trusts in Christ the Saviour and him crucified, a member of his church, and of the great household of faith. Christianity with him was no abstract doctrine of the schools, but a vital principle, the mainspring of the soul, animating and controlling all the thoughts and actions of life from day to day. Accustomed to judge men by his own high standard he was far too confiding for his own best interests. In many cases conscientiousness outweighed worldly wisdom, and seemed to narrow his sphere of usefulness and success in life, but the Lord knoweth his servants. His crown is none the less bright, because, like thousands of other noble, patient souls, his faithful labors were known to comparatively few on earth.

CLARKE, D.D., HENRY STEELE-Son of Oran and S. (Thomson) Clarke, was born in Somers, Conn., in 1818. His parents soon after removed to Utica, New York, where he passed his boyhood. He was of Puritan descent, his ancestors being among the original colonists of New England. His parents were members of the Congregational Church, and they were careful in the training of their children. His literary education was begun in Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, and was continued at Yale College, New Haven, Conn., where he was graduated in September 1841.

His first charge was at Willoughby, Ohio, and a strong and tender attachment soon sprang up hetween him and that people, of whom he always spoke, in after years, with great affection. But a disease of the throat obliged him to seek a different field of labor. and after being for a time disabled, he was at length installed pastor at Manchester, N. H., September 20, 1849. His ministry in that congregation continued until the year 1852, when he accepted the cordial and unanimous call which brought him to Philadelphia as pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church. And faithfully has he performed his duties there. The records of the Session show a steady increase in the number of communicants, the roll having more than doubled during the period of his pastorate; and the thrift and activity which have marked every department of church labor have been a standing testimony to his zeal and fidelity. Under all the discouragements of a large city congregation, through all the fluctuations of popular taste, and in spite of the many temptations and diversions which beset a pastor in such a charge, he has breasted the torrent with sustained exertion. It was in the midst of these unremitting labors that he was arrested by the stroke of disease. An ordinary cold, as it seemed, developing into a heavy chill during one of his pastoral visits, was his first warning. He returned home to be prostrated by a violent Pneumonia, occasioning great oppression and difficulty of breathing, if not acute pain, and attended with almost constant delirium. All that skill and kindness could do were done to recover his exhausted energies, but the oil of life was burned out, and the flame flickered in the socket until Sunday morning, January 17, 1864.

CHARLES W. SHIELDS. D.D., of Philadelphia, preached his funeral sermon, from which the following extracts are taken :—

As a preacher, his abilities were always acknowledged to have been of a high order. He possessed naturally some of the finest traits of an attractive public speaker, a graceful presence, a persuasive manner, always gentle, and at times pathetic-an exact and careful taste, good judgment, a quick fancy, an acute and discriminating intellect. To these original endowments he joined a scholarly acquaintance with English literature, especially the divines of the Seventeenth Century, though by no means neglecting the literary models of a later date-and a high standard of

pulpit preparation. In his earlier ministry, a tendency to the ornate and rhetorical is said to have verged toward excess; but with increasing experience, the whole manner and spirit of his preaching became chastened, less strained and more simple, direct and practical. He grew textual and expository, rather than propositional or logical, and particularly excelled in applying his subject to the heart and conscience, mingling tender entreaty with pungent appeal, and aiming at a last vivid impression. He considered no sermon complete which did not end in this kind of close grapple with sin. His conscientious sense of the solemnity of his message, kept him from digressing from it into mere philosophical questions or encumbering it with vain controversies. Least of all, did he ever descend to those ignoble arts which are degrading the modern pulpit to a level with the rostrum, and rendering the house of God a mere resort for the latest Sunday sensation. No Christian minister ever fulfils his own ideal, or that of his hearers, but it is easy to see how exalted and pure was that toward which your pastor steadily struggled. May not the text of his last sermon in this pulpit, "PREACH THE WORD," be truthfully said to have been his motto?

As a pastor our brother was no less efficient and successful than as a preacher. Giving himself to his whole work, with a whole heart, he therefore brought into this important practical department all that judgment, tact, application, and system for which he was distinguished. His gentleness and affability also eminently fitted him for the difficult offices of a parochial charge, and by long practice in them he became known and noted for his proficiency.

During the course of his ministry he was called to a number of prominent stations in the church, and always took a lively interest and active part in her various schemes of beneficence. His associates in the Session over which he presided, in his Presbytery, and in the different Boards of the church of which he was an officer or member, will bear befitting testimony to his conscientious and efficient manner of discharging any public trust with which he was honored.

Even in such spheres of life, and on the most casual acquaintance, it was impossible not to see the beauty of his private character, but it was reserved for nearer and more intimate friends to discover it in all its details of gentleness, sagacity, and refinement. He was eminently the friend with whom a grave interest could be trusted, and the adviser to whom any question of duty or propriety might be safely carried. In removing mistakes, and explaining personal peculiarities, he united wisdom with a large hearted charity.

Pliant without being pliable, he had the rare faculty of knowing in an emergency how to defer to the judgment of others without at the same time losing either their respect or his own. Often, indeed, he would gracefully yield a point rather than push it to the extreme of useless controversy; but he was never diverted from a purpose which he believed to be right.

His sensitive organization might have left him a prey to much annoyance, but for the divine grace with which it was attempered, and the Christian principle which nerved and supported him. He was therefore tender-hearted, forbearing and forgiving, and in the breadth of his charity sought some excuse even for the very censoriousness which pained him.

Over all these peculiar traits was thrown the veil of that genuine courtesy which springs from kindness of heart, and expresses itself in thoughtful attentions. Without being punctilious or exacting toward others, he was himself scrupulously observant of the minor proprieties which distinguish culture from rudeness. Every opportunity of doing a little ser

vice was promptly seized, and no civility received was allowed to pass unacknowledged. If such politeness may sometimes be carried to excess, yet it is certainly not the fault of this busy age; nor are exemplars of it wholly irrelevant, when even good people may be found neglecting it, while yet they rank it with the tithes of mint, anise, and cummin so easily paid.

So much in our friend was this an instinct and habit, that even in the unguarded moments of sickness and delirium, it never left him, and still thoughtful of others, rather than of himself, he was to the last the gentlenan, no less than the Christian.

His death was deemed a great loss by all classes of citizens; his varied experience and the generous culture of his literary powers made him an acceptable orator on anniversary occasions, and an extended intercourse with his people had awakened those emotions of personal regard time will not soon efface.

COGSWELL, D.D., JONATHAN*-The son of Dr. Nathaniel Cogswell, was born in Rowley, Mass., September 2, 1782. He was of English origin. His ancestors by his father's side came to this country in 1636, possessed of a handsome property, and having a grant to a large tract of land in Essex County, Mass.

He at once resigned all
Without delay he began

His father, Dr. Nathaniel Cogswell, was a man of superior education and acquirements, a model of the most remarkable integrity and purest character. Possessed of a large landed estate, he strongly opposed his son's entering the ministry, and told him that if he persisted in his resolution he would do nothing for him. Receiving, however, from his pious and devoted mother an early religious training, the subject of this sketch was converted at the age of seventeen, and not long after received a decided and unmistakable call to preach the gospel. earthly considerations for the cause of Christ. At this point, his his preparatory studies, and in the spring of 1803 entered Harvard College, graduating in 1806 among the first of his class. conviction that he must preach becoming stronger and stronger, his father But nothing daunting, he at once enwithdrew all pecuniary support. So great was his diligence and self-denial that he gaged in teaching. pursued his theological studies while tutor at Bowdoin College, Maine; and after refusing many tempting offers to take charge of literary institutions, received license, and on the 24th of October, 1810, was ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry. In the following May he was married to Miss Elizabeth Abbott, niece of Samuel Abbott, Esq., who gave $120,000 to found the Andover Theological Seminary.

It was his cherished desire to labor as a missionary in Western New York, and he was actually on his way thither when he received an invitation to preach in Saco, which was so clearly providential that he felt He was settled and for eighteen years preached there bound to accept it. with great fidelity and marked success until his multiplied and long-continued labors resulted in such physical and mental exhaustion that his physician assured him he must discontinue preaching or he could not live. He at once resigned and removed to New York city, where he spent the winter. In April 1829, he accepted a call to, and was installed pastor of the church in New Britain, Conn., where he labored for five years. During this time he was appointed, by President Jackson, one of the Board of Examiners to the Military Academy at West Point.

In 1834 he was elected Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Theo.

*This sketch is taken from The New York Observer, Rev. Dr. PRIME, Editor.

logical Institute of Connecticut, at East Windsor. While there, in 1837, his wife died, leaving four daughters, three of whom are still living. He afterwards married Miss Jane Kirkpatrick, daughter of Judge Kirkpatrick, Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey, who also died before him, March 6, 1864, leaving one son and one daughter.

In 1837 he was honored by the University of New York with the title of Doctor of Divinity, and in the year 1844, being appointed executor of a large estate, which required his presence in or near the city of New York, he retired from public life to the city of New Brunswick, N. J., where he resided until his death.

With reference to his character as a man, Christian liberality was his most marked characteristic. In 1811, when the work of Foreign Missions was awakening and giving a new direction to the pecuniary resources of the Church of Christ, he gave all the money he had to the cause, some six hundred dollars in silver. Another instance in which this same generous spirit was manifested is furnished by his ten years' gratuitous services at East Windsor; in addition to which he contributed largely to the Institution not only in money, but in books also, giving most of his private library, and many rare old English editions of valuable works. Since his residence in New Brunswick there has been no change in this respect. With the late Dr. Janeway and J. R. Ford, Esq., he aided in building the present tasteful edifice of the Second Presbyterian Church, contributing a handsome proportion of the entire cost; besides giving onehalf the price of the MANSE or parsonage, a thousand dollars toward the permanent support of the minister, and repeated gifts, both to the pastor and people, up to the time of his decease. He was a Life Director of the American Bible Society, and a Life Member of the American Tract Society, the Seaman's Friend Society, the American and Foreign Christian Union, and various other religious societies. He founded a scholarship both in Rutgers College and College of New Jersey, and was a regular annual contributor to the various Boards of the Church of which he was an honored minister. Christian beneficence marked the whole course of his long life.

As a preacher Dr. Cogswell was peculiarly zealous for sound doctrine, and fearless in stating and defending it. His own faith was unwavering, and timidity in expressing what he believed was unknown to him. His own religious experience was pre-eminently doctrinal and reflective. Nourished by prayer, enriched by meditation, and invigorated by knowlege, religion was to him a life, and faith an abiding principle. When memory lost the record of other familiar things, Jesus and his love remained deeply graven upon her tablet. Great simplicity of character imparted a charm and gave tone to the whole tenor of his life. He was singularly free from that "labor and sorrow" which mars the strength of the fourth score of years, and like the Patriarch of old, "he gave up the ghost and died in a good old age, an old man and full" of experiences, of graces and of anticipations. He has gone to his reward and his works do follow him-while we deplore his loss in these days when " the godly man ceaseth, and the faithful fail from among the children of men.' He died, August 1, 1864.

EVANS, RICHARD J.-Was born at Ebensburg, Cambria County, Pa., A. D., 1834. He was the son of eminently pious parents, John and Margaret (Jones) Evans, both valuable members, his father a ruling elder of the Welsh Congregational Church at Ebensburg. Both his parents survive him. Three of his maternal relatives were ministers of the gospel. Mr. Evans was doubtless the subject of many prayers in childhood, and