Personal politeness helped him also; for he was one of the most perfect gentlemen in America.

That practical sagacity made him the leader of the "new school" branch of our church, during the delicate negotiations for reunion in 1867, and on to 1870.

He knew human nature well, and never lost either his temper or his faith in the sure result.

To-day when that old lamentable rupture of our beloved church is as much a matter of past history as the rupture of the Union during the civil war, let us gratefully remember George W.Musgrave, the pilot of the "old school" and William Adams, the pilot of the "new." The last sermon that I ever heard Dr.Adams deliver was in my Lafayette Avenue Church pulpit a few years before his death.

His text was the closing passage of the fourth chapter of Second Corinthians.