them the echoes of "old men eloquent," and the very place is fragrant. Around it the dead have gathered as if for safeguard, and just as all seemed sure, and all respect confirmed, a rude demolishing hand sweeps it away; and

ple, with its pretended buttresses of wood, and with its plaster walls pencilled into pretended slabs of stone; and its deceitful beams of pine, which would fain be oak, and tell a

past degenerate to a fault, but let it at least amount to a virtue.

I, for my part, bad as it was, think the style of the old St. Bardolph's was far better than the modern. I cannot bear to see the sombre Gothic, or even the Doric, the Ionic and Co

over which there has not been formed a new link of attachment. Does he not bind the holy and indissoluble bands of matrimony? Does he not take into his arms, and receive the child into the congregation of Christ's flock? He is present with them at the aus-there rises up instead of it a bedizened tempicious beginnings when all is hope, and to soothe, to allay, to comfort, when all seems verging upon despair; and they cannot choose but love him, however humble he may be. But as I have represented the Rector to belie; and its gaudy windows, daubed with well-established in the affections of his peo- flashy colors; and not one trace, one relic, ple, it may be well on the threshold to say one memento, in the whole spot to bring up a few words of other things. the sacred past. Ye spirits of the dead! it is The old church in which he officiated had been enough to make you rise in protestation. built before the revolution, and its architec-Can devotion dwell where there is not a sentural propriety would shock the ecclesiologist.timent for things like these? What hands It had a spire which was nothing to brag of, but the cruel would unlock the ivy from its surmounted by an outlandish weathercock; its much-loved tower, or hurl down those towers portal was inelegant, it had cumbrous galle- to deface and shiver the monuments of the ries, a pulpit with a sounding board, high-dead? Let not a mere reverence for the backed pews, contrasted with the lolling and lulling sofas which we find in churches now, and no particular proportions except those which had suggested themselves to the genius of a house-carpenter. On the reading desk lay one of those immense bibles, (to open which required the strength of a mus-rinthian, set forth on clap-boards on a scale cular arm,) presented long ago by the English not much grander than toy-houses which "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel children build. If there is little space, less in Foreign Parts." St. Bardolph's remained money, and no material but boards, put up a in statu quo until a few years ago, when the plain, rectangular building, and let the proBaptists, having confronted it with a Gothic, portions be good. A little cathedral is a mior rather Gothicised building, (tempora mu-serable affair. I remember very well how tantur,) on the opposite side of the street, Mr. Admuller's church looked. It was quaint and stared it out of countenance, the old St. and peculiar, and suited to be carved of wood. Bardolph's was destroyed, and not one stone But to return from this digression:-The left upon another. But this sacrilege did not Rector remained unmarried. This formed occur in Mr. Admuller's time. Fire may the subject of a little gossip. Notwithstandburn, earthquake may destroy; but the hand ing a multitude of fascinations, he seemed of man ought not, for slight causes, demolish not more matrimonially-inclined than when rudely a consecrated temple. We would dis-he first came to the parish. What could be card all superstition about the matter. If his views on that subject? Did he mean to there is a sheer necessity, let it be done; but make the Church his wife? Did he think consider the thick and clustered associations with St. Paul that he had better remain even of such a place. In those very seats our fa- as he was? Did he with godly, pleasant Mr. thers sat; in yonder corner used to be seen a Herbert, think that a good wife is a blessing? venerable head, and we feel as if the spirit of He never said what his opinions were, althe patriarch must still be present; where though several had endeavored to pump him. yonder altar is, how often the baptismal seal He apportioned his subdued attentions to the was set; the very walls seem to hold within fair of his flock as impartially as one would

It is said that when the mother of Wash-as essential to the culture of almost every ington was asked how she formed the charac- virtue. Nothing can be more foolish than an ter of her son, she replied, that she had early idea which parents have, that it is not respecendeavored to teach him three things: Obe-table to set their children to work. Play is a dience, Diligence, and Truth. No better ad-good thing; innocent recreation is an employvice can be given by any parents. Teachment, and the child may learn early to be useyour children to obey; let it be the first les-ful.

As to truth, it is the one essential thing. son. You can hardly begin too soon. It reLet everything else be sacrificed rather than quires constant care to keep up the habit of that. Without it, what dependence can you obedience, and especially to do it in such a place in your child? And be sure to do noway as not to break down the strength of the thing yourself which may countenance any child's character. Teach your children to be species of prevarication or falsehood. Yet diligent. The habit of being always employ-how many parents do teach their children the ed is a great safeguard through life, as well first lesson of deception!

AN OLD DISCIPLE.

HE ornament of a meek and quiet days had long been occasions of family festival re spirit," is not less beautiful be- unions; the last of which saw her entrance on her cause unobtruded upon the hundredth year, with-to human view-a fair pros world's gaze, or less valuable pect of reaching its termination. Her call to Paradise because hardly known beyond cut that year short ten days after the half of it had the circle of family, and neigh-transpired. During this fraction of the last year of borhood, and choice friends. Indeed, there is her life, she suffered heavy affliction by the death of that in this very concentration, this very seher daughter-in-law, Mrs. Maria Jones Thorne, wife of curity from waste and dilution, which adds Dr. Richard V. W. Thorne, a most estimable and be. lustre to beauty, and reality to value. And loved lady, and her grand-daughter-in-law, Mrs. Maria surely by no rule of judgment can beauty and Johnson Thorne, wife of Richard V. W. Thorne, jun., value have higher claims imparted to them than and daughter of the Rev. Evan M. Johnson. Her by that which the Holy Ghost, through St. Peter, ap-sight and hearing, for some time greatly impaired, at plies to this "ornament of a meek and quiet spirit," length entirely left her; and for a while it was feared that it is, in the sight of God, of great price." her intellect had also. But it pleased God that this Such thoughts pass through the writer's mind, while should revive. At her last hour she had an entire reflecting on the recent death of a very aged and be- consciousness of her approaching dissolution; and alloved friend, an old disciple, the days of the years of though the material light was excluded from her per whose pilgrimage blessed two generations of her fa- ception, she gave token of rejoicing in the precious mily, friends, and neighbors, with the persuasions and manifestation to her soul of Him Who is "the Light encouragements of continued constant proofs of di- of the World ;" and uttered with her expiring breath vine grace working in the heart, character, and life, the memorable words of the saint of old, "Lord, now the love of God and man. lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace."

MRS. MARY THORNE, relict of John Thorne, died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Tredwell, at Great Neck, Long Island, on Saturday, February 22, in the hundredth year of her age. She was of one of the oldest families in that part of the country, being the daughter of John and Elizabeth Maynard Allen, of Great Neck; which was, through life, her place of residence. Her original parochial connection was with St. George's Church, Hempstead; the Rector of which, in her young days, was the Rev. Samuel Seabury, the father of Bishop Seabury, of whom she retained a distinct recollection. This parochial connection was changed to Christ Church, Manhasset, on the formation ef that parish, out of St. George's, some thirty years ago. She was a communicant for about seventy-five years-probably the oldest one on Long Island, if not in the Diocese of New-York. At 18 she assumed the responsibilities of married life; in which, and a widowhood of twenty five years, she manifested the sincerity of her Christian profession, in a meek and quiet spirit, and in the affections and duties of the faith, piety, and charity of the Gospel. An object of love and veneration to all who knew her, and especially to her children, and

children's children, to the fourth generation, her birth

The writer will add an incident in the life of this venerable lady, communicated by her to him two or three years ago, and which will probably be not without interest to the reader, especially as a fact illustrative of the operations of the human mind. It is given according to the best of recollection, and certainly varies in no essential point from the communication made. Some 40 years before this conversation, a child died for whom Mrs. Thorne had a very strong affection, and whose memory she fondly cherished for many years. In time, other thoughts and cares interposed, and for a long while the thought of the child had not been in her mind, until not long before the interview above noticed, when, in a dream, she was carried back to the funeral, and immediately recog nised the precise spot in the church-yard where the child had been buried, viewed the grave, and was about reading the epitaph, when she awoke. She rereminded that she had greatly admired the epitaph, gretted having awakened at that instant, because then although it had long been forgotten. Soon after she fell asleep again, was again, in her dream, at the grave, read the epitaph, and on waking was rejoiced to find it entirely restored to her recollection. She recited it

to the writer.

B. T. 0.

DILIGENCE.-Let every man that hath a calling be diligent in the pursuance of its employment; yet ever remembering so to work in his calling as not to neglect

the work of his higher calling, but to begin and end the day with God.-Bp. Taylor.

EDITOR'S TABLE,

Here was exactly the man. There were no superficial traits in Dr. Jarvis's character. He looked into subjects deeply. He felt, where feeling was a duty, deeply. When he entered into discussion, or gave an opinion, it was under an habitual sense of the solemnity and importance of truth, and a deep solicitude that nothing but truth should be held by him, or escape his lips. His learning was wisdom, attained conscientiously, and used for the purpose of doing good, with rigid adherence to sound principles, and virtuous means and motives. It was deep and exten

and reasoned upon them, and defended them, with a religious sense of the grave responsibility of exerting influence over the minds of others. He knew nothing of the display of multiplying words without knowledge; and sought rather how the light which he might evolve should most effectively reach the minds of others, than how it might create a halo around himself.

WHEN, in our last, we recorded the death of Professor Ogilby, we little expected to have been called so soon to a similar melancholy duty. But so it is. On Wednesday, March 26th, it pleased Almighty God, in His wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of His faithful servant, THE REVEREND SAMUEL FARMAR JARVIS, D. D., LL. D., in the 65th year of his age, at his residence, Middletown, Connecticut. It is a painful coincidence, that this loss, like the other, is especially felt in the important department of ecclesiastical history, for rendering which useful to the Church, both these good men were so eminently qua-sive, and was always communicated gravely and holified, and were laboring so faithfully. Both too held (nestly, kindly and effectively; and, as is ever the case honorable appointments in the Church connected with where there is real and deep learning, modestly. It that department. Dr. Ogilby was its able, diligent, gave weight to words, and these were well chosen, and and efficient Professor in the General Theological Se-powerful for their character, and not their number. minary. Dr. Jarvis's peculiar fitness led, in the Gene-Earnest and conscientious, he communicated his ideas, ral Convention of 1838, to action by both Houses, establishing the office of "Historiographer of the Church," and appointing him the incumbent. This was declared to have been done "with a view to his preparing, from the most original sources now extant, a faithful Ecclesiastical History, reaching from the Apostles' times to the formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States." There was, perhaps, no man in the Church, to whom such a work, with the above-named rule for preparing it-" from the most original sources now extant"-could have been so well committed. The following extracts from his first report to the House of Bishops, show his ideas of fidelity in his trust:-"It seemed to me that in order to effect the object proposed, it would be necessary, if possible, to settle several contested points, in such a manner as to satisfy both learned and unlearned readers. This could be done in no other way than by laying before them in English that evidence which is now locked up in foreign languages, and scattered through a great number of volumes, and which, from the paucity of public libraries in our country, is inaccessible even to persons who, by their education, are fitted to examine the original authors." Speaking of "the exact time of the birth and death of our Saviour, the key stone by which prophecy as well as history must be sustained"-which is the subject of his first volume, than which one more learned and able can hardly be found in our language-he says, "With no theory to sustain, and fearing to be misled by the theories of others, I have made use of modern writers only so far as to be led by them to their authorities. In all cases where it was possible, I have gone back directly to ancient heathen as well as christian authors, as being, in the language of your resolution, 'the most original sources now extant.' Not only has every question been settled on their testimony, but the testimony it

self has also been exhibited."

Such traits of character were not only intellectual That this should be strongly founded in, and ever goand æsthetic: his piety was deeply imbued with them. stantly labored in holy study, in spiritual meditation, verned by, principle, was an object for which he conin devout searchings of heart and life, and in earnest, faithful prayer; and for which, thoroughly convinced, (and his convictions were those of a strong and clear mind, faithfully tutored, and ever in subjection to a good conscience,) where and what the Church was, he reverently sought and heeded her instructions, and walked faithfully in her holy ways.

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In this, he was blessed with peculiar advantages. The only child of the second Bishop of Connecticut, Dr. Abraham Jarvis, of whom it is enough to say that he was a worthy successor of the Apostolic Seabury, Dr. Jarvis was trained in the up way that tian should go, and never departed from it. His earnest and devoted Christian character was transferred to the ministry by the laying on of his venerable father's hands. He served, at different periods, in the Rectorship of St. Michael's and St. James's Churches, NewYork, St. Paul's Church, Boston, and Christ Church, in his native city of Middletown. He was also, for a time, the faithful servant for Christ's sake of a small country parish, to which he was in the habit of walking several miles from his residence. He also held professorships in the General Theological Seminary, and in Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Con>necticut; in both which capacities, he earned the warm

and lasting grateful attachment of his pupils. Several the Church, when we state that we have promise years were spent by him abroad: during a portion of from a correspondent of a series of articles, in continuwhich time he was the stated pastor, on the Continentation of that in the present number, entitled “Bishop of Europe, of a congregation composed of English and Americans; and during the whole of it he was enriching his mind by study and observation, with especial regard to his favorite departments of ecclesiastical history, and Biblical learning.

In his great work-great though incomplete-which he entitled The Church of the Redeemed, he very properly goes beyond the letter of the resolution by which the General Convention appointed him. According to this, he was to begin his History at "the Apostles' times." He considered, however, that these times commenced but an era of that Church which had been from the beginning of man's existence; and of that "Church of the redeemed," which commenced with God's Covenant in Christ, whence flowed the tempting serpent's condemnation to being conquered by the SEED OF THE WOMAN; and therefore, having devoted his first volume to a learned and laborious inquiry into the true time of our Saviour's birth, a point essential to the right understanding of chronology both before and after, he commenced, in the second, the history proper, embracing in that volume the period from the creation of man to the rejection of Israel, af ter our Saviour's ascension. There is an indissoluble connection between right views of the Gospel scheme as revealed in the Bible, and this great principle that the Church of God militant here on earth, is one from the fall of man, to the day of judgment; every portion of that Church, in every age, having a near interest in, and being bound to profit by, the state and experience of that Church, its history, and all God's dealings with it, in every other. It was the thorough imbuing of Dr. Jarvis's mind with the Gospel, that fixed it upon this view of the true work of the ecclesiastical historian. This second volume was his last. He died soon after its publication. In the midst of the sorrow, however, which we cannot but feel at this, it is a source of gratitude that he was spared to complete these two volumes, which comprise departments of the great subject, in which it would be much more difficult, than in the remainder-difficult, though, as it is feared this will be-to find one qualified to represent him in completing the work.

Hobart's Principles," to contain extracts from his Conventional Addresses, a department of his writings peculiarly invested with the authority of his office, and with which the Church of the present day is less likely to be familiar than with any other.

THE following is a list of Prime Ministers who have held office under the British Government during the past century.

There are names among them, that will forever fill a conspicuous place in the History of the World,— some famous for their good deeds, and others again infamous for tyranny, bigotry, and oppression, both in of fice and out of it. It is not difficult to recognize one or two who bore a prominent part in the earlierpolitical history of our own country:

Appointed.
1754, April
1762, May
1763, April
1765, July
1770, January
1766, August
1782, March
1782, July
1783, April
1783, December
1801, March
1804, May
1806, January
1807, March
1810, June
1812, June
1827, April

5..Duke of Newcastle 29.. Earl of Bute..

Time in office
Yra. Daya

8.53

0..322

2.. 87

12..Marquis of Rockingham 1.. 91

16..G. Grenville.

2.. Duke of Grafton..

...... 3..179

28..Lord North..

.12.. 34

3.. Marquis of Rockingham 0..132 13..Earl of Shelburne..

5..Duke of Portland.
27.. William Pitt.
17..Lord Sidmouth.
12.. William Pitt...
8..Lord Grenville.
13.. Duke of Portland.
23..Spencer Percival..

0..266

0..260 .17.. 80

3.. 56

1..241

1.. 64 ... 3..102

1..330 14..307

0..121

0..168

2..301

3..231

0..128

8..Earl of Liverpool..
11..George Canning..
1827, August 10.. Lord Goderich.
1830, November 22.. Earl Grey.......
1828, January 25.. Duke of Wellington.
1834, July 11.. Lord Melbourne..
1834, November 16.. Duke of Wellington.... 0.. 22
1834, December 8..Sir Robert Peel.
1835, April 18..Lord Melbourne..
1841, September 3..Sir Robert Peel..

1845, December 10.. Lord John Russell.
1845, December 20.. Sir Robert Peel...
1846, June 26..Lord John Russell.

0..131

6..138

4.. 97 0.. 10 0..188

-[New-York Express.

To these is now to be added Lord John Russell again, who lately resigned, but resumed office after Great Britain had been, for about a fortnight, without a government.

It is a fact in which the members of the American Church cannot but feel a deep interest, that what is called the royal ecclesiastical supremacy in England, has become virtually the Prime Minister's supremacy. How many of the above were appointed with a view to their fitness for high responsibility in the sacred concerns of the mystical body of Christ-for guarding the purity of His gospel in the integrity of His Church? The Prime Minister is, in fact, a function

AMID the differences which now unhappily prevail in the Church, it is consoling to observe, that even those whose opinions vary on many important points, unite in professions of great respect for the principles which characterized the long and faithful ministry of Bishop Hobart. Propositions have been made from quarters whence the like had not been wont to be heard, that there should be a union of “parties" on the basis of those principles. This would indeed be a happy day for the Church; as we think cannot but beary appointed and holding office at the will of the apparent in proportion to the knowledge possessed of what those principles are. We trust we shall give satisfaction to all who desire true peace and harmony in

House of Commons; in which Papists and Protestant
Dissenters, infidels and radicals, may bear sway.
Himself
may be a Papist, or a Protestant Dissenter,