Many of the Church's sons were among the thousands who sought California in quest of gold, and these Argonauts she would follow whithersoever they went.

They must not be left alone to wrestle with the temptations which would beset them far away from home and the hallowing influences of sacred institutions and religious services.

Hence it is that we behold that zealous missionary of the Church, the Rev.Flavel Scott Mines, going forth to seek out Christ's sheep in San Francisco and elsewhere, and to gather them into the fold of the Good Shepherd.

His history is most interesting and instructive.

He was the son of Rev.John Mines, D.D., a Presbyterian clergyman of Virginia, and was born in Leesburg, Va., on the 31st of December, 1811.