rect, and enabled him to give the most valuable advice to the youth and others who resorted to him, in considerable numbers, for his counsel and patronage. Candidates for holy orders frequently pursued their theological studies under his direction, and until a very late period in life. Previous to their entering the ministry, they had recourse to him for those final instructions which his sound judgment, great experience and learning enabled him to give. Among the clergy he was always regarded with great respect and affection, and his opinions on all subjects connected with the Church had a very consider able influence on their decisions.

Dr. Mansfield was useful and exemplary in every station of life. He had great reputation as an instructor of youth. Perhaps no man in his day had greater celebrity in preparing young men for entering college, a considerable number of whom he always had under his care. Orthodox in all the articles of the Christian's faith; an able supporter of the doctrines, government, and liturgy of the Episcopal Church; evangelical as a preacher; and faithful in the discharge of his ministerial duties, he was much beloved and respected by all who knew him, and especially by his parishioners, whose affection and respect seem scarcely to have varied for the long period of more than seventy years. In his parochial visits, which were frequent, he was accustomed to inquire, with great solicitude, concerning the welfare of his flock; to administer spiritual counsel and advice; to encourage the weak and desponding; to admonish the profane and vicious; to Comfort and console the afflicted; to stir up their minds to godliness; and, both by precept and example, to promote union and brotherly kindness. His labours in the vineyard of his divine Master, were very much blessed, and we have good reason to believe, that he was instrumental, through the goodness of God, in preparing many souls for the glory of heaven, which, we trust, will appear with him at the last day, as seals of his faithful ministry.

Few men have had more correct and

enlarged views of the constitution of the Christian Church than Dr. Mansfield. He considered it as established by Jesus Christ, and perfectly organ ized by the Apostles, and designed to be perpetuated in the form which was then given it, to the end of the world. The government, doctrines, and worship of this Church, as maintained by Episcopalians, he asserted and defended, in public and in private, with great candour and fidelity. He was intimately acquainted with the writings of the most eminent reformers, and an able advocate of the doctrines. of the reformation, as taught by Cranmer, Ridley, &c. In his public discourses he dwelt much upon the doctrines of grace, as those doctrines are set forth in the thirty-nine articles, and opposed with ability the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism. His arguments were drawn chiefly from the Scriptures, and presented in such a plain, familiar, and forcible manner, as to carry conviction to those who heard him. In his intercourse with the world he was candid and sincere, and the character which our Saviour gave of Nathaniel, may, with propriety, be applied to Dr. Mans field," an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile."

The labours of Dr. Mansfield in the ministry were extended over a greater part of the counties of Litchfield and New-Haven, though he was stationed at Derby and Oxford; and many of the churches in those counties were planted, and afterwards watered, for many years, by his occasional services. In that section of the State which he visited in his official capacity, the Church owes her origin, under God, to his faithfulness in the work of the minis try; and her soundness in the faith, to those clear, rational, and orthodox views of Christianity, which he inculcated every where with zeal and fidelity. He laboured in word and doctrine. Throughout the whole of his mission, he was instant in season and out of season. In every period of life he was remarkable for punctuality. Whatever might be the distance of the place where he was to hold service, for more than fifty years, neither severity of weather, nor any other circumstance,

prevented his being present in person. This habit of punctuality continued until the infirmities of age forbade it. He was blessed with a good constitution, and enjoyed almost uninterrupted health. In all the avocations of his life, and especially in his ministry, he was distinguished for activity and per severance, and exemplary for his dili gence and industry.

That employment in which he took most delight, and in which we prefer to contemplate his character, was the ministry of reconciliation. It was his greatest pleasure to be instrumental in doing good. He dwelt upon the doctrines of grace with deep and lively interest, and inculcated them with the fervour of one who had long experienced their practical tendency and effect. He embraced with great delight the opportunities that occurred of unfolding the plan of salvation, and magnifying the mercies of God in Jesus Christ, and of building up the Redeemer's Kingdom, by promoting the growth of the Church; and he had the satisfaction of seeing the work of the Lord prosper in his hand, and many sons and daughters added to the Church.Through the whole period of his labours, his ministrations appear to have been satisfactory to the people committed to his charge, and to have conduced to their edification. To his family and friends he was endeared by his long life of usefulness-by his kind and affectionate disposition, and the paternal solicitude and regard which he always manifested towards them. They were fond of his company and conversation; he was listened to with pleasure, and his decisions on any difficulties, or controversies in which they were interest ed, were generally complied with as correct and proper. Though he lived to a great age, yet the shades of life were pleasant to him, God having indulged him in the enjoyment of many of his faculties, in a considerable degree, even to the close of life. His sight, hearing, understanding, memory, and, of course, the enjoyment of social intercourse with his friends, were preserved to the last. In the enjoyment of these mercies, it was interesting to hear his expressions of lively gratitude,

to his heavenly Father, whom he daily looked up to with an humble sense of his dependence-whom he acknowledged as the Author of all his mercies, and to whom he felt himself accountable for the use of them. He bore every trial of life with exemplary fortitude and submission, and his constant prayer was-Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. He closed his long and useful life on the 11th of April, 1820, with the name of the Saviour in his mouth-Jesus, Jesus!

(From the same.)

Vermont Missionary Society. We have just received, by a friend, the Constitution of a Missionary Society for the State of Vermont, adopted at their late Convention, and doubt not our readers by inserting it in our pages. we shall do an acceptable service to The "Address" accompanying it is so judicious, that we would gladly send that to our publisher also, but we must content ourselves with extracting the two first paragraphs.

It is with emotions of a very pleasing kind that we hail the rising prospects of the Church in that part of the country. It is but a few years since the difference between the prayer-book and the missal was known there, and now we find no less than six Episcopal clergymen employed in the State, and a pressing demand for more. will our young men of piety be made sensible of our wants? We are happy to hear of the zeal and spirit which animate the Episcopalians of Vermont, and cannot but wish them "God speed" in their labours to build up the good old cause.

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Constitution of the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Vermont.

ART. 1. The Society shall be known by the name of the Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Vermont.

2. There shall be an annual meeting of the Society on the day following the stated annual meeting of the Convention of Vermont, at the place where the said Convention is held.

3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, Treasurer, and a Board of Managers, to consist of three; to be chosen at the annual meeting of the Society.

4. It shall be the duty of the President to preside in the Society, and to call special meetings of the same, at the request of the Board of Managers.

5. The Vice-Presidents, by seniority, shall, in the absence, or at the request of the President, perform the duties of President.

6. The Secretary shall keep the records of the Society, and conduct the necessary correspondence.

7. The Treasurer shall receive and account for all monies, and pay them over by order of the Board of Managers.

8. The Board of Managers, under the direction of the Bishop, shall appoint Missionaries, and superintend their missionary labours, and authorize them to receive such compensation for their services as may be deemed adequate.

9. Persons shall be appointed in the various sections of the State to solicit such aid for the support of Missionaries as the pious and charitable may be disposed to contribute, and to transmit the same to the Treasurer, together with the names of the contributors.

10. Each person whose subscription may amount to one dollar annually,

shall be considered a member of this Society. Ten dollars shall entitle a subscriber to membership for life.

11. This Constitution may be alter ́ed or amended by a vote of two thirds of the attending members of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the State of Vermont.

12. The members attending shall always constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

Extract from the Address. CHRISTIAN BRETHREN,

It is with extreme diffidence, not as to the value of our object, but from the consideration of the embarrassments of the times, and the frequency of similar calls, from one quarter and another, that we now address ourselves to your

religious charity. Vast sums have been yearly collected, in this and the other States, for missionary and other charitable purposes; and no inconsiderable part of it from members of our own Church, and large portions of it applied to foreign religious enterprizes, the success of which remains still a secret in the counsels of him who will bring about the great objects of his government and providence over men, in his own way, and in his own due time.

It is by no means our design to request you not to give to other objects of religious beneficence, as you shall deem them worthy, but merely to propose you one from a source, and confined within limits, that must meet your entire acquiescence. It originates in that primitive and apostolic Church which you ever venerate, and is confined to the territories of that State, the religious instruction and improvement of which will become the particular benefit of every citizen of it. Your bounty will be applied under your own observation, and the effects of it, should a divine blessing descend upon it, will be witnessed by yourselves and by your children. It will be bestowed in watering and fertilizing the garden in which it has pleased God to place us, and to make it our duty "to dress it, and keep it.".

Abstract of the Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention of the Diocess of Ohio, held at Worthington, June 6th and 7th, A. D. 1821. (Continued from page 333, and concluded.)

THE Rev. Intrepid Morse was elected Secretary of the Convention.

The Parochial Reports made to the Bishop, and entered on the Journal, agreeably to the Canons, furnish the following aggregate:

Baptisms (Adults 25, Infants 126) 151-Marriages 7-Funerals 30Communicants 257.

The following additional particulars were also detailed by the several Clergy:

The Rev. Roger Searle reports to the Bishop as follows:-After a protracted and tedious confinement by a

fever, with which I was attacked on the 14th of May, 1820, by the mercy of God, I so far recovered as to recommence my ministerial duties in the month of August; and, from the first of September last, to this time, my health has admitted of my holding divine service every Sunday excepting two. I have continued, as heretofore, to divide my time and labours among all the parishes in the Western Reserve, Ohio. And although it will be impossible for me, consistently with my health, my life, and the paramount duties to my family, much longer to extend my time and ministrations so remotely from the proper limits of my cure, there have hitherto existed the strongest motives to every possible exertion for building up and promoting the prosperity of the several parishes in the north. Nor have there been wanting evidences of the divine sanction to the united efforts and pious zeal of the friends of religion, and to the primitive doctrines and pious usages of our Church in these parishes.Arrangements are now in contemplation for forming, in the course of the year, a separate cure in the eastern part of the Reserve. And, though their means will be small, it is most fervently hoped they will be able to succeed in at least a partial support of a clergyman among them.-Several Sunday schools of much promise are in operation, and the increasing attention to the sacred duties of personal devotion to God, together with the ardent and enlightened attachment to the undeviating use of our incomparable Liturgy, are circumstances affording the fairest prospects of permanency and future prosperity.-In the month of January last, I organized a respectable and promising parish, by the name of St. Paul's Church, in Norwalk, Huron county. Much might be said in high commendation of this very interesting parish. Two of their members were appointed delegates to the present Convention; but they have just informed me by letter, that events beyond their controul will prevent their attendance.

The Rev. Samuel Johnston reports to the Bishop as follows:-Since the

last Convention, through the goodness of Divine Providence, I have been enabled to officiate constantly in my parochial cure. The congregation, within the last year, has had some accession; and, in all probability, will continue to be augmented: but the local situation of Cincinnati is such as to favour a transient population; and, particularly at the present time, in consequence of the peculiar embarrassments of the place. Thus a number of families from our Church have been necessitated to remove, with the view of making their situation more comfortable. The times have been such as to thwart the designs of some individuals who have used no little personal exertion to free the congregation from all claims. This, however, is to be said in their praise, generally speaking, that they have done what they could. They have had the means provided, through the generous assistance of an individual,* to pay for a neat edifice, which opens the way for its consecration at the next Episcopal visitation.—In regard to the number of those who are bent upon seeking the one thing needful in pure religion and the holy sacraments, I should be happy to state that things wore a brighter aspect. While we have some who regard their spiritual state more than to obtain the world, there are many who would be strenuous to obtain the latter, and apparently indifferent to the former. But while worldly-mindedness and immorality have their votaries, the Lord hath raised up some who live near to him; showing good works as the fruits of that faith which is the ornament of their profession; being "not conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of their minds; proving what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God."-Among these good people may be ranked the teachers of the Sunday school, who have been indefatigable in their exertions to train up the minds of the interesting children committed to their charge. Heaven will not be unmindful of their labours of love: their prayers and zealous endeavours will " come up

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