Which morning bids to cease: O come that day-spring from on high, When discord shall with darkness fly, And all be light and peace! 'Twas this that drew repentant tears From Peter, led by worldly fears His master to disown; Warn'd by the monitor of day, He cast the works of night away, And sought th' abjured sun. Whene'er the bird of dawning crows, He tells us all how Peter rose, And mark'd us out the road; That each disciple might begin, Awake, like him, from sleep and sin, To think betimes on God. Smote by the eye that looks on all, Arise to weep and pray; THE WIDOW OF NΑΙΝ. 'since he is gone 'I ask no earthly hope-be thou, Oh Israel's God! my portion now: And, when the pangs of memory prey On my cold heart, be Thou my stay, And teach my sinking soul to say, It is the Lord-His will be done.' She ceased upon the green hill's brow A cloud of dust was gathering now: Hark! through the light air echoing loud The murmurs of a mingled crowd. Onward the tumult rolls-'tis nearThey listen, mute with breathless fear: Is it the lordly Roman's car? The pomp and pageantry of war: Where Zion's sons must swell the train, Of foes their inmost souls disdain? Or those bold warriors-wild, yet free- And now they wind the steep descent- A more than mortal majesty, That daunted while it fixed the eye. The mourtier-speechless and amazed, If young he were, 'twas only seen That godlike majesty and woe, Oh! how shall mortal dare essay, And all that finite sense can deem God bade the star of Judah rise- Whose look such peace and glory shed:- When years and years have lingered by, To heaven a moment raised-he spoke- Where is thy victory, oh Death? A nobler, mightier arm than thine He moves he breathes he lives-he wakes- Man knows not---none can ever know--- That last mysterious agony Which throbs---and man has ceased to be: All passed with life's returning breath;--- "Tis blessedness to die. But speak-what means this sable bier, * * Did Nature's last convulsive thrill Press heavy on her beating brow, She heard in hope, and holy dread, 'Twas God himself she gazed upon. Which deigned to visit guilt like mine, Forever be thy name adored. LORD LYTTLETON. LORD LYTTLETON died 1773, a firm believer in the Christian religion. Genuine faith in Christ is essential to our happiness in the present state, and in that which is to come. To give credit to his testimony, imbibe his spirit, rely on his righteousness, and obey his commands; these form the Christian character. How many, however, call themselves Christians, and yet are strangers to these principles; and alas! how many are disposed to reject the whole system of Christianity, although they have never closely examined its evidences. Let not, however, the humble inquirer despond; the enemies to Christianity may endeavour to throw objections in the way; but light shall increase; and truth shall be found by all who sincerely seek her. "When I first set out in the world (said Lord Lyttleton to his physician in his last illness) I had friends who endeavoured to stagger my belief in the Christian religion, but I kept my mind open to conviction. The evidences and doctrines of Christianity studied with attention, made me a most firm and persuaded believer of the Christian religion. I have made it the rule of my life, and it is the ground of my future hope." His Lordship's Treatise on the Conversion of the Apostle Paul is unanswerable. CONFESSION OF LORD ROCHESTER. ANTHENAGORAS, a famous Athenian philosopher, had entertained so unfavourable an opinion of the Christian religion, that he was determined to write against it; but upon an intimate inquiry into the facts on which it was supported, in the course of his collecting materials for his intended publication, he was convinced by the blaze of evidence in its favour, and turned his designed invective into an elaborate apology, which is still in being. Even the most profligate infidels havə been brought at last to own the truth of Christianity. What a confession is that of Lord Rochester: "If God," says he, " should spare me a little longer time here, I hope to bring glory to his name, proportionably to the dishonour I have done to him in my whole past life, and particularly by my endeavours to convince others, and to assure them of the danger of their condition, if they continued impenitent, and to tell how graciously God hath dealt with me." Ordination. At an ordination held on Sunday, March 14, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, by the Right Rev. Bishop White, Bird Wilson, A. M. of Pennsylvania, and William Wilson, A. B. of South-Carolina, were admitted to the holy order of Dea cons. / OBITUARY. COMMUNICATED. • We talk of heaven, we talk of hell, DIED, at Charleston, on a journey for his health, the Rev. WILLIAM H. NORTHROP, a Deacon of this Diocess. He was ordained by the Right Rev. Bishop HOBART, on Trinity Sunday, June 1st, 1817, in St. Paul's Chapel, New-York. Immediately after, by the recommendation of the Bishop, he took charge of the parish of St. Peter's Church, in Auburn. Here, by an intense application to study, and diligent discharge of parochial duties, he induced a consumptive disease, which terminated in dissolution. A young man, dear to his parents and friends, dear to the congregation who had been blessed with his ministerial labours, and dear to the Church in general, he will long be remembered and lamented. Seldom have we been called to notice so promising a flower in the Church, blighted before it was full blown-possessing genius, education, and talents, which fitted him for usefulness, he adorned them by a piety and virtue, surpassed by that of few of the same age. Well instructed in the principles of the Church, and under the most thorough conviction of their accordance with the Gospel, he was scrupulously exact in the observance of her requisitions, and in the respect and reverence due to her constituted authorities. He had a solidity and firmness of character, highly becoming the sacred office. As a man, he was respected and beloved, because amiable and sincere; and as a Christian minister, faithful, circumspect, and exemplary. He is gone. Thus doth the providence of God, in wisdom which we cannot comprehend, see fit to take from us the young as well as the aged. And thus, " in the midst of life we are in death." Blessed are those who, in "the communion of the Catholic Church," are met by death "in the confidence of a certain faith, in the comfort of a reasonable, religious, and holy hope, in favour with God, and in perfect charity with the world." In such a state, we trust, the subject of these remarks, departed the present for a better life. DIED, in Maryland, the Rev. WLLIAM DUNCAN, Rector of Allhallows, Anne-Arundel, in that Diocess. DIED, on the 5th March, at the Island of St. Thomas (where he went for the benefit of his health) Dr. JOHN C. OSBORN, late of this city. He was a native of Middletown, state of Connecticut, where his fa ther, an eminent physician, still lives. Early in life, after having received his education under his father's care and direction, he settled at Newbern, N. Carolina, where, for many years, he practised physic very extensively, and with distinguished repu city, where he soon became equally eminent, and was universally considered as among the most learned and skilful member of the profession. In addition to a very thorough acquaintance with medical science, he possessed an extensive knowledge of general science and literature; and he may be considered as ranking high among the respectable scholars in our country. Few men have been more esteemDaily Adv. From Newbern he removed to this ed by their friends, or respected for their talents and learning. TO CORRESPONDENTS. An anonymous piece, occasioned by the Essay on "The Kiss of Charity," in our last number, is received, and under consideration. The piece which we are requested to reprint from a Philadelphia newspaper, shall appear in our next. Memoirs of the late Rev. WILLIAM JONES, of Nayland: extracted from his Life by WILLIAM STEVENS, Esq. (Continued from page 70, and concluded.) Ar the preaching of the first of these sermons, the audience was not large, but it increased annually, as the fame of the preacher "was nois ed abroad," whose manner was no less animated and engaging than the subject matter was profound and important, "bringing out of his treasure things new and old;" and, at the last Sermon, the Church was full. Satisfaction was visible in every countenance while he was preaching, and disappointment when he shut the book, as "sorrowing they were to hear no more." This faithful Seer, lamenting the corruption of the times, and the prevalence of error, through the artifices and assiduity of sectaries, socinians, and infidels, had long meditated the establishment of a society for the Reformation of Principles, with a view to take such measures, in a literary way only, as should be most conducive to the preservation of our Religion, Government, and Laws; and, at last, in the year 1792, he flattered himself he had accomplished it. But to whatever cause it was owing, whether to the humble situation of the first mover-great abilities, and " an honest and good heart," apart from outward append ages of a dignified station, not being sufficient to recommend the plan-or to the little zeal of those who should have promoted the good work, it did not meet with the countenance and protection that might have been expected, but soon fell to the ground. VOL. III. [VOL. III. However, to his praise be it spoken, he did what he could. He wrote the prospectus, explaining the object of the society; he gave being to the British Critic; and he published, in two volumes, the Scholar Armed against the Errors of the Times. His Scholar Armed is a judicious well digested collection of invaluable tracts, intended for the information and as-, sistance of young students, excellently adapted to the purpose, and ought to be in the hands of every one. Pro ecclesia Dei, pro ecclesia Dei, were the last words of Archbishop Whitgift. In life and in death, his chief care was for God's Church. So might it be said of this able defender of the household of faith. And his care for God's Church made him anxious for the success of that pure and reformed part of it, the not established Episcopal Church in Scotland, in their application to parliament for relief from the hard penalties under which they had long suffered. Through his acquaintance with one of the Bishops, with whom he had frequently corresponded, he was not an unconcerned spectator in the business.Though too inconsiderable in station to be of any immediate service, he rendered them mediately all the service in his power, and they had also his prayers-" The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." Their cause was heard, and they were relieved. What is now to be lamented is, that the English episcopally ordained clergy, who have chapels in Scotland, do not at once acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Bishop of the Diocess in which they reside. They must have very low imperfect notions of the Church 18 of Christ, its nature and constitution, not to see that they are guilty of the sin of schism in not doing it, and their congregations must have been badly instructed, not to know they are involved in the same guilt in attending their ministrations. As to any interference on the part of the English Bishops, it would be a brutum fulmen; the English clergy when in Scotland, are out of their reach; they can do no more than Bishop Horne did, when he was applied to, which, no doubt, they all do, they can exhort the English clergy to be in communion with the Scotch Bishops, assuring them it would be their own practice in similar circumstances, being persuaded nothing would be required of them but what was necessary to maintain the order and unity of a Christian Church. In 1793, he published, in four numbers, The grand Analogy, or the Testimony of Nature and Heathen Antiquity to the Truth of a Trinity in Unity, and inscribed them to Bishop Horsley, as no less profoundly skilled in every branch of human learning, than well affected to every doctrine of the Christian Faith. On the death of Bishop Horne, in 1792, this his afflicted Chaplain, out of dutiful and affectionate regard to the memory of the venerable prelate, his dear friend and patron, undertook the task, (I may add the painful task,) of recording his life; for the worthy Biographer must have felt what another friend would have done, had it fallen to his lot; who, having been amused with the Life of Seth Ward, Bishop of Salisbury, written by his intimate friend and companion Walter Pope, used to say to him, "When you are a Bishop, I shall like to be your Walter Pope, in every particular except one, that of living to write your life." Past scenes the fancy wanders o'er, And sighs to think they are no more. It was published in 1795, and the second edition in 1799, with a new preface, containing a concise but clear exposition of the leading opinions entertained by Mr. Hutchinson on certain interesting points in theology and philosophy. The life of a private country clergyman is not expected to abound with incidents. "One day telleth another." And happy the uniformity, when it consists in doing good. Such was that of the Minister of Nayland, who, to all his other knowledge, added the knowledge of medicine, to the benefit and comfort of his people, the sheep of his pasture. As Physician both of body and soul, "he bound up the broken-hearted, he gave medicine to heal. their sickness"" he went about doing good." But though the incidents to be related were few, his life was not without variety. He had an inexhaustible fund within himself. His talents being various, like those of his favourite author, the great Lord Bacon, his studies were various too : and the instruction of his pupils in the different branches of literature was not less entertaining to himself than edifying to them. It was often lamented by some of his friends, that he who was so fit to teach men, should have so much of his time taken up in teaching boys; but "there is a time to every purpose," and he found it."Are there not twelve hours in the day?" His engagements with pupils did not take him off from other pursuits, or from teaching men, as his numerous publications bear witness. When a person of great eminence in the Church, whose judgment might be relied on, and who knew Mr. Jones intus et in cute, was asked by a noble Lord, to whom he had been recommended, Whether he would be a proper tutor for his sons, previously to their going to the University? the answer was, "Your Lordship may think yourself happy if you can prevail on him to take them. He is every thing you could wish. Besides his extensive knowledge of all kinds, and his singular faculty of communicating to others what he knows, he is full of observation; nothing escapes him; the most common occurrences of life supply him with matter for improvement of the mind, and his conversation is remarkably lively and agreeable." And, to be sure, he so far discovered the philosopher's stone, that he had, beyond any man, the art of converting |