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rough districts, and quit the plough and other (of the school to candidates for holy orders, or implements of secular toil to study the Book those who are nearly prepared to become

of GOD, and fit themselves to break "the bread of life," to souls which, without such instrumentality, may be forever lost! Where or how can such comparatively small sums be so profitably expended?

such. The number of students, therefore, is diminished. At the present time there are 13 in the theological classes, four of whom are soon to be ordained. It is already known that six others are to enter the present spring. It is worthy of being noticed here, that Nashotah has obtained from the Legislature of Wisconsin a charter as a strictly Church Institution, that furnishes it with University powers, and promises for it at some future day a degree of influence which it is not possible for mortal minds to compute. The charter provides for a Faculty composed of the Bishop and the clerical members of what is called "the House." It recognizes as four distinct departments, The Divinity School, The College, The Academical Department, and The Parish School. When these are all in successful operation, how immensely more valuable will they be to the North-Western

The Mission School at Nashotah, like all other earthly things, has had its changes. Of the three valued brethren who commenced the enterprise, but one remains on the ground. The Rev. Mr. Hobart, after about two years' connection with it, returned to the East, and is now very appropriately treading in the footsteps of his revered and distinguished father, as an Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, New-York. The Rev. Mr. Breck, after having done all it was possible for man to do, and having suffered hardships and privations which would have driven almost any other person from the spot, in order to bring the Institution into complete success, saw his ideas and plans fully realized, and the Mis-States, than the reputed wealth of California sion fit to be transferred to other hands, and then resigned the Headship or Presidency of it, preparatory to beginning another just such school in the Territory of Minnesota. He, with two "like-minded" associates, is already on his new missionary grounds, and, because of his past experience, helping his second institution to a success which completely surpasses that of the first in the earlier stages of its progress. He, too, depends entirely upon the contributions of Churchmen. His worth and wisdom have been so thoroughly tried, that he cannot look to the benevolent in vain. The Rev. A. D. Cole is now the President, and active business head of Nashotah. Whatever interests the Church has heretofore placed in his hands have been abundantly prospered. His Presidency thus far has been most auspicious and promising. Aided by the experience, and sound learning, and ability of Professor Adams, and the other teachers of the Institution, he will do all that can be expected from pious zeal and sanctified talent with limited means. Among the changes lately introduced, occasioned by the want of resources, is the restriction of the privileges

will be to the country! Only money is need-
ed now to impart to them life and efficiency.
Were a tithe of what is spent in luxury in
any one of our principal cities, bestowed upon
them, they would acquire all that is essential
to the fullest development of their powers
and rights. Nay, if the tenth part of what
is squandered in folly and extravagance by
only the members of our Church in any one
of those cities, were devoted in proper pro-
portions to the Missions at Nashotah and at
St. Paul, Minnesota, the one of these would
at once command patronage and influence
equal to those of the very best and highest
schools in the land, and in all its departments
be filled with pupils, who in various ways
would labor for and promote the most holy of
causes; and the other would begin to as-
sume the form and character which would
give it a prospect of usefulness, second in no
respect to the fullest prosperity attainable by
that which is to it as a parent. With the his-
tory of both, the name of James Loyd Breck
must be ever most honorably connected.
Most truly yours,

R. C.

ON THE DEATH OF A LOVELY BOY.

Mourn not the lost: too pure, too fair,
For earthly scenes and earthly care,
Was he thy loved and lovely one,
Who to a better land has gone.
A lily flower of purest hue,
A rose-bud opening to your view,
A soft sweet star to light you on,

And guide you to your Father's throne;
Awhile to your fond gaze was given,
Then called away to shine in heaven.

Oh! had he lived, a little while
Might e'en have dimmed his radiant smile,
Sin might have stained that guileless breast,
For sin in Eden once found rest!

Grief might have bent that lovely flower,
Joy vanished in a fleeting hour,
Had God not looked on him in love,
And called him to his courts above,
In all his spotless purity,
To blossom in eternity.

Should sun-light beam upon your way,
Should you be blest by fortune's ray,
Think that he brightly smiles on you,
Your cherub boy is happy too.

Or when your hearts are filled with grief,
Then will it bring you no relief,
To think that he is free from care,
That nought his footsteps can ensnare;
Grief cannot blight, nor sin destroy,
The beauty of your angel boy?
Then gaze upon his semblance fair,

Unchanging loveliness is there.
Then, ob, be this an earnest given,
Of your beloved one in heaven;
Unchanged though ages may roll o'er,
Smiling in beauty evermore.

Perhaps a guardian angel bright,
Arrayed in robes of purest white,
He hovers now around your heads,
And sweetest blessings on you sheds;
Turns from your path all harm and ill,
And watches you and loves you still.
It may be thus, we cannot say,-
But if bright angels guard our way,
Why may not he, your cherished sou,
Be of heaven's host the chosen one,
To guard and shield your path alway,
And still be with you night and day?

But vain my words to soothe your grief,
I cannot grant your hearts relief;
Not mine that boon, I can but pray
That God would take your grief away.
His pitying love alone imparts

A power to soothe all troubled hearts;
Then may he bid your sorrows cease,
And bring to your sad bosoms peace;
Guard you and guide you by his love,
Receive you to his courts above,
Then in that land of peace and joy,
Restore to you your angel boy.

Buffalo.

E. H. B.

RESPECT FOR THE DEAD.

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fellow-man. What though it may manifest itself among them, in customs not exactly in accordance with our ideas of taste or propriety? yet it is no less the offspring of love, and breathes the same spirit as among us who can boast of higher attainments and greater privileges.

The ancient Egyptian showed this feeling, by embalming with costly spices the clay tenement, zealous to protect it from the destroying touch of time; and we, a thousand years after, may look upon the form of one

the days of Egypt's glory.

who walked and thought, felt and enjoyed, in where "Cedar Grove" and "Sylvan Lake," where hill and dale succeed each other, and not feel from the heart, "It is good for me to be here ?"

The Hindoo shows it, by rearing the funeral pyre, then placing thereon the beloved body, applies the torch, fondly believing that the rising flame, which reduces all that is corruptible to ashes, shall waft the soul upward to bliss.

With civilization we see a marked increase of this feeling. So true is this, that there is no one thing by which we can judge more truly of the character of any people than by the respect shown their dead. One of the worst places it was ever the lot of the writer to visit, where almost every other man you met was a drunkard, was a remarkable instance of this. Its grave-yard was located on land that could be used for no other purpose, the fence around it was torn down, and the grave-stones were almost hidden by the tall weeds which grew there undisturbed.

It is to be hoped there are few places to be found like it in our land.

Civilization has surrounded death with

many moving ceremonies, both beautiful and appropriate, differing from each other with divers religions and climes, but all breathing the same pious spirit.

We see it in the train of sympathizing neighbors and weeping friends, going sadly forth to lay dust to dust, with the simple prayer of the grey-haired pastor--we hear it in the solemnly-chanted masses in some dim cathedral, while a blaze of light surrounds the senseless corpse.

Such places take away in a great degree the gloom and terror with which we generally associate death, and leave in its place the beautiful idea of the ancients: "Death is the twin-brother of Sleep."

It is a pleasure to observe, that the taste for such monuments of respect is on the increase, and there are few among us who will not at least give it their cordial good wishes, for

"Who hath not lost a friend?"

One thing that materially enhances the value of such places, is the fact that they afford consolation to surviving friends, while at the same time they show a tender respect for the departed. Here may we lay the sacred dead, without fear that their last rest shall be disturbed. The winds shall sing their requiem, and nature's tears shall fall winter shall year by year upon their graves; throw its snow-pall above them, and spring, with its renewing verdure, shall typify their resurrection. Here, far from the bustle and turmoil of the world, shall they quietly rest, and we, as the "silver cord" is loosened," or the "golden bowl" broken, shall come to lie by their side.

In view of this, who indeed is there that will not encourage, by voice and example, this taste?

Shall those for whom, when living, we ever cherished the warmest feelings of love, for But to a still greater extent is this spirit whom there was always a place at our hearth manifesting itself by an increasing beauty, and board, and without whom, when they defitness, and even magnificence in the laying parted, we felt that life had no further charms, out of grounds for the interment of the dead. now that time has in some degree softened Time was, when, that we had laid some dear the blow, be forgotten? What though it is one to mingle with the kindred dust, in the the senseless body only that lies there-that old church-yard, we thought—what have we body shall rise again in renewed vigor and left undone that we could have done; but now beauty. Let, then, taste for the beautiful, art is lavished to render more beautiful the which has its abode in so many hearts, find choice spots of nature. And this is of good this most harmless as well as pious manifestaeffect, for who can visit "Mount Auburn" tion, and uniting with affection for those lost and not wonder and admire? Who can wan- flowers, form many a garden worthy to conder through the winding avenues of "Green-tain them, where we may plant, and watering wood," while all around him lie the beautiful with our tears, await with patience their imand good, as if in quiet sleep, where not a mortal bloom. H. B. C. dead leaf is left to remind him of decay,

Newburgh, N. Y., March, 1851.

BISHOP HOBART'S PRINCIPLES,

NO. I.

"He, being dead, yet speaketh."-Hebrews xi. 4.

From his Address to the Convention of the Diocese of New-York, 1814.

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UT, my Clerical and Lay Brethren, I should enjoy little satisfaction in congratulating you on the increasing attachment to the distinctive principles of our Church, and veneration for her institutions, if I could not also congratulate you on the increase of that evangelical piety which these principles and institutions, when faithfully observed and practised, are calculated to produce. He indeed must entertain very inferior and erroneous notions of the nature and design of the ordinances of the Church, and of the high objects of the ministerial calling, who does not extend their influence to the excitement and preservation of the power of godliness; of that vital and productive faith, which, through the agency of the Divine Spirit, renewing the soul, and conforming the life to the holy standard of Christian morals, can alone authorize the elevated hope, that we are the subjects of God's favor, and in a state of preparation for His kingdom of glory.

That your ministrations, my Clerical Brethren, may produce these exalted effects, in the present holiness and eternal salvation of the people committed to your charge, is, I am confident, the subject of your earnest solicitude and constant prayers. To endeavor to produce these effects by any other means than those which our Church authorizes, and which the piety and wisdom of ages have sanctioned, would be a departure from the most solemn obligations of duty, and would not ultimately produce that fervent, and at the same time, that humble, that unassuming, that consistent, that permanent piety, equally remote from the extremes of lukewarmness and enthusiasm, which alone the real friend

to our Church, and to the substantial interests of religion, would wish to see prevail.

It is cause both of gratitude and of boast, that what are considered by some the dull round of Church observances, in the hands of a faithful and zealous minister, prove, by the blessing of God, effectual in converting sinners, and in establishing believers in the holy faith of the Gospel. I could point to districts in which, since the period of little more than twenty years, the praises of those who have experienced the power and the consolations of redeeming mercy, have cheered the wilderness and the solitary place. I could point there to many whom the truth as it is in Jesus has made free from the bondage of sin, and His grace adorned with the Christian virtues. And these blessed effects have been produced by the regular and faithful use of the forms of our Church, (God, by His Spirit, accompanying them,) and of these forms only. I have seen the minister of our Church, faithful to those vows which he made at her altar, when he devoted himself to the service of his Divine Master, with holy ardor, offering the prescribed service of the sanctuary; and in the family, and the private circle, animating and exalting their devotions by the fervent language of the Liturgy. I have seen him training up the lambs of his fold by instructing them in the simple and evangelical formularies which the Church has provided. I have seen him teaching from house to house; and exhorting his people to maintain communion with God, not only in His public ordinances, but in the exercises of pious reading and meditation, and of secret and constant prayer. To these important parochial labors, I have seen him add fidelity, affection, and fervor, in preaching the sacred word. In times of more than usual serious

ness, and more than common attention to di- of the exhortation as it respects myself, to vine things, he has increased his attention to continue with diligence and fidelity to emthese private and public means of grace.ploy. And these means, my Brethren of the And they have been blessed in the revival Laity, it is my duty to impress upon you, if of a spirit of piety, congenial with the scrip- they do not prove to you the savor of life, tural and apostolic doctrines and ordinances will certainly prove to you, in the strong of the Church, and which, therefore, we may language of an inspired Apostle, the savor of trust, would not have disgraced her purest death. May we all then, Clergy and Laity, days. in our respective stations, so adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things, that we may bring honor to His name and to His Holy Church, and finally save our own souls!

My Reverend Brethren: such means of grace, and such only, do I exhort you, and pray that I may not be unmindful of the force

THE NEW BIRTH.

The following lines were occasioned by hearing remarks which implied, that the moment of our conversion was known to us, and that the new birth belonged to it, rather than to the Sacrament of Baptism :

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say not-dream not, thou mayest scan
The Spirit's work in the heart of man;
As well mayest thou in thy madness try
To bound the world with thy mortal eye;
As well tell chaos whence it came,
Or span with thy arm its mighty frame.

The Iris springs from the yielding earth,
But we take no note of its silent birth,
We know not the instant that brings it there,
To lade with its sweetness the balmy air;
We can only know that an unseen power
Has marked with its signet that lowly flower.

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