clergyman superior to him, the question was re- the native congregations of these missions, their peated, "And does he not wear a beard?" numbers, their general order, their devout attendThe time he spent in Madras was about a fort-ance on the service of the church, exceeded every night, and in this space he preached eleven times, expectation he had formed; and that in their supbesides presiding at a large society meeting, giving port and revival he saw the fairest hope of extwo large dinner parties, (for he was habitually tending the Church of Christ. Never shall I forgiven to hospitality,) and receiving and paying get the warm expressions of his delight, when on "visits innumerable." Circumstances which suffi- Easter-day he gathered them around him as his ciently show his love of action, and his disposition children, as one family with ourselves, administerto fill up every moment of his time, with the duties ed to them the body and blood of our common Sabelonging to his station. viour, and blest them in their native tongue: and when in the evening of that day, he had seen before him no less than Thirteen hundred✶ natives of those districts rescued from idolatry and superstition, and joining as with one heart and voice in the prayers and praises of our church,-I can never forget his exclamation, that he would gladly purchase that day with years of life!”

The

On leaving Madras he passed the spot where, tradition says, the apostle St. Thomas was martyred. Bishop Heber thought this tradition well founded, and noted in his journal that he left the spot behind with regret, and should visit it, if he returned to Madras, with a reverent, though, he hoped, not a superstitious interest and curiosity. He reached Tanjore on the 25th of March, and Bishop Heber arrived at Trichonopoly on the on the 26th (Easter Sunday) preached an eloquent 1st of April; on the following day (Sunday), he and impressive sermon on the resurrection, in the preached to a crowded audience, and in the evening church, which, at the request of the native mem-confirmed forty young persons, and the next mornbers of the congregation, he promised to have ing at 6 o'clock he repeated this rite for the benefit translated into the Tamul language and printed. of some native Christians. He returned home to In concluding the sermon, he in the most feeling breakfast; but, before sitting down, went into a manner impressed the duty of brotherly love upon cold bath, as he had done the two preceding days. all present, without regard to rank or colour. His attendant, thinking that he staid more than Divine service was performed the same evening in the usual time, entered the apartment, and found the Tamul language, when, to the agreeable sur- his body at the bottom of the water, with the face prise of all present, he pronounced the Apostolic downwards, and lifeless. The usual restoratives benediction in that language. On Monday he held were immediately but ineffectually tried. a confirmation. In the evening divine service was spirit had returned to God who gave it. held in the chapel in the mission garden. At the amination, it was discovered that a vessel had conclusion, he addressed the missionaries present burst upon the brain, in consequence, as the mein an affectionate and animated manner; observing dical attendants agreed, of the sudden plunge to them, that it was probably the last time that all into the cold water, while he was warm and expresent could expect to meet in this world; and hausted. His mortal remains were deposited on exhorted them to diligence and perseverance by the north side of the altar of St. John's church, the example of Schwartz, near whose remains he Trichonopoly. was then standing. On the 28th, attended by his The melancholy intelligence of this overwhelmchaplain, and several missionaries of the district, ing calamity was communicated, in the most cauhe paid a visit of ceremony to the Rajah of Tan- tious manner, to his amiable and accomplished but jore. On the 29th and 30th he visited and in- unfortunate widow, by Lord Combermere, her respected the mission school and premises. On the lative. Bishop Heber left two children only, both 31st he departed for Trichonopoly. Of the feel- of whom were daughters. He died in the fortyings which governed him during this brief visit, a third year of his age. glowing but evidently not exaggerated description, Though his death is thus to be imputed to an has been given by the chaplain who accompanied apparent accident, yet there was reason to believe him, Mr. Robinson. "The missions at Tanjore that his constitution, like that of his predecessor, and this place," (Madras,) says Mr. Robinson, gradually yielding to the effects of a tropical cli"awakened, in a most powerful degree, and be

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yond any thing he had previously seen, the affec* Bishop Heber, in one of his letters, mentions the same tions of his heart; and to devise and arrange a number as being present on this occasion, and adds, "This plan for their revival and more extended prospe- however, is only in the city of Tanjore. There are scattered rity, was the object which occupied him for many congregations, to the number of many thousand Protestant days; and to the last hour of his life, his anxious Christians, in all the neighbouring cities and villages; and thoughts, his earnest prayers, and the concentrated the wicker-bound graves, each distinguished by a little cross of cane, of the poor people by the road side, are enough to energies of his mind. Again and again did he tell even the most careless traveller that the country is, in a repeat to me that all which he had witnessed in great measure, Christian."

when

Of the extent and burthensome character of the business

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mate, combined with active habits of exertion had commenced its work, and that his personal 5) formed in a more temperate clime, and leading appearance had undergone no trifling change. Inhim to frequent, and somewhat too heedless an deed, it would seem to be but a waste of human exposure of his person, even at times and in cir- life and human talent, to place any competent cumstances in which he is obliged to admit in his person, of sufficient age, whose habits have been journals, that it was but a matter of ordinary pru- formed in Europe, in the oversight of such a diodence to leave his family behind, rather than to cese as British India, with Polynesia and Ausexpose them. When he first ascended the Ganges, tralasia, forms. And yet this was Bishop Heber's and before he had reached the termination of his lot.* Of his death it has been beautifully said, that voyage, Abdullah, a native convert, and faithful servant, whom he had first met in England, and "His sun was in its meridian power; and its who had accompanied him to India, on one occa- warmth most genial when it was suddenly eclipsed, sion cautioned him tenderly against the exposure forever. He fell as the standard bearer of the to which his habits of exertion constantly led him, cross should ever wish to fall, by no lingering deconcluding with the remark, "This has caused cay, but in the firmness and vigour of his age, and your hair to turn so gray since your arrival in In- in the very act of combat and triumph. His Masdia;" a period less than a year. In Oude, on his way to the Himalaya mountains, he was taken ill on the road, with the country fever, details of his office he gave the following account in a letter to brought on him, doubtless, by exposure to rain, his friend and successor at Hodnet, the Rev. J. J. Blunt. "I do not think, that, in the regular and ordinary functions and various changes of the atmosphere, which he had just before been compelled to endure on horse-of my diocese, there is more, or even so much to be done, as in any of the more extensive bishoprics of England; the small back. He was at this time without any com-number of the clergy must prevent this being the case. panions but natives, and probably two days' ride on the other hand, every thing which is done must be done by from any physician. It pleased Providence to myself, both in its spirit and its details; and partly owing to bless the remedies which he used, as he admits, in the manner in which we are scattered, and partly to the geutter ignorance; and he was cheered during the neral habit of the country, all must be done in writing. Questions, which in England would not occupy more than five three or four days in which he lay, almost hope minutes conversation, may here sometimes call for a letter less, in his palanquin, at the road side, by the af- of six or eight pages; and as nothing, or almost nothing, fectionate attentions, and kind consideration of his which concerns the interests or duties of the clergy, can be native servants. To such an extent did they settled without a reference to Government, I have, in fact, at least two sets of letters to write and receive, in every imporcarry this last particular, that, if any noise was tant matter which comes before me. As visiter of Bishop's made, even accidentally, within his hearing, College, I receive almost every week six or seven sheets of several voices would softly urge "silence!" upon close writing on the subject. I am called on to give an opinion the involuntary offender. At this time he wrote on the architecture, expense, and details of every church to his mother and sister under the strong impres- which is built, or proposed to be built, in India; every applision of impending death. His natural buoyancy ringer, must pass through my hands, and be recommended in of mind, and the ardour of his spirit, combined a letter to Government. I am literally the conductor of all with the novel character of the circumstances in the missions in the three presidencies; and what is most seriwhich he was placed, were probably the causes ous of all, I am obliged to act in almost every thing from my which made him thus thoughtless of himself. He own single judgment, and on my own single responsibility, without any more experienced person to consult, or any preknew, moreover, what extensive hopes of the re- cedent to guide me." I have, besides, not only the Indian generation of India had been made to rest upon clergy and the Indian government to correspond with, but the him:-he knew that he was looked to as a power-religious societies at home, whose agent I am, and to whom I ful instrument in the hand of God to this end; that must send occasional letters, the composition of each of which from his talents, his disposition, his personal habits, occupies me many days: while in the scarcity of clergy which his principles, and above all his almost enthusias- some one or other of the churches or stations, no less frequenttic devotion, likening him in all these respects to ly than when I was in England. the very chiefest of the apostles, much more than he could reasonably expect to accomplish, was aninto arrears; and you may easily believe, therefore, not only ticipated. He had set before him, and never that I am obliged to let slip many opportunities of writing to allowed to be absent from his mind, the maxim of my friends at home, but that my leisure for study amounts to his Divine Master,-I must work the works of little or nothing; and that even the native languages, in which him that sent me while it is day; the night cometh it has been my earnest desire to perfect myself, I am comwhen no man can work. There was one, howev-pelled to acquire very slowly, and by conversation more than er, who watched with an anxious eye over his by reading. With all this, however, in spite of the many disadvantages of climate and banishment, I am bound to welfare, from whom it could not be concealed that, confess that I like both my employments and my present before the attack which proved fatal to him, decay country."

cation for salary of either clerk, sexton, schoolmaster, or bell

is, and must be felt here, I feel myself bound to preach, in

"All this, when one is stationary at Calcutta, may be done,

indeed, without difficulty: but my journeys throw me sadly

ter came suddenly, and found him faithful in his known him long, and who gave to his memory charge, and waiting for his appearing. His last the highest expressions of their praise.

hour was spent in his Lord's service, and in min- It has been determined to erect monuments to istering to the humblest of his flock. He had the memory of Bishop Heber at Calcutta, at Madscarcely put off the sacred robes with which he ras, and in St. Paul's cathedral, London, and at served at the altar of his God on earth, when he Oxford. Several scholarships have been founded was suddenly admitted to his sanctuary on high, in Bishop's College, near Calcutta, which, from and clothed with the garments of immortality." the same motive, are to bear his name. Immediately on the intelligence of his death, monument at Madras has been already erected. public meetings were called at Calcutta, at Madras, and at Bombay, in which eulogies were pronounced upon his character, by those who had contemporaries at college.

The

⚫ The chief justices of the three presidencies who were present at these meetings, were by a singular coincidence his

Tributes to the memory of Bishop Heber.

BY FELICIA HEMANS.

If it be sad to speak of treasures gone,
Of sainted genius called too soon away,
Of light, from this world taken while it shone,
Yet kindling onward to the perfect day—
How shall our grief, if mournful these things be,
Flow forth, O guide and gifted friend! for thee?

Hath not thy voice been here amongst us heard?
And that deep soul of gentleness and power,
Have we not felt its breath in every word,

Wont from thy lip, as Hermon's dew, to shower?
Yes! in our hearts thy fervent thoughts have

burned

Of heaven they were, and thither are returned.

How shall we mourn thee?—With a lofty trust,
Our life's immortal birthright from above!
With a glad faith, whose eye, to track the just,
Through shades and mysteries lifts a glance of
love,

And yet can weep!-for Nature so deplores
The friend that leaves us, though for happier
shores.

And one high tone of triumph o'er thy bier,
One strain of solemn rapture be allowed!
Thou that, rejoicing on thy mid-career,

Not to decay, but unto death hast bowed!
In those bright regions of the rising sun,
Where Victory ne'er a crown like thine hath won.

Praise, for yet one more name, with power en-
dowed,

To cheer and guide us onward as we press,
Yet one more image on the heart bestowed,
To dwell there-beautiful in holiness!
Thine! Heber, thine! whose memory from the

dead

Shines as the star, which to the Saviour led.

BY AMELIA OPIE.

How well I remember the day I first met thee!
'T was in scenes long forsaken, in moments
long fled,

Then little thought I that a WORLD would regret
thee!

And Europe and Asia both mourn for thee dead.

Ah! little I thought in those gay social hours,
That around thy young head e'en the laurel
would twine,
Still less that a crown of the amaranth's flowers,
Enwreathed with the palm, would, O Heber!
be thine.

We met in the world, and the light that shone round thee

Was the dangerous blaze of wit's meteor ray, But e'en then, though unseen, mercy's angel had found thee,

And the bright star of Bethlehem was marking

thy way.

To the banks of the Isis, a far fitter dwelling,

Thy footsteps returned, and thy hand to its lyre, While thy heart with the bard's bright ambition was swelling,

But holy the theme was that wakened its fire.

Again in the world and with worldlings I met thee,
And then thou wert welcomed as Palestine's

bard,

They had scorned at the task which the Saviour had set thee,

The Christian's rough labour, the martyr's reward.

Yet, the one was my calling, thy portion the Thou hadst ceased-having taught them what other;

Bright as short was thy course, when " a coal + "Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not

Thy haste could not pause, and thy step could He gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore not falter,