the test of the continuance of others in their communion; and so virtually exscinded all others who could not approve of them, thus exploding the true old basis of the CONSTITUTION, and breaking covenant with those leagued previously with them, on that legitimate and only foundation.

All this grieved the heart, rived and wounded the soul of our excellent brother. His grief was ingenuous, pungent, and unfeigned. It held his eyes waking at midnight; staring at the darkness, which seemed noon compared with the ravage and the sacrilege which made his spirit bleed. Oh, said he, in a letter to a friend, shortly after these sad events, Oh! where is that noble, large, mighty, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, which I joined with such delight; which I called mother, and loved above my chief joy? Where is that Catholic, truly Protestant, soundly learned, and profoundly intelligent, as well as united and extended, PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, in which I have so gloried, and for which I have so prayed, and toiled, and hoped, and wept? Alas! it exists no more. Its many enemies rejoice. Its identity has departed. Its glory is gone. What thing shall I take to witness for thee? What thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal it? Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee; and they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity, but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. These, for substance, were his words.

In such JEREMIADS was he wont to grieve over the desolations of our Jerusalem. And let it be written to his honor, and for his posterity, as well as his people, to read, that he had nothing to do with that great wickedness, but to weep over it, to reprobate it, and to pray that God would give repentance to the acknowledging of the truth, to all those who, directly or indirectly, positively or negatively, assisted in its fearful consummation. Lamentations 2: 15, 16, there is a passage which might well be added to the foregoing, for its appropriateness and its applicability, as well as its immediate connection.

11. Dr. Baldwin was greatly and extensively useful, in seasm

and out of season, and in ways ordinary and extraordinary, in all the relations of his life. To the poor he was a wise and generous friend. With the mourning and the bereaved, he sympathized most soothingly and most sincerely. Wherever his influence could move he sent it to do good. The public charities of the day occupied a large share of his affections and his toil. The cause of missions, foreign and domestic; the interests of sound learning, the cause of education, and whatever could promote the intelligence of the community, obtained his approbation and his aid. As a consequence, he was endeared and attached to many out of his own congregation, who knew his worth, loved his public spirit, and rejoiced in his usefulness.

12. We conclude with the remark that Dr. Baldwin is a fine illustration of the power of sound common sense, prac tical discretion, and genuine piety, to elevate a man to usefulness and renown among his contemporaries. He had no romance in his character. He aimed at nothing utopian or impracticable. He no more indulged and followed daydreams than those of night, or the fables of the nursery. He was economical, practical, sincere, consistent, persevering, amiable, symmetrical, industrious, and truly devoted and pious. There was no stain on his escutcheon, no discernible fault in his character, no wart nor ulcer on the features of his moral countenance. And now that he is dead and gone, what shall we say of him, comparatively with others, and many that were more distinguished? Reader, what of him do you anticipate at the resurrection of the just and the unjust? Think of Byron and Bonaparte, and any titled dignitary of the church that now radiates on some throne of misbegotten power, and say, who of them shall then take rank of him? whose reward would you prefer to take as your own, his or theirs? He improved the talents given him; he served his blessed Master sincerely and well; he was superior to all the meretricious trappings of the scarlet Lady of Babylon, and greater in his apostolic simplicity, as a genuine primitive Bishop of Jesus Christ-such a Bishop as Christ himself makes and consecrates-than all the worldly honors could have made him, from those who belong to Rome, or

those who are falsely numbered with Protestants away from it.

To his people, we say, cherish his memory, treasure up his advice, teach your children to revere him, to read his memoir, and to ponder his example. Remember them that have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God; whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever.

This rich passage some interpret, and our common Bibles punctuate, as if Jesus Christ was here put in apposition with the end (Exßaois) of their conversation. And though this would in the general make good sense, and correct doctrine too, yet is it not the native sense of the passage. The end of their conversation, means their happy exit from the world, the termination of their career in the excellent glory, the end of their course with its interminable honors and its infinite rewards. The argument is thus most excellent; as if the apostle had said, Value aright your spiritual teachers. Love them for their faithfulness, that they do not flatter you, or spare you, or deceive you; and this, considering THE END of their conversation, and of yours with them, in glory, if ye truly obey them in the Lord.

If men who have itching ears, and who prefer their teachers with that short-sightedness that never considers THE END of their conversation, would only obey this order of God, they would have nothing to do with corrupters of any kind,-Socinians, Universalists, Antinomians, empirics in theology, Puseyites or others; but would prefer alone an authentic, able and faithful preacher of the truth. And having found one, they would not leave him soon, nor cease to remember him when removed from them.

With the church and congregation of his former charge, with his excellent lady, who now sits a widow with orphans dependent, with his brethren in the ministry who knew and loved him, with the college at Crawfordsville from whom he was so abruptly snatched away by death, and with all his friends in New-England, in New-York, and in the great West, it is our pleasure to mingle our sorrows and our sympathies; praying to the Father of mercies, the Father of

spirits, the Father of lights, the God of all grace and con-solation, to fill the chasm with his own self, and heal in his own way the wound it pleased his inscrutable sovereignty so unexpectedly to inflict! He is my God himself—so means the name ELIHU. And our brother in glory now, we doubt not, realizes that superlative bliss, of which his name may be assumed as the just index and the true epitome. He no more weeps, or suffers, or fears, or feels a pang! He regrets not his labors for Christ, but rather that he did not serve him more entirely and more faithfully. How bright, how wonderful, how ineffable, how inconceivable his blessedness, at this moment, and forever!

This introduction has been despatched in great weakness, and amid many interruptions and cares. The writer however has just aimed to speak faithfully and honestly throughout; and now he prays that the whole volume, with this imperfect prefatory part of it, may promote the cause of truth and righteousness, and so be useful wherever it goes, in our country or other places.

He has not had the pleasure of reading as yet the whole of what follows; but is well assured that his excellent friend, to whom that more responsible and important service is so properly confided, has done it justice, in a way that must deserve and reward the candid attention of every reader.

CHAPTER I.

Parentage.-Birth.-Early Childhood.-Youth.-Early Education.-Leaves home for College.

It is written of Jehoiada, the priest, that "they buried him in the city of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both towards God and towards his house." He is the greatest in the sight of God, of whom it can with most truth be said,"Who went about doing good." It was foretold of John, the son of Zacharias,-"Many shall rejoice at his birth; for he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, —and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb; and many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God." Such greatness is worthy of commemoration. "The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance."

It is not every one that can hope to compare with an Isaac Newton, or a Francis Bacon. Few can aspire to a rivalship, in the empire of mind, with an Owen, a Barrow, a Baxter, or Bates; with an Edwards, a Bellamy, or Dwight; yet who may not, if he will, keep pace with a Brainerd or Martyn, a Payson or Page, in their walk of faith? Rarely can one be found, the flashes of whose genius dazzle every eye; yet all may "shine as lights in the world." The mass of Christ's ministers must be content to live and die unknown, save in the contracted circle of their own field of self-denying labor. To such, and to all Christ's followers, the example of one, who, in a