ed he gradually influenced the hearts and feelings of his audience.

In the performance of the devotional exercises of worship, Dr. Maxcy greatly excelled. Prayer appeared to be his habitual element. His prayers were always appropriate, and never failed to enkindle and elevate the devotions of the pious. His heart appeared to be melted and "his lips to be touched as with a live coal from off the altar," when he was engaged in this sacred and delightful duty.

As an author, we think the intelligent reader, who peruses this volume, will accord to Dr. Maxcy a very high rank. His writings are not numerous, but they are models of simplicity and beauty, of sublimity and eloquence.

His Sermons are imbued with simple, evangelical truth, rich in excellent practical remarks, and present to the humble and the pious new motives to religion. His Funeral Sermons are pathetic and sublime, and excel in instructive trains of thought, and in their application to truths which relate to our highest interest.

His Addresses to Graduates contain literary, moral and religious instruction of the highest importance to educated young men. They are replete with mature and sound wisdom for their guidance, expressed in language spirited, chaste and classical.

His Orations contain many splendid passages, and may be regarded as among the most finished and eloquent of his productions. They show him to have been a warm friend to every institution which had for its object the promotion of knowledge, patriotism, virtue and piety. A spirit of benevolence and love to the human race are manifested in his Orations, teaching men to regard each other as fellow-citizens and brethren. In the

language of Cicero, he felt, that, "Caritate et benevo lentia sublata, omnis est e vita sublata jucunditas."

Dr. Maxcy united in an eminent degree the qualities which command genuine esteem. As a man, he was amiable and beloved; as a companion, he was interesting and attractive; as a friend, he was sincere, constant and affectionate. In all his intercourse with society, he exhibited an example of Christian meekness, liberality and conciliation. He was frank, noble and generous, and had nothing of that disguise and duplicity which characterise the mean and the selfish.

Of his character as a Christian, his life forms the best eulogy. His piety shone with a mild and steady lustre, and exemplified the practical efficacy of religion upon the human soul. His religious opinions are developed in the following work. In his doctrinal views of the Christian system he was decided, but at the same time catholic in his sentiments, and extended his Christian affection to all who bore the image of the Saviour, and gave evidence by their lives and conduct that they were his disciples. He exemplified the aphorism, “In necessariis unitas-in dubiis libertas-in omnibus caritas."

In the social and domestic circle, the finer qualities of his mind were seen to the greatest advantage. His rich and varied learning and brilliant powers of conversation combined with his polished and dignified manners, made him the delight and ornament of the cultivated and intellectual circles in which he moved. Though so much caressed in society, yet he appeared always the most happy in the bosom of his family. In the relation of son, husband, parent and master, he exhibited a commendable example of fidelity, affection and kindness. It was for home that his fond heart re

served its best affections and its sweetest smiles. It was in his own family, that his benignity and kindness burst forth in unrestrained exercise, and diffused over his dwelling the radiance of his own pure, genial and benign spirit, and rendered it the abode of the most endearing attention and love.

In the character of Dr. Maxcy, the elements of mental and moral greatness were most happily combined.

"His life was gentle, and the elements

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This is a man."

It is only at distant intervals, that God, in the dis pensations of his providence, bestows such a man upon the church and the world-"a man (to apply to him what has been so eloquently said of Milton) who, if he had been delegated as the representative of his species to one of the superior worlds, would have suggested a grand idea of the human race, as of beings affluent in moral and intellectual treasure, raised and distinguished in the universe as the favorites and heirs of heaven."

"His tibi pro meritis grata præconia voce
Posteritas omnis, virque puerque, canent.
Nulla tuas unquam virtutes nesciet ætas

Non jus in laudes mors habet atra tuas.”

Upon President Maxcy's monument is the following inscription:

JONATHANIS MAXCY S T.P.

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NOTES TO THE MEMOIR.

NOTE A. p. 10.

Of the the other sons of Levi and Ruth Maxcy, Milton graduated at Brown University, in the year 1802, and afterwards became an eminent lawyer in Beaufort, South Carolina, where he died of the yellow fever in 1818. Levi, another son, who was distinguished for his talents, died also at the South.

Virgil graduated at Brown University in 1804, and was a classmate of the Hon. Marcus Morton, LL. D., late Governor of Massachusetts. His recent and sudden death, from the accidental explosion of a gun on board the United States Steam-Ship Princeton, Febuary 28, 1844, has not only filled the hearts of an afflicted family with the deepest sorrow, but a large circle of friends by whom he is sincerely and feelingly lamented.

statesman.

"Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit."

The Hon. Virgil Maxcy possessed talents and accomplishments of a high order. He was a ripe scholar, a finished gentleman and a pure His manners were bland, courteous and dignified. In social and domestic life, he was the object of love in his own family, and esteemed and honored by all who knew him. As a husband, father, friend, master and citizen his conduct was exemplary, and his virtues shone resplendent. In his public life, he exhibited a rare union of political firmness, united with candor and moderation. After studying law with that eminent jurist Robert Goodloe Harper, of Maryland, he settled in that State, and soon rose to professional