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his earliest youth he gave evidences that be considered not this world his home, but that he was seeking another and better country. While those of his own age were pursuing the trifling amusements of childhood, he was employed in the cultivation of the heart and mind.. And such was his proficiency, that at the age of 13, he not only resolved to be a Christian, but had made himself so far acquainted with polemic divinity, that he stept from the track of his fathers, and attached himself to the Episcopal Church. This act from a boy of his age, who could give a satisfactory reason of the hope that was in him," and of the step which he had taken, excited the inquiry of his parents, and many of his acquaintance, upon the subject of church government; and the result was, that they soon followed him to the same communion. Possessing a thirst for knowledge, and being thus early impressed with a deep sense of the value of souls, he resolved to devote his life to promote their salvation, and the glory of God. He graduated at Yale college, in 1765, and after acquiring the requisite theological attainments, embarked for England, and was ordained by the bishop of London, in June, 1768. Thence, under the patronage of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, he was sent as a missionary to Norwich, where he spent the remnant of his days -a term of 54 years as a faithful steward and minister of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. His trials, in the early part of life, were such as befell him in common with the episcopal clergy of that day. During the revolutionary war, though he took no part in the political struggles, yet the mere fact of his being a minister of the church of England exposed him to many dangers and insults. His church was closed for three years, but following the example of his predecessors, the apostles, he, with his little flock, assembled on the Lord's day in private houses, where he "continued to teach and preach Je sus Christ" to them, and with them conscientiously to worship the God who created and redeemed them. At the close of the war, the society withheld the assistance before granted him, and

left him with a congregation scarcely able to support themselves. He was invited to remove into the king's dominions to a very considerable living; but he chose rather to dwell with those whom he had brought up, and long fed with the bread of life, though at the expense of a large patrimonial estate. As a companion, Mr. Tyler was agreeable and interesting-as a citizen, he endeavoured "to live peaceably with all men"- -as a preacher, his sermons were designed rather to inform the understanding, and mend the heart, than to play upon the imagination. His natural sweetness of disposition, combined with the piety of his heart, formed in him the benevolent man, and the faithful minister. He was endeared to all acquainted with him; who justly blessed him as the friend of God and man. He continued to discharge all the various duties of his office, till within the last four years, during which time he was in part relieved by an assistant.Having thus fulfilled his ministry on earth, and "run with patience the race that was set before him," he was ready to be dissolved, and to be with Christ; to "render unto God what is God's," even his immortal soul, that image and impress of his Maker, which he had endeavoured to preserve bright and unsullied. He is gathered to his fathers in a good old age; dying as he had lived, full of faith and hope of a blessed immortality. "Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."-Ch. Mag.

MRS. VIOLETTA R. TAYLOR. In this city, on the 12th of February, 1823, after a lingering and painful illness, Mrs. VIOLETTA R. TAYLOR, aged 64 years, relict of Charles N. Taylor, esq. and eldest daughter of the late Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode-Island. This excellent woman exhibited,in the course of her varied life, all those graces and virtues that adorn the Christian character, and, in her last afflicting illness, that patience which is cherished by lively affiance on God, and that humble hope which springs from faith in his

REV. ENOCH M. LOWE. At Norfolk, Virginia, February 26th, 1823, the Rev. ENOCH M. LOWE, rector of Christ church at that place, in the 33d year of his age.

WILLIAM W. VAN NESS, ESQ. On the 28th of February, 1823, in Charleston, South-Carolina, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, WILLIAM W. VAN NESS, esq. late a judge of the supreme court of the state of New-York; "distinguished as a judge for his integrity, urbanity, and legal attainments; as an advocate, for his talents and eloquence; and in private life, for his kindness, sensibility, and honour.".

HON. BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON. Yesterday, at one o'clock, in the 66th year of his age, departed this life, the Hon. BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, one of the associate justices of the supreme court of the United States. This distinguished citizen has long occupied a conspicuous place in the public eye, and his talents and worth are too well known to require an obituary notice. On the bench of the state of New-York, and since, on that of the supreme court of the United States, the public have long acknowledged in him the learned and independent judge, the finished gentleman, and truly benevolent man. It is some consolation to his family and friends, that he has sunk into his grave at a good old age, crowned with honours, and wept by all who knew him.

To his afflicted family his loss is irreparable.-Nat. Intel. March 19,1823.

From the New-York Evening Post, for
March 24, 1823.

Yesterday morning, the remains of Judge Livingston were entombed in the family vault, in Wall-street churchyard, attended by a vast concourse of our fellow-citizens. The funeral service was performed by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, in Trinity church. A literary friend has furnished us with the following character of the deceased:

Mature in years, and ripe in fame and honours, BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON, having discharged his obligations to society, has paid his debt to nature. A stroke like this, however timely, must be felt; for we are made to feel, and to grow better by the discipline of our feelings. There is a sorrow which is useless, affecting the animal rather than the moral nature. None can be worthy of him we lament, but that which is chastened, restrained, and directed, to elevate the man, or improve the Christian. It behoves us, therefore, to waive our idle lamentations, and imitating the manly and enlightened piety which cheered and sustained the last hours of him whose loss we deplore, let us ra ther express our gratitude that we have so long enjoyed so great a blessing, and let each individual who knew, and loved, or admired him, do what he can to render permanent the beneficent influence of his example.

His judicial character is of course the most interesting to the public; and, as a judge, his character was very peculiar and strongly marked. He was eminently a man of genius, of strong vivid and rapid perceptions; and the frankness of his character always prompted the immediate expression of his convictions. Such a disposition and habit must of course, and not unfrequently, induce mistakes. But here intervened a redeeming principle, resulting from one of the most peculiar characteristics of his happily composed nature. For a man of strong and ardent genius, and profound learning, and these too rendered conspicuous by great reputation and high office, Judge Livingston was in one respect almost a mira

cle. He seemed to be without vanity. He did not listen, or affect to listen, to arguments in opposition to his declared opinions, merely from official decorum; but his mind was literally and truly open to conviction. Others may have committed fewer errors, but who has left fewer unrepaired?

The kindness and suavity of his character were strongly displayed in the discharge of his official duties. At every moment of his life he was an amiable man, and a finished gentleman. He never manifested any thing of the petulance or insolence of station. He ever seemed to be of opinion, that there was a dignity in the administration of justice which reached even to its inferior ministers, and without ever forgetting the propriety of his station, he treated the gentlemen of the bar as his friends and brethren, over whom he was called, as it were, to preside for some temporary purpose.

To say that he was just and impartial, would be low and inadequate praise. He was prompt, laborious, and indefatigable. His own ease and pleasure always gave way at the call of duty. He never delayed or slighted any thing. He often laboured most without the stimulus of fame. He was, perhaps, rather too averse to the parade of display and publication. Causes were not unfrequently heard at his own house, and many of his most elaborate opinions, the result of laborious and profound investigation, were communicated only to the counsel interested.

In his intellectual habits he was cautious, but not timid. He looked rather to practical results than abstract principles. Nevertheless his feelings and opinions were decidedly of a liberal cast. He desired to extend and improve legal science, and did not consider all knowledge and all wisdom to be bound up within the compass of Eng lish jurisprudence.

Our sketch must be rapid. Judge Livingston was eminently gifted with a fine public and social spirit. This temper was displayed in his zealous promotion of all liberal pursuits and institutions. He was a generous patron of literature. The same spirit diffused itself through his whole character. A

strong impulse and glow of benevolence characterized all his intercourse with society. His manners were to an unusual degree, attentive, kind, and affectionate; to his friends, and indeed all who deserved and required it, his aid was prompt, decided, and efficient. In one word, his heart was full of warm kindly feelings, which flowed out upon all around him.

It will be gratifying to all the friends of Christianity to know, that the luminous mind of Judge Livingston assented to its evidences, and that he made a public profession of his faith.

Any sketch of the character of Judge Livingston, which did not mention his domestic qualities, would be unpardonably imperfect.

In all the relations of domestic lifeand it is there that a man's true character is best known, and its influence most felt-he was far above the reach of common-place observation. None but those who saw him in retirement, and knew him intimately, can appreciate his character in this respect. He was ever most affectionate, attentive, and considerate; exacting little for himself, and always consulting the interests and feeling of his family. The main object of his life, at least that which seemed to interest him most, was to transfuse his own knowledge and character into the minds of his children. Every hour that could be spared from his public duties, and more than could well be spared from the time necessary for his relaxation, and the care of his health, was devoted to their education. He was their constant instructor. Of such a man it is common-place to say, that to his family his loss is irreparable. He has done all that the most devoted affection, and the most assiduous attention to their welfare, could do for them here, and has gone to his reward. If his example and precepts have their just influence, they will in some good degree continue to them his presence, and supply his loss.

[With respect to the religious character of Judge Livingston, it may be proper to state, that he attached himself, from conviction, to the Episcopal Church. He made application some years since to the bishop, as rector of

The following address of the Rev. George Upfold, delivered before the Auxiliary NewYork Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, at the 7th anniversary of that institution, is published at the solicitation of the board of managers. It is presented, not only as a happy specimen of that earnest style of preaching which is justly considered appropriate to the recommendation of a public charity, but also in the hope that it will still further subserve the interests of the excellent

society whose claims to patronage it so clearly and eloquently urges.

For the Christian Journal.

An Address, delivered in St. Paul's Chapel, on Sunday evening, February 9th, 1823, for the benefit of the Auxiliary New-York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society; by the Rev. George Upfold, M. D. Rector of St. Luke's Church, New-York. WHEN We contemplate the world in which we live, without the instruction of revelation, we find it filled with contradictions and mysteries, which involve us in perplexing conjectures, and fill our minds with wondering agitation. To natural reason, there is nothing in the present state of things reconcileable to any harmonious design or justly proportioned system; and wherever we turn our eyes, whether on the earth itself, or on its inhabitants, all appears discordant, and distracted, and out of place. In this perplexing exhibition, man, exalted above all other earthly beings, is the mystery of mysteries.We behold him endowed with a soul, exalted in its views, great in its comprehension, immortal in its principlefilled with desires which Omnipotence alone can satisfy-possessed of faculties which seem to place no limit to his capacity for happiness. And yet we see

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this being, so elevated in the scale of existence, and so adorned, the slave of the meanest and most degrading pas sions; grovelling with the beasts that perish amid the sensual gratifications of the earth, and sharing with them in its final dissolution; and, by far the greater part of the mysterious race, indulging in no one care beyond present and transient enjoyments, nor ever seeming to feel that they came into the world for any other purpose but just to eat, and drink, and die. But, on this dark and mysterious prospect, a clear and explanatory radiance has been shed. Revelation unfolds the wondrous secret. Rolling away the impervious clouds which rest upon our natural condition,

and conceal the mournful causes of this

mystery, it shows us a world, not as originally contrived and harmoniously arranged, but a world in ruins. It exhibits a race of beings in rebellion against their Almighty Creator. It represents the earth as the scene of an awful and universal apostasy from God; presenting to angels and men a mingled spectacle of divine wrath and of divine mercy, and disclosing the terribleness of God's indignation, in connexion with the power of his redeeming love.Throwing aside the veil of former concealment, it tells us, that by "one man's disobedience sin entered into the world, and death," and all its mournful train of consequences, came "by sin;" that the ground is now cursed for man's sake; and that "the whole" earthly tion groaneth and travaileth together until now" on man's account-on account of his transgression and his guilt. Revelation, however, in this explanatory process, does not stop here. It makes known to us truths more animating, more excellent, more joyous and consolatory than these. It tells us that the world, though ruined, and exhibiting a prospect of mournful desolation, 17

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