Evangelical Missionary Society. This Society held its semiannual meeting in Salem on the 11th of October. A Sermon upon the Claims of Religious Charities was preached by Rev. Mr Gannett of Boston, and a collection of about $130 made for the Society's funds.

Ordination.

The Rev. John A. Williams was on the 18th day of October, ordained as the pastor of the First Congregational Church and Society of East Bridgewater. The Rev. Dr Lowell of Boston offered the introductory prayer and read a portion of the Scriptures; Rev Dr Porter of Roxbury preached the sermon from 1 Cor. xiv. 3; Rev. Dr Willard of Deerfield made the ordaining prayer; Rev. Dr Kendall of Plymouth, gave the charge; Rev. Mr Hodges of South Bridgewater, the right hand of fellowship; Rev. Mr Clark of Norton, addressed the Society; and Rev. Dr Reed of West Bridgewater, offered the concluding prayer.

Obituary.

DIED, on the 14th of July last, MRS ELIZABETH CABOT, widow of the late Hon. George Cabot. It would be difficult to do justice to the character of this excellent lady, within the short limits of an obituary notice. But her worth, and the feelings of her friends, demand that some tribute should be offered to her memory. The following is acknowledged to be a feeble and imperfect, but claims to be a sincere one.

It is not by events that the life of females is most appropriately delineated. The quiet, and retirement, and domestic employments of woman, are at variance with notoriety, and shrink back from it. Her ambition is not to seek for fame; her happiness not to acquire it. Her mind and her heart, therefore, are to be described, and not her achievements. We look not for dates and adventures; we do not expect, nor do we desire to find them. We deal, almost abstractedly, with dispositions, affections, principles; we tell of gentleness, devotedness, and piety.

With that unobtrusive delicacy, and nice sense of propriety which belong to the female sex, Mrs Cabot united an extraordinary degree of mental strength, clearness of perception, liberality of opinion, and superiority to prejudice. Custom and fashion stood not, with her, in the place of reason and principle. She kept her judgment in continual exercise; and suffered it not to be blinded by the glare of wealth and high name, or overwhelmed and borne down by the clamorous voice of the multitude. She certainly paid a due respect to the usages of the world, and to its generally acknowledged laws; but that respect never took the form of servility, because her convictions and resolutions were independent, and founded on something better than mere authority.

In her advanced age, though her constitution was much impaired, her mind retained the whole of its native vigor, and shared in none of those weaknesses which are the usual inheritance of years. They whose privilege it was to visit her as friends, went not only out of respect for her venerable worth, and the high rank which she had always held in society, but

really to enjoy her conversation, and be improved and delighted in her company; and they came away from each interview, with fresh admiration of her unfading powers, her lively wit, her shrewd observation, her copious and original flow of thought, her kind and indulgent sympathies. The force of her intellect enabled her to cope with any subject which might be offered for discussion; she was not startled nor offended by an idea, for no other cause than that it seemed to be new and bold. It has been intimated above, that she was singularly free from little superstitions, and those fears and forebodings which are so often the companions of old age.

By the means of this same intellectual energy, she held a powerful mastery over her feelings, which were themselves of no ordinary strength. Her life had been summoned to many trials. In her latter years, two children only remained to her of nine. She was doomed to behold seven of her offspring, and at last their father, pass on before her to the grave. But she struggled, and overcame. Her family duties were not neglected; her friends were received aud attended to with cheerfulness; her sorrows were obtruded on no one. Even the last and saddest loss, which came, like a storm, over the vale of her existence, left it serene and pleasant to the eye; though the cloud still hung, and threw a broad shadow over it, and the full brightness of the sun never broke in upon it again. She lived, because it was God's pleasure that she should live; she continued to be useful, because she felt that it was her duty to be so; but she lived and acted as one whose strongest interests are not on earth. We were not called to any exhibition of grief; yet we could not but know that there was a shrine in her inmost soul, at which, with but One Eye upon her, she knelt and wept alone.

Her goodness and strong sense did not tend to make her a severe judge of the faults, mistakes, and incapacities of others. She saw them, but she looked leniently on them. She offered such apologies for those who were represented to be in error, as they would probably have offered for themselves. She made due allowance for human frailty. She was above censure; and not only so, but above being censorious.

Her religious sentiments were rational and practical; early imbibed, and deeply impressed. She was for many years a member of the church now under the care of the Rev. Mr Young. Two former pastors of that church are living, who often think of the long and friendly intimacy with which she honored them, and who deplore her loss with those who knew and loved

her best.

Mrs Cabot died at Watertown, whither she had retired for a few months from Boston, for the benefit of country air and exercise. She breathed out her spirit calmly and without severe suffering, in the 71st year of her age. Any attempt to estimate the magnitude of this loss to the bereaved relations would be needless. They can feel, but even they cannot express it.

tree.

DIED in Boston, August 25, aged 90, MRS HANNAH STORER, widow of the late Ebenezer Storer, Esq. and daughter of Josiah Quincy, Esq. of BrainThe memory of this venerable lady is cherished with a peculiar sensibility far beyond the domestic circle which is bereaved by her death. Her natural disposition, as far as it was to be distinguished from the effects of christian discipline, seemed uncommonly placid and benevolent. Her understanding, which was of a high order, had been cultivated with systematic assiduity, and exercised in an extent of inquiry much beyond what was common at the period of her early life. Her connexions of family and friendship, were with several of the most distinguished persons of this portion of our country, and her manners, well befitting the place which she held in their regard and in the respect of a large acquaintance, united the most finished elegance with a frankness and cordiality which gave her soci

ety an extraordinary charm. Her christian faith was a principle deeply rooted in her heart. She had familiarized it by much reflection, and tried its strength in some vicissitudes. It was the source of her uniform cheerfulness, and the support of her uncommon virtues; and, consistently acted on through so long a life, it produced its proper fruit in an extraordinary maturity of the christian character. She was privileged beyond the common lot in her last years being far different from years of labor and sorrow. Extreme age brought with it the least possible portion of infirmity. It was attended with no decay of the mental powers, and scarcely even impaired her senses. Up to the time of her mortal sickness, her society was the delight of a numerous circle of devoted friends, who feel that in her departure, a large resource of happiness to them is withdrawn. She did not live in the past. Her kind heart had always a place for new interests and new attachments. It is exceedingly rare to see the ardor and sprightliness of youth mingled, in such beautifully harmonious union, with the wisdom and dignity of age; and perhaps she is scarcely cherished in more affectionate remembrance by her few surviving contemporaries, than in the minds of some who have only enjoyed the friendship of ter declining years. Her life is to be regarded as a singularly happy one. It was passed in the pleasant ways of wisdom. It was protracted to an unusual period, yet without the wonted infirmities of age. Its close was watched with respectful and fond solicitude. It was terminated by the mildest messenger of death; and resigned in the most enviable exercise of faith and hope, and it has left behind most tender recollections and elevating influences.

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