Committee,and by any of the managers: C. R. Duffie, C. N. S. Rowland, R.Oakley, H.A.TenBroeck, Thomas Swords, Thomas Browning, William Jones, Robert Hyslop, George Sinclair, Charles W. Sandford.

Constitution of the Female Missionary Association of St. Paul's Chapel. Formed December, 1821.

ARTICLE I.-This Association shall be known by the name of THE FEMALE MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION OF ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL, and shall be auxiliary to the New-York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society.

ART. II.-The object of this Association will be to collect funds for the support of missions; which funds, as soon as collected, shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Society before mentioned.

ART. III.-Any person paying the sum of fifty cents, annually, may become a member of this Association; and, by paying five dollars at a time, may become a member for life, which life subscriptions shall be placed in the permanent fund of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society.

ART. IV. The affairs of this Association shall be conducted by a first, second, and third Directress, Secretary, Treasurer, and twelve Managers, who shall be chosen, by ballot, at the anniversary meeting.

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ART. V. The Board of Managers shall meet at least once in three months, at which time five shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; they shall have power to fill their own vacancies, and to call special meetings of this Association.

ART. VI.-The anniversary meeting shall be held at St. Paul's Chapel, on the third Tuesday in November, when the annual report of the Board of Managers shall be presented, a copy of which shall be transmitted by the Secretary to the Corresponding Secretary of the parent Society.

ART. VII.-No alteration shall be made to this Constitution, except by the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at any meeting of the Association.

Subscriptions will be received by the Treasurer, No. 79 Warren-street.

Officers for the present year. Directresses.-Mrs. Underhill, Mrs. Beers, Mrs. Wheaton.

Managers.-Mrs. Berrian, Mrs. Mrs. Pray, Mrs. Armitage, Mrs. SeaKirkpatrick, Mrs. Kerly, Mrs. Handy, man, Mrs. Sullivan, Mrs. Suydam, Mrs. Skinner, Mrs. Wright, Miss Beekman. Mrs. Gautier, Treasurer; Miss Anthon, Secretary.

Constitution of the Society of St. George's Church, in the City of New-York, for assisting Young Men preparing for Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

ARTICLE I. The design of this Society is to assist pious young men in obtaining a classical education, and attending on the instructions of the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, with a view to Holy Orders in the said Church, or either of the said objects.

ART. II.-Its officers shall be a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, Secretary, and ten Directors, to be chosen, annually, on the second Monday in January; the above named officers, with the Directors, to constitute a Board for managing all the af fairs of the Society.

ART. III. The annual payment of any amount not less than two dollars shall entitle to membership during the continuance of such payment, and the payment of twenty-five dollars at one time shall entitle to membership for life.

ART. IV. All life subscriptions, donations, and legacies, shall be invested in some safe securities, and the interest only applied to the objects above specified; and all other moneys, not required for immediate expenditure, shall be in like manner invested.

ART. V.-As soon as the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars is subscribed, and paid into the hands of the Treasurer of this Society, the Board of Di rectors may appropriate the same, or such part thereof as they think proper, to the support or assistance of a pious young man, to be selected by them, who

is desirous of obtaining Holy Orders in said Church, either in acquiring a competency of classical learning for that purpose, or in prosecuting his studies at the Theological Seminary established by the General Convention of said Church; and the said Board, so long as the income from annual subscriptions and the produce of the permanent fund shall amount to the sum of one

hundred and fifty dollars yearly, may apply the said sum, or so much thereof as may be required, to a like purpose; and whenever the yearly income from annual subscriptions and the produce of the permanent fund shall amount to the sum of three hundred dollars, two or more students, at the discretion of the said Board, may be supported or assisted, in manner aforesaid, in their endeavours to obtain such classical and theological learning as may be necessary for their admission to Holy Orders in said Church; and whenever the permanent fund of this Society shall amount to such a sum as, by the regulations of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, shall be required to found a scholarship therein, the said Board may, at their discretion, apply the same to that purpose, or continue their duties in the manner and on the principles heretofore prescribed.

ART. VI.-An annual meeting of the members of this Society shall be held, on due notice, in the Lecture Room of St. George's Church, on the second Monday in January in each year.

ART. VII.-This Constitution shall not be altered or amended, except on the proposition of the Directors, and a vote of two thirds of the members, at an annual or other meeting convened for that purpose.

Officers for the present year. The Rev. James Milnor, D. D. President; Isaac Carow, 1st Vice-President; O. H. Hicks, 2d Vice-President; Thomas Bloodgood, Treasurer; John H. Hill, Secretary.

Directors.-John Stearns, M. D. Thomas Lawrence, Moses Judah, B. L. Woolley, J. H. Taylor, William Shatzell, John W. Mulligan, Horatio Gillet, John Anthon,Richard M.White.

Maine 2, New-Hampshire 4, Massachusetts 16, Vermont 7, Rhode-Island 6, Connecticut 45, New-York 83, New3, Maryland 54, Virginia 28, NorthJersey 14, Pennsylvania 28, Delaware Carolina 9, South-Carolina 26, Ohio 8, Georgia 3, Kentucky 4, Louisiana 1, Missouri 1; in all 342. Of which, nine are Bishops, respectively, of the Eastern Diocess, composed of Maine, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Verticut; of New-York; of New-Jersey; mont, and Rhode-Island; of Connecginia, and North-Carolina; of Southof Pennsylvania; of Maryland; of VirCarolina; and of Ohio.

Ordination.

ON Wednesday, the 5th of December, 1821, in St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, the Rev. Ethan Allen, of St. John's parish, Prince George's county, Maryland, was admitted to the holy order of Priests, by the Right Rev. Bishop Kemp.

For Saturday Evening.

"I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life"-St. John xiv. 6.

Thou art the Way; and he who sighs,
Amid this starless waste of wo,

To find a pathway to the skies,

A light from heaven's eternal glow; By thee must come, thou gate of love, Through which the Saints undoubting trod; Till faith discovers, like the dove,

An ark, a resting-place in GOD.

Thou art the Truth; whose steady day
Shines on through earthly blight and bloom,
The pure, the everlasting ray,

The lamp that shines e'en in the tomb;
The Light that out of darkness springs,
And guideth those that blindly go,
The Word whose precious radiance flings
Its lustre upon all below.

Thou art the Life; the blessed well,

With living waters gushing o'er,
Which those that drink shall ever dwell
Where sin and thirst are known no more;
Thou art the mystic pillar given,

Our lamp by night, our light by day;
Thou art the sacred Bread from heaven;
Thou art the Life, the Truth, the Way.

Is there a time when moments flow
More lovelily than all beside;
It is, of all the times below,

A Lord's Day eve in summer tide.
O then the setting sun smiles fair,
And all below, and all above,
The different forms of nature wear
One universal garb of Love.

And then the peace that Jesus beams,
The life of Grace, the death of Sin,
With Nature's placid woods and streams,
Is peace without and peace within.
Delightful scene-a world at rest-

A God all love-no grief nor fear-
A heavenly hope-a peaceful breast---
A smile unsullied by a tear!
If heaven be ever felt below,

A scene so heavenly sure as this,
May cause a heart on earth, to know
Some foretaste of celestial bliss.
Delightful hour-how soon will night
Spread her dark mantle o'er thy reign;
And morrow's quick returning light,

Must call us to the world again. Yet will there dawn, at last, a dayA sun that never sets shall rise; Night will not veil his ceaseless ray! The heavenly Sabbath never dies!

The Dirge of a Child; by Mrs. Hemans,
No bitter tears for thee be shed,
Blossom of being! seen and gone!
With flowers alone we strew thy bed,

O blest departed one!
Whose all of life, a rosy ray,
Blush'd into dawn, and pass'd away.
Yes, thou art gone, ere guilt had power
To stain thy cherub soul and form!
Closed is the soft ephemeral flower

That never felt a storm!

The sunbeam's smile, the zephyr's breath,
All that it knew from birth to death.
Thou wert so like a form of light,
That heaven benignly call'd thee hence,
Ere yet the world could breathe one blight
O'er thy sweet innocence:
And thou that brighter home to bless
Art pass'd with all thy loveliness.

O hadst thou still on earth remain'd,
Vision of beauty, fair as brief,

How soon thy brightness had been stain'd
With passion, or with grief!
Now not a sullying breath can rise
To dim thy glory in the skies.
We rear no marble o'er thy tomb,
No sculptured image there shall monrn,
Ah! fitter far the vernal bloom

Such dwelling to adorn.
Fragrance, and flowers, and dews must be
The only emblems meet for thee.
Thy grave shall be a blessed shrine,
Adorn'd with nature's brightest wreath,
Each glowing season shall combine

Its incense there to breathe; And oft upon the midnight air

Shall viewless harps be murmuring there.

And oh! sometimes in visions blest,
Sweet spirit, visit our repose,

And bear from thine own world of rest
Some balm for human woes.

What form more lovely could be given Than thine to messenger of heaven?

Obituary Notices.

MRS. SARAH STARTIN.

DIED, in the city of New-York, on Thursday, the 24th of January, 1822, in the 75th year of her age, Mrs. Sarah Startin.

The language of truth would pronounce concerning this lady that she has left a bright example of every social and Christian virtue. Her heart, singularly kind and tender, was animated by the principles and hopes of religion, which controlled all her views, and regulated all her conduct. She lived to make others happy; and her soul was habitually elevated with gratitude to the Giver of all good for the blessings which she enjoyed; among which she principally ranked the disposition and the means of dispensing happiness. Her income was liberally devoted to objects of piety and benevolence, and particularly to the Orphan Asylum, which is largely indebted to her pecuniary aid, and to her long continued and faithful services. But it would be impossible to enumerate those many gifts of private beneficence, which were marked not less by kindness in intention, than by liberality and delicacy in the amount and in the manner. Unaf

fected and deeply sincere in her piety, she lived in constant communion with her heavenly Father in her private devotions, and especially in the ordinances of the Church, the worship of which it was her delight to attend not only on Sundays, but on the stated prayer days, and on the festivals and fasts of the week. She was always ready to aid in extending the principles and services of the Church to which she was warmly attached, and of the interests of which she has not been unmindful in her testamentary bequests. Though she could enjoy the retrospect of a long life devoted to the service of God, and the good of others, her humility prevented the approving testimony of conscience from exciting a single

emotion of vain glory; and she relied for acceptance only on the merits of the Divine Advocate with the Father. During a severe illness, and in extreme suffering, she would seek to still the groans of frail nature, by the consideration that her Saviour suffered moreand it was her prayer to her Father in heaven, that he would do with her as to his infinite wisdom seemed best. cellent woman! long will those who enjoyed thy friendship cherish the remembrance of thy unaffected pietythy considerate, kind, and tender benevolence-happy if in the imitation of thy virtues they can indulge the hope of meeting thee at the resurrection of the just.

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There having been much conversation respecting the residuary legacy of the excellent lady whose death is recorded above, the Publishers, for the information of their readers, have obtained a copy of the clause of the will directing the disposition of the said legacy, which, they are informed, will amount to from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars.

"And as to, for and concerning all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever not herein specifically given and disposed of, I give and bequeath the same, and every part thereof, unto the aforesaid Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of New-York, his executors or administrators; upon trust, nevertheless, to place the same at interest on real security, or to invest the same in such of the pubblic funds or stocks as he or they shall think most secure and productive, either in his or their own name or names, or else in the name or names of such trustee or trustees as he or they shall see fit to appoint; and, in like manner, from time to time, to invest or place at interest, in like stocks or securities, the interest or dividends arising therefrom, so as to produce as great an accumulation of principal as reasonably may be in the nature of compound in

terest, until he or they shall think proper to expend, apply, and lay out the whole of the said principal sum, or any part thereof, in any manner or way he or they, in their discretion, may think proper or necessary, or likely best to promote religion and learning, and to advance the interests of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Provided, that in some college, academy, or seminary now established, or that may hereafter be established in some part of the United States, for the purpose of theological instruction, or for the purpose of general learning, or for both purposes conjointly, there be instituted a professorship bearing the name of my deceased husband, and to be denominated the Charles Startin Professorship, to the support of which a portion of the income of the principal of the aforesaid legacy shall be annually devoted; and provided also, that whenever the principal sum, to arise from the said legacy, shall, notwithstanding previous appropriations, so accumulate as to amount to $50,000, then the same shall be permanently appropriated and applied to one or more of the objects above specified, in the discretion of the said Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, his executors, or administrators."

REV. JOSEPH R. ANDRUS. DIED, in Africa, on the 28th of July, 1821, the Rev. Joseph R. Andrus, a Presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this country. Mr. A. received both Deacons' and Priests' orders from the Right Rev. Bishop Griswold, of the Eastern Diocess, and had been in the ministry about five or six years. A pious and zealous regard for the spiritual welfare of the American colony on the African coast induced him, after officiating three or four years in the Eastern Diocess and in Virginia, to repair thither for the exercise of his ministerial functions. He soon fell a victim to the well meant enterprise, being the second clergyman of our Church who has found a grave in that distant colony.

Life of Archbishop Sancroft; abridged for the Christian Journal from a Review of his Life, by Dr. D'Oyly, in the British Critic.

(Continued from page 36.) DR. Sancroft continued at St. Paul's for thirteen years, attending with meritorious industry to the immediate duties of his station, and embracing every opportunity afforded him of promoting the interests of the Church, and of reEigion in general; when, on the decease of Archbishop Sheldon, towards the close of the year 1677, he was raised, very unexpectedly to himself and the public, to the archiepiscopal throne.

"It is the most probable supposition that he did not owe his exaltation in

any degree, if at all, to private favour or recommendations, but principally or entirely to his character, which pointed him out as the person best qualified to adorn the station, and to support its dignity. It is stated, and probably with truth, in a narrative of his life,* that his zeal, candour, and learning, his exemplary behaviour in a lower state, his public spirit in so many scenes of life, his constancy in suffering, his unbiassed deportment, all concurred to recommend him as a fit governor of the church in that turbulent age."

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the historian, than on the calumniated primate. We have hitherto found no action of his life recorded which induces us to believe, that any thing could have gained him over to serve an illegal purpose; or that he would so far forget the duties of his station, as to be tending to the injury of that Church, of come an inactive spectator of designs whose interests he was now become the spiritual guardian. It is indeed probable that the Duke of York may have preferred him to others, whose situa tion in the Church had given them opportunities which Sancroft never en joyed, of opposing the intrigues of the Roman Catholic faction at court. And as Bishop Compton, who was personally obnoxious to the Duke on this account, had been named as likely to suc ceed to the vacant Archbishoprick, he might have been instrumental in promoting Sancroft's elevation, rather with a view to the exclusion of an active opponent, than to the appointment of one whom he could hope to make the tool D'Oyly observes, that, if the Duke of of his purposes. Certain it is, as Dr. York, or any other person recommended him to the primacy under such a view of his character as Bishop Burnet represents, they were completely deceived for it was afterwards suffi

ciently proved, that he was deficient neither in zeal nor in exertion; and intrusted to a watchful guardian of its that the government of the Church was welfare, and an intrepid defender of its rights and privileges.

"See Lives of English Bishops, by Nathanael Salmon.-p. 60."

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it entails upon its possessor duties of Even in the most tranquil times, the most arduous kind; and a responsibility from which the firmest mind might be excused from shrinking. But