"when president olin of wesleyan died, the chair was offered to mcclintock, but he preferred the call to the editorship of "the methodist quarterly review" [after 1885 "the methodist review"], a post which he held with distinction for eight years" from 1848 to 1856. he declined the presidency of troy university in 1855. from 1857 to 1860 mcclintock was pastor of st paul's (methodist episcopal) church, new york city; from 1860 to 1864 he had charge of the american chapel in paris, and there and in london did much to turn public opinion in favour of the northern states.