thee! O Lord, thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee: yet for thy chosen's sake, if it be thy will, send me life and health, that I may truly serve thee! O Lord, bless thy people, and save thine inheritance! O Lord God, save thy chosen people of England! O Lord God, defend this realm, and maintain thy true religion, that I and my people may praise thy holy name, for Jesus Christ's sake!" Seeing some persons about him, he seemed troubled that they were so hear, and had heard him; but, with a pleasant countenance, he said, he had been praying to God. And soon after the pangs of death coming on him, he said to Sir Sidney, who was holding him in his arms, "I am faint! Lord have mercy on me; and receive my spirit!" an and thus breathed out his innocent soul, on the 6th of July, 1553. Buck. DEATH OF BEZA. THE learned BEZA died 1605, aged 36. The advantages of early piety are every way great. It secures against innumerable evils, and produces the happiest joys; it forms for future happiness; it prepares us for the hour of adversity; and removes the fear of death and judgment. In his last will and testament, Beza gives God thanks for this, that at the age of sixteen years he was called to the knowledge of the truth; and so many sins and sorrows were prevented that otherwise would have overtaken him, and made his life less happy and more miserable. The examples of early piety have also been rendered very useful. The late Rev. T. Reader, when a child, was deeply impressed with divine truth. A stranger visiting the family, observed that he did not fail to shut himself up alone for prayer. He was powerfully struck with a sense of his own negligence, and said, "What, shall a little child be so anxious for a place of retirement to pray, and I never prayed in my life!" From that time he began to be serious, and not only became a Christian, but a very valuable minister of Christ. "I my self," says Mr. Thornton, "have known parents grown gray in the drudgery of sin and Satan, who have been brought, through the pious and affectionate endeavours of their own children, to enjoy the glorious liberty of Christ." It is to be lamented, however, that so many procrastinate, and think of nothing but the present world., The ancients pictured youth like a young man naked, with a vail over his face, his right hand bound behind him, and his left hand loose, and Time behind him pulling one thread out of his vail every day, intimating, that young men are void of knowledge, and blind; unfit to do good, ready to do evil, till time, by little and little, makes them wiser. "I have read of a king," says Mr. Brooks, "who having no issue to succeed him, espying one day a well favoured youth, took him to court, and committed him to tutors to instruct him, providing by his will, that if he proved fit for government, he should be crowned king; if not he should be bound in chains, and made a galley slave. Now when he grew to years, the king's executors perceiving that he had sadly neglected those means and opportunities whereby he might have been fit for state government, called him before them, and declared the king's will and pleasure concerning him, which was accordingly performed; for they caused him to be fettered and committed to the galleys. Now what tongue can express how much he was affected with his sad and miserable estate, especially when he considered with himself, that now he was chained, who might have walked at liberty; now he was a slave, who might have been a king. The application is easy." Buck. Between two and three years ago, I went from Bombay into the Mahratta country, for the health of my family. We encamped in the bosom of a beautiful grove, at Lancoly, about thirty miles from Poonah. One day, as our little girl, not three years old, was walking through the grove with a native servant who waited on her, they came near to an old and ruinous Hindoo Temple. The man, leaving the child, stepped aside, and paid his adorations, or "made his salaam," as they call it, to a stone Idol, that was fixed at the door of the Temple. When he came back to the child, she said, in her innocent way, "Saamy, (that was his name) what for you do that?" "Oh, Missy," said he, "that my God." "Your God!" said the little girl, " your God! Saamy!-why your God no can see-no can hearno can walk your God stone! My God see every thing-my God make you-make me-make every thing." We remained (added Mr. Mooney).at this sequestered place for four months; and the scene which I have described was frequently repeated. Saamy never failed to worship at the Temple; and the dear child never failed to rebuke him for his idolatry. He became, notwithstanding, very much attached to her; and when he thought she was going to Europe, he said to her, "What will poor Saamy do, when Missy go to England?-Saamy no father, no mother." She instantly replied, "Oh, Saamy, if you love my God, he will be your father and mether too." The old man, with tears in his eyes, promised to love her God. "Then," said she, "you must learn my prayers:" and she taught him the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and her Morning and Evening Hymns: and one morning, when we were met for family worship, Saamy, of his own accord, quite unexpected, came into the room, took his turban off his head, laid it on the floor, and, kneeling down, repeated after me the Lord's Prayer. From that time there was a visible change in his whole conduct, particularly in his regard for truth. He became anxious to learn English, that he might read the Bible; and, in a little time, he accomplished the task, and began to live as a consistent Christian. PATIENCE. An Italian Bishop, who had endured much persecution with a calm unruffled temper, was asked by a friend how he attained to such a mastery of himself. " By making a right use of my eyes," said he. "I first look up to heaven, as the place whither I am going to live for ever: I next look down upon the earth, and consider how small a space of it will soon be all that I can occupy or want. Ithen look round me, and think how many are far more wretched than I am." REGNER LODBROG, imprisoned in a loathsome dungeon, and condemned to be destroyed by venomous serpents, solaced his desperate situation by recollecting and reciting the glorious exploits of his past life. The soul confined in its prison, the body, and infested by destructive passions, should support and comfort itself, by recollecting and celebrating the triumphs of its Redeemer, set forth in the Psalms: so Paul and Silas. New-York, Feb. 19, 1819. THE unfortunate condition of the INDIAN TRIBES is justly lamented by the humane and benevolent; and various measures are prosecuting for introducing among them the arts of civilized life and the blessings of religion. It must be obvious that no persons are so well calculated for this purpose as native Indians, who, acquainted with the language and dispositions of their countrymen, and enjoying their confidence, will be able to exert a beneficial influence among them in relation both to their temporal and spiritual concerns. Mr. Eleazer Williams, who is of Indian extraction, and who has for some time successfully laboured in the religious instruction of the Oneidas, is now in this city, with a young Indian Chief, who is desirous of receiving an education for the purpose of acting as a religious instructor among his countrymen. He is the son of the head Warrior of the Onondagas, who was in the American service during the late war, and was killed at the battle of Chippewa. According to the usage of the Indians, he succeeds to the station of his father; and thus, as one of the Chiefs of the nation, will possess considerable authority. He was instructed in the truths of Christianity in early life, by Abraham Brandt, a Christian of the Mohawk nation, and more recently Mr. Eleazer Williams has superintended his instruction. It is his earnest desire to receive an education which may qualify him for exercising the Ministry among his countrymen: for which office he is fitted by his talents, and by his pious and amiable disposition. As he is only very imperfectly acquainted with the English language, his education will require some time; and he is entirely destitute of the funds for defraying the necessary expenses. He is, therefore, compelled to make an appeal to the benevolence of the public; in the hope that those who commiserate the benighted and degraded state of his countrymen, will aid him in qualifying himself to extend among them the comforts of civilized life, and the unspeakable blessings of the Gospel of Christ. His interesting situation, as son of an Indian Chief, who was killed in the service of the country, at the head of the Warriors of the Six Nations, gives hím a still further claim to public patronage. Benefactions for this pious and benevolent purpose will be received by the Right Rev. 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And the putting up and directing from 60 to 70 thousand papers in a year, consumes more time than can be given to it, and otherwise subjects the Publishers to an expense which would not be remunerated if every subscription was paid up. But in order that the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church may not be destitute of a work so interesting to those who are concerned for her welfare, the Publishers have determined to make another effort for the continuance of the Christian Journal upon an extended plan; and they now invite the patronage of the public to the third volume, which will issue in monthly numbers, agreeably to the terms annexed. In this form the Publishers are assured it will be more acceptable to many of its friends. By an increase of matter, each number will become of more importance; and the promise of literary aid from many of the clergy affords an assurance that its pages will occasionally be furnished with original communications. 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The price will be Two Dollars a year, payable in advance; single numbers 25 cents each-the cheapest periodical publication of an equal quantity of matter in this country. Each number will appear as near the first of the month as circumstances will permit. Consecration. On Thursday, the 11th of Febuary, 1819, in St. James' Church, in the city of Philadelphia, the Rev. Philander Chase was consecrated to the Holy Office of Bishop, to act as Bishop in the Diocess of Ohio, to which office he had been elected by the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in that State. The Right Rev. Bishop White, of Pennsylvania, presiding Bishop at the Consecration, was assisted by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, of New-York; the Right Rev. Bishop Kemp, of Maryland; and the Right Rev. Bishop Croes, of New Jersey. Ordination. At Bristol, RI. on the 9th inst. by the Right Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, Bishop of the Eastern Diocess, Messrs. Carleton Chase and Patrick Hinds Folker, were admitted to the Holy Order of Deacons. row, PROPOSED PUBLICATIONS. S. POTTER & Co. Booksellers of Philadelphia, propose to publish "A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy, by Isaac BarD. D. late Master of Trinity Tri College, in Cambridge, and one of his Majesty's Chaplains in ordinary." Also, "Sermons on a variety of important Subjects, by the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, M. A." so Memoirs of the late Bishop Horne. (Continued from page 5, and concluded.) For the sake of those who admire Bishop Horne's works, and were not acquainted with his person, it may be proper, before I conclude, to say something of his natural life. When he first came to the University of Oxford, he was quite a boy; but being at a time of life when boys alter very fast, he soon grew up into a person agreeable, that, at the opening of the Radcliffe Library, when all were assembled, and made their best appearance, I heard it said of him, that there was not then a handsomer young man in the Theatre. But he was not of a strong and muscular constitution; and, from the disadvantage of being very near-sighted (quite helpless without the use of a glass), he did not render himself more robust by the practice of any athletic exercise. Amusements of that sort gave him more trouble than they were worth, and he never pursued them with any alacrity. It is related of Bishop Bull, that he was not addicted to any innocent pleasure, which is often necessary to unbend the mind, and preserve the body in health and vigour. The only diversion (if it may be called a diversion) to which this great man was addicted, was the enjoyment of agreeable conversation: and the same was the favourite amusement of Dr. Horne to the end of his life. I wish every young man who is intended for a scholar, had some good or some necessary reason for not being led away by any sort of recreation. It was of service to his mind, that he was no fisherman, no shooter, no hunter, no horseman: the cultivation of his understanding was, therefore, carried on with less inVOL. III 5 [VOL. III. terruption, and his improvements were rapid. While on horseback he seemed to be in more danger than other young men: and he had a friend, who was so much concerned for his safety, that he sometimes rode after him, to watch over him, without letting him know of it. But so it happened, notwithstanding his vigilance, that he saw him suffer one bad fall, upon a dirty road, into a deep slough, and another upon very hard ground in the middle of the summer. His horse was then upon a gallop, and the fall pitched him upon his forehead; but, by the protection of a good Provi dence, the blow only gave him a head-ach, which soon went off without any other ill effect. When he came at last to be a Bishop, the friend, who had formerly been his attendant, reminded him of these accidents, and observed upon them, "My Lord, I saw you fall twice, I have seen you rise three times:" meaning, that he had first risen to be President of Magdalen College, then to be Dean of Canterbury, and afterwards Bishop of Norwich. The year after he came to Oxford, he fell sick of the smallpox, which proved very favourable, and he was removed to a house upon the hill at Headington, for an airing; where his recovery had raised his spirits to such a pitch, that his friends could not but observe the growing vigour of his mind, and augurate that his wits were intended for some very active part upon the stage of human life, as it afterwards proved. In the year 1758, he was appointed junior Proctor of the University; on the 27th of April, 1759, he took the degree of B. D. and on the 28th of January, 1764, that of D. D. His health continued tolerably good, till |