was surprised to find twenty or thirty Persians assembled, and listening with attention to one who was reading a book. They no sooner noticed the stranger than the book was laid aside and concealed, and it was with some difficulty that he could prevail on them to tell him what the book was. At last they informed him that it was the New Testament, and said that the reason why they endeavoured to conceal it was, that they were not allowed to read it publicly.-Extract of a letter from Dr. Henderson.

Ancient Busts and Statues.

In,making an excavation recently at Warsaw, for the purpose of erecting a library, forty busts in stone were discovered of the Kings of Poland and Dukes of Lithuania. One of them, in the costume of the Order of the Golden Fleece, appears to be the bust of Sigismund III. who died in 1632. There were also found 15 mythological statues of a colossal size.

Honesty Rewarded. THE morning papers contained an advertisement of Mr. George W. Talbot, of this city, offering a reward of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid on delivery of a pocket-book and its contents, amounting to $ 45,000 in notes, acceptances, custom-house debentures, bank checks, and bank bills, lost yesterday, at the corner of Pine and William-streets. We have now the pleasure to state, that an orphan boy, in Henry-street, of Irish parentage, was the fortunate finder of the pocket book, and that it was promptly restored to the owner this morning, with its contents; upon which the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars was immediately paid by Mr. Talbot, two hundred of which, is to be deposited in the Savings Banks, for the benefit of the lad, and the remaining fifty dollars appropriated for clothing the little fellow in that decent apparel in which honesty should ever appear.-States man, March 14th, 1822.

Introductory Address to the Theological Seminary.

ON Monday evening, March 11th, 1822,the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart delivered, in Trinity Church, in this city, an address on occasion of the opening, under its new Constitution, of the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Evening Prayer was conducted by the Rev. James Milnor, D. D. Rector of St. George's Church, New-York. The congregation was very crowded, and highly respectable. About twenty regular students, and four or five young gentlemen, who are admitted, according to the statutes, to attend a part of the instructions, were present, in appropriate seats; similar accommodations having been also provided for the Trustees, Professors, and Clergy generally.

The impression made by the lucid, able, and eloquent address was certainly a very strong one, and we hope will prove lasting and operative. We are gratified to be able to anticipate the wide extension of this effect, by the ap pearance of the address in print.

Communication.

We are informed that Bishop Ho bart received yesterday a check for $2,000, from Eliakim Warren, Esq. of Troy, for the purpose of founding a scholarship in the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary of the United States. This example of Christian munificence, it is to be hoped, will be followed by many wealthy Episcopalians in this city, as well as in other parts of the United States.-New-York Evening Post, March 21st, 1822.

[The gentleman who made the abovementioned donation to the Theological Seminary has been long_distinguished for his pious liberality. The Episcopal congregation at Troy has often experienced the benefit of his zealous and generous exertions, and his large and respectable family imitate their venerable father in acts of pious munificence, and have liberally subscribed to the Theological School. If the disposition were equally prevalent among Episcopalians to devote a por

tion of their wealth to the interests of the Church, and particularly to the promotion of theological education, funds could soon be procured adequate to the important objects. We have procured the following extract from the letter of the gentleman who transmitted to Bishop Hobart the donation of Mr. Warren. It contains remarks which are so just and impressive that we presume to hope they will not be without their effect.]

"Where are the numerous and wealthy citizens of the city of NewYork, who are Churchmen? If they would come forward and make a vigorous and united effort, and set an example, not only for the Churchmen in this State, but also for the Union, it would, I am confident, produce a most beneficial result. The city of NewYork is powerful, and its citizens are liberal, in almost every thing which tends to promote the prosperity of our country; and why should they be less so towards an institution which, if supported, is calculated to give character and stability to our Church, and to extend the blessings of the Gospel throughout our land, in its primitive purity ?"

Ordination.

ON Wednesday, March 6th, 1822, the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart held an Ordination in Trinity Church, in this city, and admitted the Rev. William H. De Lancey, Deacon, Minister of St. Thomas's Church, Mamaroneck, Westchester county, to the holy order of Priests. Morning Prayer was conducted by the Rev. William Berrian, and an appropriate exhortation delivered by the Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk, Assistant Ministers of Trinity Church. Mr. De Lancey has since been appointed Assistant Minister to the Rector of Christ, St. Peter's, and St. James's Churches, Philadelphia.

From Poulson's (Philadelphia) American Daily Advertiser. Consecration and Obituary Notice. On Thursday morning, January 17th, 1822, Trinity Church, in Catharine, between Second and Third-streets, in the district of Southwark, Philadelphia,

was consecrated to the service of Almighty God, by the Right Rev. Bishop White, assisted by several of the Episcopal Clergy of Philadelphia, and in the presence of a crowded and respectable audience. The services of the occasion were solemn and interesting, and the sermon, delivered by the Rev. Samuel H. Turner, highly appropriate and impressive.

It must be peculiarly gratifying to Episcopalians to see, in this part of our city, a place of worship erected, in which the holy services of religion are to be celebrated according to the usages of a Church venerable for her antiquity, and conspicuous for the elevated standing which she has so long occupied among her sister churches in Christendom. Present circumstances authorize the expectation of success in the organization of an Episcopal congregation in this district, and in the consequent promotion of the interests of the Redeemer's kingdom.

The building is of brick, 65 feet long and 55 feet wide. Although not an elegant edifice, it is perfectly neat, and well adapted to its intended use. The writer is informed that the erection of this church is in no inconsiderable degree owing to the exertions and generosity of the late Rev. Mr. Turner, and he avails himself of the present opportunity, to pay to his memory that tribute of respect which his piety, his philanthropy, and his zeal in the exercise of his profession, so justly merit.

The late Rev. Mr. Joseph Turner was a native of Devonshire, in England, and born in the year 1742. He came to America some considerable time before the Revolutionary War. Being naturally of a serious and contemplative turn of mind, and raised by the liberality of his uncle, Philip Hulbeart, Esq. above the necessity of any professional exertions, he devoted a portion of his time to theological studies, and soon after the introduction of the Episcopate into America, applied to Bishop White, the first Pennsylvania Diocesan, for admission to holy orders. The uniform correctness of his conduct, and the unfeigned piety of his life, rendered his application successful, and he was accordingly ordained

a Deacon in 1791, and a Priest in the following year. He was called to the rectorship of St. Martin's Church, at Marcus Hook, which he retained about 25 years. During a part of that time he acted as Assistant Minister in the Swedish Episcopal Church, under the superintendance of the Rev. Nicholas Collin, D. D. Declining health and fatigue, arising from the distance of his residence from his flock, obliged him to relinquish his charge a few years before his decease. He died on the 26th of July, 1821, after a short but severe illness, which he sustained with exemplary Christian resignation and fortitude, looking forward with eagerness and holy hope to his emancipation from the fetters of mortality, and his admission to the promised joy of his Lord. He was buried in the church-yard of St. Paul's, of which church he and his family were members, and in which he frequently officiated.

That this faithful and diligent disciple of Christ should thus "finish his course with joy," was the natural consequence of that simplicity and purity of conduct which adorned his character. Unambitious of popular applause, and regulating his deportment by the influence of that leading Christian virtue, humility, he "kept the noiseless tenor of his way," in the constant exercise of that faith and practice, which he so earnestly recommended to others. Confiding in the sacred assurances, that he who winneth souls is wise," and that "they who turn many to right courses shall shine as the stars for ever," in conformity to the example of his divine Master," he went about doing good." As a citizen, he discharged all the relative duties, both public and domestic, with the strictest integrity and the tenderest attention, invariably exemplifying the character given by our blessed Saviour, of a pious Jew, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile !"

New Church.

On Saturday, the 30th of March, 1822, the corner stone of a new building, for the parish of Christ Church, in this city, was laid by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart. A number of the Clergy, and

several members of the different vestries in the city, attended on the occa sion, which was rendered very solemn and impressive by an appropriate service, performed by the Bishop, and an address by the Rev. Mr. Lyell, the Rector of the Church. The site is in Anthony-street, facing the north wing of the New-York Hospital; an airy, desirable, and commodious spot. The edifice, we understand, is to be built in the Gothic style, of rough stone, and in extent 90 by 65 feet.

The state of the old building in Annstreet has become such as to render necessary very extensive repairs. The site, however, being an inconvenient and unpleasant one, the parish have resolved to undertake rebuilding in a very eligible situation, and in a style highly creditable to their taste and liberality; and this entirely upon their own responsibility, a fact which, in the estimation of those acquainted with the history of the Church in this city, renders this a peculiarly praiseworthy instance of pious zeal and enterprize. We sincerely hope that it will be imitated. There can be no doubt that at least 3 or 4 new Episcopal churches in this city, judiciously located, would be immediately supplied with congregations. And such is the demand for seats, that if they were erected with a duly proportioned regard to economy, convenience, and taste, it is almost certain, that the cost would be defrayed, or nearly so, by the sale of pews.

Free Episcopal Church.

A CHURCH of this description is about to be erected in the neighbourhood of Corlaer's Hook, in this city; more particulars of which may be expected in our Number for May.

To Correspondents.

Most of the matter for the present number of the Christian Journal having been prepared before the receipt of the third number of the Country Clergyman, that paper is unavoidably laid over for the May number.

Several other articles from our distant friends have been received, and will appear in due course.

Life of Archbishop Sancroft; abridged for the Christian Journal from a Review of his Life, by Dr. D'Oyly, in the British Critic.

(Continued from page 101,and concluded.) ON the subject of the oaths themselves, Dr. D'Oyly writes thus; and the feelings which he expresses are those which will arise in every candid mind, whatever may be its opinion as to the legality of their imposition, when it carefully weighs the peculiarities of the situation in which the non-jurors found themselves involved.

"The case of all the prelates, and others, who scrupled respecting the new oath, excited much commiseration with the greater part of the nation. It was peculiarly matter of deep regret with all, that one so respected for his public and private virtues as Archbishop Sancroft, and so endeared to the whole nation by his firmness and by his sufferings in a cause which was peculiarly their own, should now be in danger of being deprived of that station which he had filled with so much credit and advantage to the Church and to himself. But, besides the general character of these prelates, the very scruples which they now felt, and under which they acted, presented a strong additional claim for respect with all considerate persons, even amongst those who were most opposed to the line of conduct which they took. So solemn and so sacred is the obligation of an oath in the judgment of every reflecting mind, that errors committed on the side of a scrupulous adherence to it, must ever be honoured and respected by the wise and good. In many cases where human conduct is to be judged of, there is room for difference of opinion respecting the motives which are at work; and in the generality of cases where motives of the highest nature are VOL. VI.

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in action, they are mixed with others of a less elevated character. But such cannot have been the case in the instance of Archbishop Sancroft, and those who took the part which he did: here all personal and worldly considerations, even their views and feelings on the great questions of the Church and State which were concerned, tended to sway them in a direction opposite to that which they took; and the motive, which overpowered all these considerations usually so strong, could only be of the highest and the holiest character--a sincere, unmixed, conscientious regard to the oath they had taken, a feeling of the sinfulness of violating it, and a firm resolution to adhere to it, in spite of the worst worldly consequences that might befal them."

Among the various expedients which were suggested for saving the prelates from the penalty of deprivation, that which would have empowered the king to tender the oath at his pleasure, and have attached the penalty only to a refusal to take it when thus tendered, seems to us to be the least objectionable.

Experience has shown that these were wise suggestions; and perhaps it would have been better for the country, as undoubtedly it would have been more creditable to the new administration, had they been adopted. But it must be confessed, that it is by no means certain, whether, even thus, the services of the non-juring prelates and clergy could have been preserved to the Church.

The conduct of Archbishop Sancroft, from the date of his deprivation to his final ejection from Lambeth, is one of the least pleasing pages in his history. To see such a man lingering in the station which he had chosen, upon conscientious principles, to forfeit; to behold him clinging to the temporalities of an office, when he felt him 17