the Washington University, where I was appointed Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Philology, which professorship I resigned when I entered upon my mission in Sweden. Chancellor Chauvenet was one of the delegates of the Missouri Association in the General Convention which was held in Portland in 1868; and it was there where I last saw him. At the time of his death he was the Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences in America, and he was an honoured member of the Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and of the Academy of Sciences in Boston.

"The enclosed account of the obsequies is from the Missouri Democrat of December 18th. The Church of the Messiah, where the funeral ceremonies were held, is the largest Unitarian Church in the place; and Rev. Dr. Post, who made some beautiful remarks, after the New Church minister, Rev. J. P. Stuart, is the pastor of the largest Congregational Church in St. Louis, and also Professor of History in Washington University.'

Col. Th. T. Garth's remarks:

Chancellor Chauvenet was a man of not only national, but European reputation. He has advanced the boundaries of the pure and mixed mathematics, besides facilitating for inferior intelligences the acquisition of such knowledge of these sciences, as may be gained from treatises, of which he has given several of great excellence to the world. I presume I speak with. in bounds, when I say, that no list of the five greatest mathematicians alive in the whole world on the first of January 1870 would be correct that did not include his name. This was his title to fame and renown. But if this had been all, the smaller and more obscure circle of his friends would have been comparatively unmoved at his death. If there are many instances of discerning, inventive, analyzing, digesting, comprehending faculties like his, united with the perfect ingenuousness, simplicity, gentleness and modesty, which marked him; then I have been very unfortunate throughout my life: for I never met with an approximation to such a combination.

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posure of Mrs Chauvenet and her family is wonderful to me. No one knows better than I that they loved and

revered him who has gone, as it seldom happens to any one to be loved and revered. Yet they exhibit a cheerfulness which is in the most marked contrast with the selfish grief that too often is observable in those who have suffered such a bereavement. If there be in your church any of that living faith which enables your members to feel the words of scripture on this subject of the separation which death makes to realise, to believe them, and to enable the survivors to utter these words without hypocrisy, this may be an explanation of the calmness and cheerful resignation of Mrs Chauvenet and her children. Faith is so nearly banished from this earth that one is startled to perceive any manifestation of it."

From the Missouri Democrat: "The funeral services of William Chauvenet, the Chancellor of Washington University, was yesterday attended at the Church of the Messiah. Present in large numbers were sorrowing friends and acquaintance and warm admirers of the distinguished dead, with many who knowing only by reputation his sterling worth as a teacher and a Christian, had come to share in paying the last tribute to his memory.

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The church was appropriately decorated with white flowers and evergreens, the symbols of purity and immortality, emblems also of the singleness of purpose which characterized the deceased, and of the stability and vitality of the sciences he taught and truths he inculcated. With religious ardour he had devoted his fine intellect to the special culture of the exact sciences, had loved to expatiate in the sublime domain of abstract mathematics and of astronomy, had achieved enduring distinction in these chosen fields, and it was fitting that the jubilant release of such a spirit from its clayey prison should be celebrated with flowers and perennial verdure.

"When the coffin had been laid down, Rev. J. P. Stewart read an appropriate passage of Scripture. A hymn was then sung, after which Mr. Stewart proceeded to address the congregation upon the life and virtues of the deceased.

"Cut off, said the speaker, in the midst of an active and useful life, the career terminated and the work this side of heaven accomplished, such is the record of the hour, such is the word

that is spoken by this dispensation of the Divine Providence of the Lord. But death is not a state; it is an orderly transition from one state of life into another; from the natural to the spiritual world. In the true sense death is only a change in the form of life, and marks what some of the ancients called the apotheosis of man. As the bird arises out of the egg, and the butterfly out of the caterpillar, so man arises out of the grave of his mortal body, and from apparent death enters into real life.

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After reading some of the doctrines of the New Church, in which the deceased believed, the reverend speaker continued. 'Here we might dwell upon the character of our departed brother, as a father, husband, friend, citizen, scholar and Christian; his exalted genius; varied and refined culture; his profound scientific and philosophic research and attainment; his subdued and genial spirit; his firm and unflinching integrity; his broad and catholic faith knowing no bound of sect or church; his quiet and serene repose in the allotments of a Divine Providence; his heavenly and useful life, and the sunshine and merriment of his heart, which, even under the incubus of disease, he had kept yonthful to the very last.

But in reality it does not become us to pronounce an eulogium of a life so pure and exalted, and so abounding in good works that speak louder than words. I know that if those silent lips could open and direct our speech they would tell us to rather briefly recount the doctrines which he made the model and guide of his life, and which doctrines may not be so familiarly known as were the Christian virtues of our brother. In a word, Chancellor Chauvenet was a New Church member, a Swedenborgian, as the common phrase has it.'

"The speaker then went into an elaborate statement of the doctrines of the New Church, and after an appropriate couclusion, another hymn was sung and an impressive address delivered by Rev. Dr. Post.

"At the conclusion of Dr. Post's remarks the friends of the deceased, and those who had known him in life, were invited to take a last look at his remains. The University professors and students and others then came forward and looked once more upon the

beloved features of their late preceptor and friend. The scene was touching in the extreme. The last sad, long look taken, the sacred rites of the hour concluded and the remains were conveyed to their final resting-place."

At Heywood, January 6th, Mrs. Martha Buckley, in the eighty-second year of her age. The deceased was distinguished as an exemplary member of the Church, and a steady attender on its public services.

Died at York, January 2, 1871, aged sixty-two years, Mr. William Heppel, the leader of the York Society, and an unflinching advocate of the truths of the New Jerusalem Church, of which he has been a receiver over 30 years. They were first brought to his notice by the father of the Rev. R. Storry, who lent him some tracts, and aided him by correspondence and conversation. He became an earnest reader and receiver of the heavenly doctrines, and laboured earnestly to make them known to others. He opened his own house for the purposes of worship and reading meetings. The writer of this notice, who has known him about eighteen years, is vividly reminded of his earnest and faithful expounding of the Word and the application of it to the heart and mind of his hearers. His faith in the final triumph of truth was unflinching, although he had to pass through many trials for its sake. He was for many months before his death unable to follow his employment, having suffered from disease of the heart. He was confined to his bed only for a few days, and he evidently knew his end was approaching, but his confidence and trust in his heavenly Father's goodness and mercy did not forsake him. A few hours before his death he prayed that the Lord would bless and take care of his wife, family, and friends. His remains were carried to the grave by members of the Society, who were in great measure brought into the Church through his instrumentality.