to me, and I to him, as bone to bone, in the one mystical body of our common Lord and Life. 'We are heirs together of God and joint heirs with Christ.' The present separation is for a day. The future fellowship, face to face, in the presence of our glorious Lord, seeing Him as He is, will be for eternity.'

An ardent lover of his own country, and in every respect a true patriot, he also took the deepest interest in all that concerned the welfare of England, temporal and spiritual. And in consequence of the high estimation in which he was held by those in authority in both countries, and the entire confidence reposed in his wisdom and integrity, he had the privilege, at a critical time, when the relations between England and America were seriously disturbed by the Trent affair, to render very effective aid in the maintenance of peace between the two countries.

The honours conferred upon him by both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the many marks of esteem and respect which he received, even from the highest personages of the realm, thoroughly as they were appreciated by him and gratefully enjoyed, never affected his spirituality of mind. He regarded them as fresh talents to be consecrated to the glory of his Lordgiving him, as they did, increased opportunities of serving Him.

The character and work of Bishop McIlvaine are so faithfully pourtrayed by Bishop Lee in his discourse In Memoriam, and by Bishop Bedell in his address to the Convention of his Diocese, that I have been glad to introduce nearly the whole of their valuable and discriminating remarks, as supplying what was needed for this present fragmentary work. I shall only add to them two very graceful and important tributes to the memory of the Bishop. From his beloved friend and mine, Edwin Guest, Esq., LL.D., the late Master of

Caius College, Cambridge, I received the following, May 10th, 1873:

'Of all whom it has been my privilege to know, he came nearest to my ideal of the Christian man. There was in him a balance of qualities not often met with, a clearness of intellect and decision of character united to a singular humility, and a kindliness of nature which in its sanctified form became the greatest of the Christian graces. I shall always look upon it as one of my greatest privileges to have known Bishop McIlvaine.'

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, on receiving my narrative of the last days of Bishop McIlvaine, very kindly wrote to me:

'His departure was like his life, and the manner of it is an encouragement to those who are looking forward to pass before long through the same trial. It was impossible to know our dear friend without loving him. We greatly enjoyed his visit to Addington before his journey with you began. We shall all greatly miss him. But it is pleasant to think of his peaceful rest in Christ.'

And now I would humbly commit to the Lord these memorials of His faithful servant, on whom He bestowed such abundant grace, with the prayer that He may be glorified in them, and that He would so bless their perusal, that the reader, obtaining like precious faith with the devoted Bishop, may enjoy the same blessed end of perfect peace.

Winchester, November, 1880.

WILLIAM CARUS.

PART I.

NARRATIVE, &c.

CHAPTER I.

1799-1825.

THE family of Bishop McIlvaine trace their descent directly from the Makilvanes of Ayrshire, who in the early part of the sixteenth century must have been of considerable power and influence as large landed proprietors. Their lands of Upper and Nether Grimmet, or Grumet, extended for many miles along the Doon, and now form part of the possessions of the Marquis of Ailsa, Earl of Cassilis. They were confirmed in their possession by Acts of James V. and Mary Queen of Scots; the records of which are in the Record Office of Edinburgh.'

'Prior to the sixteenth century (writes Colonel Francis McIlvaine), they possessed and occupied Thomaston Castle, the fine old ruins of which are still standing on the estate of the Marquis of Ailsa. The family was connected by marriage, not only with the Kennedys, of whom the Earl of Cassilis was the head, but with the Stuarts (a branch of the royal family), and others of importance in their day. Robert Stuart of the younger branch of the royal house married Julianne, daughter of John

McIlvaine, of Grimmet. About 1520, Alan McIlvaine, who married a niece of the Earl of Cassilis, purchased the estate of Grimmet in Ayrshire, and from him we are directly descended. The family appears to have been impoverished by high living and fines (they were Presbyterians), and sometime in the beginning of the eighteenth century our ancestor removed to this country, and settled in or near Philadelphia. His descendants settled in or near Bristol, Pennsylvania, living the lives of country gentlemen on their estate of Fairview near that place. At the death of our great-grandfather this estate passed out of the family.'

From Bishop McIlvaine's brief notes of his personal history we have the following account of his family and of himself in his early years:

'I was born in Burlington, New Jersey, January 18th, 1799. My father was Joseph McIlvaine of that town, and his father was Joseph McIlvaine of Bristol, Pennsylvania, brother of Dr. William McIlvaine, an eminent physician of Burlington, and of Mrs. Mary Bloomfield, wife of General Bloomfield, who was for several years Governor of New Jersey, and a Brigadier-General of the United States during the war of 1812-15. My father was one of the leading lawyers of the State, and at his death was one of its representatives in the Senate of the United States. He died at Burlington on the 19th of August, 1826, in his fifty-eighth year. My mother, Maria McIlvaine, was a daughter of Bowes Reed of Burlington, who was brother to Joseph Reed of Philadelphia, General Washington's confidential Secretary, and first Governor of Pennsylvania. My dear mother lived to her seventythird year, and died in New York at the house of my brother Reed, on the 18th of April, 1849.

'I was blessed with most affectionate, tender, devoted parents-wise and faithful-whose memory is treasured in my heart with the tenderest love and the highest

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veneration. Their remains lie in the burial-ground of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, where are also those of my mother's parents, and of all my five brothers, and of the parents and various members of my wife's family.

'I received my education for college at the Burlington Academy, a corporate institution, of which my father was one of the trustees. From my childhood I attended the worship of the Episcopal Church in Burlington; then, and until after I was ordained, under the rectorship of the Rev. Charles Wharton, D.D. My parents and all the family belonged to that congregation. My dear mother, having some scruples about presenting her children for baptism as long as she was not a communicant (which she afterwards became), I was not baptized until during my college course, when having been turned to the Lord, by His grace, I presented myself for baptism in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, and received that sacrament at the hands of Dr. Wharton. I graduated at the college of New Jersey (Princeton) in the autumn of 1816. Two brothers, Reed and Bloomfield, graduated there before me; two, Joseph and Henry, after me. At that time I had five brothers, and two sisters; Bowes Reed, the eldest, was a merchant of high character, and died in New York, August 27th, 1866, in his seventy-second year. The second, Bloomfield, was a lawyer of eminent ability and promise in Philadelphia, and died in Burlington, August 18th, 1826, the day before my father, who died in the adjoining room. They were placed in the same grave. The third, Joseph, a lawyer of high standing in Philadelphia, for some time Recorder of the city, and at the time of his death a representative of Philadelphia in the State legislature, died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, suddenly, January 17th, 1838, in his thirty-seventh year. The fourth, Emerson, after some years as a civil engineer, was, when he died, in the Treasury