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24 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
_ John Dunmore Lang, D.D. He was more prominent as a ci 
and in political, educational, and religious questions, than 
member of our Society, and hence it is not necessary that Is 
enlarge as on the subject of my preceding notice, 
Dr. Lang was born in Greenock, Scotland, in August, 17 
After preliminary training in the parish school of Largs, 
attended the University of Glasgow for eight years, four years in 
general study for the degree of M.A., and four years in theologi 
studies. Having obtained license and ordination, according to the 
forms of the Church of Scotland, he determined to emigrate, 
he arrived i in Sydney in May, 1823, being the first, and for sever 
_ years the only, Presbyterian Minister in Australia, In 1824 
building known as the Scots Church was erected for him 
Church Hill, and he continued the minister of it till his death 
Full of zeal and energy, he travelled much over the Colonies, @ 
made repeated voyages to his native country, partly to prom 
immigration, and partly to obtain clergymen and schoolma 
for his scheme of church extension, and for the promotion of 1 
higher education of the people. He was chiefly instrumen 
establishing the Australian College, which for a number of 
did good work in Sydney. 
In 1843, on the first introduction of a representative ee! 
in the local Legislature, he was elected as a Member for 
Phillip. In 1850, after returning from a lenge a 
during which he had travelled much i in Great Britain and A 
_, and done much to promote emigration, he was elected as 41 
sentative for Sydney, and several times afterwards he was & 
for the same constituency. He finally retired from Parliament 
oe the occasion of the union of the different bodies of Presby 
° to form one Church, in 1865, 
Dr. Lang wrote several books on the Colonies, besides ? 
. ‘controversial pamphlets. He became a member of the 
Society i in 1867, and read several papers on the “ Origit 
_ *“igratiors of the Polynesian Nation,” and one on “New! 
