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pluralities" Is it possible," says the ecclesiastic, "that the people you named, who have the reputation of being very learned men, and are such in reality, should be mistaken in their opinion? Unless these would absolutely oppose the doctrine laid down by the apostles, and the directions of Councils, must they not be obliged to confess, that the holding several livings at the same time is sinful? I myself am in holy orders, and, be it said without vanity, of one of the best families in Touraine. It becomes a man of high birth to make a figure suitable to it, and yet, I protest to you, that if I can get an abbey, the yearly income of which is only 1000 crowns, my ambition will be satisfied; and be assured, that nothing shall tempt me to alter my resolution."-Some time after, an abbey of 7000 crowns a year being vacant, his brother desired it for him, and was gratified in his request. The winter following he got another of still greater value; and, a third being vacant, he solicited very strongly for this also, and obtained it. Boileau hearing of these preferments, went and paid his friend a visit. "Mr Abbe," says he, "where is now that season of innocence and candour, in which you declared that pluralists hazarded their souls greatly?" "Ah! good Boileau," replied the Abbe," did you but know how much pluralities contribute towards living well!"-"I am in no doubt of that," replied Boileau; "but of what service are they, good Abbe, towards dying well?"

Last Moments of King EDWARD VI. KING EDWARD VI. born at Hampton Court, 1537. The cultivation of his understanding, if we may credit historians, was amazing. He was said to understand the Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish languages. He was versed in logic, music, natural philosophy, and the ology. Cardan, the extraordinary scholar and physician, happening to pay a visit to the English court, was so astonished at his early progress, that he extols him as a prodigy of nature, He expired at Greenwich, in

the sixteenth year of his age, and the seventh of his reign, greatly regretted by all, as his early virtues gave a prospect of a continuance of a happy reign. In the time of his sickness, Dr. Ridley, Bishop of London, preached before him; and took occasion to enlarge on the subject of charity, and on the obligation imposed on persons of high rank to be eminent in good works. The King was much affected at the discourse, and wrote to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, requesting them to inform him speedily in what way he could most properly administer to the relief of the poor, Having received their answer, and duly considered the subject, he founded Christ's Hospital for supporting and educating the fatherless children of poor freemen of the city of London; he gave his own house, at Bridewell, to be a place of correction and employment, for persons who were wilfully idle; and he also confirmed and enlarged the grant for the hospital of St. Thomas, in Southwark, which he had erected and endowed some months before. When he set his hands to these foundations, he fervently expressed his gratitude to God for having prolonged his life till he had completed that work. Thus he became the founder of these institutions; which, having had great additions since his time, may justly be ranked among the noblest in Europe.

He expressed, during the whole course of his sickness, great submission to the will of God; and seemed glad at the approaches of death: but the consideration of the state of Religion and of the Church much affected him; and on that account he was desirous of life. At length his strength and spirits were so sunk, that he found death hastening on him, and in a most devout manner prepared himself for it.

His whole exercise, some hours before his departure, consisted in short prayers and ejaculations. The last that he was heard to utter, were the following, "Lord God! deliver me from this miserable and wretched life; and receive me among thy chosen! Nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done! Lord, I commit my spirit to.

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 near, 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!" and thus breathed out his innocent soul, on the 6th of July, 1553.

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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.

An Idolater converted by Means of a little Girl.

Ar the thirteenth anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, held on the 7th of May, W. T. Money, Esq. M. P. lately returned from India, reported to the meeting the following circumstances, which occurred under his own eye.

Between two and three years ago, I went from Bombay into the Mahratta country, for the health of my family. We encamped in the bosum 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,

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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 coun

trymen. 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 the 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 him a still further claim to public pa

tronage.

Benefactions for this pious and benevolent purpose will be received by the Right Rev. BISHOP HOBART, No. 22 Vesey-street, GERRIT H. VAN WAGENEN, Esq. No. 71 Gold-street, or T. & J. SWORDS, No. 160 Pearl-street.

WRITTEN AT AN INN.
(BY BISHOP HORNE.)

FROM much-lov'd friends whene'er I part,
A pensive sadness fills my heart;
Past scenes my fancy wanders o'er,
And sighs to think they are no more,
Along the road I musing go,
O'er many a deep and miry slough:
The shrouded moon withdraws her light,
And leaves me to the gloomy night.

An inn receives me, where unknown
I solitary sit me down:
Many I hear, and some I see,
Inought to them, they nought to me,
Thus in these regions of the dead
A pilgrim's wand'ring life 1 lead,
And still at ev'ry step declare,
I've no abiding city here:
For very far from hence I dwell,
And therefore bid the world farewell,
Finding of all the joys it gives
A sad remembrance only lives.
Rough stumbling-stones my steps o'er-
And lay a wand'ring sinner low;
Yet still my course to heav'n I steer,
Though neither moon nor stars appear!
The world is like an inn; for there
Men call, and storm, and drink, and swear;
While undisturb'd a Christian waits,

throw,

And reads, and writes, and meditates.
Though in the dark ofť times I stray,
The Lord shall light me on my way,
And to the city of the sun
Conduct me, when my journey's done.
There by these eyes shall he be seen,
Who sojourn'd for me in an inn;
On Sion's hill I those shall hail,
From whom I parted in the vale.
Why am I heavy then and sad,
When thoughts like these should make me
glad?
Muse then no more on things below;
Arise, my soul, and let us go.

ADDRESS OF THE PUBLISHERS.

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tion from time to time.

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The Publishers, however, would exceedingly regret its total discontinuance. The interests of the Church to which they belong require such a channel of information, While there are numerous periodical publications attached to almost every denomination of Christians receiving ample encouragement, it would be a reproach upon Episcopalians to suffer the only one devoted to their Church to sink for the want of the trifling aid necessary for its support. Its use merely as a place to record the public documents of the Church, and as a source of information on points regarding her welfare, to say no. thing of its literary and moral tendency, entitles it to the particular and zealous patronage of every Episcopalian.

The collection of so small a sum as the yearly subscription to the Christian Journal, has been found to be attended with much difficulty and expense. 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. A greater variety of matter will also be introduced, and the various tastes of its readers consulted, by the insertion of moral anecdote and other miscellaneous articles not incompatible with the design of the work. In its transmission to subscribers, too, it is hoped more certainty will be afforded, and those disappointments avoided which have been so frequently complained of, and which have operated so much to the prejudice of the Christian Journal.

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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, R I. 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.

PROPOSED PUBLICATIONS.

S. POTTER & Co. Booksellers of Philadelphia, propose to publish "A Treatise on the Pope's Supremacy, by Isaac Barrow, D. D. late Master of Trinity 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"

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