and of that "unity of the spirit" which is "the bond of peace," and "of perfectness." No better proof of this can be named than the singular fact that at one time he held the office of President in those three great national and catholic institutions, the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was a theologian of ample acquirements, of rigid evangelical views, and of thorough orthodoxy according to the Calvinistic standard of Dordrecht and Westminister. All his ancestral, traditional, and local associations, his constitutional tendencies, his education, and his conscientious convictions, united to make him a living type of “the good old ways of the Reformation." He was neither a bigot nor a latitudinarian. He stood upon the highest ground of unsectarian Christianity, and yet like a good soldier of Jesus Christ he obeyed that apostolic injunction: "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity." (1 Cor. 16: 13, 14.) His faith, and his love for Christ and his cause, were measured by the world, the Bible, and the Cross. With him there was neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female: for all are one in Christ Jesus." (Gal. 3: 28.) He was a regular attendant of the union daily prayermeetings which were held in New Brunswick during and since the late revival, and took a leading part in the exercises, and an humble seat among the lowly. For many years during his legal practice while a Senator in Congress, when Chancellor of the University, and afterward, when President of Rutgers College, he was a Sabbathschool teacher, who loved his work, deemed it one of his highest honors, and found in it a comfort and reward of which he now enjoys the full fruition. Another pre-eminent trait of his Christian character was his faithfulness. He could "reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and gentleness." He did this with an authority which only goodness can command. The righteous indignation which the sacred writers show against sin, and their fidelity to truth, and to the transgressor, were richly displayed in the habitual conduct of Mr. Frelinghuysen. This was the outworking of a principle within him, which grew stronger and brighter with his experience. Every body felt it. From the Senate Chamber to the farthest bounds of the Union, the wise and good of the whole land rejoiced in his light. It burned and it shone for all the people. There is one other characteristic of this venerated man, which cannot be omitted in even the most superficial view of his traits. He was the beau ideal of a Christian patriot. The motto of his life was: "For Christ and my country." I need not stop to tell this audience how he exemplified his love of country. It was a part of the man and of his life. During his last illness, and up to the day of his death, his country was upon his heart, and upon his tongue, and in his prayers. And when from almost every public building and private house in the city, the good old flag floated at half-mast over his unburied corpse, the people felt that America and the Union had lost the very Daniel of the time. His death was preceded by an illness of a few weeks duration, attended by severe suffering. But grace was triumphant there. The faith which he had humbly adorned so long was his victory. The Saviour whom het loved so well, was "Christ in him the hope of glory." Notwithstanding he had been prone to constitutional religious depression, and had during long years felt those fears of death which trouble many of God's dear child ren, they were all dispelled by the grace which was given him. The valley of the shadow of death was made light about him. IIis end was peace-perfect peace-which was the effect of the assurance of hope unto the end. His was not the death of one "who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." But he died in the faith which he had loved, "His eye bright with hope, Flashing its birthright radiance unto heaven, Amid the prayers and the praises of a great multitude of the best citizens of the land, with tears and with love, his body was laid in the grave of the righteous, among the sepulchers of many honored and sainted dead, to await the resurrection of the just." 66 Yes! yes! He was a burning and a shining light, and we rejoiced in his light for a season! "Oh! give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good-to him that made great lights-for his mercy endureth forever." The beneficent grandeur of such a character deserves peculiar attention in this troublous time. Nature had done much for him; but grace did more. It gave this "salt its savor." His world-wide charity, his deep piety, his representative character, his high example, are before the nations of the earth. Wherever the American tract, the American missionary, and the American Bible, "go into all the world preaching the gospel to every creature," they carry with them the influence and the prayers of this prince of God. To our American youth he is the pattern of patriotism, professional purity, and success, and of sanctified ambition, with modesty, humility, and faithful piety. To the legal profession he is "the burning and shining light" of its learning, its integrity, its cloquence, and its legitimate power in the state. To our country, and its rulers, he is the model of its wisest counselors, its best citizens, and its most Christian loyalty. To the Church he is the type of her most eminent servants in her Sabbath-school, her eldership, her ecclesiastical courts, and her benevolent operations. To every one of us he is the pattern of the decided believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, "walking softly before God, and occupying his talents until his Lord came." A THEOLOGICAL PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY. REV. GEORGE P. FISHER, LIVINGSTON PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN YALE COLLEGE. , A DISCOURSE ON THE DEATH OF DR. N. W. TAYLOR. "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever."-DANIEL Xii: 3. WHAT WHAT glorious promises are held out, in the Bible, to those who spend their lives in bringing sinners to God! They are pronounced blessed even in their persecutions. Having a part in the sufferings of Christ, they go to reign with aim on high. They are forever lifted above the troubles of this dying existence, as the firmament is exalted above the earth. In the sphere to which they are removed they are like the stars set in the tranquil sky. No man can pluck them down out of the hand of the Father. They are together there in heaven, shining on one another with a mingled radiance, reflected from "the Lamb who is the light thereof." They do not die and pass away like the inhabitants of the earth, but they resemble the stars which have held their course undimmed from the morning of creation until now. Their life is everlasting-an everlasting progress in knowledge, and purity, and blessedness. Yea, when the stars shall fall, and the heaven depart as a scroll, the Apostles of God will continue near their Redeemer forever and ever! We cherish the hope that the venerated father whose body we have lately committed to the grave, was a truc minister of Christ, and that Christ was with him, according to the promise, unto the end, and that now he is with Christ in the mansions prepared for His followers. We honor the Creator when we recognize any real excellence to be found in his creature. We honor the Saviour when we admire the fruit of his grace, and contemplate the work of those whom he has led by the hand. Only let us keep in mind the words of John the Baptist-himself "a burning and shining light ”—“A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven." 66 Dr. Taylor combined two powers seldom found together the powers of a metaphysician and of an orator. Ilis faculty of long-continued abstraction was wonderful, and the subtlety of his analysis strained the attention of the most acute of his pupils. His powerful mind found recreation in those forms of activity which, to common men, are a most irksome task. In the department of intellectual science, he stands, by general consent, in the first rank. Yet, mixed with the accurate, reflective, keenly discriminating habit of his mind, and glowing beneath it was the fire of an orator. He loved to convince others, and to carry them with him. In the presence of an assembly, even in the presence of a few congenial listeners, his mind would kindle and his manner become eloquent. Among his most stirring, as well as instructive efforts, were the extemporaneous decisions |