employ the largest donations of charity--in the blessed work of training up youthful soldiers of the cross to contend with infidelity, heresy and vice in our own land-or carry the triumphant banner of the Redeemer into the strong holds of the empire of darkness. Do you desire in the spirit of compassion, to bring back scattered and wandering flocks to the fold of the Good Shepherd-to provide for the wants, and feed with the bread of life the famishing children of our own household? The desire may be gratified by your contributions to the Society which proposes to send intelligent and pious missionaries to strengthen weak and repair decayed parishes, and to pour the light and consolations of redeeming mercy into the many habitations of ignorance and sorrow that are about to be found within the limits of this favoured Diocese. Or does your heart prompt you to take a wider range? Our "Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society" will gladly receive your aid in the benevolent enterprise of civilizing and evangelizing the native tribes of this Western Continent and in the godlike work of fulfilling the solemn injunction of the ascending Redeemer-" Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." While the larger societies can well employ the hundreds and thousands of dollars which the rich may have to bestow, they also in common with the Sunday School and the Tract Associations, will no less thankfully accept the mites of the widows, and the sanctified offerings of the poor. O that the gifts from all classes and orders amongst us might be poured into these different departments of the Lord's treasury in a perpetually deepening and widening stream! Thus may we most emphatically show our love to the Zion of our God, and most efficiently contribute to make her the joy and praise of the whole earth. We behold the members of a corrupt and superstitious Church in foreign countries, displaying a zeal for the propagation of their erroneous faith in this favoured land of our nativity, a zeal which is measured by the donations annually, not of tens and hundreds, but of thousands and tens of thousands, and we might say hundreds of thousands, to the promotion of the object. We behold some Protestant denominations display ing an equal liberality in disseminating Christianity in what we believe to be imperfect and defective forms. And shall it be said, that we are less zealous in propagating our holy religion under that form in which we have received it; presenting, as we believe it does, a beautiful combination of the integrity of Christian institutions, and of the purity of Christian doctrines? I need not press you for an answer to this inquiry-for we are to receive now a practical proof of your attachment to the Church as exhibited in one of her favourite institutions. There is not an individual here who takes pleasure in the stones of Zion and favours the dust thereof, who will require me to say one word to secure his approbation of the objects, or present one motive to induce him to aid the funds of "the Prayer Book and Homily Society of Maryland." It has been frequently recommended by the convention to the patronage of all the congregations in the Diocese. Its simple object is, to distribute extensively those formularies of doctrine and worship, in which the evangelical, and holy character of our Church is most plainly exhibited; and which, next to the translation of the Bible, we have been accustomed to reverence as the most precious gift of the Reformation. Is there one here who has experienced the comforts of communion with God in the use of our incomparable Liturgy, who will not contribute his mite to this Society, and thus extend the same comforts to his poorer brethren. Is there one here who loves the Gospel of Christ, and has felt its transforming. power, who will not aid in scattering abroad throughout all the habitations of ignorance and poverty, those Sermons of our Reformers and Martyrs, which bear the impress, and breathe the very spirit of the Gospel? We trust there is no heart here which is not expanded by the benevolent spirit of the occasion. No hand which is not ready to cast its gift into this treasury of the Lord. Jesus asks your gifts, as a small token of your gratitude for his infinite love. The Church asks your gifts, as a feeble expression of your attachment to her interests. The poor ask your gifts, as a testimony of your compassion for their souls. Who then would-who can resist the appeal? Go, ye officers of the Church, and collect the gifts of piety and benevolence from this assembly! And let every one give with special reference to that day when the harvest reaped will be in proportion to the seed which has been sown-and when the Saviour will say-inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me, enter ye into the joy of your Lord. HYMN. THE CHURCH. From sin's dark thorny maze, Thro' fire, and flood, she goes A weakling, more than strong; When dangers round her press, When guilt, a mighty flood, Her trembling conscience pains; She views the cov❜nant sure O'er Jordan's chilling flood, THE RT. REV. GEORGE W. DOANE, D. d. "The righteous hath hope in his death." THE REV. James Montgomery, D. D. Rector of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, whose lamented death on the morning of the 17th of March, has been recorded in this paper, was born in Philadelphia, on the 25th day of November, 1787. He received his preparatory education at Dr. Hall's private seminary in Maryland, and at the Grammar School in Princeton, New- Jersey. He graduated at Princeton College, in 1805. After which he read law in the office of Judge Hopkinson, in Philadelphia, and was in due time admitted to the bar. After some years practice of the law he became a candidate for holy orders, in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and was ordained deacon, by Bishop White, ig Philadelphia, August 25th, 1816. Having been elected Rector of St. Michael's Church, Trenton, NewJersey, he was there ordained priest, by Bishop Croes, October 7, 1817, and instituted on the following day. In April, 1818, he removed to New-York, having been elected Rector of Grace Church in that city. In 1820, he resigned his rectorship, and returned to his native state, residing near Philadelphia, and officiating in some of the vacant Churches in that vicinity, until the formation of the new parish of St. Stephen's, to the rectorship of which he was elected. The Church was consecrated, February, 27, 1823; the consecration sermon being preached, VOL. IV.-24 by his early and steadfast friend, Bishop Hobart. Dr. Montgomery, at the time of his decease, was a member of the Standing Committee of the diocese of Pennsylvania, which he had several times represented in the General Convention. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, and a Trustee of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Keeping himself back from none of the institutions or interests of the Church which his industry or influence could serve, and constant and conscientious in the discharge of his duty to all, there is not a clergyman of his order whose removal from her councils and concerns could have been more widely felt or more deeply lamented. But if it be said, as surely it must, that to lose such a servant from her altars is a loss indeed, it should also be remembered, and most thankfully acknowledged, that to have such to lose, is indeed a favour from the Lord. The record of his devoted and most useful life, and of his blessed and triumphant death, as it is his legacy to the Church, which he loved as his "chief joy," so it should be cherished by us as the most precious memorial of our brother who has gone before us to his rest, and an inspiring argument to lay hold, with the vigorous grasp of a true and living faith, upon that cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, which in his life and doctrines he so faithfully proclaimed, and which made him, through the languor of sickness, and in the agony of death, "more than conqueror." The subject of our present notice was amiable and exemplary from his earliest years. Having lost his father, when but seven years old, the sense of duty to a tender and devoted mother was continually felt by him, he has often been heard to say, as a monitor against temptation, and a motive to duty; and in dangerous moments was, and was felt to be, under God, his defence and deliverance. Thus does the Father of mankind, in his dispensations towards his children, beautifully blend together the economy of providence, and the economy of grace, and make holier the holy ties of nature, by the blessed unction of the sanctifying Spirit. And thus, not seldom, does he fulfil his |