to constitute the rector, the Rev. Lawson Carter, a life member, $ 30; interest received, $110 25. Total, $510 25. One thousand eight hundred dollars of the above amount is securely invested by bond and mortgage, at seven per cent.; the balance, one hundred and seventy-three dollars twenty-nine cents, in the treasury. On the subject, generally, of the funds of the society, the board would express their warmest thanks to the treasurer, Mr. Benjamin M. Brown, for the very faithful and judicious manner in which he fulfils his trust, and particularly for the active personal services, by which there is annually experienced an important saving of expenses ordinarily attendant on collecting pay ments, and other functions of that office. The number of missionaries now employed in this diocese is 36, being an increase of four within the last year. This society's appropriation to the missionary fund of the diocese has been $2,500, being $1,000 more than in any preceding year; and there is now in the treasury a balance of $568 19. The co-operation of this society in the truly laudable and promising project, lately formed, for establishing the Protestant Episcopal Press having been solicited, the following report of a committee on the subject was adopted by the board, and the following resolution passed:→→→ The committee to whom was referred the communication from the board of managers of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, beg leave to report-That they have examined attentively the subject submitted to their consideration, and for that purpose have held a conference with the standing committee of the Episcopal Press, from whom they have received a full development of the plan of that institution, and are unanimous in the opinion that the establishment of a press, the object of which is, "the execution of printing and publishing of every description, for the several Protestant Episcopal societies in this state, at lower rates than have hitherto been practicable," is an event in the highest degree desirable. Your committee conceive that the period has arrived, when the interests of the numerous societies in this state imperiously demands the establishment of a press and sale depository, which shall be exclusively Episcopal; and they can see no reason why a concentration of effort amongst Episcopalians should not lead to as beneficial results as have crowned the endeavours of various societies of other religious persuasions. Under a full conviction of the usefulness of such an institution, your committee warmly recommend the adoption of such measures by this society as shall tend to the promotion of the views of the board of managers of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press. Your committee beg leave to offer the following resolution as the sense of this board : Resolved, That the board of managers of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society cordially ap prove of the establishment of a NewYork Protestant Episcopal Press, and that this society will cheerfully lend its influence to further the interests of said institution; and will, in the result of its being carried into successful operation, bestow upon it its patronage and support. All which is respectfully submitted. ANTHONY J. BLEECKER, Chairman Again has "A Friend to Episcopacy" shown the sincerity of his friendship, by two liberal contributions to our funds. The first enclosed in the following note— “Mr. BENJAMIN M. BROWN, from any change in my views of the importance, or diminished attachment to the objects of your institution; being fully persuaded that the best interests of religion in our country, and especially at the present juncture, are closely, if not essentially, connected with the extension and preservation in its integrity, of the Protestant Episcopal Church. "A FRIEND TO EPISCOPACY. "New-York, 12th March, 1828.” Extract from the Seventh Annual Re port of Christ Church (New-York) Female Missionary Society. AT a period when missionary zeal and ardour are extending their influence to all nations, embracing even Greece and Africa, the board regret to state, that this society, which has so long been the object of their care and solicitude, is declining. It is with pain they acknowledge, that this institution does not increase, and wax stronger and stronger, when so much missionary zeal is excited. Hitherto its subscriptions have enabled it to pay $ 50 annually to the parent institution; the amount of subscriptions rendered in this year has not exceeded $26. Do the friends of the society ask, Why is it so? For answer, the board refer you to the pages of the books; the number of subseriptions you will there see withdrawn will account for the present deficiency. In return, the board would ask, Ought it so to be? The subscription was made small, that all the congregation might unite in aiding the society to the furtherance of the services and ordinances of our church; that there are thousands of our own household of faith who are craving that Gospel manna which has so boun tifully descended on us, you cannot but admit; and if permitted to express an opinion, we would say, that fifty cents a year cannot materially affect the comforts or circumstances of any in the congregation. It is not our intention to enter here into the general question of the relative claims of foreign and domestic missions. One thing, however, we think that a discriminating judgment, and well ordered piety, will fully justify us in saying, that any member of our church who does not all that in reason he ought to do for the institutions of his ewn church, and for relieving the awfully extensive spiritual wants immediately around him, may well be censured for inconsistency at least, if he has much of liberality, or much of exertion, influence, and solicitude, for distant operations. To any member, for instance, of our own diocese, who has done, and is doing, all that in reason he should, first for his own parish, then for the Missionary, Bible and Prayer Book, Theological Education, and Sunday School cause, in his own diocese, and then for the operations of our general church, in the diffusion of pure and primitive religion throughout our land, we would say, that it is well done to add such efforts as he may think his duty, for propagating that religion throughout the world. can we say the same of him who is de ficient in what ought reasonably to be expected of him in favour of his own household of faith, while full of zeal and effort for doing good unto all men? We humbly think not; and most sincerely pray that the number of those may be largely increased, who, faith-ed to with profound attention by a fully fulfilling the apostolic injunction to do good especially unto those who are of the household of faith, may thus, in the true spirit of that injunction, extend his regards as widely as the human race is spread. But Consecration and Confirmation. ON Sunday, the 25th, the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart consecrated Christ church, in the village of Oswego. The clergy present and assisting in the services were the Rev. Amos Pardee, the Rev. William L. Keese, the Rev. John M'Carty, minister of the parish, and the Rev. Dr. Rudd. The sermon of the bishop on this occasion was listen very large and intelligent audience, who seemed to be deeply impressed by its lucid and commanding eloquence. Christ church is a noble and beautiful Gothic stone edifice, 74 feet by 56, besides the projection for the tower. It The corner-stone was laid in May last, and its completion at so early a day in a style of great neatness and taste, reflects much credit upon those who have been engaged in its erection, and especially upon the zealous and persevering minister of the parish. may be well to observe, that when he commenced his services there, less than three years ago, he had in his congregation only eight individuals who took much interest in the affairs of the church, or who paid attention to her worship. With this number he continued for many months, labouring with the most unwearied assiduity, relying with faith and patience upon the blessing of him who said, "Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This trust and fidelity has been rewarded in a very gratifying manner, and he now sees the prospect before him of a large and very respectable congregation in one of the most thriving and interesting villages in the state. Long may he enjoy this field of evangelical labours, and may it yield a rich increase of holiuess in life and conversation. After the service of consecration, and the sermon adapted to that rite, the bishop proceeded to administer confirmation, when 37 persons received that apostolic ordinance. Before the imposition of hands, he delivered an able and perspicuous address, in which was given an explanation of some expressions in the service for confirmation, as well as a clear illustration of the distinction made by the Church and by Scripture, between regeneration and renonation, vindicating our communion from the charge of indifference to a change of heart by divine grace. We consider this address as one of the most happy and useful efforts of our diocesan. We wish it could be circulated as a tract. would, we should think, put an end to the mistaken notions and unwarrantable remarks which are perpetually made on this subject. It The address which the bishop delivered after the imposition of hands, was in his usually impressive manner, calculated to warm the heart, androuse the conscience to a vigilant care for the maintenance of that purity of life, and that subduedness of temper, in which the Christian is to show the influence of divine grace in the control of all the affections.-Aub. Gos. Mess. Jan. 31. Obituary Notices. The Rev. CAVE JONES. Thursday, January 29th, in the 60th year Died at Brooklyn, Long Island, on of his age, the Rev. Cave Jones, one of the oldest presbyters of this diocese, a chaplain in the United States Navy, and principal of the Naval Seminary at Brooklyn. plary patience and resignation, and gave, He supported a long illness with exemas its fatal termination approached, the most satisfactory evidences of the triumph of Christian faith and hope; emphatically disavowing any other foundation for these than Jesus Christ, and him crucified; and experiencing the blessedness of the victory over the terrors of death which,'through Christ, God giveth to all his faithful people. He received the holy communion about two hours before his death; and his soul fled while he was engaged in the expression of his humble hope of fu ture blessedness, In his capacity as a navy chaplain, Mr. Jones not only faithfully and usefully discharged the duties arising out of his station at the Navy-Yard; but had much at heart, and laboured much to promote, the influence of religion throughout the navy generally. He always endeavoured to procure pious and qualified clergymen as chaplains for such vessels as are entitled to them; and with respect to those which are not, to get some other office for pious duties of which they might add such spiriyoung men, candidates for orders, to the tual services as might be consistent with their lay-character. He was also very extensively useful in distributing Bibles, Prayer Books, and Tracts, among seamen, marines, and others. To the usefulness of ample testimony, the result of peculiar our liturgy, thus distributed, he bore opportunities of judging, in several highly interesting communications to the Auxili ary New-York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, by which he was supplied with Prayer Books, and whose board of managers often expressed the grateful sense of his fidelity and success as an instrument of their usefulness. The Rev. ALBERT HOYT. Died on Friday, the 23d of January, 1829, the Rev. Albert Hoyt, rector of St. Andrew's church, (formerly Coldenham, now) Walden, Orange county. The death of this amiable and excellent young man was sudden and unexpected. He was ill only forty eight hours; and from a state of perfect health, was, in that short space of time, numbered with the dead. He bore his painful illness with singular fortitude and patience; and, in the entire possession of his mental faculties, he contemplated his approaching end with humble faith and holy hope; and, in the language of a friend and parishioner, "died as he had lived-a Christian." This mysterious dispensation of Providence is a serious loss to his parish, which, just emerged from a long season of depression, had begun to increase and flourish. Since his ordination as priest, in October last, he had, by his faithful and acceptable labours, greatly endeared himself to his bereaved flock; and as an evidence of the estimation in which he was held, his engagement (before temporary) had just been made permanent, and a contract had been entered into for building a parsonage house, on a beautiful spot of ground contiguous to the newly erected church, in the thriving village of Walden. But the successful labours of the shepherd have, in the inscrutable wisdom of the Almighty, been terminated-and the flattering anticipations of the flock changed into lamentation and mourning. "We have cause," says a member of the vestry, in a letter recently received, "to be humbled under the mighty hand of God. though the shepherd has been smitten, we hope that the flock will not be suffered to be scattered abroad. It shall be our prayer to our heavenly Father, to lift upon us again the light of his countenance, and to send us another pastor after his own choice." In this sentiment we heartily unite-and knowing the peculiar situation of the church at Walden, and the great field which is there open for usefulness, through an active, zealous, prudent, and devoted clergyman, we pray and trust that such an one may speedily be directed thither by the great Head of the Church. But, Mr. Hoyt was ordained deacon by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart, in St. John's chapel, in this city, on Whitsunday, June 3, 1827; and priest by the same bishop, in Trinity church, in this city, on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, October 19, 1828. We are indebted to a valued correspondent for the following notice of a distinguished lay member of our church; whom we well knew, whom we ever regarded as one of the best friends of religion and the church, and who justly possessed, in an eminent degree, the respect and affection of all who knew him. Col. PETER KEAN. Died on the 2d day of October last, at Lebanon Springs, New-York, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health, Col. Peter Kean, of Elizabeth-Town, NewJersey. In the death of this gentleman, his family, society at large, and the Episcopal Church, have sustained a great loss. Long must the afflicted widow and children mourn that the faithful and affectionate husband, and the kind and careful parent, is no more. The circle of society in which he moved, and of which he was a most valuable member, have also great cause to lament the chasm which his removal has occasioned. Possessing a mind well cultivated, imbued with correct principles, and a heart governed by Christian feelings, he would have been a valuable acquisition to any portion of the community. Enjoying the means, he also possessed the disposition to aid in all plans for the promotion of the public good. He was ever ready to further any object that would tend to the benefit of his own immediate neighbourhood, or of the state to which he belonged. But it was in the character of a Christian, and of a member of the Episcopal Church, that his virtues were most conspicuous. As a Christian, he was correct in faith, and consistent in conduct; in what are termed the leading truths of Christianity-the divinity of the Saviour, the atonement, the depravity of human nature, the influences of the Spirit, &c.—he was a firm believer; and in his deportment, he fully manifested that the precepts of Christianity ruled his actions. Justice, truth, benevolence, strict attention to public worship, and the interests of the church to which he particularly belonged, were visible to all who knew him. To the Episcopal Church, his attachment was founded on principle. He had studied her doctrines, had investigated her ministry and worship, and he conscientiously believed that she was a pure branch of the primitive church. In consequence of this enlightened conviction, he was her warm friend-ever ready with his purse and his influence, to step forward to her aid. Numerous were his be nefactions to her various institutions. Indeed, it may be said that he never turned a deaf ear to her calls. The Episcopal Fund, the Bishop Croes' Scholarship, (to which he gave $500,) and every new church in the diocese, have borne witness to his affection. He was an advocate for orthodox (or, what some persons call, high church) principles, believing that the maintenance of those principles was essential to the preservation and well being of the church; and he frowned on all attempts to promote the levelling system, which he was convinced would terminate in the subversion of the church. Col. Kean was a punctual attendant on the annual conventions of the church in New-Jersey, and was generally, of late years, deputed to represent her in General Convention. In both these capacities, he exhibited an unshaken attachment to her interests, and an unabated desire to promote her prosperity. In the death of such a man, has not the church cause to mourn? The writer of this communication knew him well-had long been associated with him in the counsels of the church, and he speaks the language of many churchmen when he says, the tidings of his death struck him with sorrow and dismay. His loss will long, it is feared, be felt. In the prime of life, we had hoped he would for many succeeding years have been a bless ing to his friends and the church. But God, in infinite wisdom, has seen fit to order it otherwise. And while we would submit, without murmuring, to this dis pensation of Providence, we cannot cease to pray that our heavenly Father would mitigate this bereavement, by inspiring those friends of the church who still sur vive with renewed zeal in her service. We, with melancholy pleasure, comply with a request to insert the following. Mrs. AUGUSTA TEMPLE ROGERS. The friends of the late Mrs. Rogers, whose death has elicited from a respected correspondent, the following obituary notice, have been put to a trial of feeling, severe enough to rend, if not to break, the heart! but mourner-remember that the voice which summoned hence that lovely woman-which bade her go down surrounded by the light of her own creat ing, prematurely to the tomb-hath said unto you, "be still, and know that I am God!" "Died in this city, on the 7th inst. Mrs. Augusta Temple Rogers, aged 34, wife of Dr. John Smyth Rogers, professor of Chemistry in Washington college, and daughter of the Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, lieutenant governor of Massachuetts. When those who are replete in years pass from the stage of existence, having honourably fulfilled the purposes of their being, we regard their departure with feelings subdued to acquiescence by long expectation. We become familiarized, by degrees, with the idea of their dissolu tion, which we know could not be much further protracted; and the gradual extinction of a long life excites in us no surprise, for we see in it the fulfilling of the appointed course ofeature. But, when the virtuous young, and those in the prime of life and manly beauty, are suddenly sum moned from this scene of earthly exist ence, the mind receives a shock it does not soon surmount; and their removal, at a period when it would seem to us they had not performed half their duty, nor given to the world the full example of their virtu, appears to our limited vision an anomaly in the plan of Providence. Yet, although in such case some of the purposes of this life may be frustrated, a lesson is taught to the living not soon to be forgotten, and the virtuous dead speak from the grave with an emphasis which sinks deep into the soul. In the recent death of Mrs. Rogers, which has drawn forth these remarks, we have a striking example of the instability of worldly prospects. In the prime of her life, with all the advantages of the most respectable social connexions, endued with an intellect in whch the judicious and discriminating were prominent traits, with manners marked at once with uncommon dignity and sweetness, and with a character in which the virtues of domestic life seemed to bloom and ripen into the piety of the Christian, like time expanding into eternity; she possessed, in an uncommon degree, the power of conciliating the undivided love of those who knew her.Undisturbed by the vanity and ambition of worldly distinction, it was in the calm and quiet of domestic life-the peculiar resting place of the virtues of womanthat she exhibited the chief attraction of her character: and the ornament of her sex became the delight of her family and her friends. Crowning a life of virtue with graces, the stroke which taught us she was the imperishable lustre of the Christian immortality. Beloved in life, in early death mortal, taught us also she was the heir of lamented, her virtues will be hallowed in the remembrance of those who knew her. Who that knew her saw not she was form. ed to adorn, and improve this life?—Who that knew her felt not she was ripe, and ready for a bette" 2" We have taken the liberty to annex the lines-presuming they are not so familiar following appropriate, and very beautiful re-publishing them. to our readers as to require an apology for |