"monies in any way given or contributed" in each diocese, "to the funds of the seminary," whether to the general fund, the building fund, for scholarships, or for other purposes; and that the secretary then transmit, without delay, to the secretary of the convention of each diocese, the amount of contributions received from it; and also communicate the amount of all the contributions of the several dioceses to the secretary of the General Convention; to the end that it may be understood how many trustees every such diocese is "entitled" to elect, on the ground of its contributions, according to the third article of the constitution.

The following is the report of the faculty for the past year:

The faculty of the General Theological Seminary beg leave to present to the trustees their annual report of the state of the institution.

At the beginning of the first session seven students were admitted, viz. Southerland Douglass, A. B. of the eastern diocese; Clement F. Jones, A. B. of Pennsylvania; William A. Curtiss, A. B. of NewYork: Edward W. Peet, A. B. of Connecticut; Samuel Fuller, jun. A. B. of NewYork; Dexter Leland, A. B. of South-Carolina; and John W. Curtiss, A. B. of

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New-York: all of whom became members of the third class, except Mr. Douglass, who, upon examination, was found qualified for admission into the second. the 6th of December, Henry V. Johns, A. B. of Delaware, was admitted a member of the third class; on the 20th, William H. Lewis, of Connecticut; on the 17th of January, 1825, Thomas Young, A. B. of South-Carolina; and on the 21st of March, Hiram Adams and George Hinton, both of New-York. Mr. Phœbus, who intended when he entered the seminary last year, to remain four years, thought it most advisable to review the studies of the first year, and therefore continued a member of the same class. On the 10th of January, Messrs. Hoyt and Davis left the seminary-the former from ill health and other causes, and the latter in consequence of an appointment to a tutorship in Union College. On June 6th, Mr. Page also left the seminary, in order to make the necessary preparations for receiving deacon's orders as soon as possible. The number and names of the students now in the institution are as follows:-First class three, viz. Messrs. Holmes, Howell, and Whittingham; second class nine, viz. Messrs. Crosby, Douglass, Griffin, Hicks, Hutchins, Keese, Pyne, Shelton, Stone; third class twelve, viz. Messrs Adams, A. Curtiss, W. Curtiss, Fuller, Hinton, Johns, Jones, Leland, Lewis, Peet, Phoebus, Young: in all twenty-four. Mr. Phœbus is absent in consequence of ill health.

The course of study pursued has been in general the same as that of last year. The professor of Greek and Oriental li terature has facilitated the progress of the second class with the professor of biblical learning and interpretation of Scripture, by directing their attention to those portions of Hebrew which are closely connected with the study of some parts of the epistles. The duties of the professor of pastoral theology and pulpit eloquence have been performed by the professors in rotation, as reported last year.

In concluding their report, the faculty mention, with much pleasure, that the Society for the Advancement of Religion and Learning in this state, have voted to their disposal $500 for the purchase of elementary books and others in frequent use in the seminary. Part of this donation has already been appropriated, as will be more fully seen in the report of the library committee.

Respectfully submitted to the trustees.
By order of the faculty,

SAMUEL H. TURNER, Chairman. New-York, July 26th, 1825.

The trustees attended with great satisfaction the examination of the students, and the commencement. They also atthe seminary building at Greenwich; of tended the laying of the corner-stone of which ceremony an account was given in our last.

Commencement of Columbia College.

THE annual commencement of Columbia College was celebrated in Trinity church, on Tuesday, the 2d of August, 1835. The procession was formed at the usual hour, at the College-Green, and proceeded to the church.

After the exercises of the day, degrees were conferred on the following persons: Walter Nichols, James A. M. Gardner, Anthony L. Robertson, Oliver S. Strong, William E. Laight, Edward E. Mitchell, Robert W. Harris, John J. Schermerhorn, John M'Keon, Alexander S. Leonard, William Wilson, Ferdinand Sands, Peter Wilson, Isaac T. Minard, N. Marius Graves, J. Fletcher Smith, George P. Cammann, Jacob Harsen, Wessel S. Smith, Wm. G. Peshine.

The degree of master of arts was then conferred on the following gentlemen, alumni of Columbia College, viz. Edward Willet, Josiah D. Harris, Junius Thompson, Theodore F. King.

The honorary degree of master of arts was conferred on the Rev. Wm. Shelton.

The degree of D. D. was conferred upon the Rev. H. L. P. F.Peneveyre, rector of the church du St. Esprit, in the city of NewYork; upon the Rev. John M'Vickar, professor of moral philosophy, &c. in Columbia College.

The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon John C. Calhoun, vice-president of the United States; upon Joel E. Poinsett, minister plenipotentiary from the United States to the Republic of Mexico; upon Stephen Elliot, of Charleston, South-Carolina; and upon Nathaniel F. Moore, professor of the Greek and Latin languages in Columbia College.

St. Stephen's Church, New-Hartford. On Monday, July 11th, the corner-stone of a new building to be styled by the above name, was laid in the village of New-Hartford, Oneida county, in this state. Divine service was celebrated by the Rev. M. A. Perry, rector of St. Matthew's church, Unadilla, and a sermon preached by the Rev. H. Anthon, rector of Trinity church, Utica. After these exercises, the congregation proceeded to the spot selected for the church, where prayers were offered up and an address delivered by the Rev. A.C. Treadway, minister of the Episcopal congregation at New-Hartford. A leaden box was deposited in a cavity in the stone, containing, among other interesting documents, a copy of a deed of 130 acres of land, the munificent donation of the Hon. Judge Sanger, towards a permanent fund for the support of the clergyman. This highly esteemed individual has also contributed $700 and a lot of ground for the building.

Improvements in the Egyptian States. Mohammed Ali Pacha, the viceroy of Egypt, among other projects for the improvement of his states, has lately estab lished telegraphs from Alexandria to Cairo, and relays of horses for the despatch of couriers. He has also founded a college, supported by himself, at a short distance from Cairo, in the palace of his son, Ismael Pacha: it already contains one hundred students. Some of the students are studying the European languages, for the purpose of translating the works which Ali Pacha intends to introduce. He has also established a printing press, and published an Arabic and Italian Dictionary, with some military works, translated from Italian into Turkish. It is his intention to build an hospital for persons infected with the plague; and, by the precautions he prescribes, it is

When, Lord, to this our western land,
Led by thy providential hand,

Our pilgrim fathers came,

Their ancient homes, their friends in youth,
Sent forth the heralds of thy truth

To keep them in thy name.
Then, through our solitary coast,
The desert features soon were lost;

Temples and spires arose:

Our shores, as culture made them fair,
Were hallow'd by thy rites, by pray'r,
And blossom'd as the rose.
And O! may we repay this debt
To regions solitary yet

Within our spreading land!
Brethren, in yet unhallow'd soils,
Of thee depriv'd, engross'd with toils,
Our care, our aid demand.
Saviour! we own this debt of love:
O shed thy Spirit from above,

To move each christian breast,
Till heralds shall thy truth proclaim,
And temples rise to fix thy name
Through all our desert West!

ATLANTICUS.

Obituary Notices.

Died in this city, the Rev. ISAAC Low, late of the General Theolog. Seminary of the Prot. Epis. Church. In the death of this amiable and interesting young man, the Church has met with an irreparable loss. Zealous for her welfare, and sincerely devoted to the cause of his Redeemer, he completed the course of preparatory studies, notwithstanding the feeble and declining state of his health. After having spent one winter in the West Indies and some time in Europe, he found it necessary to leave home a third time, on account of the severity of our winter, and went to Savannah in December last, hoping to derive some benefit from the milder and more balmy air of a southern climate. An opportunity of being useful in that destitute portion of the Church presenting itself soon after, he applied to the

Right Rev. Dr. Bowen, of the diocese of South-Carolina, for ordination, and was accordingly admitted to the holy order of deacons, on Sunday, the 9th day of January last. His zeal, however, proved too great for his strength, and he was unable to officiate more than four or five times. As soon as the season admitted of it, he returned to the bosom of his family, and continued to sink gradually, yet rapidly. and finally expired on the evening of Thursday the 11th August, aged twentythree years and three months.

To speak of his private character, is but to depict an assemblage of virtuous dispositions, rarely combined in the character of an individual. His piety was even and constant, free from ostentation, and sincere his disposition gentle, cheerful, and engaging: his manners open, mild, and condescending. In short, he won the esteem of all who knew him. As a friend, he was faithful, generous, and unchanging; and those who were united to him in this endearing relation, must acknowledge the happiness of the hours which have been spent in the cultivation of it-very pleasantly did they pass, and moved smoothly and swiftly along-they are gone, but have left a relish and fragrance upon the mind; and the remembrance of them is sweet.

Nor was his goodness less to be admired in the scenes of domestic life: there, in the small, harmonious circle, his loss will be felt with peculiar severity. As a son, kind and affectionate; as a brother, devotedly attached to each member of his family, but particularly to her who attended him in his last sickness, comforted him in all his pain, soothed his pillow, and anxiously watched over him in his slumbering moments--one, on whose soul the last farewell look of a beloved and expiring brother is engraven in lines of adamant-one, the measure of whose bereavement can only be equalled by that of a devoted father.

Dark indeed as is this dispensation of Divine Providence, there is much consolation to be derived from the reflection, that in all probability he was taken away from evil to come. Yet painful to us is his departure-painful the feelings which come over us with a power almost irre sistible, as we rear to his memory a tablet near that of the lamented Yvonnet. Well was it said by an apostle of the Almighty, that his judgments are unsearchable, and his ways past finding out: but, as far as our imperfect apprehensions are capable of ascertaining the motives and principles of human actions, there was in both much of sincerity and of genuine piety. These ambassadors of the most high God have been recalled perhaps from this world which was not worthy of them, only to be advanced to higher honours in his eternal kingdom beyond the grave. In this un

certain state, however, it becomes us all to watch, since we know not the day or the hour in which we shall be summoned to our great account. To the ministers of Christ it speaks in language too plain and forcible either to be misunderstood

or disregarded. Let them then work the work of him that sent them while it is day, for the night cometh, when no man can work. Mindful of the important interests committed to them, and of the solemn investigation at the latter day, when a strict account of their stewardship will be required, let them be instant, in season and out of season, in declaring to fallen men the whole counsel of God, reproving, rebuking, exhorting, with all long-suffer ing and doctrine; so that when the time of their departure is at hand, they may be able to apply to themselves the triumphant language of the apostle: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day.

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Died lately in Alexandria, district of Columbia, the Rev. OLIVER NORRIS, many years rector of Christ church, Alexandria.

From the New-Haven (Connecticut) Journal.

Died in this city, on the 25th instant, CHARLES DENISON, Esq. aged 47 years.

We cannot permit the mortal remains of this excellent man to be committed to the grave, without bearing testimony (although we do it with weeping eyes and a bleeding heart) to that exalted worth, which conciliated universal esteem and affection, and which now fills this whole community with mourning. Mr. Denison was a native of New-Haven, and was educated at Yale College, whose public honours he received in 1798. Being distinguished as a scholar and as a man of pure morals, and of discreet conciliating manners, he was soon invited to accept a tutorship in William's College, from which he was removed to the same station among the faculty of his own institution, where he served several years, with honour to himself and advantage to his pupils. He then entered upon the practice of the law in his native city, and continued in it till his death. Fond of his profession, and unambitious of political preferment, he yielded with reluctance to the repeated call of his fellow-citizens to a seat in the state legislature. In this body he was early placed in the chair of the speaker of the house of representatives, which he continued to fill with distinguished ability during many sessions, until the increasing weakness of his lungs obliged him to desist from this arduous duty. He subsequently declined accepting a seat in congress, nor could

any future inducements, however alluring, again draw him from his professional pursuits, and from the quiet scenes of domestic life. He continued, however, occasionally to fill such offices in the magistracy of the city and state as were compatible with his plan of life, and consistent with his health, and was rarely released from some share of public duty.

Mr. Denison commanded, in a high degree, the respect of his profession. He was a learned and able lawyer; his opiRions and his arguments were remarkable for clearness and precision; he rejected every thing extraneous, and brought all his efforts to bear directly upon the point in debate. Cunning, ambition, and vanity had no place in his mind; he did nothing for display; and if his health, especially in the latter periods of his life, did not permit him to take so extensive a range in argument as some of his brethren, all that he did say was listened to with the greatest deference and respect. As a counsellor and guardian, and the depository of many important trusts, no man ever commanded more unqualified confidence. His excellent understanding and almost intuitive perception of truth, his great professional skill and experience, his inflexible integrity, his mild and cheerful manners, his unruffled temper, his clear method, and exact punctuality, and the high moral tone of his mind, qualified him, in an uncommon degree, for offices of trust and confidence. The tears of the widow and orphan will long water his grave, and their blessings on his memory will continue to ascend as a grateful incense to heaven. As a private friend, Mr. Denison was most faithful and affectionate; few men had more warm friends, and it is believed that he never had an enemy.

In the relations of domestic life he was a pattern of excellence; he sustained all those relations that are most interesting to human happiness, and he fulfilled their duties in a manner peculiarly useful and acceptable.

Educated in the doctrine and discipline of the Protestant Episcopal Church, he adhered to it both from principle and feeling; but he was perfectly catholic and mild towards those who differed from him, and some of his oldest and most affectionate personal friends were members of other communions. Mr. Denison's religious principles were those of the Gospel; he was averse from display on this great subject, but he reposed his hopes of salvation not on his own merits, but on the great sacrifice of Christ. In his last hours he was entirely intelligent, resigned, and cheerful in the contemplation of death.

The suddenness of the occurrence of his danger brought around his bed-side many weeping and agitated relations and friends, among whom he alone was calm and serene. Perfectly aware of the approach of death, he contemplated the change without dismay; he gave with perfect clearness and propriety all necessary directions as to his worldly affairs, addressed to each of his friends his last farewell, and his parting benediction and advice-attended with reverence to the last offices of religion-expressed not only his willingness but his desire to depart, and was favoured with a transition so gentle, that life expired without a struggle or a groan, and he seemed to have been spared the usual agony of the last conflict.

Calendar for October, 1825.

2. Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. 9. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity, 16. Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. 18. St. Luke the Evangelist.

23. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity. 28. St. Simon and St. Jude the Apostles. 30. Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity,

Ecclesiastical Meetings in October, 1825. 5. Maine Convention.

New Hampshire Convention. 18. New-York Convention, at New-York.

No. 10.]

For the Christian Journal.

Abstract of the Proceedings of a Convention of the Diocese of Virginia, held in Richmond, on Thursday, May 19th, Friday, May 20th, and Saturday, May 21st, 1825.

THE Convention was composed of the Right Rev. Bishop Moore, twentythree clergy, and twenty-six lay delegates, representing twenty-three parishes; and was opened with divine service by the bishop, and a sermon by the Rev. Oliver Norris, rector of Christ church, Alexandria.

The Right Rev. Bishop Moore delivered to the convention the following

PASTORAL ADDRESS.

Once more, my beloved brethren, hath the Almighty, in his providence, permitted us to assemble in convention, to come up to the house of God in company, and to take sweet counsel toge ther. Twelve months have elapsed since our last annual meeting, during which time we have been preserved in safety, and not one has been taken from our ranks. "Bless the Lord, O our souls, and forget not all his benefits."

With the calls which have been made upon me from various parts of the diocese the last year, it has been impossible for me to comply, owing to the want of an assistant to fill my place in this city. As far, however, as the duty I owe my own congregation, and the indisposition under which I have laboured, would admit of my absence from home, I have yielded to the solicitations of the people, and have visited the country parishes.

On my way home from the convention in Staunton last May, I stopped in the county of Cumberland, and preached to an attentive auditory, at the house of Mr. William Cock. That venerable man, and a considerable number of his VOL. IX.

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neighbours, still retain their attachment to the church of their fathers; and I have no doubt that a spirited and well qualified missionary would soon revive its interests in that district, and repair the desolations of our Zion in that part of the diocese.

In the month of June, I visited the county of Gloucester, and officiated on the Sabbath to a large congregation in Ware church; and on the day following, I rode to Abington church, but owing to a heavy rain, I preached to a small auditory. Few are the parishes which hold out stronger inducements for the location of a clergyman than Gloucester. The people, notwithstanding their long privation of the services of the church, continue their attachment to our communion. Within a few years they have repaired one of their houses of worship, and would furnish a clergyman of piety and talents with a comfortable support. The society is excellent, and I am confident that I do them no more than justice to say, that a clergyman might calculate with cer tainty upon a happy settlement in the bosom of that affectionate and hospitable people.

In the month of July, I went to Williamsburg, at which place I preached to a large congregation, and also administered the Lord's supper. The first of August, I visited the town of Petersburg in company with Dr. Wilmer, at which place I administered the Lord's supper; admitted to the holy order of deacons, the Rev. John Cook and the Rev. Lucius Carter. I preached in the evening, and then bade them farewell.

In September, I visited the churches in Alexandria, and preached to both congregations. In November, I went to Hanover, preached in Allen's Creek church, and also at the mansion of the 37