In the Burlington Committee which was formed, he was most energetic and active. Their circular plainly bears his mark. It cannot be necessary to enforce this application, for a starving people. It speaks for itself. It speaks to every heart. It will open every hand. Let Jerseymen attest their grateful estimate of their" own goodly heritage," by giving of their bread to the hungry; by pouring out, from their abundance upon a nation perishing with famine. It will be seen, that whatever is given here, will be received, at the scene of suffering, free of all charges of whatever kind. In the commerce of Christian Charity, there is neither cost nor charge, tax nor toll, Custom House nor Collector. Where love is, all is free. Beautiful influence of love, to re-assert the oneness of our race, in Adam; and to anticipate the fulness of its re-union in Jesus Christ! "Whoso dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him." And now, God speed the Jersey Ship! He gave the columns of the Missionary freely, to kindle and keep up the interest. He addressed the Congregations of the Diocese, to secure the parochial co-operation. And the alms in his own congregation were $619. THE FAMINE IN IRELAND. The undersigned had supposed that the pressure of this fearful Providence, on every Christian heart, would start a simultaneous and spontaneous action for its relief, which would outrun the promptest Pastoral. And he has no reason to doubt that it has been so. But, inasmuch as brethren of the Clergy and of the Laity, whose judgment he relies on, as of the best, have expressed the opinion, that a more efficient action would be brought about by an official communication of the subject to the Diocese, he now affectionately requests, that on the Sunday before Easter, the 28th day of March, the offerings of the Church, in any congregation where their sacred claim to sympathy and succour has not been fully urged, may be appropriated to the relief of the starving people of Ireland. Can there be a fitter object, or a more affecting motive, for our Lenten self-denial? "Is not this the fast," says God, "that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out, to thy home? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" And that glowing promise! "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily; and thy righteousness shall go before thee the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward." That, through the grace of God, the self-denial, which bears fruits of charity, may so abound in us, that for His dear Son's sake, the promised blessing may be ours, the undersigned will ever pray. GEORGE W. DOANE, Bishop of New Jersey. RIVERSIDE, 27th February, 1847. : It was so too, in little things. The Burlington Military Company drew forth his courtesy two years ago, which appropriated seats to them, in St. Mary's Church, and addressed them in words of stirring sense, on Sunday the 4th of July A. D. 1858. At the time when Burlington was one great hospital, for the sufferers by the railroad accident, in August, A. D. 1855, all of him and all of his were poured out, in the ministries of priestly consolation, in the gift of all that could add personal comfort, in the utterance of the solemn lesson of the scenes: "In the midst of life we are in death." And he in no way was behind any of all those, who with such disregard of self, gave themselves over, as every one did, to the one gracious work of comforting sorrow and soothing pain. When the country fluttered in the thrill of joy, over the Atlantic cable, as passing and as pervading as the electric shock that caused it, he was ready at an instant, without any preparation, not expecting to do it, and after an all night's journey from Baltimore, with an address, equal to the reality, of which those rejoicings were the too sanguine hope. Passing by his 4th of July orations, and his celebrations of Washington's birthday, which were more in the line of his official duty, almost the last public act of his life at home, was the magnificent address delivered, at the request of the Mt. Vernon Association and many prominent citizens, with the fire and fervour of freshest youth, that seemed kindling to higher shoots of light; rather than flashing, in its best brilliancy, just as it should go out from earth. It was a great hand, that could lay itself upon the graves of Washington and Taylor and Harrison, and upon the yet unbroken wire in the unfathomed sea. It was a great voice, that lifted up its clearness, for the mechanics and apprentices of his own town; for the wise and great and honourable of his own State; for suffering humanity, the world over. It was a great heart, that nestled, in the warmness of its love, the starving millions of a distant land, the sorrowing citizens of his own country, the sufferings of strangers, and the wants of a beggar child. Its one secret was the largeness of his love; its embrace, the world; its example, the Cross; its objects, the Crucified, and all for whom He died. CHAPTER V. ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCE-VISIT TO ENGLAND. A review of my Father's English Correspondence would, in many ways, be most interesting. Letters from and to, Hugh James Rose, Pusey, Keble, Newman and Manning, Dr. Hook, Archdeacon Harrison, Bishop Terrot, and Bishop Forbes, the Rev. T. H. Horne, the Bishops of Oxford and New Zealand, the late lamented Archbishop Howley, Sir Robert Inglis, Hope, Gladstone, Acland, and from Mrs. Southey, Wordsworth, and many others, would command, at all times, our interest. And most of them are the unreserved expression of the hopes and fears and interests of the men to whom, under God, we owe the new and glorious life of the Church of England and of this country. But as they were the recreation, rather than any part of the labour, of his life, and as many of them are both personal and private, I must, in great degree, forbear. On the 6th of July, 1849, Dr. Hook writes: MY DEAR AND MOST RESPECTED BISHOP:-I have just been reading, with tears in my eyes, the Report of the Proceedings of the late Convention at Burlington; that emphatic *No! its sound has reached old England, and we echo it back with renewed emphasis to Burlington. That emphatic No, proclaims to the world that the Churchmen of New Jersey are true-hearted men, and will stand by their laborious and self-denying Bishop. May I be permitted to say, that your brief History of your Episcopate, is as dignified as it is eloquent. It has pleased our Heavenly Father to visit you with bodily and mental afflictions; He has restored you to health,-is it not that your diocese and the Church may see how a Christian struggles with adversity, and how by our sufferings as well as by our actions, the ends of God are accomplished. How can we assist you? Command my services in England. Bishop Terrot, of Edinburgh, that same year writes: MY DEAR BROTHER-I have received so many proofs that you have not forgotten me, that I cannot refrain any longer, from letting you know that I have not forgotten you. * The vote, at the special Convention, on Mr. Halsted's resolution. I regret to see, from your Missionary Paper, that your exertions in the cause of religious education have exposed you to pecuniary loss, and, as it appears, to malignant calumnies. In my own experience, the bitterest part of the latter trial, is the finding proofs of a wish to injure, in those whom one has never injured-it is very painful to feel that one is hated-and yet it ought not, after all, we are told, to take the Christian by surprise. May God guide and support you through this and all your trials. EDINBURGH, July 21, 1849. The late Justice Coleridge writes: PARK CRESCENT, April 23, 1849. * * Your account of yourself I was almost shocked to read-let me urge upon you, as not the least imperative of your duties, to relax somewhat in your exertions-if it were for self-indulgence, not an hour-but if it be only to enable yourself to do more— then for many days, every day.—I hope too, you are blessed with a quiet mind and can trust the Institutions which by God'si blessing you have given birth to, to God's care and keeping, though you may not as yet distinctly see your way to their permanent endowment. J. T. COLERidge. The venerable Archdeacon of Maidstone, whose wife, with all the memories of Battersea Rise and Stisted, and Sir Robert Inglis, was my Father's most beloved friend, writes in 1852: MY DEAR LORD BISHOP:-I must send a few lines, though you will not need the assurance of sincere and deep concern for all the trouble you have been in lately. Yesterday afternoon brought the "Banner," which told the tidings of your special Convention having terminated so satisfactorily. It gives just the numbers-the proceedings we shall hear, I presume, hereafter. It is curious to see how you have been driven back upon the Council of Ephesus and the canon which we were thrown back upon, last year by the "Papal Aggression." I was quoting it, among others, against Pio Nono ;-and you have had to take it up as your weapon and defence against your triple-crowned invader-I was going to have said, three-headed Cerberus. Heartily, however, do I rejoice that your Convention has been so rightminded and loyal, and stood so steadfastly by their Bishop, who has stood so stoutly by them. Ever, my dear Lord Bishop, your faithful and affectionate, BENJAMIN HARRISON. The Bishop of Brechin writes: MY LORD:-There is a proposal to introduce, the laity into our synods similarly to the practice of the American Church. I am very anxious to know from one so capable of judging as yourself, how such an experiment has answered with you. I incline to resist the movement, though many names I venerate are to be found among its supporters. I think it likely that at our next synod a proposition to this effect will be brought forward, mean while Mr. William Gladstone is writing a letter upon the subject to break the ground, and to draw the attention of people to the subject. If you would favour me with your views upon this subject, stating the strength and defect of the system, I should esteem it a very great favour. We look with intense interest on this side of the water on your progress in the west, our feeble Church regarding her well-grown daughter with no ungratified eye. Your Lordship's own character and career is the object of my very profound respect. From one, who in a short intercourse grew into a life-long place in his heart, such words of cheer came, in his hours of grief: PRECINCTS, CANTERBURY, April 8. MY DEAR LORD BISHOP:-The kind assurances of your continual interest in us, alike in weal or woe, were very welcome. We enter with true sympathy into your varied trials. Do not suppose any vindication of any thing you have done, can be needed here. I wish you could have been present this day week when we breakfasted at Sir Robert's. Mr. Peet, his two ladies, Sir Tho's Acland, Mr. Ernest Hawkins, and others present. Sir R. was asked whether he had read the pamphlets you sent. "Do you mean," he said, "such and such? Certainly not-nor do I intend it. I should think it a complete waste of time. A defence against a charge on such a subject. I have not read one word, and shall not read one word, written with such an object. Bishop Doane accused on a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence. The thing itself is absurd.-If it had been even an obscure person-but known as he is-his whole life before the world-I owe it to him to say, I will never read one word on the subject." This he repeated in a loud voice more than once, and I charged Mr. Peet to tell you what he said, which he with cordiality and warmth undertook to do.-Yet I repeat it, knowing how cruelly you have been assailed, and how much such a spirit as Sir R's is needed among some who ought to know better. The following is from one, whom always he delighted to honour, whose faithful devotion to the Church he always asserted, and whose sermons were his close companions and constant delight. This is one of many letters, full of grateful appreciation of his fearlessness and of his counsel, in the entire confidence of friendship, at a time of sorrow and anxious trial. MY DEAR LORD:-When I had the pleasure of seeing your Lordship, I had not received your kind present. I know not the words to thank you for it; in these days of evil report and suspicion, it is affecting to be well spoken of, much more by one in authority, even in a passing word; but for a Bishop to condescend to enter into such a detailed defence of the general soundness of our views, and so fearlessly to anticipate all good of us, even when (as in the case of Tract 90) the details of our case had not yet reached you, is such exceeding kindness, that one knows not how to speak of it. May it please Almighty God to repay your Lordship this your VOL. I.- |