thies of our nature, and under the constant influence of a meek, a benevolent, and a kind religion. In all the offices of devotion, private and public, he was unfailing and exemplary. Firm in his belief of Christianity, every thing connected with it engaged his attention. It was his great end and aim to defend, to cherish, to promote it. The predominant object of all his wishes and desires, was, "in every thing he did, to do it to the glory of God." Yet, amidst a conduct so holy and so pure, he had no melancholy, no austerity, no gloom. In him were never seen the sanctified look, the depressed brow, the sullen spirit, the dismal and desponding countenance. Piety, as he felt and understood it, was best exemplified by cheerfulness. He saw no incompatibility in the innocent pleasures of life with the most unfeigned devotion. He wished to render Religion

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as amiable, as she is venerable; to place her before the eyes of men in her most alluring and attracting form-bright, serene, unclouded and benign; in a word, to represent her, not as the enemy and the bane of happiness, but as the guide, the companion, the solace, the delight of man. His own character was framed on this principle. He was cheerful without levity, serious and devout without moroseness. He lived, in short, as he taught others to live; and this it was which, far beyond any other cause, gave such power, such weight, such efficacy to his preaching. "An orator," said the great Roman Philosopher, "if he would persuade, must be a good man;" and still more must the Christian Preacher be himself the Christian. Otherwise, though he should even speak as an Angel of Light, he will speak in vain : his eloquence will be fruitless, and his advice will be forgotten.

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Upon the whole, the Bishop was, and so at least Posterity will consider him, a light in his generation-an ornament to the times in which he lived. Firm and fixed in his own principles; candid and liberal in his sentiments of others; unalterable in his attachments; unbounded in his acts of charity; meek and humble in his disposition; affable and courteous in his manner and deportment; ardent in his piety; devoted to his God;—surely, such a man well maintained the Christian character. That all men indeed should think of him as I do, is hardly to be expected. When the heart overflows with gratitude, such, I trust, as I shall ever feel, for a long course of uninterrupted kindness, friendship and protection, it is perhaps impossible to divest the mind altogether of partiality. I am not however aware, that I have

overstated any single fact, or ascribed to

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