A fresh, handsome veteran he was, too--tall and straight as a ramrod, and exceedingly winsome in his manners.

He had been famous as the editor of the _Westminster Review_ and quite famous in civil life, for he was a member of the British Parliament and once had been the Governor of Hong Kong.

He produced several volumes, but will owe his immortality to half a dozen superb hymns.

Of these the best is "In the cross of Christ I glory"; but we also owe to him that fine missionary hymn, "Watchman, tell us of the night" He told my Presbyterian friend, Dr.Harper, in China, that the first time he ever heard it sung was at a prayer meeting of American missionaries in Turkey.

Sir John died about four months after I had met him, at the ripe age of eighty, and on his monument is inscribed only this single appropriate line, "In the cross of Christ I glory." The first time I ever saw Dr.Horatius Bonar was in May, 1872, when I was attending the Free Church General Assembly of Scotland as a delegate from the Presbyterian Church in the United States.