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and sanctified powers in the chamber of sickness, in the family, and when a few were gathered around him in the study. Incidents of such intercourse were held in lively remembrance after twenty or thirty years, and sometimes had given a lasting direction to the thoughts of the listener.

"Though an earnest, faithful, and impressive preacher, Bishop Chase could never have found in the pulpit that throne which he was formed to fill, and from which he was to wield such peculiar authority over the minds of men. He acted rather than spoke or wrote. His heart pushed him on to the conception and execution of great Christian enterprises. It was given to him to lead, and he was impatient when men were slow to follow. He identified himself with his work; and if he were thwarted or contradicted it was not always easy for him to feel that it could have been done in Christian sincerity. Few men are readier to forgive; but the very warmth with which he laid hold of a good cause, and the consciousness of his own simplicity of purpose, would not permit him to regard otherwise than as personal opponents some who wished well to his undertaking, but withheld their confidence from some of his decisions. From such he maintained somewhat too readily a distance, the penalty of which he was ready to pay in laboring without their coöperation. But we may remember that even such a man as Paul preferred to go on his missionary way with Silas only, rather than have the society of Barnabas, if Mark must go also."

Bishop B. T. Onderdonk's Reminiscences of Dr. Lyell.

"He always spoke kindly of his old Methodist friends, and was on terms of friendly intercourse with their clergy in this city. For the venerable Methodist Bishop Asbury, he retained feelings of warm filial respect and love, and seemed always pleased to speak of him. This led to material for another anecdote which he used to tell. On one occasion when several of the clergy were dining with him, old Dr. Bowden, then Professor in Columbia College, said of him, after he had been expatiating on the excellence of Bishop Asbury: 'Well, Mr. Lyell has at least one good trait of character!' 'Indeed, Doctor, what is it? I am glad that I have a single one.' 'You are not ashamed of your poor relations! I have reason to believe that his continued good feeling toward the Methodists was entirely reciprocated by them."

Rev. Dr. Wylie. Notices by Mr. Ryors.

"In debate, whether he attacked or defended, he was a most vigorous and formidable opponent, and sometimes uttered himself in words of such scathing severity as were not likely soon to be forgotten. An example now occurs to me. Upon occasion of an investigation by the Board of Trustees of the University, (Indiana,) into some misconduct of a portion of the students, the Doctor-in a speech before the Board, the students, and a large number of others-called one of the Literary Societies of the University, 'a nest of Yahoos.' The President of the Board interrupting him, inquired what a Yahoo was. With the utmost promptness, yet with deliberate emphasis, he replied: 'A Yahoo, sir, is a man in form and a beast in nature.' I recall another similar example, which was communicated to me by himself, though it belongs rather to the category of deeds than of words, and is not more illustrative than amusing. Returning from the village, where he had been to visit a sick lady, he perceived that he was to meet a gentleman with whom

he was not at that time on friendly relations, upon a long and narrow foot-bridge. (The bridge was composed of two flattened logs laid side by side over a small brook containing little water and much mud. It was too narrow for persons to pass each other upon it without difficulty; if parties approached it from opposite directions at the same time, one would generally wait until the other had passed over.) The Doctor, being persuaded that his neighbor would not wait for him, and resolved not to defer so much to one whom he regarded with so little favor, steadily advanced along the bridge, while the other did the same; anticipating the result, as he said, from the principle in physics, that in the impact of two unequal bodies moving with equal velocities, the less must give way to the larger, the Doctor, consequently, as he had foreseen, passed safely over; giving a shock, however, to the other, in their collision, which sent him into the water and mud below. But these incidents, though they illustrate one of Dr. Wylie's moral susceptibilities, are as far as possible from representing him in his ordinary intercourse; he was generally most kind and considerate both in language and manner, and you might have been in intimate relations with him for years, and have seen little or nothing of the characteristic to which I have just adverted."

Ex-President Tyler on Bishop Moore.

"His snow-white locks, which hung in thick profusion over his shoulders; his face broad and full; his eye so expressive of benevolence and charity; and his lips evermore wreathed into a smile such as a kind father wears towards his children, added to a walk and a deportment which bespoke to the beholder the man of God, made an impression upon one not readily to be forgotten. A striking instance of the effect of his personal appearance occurred under peculiar circumstances during the time that I occupied the President's house. A Convention of the Clergy and Laity of the Episcopal Church was holden at Alexandria, over which this venerable Prelate presided. I expressed to him, by letter, the great happiness I should derive from his taking up his abode with me during his sojourn in the District. After the rising of the Convention he graciously accepted the invitation, and I had the gratification to receive him into the bosom of my family. The day after his ar rival we were promenading with other members of the family in the spacious east room, when the beating of drums was heard, and the servant in waiting announced to me the presence of a military company, which had come to pay the ordinary Balutation to the Chief-Magistrate. I directed that they should be invited into the room, which they soon after entered in full military array. The Bishop was placed mid-way the floor, where he stood with his hat in hand, the true personification of all that is venerable. The soldiers' eyes fell upon him, and simultaneously the flag was lowered, and the officers and soldiers united in the passing salute; thus ex.hibiting their respect for the unknown aged man who stood so unexpectedly before them. I do not remember ever to have witnessed so striking an exhibition of the effect of mere personal appearance."

Bishop Ravenscroft. "Remembrance of sins."

"He was not among those who consider a present state of reconciliation with God a complete acquittal from compunction for the past; although the peace which passeth all understanding, derived from the holy hope and sense of that reconciliation, was the frequent theme of his private conversation and public addresses. As he was

one day walking the streets of Fayetteville with a young friend, a deacon of his Diocese, the conversation, deepening in interest, had brought them near the door of the house they were to visit. It was so that the topics had turned on the effects of the initiatory Sacrament of the Christian Covenant, and the changes to be wrought in the soul, as necessary upon the sins committed after baptism; and the younger was listening to the words of the elder-to the volumes of massive thought on the subject which were rolling from his lips. As their walk became slower, an individual approached them, somewhat advanced beyond the climacteric of life. The face of the Bishop flushed and brightened. They were the friends of early years. Their hands were clasped, and they looked for a moment, without speaking, in each other's eyes. At length said the other: 'Is this indeed my friend, Hartt Ravenscroft?' 'Yes, yes,' replied the Bishop, 'I am that old sinner you knew twenty years ago in Mecklenburgh; and here I am, by God's undeserved mercies a preacher of righteousness to others." " (Rev. H. S. Mason.)

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DIED, at Hogansburg, New-York, on Saturday, the 28th of August, 1858, the Rev. ELEAZAR WILLIAMS. The early history of Mr. Williams is involved in ob scurity. Much evidence has been adduced to prove him the son of Louis XVL, and legally entitled to the throne of France. He is, however, the reputed son of Thomas Williams, a native of Massachusetts, who became the principal chief of the St. Regis Indians. Mr. Williams passed the most of his life as a devoted missionary among these Indians. He was probably between seventy and eighty years of age at the time of his death.

Died, at Fredericksburgh, Virginia, on the 8th October, the Rev. EDWARD C. MCGUIRE, D.D. Dr. McGuire was born in the ancient borough of Winchester, in the year 1793. In the year 1813 the church at Fredericksburgh being without a minister, Mr. McGuire, being too young to be ordained, officiated as lay-reader for one year, when he was ordained. Immediately after ordination he became rector of St. George's Church, where he labored faithfully and successfully until the day of his death.

Died of yellow fever, in Charleston, S. C., on the 28th of September, the Rev. HENRY M. DENISON, in the thirty-eighth year of his age. Mr. Denison was a native of Wilkesbarre, Pa. He graduated at Dickinson College, and studied theo

logy at the Alexandria Seminary. He held charges successively in Brooklyn, N. Y.; in Greenville, S. C.; in Williamsburgh, Va.; in Louisville, Ky.; and in Charleston, S. C. When he died, he was rector of St. Peter's Church in the latter place. He was a bold, vigorous, and faithful preacher, and a brave and truehearted man. Several works emanated from his pen, among which we may notice a very impressive treatise on the Unitarian Controversy, and a collection of sermons addressed to the business classes.

Died in Salisbury, N. C., September 15th, in the forty-sixth year of his age, the Rev. JOHN HAYWOOD PARKER, Rector of St. Luke's Church in that place.

Died, on Sunday, September 19th, the Rev. WILLIAM RICHMOND, Rector of St. Michael's Church, New-York, in the sixty-first year of his age.

Died, in Dover, on Saturday, October 16, the Rev. GEORGE E. HURD, Deacon, of the Diocese of New-York.

Died, at his residence in Pine street, Philadelphia, on the 6th of December, the Right Rev. HENRY U. ONDERDONK, in the seventieth year of his age.

DIOCESAN INTELLIGENCE.

UNDER this head we have only to notice the establishment of a Pastoral Aid Society in the State of Illinois. A meeting of clergymen and laymen of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Illinois was held in Trinity Church, Chicago, on the 17th of November. The Hon. Hiram Norton, of Lockport, was called to the chair, and the Rev. Samuel Cowell was appointed Secretary. The following resolution was then moved by the Rev. James L. Reynolds, of Chicago, and unanimously adopted:

"Resolved, That in view of the present condition of our Church in Illinois, it is expedient to establish a Pastoral Aid Society."

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After the adoption of a Constitution an election was had of the officers of the Society and the Board of Managers. The Western Churchman thus speaks of the meeting:

"There was a very decided manifestation of interest in all the proceedings. Every body seemed to be in earnest not only, but to be animated by the one feeling, that additional facilities be afforded for the preaching of the Gospel in Illinois. "The Executive Committee consists of the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Society, and Messrs. D. Jay Ely, James F. Aldrich, and Cyrenius Beers. The Society is scarcely in working order as yet, but has already received contributions from a few individuals, amounting in the aggregate to $1100."

The twenty-third annual meeting of the "Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" was held in Christ Church, Baltimore, on the 13th of October, 1858. The Right Reverend the Bishop of Virginia, being the senior Bishop present, took the chair and opened the meeting with prayer. On motion of the Bishop of Tennessee, the Rev. Dr. Van Pelt was reappointed Secretary. The Annual Report of the Domestic Committee was presented

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