The centennial memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle; a series of papers, historical and biographical, relating to the origin and growth of Presbyterianism in the central and eastern part of southern Pennsylvania . Annie Clark, was a woman of superior excellenceand of great moral worth. These parents had a family of fifteen children and were mostfaithful in their religious training and in the general watch andcare of their household. It was the custom of the father,though busied with mercantile pursuits, to find time to retirestatedly with his children for religious instruction, counsel andpr
The centennial memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle; a series of papers, historical and biographical, relating to the origin and growth of Presbyterianism in the central and eastern part of southern Pennsylvania . Annie Clark, was a woman of superior excellenceand of great moral worth. These parents had a family of fifteen children and were mostfaithful in their religious training and in the general watch andcare of their household. It was the custom of the father,though busied with mercantile pursuits, to find time to retirestatedly with his children for religious instruction, counsel andprayer. The religious influence of the mother was no less con-stant and salutary. A covenant-keeping God failed not to ownand bless such parentnal faithfulness. Their children, one afteranother, were all brought to recognize their covenant relation shipand to take upon them the vows of discipleship and to give en-couraging evidence that they lived and died in the Lord. Dr. Harper, like many others, thus trained from infancy inthe knowledge, worship and service of God, was not able to pointU) the time when he first experienced the saving powerof tiivine grace in his soul. Like Samuel, he seemed to have. J^Liy {m-C^^Ji/i^c Rev. James Harper, D. 1). 211 known the Lord from a child. After five years of preparatorystudy, chiefly at the Glasgow G-rammar School, in October, 1820he entered the college of Glasgow and had, among others, as afellow student, the poet, Robert Pollock. In this institutionhe took the regular classical and scientific course and graduatedwith the highest esteem of the professors and the universal re-spect of his fellow students. Having in the meantime been admitted to the full connnunionof the church and consecrated himself to the service of God inthe work of the Christian ministry, he entered the DivinityHall, where he spent five years in the prosecution of his theo-logical studies, under the instruction, among others, of thewell-known Dr. Dick, the aut
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