COPY OF THE INSCRIPTION, AS IT APPEARED IN 1895, IN THE OLD SCOT'S BURYING GROUND, IN MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, UPON THE TOMBSTONE OF THE REV. JOHN BOYD, THE FIRST MINISTER OF WHOSE ORDINATION BY THE PRESBYTERY IN AMERICA ANY OFFICIAL RECORD EXISTS. From Photograph made for Rev. Henry Goodwin Smith, D. D. PIENTISSIMI DOMINI JOANNIS BOYDII CINERES ECCLESIAE HUJUS CAL QUI ILLUM PERNOVERUNT ATQUE AUGUSTI MILLESIMO SEP TINGENTESIMO OCTAVO AETATIS SUAE VICESIMO NONO. THE ASHES OF THE EMINENTLY PIOUS MR. JOHN BOYD, PASTOR OF THIS CHURCH OF CALVIN, ARE BURIED HERE. HIS LABOR, ALTHOUGH EXPENDED ON BARREN GROUND, HE DID NOT LOSE. THEY WHO KNEW HIM WELL ALSO PROVED HIS WORTH [WHO WAS] AT THAT TIME DISTINGUISHED FOR [HIS] VIRTUES. READER, FOLLOW PERSEVERINGLY HIS FOOTSTEPS, AND I HOPE THOU WILT BE HAPPY. HE DIED THE THIRTIETH DAY OF AUGUST, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, IN THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR OF HIS AGE. THUS, FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHIC COPY, THE REV. HENRY C. CAMERON, D. D., PROFESSOR IN PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, HAS SUCCESSFULLY DECIPHERED, RESTORED AND TRANSLATED THE TIME-WORN INSCRIPTION UPON THE TOMBSTONE OF THE REV. JOHN BOYD. ACTION OF THE PRESBYTERY OF MONMOUTH, JANUARY 22d, 1901. The Presbytery of Monmouth takes peculiar pleasure in joining with the Presbytery of West Jersey in offering to their beloved friend, the Rev. Allen H. Brown, at the conclusion of eighty years of life and over fifty years in the Gospel ministry, a token of their deepest respect and tenderest affection. They wish him to understand that they consider him as though a member of their own body, and their meetings scarcely seem complete when he does not show his face for at least a part of the sessions of Presbytery. They are grateful to God that he has been pleased to preserve his life during so many years of devoted and self-denying labor, and that he has given him strength to bear the trials and sufferings which have been made his portion during his long ministry. They feel under deep obligation to him for the time and toil he has expended within their bounds, the intelligence and wisdom which has characterized him in counsel, the appreciation he has displayed for the historical associations connected with much of their territory, for the enthusiasm with which he has pursued his historical researches, for the ability which he has shown to excite the interest and zeal of others and for the substantial results which have followed from his untiring labors. They beg that he will accept from them this imperfect expression of admiration for his character, their gratitude for what he has done for them, and their constant affection for his person. Their fervent prayer is, that the God he has served so faithfully may give him perfect peace and comfort in the |