The great trusts and combinations, the advancement in the great lines of steamships and railroads and many other forms of activity in the business world are bringing about changes that cannot be stayed, that cannot be resisted. It is our duty to get into our places and do our work. We must have new methods to meet the new conditions.

The church needs the co-operation of its members. Co-operation is the key to the situation, a situation that must be met. There is a tendency in the churches to overload the willing workers.

This ought not so to be. Everyone should have a share in the work. As you go on in the last quarter of this century of the church's history, from the close of the nineteenth century into the glorious possibilities of the twentieth century as it opens up before us, I hope you will be filled with the spirit of co-operation.

Rev. J. Lovejoy Robertson, D.

D., whose pastorate from Nov. 1882 to Oct. 1896, is the longest in the history of the church, was the last speaker, and was introduced by Mr. Stone as the father of the new church building, as it was during the time that he was pastor of the church that the present edifice was built. Dr.

Robertson spoke of the old church and of the large minded, far seeing men, admirably fitted for laying the foundations of such a structure which for more than sixty years was sufficient to meet the demands of the organization. As I recall their names, said Dr. Robertson, I am bound to do them honor.

The receding forms of men who have left sacred memories come to have a halo about them. One of the best gifts to this church was the high-minded men who founded it.