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 gentleman, 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.

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. He at once resigned all earthly considerations for the cause of Christ. Without delay he began his preparatory studies, and in the spring of 1803 entered Harvard Col lege, graduating in 1806 among the first of his class. At this point, his conviction that he must preach becoming stronger and stronger, his father withdrew all pecuniary support. But nothing daunting, he at once engaged in teaching. So great was his diligence and self-denial that he 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 bound to accept it. He was settled and for eighteen years preached there 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, R v. 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

prayer for him was manifestly answered early. Whilst yet a little boy he often expressed a purpose to serve God in the ministry, and an ardent desire to exercise that ministry in the missionary field. Nor does he seem at any time to have lost sight of that purpose until in the good providence of God it was carried out, and from the scene of his active missionary labors the Master called him home. He prosecuted his entire course of literary and classical studies at Jefferson College, Pa., where he graduated, in 1857, with more than ordinary credit, and immediately entered upon a regular course of study in Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny City, Pa. Up to this period his membership was in the Welsh Congregational Church-the church of his fathers. Nor had he as yet expressed any desire of changing that connection; but, yielding to the hallowed influences and associations of Christian brotherhood, deepened and sweetened by that remarkable work of grace wrought in the Seminary and the cities in 1858 and '59, by the reviving power of which his own soul was greatly refreshed, he gave up his original purpose of completing his studies at Andover, and during his second term at the Western Theological Seminary he united with the Presbyterian Church, was taken under the care of Allegheny City Presbytery, and early in 1859 was licensed to preach the gospel. The ensuing summer he preached in Clarksburg, Indiana County, Pa., to a small but interesting congregation, who would gladly have retained him as their pastor, but he could not stay. The pole-star of his life was then rising above the horizon. God was answering his prayer. A mission field was opening for him in the far distant West. He returned, however, to the Seminary and prosecuted his studies for a part of the following term; then near the close of 1859 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Allegheny City, and having been united in marriage to Miss Sarah F. Woods, of Snowden, Pa., they at once set out for their distant field of labor, sailing from New York, February 7, 1860, and arriving at Olympia, Washington Territory, on the 13th of March following.

He at once set abou his work, preaching at different and distant points, by way of exploring the field. In June, 1860, he opened a school on Chambers' Prairie, then the centre of his labors and his home, and whilst teaching continued to preach regularly at points varying in distance from six to twenty-five miles from his residence. But it was too much, and though a successful teacher he was obliged the following March to abandon a work he dearly loved, to close his school that he might give his whole time and strength to the gospel ministry. In March, 1861, he removed from Chambers' Prairie to Olympia, having received and accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in that place. The congregation there was small, consisting of twenty-five members, chiefly females, with no church edifice, and but little religious interest. Men who were professed worshipers at the shrine of mammon were slow to yield to gospel claims. Still he was not discouraged, a church must be built, and he began at once. It devolved upon himself to procure the means, to purchase material, to plan the work, and to see to its progress. In these efforts he was nobly sustained by the female members of his church. God smiled upon the work, and it was a complete success. But the burden was too heavy to be borne by one whose ordinary labors had already overdrawn his strength; he bore it, but not long. His health began to fail in the autumn of 1862, though he continued to preach until the following spring. The following is an extract from his diary, perhaps the last he ever wrote: "The last month (April) has been a period of sickness and debility, which, although constantly going about, has been marked by little or no efficient labor; although I wrote one sermon during that period I was not