commission to preach the Gospel than piety, zeal, and success in the discharge of the duty? Is he not aware that the world has often been imposed upon by the rankest hypocrites, in their false exhibition of all the evidences that man can have of great and even superior piety? that zeal, though for a long time wearing the mark of greatest disinterestedness and sincerity, has yet shown itself to have been but an artifice for the subserving of low, selfish, and vain-glorious views? and that the most brilliant apparent success has often been but the natural effect of novelty the mere joining in the popular cry, and the popular current-or the evanescent excitement of animal sensibility? And can it be that a gracious and good God, a God of order, has left his Church to the deceptions of such evidence of commission to the high and holy work of the Christian ministry?

We revert to an extract we have made from the 18th page of the Charge, for the purpose of claiming from the candid reader the full effect, in our own favour, of the distinction which Bishop Brownell very justly draws between the" extending" of charity" to errors themselves," and "to the persons who have unwarily and honestly fallen into them." We deem the distinction a most just and necessary one, and declare that we have felt the full force of it, in all we have said on points in which it is our misfortune to differ, in a great or less degree, from fellow Christians whom we should despise ourselves if, on that account, we were to exclude from the respect and regard which their talents, their virtues, and their piety demand. We frankly confèss we have no charity for what we honestly deem error; but we have much for those whom we, as honestly, believe to be in error. We cheerfully extend to them all the credit for sincerity and uprightness of intention which we ask for ourselves. We shrink from the guilty presumption of thinking that there is one jot or one tittle more of mercy in the beneficent God and Saviour of all, for those who think with us, than for those who differ from us. Both will be judged, not according to their professions, but according to their

hearts. If they be sincerely and humbly desirous to serve and please God, and faithfully endeavour to do so, according to their best knowledge of his will, the merit of a divine Advocate with the Father will cover their imperfections and failings, and sparing mercy take them into everlasting favour. We know of no departure, however wide, from what we believe to bę the integrity of the Christian system, not owing to wilful neglect or indiffer ence, which we will not cheerfully em brace in this exercise of Christian charity. But it is too much to require that we, therefore, be indifferent to the cause of truth. We think it too presumptuous to suppose that because the sparing mercy of our common Father thus extends to all his children, therefore it is a matter of 'indifference whe ther the system of religion which he has been pleased to appoint as most acceptable to himself, and as the ordinary channel of his mercies to a fallen world, be maintained, or be disre garded.

We cannot deny our readers or ourselves the pleasure of entering on our pages the whole of the remainder of this interesting Charge.

"The circumstances of the times, also, call upon you to be faithful in explaining and inculcating just ideas of the nature of the Christian Church. The fashionable liberality of the day would require us to regard every self-constituted society, or every assembly professing itself to be Christian, as a regularly and duly organized Church of Christ. Such, however, is not the language of Scripture. The Church is there styled the 'body of Christ,' and Christ is not divided.' There is but one body, and one spirit; one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.' Christians are required to speak the same thing," and to be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.'Divisions were not regarded by the Apos tles as matters of little moment; and when the Corinthian converts, in their dissentions, began to arrange themselves under the party names of Paul, of Apollos,, or of Cephas, they were severely rebuked by the great Apostle of the Gentiles, and warned that there should be no schism in the body.' The sin of schism is no less heinous now than it was in the days of the Apostles; and it will be your duty, as occasion may offer, to unfold and display the true character of the Christian Church, as a divinely constituted society-a body of

which all men are required to be members, and which no man may rend asunder; -and to explain the true principle of church unity. by the essential bond of a regularly constituted ministry.

66 At a a period, too, when very crude and erroneous, ideas prevail, concerning direct, perceptible, and irresistible operations of the Spirit of God upon the hearts of men, it becomes your duty, not only to declare the necessity of this grace to enable men to work out their salvation, but to explain what are the true means which God has provided for conveying the gracious influences of his spirit. You will explain the nature and efficacy of the solemn sacrament of baptism, by which we are first brought into a state of regenera. tion, and dedicated to the Divine Spirit by which we are incorporated into that spiritual body, the Church, of which Christ is the head, to which the Holy Spirit is freely communicated, and to which all the promises of the Gospel are tendered. You will teach the obligation and the utility of the rite of Confirmation, as a sign of God's grace and goodness to his youthful disciples. In an especial manner, you will inculcate the efficacy of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as a gracious mean by which he conveys to his Church the renewing influences of the Holy Ghost. And you will also enforce the duty of prayer, and pious reflection; of reading, hearing, and meditating on the word of God, as appointed and salu tary means of grace.

"He only who lives in the diligent and faithful use of these appointed means of grace, conforms to the plan of salvation laid down in the Gospel: these are the only revealed modes of communication (since miracles have ceased) between earth and heaven; and he who thus seeks God, in the services of his Church, and seeks him in sincerity, will find that his

labour will not be in vain in the Lord.' "Brethren, I have yet much to say, but I fear that I have already trespassed upon your patience. I will therefore close, by once more pressing upon you the consideration with which I commenced this discourse --keep constantly in view the great object and end of your ministry-to persuade sinful men to embrace the way of salvation by Jesus Christ, and to build up his Church in the most holy faith,

"You are 'stewards of the mysteries of God:-see then that you be found faith.

ful. You are ministers of a true and

Apostolic Church-Keep that which is committed to your charge. Do you ask, Who is sufficient for these things?" You know in whom you have believed'-'his strength will be sufficient for you. What though your labours be arduous and manifold? They that turn many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars, for ever

and ever!Nothing,' says St. Austin, 'can be more laborious, more difficult, or more awfully responsible, than the Ministry of the Gospel; but nothing can be more blessed, if we do our duty according to the commandment of the Lord.””—P. 21-23.

In conclusion of this protracted article, and as connected with its subject, we beg leave to call the attention of our readers to a passage in the Address of Bishop Brownell to the Convention at which the above Charge was delivered.

"Her Clergy" (those of Connecticut) "are every where zealous and faithful. Í make this observation with the more satisfaction, as I have formerly heard them charged from abroad with coldness and indifference. Nothing but ignorance, or gross prejudice, could have suggested the imputation. It is my full conviction, that if there exists, in any part of our country, a body of Clergy who by their labours and privations, their industry and fidelity, approach to the model of the primitive ages of the Church, such men are to be found among the Episcopal Clergy of Connecticut."

We rejoice to hear this testimony. It accords exactly with the views which we had been accustomed to entertain; but we, too, had heard the very injurious reports of the Connecticut Clergy to which their Bishop refers. We had heard this "coldness and indifference" attributed to their being more intent upon merely handling those controversies which involve the distinctive principles of the Church, than preaching the Gospel in its integrity, and devoting themselves to the other essential duties of an evangelical ministry. We had even heard that a sense of this was beginning to prevail among themselves, and that a great change was manifesting itself in this particular. Had there been any real deficiency in evangelical faithfulness on the part of this respectable body of Clergy, we should, indeed, have rejoiced at a change which would have remedied the evil; but should certainly have regretted one founded on the least departure from that public avowal and firm defence of the distinctive principles of their Church, for which they had ever been remarked. From the intercourse, however, which we have had the pleasure of enjoying with a few individuals of that body, from what has generally

Very imperfect very short in description, is the above, of the remarks made by the Reverend Gentleman, who evinced a zeal and animation, as pious as laudable. His remarks were listened to with the utmost attention, and appeared to make suitable impression on the audience surrounding him.

The tablet was of silver, handsomely engraved by Mr. Machen, of this town, with the following inscription:-

"This cornerstone of Christ Church was laid on Thursday, July 5th, A.D. 1821, by the Rev. Richard S. Mason, Rector.

"Vestry.-The Honourable John Stanly; M. C. Stephens, James G. Stanly, Moses Jarvis, John W. Guion, John P. Davis, John Merritt, Esqrs.

Building Committee.-The Honourable John R. Donnell; M. C. Stephens, John P. Davis, John F. Burgwin, Moses Jarvis, Esqrs.

"Architects.-Martin Stevenson and Thomas S. Gooding.

"Master Masons.-Bennet Flanner and Wallace Moore."

"This is none other but the House of God, this is the Gate of Heaven." GENESIS XXVII. 17.

Ancient Egyptian Mummy. IN the journey to Dongolah, in company with the expedition under the direction of Ismael Bey, M. Frederick Caillaud halted some time at Thebes, where he made an interesting discovery On the 17th of August, 1820, he found, in one of the subterraneans of Thebes, a Mummy coeval with the time of the Greeks. On the head of the embalmed personage is a gilt crown, in the form of a lotus. The body is wrapped up in bandelets, after the Egyptian manner. On the case or sarcophagus, which envelopes the Mummy, inscriptions are visible, some in Greek, and others in hieroglyphics. On the right side there appears, tied with fillets, a manuscript on papyrus, in the Greek language. The linen that covers the Mummy is overspread with Egyptian subjects and hieroglyphic signs. In the interior of the case, the signs of the Zodiac are represented.

THE Gazette of Pekin announces the death of the Emperor Kea-King, in the following terms:- -"On the 27th day of the 7th month, his Imperial Majesty set out to dwell with the Immortals."

On the day of the Coronation of George IV. Moses Samuel, Esq. of Bold-street, London, presented to the Library of the Athenæum, a manuscript Pentateuch, or Sacred Law of the Jews. This singular curiosity is of very great value, and beautifully written on a roll of fine vellum, four inches wide, and upwards of forty-five feet long; it is attached at each end to an ivory roller, and the whole is enclosed in a splendid case of crimson velvet. An Ark was ordered to be prepared for its preservation under Mr. Samuel's direction.

THE residence of Cowper, the poet, at Olney, in Buckinghamshire, has long been uninhabited, and is now in a state of considerable dilapidation.Some of the neighbours, however, on the day of the Coronation, procured boughs and flowers from Cowper's favourite walk, at Weston-under-Wood, and decorated the outside of the house with oak, laurel, and wreaths of flowers, to his memory.

Episcopul Acts.

BISHOP HOBART performed Divine Service in this village on Wednesday last. The Bishop administered the Communion, and 19 persons received the ordinance of Confirmation. After the other solemnities were closed, Phineas L. Whipple was ordained and admitted to the office of Deacon. In the evening, a Discourse was delivered by Mr. Whipple.-Manlius Times.

ON Wednesday, the 8th day of August, 1821, the Church of St. Mark, at the village of Mantua, was consecrated by the Right Rev. William White, D. D. Bishop of the diocess of Pennsylvania, assisted by several of the Clergy.

AT an Ordination held in St. Paul's Church, in the village of Buffalo, on Wednesday, the 22d day of August, by