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period, in connection with his college work, he served as 

 Pastor of the First Reformed Church of Eastern for seven 

 years, from 1877 to 1884. In 1865 the degree of D.. D. was 

 conferred upon him by Rutgers' College, and that of LL. D. 

 by Franklin and Marshall in 1880. Outside the sphere of 

 his official duties, Dr. Porter has delivered a great many 

 sermons, lectures and addresses on public occasions. 

 Among his printed works are : " The Life and Times of 

 Ulric Zwingli," from the German of Hottinger ; u The Life 

 and Labors of St. Augustine," from the German of Dr. 

 Philip Schaff, and a version of Goethe's " Hermann and 

 Dorothea," in prose. His many translations of Horace's 

 odes and the translation of the " Dies Iree," rank high. 

 The Merc&rsburg Review is indebted to him for a number of 

 valuable articles on literary and theological subjects. He 

 was an active member of the committee which framed the 

 Order of Worship, now used by the Reformed Church in the 

 United States, and at the celebration of the 300th anniver- 

 sary of the Heidelberg Cathecism in Philadelphia, January, 

 1863, read an original memoir of its authors and a trans- 

 lation of the essay on the University of Heidelberg, by Dr. 

 Hundeshagen, both of which are published in the Tercen- 

 tenary Monument. To Dr. Schaff' s " Christ in Song," he con- 

 tributed several hymns and lyric poems, from the Latin 

 and the German, and not a few of like character to The 

 Lafayette and its predecessors. In the preface to his poeti- 

 cal version of the " Kalevala," Dr. J. M. Crawford makes 

 special acknowledgment of his great obligations to his old 

 professor for advice and assistance. 



In the scientific world, as is well known, Dr. Porter has 

 achieved high distinction, and that chiefly in the domain 



