland for twenty years was pastor of SalemCongregation, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. For twelveyears, pastor of St. Johns, New Brunswick.For thirteen years he was Synodic lecturer for the Test'monyBearing B'ureau. He greatly enjoyed this work andit was one of the sorrows of his life that he was called to relinquishit.Some of us believe that if this man had been given work,that would have required time and care, where one couldRive effort because results would be of account, that he couldhave preached with pleasure to himself and profit to othersto the last twenty months of his life on earth.Men there are, whose days are shortened because theyhave not had given to them that, that will quicken to exertion.I will quote from Foch, the man at whose word millionsmoved, or did not move, as he saw fit to speak the word—Iquote literally his own words: "Intellectual energy can produceabsolute forgetfulness of all bodily ailments until thebody is in actual danger of collapse."The Doctor was given his degree by Miami University in1895.Signed:W. P. Johnston,W. J. Coleman.