exciting the feelings, which her sober institutions do not warrant." He then remarks, that the advancement of piety in our Church does not dem ni a recourse to any other means than those which she has prescribed, and which the wisdom of a s has sanctioned. Let the minister, as frequently circumstances will admit, assemble his congregation for divine worship; let him be faithful in proclaiming to the people committed to his charge, the whole counsel of God, and the distinguishing truths of the dispensation of mercy and grace through a Redeemer; let him diligently attend to parochial visitation and catechetical instruction; let him publicly and privately call his people not only to u devout attendance on those public ordin.nees by which, in the exercise of penitence and faith, their union with their Redeemer is mantan 4, but to private and constant intereserse wita "eaven, in pious reading, meditation and prayer; hetim nas be instant in MENCE. Out of meme, as

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the day, and lead their devotions to heaven in prayers, to the use of which he hath bound himself by the most solemn obligations, and than which surely no one of her ministers will presume to think that he can make better. But to suppose that our Church, while she thus furnishes public edifices for the celebration of the social devotion of her members, warrants their meeting elsewhere, except where peculiar circumstances-in the want of a building, or in the size of a parish-render it necessary; or to suppose that while she thus fully provides in her institutions for the Christian edification of her members, she thinks it can be necessary for this purpose to have recourse to private meetings, the devotions of which tend to disparage the liturgy, and eventually to lessen the relish for its fervent but well-ordered services, would be to impute to her the strange policy of introducing into her own bosom the principles of disorder and schism, and, perhaps, of heresy and enthusiasm.

"My Brethren of the Clergy-suffer me seriously and affectionately, with a view to guard, not against present, but possible evils, to fortify these sentiments by an authority to which an appeal ought never to be made in vain. It is the authority of one whose piety was as humble and fervent as his judgment was penetrating and discriminating, and his learning extensive and profound. It is the authority of one, too, who lived in those times when the private associations commenced, the effects of which he deprecated, but which were finally awfully realized in the utter subversion of the goodly fabric of the Church whose ministry he adorned, and in

the triumph, on her ruins, of the innumerable forms of heresy and schism. The judicious Hooker thust speaks, in that work on Ecclesiastical Polity in which he delivers so many lessons of profound wisdom: To him who considers the grievous and scandalous inconveniences whereunto they make themselves daily subject, with whom any blind and secret corner is judged a fit house of common prayer; the manifold confusion which they fall into, where every man's private spirit and gift, as they term it, is the only bishop that ordaineth him to this ministry; the irksome deformities whereby, through endless and senseless effusions of indigested prayers, they who are subject to no certain order, but pray both what and how they list, often disgrace, in most insufferable manner, the worthiest part of Christian duty towards God; to him, I say, who weigheth duly all these things, the reasons cannot be obscure, why God doth in public prayer so much regard the solemnity of places where, the authority and calling of persons by whom, and the precise appointment, even with what words and sentences, his name shall be called on, amongst his people.""

In this address, the Bishop also endeavoured to impress on the minds of the members of the Convention, and, through them, on the Episcopalians of the diocese, the immense importance of the Theological Seminary which it was proposed to establish. The scheme, which for years he had so fondly cherished, at length began to meet with the co-operation and support of others; he therefore prosecuted it with greater earnestness than ever. He set forth the various advantages of such an

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the munificence of other denominations in this respect as a noble example, and endeavoured to rouse Churchmen to a generous emulation of their liberality and zeal.

While he was thus anxious about the education of those who were to be the guides and instructers of others, he was not inattentive to the wants of the most humble members in his spiritual charge. At a meeting of the superintendents, teachers, and scholars of the Sunday Schools of St. John's Chapel, for the purpose of conferring premiums, he delivered an address on the nature, design, and advantages of Sunday Schools, which, from its justness, simplicity, and beauty, cannot now be read without admiration, and which, at the time, must have given a new impulse to the exertions of all who were engaged in this benevolent work.

In the same year, also, he delivered an address before the New-York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society of Young Men and others, in which he explained the character of the institution, gave an interesting statement of facts in regard to the benefits of missionary labours in our diocese, and showed the pressing necessity for their extension. He concluded with a most earnest appeal to the pious bounty of those whom God had prospered in their worldly concerns, and sanctified by his heavenly grace.

"In this painful crisis, to whom shall the Church look but to those on whom Providence, in his benignity, pours temporal abundance, and to whom he opens the full treasures of grace? The hearts of the young turn from those pursuits and pleasures,

to which youthful feelings impel them, and glow with pious ardour to aid in the apostolic work. To this holy work their elder brethren, who should be examples to them of pious zeal, will not surely advance with hesitating step and reluctant hand. Would that I commanded the heart and the hand of every Episcopalian! Could I open them to a more exalted object of benevolence than the extension of that kingdom of the Redeemer which bestows peace on the guilty, and salvation on the lost children of men?

"Let me then, with the deepest solicitude, call on them to consider whether, when the Church to which they belong, pure in her doctrine, apostolic in her ministry, and edifying in her worship, needs all the bounty that they can appropriate for the purposes of religion, that bounty should be directed into other channels? This Church is worthy of the undivided support, beneficence, and zeal of those whom she nurtures in her fold. By promoting her prosperity, they hasten the time when that Church shall appear as when first she rose under the hand of her Divine Founder, all glorious within."" From the Rev. Henry Hadley Norris to Bishop Hobart.

"RIGHT REV. SIR,

"Hackney, April 1, 1818.

Though personally unknown to you, your name has been for many years familiar to me, through the intervention of Archdeacon Daubeny, with whom I am intimately acquainted; and the respect excited by his report, has been most fully confirmed