a striking and graphic manner in his monumental book, “A Presbyterian Clergyman Looking For the Church,” a work of marked ability and of great utility.  It had a large sale in his day, and it is still sought after as a book of permanent value.  It is a strong plea for Apostolic Order and Liturgical Worship, and it is safe to say that it has been instrumental in leading many an inquirer into the “old paths” and the Faith as “once delivered to the Saints.”  The Rev. Mr. Mines, after his ordination, became assistant minister in St. George’s Church, New York city, under Rev. Dr. James Milnor.  From here he went to the Danish West Indies and became Rector of St. Paul’s Parish, Fredericksted, St. Croix, about forty miles square and embracing almost half of the island.  Owing to failing health he returned, after many arduous labours, to the United States, and became Rector of St. Luke’s Church, Rossville, Staten Island.  He went finally to San Francisco, where he preached for the first time on July 8th, 1849, in the midst of the gold excitement, and on July 22nd of this same year, became the founder of Trinity Parish, where his honoured name is still held in grateful remembrance, not merely by some of the twenty-two original members, who still live, but by their children and grandchildren.  The first Trinity Church was located on the northeast corner of Post and Powell Streets.  It was a modest building, which, in 1867, gave place to an edifice, Gothic in design, costing $85,000.  A few years ago the present Trinity Church was erected on the northeast corner of Bush and Gough Streets, with ample grounds for parish buildings.  This sacred edifice is one of the finest and largest churches on the Pacific coast, and is a combination of Spanish and Byzantine styles of architecture.  It was designed by A. Paige Brown, who was the architect of the California building at the Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, and also of the new Bethesda Church, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.  I have thus dwelt with particularity on the Rev. Flavel Scott Mines’s life and work, because Trinity Parish is the mother of all the other Parishes in California, and because here in this new edifice, where there is a tablet to his memory, and where he is buried, the General Convention was held in 1901, a council of the Church which will ever be memorable.  It is well also to rescue from oblivion the memory of a man who laid the foundations of the Church in California on the enduring principles of the ancient creeds.  May we not learn also from the facts of his life, which show how faithful and accomplished he was, that the men who are to be heralds of the Cross in new fields are to be the ablest and the best equipped that the Church can furnish?  Other early missionaries of the Church who may be named here are the Rev. Dr. Ver Mehr, who arrived in San Francisco in September, 1849, and in 1850 founded Grace Parish; and Rev. John Morgan, who organised Christ Church Parish in 1853; and Rev. Dr. Christopher