church, our prospects are highly flattering. The sum of $16,000 is already subscribed, and is increasing every day, to begin the edifice. The people have generously allowed me $4000 per annum, as a regular salary, and all that is comfortable and convenient I have now the means of obtaining. The field for usefulness in New Orleans is literally boundless. I bless God for having directed my steps here. As to the climate, except during the prevalence of the yellow fever, the amount of public health is not surpassed in any American city whatever.

"Why, if merchants will come here, bring their families, and live for years, for the acquisition of wealth, is it impossible for the herald of Jesus Christ to encounter the same hazards, where his object is one of so much superior importance? Let it never be said, -let a minister blush who would see himself outdone in activity and enterprise, by the men of the world. After all, J-, it is of little consequence where we live, so we but cherish a hope in Christ, and be sure of an everlasting home in His Kingdom. Never did I feel this so deeply as since our dear father has left us, as if to warn his children of their departure. I often bear you both, and all my other friends, to the throne of mercy, and pray that you may be prepared for your last great change. How trifling and transitory is this world,-like man, 'it cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down,-it vanisheth also as a shadow, and where is it?" Should God be pleased to further my plans, I shall see you in July."

In a long letter, dated the 25th of April, addressed to Dr. Cornelius at Knoxville, (Tennessee,) he details in a light and easy style, several incidents and events which had occurred among his acquaintances and friends:

"You need not again be told how lonely and hermit-like I have felt since the 2nd of the month. Depend upon it, the assurances which you so liberally avow of affection and interest, are reciprocated to the fingers' ends. But I am only wasting the paper in telling you what you already know. Col. T. came in yesterday's boat, from N. He is apparently a pious and intelligent man, and, by-the by, like a good many others, much attached to a certain man, to whom I used to give the name of the 'Centurion."

In reference to the amount raised by Dr. Cornelius, at Natchez, for the cause of Missions, he observes :

"One thousand six hundred and twenty dollars! You astonish me. I most sincerely rejoice in your success, and can only say, you bid fair to get the name of the irresistible. The Church project goes on well; a contract is pending with the incipient architects, and the foundation is to be commenced next week! By my request, the trustees have furnished me with a power of attorney, for purchasing on their security, to the amount of $20,000, and I am to proceed in one fortnight to New-York, to send out half a million of brick and other articles immediately, so that the edifice may be sufficiently advanced in January next, to warrant a sale of the pews. You will see the policy of this proceeding- to strike while the iron is hot' is a good rule, especially in this case; for you know if the pews are not sold the next winter, they will not sell favorably till the following winter, as people have generally very little of the buying humor, in any thing, during the warm season."

Alluding to intelligence he had received, that a call might be addressed to him by the Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, he remarks :

"Whatever may be the result, you may rest assured, that were I offered the Bishopric of Creation, I would not at this time leave New.Orleans."

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Speaking of an esteemed female friend, much afflicted and in feeble health, he observes :

"I pray God she may recover. Her mind is tender and solemn on the subject of religion. She often speaks of you, and like everybody else who ever knew you, remembers and loves, and respects you. Were I a little more jealous than I am, I might find in myself to use the idea of Shakspeare, that green and grovelling worm that feeds upon itself. But I confess, if I am doomed to no other suffering than that of hearing your praises, I shall be a very happy

man.

Now what else have I to say? You see that I have had the vanity to take a second start, as if I had something of interest to communicate. Since you left, if you will al. low me to speak bluntly, I have preached some good sermons, and some, that, as the old woman said, were extrornary ornary.* The church in the afternoon is very much crowded-so much, that last Sabbath the doors and windows were filled inside and outside. O my dear Cornelius, I know what a solemn responsibility is upon me, and I pray God to enable me to discharge it. Pray for me-1 pray for you, and surely we may hold communion with God, if not with each other. May the Lord Jesus give you the very richest of his blessings, both here and for ever. Let ime hear from you often direct to New-York."

On the 19th of June, 1818, he was once more, and on his last visit, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, amid the congratulations and endearments of home. Mr. Cor

* Mr. Larned very seldom alludes to himself or his performances. His great popularity appears little to have affected him; and nothing like memoranda or a diary, of his public duties, or more private thoughts, is to be found among his papers. Modest and unostentatious, while he delighted to do justice to the merits of others, he was ever disposed to conceal his own.

nelius was still in Tennessee. Mr. Larned wrote to him at Knoxville, expressing joy that he had advanced so far on his journey, and at the prospect of soon meeting him in New-England :

"I anticipate!" he exclaims, "What a selfish remarkthousands anticipate. It really does my soul good to be asked wherever I go, about Mr. Cornelius. Mr. D-told me in New-York that he had a call for you from Middletown, Connecticut. I sometimes almost regret that I am not a layman, so as to sit under your preaching."

To the same, on the 16th of August, from the same place, he wrote:

" I unfortunately missed seeing you on the morning which saw me leaving New-York. Among many other regrets which this disappointment occasioned me, it was by no means the least that we should not have entered into a mutual arrangement for our future correspondence."

He then mentions his visit to New-Haven and Litchfield, and relates an anecdote of his interview with a venerable and somewhat eccentric man, Mr. C., in the latter town, who was ignorant of his characrer, and with whom he dined.

"Among other topics," he observes, " of discussion, Mr. Cornelius came on the carpet, and the following conversation ensued:

"C.-You say you are from New.Orleans. Did you ever know a Mr. Cornelius, a missionary there? And what do you think of him?

"L.-I have known him. I think he is a fine man, but he preaches pretty hard doctrine.

"C.-Just right, I presume. I know him; he is the

flower of this part of the country. He is a revival minis

ter.

"L.-But, sir, do you believe in revivals?

"C.-Yes, as much as I do in a God. Don't you?

"L.-Why, I never was in one, but am apt to think there is a good deal of enthusiasm attending them generally.

"C.-Well, sir, let me tell you they are a blessed thing. I hope you are not beyond the reach of mercy; and I do hope that when you next hear of a revival, you will go to it, and that the Spirit may awaken you and pardon your sins.

" I thanked him for his good advice and left him."

So diligently and resolutely was Mr. Larned engaged in completing the arrangements and purchases for his church, and so intent on arriving in New-Orleans before the drafts issued by him on his trustees should become due, that he denied himself the pleasure of attending, at Andover, the wedding of his friend Mr. Cornelius, to which he was earnestly invited. To the lady interested, he apologised by a note written in that style of courtesy which ever adorned all his actions in social life, and which, having explained the reasons for his early departure, concluded with an expression of " ardent solicitude for her present and eternal happiness."

He arrived in New-Orleans on the 21st of December, and the next day commenced a letter to Mr. Cornelius in the following words:

"My dear, my ever dear brother,

"Whose name can so forcibly or so properly be recalled to my mind as your own, standing as I once more do on