BX5995,W34N67 1858 
 Norton, JohaiN., 1820-1881 
 Life of Bishop Wainwright. 
 
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 FOE MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS, 
 
 ■WAS AilOXG 
 
 gisboj Maiittorigl]t's toiirnust Irienbs, 
 
 AND, 
 FOR A GREAT PART OF THAT TIME, 
 
 AND 
 
 WHOSE PRIVILEGE IT WAS TO STAXD BY THE HALLOWED 
 BED-SIDE OF 
 
 THIS LITTLE MEMORIAL 
 IS INSCRIBED. 
 
Patriots inforraed -witli Apostolic liglLt 
 
 Were they who, when their country had hcsen freed. 
 
 Bowing with reverence to the ancient creed, 
 
 Fixed on the frame of England's Church their sight. 
 
 And strove in filial love to reunite 
 
 What force had severed. Thence they fetched the 
 
 Beed 
 Of Christian unity, and won a meed 
 Of praise from Heaven. To thee, O saintly White ! 
 Patriarch of a wide-spreading family, 
 Remotest lands and unhorn times shall turn — 
 Whether they would restore or huild — to thee. 
 As one who rightly taught how zeal should hurn — 
 As one who drew from out faith's holiest urn 
 The purest stream of patient energy. 
 
 Wordsworth. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 The writer is disposed to think that the life of Bishop 
 Wainwright will prove one of the most interesting vol- 
 umes of the series, especially to his young readers — for 
 the simple reason that he has been able to collect STich 
 abundant materials concerning the early days of this 
 good man. In the case of some of those Prelates who 
 have long been dead, this has proved a hopeless task. 
 
 It would be esteemed a great favor, if any person hav- 
 ing in their possession interesting facts connected with 
 the life of Bishops Croes, Provoost, Moore, of New-York, 
 Jarvis, and Bowen, would send them to the writer, to be 
 interwoven with what he has already gathered for the 
 biographies of these honored servants of God. 
 
 He also avails himself of this opportunity to say that 
 he has been encouraged by the almost universal appro- 
 bation which this series has met with, to enlarge his 
 plan, which will embrace (should the season of labor 
 last long enough) the more prominent of the English 
 Bishops, from the days of Cranmer and Latimer, down 
 to the present time. 
 
 May Ist^ 1853. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 *' Such good comraunion sermons" — A discourse, better than any 
 in the published vohime The polished pulpit orator— Begin- 
 ning at the beginning — "Who Bishop Wainwright's parents 
 were, and something about his maternal grandfather — The in- 
 verted mitre, which was to be turned right side up again — Mr. 
 "Wainwright removes from Boston to Liverpool — His three 
 children — Jonathan first sent to school — Eemoval to one of a 
 higher grade — The secret of his early attachment for the Church 
 — "What faithful sponsors might do 13 
 
 d)a}) trr Scco ttD. 
 
 Mr. "Wainwright returns to Boston— Condition of the young Ee- 
 public — Jonathan sent to school — A letter to his godmother — 
 The youthful hero pours out the vials of his wrath upon Napo- 
 leon—Old England by no means forgotten — A mine of boyish 
 letters discovered— The first communication after the holydays 
 — Dutiful expressions of affection— The old hat — Disappearance 
 of a five-dollar bill — Contentment — The frank and noble-spirit- 
 ed man in embryo 21 
 
 €:f)apter 2rf)irU. 
 
 The school-boy's little world— Exhibition of oratory— A country 
 justice— Quite a different subject — A great awakening- Sailing 
 in the fog— Unhappy divisions — Doctrine of depravity — Mr. 
 Clapp's two sermons to be printed— Zeal and persecution — 
 Shifting like a weather-cock— The Ninth Article of Eeliglon — 
 Peter's additional information concerning the revival — Mr. 
 Burr'a proposed fast 29 
 
 ©fiaptcr Jfourtf). 
 
 The last remnant of negro slavery in Massachusetts— Old Titus's 
 will— A clock for the meeting-house steeple— The English boy 
 Americanized — Peter's ward robe troubles -A fierce attack upon 
 Mr. Jefferson— Electioneering for Christopher Gore — O tempo- 
 ra, O mores!— Another indication of future character — Studies 
 daring the vacation — Two new preachers— An apt simile 36 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Preparations for college — Expensive letter — Proposal for a re- 
 moval, and reasons for the same — Good resolutions — Encour- 
 aging evidences — An elder brother's advice — Politeness— Cl!.,s- 
 sieal studies — General information — Excuse for lecturing — 
 Hearttelt prayer — A clarionet — Eegard for a father's prefer- 
 ences—General Nox's march 44 
 
 One more juvenile epistle— Prosperity in business - Cousm Henry 
 — "Blood and groats" — Beauty, weighed in the scale with 
 other qualities — Worth of a good wife — Young Wainwright 
 enters Harvard University — Brief sketch of the history of ihis 
 venerable institution — Orthodox inscriptions on the old college 
 seals — Danger of departing from the old paths— The gradual 
 advances of Unitarianism— "What churchmen should do— Col- 
 lege life — The young organist — Takes a degree, and is elected 
 to an honorable post — " I never knew a better reader" 51 
 
 A student of law — This pursuit soon abandoned — Thoughts turn- 
 ed to the ministrj' — Feebleness of the Episcopal Church, in 
 New England— Unitarianism ~ Dr. Gardiner — An outline of his 
 life— Beginning of his ministry— Call to Boston Dr. Jarvis be- 
 comes Eector of St. Paul's— The window blinds — " Truly the 
 light is sweet"— Oddities— Champion of orthodoxy— Christmas 
 sermon in ISIO — Characteristic extract — Dr. Gardiner's death 
 — Mr. Wainwright visits New Jersey — Ordained Deacon — En- 
 trance upon a great work 59 
 
 9 
 
 Eemoval to Hartford— Ordained Priest, and instituted Eector of 
 Christ Church — Marriage — Zealous in good works — Interest in 
 Sunday schools and missions — Eeport of an eye-witness — Al- 
 most a rural parish — Dr. Brownell becomes Bishop of Connec- 
 ticut—Mr. Wainwright «hosen an Assistant Minister of Trinity 
 Church— New labors, in a larger field — Accepts the Eectorsliip 
 of Grace Churcli — Brief notice of its history — Doctor in Divin- 
 ity—Pastoral duties — Lent lectures — Catechising 67 
 
 €:f)aptcr Kintfi. 
 
 Additional particulars about pastoral labor — Interest in Sunday 
 School — Importance of a good Sunday School library — A Par- 
 ish Scliooltliirty-four years ago— The Church waking up — Zeal 
 for missions — Measures wliich were almost suspected of being 
 wrong— Church music -Something about choirs and congre- 
 gational singing — Malibran at Grace Church — Scene at a way- 
 8i<le tavern — '" Brother Henshaw, do pray with us !" — The po- 
 tency of the spirit of prayer '. » -5 
 
CONTENTS. XI 
 
 Chapter Etnt\f. p^bb 
 
 Eemoval to Boston — Trinity Church — Welcomed by old friends 
 — The decaying parish revived — A new organ — Visit to Eng- 
 land—The pastor's memory cherished by his floclc— Letters to 
 his sons— Great London— Sight-seeing — Large dogs, and small 
 donlceys — Beautiful parks — Grand review of troops— The Duke 
 of Wellington's dinner to the King— Sight of the gold ami sil- 
 ver plate -Lords and ladies — Good manners— House of Lords 
 — The king's horses and carriages — Many things untold 84 
 
 €:t)a|itcr Hlrbrntl). 
 
 Letter from 8hefBeld — Visits the manufactories — Penknives — 
 ■ Dublin — Edinburgh — Sight of grf^at men — Churches and castles 
 — Largest organ in the world — Parting advice — Two reasons 
 for publishing these letters — A letter from Boston — All well — 
 Improvemenfof present privileges — Making one's way in the 
 world — Presents from Europe—" The value of money" 92 
 
 €:l)apter ^TtDeUt!). 
 
 A little circumstance — Anxiety of parents— Gentle reproof— Wise 
 maxim — Promptness essential to a mierchaiit's success — The 
 comforts of old age to be provided for in youth — No assurance 
 of long life — Tlie duty of an elder brother towards a younger 
 — Legible handwriting — Lessons of experience — Watchfulness 
 over one's temper — The disagreements of brothers 100 
 
 ®t)a43tcr 2r!)irtecntt). 
 
 The young midshipman — A beautiful letter — Pules for an officer 
 to iive by — The only way in which they can be carried out — 
 Time for reading the Bil)le, and for prayer — Importance of a 
 journal — A place among honored names — Call to return to New 
 York — Final decision — The work of seventeen years— Public 
 trusts — The world of science and art — The secret of being able 
 to accomplish much— Patience at interruption 107 
 
 Cfjaptev J?ourtccTit|). 
 
 The mild and gentle man shows that he has the nerve and firm- 
 ness of a hero - The New England Society and Mr. Ch6ate"s 
 oration — Rapturous applause— The interpretation which Dr. 
 Wainwright put upon it— Dr. Potts" challenge^The controver- 
 sy and its results— More peai^eful themes — Young ladies' class 
 — Sermon full of comfort — Whooping-cough late in life — The 
 physician's veto on labor — Liberality of Trinity to her minis- 
 ters — Another and a longer visit abroad 115 
 
 ejaptcr jTfftefntf). 
 
 N.'itural desire to visit the Holy Land — The feelings with which 
 Dr. Wainwright wenttliither — The ships of the desert — Mount- 
 ing the camel — Difference between a canael and a dromedary — 
 Travelling saddle — Prayer carpet — Many different postures in 
 
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 Page 
 the saddle— Threatening: to bite — The camel's complaints — A 
 necessary caution — Fatigues of travelling— The cunning drag- 
 oman — Arrival at Jerusalem— Good Friday— Bishop Gobat — 
 Departure— Sad and thoughtful moment 123 
 
 (iftlinptcr Sfptccntfj. 
 
 At home again — Another call to go abroad — A jubilee — A dele- 
 gation sent to England — Well deserved degree— A far higher 
 honor, still — Dr. Wainwright elected Bishop — His consecration, 
 and the sanguine hopes inspired — A man of sixty doing more 
 work than the vigor of youth could safely undertake— Symp- 
 toms of serious derangement in the system— Friendly expostu- 
 lations — The labors of two-and-twenty months — Visit to Troy. 132 
 
 €:f)aj)tei' Scienter ntli. 
 
 Last public ministratioijs — Haverstraw — Kind interest in little 
 children — Sunday morning and the several duties of that day — 
 Chilliness— A good night's rest and an early start— The danger 
 by no means past — Last act of business— Eislng from a sick bed, 
 to attend a meeting of the Sunday School Union — Becomes sud- 
 denly and alarmingly ill — The stupor of disease— " My beloved, 
 you are going to be with Jesus" — The full assurance of hope 
 — Falling asleep in Jesus 140 
 
 ©:i)a|)tcr Sffllitrcittt). 
 
 The funeral— Old Trinity draped in black— Multitude of mourn- 
 ers—Order of the service, and those who officiated— Dr. Hig- 
 bee's address — The music— '■ I know that my Kedeemer liveth" 
 — The body borne to its resting-place — The sacred privacy of 
 grief left undisturbed— Tinted sunbeams falling upon the dark- 
 ened altar — Gate of Paradise 143 
 
 Cliaptcr Ninetcenti). 
 
 Outline of character — Love of home — The good son, loving broth- 
 er, tender husband, and affectionate Ihtlier — An accomplished 
 gentleman— Refined and cultivated tastes— Genial, social man 
 — Generosity and magnanimity — Meek and retiring Christian 
 — Pulpit orator — The text suggested by Daniel Webster — Able 
 to turn his hand to any work— His special mission — The man 
 who could not, possibly, be spared 156 
 
 Cljapter STtoc it tieti). 
 
 proposed monument — Dead, yet speaking — A great enterprise 
 undertaken by those most likely to accomplish it — An import- 
 ant circular — An earlier period — The little band of churchmea 
 at the "Bleecker Building"— What they resolved to do, and 
 how they kept their pledge — Free seats for all— Bishop Wain- 
 wright's last Confirmation in the city— Special etforfs for se- 
 curing a church building — The result— A glorious Easter — Free 
 from debt — Consecration of the Memorial Church — Dr. Mor- 
 gan's sermon— Pleasant incident — A list of names which will 
 be of interest hereafter 165 
 
LIFE 
 
 OF 
 
 BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 €\}ii^itt lirst. 
 
 "such good communion sermons" A DISCOURSE, 
 
 BETTER THAN ANY IN THE PUBLISHED VOLUME — THE 
 POLISHED PULPIT ORATOR — BEGINNING AT THE BEGIN- 
 NING — WHO BISHOP WAINWRIGHt's PARENTS WERE, 
 AND SOMETHING ABOUT HIS MATERNAL GRANDFATHER 
 
 THE INVERTED MITRE, "V^HICH WAS TO BE TURNED 
 
 EIGHT SIDE UP AGAIN ME. WAIN WEIGHT REMOTES 
 
 FROM BOSTON TO LIVERPOOL HIS THREE CHILDREN 
 
 JONATHAN FIRST SENT TO SCHOOL REMOVAL TO 
 
 ONE OF A HIGHER GRADE THE SECRET OF HIS EARLY 
 
 ATTACHMENT FOR THE CHURCH WHAT FAITHFUL 
 
 BPONSOES MIGHT DO. 
 
 THE first Communion Sunday after the 
 writer's matriculation as a student of the 
 General Theological Seminary, a friend, who 
 
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14 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 is now li faithful minister of the Gospel,^ said 
 to him, "Let ns go to St. John's Chapel 
 this morning. The Sacrament will be ad- 
 ministered, and Dr. Wainwright always 
 preaches such good Communion sermons." 
 
 We went, accordingly, and the anticipa- 
 tions excited by the promise of my fellow- 
 student were more than fulfilled. 
 
 It was my privilege to hear the Doctor 
 preach many times afterwards, and always 
 with pleasure and profit. I may be a poor 
 judge, but my impression is, that a sermon 
 which he delivered, one Sunday morning, in 
 the Church of the Ascension, ]^ew York, 
 from the words, '^Because thou hast seen me, 
 thou hast believed / blessed are they that have 
 not seen^ and yet have helieved^^ (St. John xx. 
 29), is superior to any in the collection pub- 
 lished since his death. 
 
 I cannot refrain from giving the experi- 
 
 ■^" His faithfulness may be known from the fact that ho 
 has a Sunday School numbering four hundred pupils. 
 
POLISHED PULPIT ORATOR. ll 
 
 ence of another, thus happily expressed 
 " We well remember our sensations when, ii 
 our Seminary days, we first heard Dr. Wain 
 Wright preach. It was in St. Thomas's 
 Church, 'New York. A stranger in a strange 
 city, knowing nothing of its churches or rec- 
 tors, we had no idea who the preacher was, 
 but were perfectly captivated by what we 
 heard. In manner and matter ; in the polish 
 and perfection of its style ; in the soundness of 
 its doctrine, and in the grace of its delivery, 
 it seemed to us a sermon complete in every 
 respect — the first faultless one we had ever 
 heard. When a fellow-student informed us 
 afterwards that we had been listening to the 
 celebrated Dr. Wainwright, we readily sub- 
 scribed to the common judgment concern- 
 ing his pulpit powers.""^ 
 
 It often happens when a biographer at- 
 tempts to sketch the life of one who has flour- 
 
 ir 
 
 <» Editorial in Banner of the Cross, Oct. 30, 1856. 
 
16 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 ished in his own time, and with whose ap- 
 pearance and manners and habits many 
 living witnesses have been famihar, that he 
 is placed in awkw^ard circumstances, being 
 anxions to keep some unpleasant peculiarities 
 in the background, and yet fearing to do so 
 lest the charge of unfairness miglit be pre- 
 ferred. 
 
 In the case of the honored servant of God 
 whose deeds are now to be recorded, there is 
 no such painful embarrassment. He needed 
 only to be seen and known as he really was, 
 to be universally honored and loved. 
 
 Jonathan Mayhew Wainwkight was born 
 in Liverpool, England, on the '24th of Febru- 
 ary, 1792. His father, Peter Wainwright, 
 was an English merchantj who had removed 
 to Boston not long after the War of Inde- 
 pendence, and established himself in busi- 
 ness. Here he married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Dr. Jonathan Mayhew, a distinguished 
 Congregational minister (tinctured, however, 
 
INVERTED MITRE. 17 
 
 with Socinian views), and a fierce opponent 
 of Episcopacy, who had borne a conspicuous 
 part in endeavoring to prevent the consecra- 
 tion of Bishops for the Church in America. 
 Archbishop Seeker was his antagonist in this 
 controversy. 
 
 An anecdote, related by a venerable Pres- 
 byter, still spared to the Church which he 
 has served so long, illustrates well the rela- 
 tion which Dr. Mayhew held towards the 
 Church, and sheds a half-prophetic ray upon 
 his grandson's course. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Eaton, now more than forty 
 years ago, was dining with a friend at Cam- 
 bridge. In the room was a portrait of Dr. 
 Mayhew, with an inverted mitre in one cor- 
 ner. " What a pity," said the guest, " that 
 Dr. Mayhew should have felt such enmity 
 towards the Church, as to have a mitro up- 
 side down inserted in his portrait !" " Oh, 
 well," said the lady of the house, " perhaps 
 his grandson. Jonathan Wainwright, may 
 
 2* 
 
18 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 turn it back again." " And wear it himself," 
 said Dr. Eaton, happily. The grandson had 
 then lately graduated at Harvard University, 
 and had no thought of entering the min- 
 istry."* 
 
 Mr. Wainwright had returned to England, 
 and was in business in Liverpool, when his 
 three children were born. And thus it came 
 to pass that the future Bishop of 'New York, 
 born within the bosom of the mother Church, 
 and transferred, at an early age, to the foster- 
 ing care of the daughter, in America, was, 
 in fact, a connecting link between the two, 
 and cherishing, through all his life, as it was 
 most natural he should, the warmest love for 
 both. 
 
 Bishop Wainwright's father was a devoted 
 Churchman, while his mother held the theo- 
 logical views of her Puritan ancestors. She 
 was a woman of uncommon intellectual abil- 
 
 *" Memoir by Bishop Doane, p. 24. 
 
INTLTJENCE OF TEACHER AND GODMOTHER. 19 
 
 ties and a fine poetic taste, and lier conver 
 sational powers might be truly described as 
 'brilliant. 
 
 Jonathan was the eldest child. The 
 daughter, Eliza, who married Dr. Walter 
 Channing, an eminent physician of Boston, 
 is deceased. Peter, the younger son, is liv- 
 ing still, respected and beloved. 
 
 Jonathan was first sent to a primary school 
 in Liverpool, tanght by the daughters of Mr. 
 Lewin, a dissenting preacher of that city. 
 When sufficiently grounded in the rudiments 
 of learning, he was placed at the school of 
 the Kev. Mr. Hughes, a clergyman of the 
 English Church at Kuthven, in ^N^orth Wales. 
 
 The instruction and example of this good 
 man first led him to love the Church. No 
 doubt this feeling of attachment was strength- 
 ened by the influence of his godmother, 
 Mrs. Hartwell, with whom his holydays were 
 often spent at Holyhead. 
 
 How many thousand children might be 
 
20 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGIIT. 
 
 trained up in religion's pleasant and peaceful 
 ways, ay, what multitudes of promising 
 youtlis might have their thoughts directed to 
 the ministry of the Church, if those who 
 stand as sponsors for them in holy Baptism 
 would faithfully discharge their trust ! 
 
ME. WAINTTEIGHT EETTJRXS TO BOSTON — COXDITIOX OF 
 
 THE TOUXG EEPUBLIC — JOXATHAX SEXT TO SCHOOL 
 
 A LETTER TO HIS GODMOTHER — THE YOUTHFUL HERO 
 POURS OUT THE VIALS OF HIS WRATH UPOX NAPOLEON 
 
 OLD ENGLAND BY NO MEANS FORGOTTEN A MINE 
 
 OF BOYISH LETTERS DISCOVERED THE FIRST COMMU- 
 NICATION AFTER THE HOLYDAYS DUTIFUL EXPRES- 
 SIONS OF AFFECTION THE OLD HAT — DISAPPEAEANOE 
 
 OF A FIVE-DOLLAR BILL CONTENTMENT THE FRANK 
 
 AND NOBLE-SPIRITED MAN IN EMBRYO. 
 
 I 
 
 j^ 1803 Mr. TTainwriglit returned to Amer- 
 ica, and brought his family with him. 
 Jonathan was then eleven years old. The 
 little English boy now began his career 
 among the stirring activities of the ISTew 
 World. 
 
 The American Republic had only attained 
 its twenty-seventh year, dating back from 
 
22 ^ LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 the period of the Dechxration of Independ 
 eiice. Thomas Jefferson was then President 
 of the United States. 
 
 When Mr. Wainwright landed at Boston, 
 JRobert Fulton had just completed his suc- 
 cessful experiments, and the first steamboat 
 had begun to ply between I^ew York and 
 Albany. 
 
 Jonathan was sent to the Academy, at 
 Sandwich, on Cape Cod, the principal of 
 which was Mr. Elisha Clapp, a distinguished 
 J^ew England divine, and here he remained 
 until he was prepared to enter college. 
 
 When about twelve years old, he writes a 
 letter to his excellent godmother, Mrs. Hart- 
 w^ell, in which we shall allow him to speak 
 for himself. The spelling and punctuation 
 are just as they came from his unpractised 
 hand. 
 
 "Sandwich, August 1st, 1804. 
 
 "Dear Feiend — I presume the Corsican 
 upstart has not yet performed his promise, in 
 
LETTER TO HIS GODMOTHER. 23 
 
 comeing, to pay you a visit. I guess he has 
 got quite sick of the notion ; and I think, he 
 did well, in not trying to come, and steal our 
 good Old English Roast Beef; for, if he does, 
 he will be sure to have his head kicked, for 
 a foot-ball, by the Brave English Yolunteers ; 
 and our good old English Wooded "Walls 
 would send all his little dung boats, to Davy's 
 Locker, very soon. But I think there is not 
 much danger of his comeing; for. Queen 
 Ann's pocket-piece scares him, so, across the 
 little ditch, that, I believe, he has given over 
 all the notion of it. His threats pass by us, 
 like the idle wind, which we regard not ; but, 
 on the other hand. Squire Dibden, with his 
 keen little songs, gives the little gentleman 
 such a shakeing, that I am afraid we shall 
 loosen all his joints, if he has got any ; for 
 he is nothing but skin and bone. He is not 
 like our true English Tars ; he has no Eoast 
 Beef and Plumb Pudding, to make him fat ; 
 he lives upon nothing but frogs and soup 
 
24 LIEE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 meagre, and a few mice, that he and his 
 friend Tally catch, iij)on the broken walls of 
 Aristocracy. But I must conclude, as my 
 pen is very bad. Give my love to Mrs 
 Jackson, Mr. Jackson, Dr. Lloyd, John Geth- 
 ing, and all my friends there ; and tell J. G. 
 that the boat he gave me exceeds all the 
 other boats here, in sailing and handsome- 
 ness ; and that I shall not know how to re- 
 pay his kindness, till Summer. I remain 
 jour true British friend. 
 
 "JoNATHAiq" Wain WEIGHT. 
 
 "P. S. — Pray overlook my mistakes, this 
 time, as I am in such a hurry. 
 
 ** Great Britain, for ever, 
 
 For it makes little Bony quiver ; 
 
 Huzza, huzza. 
 Britains, strike home ; 
 
 Huzza, huzza." 
 
 A genuine boyish letter, indeed I My young 
 readers cannot fail to be pleased with it. 
 When Bishop Doane published his beauti- 
 
ANOTHER LETTER. 25 
 
 ful memoir of his beloved friend, lie was un- 
 der the impression that only two of these 
 early epistles had been preserved. By dili- 
 gent inquiries among Bishop Wainwright's 
 friends, the writer has fortunately succeeded 
 in discovering several more, with which his 
 pages will be enlivened and adorned. We 
 have no traces of our young student for 
 nearly four years after the date of his heroic 
 letter to his godmother, which brings us 
 down to the beginning of 1808. During the 
 course of this year we have a pretty full ac- 
 count of himself from his own pen. 
 
 The first letter in this series has the Sand- 
 wich postmark upon it (Jan. 11), and is ad- 
 dressed to his mother. There is a great im- 
 provement in it over the one just given ; 
 the penmanship, spelling, and style being 
 decidedly better. 
 
 " On Monday [he says], I anticipated the 
 pleasure of receiving a letter from home, 
 
 3 
 
26 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 thinking it would not only raise mj spirits, 
 but make me (as Bobbins says his do,) study 
 harder. And I found, when I had read my 
 letter, that I was not as I often am disap- 
 pointed, by raising my expectations too higli. 
 " You will say, that it is a fault to raise one's 
 expectations too high, but it is a fault which 
 1 believe few young people, in the flow of 
 health and spirits, are able to guard against. 
 Especially, as in the early period of life, we 
 do not commonly meet with those rubs 
 which arc incident to humanity, and which 
 teach us that perfect happiness is no more to 
 be found in this world than perfect men. I 
 believe that parents, too, when they have 
 children on whom they have bestowed ^ a 
 world of pains and trouble,' are apt to raise 
 their expectations too high ; and indeed they 
 have reason, for ' where a man soweth, there 
 also shall he reap.' I shall endeavor, dear 
 Mother, that your liarvest may be a joyful 
 me. I wish it would always be your inten- 
 
LOSS OF HAT AND BILL. g'T 
 
 tion in your letters, to sermonize. 'For it is 
 the only way in which I can now reteive 
 those valuable counsels which, at home, I 
 have from your own mouth.- My old hat 
 was lost or stolen at Plymouth. I saw it put 
 with the rest of the baggage, just before it 
 was placed in the stage, and thinking it was 
 safe, I went in to pay the reckoning, and did 
 not miss the hat till I got to Sandwich. 
 
 "I desired Maynard to enquire, but he could 
 hear nothing of it. The evening that I ar- 
 rived here, I paid Mr. Tobey for our board, 
 and there was left three five-dollar bills, 
 which I 23ut in my pocket-book. I did not 
 open it again till the next day to pay him, 
 and then I found but two fives. 
 
 " We shall have as much as we shall want 
 till we return, as there is no need of spend- 
 ing anything of consequence here. 
 
 " Mr. and Mrs. Tobey's, and Mr. Clap's re- 
 spects to you. Our love to Pa, Eliza, and all 
 friends, and receive the tender of your son, 
 
28 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 J. M. Wain Wright's lasting love and affec- 
 tion." 
 
 From internal evidence, we may fairly 
 conclude that this letter was written after his 
 return from Boston, where, most j^robably, 
 his Christmas holydays had been spent. It 
 breathes the frank, affectionate spirit of a 
 noble youth, a spirit which always distin- 
 guished our hero through the whole of life. 
 
 i 
 
C|Hjtn (ffljirh 
 
 THE SCHOOL-BOY 8 LITTLE WOELD EXHIBITION OF GEA- 
 
 TOEY A COUXTEY JUSTICE — QUITE A DIFFEEENT SUB- 
 JECT A GEEAT AWAKENING — SAILING IN THE FOG 
 
 UNHAPPY DIVISIONS DOCTEINE OF DEPEAVITY ME. 
 
 CLAPP'S TWO SEEMONS TO BE FEINTED ZEAL AND PEE- 
 
 SECUTION SHIFTING LIKE A WEATHEE-COCK THE 
 
 NINTH AETICLE OF EELIGION PETEE's ADDITIONAL 
 
 INFOEMATION CONCEKNING THE EEYIVAL — ME. BUEE's 
 PROPOSED FAST. 
 
 1]^ the eyes of a school-boy, the little 
 every-day events within his own narrow 
 circle loom up as largely as the most im- 
 portant transactions on the broad theatre of 
 life. 
 
 During the month of February, 1808, the 
 young orators of the Sandwich Academy 
 made an exhibition of their powers before 
 an admiring audience. The future Bishop 
 
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30 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 of the Church thus alludes to this, in the fol- 
 lowing epistle : 
 
 " Sandwich, February 2Sih, 1808. 
 
 "Dear Sister — I am really very much 
 obliged to you for writing me the poem so 
 finely delineating the virtues of Birch, and 
 am very sorry it came so late (the day after 
 our Exhibition), or I should have been glad 
 to have had it for a piece. We had a very 
 full house at Exhibition, almost overflowing. 
 The audience, I believe, were very well 
 pleased with the performances. Peter spoke 
 the character of William Pitt. I had a Latin 
 Oration, Gray's elegy written in a country 
 church yard, ' The curfew tolls the knell of 
 parting day,' &c. — and a part in a dialogue 
 called the Country JuBtice. I, with my 
 feather belly, personified his worship. [My 
 readers can picture Jonathan to themselves, 
 with a pillow buttoned up under his coat, to 
 convey the impression of magisterial corpu- 
 lence.] 
 
A GKEAT AWAKENING. 31 
 
 " My Mother tells me that Miss Kingman 
 is paying you a visit. You must make my 
 respects. 
 
 " Your affectionate brother and true friend, 
 " J. M. Wain WEIGHT." 
 
 The same sheet contains a few lines ad- 
 dressed to his mother, in which quite a differ- 
 ent subject is introduced. It would seem 
 that the plan of getting up excitements, in 
 order to terrify people int6 being religious, 
 was then in vogue. The evils of such a sys- 
 tem had not been as fully developed as they 
 were some years afterwards. 
 
 " You have heard [he remarks] that there 
 has been a great awakening in the neighbor- 
 ing town, and it is now approaching us. Mr. 
 Burr is very much engaged in it. He has 
 talked to me once or twice about it, but I 
 can't convince myself one way or the other. 
 He read to me, or rather told me to read the 
 third chapter of John. It appears from that, 
 
32 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 that tliere must be a regeneration. And if we 
 are naturally depraved, as appears from this 
 verse, ' The heart is deceitful,' &c., regenera- 
 tion seems to be necessary. 
 
 "Again, they say, 'We are not saved by 
 works, lest any man should boast,' but the 
 epistle of James seems to remove that. But 
 I don't seem to understand the 3d chapter 
 of John very well. And when I see the two 
 sects of Christians so opposite, I do not know 
 what to think. You must write to me about 
 it. Don't be afraid I am going to be moved 
 by every wind of doctrine. But it appears 
 to me that these things ought not so to be. 
 " Your son, J. M. Wainweight." 
 
 "We hardly need the frank confession of 
 our young theologian to convince us, that 
 he has not got a very clear idea of the im- 
 port of the beloved disciple's words. He is 
 certainly right, however, in deploring the un- 
 happy divisions which separate Christian 
 
DOCTEINE OF DEPEAVITY. 33 
 
 people. If all tlie sects and parties, wliicli 
 so distract the world by their discordant 
 sparrings about religious truth, could be join- 
 ed together (as God would have them) in 
 one body, the Devil and his votaries would 
 be forced to exclaim, with the apostate Ju- 
 lian, " O, Galilean, thou hast conquered !" 
 
 Let us all pray and labor, more and more, 
 for peace ! The next letter in our possession, 
 by which we are enabled to chronicle the 
 events at Sandwich during the year 1808, is 
 dated the 17th of March. 
 
 '' Deae Mother — Your last letter gave me 
 infinitely much satisfaction. I had felt a 
 little doubtful, about the time that I wrote 
 my first letter concerning the doctrine of de- 
 pravity. For I could not conceive how 
 many men could be deluded, and feel such 
 convictions. This doctrine, if I could swal- 
 low it, I could easily take down the camel- 
 like size of the rest, bunch and all. 
 
34 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 " But Mr. Clap's sermons, the Sunday be- 
 fore last, set all to rights again. There has 
 been a paper out to print them by subscrip- 
 tion. Kobbins and myself subscribed for ten 
 copies. Peter, also, subscribed for one copy, 
 being desirous to have his name on the list. 
 
 " Is it not the case that those who are the 
 most zealous for certain religious tenets, 
 most zealously persecute those who differ 
 from them ? This seems to be the case with 
 Mr. Burr, who, you know, has shifted (I was 
 going to say as often as the weather-cock of 
 his meeting house), and he now seems to be 
 as, or more zealous in forwarding the Calvin - 
 istic principles, than he could be in forward- 
 ing the principles of any of the numerous 
 sects he has embraced. He has not the least 
 charity for anybody else, but says he is cer- 
 tain that he is right, and you and the rest of 
 us wrong. But he may change again." 
 
 It is not much to be wondered at, that a 
 
MR. BrRR's PROPOSED FAST. 35 
 
 youth of sixteen should be left pretty much 
 in the dark in regard to the points of doc- 
 trine in dispute among the rival preachers to 
 whom he refers. But even my youngest 
 reader may know what is the teaching of 
 the Scriptures and the Church on the sub- 
 ject of man's depravity, by turning to the 
 ninth Article of Religion, as laid down in the 
 Prayer Book. 
 
 Jonathan's younger brother, Peter, who 
 was also at school at Sandwich, contributes 
 Ms share towards this letter, and gravely in- 
 forms his mother, in a good, round liand, 
 tliat the religious meetings are continued 
 almost every night, and that Mr. Burr and 
 a few of his friends had proposed 2ifast^ but 
 that none of the scholars attended. 
 
 From the date of the epistle, this must 
 have been about the time that the Church 
 throughout the whole wide world was ob- 
 sei'ving the solemn season of Lent, but per- 
 hape Mr. Burr did not know of this. 
 
the last eemnant of negeo slayery in massaonu- 
 setts — old titus's will a clock for the meeting- 
 house steeple the english boy americanized — 
 
 Peter's wardrobe troubles — a fierce attack 
 upon mr. jefferson electioneering foe christo- 
 pher gore — o tempora ! o mores ! another indi- 
 cation of future chaeacter stctdies during the 
 
 vacation two new preachers an apt simile. 
 
 THE next letter, in order, contains an in- 
 teresting account of tlie death of an old 
 colored man, one of the last relics of negro 
 slavery in Massachusetts. It will be remem- 
 bered by my readers, that in the early his- 
 tory of the Colonies, this institution was by 
 no means peculiar to the South. 
 
 " Sandwich, March 2m, 1808. 
 *' Deae Mother — Since I wrote my last let- 
 ter, old Titus has died. I believe he has done 
 
OLD TITUS. 37 
 
 his duty in the world. He sprang from 
 nothing, and died possessed of fifteen hun- 
 dred dollars, from which (by his will) 
 there is to be a clock put on the meeting- 
 house steeple, a monument to be erected 
 over his tomb, and the remainder to be given 
 to the parish. We see that worth is not con- 
 fined to color. Titus was once a slave. He 
 was remarkable for firmness. On an election- 
 eering day, when Mr. J. Freeman was very 
 much employed in gaining proselytes to De- 
 mocracy, and distributing votes for Sullivan, 
 Mr. Davis asked him to go and try to turn 
 Titus, and make him vote for Sullivan. Mr. 
 Freeman replied it would be of no more 
 use than to endeavor to move the meeting- 
 house. 
 
 " I have taken up the greater part of this 
 letter in speaking of Titus, having nothing in 
 particular to write about, and thinking that 
 Buch worth, so seldom found in one of his 
 color, deserved some mention. Peter has no 
 
38 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWUIGHT. 
 
 letter prepared, but will answer yours soon, 
 " My love to Eliza and all friends. 
 " Your dutiful son, 
 
 "J. M. Wainweight." 
 
 Jonathan was quite methodical in his cor- 
 respondence, and at regular intervals his 
 mother must have felt quite sure of hearing 
 from him. 
 
 The following letter will show that the lit- 
 tle English boy who wrote so patriotically to 
 his godmother, about the Roast Beef and 
 Plumb Pudding of his native land, had by 
 this time transferred his affections to the 
 country of his adoption. It is an amusing 
 mixture of politics and some other matters 
 of not quite so grave importance. 
 
 " Sandwich, April dd, 1808. 
 
 "la little expected a letter from my dear 
 Mother yesterday, but, however, I shall wait 
 with patience till the next post. My chief 
 
Peter's wardrobe troubles. 39 
 
 object in writing now is to inform yon tliat 
 Peter put on his water-proof trowsers yes- 
 terday morning, when, by some unhicky 
 accident, all the old wounds were broken 
 out afresh, and new wounds received, which 
 have rendered the case desperate, and the 
 physicians have given the patient up ! This 
 morning, he put on his other old trowsers, 
 which looked as if they had just come from 
 Chelsea Hospital. They were most severely 
 lacerated in a contest at bat and ball. He 
 now has no others to wear, except his knit 
 pantaloons. I wish you would write word 
 by return of post, and either send him a pair, 
 or commission me to get him some here. He 
 also desires that he may have sailor's trow- 
 sers. 
 
 " My brother and self drank tea last even- 
 ing at Mr. Paul King's. We had a very 
 pleasant visit. 
 
 "I have been electioneering, and writing 
 votes for Christopher Gore, &c., till I am al- 
 
4:0 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 most tired to death. I shall rise again to- 
 morrow, and go on in the good work. It is 
 time for those that are interested in the wel- 
 fare of their conntiy to look about them- 
 selves. For it is evident that if the Demo^ 
 cratic faction are kept in office, we shall be 
 ruined, totally ruiued. 
 
 " Is this short-sighted embargo a thing 
 that could be expected from the pro23hetic, 
 philosophic Jefferson ? Is this country to be 
 ruined, to gratify the caprice of selfish, artful, 
 aspiring Democrats ? Are all the fair pros- 
 pects of our farmers and sailors, at once to 
 be blasted ? and blasted, too, by the very men 
 who ought to be the most anxious to protect 
 their welfare ? O tempora ! O mores !" 
 
 And with this eloquent burst of patriotism, 
 our young friend closes his epistle. 
 
 Notwithstanding the opinions expressed by 
 the school-boy politicians at Sandwich, Mr. 
 Jefferson passed safely through his term of 
 
INDICATION OF FUTURE CHARACTER. 41 
 
 office, and, by God's good providence, the 
 Kepiiblic still survives, and bids fair, we 
 trust, to weather the storms of centuries. 
 
 The whole temper of the letter is as natu- 
 ral as possible, and no man can read it with- 
 out a smile, as he remembers his own excited 
 feelings under like circumstances, when the 
 warm blood of youth was coursing through 
 his veins. 
 
 It is pleasant, too, to recognize in the zeal- 
 ous advocate for the political claims of Chris- 
 topher Gore, the same undaunted champion 
 who threw down the gauntlet at the New 
 England dinner, nearly forty years after- 
 wards, and offered to measure arms with any 
 one who would venture to deny the lawful 
 claims of Bishops in the Church of God. 
 
 Another indication, in youth, of what 
 might be expected of him in manhood, will 
 be found in the letter dated May 15th of 
 the same year, when his career at the Sand- 
 wich Academy was drawing to a close. It is 
 
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42 LITE OF BISHOP WArNWKIGHT. 
 
 addressed to his " dear and respected pa- 
 rents." 
 
 No small self-control, and a resolution 
 which gives up present pleasure for future 
 good, are disclosed in the opening sentence. 
 
 " I write now to inform you that you need 
 not expect me immediately at the close of 
 this term. As I have considerable to do, Mr. 
 Clap thought it would be better that I should 
 not devote the vacation entirely to relaxation, 
 but should study part of it, and he thought I 
 had better not go home, and study there, as 
 there are so many allurements to take off my 
 attention. That being the case, I thought I 
 would devote the first part of the vacation 
 to study, and then come home, and enjoy 
 what time I could spare, unembarrassed 
 among my friends. I shall lose the pleasure 
 of being at home on the Election, but I 
 can easily sacrifice it to things more neces- 
 sary. 
 
 " Peter will go in the first vessel. I should 
 
A^ APT SIMILE. 4:3 
 
 wisli to have my clotlies prepared as soon as 
 I can in the vacation, for I don't expect to be 
 able to spend more than a week at home. 
 
 " Mr. Hyde of Lee preached for ns last 
 Sunday. This afternoon we had a Mr. Os- 
 good. He likened deists to a man travelling, 
 who, on coming to a precipice, shut his eyes, 
 thinking that by that means he should es- 
 cape the danger of falling. 
 
 " My love to sister and friends. I hope to 
 have the pleasure of seeing you in a fort- 
 night. Your dutiful son, 
 
 " J. M. Wainweight." 
 
PEEPAEATIONS FOR COLLEGE EXPENSIVE LETTER PRO- 
 POSED REMOVAL, AND REASONS FOR THE SAME GOOD 
 
 RESOLUTIONS ENCOURAGING EVIDENCES AN ELDER 
 
 brother's ADVICE POLITENESS — CLASSICAL STUDIES 
 
 — GENERAL INFORMATION EXCUSE FOR LECTURING 
 
 HEARTFELT PRATER A CLARIONET — REGARD FOR A 
 
 father's preferences GENERAL NOX'S MARCH. 
 
 THE last of June arrives, but our ambi- 
 tious student is so busy with his prep- 
 arations for college, that he still lingers at 
 Sandwich, to enjoy the benefit of his old 
 master's instructions. 
 
 " Sandwich, Ju7ie SOth, 1808. 
 
 " Dear Mother — Your letter of Friday last 
 was very acceptable, and gave me much 
 pleasure. I had been into the post-office, 
 and finding no letter for me, I was coming 
 
SAFETY OF HOME. 45 
 
 away, when I met Majiiard, wlio told me 
 he had one for me, which I suppose you gave 
 to the driver as he passed the house, because 
 it came all the way by hand. This mode of 
 conveying letters I find is very expensive, as 
 I had to give fifty cents for it ; when, if it 
 had come by post, I should have given but 
 ten. 
 
 " Mr. ClajD says it would be a good plan 
 for you to move to Cambridge, and it would 
 be very agreeable to me, not only with re- 
 spect to the pleasure I should derive from 
 having your company, and that of my father, 
 and brother, and sister, during my residence, 
 but also with respect to the assistance it will 
 afibrd me in keeping myself uncorrupted, as 
 1 shall not have every idle fellow calling into 
 my room, as might be the case if I lived in 
 College ; although I mean (if I keep my 
 present resolutions, and I think there is 
 no doubt I shall) to keep myself unspotted 
 and im fined. 
 
46 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 " And I tliink I may be of considerable 
 use to my brother and sister, when I am 
 once settled, although I have not been, in any 
 of my vacations at home. At any rate, I 
 hope it will be convenient for you to move to 
 Cambridge. Your aifectionate son, 
 
 "J. M. Wainwkight." 
 
 It is certainly a most encouraging evidence 
 of correct principles in a youth, when, in- 
 stead of looking forward to College life as a 
 time when parental restraint will be relaxed, 
 he desires to secure for himself, during this 
 period of exposure and temptation, a continu- 
 ance of a mother's watchful care .and the 
 quiet shelter of his home. 
 
 Again, in a letter to his brother Peter, 
 about this period, we are struck with the 
 sterling good sense manifested by the writer, 
 and by the high standard which he had set 
 up, in all that pertains to the character of an 
 intelligent and refined gentleman. 
 
POLITENESS. 47 
 
 " Sandwich, Jidy lOih, 1808. 
 " My Dear Beothek — I am very glad that 
 you have begun to send me a few lines, and 
 hope you will continue to do so. It will not 
 only be very agreeable to me, but also useful 
 to you ; as a facility in expressing one's self 
 in literary correspondence is almost indis- 
 pensably necessary to a merchant, and a very 
 great and necessary accomplishment to a 
 gentleman, who wishes to know more than 
 how to hand a lady into a room. Politeness 
 is, indeed, a very desirable accomplishment ; 
 I mean that politeness which consists in mak- 
 ing everybody around you comfortable ; not 
 that flummery, that excrescence of gentility, 
 that sure indication of an empty, brainless 
 skull, which bows, and scrapes, and says a 
 thousand pretty things ; but is destitute of 
 all that elevates and dignifies human nature, 
 of all that true politeness springing from a 
 good and refined education, which softens 
 the rough and honest coloring of nature. To 
 
48 LIFE OF BISHOP WATNWKIGHT. 
 
 make a bow, and hand a lady into a room, 
 with propriety, is desirable, and I would have 
 you cultivate it ; but, remember, that it will 
 not go down, unless there be the addition of 
 a stock of good sense, with those whose good 
 opinion is worth obtaining. You will also 
 derive great benefit from cultivating chirog- 
 raphy, which is an art in the highest degree 
 elegant and useful. 
 
 " I feel very sorry that your taste had not 
 led you to form some acquaintance with 
 Latin and Greek. You would never have 
 repented it. The French language is, still, 
 in your way. Make yourself thoroughly ac- 
 quainted with that. Be perfectly acquaint- 
 ed with history and geography. I do not 
 know whetlier being two and a half years 
 older than you may give me the title of lec- 
 turing you in this manner. But I think the 
 title of a brother, anxious for your welfare, 
 may. The reeds, you were so kind as to 
 buy me, answered very well. I am obliged 
 
FRATEKXAL AND FILIAL VIRTUES. 49 
 
 to you, for your trouble. Have you cleaned 
 tlie gun ? If not, I wish you would. 
 
 " Your affectionate brother and true friend, 
 '' J. Mayhew Waixwright." 
 
 The writer cannot but lift up his heart in 
 prayer to God. that the beautiful traits of 
 character set forth in this letter may lead 
 other elder brothers to perform a similar 
 part, for the benefit of those who naturally 
 look to theni for example and counsel. 
 
 In the conclusion of a letter written to his 
 mother, from Sandwich, on the 8th of July, 
 young Wainwright manifests that amiable 
 and dutiful disposition for which he was so 
 remarkable. 
 
 " I wish you would send me down, if it is 
 right and proper in your eyes, not forgetting 
 convenience, a clarionet, or little flute. I 
 heard you say that my father was fond of the 
 clarionet ; if so, I should like that best. 
 
 " Desire Eliza, if you please, to get me one 
 5 
 
50 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 or two good easy tunes, and handsome ; per- 
 haps such as General IS^ox's march, &c." 
 
 A boy who thus thinks of his father's 
 pleasure is certainly a pattern worthy of imi- 
 tation. It is such little things as this which 
 add so much to the joys of a Christian family. 
 Happy is the parent whom God has b^.essed 
 with such a son ! 
 
€|ajtn Si^il;. 
 
 ONE MOEE JUVENILE EPISTLE PEOSPEEITT IN BUSINESS 
 
 COUSIN HENEY "" BLOOD AND GEOATS" BEAUTY, 
 
 WEiaHED IN THE SCALE WITH OTHEE QUALITIES 
 
 WOETH OF A GOOD WIFE YOUNG WAINWEIGHT ENTEES 
 
 HAEYAED UNIYEESITY BEIEF SKETCH OF THE HISTOEY 
 
 OF THIS YENEEABLE INSTITUTION OETHODOX INSCEIP- 
 
 TIONS ON THE OLD COLLEGE SEALS DANGEE OF DE- 
 
 PAETING FEOM THE OLD PATHS — THE GEADUAL AD- 
 VANCES OF UNITAEIANISM — WHAT CHUECHMEN SHOULD 
 
 DO COLLEGE LIFE— THE YOUNG OEGANIST TAKES A 
 
 DEGEEE, AND IS ELECTED TO AN HONOEABLE POST " I 
 
 NEVEE KNEW A BETTER EEADER." 
 
 WE have only one more juvenile letter 
 in reserve ; and our readers will be 
 as sorry as we are. It is dated from the old 
 academy, at Sandwich, August 10th, 1808, 
 and is addressed to the fond parents who 
 were watching so anxiously the progress of 
 their promising son. 
 
62 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 " I was very agreeably surprised, last Tues- 
 day evening at tea, by receiving two letters, 
 one from pa, the other, containing a poem, a 
 letter from Florent, and a few lines from ma. 
 As I have but little time, I shall answer my 
 dear parents' letters conjunctively. I am very 
 glad to hear that pa's business engages so much 
 of his time, although it deprives me of the 
 pleasure of hearing from him as often as I 
 should, were there but little business ; yet 
 the good news which I do hear, though sel- 
 dom, is far better than to have a letter every 
 week with unfavorable accounts. 
 
 " Pa mentions in his letter that he hears 
 that cousin Henry is enamored of a beauty, 
 without ' blood or groats.' 
 
 "If the lady is good-natured, witty, and 
 sensible, I am of too romantic a turn to 
 blame him ; for I think that a handsome face, 
 set off with good qualities of the mind, are 
 charms irresistible. But if she has nothing 
 but a pretty face, I very much pity him ; for, 
 
WORTH OF A GOOD WIFE. 53 
 
 as pa sajs, beauty is fading, and 1 would 
 rather see a woman as ugly as the witch of 
 Endor, yet good-natured, and sensible withal, 
 than a Yenus de Medicis, ill-natured and 
 void of wit. As for blood, I am too much 
 of a freeman to care anything about that. 
 
 * What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 
 Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. ' 
 
 " Kiches, I think, are but a secondary con- 
 sideration, for a good wife is worth her 
 A\'eight in gold." 
 
 It provokes a smile to hear a lad of six- 
 teen speaking thus gravely on such subjects, 
 but his observations are marked by his usual 
 good sense. The little English boy is out- 
 growing his early predilections for his native 
 land, and is becoming almost as good a 
 Democrat as Mr. Jefferson himself! 
 
 In the autumn of 1808, young "Wainwright 
 entered Harvard University, at Cambridge. 
 This is one of the oldest institutions in the 
 United States, its history dating back to 
 
 5* 
 
64 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 1636, when the General Court at Boston 
 voted four hundred pounds towards its en- 
 dowment. The measure was, however, not 
 carried into successful operation until two 
 years afterwards. At this time, the Rev. 
 John Harvard, an English clergyihan of ed- 
 ucation, who had been about a year in the 
 Colony of Massachusetts, died, and left to the 
 school a valuable donation in money and 
 books; thus enabling the trustees to employ 
 instructors and begin their work. 
 
 The charters of the College are silent in 
 regard to points of Christian faith, but it is 
 worthy of note that its seal once bore the 
 inscription " In Christi Gloriam^'' and, in the 
 time of Mather, " Christo et EcdesM^* 
 
 It is sad to reflect how much evil the de- 
 scendants of the Puritans have suffered, be- 
 cause their fathers wandered away from the 
 old paths of the Church ! Their most famous 
 
 «* Quincy's History, Vol. 1., p. 49. 
 
GEADrAL ADVANCES OF TNITARIANISM. 00 
 
 institutions of learning have fallen under the 
 baneful influences of Unitarianism, a system 
 whicli denies tlie Divinity of tlie Lord, who 
 bought us with His blood, and without whose 
 atoning sacrifice no sinner could hope for 
 acceptance with God. The progress of tliese 
 fearful errors was gradual. When young 
 Wainwright entered Harvard, this soulless 
 form of religion was not publicly professed 
 within her ancient halls ; but in 1810, on the 
 sudden death of Webber, the presidency was 
 given to Kirkland, and then IJnitarianism 
 might boast of a champion, who, as soon as 
 it could be safely done, was ready to unfurl 
 its banners. Ah ! how skilfully the father of 
 lies arranged his plans, in this masterly at- 
 tempt to undermine the orthodox faith ! 
 
 Doubt at first " infused itself into upright 
 minds with the air of Scriptural inquiry, 
 until it caused a theological mistake ; then, 
 spreading the shining mist of liberality over 
 the cold, the vain, the worldly, the timid, the 
 
56 LrlFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 presumptuous, it nourished a stupendous 
 heresy ; and finally, forcing a bolder order 
 of thinkers back upon themselves, it issued 
 in a wilderness of popular unbelief. But the 
 spirit which loves to doubt can but depart, 
 by its very nature, farther and farther from 
 the high regions of celestial faith. He sees 
 the flakes of snow gathering along the tide of 
 the humblest Alpine brook, and well knows 
 that, though kingdoms lie between, they must 
 descend till they reach the sea."* 
 
 Young Wainwright passed, unscathed, 
 through the dangers which every stripling 
 must encounter, who enters a college where 
 " the faith once delivered to the saints" is 
 not sacredly preserved and taught ; but it 
 is not always so. When will Churchmen 
 learn wisdom in this matter? Let our own 
 schools and colleges be patronized, and let 
 
 *'^ Pages from the Ecclesiastical History of New England 
 (p. 126), by Dr. George Burgess, now Bishop of Maine. 
 
GKADUATES. 57 
 
 no encouragement be given to those where 
 the Christian religion, in all its fulness, is 
 not heartily embraced. Few details can 
 now be gleaned of young Wainwright's col- 
 lege days. During this period, it is believed 
 that he indulged his love of sacred music, 
 which was a passion with him, by officiating 
 without salary as the organist of Christ 
 Church, at which he worshipped. He grad- 
 uated, with honor, in 1812, and was soon 
 afterwards appointed a j)roctor of the Uni- 
 versity, and instructor in rhetoric. He con- 
 tinued to occupy this position for several 
 vears, discharprins: his several duties with 
 great acceptance. Indeed, he was remark- 
 ably well fitted to fill any department where 
 sterling sense and exquisite taste were 
 needed. 
 
 One who was most intimate with him, at 
 this time, remarks : " I never knew a better 
 reader. How many hours have I listened to 
 him, with delight, in the early years of our ac- 
 
58 
 
 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGIIT. 
 
 quaintance ! Spenser, Milton, Cowper, Aken- 
 Bide, Gray, came mended from his tongue." 
 
 No one who ever heard Bishop Wain- 
 wright read the Church Service, will consider 
 this praise too great. 
 
A STUDENT OF LAW — THIS PUESUIT SOON ABANDONED 
 
 THOUGHTS TURNED TO THE MINISTRY FEEBLENESS OF 
 
 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, IN NEW ENGLAND — UNITARI- 
 
 ANI8M DR. GARDINER AN OUTLINE OF HIS LIFE 
 
 BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY CALL TO BOSTON DR. 
 
 JARVIS BECOMES RECTOR OF ST. PAUL's THE WINDOW- 
 
 P.LINDS — " TRULY THE LIGHT IS SWEEt" — ODDITIES 
 
 CHAMPION OF ORTHODOXY CHRISTMAS SERMON IN 
 
 1810 CHARACTERISTIC EXTRACT DR. GARDINEr's 
 
 DEATH MR. WAINWRIGHT VISITS NEW JERSEY OR- 
 DAINED DEACON — ENTRANCE UPON A GREAT WORK. 
 
 "jVTOT long after leaving college, joung 
 X 1 Wainwright entered the office of the 
 late William Sullivan, Esq., of Boston, as a 
 student of law. He found, however, that 
 this pursuit would not be at all congenial to 
 his tastes, and soon abandoned it, and de- 
 termined to devote his life to the work of the 
 ministry. 
 
60 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 His theological course was directed by the 
 Rev. John S. J. Gardiner, D.D., rector of 
 Trinity Church, Boston. At this time there 
 were only ten Episcopal clergymen in the 
 State of Massachusetts, and about two hun- 
 dred in active service throughout the whole 
 extent of the Union. 
 
 Dr. Gardiner, who occupied one of the 
 watch-towers of Zion, in the city of Boston, 
 when Unitarianism was rife and rampant, 
 deserves, at least, a passing notice. 
 
 His father, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, was 
 born in Boston, but had been sent to be edu- 
 cated in England, and having grown to man's 
 estate, and married in Wales, he left England 
 in 1Y66, with the appointment of attorney- 
 general to the Island of St. Christopher. He 
 remained in the West Indies until the close 
 of the War of Independence, and in 1783 
 removed to Boston. 
 
 His son, the clergyman, was a native of 
 South Wales, and at the age of eighteen 
 
DR. GARDIXER. 61 
 
 came with his parents to Massachusetts. This 
 was not his first acquaintance with Boston, 
 for he had been sent there to school, in child- 
 hood ; but upon the breaking out of the Eev- 
 olution he returned home to the "West Indies. 
 When eleven years old, he was taken to 
 England and placed under tlie care of the 
 celebrated Dr. Parr, whose valuable instruc- 
 tions he enjoyed for six years. 
 
 Young Gardiner became a student of di- 
 vinity, at Boston, and was ordained Deacon 
 by Bishop Provost, of I^ew York, in 1787. 
 
 He began his ministry at Beaufort, South 
 Carolina, but, in 1792, returned to Boston, 
 as assistant minister of Trinity Church, and 
 thirteen years afterwards, on the death of 
 Bishop Parker, Dr. Gardiner succeeded to 
 the rectorship. He was a good scholar and 
 a strong Churchman, and in social life an 
 agreeable and accomplished gentleman. 
 Many amusing anecdotes are told of his 
 eccentricities. 
 
 6 
 
62 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 In 1820, when the distmgiiished Dr. Jarvis 
 became the rector of St. Paul's Church, 
 Boston, the contrast between the showy ek)- 
 cution of the rector of Trinity, and, his own 
 quiet, subdued manner, was generally re- 
 marked. 
 
 Among other improvements made in St. 
 Paul's, about this time, was the shutting out 
 of some of the glaring light of day by means 
 of blinds, which could be raised and lowered 
 at pleasure. On a certain occasion, when the 
 two rectors had exchanged pulpits. Dr. Gar- 
 diner could not resist the disposition which 
 he fel', to show his dislike to the window 
 shades. Accordingly, having performed the 
 service in due order, he ascended the pulpit, 
 and gave out for his text these words of the 
 wise man : " Truly the light is sweety and a 
 pleasant thing it is for the eyes to hehold the 
 sun.^^ — Eccles. xi. 7. Tlien, pausing, he point- 
 ed to one of the windows and said, with a 
 significant look, " The sexton will please raise 
 
CHAMPION OF OETHODOXY. 63 
 
 that blind." Of course I do not record tliis 
 anecdote to encourage any one tlius to carry 
 liis jokes into the pulpit. Far from it. But 
 in painting the portrait of an individual, 
 we must throw in all the proper light and 
 shade. 
 
 With all his faults, Dr. Gardiner stood 
 forth boldly, in the midst of a community 
 where the Unitarian heresy was nnblushingly 
 taught, as a defender of the great doctrine 
 of the Trinity. I have an old pamphlet 
 now before me, containing a sermon " On 
 the Divinity of Jesus Christ," delivered by 
 him on Christmas dav, 1810. A sino-le 
 passage will be given, as a specimen of his 
 peculiar style, and as describing the course 
 which is pursued by those who are seek- 
 ing to sap the foundations of the orthodox 
 faith. 
 
 " Ingenious men, when they have formed 
 or adopted a system, no longer pursue their 
 inquiries for the discovery of truth, but for 
 
64 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 new arguments to support their system. 
 They are flattered with their own ingenuity, 
 and cannot see the force of their antagonist's 
 arguments, though clear as the sun to a mind 
 unprejudiced. If the Old Testament is 
 against their system, away with the Old Testa- 
 ment. If St. Paul is opposed to their theory, 
 St. Paul, in this case, is no authority. Thus 
 the polemical Procrustes stretches or lops the 
 Scripture till it exactly accords with the di- 
 mensions of his own hypothesis. To support 
 this hypothesis, he descends to the minutest 
 subtleties of verbal criticism, till at length 
 the most important truths of God's revealed 
 word are made to depend on the insertion or 
 omission of an article, a conjunction, or a 
 preposition." 
 
 As we have turned aside thus far from the 
 due course of the narrative, in order to pre- 
 sent this sketch of Dr. Gardiner, it will be 
 proper to add, that having taken a sea voy- 
 age for the benefit of his health, he died at 
 
ORDAINED DEACON, 65 
 
 Harrowgate, England, on the 29th of July, 
 1830, at the age of sixty-five. 
 
 He lived long enough to see his former pu- 
 pil in theology ordained to the holy ministry, 
 and fast rising to a prominent place among 
 the shininoj lio-hts of the Church. 
 
 In 1814, while quietly pursuing his studies 
 in Boston, Mr. Wainwright was invited to 
 St. John's, New Brunswick, to take charge 
 of the academy, and of the parish also as 
 soon as he had been ordained. He visited 
 the place, but the arrangement was not con- 
 summated, and he soon returned home. Hav- 
 ing finished his preparatory course, he was 
 admitted to the holy order of Deacon, by 
 Bishop Griswold, in St. John's Church, Provi- 
 dence, in 1816. Thus, at the age of twenty- 
 four, we find the stripling who had been so 
 puzzled, during his school-boy days at Sand- 
 wich, by the conflicting religious opinions of 
 those about him, going forth with a commis- 
 sion from God to propose terms of pardon 
 
 6* 
 
66 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 and reconciliation to those who had rebelled 
 against Him, and to build np, among the 
 ruins of other systems, the walls of tliat " glo- 
 rious Church," against which even the gates 
 of Hell cannot prevail. 
 
CIrajtcr ^ig|tK 
 
 REMOVAL TO HAETFORD — OEDAINED PRIEST, AND INSTI- 
 TUTED RECTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH MARRIAGE 
 
 ZEALOUS IN GOOD WORKS INTEREST IN SUNDAY 
 
 SCHOOLS AND MISSIONS REPORT OF AN EYE-WITNESS 
 
 ALMOST A RURAL PARISH DR. BEOWNELL BECOMES 
 
 BISHOP OF CONNECTICUT — MR. WAINWRIGHT CHOSEN 
 AN ASSISTANT MINISTER OF TRINITY CHURCH — NEW 
 LABORS, IN A LARGER FIELD ACCEPTS THE RECTOR- 
 SHIP OF GRACE CHURCH BRIEF NOTICE OF ITS HIS- 
 TORY DOCTOR IN DIVINITY PASTORAL DUTIES 
 
 LENT LECTURES CATECHIZING. 
 
 MK. WAIXWKIGHT, while yet in Dea- 
 con's orders, was called to the charge 
 of Christ Church, Hartford, Connecticut. 
 
 Bishop Jarvis had died in 1813, and the 
 
 Diocese of Connecticut, having at this time 
 
 no Episcopal head, was under the provisional 
 
 charge of Bishop Hobart, of New York. 
 
 The young clergyman was admitted to the 
 
68 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 Priestliood by this honored prelate, and was 
 instituted by him as rector of the parish, 
 May 29th, 1818. " It was his first love, and 
 he was entirely happy in it. And the more, 
 when the light of human endearment came 
 in, upon his hearth, to brighten and to 
 sanctify it. He was married, in August, 
 1818, to Amelia Maria, the daughter of Tim- 
 othy Phelps, Esq., of 'New Haven. She sur- 
 vives him, with eight children. Six went 
 before him into rest." 
 
 Although Mr. Wainwright remained but a 
 short time at Hartford, he left his mark be- 
 hind him. He was very active in the first 
 organization of the Sunday School, and began 
 to manifest that deep and tender interest in 
 the lambs of the flock for which he was dis- 
 tinguished through the whole period of his 
 ministry. 
 
 It is pleasant to remember, also, that the 
 earliest missionary association, in connection 
 with the parish of Christ Church, was formed 
 
ZEALOUS OF GOOD WORKS. 69 
 
 by him. He travelled about through Massa- 
 chusetts organizing auxiliary societies, and 
 was one of the first and most zealous agents 
 in behalf of Sunday Schools and Missions in 
 our country. 
 
 A venerable bishop, who, at that period, 
 was an humble parish priest in the Eastern 
 Diocese, has kindly favored the writer with 
 a brief account of his first interview with 
 the subject of this memoir. "I had gone to 
 the Convention, which assembled at Green- 
 field, Massachusetts, in company with the 
 Rev. Thomas Carlile, then rector of St. 
 Peter's Church, Salem, who had kindly of- 
 fered me a seat in his own conveyance. 
 Upon our return we passed down the valley 
 of the Connecticut as far as Hartford, and, 
 for the first time, the vernal beauties of that 
 magnificent region refreshed my taste and 
 kindled my imagination. Since then my 
 eye lias rested upon scenes more exquisitely 
 polished by the hand of Art, but upon none 
 
70 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 where tlie beauties of Art and Nature are 
 more happily blended, the Art not a whit 
 too elaborate, or Nature one touch too rough. 
 
 " We found the rector of Christ Church, 
 Hartford — then but recently married — in the 
 full enjoyment of the perfect earthly elysium 
 of my then young imagination, a fitting vil- 
 lage, and almost rural parish. How remark- 
 able, that he was permitted to taste these 
 innocent and dear delights for so short a 
 period ; that so large a portion of his life was 
 passed in the most crowded portions of our 
 cities ; and that his almost martyr's death was 
 earned in a sphere of duty which calls for 
 the severest abnegation of home pleasures." 
 
 In the year 1819, the Rev. Thomas C. 
 Brownell, then an assistant minister of Trin- 
 ity Church, in the city of New York, was 
 chosen Bishop of Connecticut. That the ap- 
 pointment was a most happy and judicious 
 one, his mild and gentle rule, for well nigh 
 forty years, abundantly has proved. 
 
RECTOR OF GRACE CHURCH. 71 
 
 Mr. Wainwriglit was called to fill the va- 
 cancy thus made in tlie ranks of the clergy 
 of Trinity Parish, and, at the earnest solicita- 
 tion of Bishop Hobart and other friends, he 
 determined to accept. His labors in this new 
 and enlarged field were most faitliful ; and 
 his bland, engaging manners, w^liich won 
 the hearts of all, were especially influential 
 with the young. While thus pleasantly and 
 profitably employed, he was elected to the 
 rectorship of Grace Church, IN'ew York, but 
 declined the invitation. In 1821, however, 
 when the call was renewed, he felt it wrong 
 to refuse. 
 
 Grace Church was built by the corporation 
 of Trinity Parish, to supply the increasing 
 demand for church accommodation which 
 Trinity and her chapels were unable to meet. 
 
 It was consecrated by Bishop Benjamin 
 Moore, Dec. 2 1st, 1808. The first rector 
 was the Rev. IS'athaniel Bowen, D.D., after- 
 wards Bishop of South Carolina. He was 
 
72 LIFE OF BISHOP AVAINWRIGHT. 
 
 succeeded, in 1818, by the Rev. James Mont- 
 gomeiy, and then came Mr. Wainwright, a 
 brief vacancy between the two having been 
 supplied by the Rev. William II. De Lancey, 
 Deacon, now Bishop of Western ]^ew York. 
 
 Here, thirteen of the best and happiest 
 years of Mr. Wainwright's life were spent. 
 Laboring with earnestness and zeal, and at- 
 tracting about him a large circle of devoted 
 friends, he soon won for himself a most envi- 
 able name as a faithful and eloquent preach- 
 er of the Gospel and a devoted pastor. 
 
 Two years after he became rector of Grace 
 Church, he received from Columbia College 
 the honorary degree of Doctor in Divinity, 
 the same well-deserved title being afterwards 
 bestowed upon him by his own Alma Mater^ 
 at Cambridge. " In addition to the ordinary 
 public duties of the sanctuary, which he dis- 
 charged with fidelity and with favor, his 
 pastoral course was marked by great atten- 
 tion to other duties, which, at that period, 
 
LEISTT LECTURES. Y3 
 
 were not universally observed by that class 
 of divines with wliicli he was connected. 
 
 " We refer to the exposition of Holy Scrip- 
 ture in lectures, especially during the season 
 of Lent, the religious instruction of the 
 young, and the cultivation of a missionary 
 spirit among the people at large. In the first 
 of these duties he was pre-eminently success- 
 ful. His primary series of Lectures, which 
 excited at the time great interest, was on the 
 Gospel IS'arrative Harmonized. To prepare 
 his people for a more profitable attendance 
 on his Exposition, he made out and printed 
 an outline of the subjects, and advised and 
 encouraged them to form the harmony for 
 themselves, that they might have the very 
 passages before them on which he lectured, 
 for use then and for reference afterwards in 
 their private study at home. 
 
 "This was done by many of his parishioners, 
 and added much to the interest and value of 
 his instructions. He was remarkably happy 
 
 7 
 
74 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 in his lectures, which, though carefully pre- 
 pared, were not written, and never failed to 
 secure the attention of his auditors. Tliis 
 pi'actice he continued to the close of his life, 
 even after his elevation to the Episcopate. 
 The last course which he delivered was dur- 
 ing the Lent season following his consecra- 
 tion, in St. John's Chapel, New York. 
 
 " His interest in the religious instruction of 
 youth has likewise been mentioned. He was 
 attentive to the duty of catechizing the lambs 
 of his flock, and always took a deep interest in 
 his Sunday School. Several of our clergy 
 who are now occupying prominent positions 
 in the Church, were engaged with him as 
 catechists at this period."* 
 
 ** Dr. Haight's Essay on Life of Bishop Wainwright, 
 Church Keview, Vol. VII., p. 580. 
 
ADDITIONAL PAETIOULAES ABOUT PASTOEAL LABOR — IN- 
 TEREST IN SUNDAY SCHOOL — IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL LIBRARY A PARISH SCHOOL THIRTY- 
 
 FOUB YEARS AGO THE CHURCH WAKING UP — ZEAL 
 
 FOR MISSIONS MEASURES WHICH WERE ALMOST SUS- 
 PECTED OF BEING WRONG CHURCH MUSIC SOME- 
 THING ABOUT CHOIRS AND CONGREGATIONAL SINGING 
 MALIBRAN AT GRACE CHURCH SCENE AT A WAY- 
 SIDE TAVERN " BROTHER HENSHAW, DO PRAY WITH 
 
 us!" THE POTENCY OF THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER. 
 
 WE have something more to add, to 
 what was said in the last chapter, con- 
 cerning Dr. Wainwright's efficient labors as 
 a parish priest. I have carefully read over 
 all of his reports to the New York Conven- 
 tion during the period of his connection with 
 Grace Church, and the interest which he felt 
 in his Sunday School is manifested through- 
 out the whole of them. 
 
76 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 Like other institutions of the sort, it had 
 its fluctuations. Sometimes the good rector 
 was encouraged by evident tokens of pros- 
 perity, and then, again, there would follow a 
 season of disheartening decline. During one 
 year we find the Sunday School nearly bro- 
 ken up by the prevalence of the yellow fever 
 in the city. 
 
 In 1831, he reports that valuable additions 
 have been made to the Sunday School Li- 
 brary, which " is found to be productive of 
 great benefit, both to the children and their 
 parents." It is almost a hopeless task to sus- 
 tain a Sunday School without a full assort- 
 ment of good and attractive books ; and those 
 of my readers who are contributing towards 
 the publication of new volumes for this end 
 are devoting their money to a most import- 
 ant object. 
 
 Besides the Sunday School, Dr. Wain- 
 wright took a very active part in the estab- 
 lishment of a charity school, to which he thus 
 
PARISH SCHOOL THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO. 77 
 
 refers in his report for 1824 : " During the 
 past year a charity school has been establish- 
 ed by this parish, designed to educate 150 
 boys and 150 girls, of the children of poor 
 persons. 
 
 A master and mistress have been appoint- 
 ed, who conduct the school, under the 
 superintendence of the Hector and a com- 
 mittee of twenty-four gentlemen of the par- 
 ish, for the male department, and twenty- 
 four ladies for the female. Tliese commit- 
 tees are divided into sub-committees of two, 
 who visit the school in monthly rotation. 
 There are now in the male department 110 
 children, and in the female 125 ; all of whom 
 are instructed in the common branches of 
 an useful education, and in the doctrines 
 and worship of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church." 
 
 When this noble work was begun, by the 
 Rector and congregation of Grace Church, 
 such plans of benevolence were almost 
 
78 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 unknown in this country, and the persons 
 who thus boldly struck out, in the right di- 
 rection, in a matter so all-important, certainly 
 deserve great credit. 
 
 Now, thank God, the Church is waking up 
 to a sense of her responsibility, and we trust 
 that her zeal will not flag until every con- 
 gregation has its parish school in successful 
 operation. It was certainly a mistake to give 
 to the enterprise the odious name of a charity 
 school I and it would have been better to 
 have called it after one of the Apostles or 
 Saints of old, or simply a parish or parochial 
 school. Even the poorest persons do not like 
 to send their children to a so-called charity 
 school. 
 
 Besides the successful efforts for doing 
 good already referred to, Dr. Wainwright 
 preached an able and interesting series of 
 sermons on Christian Education, which were 
 afterwards published by request of his con- 
 gregation. 
 
ZEAL FOR MISSIONS. 79 
 
 He also contiuiied to feel a lively interest 
 in the great work of missions ; a subject 
 towards whicli his mind was directed from 
 his first entrance to the ministry. In May, 
 1828, he delivered a sermon in St. James' 
 Church, Philadelphia, before the Directors 
 of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary So- 
 ciety (then a feeble association, with only 
 fouT missionaries in the whole field), which 
 electrified the Church, and roused up her 
 members from their long slumber. 
 
 Thi'ee months after, we find the eloquent 
 rector of Grace Church lifting up his voice 
 again, in his old pulpit at Hartford, on the 
 occasion of forming the African Mission 
 School Society. 
 
 Neither were his eff'orts in this depart- 
 ment of duty confined to sermons. He 
 called his people together for missionary 
 meetings, where interesting and encouraging 
 facts were laid before them, and he made 
 these things the theme of conversation in his 
 
80 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 pastoral visits from house to house. All this 
 was done, it must be remembered, when 
 such efforts were quite unknown to many 
 in our branch of the Church, and almost too 
 new to be considered safe ! With his refined 
 and cultivated taste, it may be readily sup- 
 posed that Dr. Wain Wright paid great atten- 
 tion to the proper performance of everything 
 relating to public worship. 
 
 His ardent love for sacred music seemed 
 steadily to increase, and the effect was seen 
 in the great perfection to which it was car- 
 ried by his choir, and in the more general 
 attention paid to it throughout the land. 
 
 A collection of Church music, arranged 
 and published by himself, became very popu- 
 lar, and was productive of much lasting good. 
 
 To worship God, in the beauty of holiness, 
 was almost an instinct of his nature, and 
 every thing which could contribute to this 
 end was gladly brought into service. When 
 the celebrated Malibran visited America, 
 
CHTIRCH MUSIC. 81 
 
 she sang on several occasions in the choir of 
 Grace Church.* 
 
 At this stage of the narrative, we are in- 
 debted to the same poKshed pen which fur- 
 nished the bird's-eye view of the young rec- 
 tor at Hartford, for another portrait of the 
 same individual, now become a dignified 
 Doctor of the Church. " On their way to 
 General Convention, or to some other assem- 
 blage of the clergy, in times ante-dating the 
 rush of railroads, a number of ministers were 
 passing a night together at a wayside tavern. 
 At such times their intercourse is apt to be 
 
 ** Duyckinck's Cyclopcedia of American Literature, II., 
 139. Altliough we must be thankful at the revival of 
 Congregational singing, yet, after all, Clioirs must coxitinue 
 to be a necessity of the Church. No music, of a difficult 
 character, can be expected without them. And while we 
 readily grant, that in order to meet the wants of the 
 many, Church music should generally be plain and simple, 
 the taste of the feiv should also be gratified with An- 
 thems, &c., of a superior style. 
 
 For some admirable remarks on Church Music, see Hal- 
 lam's Lectures on Morning Service, p. 90. 
 
82 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 unrestrained. Tliey are under a spell of no 
 common potency. 
 
 " Released from the cramped and confined 
 position of a stage-coach ; relieved from the 
 constraint imposed by a censorious public ; 
 led back, by silken cords, to the play-grounds 
 of childhood, or to the happy days of col- 
 lege life ; stimulated by a thousand literary 
 tastes and associations in perfect concord ; 
 they lose sight of all ecclesiastical differ- 
 ences, and unite in one common sentiment of 
 friendship and affection. 
 
 " At the close of an evening passed under 
 these cordial and enlivening influences, upon 
 retiring to their bed-chambers, four clergy- 
 men found themselves very near to what, to 
 each of them, at home, had been a sacred 
 altar of their God ; and Dr. Wainwright was 
 the first to feel the spirit of the place and of 
 the hour, and turning to the rector of St. 
 Peter's, Baltimore, he said: ' Come, Brother 
 Henshaw, you are the most accustomed to 
 
POTENCY OF THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER. 
 
 83 
 
 pray extemporaneously on such occasions as 
 this ; do pray with us !' 
 
 " Ah ! the spirit of prayer ; how much 
 more potent and loving it is than the spirit 
 of party!" 
 
Cliit^ter fenti]. 
 
 EEMOVAL TO BOSTON — TRINITY CHIJECH — WELCOMED BY 
 
 OLD FRIENDS THE DECAYING PARISH REVIYED A 
 
 NEW ORGAN VISIT TO ENGLAND THE PASTOr's 
 
 MEMORY CHERISHED BY HIS FLOCK LETTERS TO HIS 
 
 SONS GREAT LONDON — SIGHT-SEEING — LARGE DOGS, 
 
 AND SMALL DONKEYS BEAUTIFUL PARKS — GRAND RE- 
 VIEW OF TROOPS — THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S DIN- 
 NER TO THE KING SIGHT OF THE GOLD AND SILVER 
 
 PLATE — LORDS AND LADIES — GOOD MANNERS HOUSE 
 
 ^ LORDS THE KING's HORSES AND CARRIAGES 
 
 MANY THINGS UNTOLD. 
 
 \ FTER thirteen tappy and useful years, 
 as the rector of Grace Church, Dr. 
 
 A 
 
 Wainwright received an urgent call to take 
 charge of Trinity Church, Boston. This was 
 in 1834:. I^othing but a sense of duty would 
 have led him to accept, for he was perfectly 
 contented where he was. 
 
 The ancient parish of Trinity Church had 
 
VISIT TO ENGLAND. 85 
 
 been without a pastor for more than a year, 
 and was suffering sadly in consequence of 
 this want. The Church could ill afford to 
 lose any strength which she might have al- 
 ready gained in Boston, and clergy and laity 
 entreated Dr. Wainwright to accept. He 
 could not w^ell refuse. " He was welcomed 
 back to the haunts of his youth with the ut- 
 most cordiality. His old friends rallied about 
 him. l^ew friends were gathered to them. 
 The parish was encouraged and reinforced. 
 A better organ was needed ; and he was sent 
 to England to procure its construction, with 
 a most liberal provision for his i:>ersonal 
 expenses abroad. 
 
 *' It was the land of his birth. It was the 
 land of his heart. Scarcely any one ever 
 went abroad with a better preparation for 
 the highest enjoyment. 
 
 " Scarcely any one ever more completely 
 realized his most sanguine expectations. His 
 letters, to his beloved wife, run over with 
 
 8 
 
86 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 delight. He went from England into France, 
 Switzerland, and Germany, and returned to 
 Boston after an absence of eight months."* 
 
 We find very gratifying evidence, in the 
 JSTew York Conventional Journal for 1834, 
 that the members of Grace Church cherished 
 the memory of their former pastor, by com- 
 pleting their contribution for the establish- 
 ment of " The Wainwright SGliolarsliip^^ in 
 tlie General Theological Seminary. 
 
 Some interesting traces of Dr. Wain- 
 wright's visit to England are preserved in let- 
 ters to his sons, from which our young read- 
 ers especially will derive much satisfaction. 
 It should be borne in mind that William lY. 
 was then King of England. The first letter, 
 in our possession, is dated London, June 30th, 
 1836, and is as follows : 
 
 "My Dear Boys — Since I last wrote to 
 you I have seen your dear grandfather much, 
 
 * Bishop Doane's Memoir, p. 38. 
 
GREAT LOXDOX. 87 
 
 and many other friends. After letting yon 
 know that they are well, I dare say you will 
 be much interested in hearino^ somethino^ 
 atout this great and beautiful city, in which 
 I now am. I cannot describe to you half I 
 see, for this would occupy many letters, more 
 than I have time to write. I must keep the 
 account of many things to tell you of when I 
 return home. This is a wonderful city, and 
 full of objects, in all directions, which would 
 amuse you, and I often wish that I had you 
 both here, to walk about with me. 
 
 " The streets are large, and crowded with 
 carriages, and persons walking, and the shop 
 windows are filled with beautiful things, 
 which would tempt one much to buy were 
 they not so costly. One of the things, how- 
 ever, which I dare say would strike Henry 
 much, would be to see little carts drawn by 
 one and often two dogs. The men have them 
 to carry about things to sell. The dogs are 
 regularly harnessed, and they are as obedi- 
 
88 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 ent as possible, stojDping or going forward, 
 just as tlieir master tells tliem. Tliey have 
 little donkeys, too, not higlier than a table, 
 with saddles on them, for little children Jo 
 ride npon. 
 
 " London has a great many most beautiful 
 parks and squares. The parks are much lar- 
 ger than the Common in Boston, and they 
 have large sheets of Avater in them, on which 
 the beautiful swans and ducks are swimming: 
 about all the time. These parks are filled 
 with persons walking about, and especially 
 young people, with their nurses and attend- 
 ants. I very often see the children amusing 
 themselves with throwing pieces of bread and 
 cake into the water, and then the swans come 
 swimming up as fast as they can, to catch 
 them, to the great delight of the children. I 
 wish you could both have been with me to 
 see a fine display that I saw of 5,000 soldiers, 
 in Hyde Park. It was a great review. I 
 saw the king and queen there, the Duke of 
 
DUKE OF Wellington's dinner. 89 
 
 "Wellington, and many other distinguished 
 personages. The troops were very hand- 
 some, and the bands of music were playing 
 all the time delightfully. 
 
 "After exercising, they had a great deal 
 of firing of guns and cannons, in imitation of 
 a battle. It was in commemoration of the 
 battle of "Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington 
 gave a great dinner to the King, and to the 
 Prince of Orange, and the officers who fought 
 with him at the battle of "Waterloo. I got 
 permission to go in and see the tables as tliey 
 were laid out for the banquet, and a very su- 
 perb sight it was. Such quantities of gold and 
 silver plate I had never seen, before, nor any- 
 thing so beautiful as the room in which the 
 table was spread. It was very difficult to 
 get admission, and only those were permit- 
 ted to go in who had written orders. 
 
 "I have seen a great many lords and 
 ladies, etc., and dined with them, but I have 
 always found them very kind and atten- 
 
 8* 
 
90 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 tive, and unaffected in tlieir manners. I 
 have never seen any of them takmg upon 
 themselves any ah^s in consequence of their 
 rank or wealth. On the contrary, they are 
 some of the pleasantest people I have ever 
 seen. I wish you both to remember how im- 
 portant it is to cultivate an amiable charac- 
 ter and gentlemanly manners. Next to be- 
 ing good at heart, this is most important in 
 our intercourse with the world. Indeed, truly 
 good manners will be found only in him who 
 possesses good principles, and self-control, 
 and kind affections. 
 
 "I have been also in the House of Lords, 
 to hear them speak. I think that Mayhew is 
 old enough to have enjoyed this, in some de- 
 gree. I heard the Dnke of Wellington speak, 
 and Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Shelboiirne, Lord 
 Holland, Lord Grey, and many others. 
 
 " But you both would have been delighted 
 with another sight I had, of all the king's 
 horses and carriages. The king's son, Lord 
 
MANY THINGS UNTOLD. 91 
 
 Adolphus Fitz-Clarence, went round with 
 me, to show me them. I also saw two of the 
 king's parlors ; but I shall have to describe 
 all these things to you when I see you. I 
 will write to you again, dear boys, before 
 long. I hope you are both well, and are at- 
 tentive to your studies. Remember how im- 
 portant your time is, and how much your 
 father's and mother's happiness depends upon 
 you. 
 
 " Believe me, my dear boys, your most 
 affectionate father, 
 
 " JoN. M. Wainweight." 
 
LETTER FROM SHEFFIELD VISITS THE MANUFAOTOEIES 
 
 PENKNIVES DUBLIN EDINBCJEGH — SIGHT OF GEE AT 
 
 MEN OHTJECHES AND CASTLES LARGEST OEGAN IN 
 
 THE WOELD PAETING ADVICE TWO EEASONS FOE 
 
 PUBLISHING THESE LETTEES A LETTEE FEOM BOSTON 
 
 ALL WELL IMPEOVEMENT OF PEESENT PEIVILEGE8 
 
 MAKING one's WAT IN THE WOELD PEESENTS FEOM 
 
 EUEOPE — "the value OF MONET." 
 
 THE next letter from Dr. TVainwriglit to 
 his sons was written several months after 
 the last, and when his foreign tour was nearly 
 ended. 
 
 "Sheffield, Oct. 20th, 1826. 
 
 "My Dear Boys — It is some time since 
 your father has written to you, but he has 
 been in such constant motion, in going from 
 place to place, that he has hardly found time 
 for writing more than to your mother. How- 
 
VISITS THE MANUFACTOKIES. 93 
 
 ever, my dear sons, I have been laying up in 
 store a great many things to tell you when 
 I return, which I hope, by God's permission, 
 will be soon. I have very often, in the 
 course of my travels, thought of you both, 
 and wished I had you with me to look at the 
 things I have seen. For instance, to-day I 
 have been looking at the manufactories in 
 this place, and have seen them make knives, 
 and razors, and saws, and files, and all such 
 articles. 
 
 "You might not have understood every 
 process, but I am sure you would have been 
 gratified to see how a penknife was produced 
 from a piece of iron. I can tell you all 
 about it when I return, and I have bought 
 knives for you, which I shall bring home 
 with me. 
 
 " Before I came to this town, I travelled in 
 Scotland and Ireland. I was several days in 
 Dublin, which is a very beautiful city, but 
 not quite as handsome as Edinburgh. This 
 
94: LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 is one of the finest places I have ever seen. 
 In my way to it from Ireland, I saw Loch 
 Lomond, Loch Katrine, Ben Yenue, and 
 other places mentioned by Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 " At Edinburgh I saw Holyrood Palace, 
 the Castle, and many other places that are 
 often mentioned in history. I saw also sev- 
 eral distinguished men, whose names perhaps 
 Mayhew may have heard of, such as Dr. 
 Chalmers, Lord Jeffrey, Lord Brougham, etc. 
 
 " I am now travelling in England, on my 
 way to London again. This is a very delight- 
 ful country to travel in, the roads are so good, 
 and the horses and carriages so fine. The 
 country also is very beautifully cultivated, 
 and is delightful to look at. There are many 
 old churches and castles to be seen ; some 
 of which have been built for hundreds of 
 years. 
 
 " The cathedrals are very magnificent. 
 I have recently seen Durham and York 
 Minster. The organ in the latter is one of 
 
PAETING ADVICE. 95 
 
 tlie largest, if not the largest, in the world. 
 Some of the pipes are more than thirty feet 
 high and two feet wide, and when they 
 sound they shake the buikling like thunder. 
 I think, when I see you, I can tell you of all 
 these things better than I can describe them 
 in a letter. I hope to be at home before 
 Christmas day. 
 
 "I shall now go to London as soon as I 
 can, and shall then be able to say when I 
 can get away, so as to embark from Liver- 
 pool. I trust, my dear boys, that you are 
 both pursuing your studies with diligence, 
 and that I shall have a good account of you 
 when I return. Do not lose your present 
 favorable opportunities to get knowledge, 
 and above all things, my dear sons, remem- 
 ber your Creator, and in your daily prayers 
 beseech Him to enable you ever to love and 
 serve Him. Believe me, dearest boys, ever 
 your affectionate father, 
 
 " JoN. M. Watnwright." 
 
96 LIFE OF BISHOP WATNWEIGHT. 
 
 " What a kind, thoughtful, and affectionate 
 letter !" must be the reflection of every one 
 who reads it. 
 
 I have two reasons for preserving as many 
 of these epistles as possible ; first, because I 
 think they will please and benefit ckildren^ 
 and secondly, that parents may have a suit- 
 able model set before them for imitation. 
 Fathers are too apt to content themselves 
 with brief and hasty letters to their sons, 
 wliile absent at school, and many evil ways 
 into which the young are so easily enticed 
 might have been escaped, had more kind and 
 considerate communications been received 
 from the dear ones at home. 
 
 Soon after Dr. Wainwright's return from 
 England, he writes again to his sons, who were 
 attending the Rev. Mr. Huddart's Academy, 
 at Bloomingdale, I^ew York. 
 
 "Boston, Feb. \st, 1837. 
 
 " My Dear Boys — After I parted with you 
 on "Wednesday last, I had, upon the whole, 
 
» 
 
 ALL WELL. 97 
 
 quite a comfortable passage, although we 
 were somewhat detained hy the ice. I got 
 home at 4 o'clock on Thursday, and found 
 your dear mother and the children all well. 
 I have now seen you all except Howard, and 
 I shall go as soon as I can to Hartford to see 
 the dear boy. How thankful I am to find 
 you all well, and, as far as I can judge, doing 
 well at your respective schools ! I trust now 
 that you are both fully aware of the import- 
 ance of good conduct and of industrious hab- 
 its, and that you find it to be a source of 
 sincere pleasure to yourselves to make your 
 parents happy, and to secure the approbation 
 of your friends. I want you both to write to 
 me at least as often as once a fortnight, and 
 write to me freely, not only as your father, 
 but as a friend who loves you better than 
 any other friend can. I shall also write to 
 you such counsels as may from time to time 
 occur to my mind. You both of you know 
 that you have to make your own way in the 
 
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98 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 world, and that I can have nothing more to 
 give you than your education. I do not re- 
 gret this, for I have had to do the same my- 
 self, and from what I have observed, as n 
 general rule, those men are the best, and 
 happiest, and most respected, who get on by 
 their own energies. Now is your time for 
 pre23aration ; for every hour that you are now 
 industrious in acquiring useful information, 
 and in preparing for active life, you will be 
 ever thankful ; and time lost in your youth you 
 will regret more and more the longer you live. 
 
 " I send you, by this opportunity, the two 
 knives I bought for you. They are very 
 good ones, I believe. The handles are of 
 cocoa-nut wood, but they will principally in- 
 terest you as having been bought by me ex- 
 pressly for you at the manufacturer's in Shef- 
 field. I also send a pearl-handled knife, 
 which I bought at the same time, for Mr. 
 Huddart ; give it to him with my best regards. 
 
 " In the parcel you will find a few marbles 
 
" VALUE OF MONEY." 99 
 
 of agate and jasper, which I got at the val- 
 ley of Chamouni, in Switzerland. They were 
 got at Mont Blanc. There are four cakes of 
 scented soap, two for each of yon, which I 
 got in London. Your ma thought you would 
 like them. I bought a number of books, 
 which I shall send you from time to time. 
 I wish you, aftei- reading them, to put them 
 up carefully, as Elizabeth, and Howard, and, 
 by-and-by, the others, must have them. 
 Kead the ' Yalue of Money' attentively, and 
 let me know your opinion about it. 
 
 ^' I inclose in this letter five dollars. Your 
 grandmother Wardsworth gave your ma two 
 dollars for each of you, for J^ew Year's pres- 
 ents, but your ma thought you would prefer 
 the money. The half dollar for each, I add. 
 Do not spend any till you have both read the 
 ' Yalue of Money.' And now, my very dear 
 boys, farewell. 
 
 " E^er your affectionate father, 
 
 *' Jon. M. Wainwright." 
 
A LITTLE CIRCUMSTANCE ANXIETY OF PAEENTS GENTLE 
 
 EEPKOOF WISE MAXIM PEOMPTNESS ESSENTIAL TO A 
 
 merchant's SUCCESS THE COMFORTS OF OLD AGE TO 
 
 BE PROVIDED FOR IN YOUTH — NO ASSURANCE OF LONG 
 
 LIFE THE DUTY OF AN ELDER BROTHER TOWARDS A 
 
 YOUNGER LEGIBLE HANDWRITING LESSONS OF EXPE- 
 
 EIENCE WATCHFULNESS OVER ONe's TEMPER THE 
 
 DISAGREEMENTS OF BROTHERS. 
 
 AT the close of the spring vacation, Dr. 
 Wainwright's sons returned to Mr. 
 Hiiddart's school, but, with the thoughtless- 
 ness of youth, they forgot how anxious their 
 parents would be to hear of their safe arrival. 
 This little circumstance was the occasion of 
 the next letter, which is addressed to May- 
 hew. The counsels which it conveys are 
 worthy of being treasured up by all young 
 persons. 
 
GENTLE REPROOF. 101 
 
 " Boston, Ajn-il 19th, 1837. 
 
 " My Dear Son — I have an opportunity to 
 send jou a line, and jour mother is going to 
 put up some things for you and your brother. 
 
 " We were very glad to hear from you at 
 last, after your safe arrival at school. We 
 had begun to be quite impatient. Indeed, 
 you should have written to us at an earlier 
 date, certainly within two days after your 
 return, for, had you thought a moment, you 
 would have known that we must have been 
 quite anxious to hear of your safety and com- 
 fort, and that of your brother. You say in 
 your letter, that you were prevented by ' one 
 or two little things.' ISTow you know that 
 one or two little things are not a sufficient 
 reason for neglecting a duty to your parents. 
 It would have been easy to find time for a 
 short letter. But I will not dwell upon this. 
 I only mention it in order to urge npon you 
 the importance of never putting off till to- 
 morrow what should be done to day. This 
 
102 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 maxim deserves the serious notice of every 
 person ; but it is particularly important to one 
 who designs to be a merchant. There is no 
 one quality more essential to success in this 
 profession than punctuality. A merchant's 
 letter should never be a day or even an hour 
 behind the time when it should be written or 
 sent. Remember this, for the most serious 
 consequences might arise from neglect in such 
 cases. 
 
 " I hope, my dear son, you are now fully 
 aware of the importance of employing your 
 time most industriously, and availing your- 
 self of the advantages you have. The more 
 industrious you are in youth and in early 
 life, the greater comfort you will enjoy in 
 middle age, and in advanced life, should you 
 be spared so long. And ever remember 
 that we have no assurance for any continu- 
 ance here, and therefore that we should, above 
 all things, be anxious to be prepared for death 
 whenever it may come. If you knew how 
 
DUTY OF AN ELDER BROTHER. 103 
 
 mucli jour motlier and I depended upon you, 
 as our oldest child, and what comfort we 
 hope to have in you, you would endeavor 
 always to do right, whatever sacrifice and 
 self-denial it might cost you. You cannot 
 get along in the world successfully and hap- 
 pily without self-denial. Remember this. 
 
 " Give my best love to your dear brother ; 
 be watchful over him, but do not attempt to 
 tyrannize over him, as I have sometimes seen 
 older brothers do over their younger. Be 
 ever kind and aflfectionate, and if you have 
 to warn or advise, never do it in anger. 
 Your mother, I dare say, will tell you all 
 about the family. And now, my dear sons, 
 may God ever bless you both, and lead you 
 in his fear and love. 
 
 " Your affectionate father, 
 
 " Jox. M. Wain WRIGHT. 
 
 " P. S. Strive hard to write a legible, rap- 
 id, and handsome hand ; tliis is very import- 
 ant for a merchant." 
 
lO-i LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 This gentle reproof, so kindly administered, 
 was received in the spirit of an affectionate 
 child, and a letter of apology was promptly 
 returned. Dr. Wainwright thus replies : 
 
 "BosrroN, Mai/ Sd, 1837. 
 
 " My Dear Son — I was pleased at the 
 punctuality of your reply to my last letter, 
 and your observance of the maxim I gave 
 you. Be assured that it is a very important 
 one, and if observed through life will save 
 you a vast deal of time, and from many anx- 
 ieties and disappointments. There are very 
 few feelings more painful than that of reflect- 
 ing that you have neglected what you ought 
 to have attended to yesterday, and finding 
 that now it is too late, because the moment 
 has passed by, or because other engagements 
 press upon yon. If you can be punctual in 
 the discharge of every duty, and get before- 
 hand, as it were, with all your occupations, 
 you will derive the greatest comfort and ad- 
 vantage from such a habit. 
 
LEGIBLE HAJjnDWEITING. 105 
 
 " In looking back upon my past life, I see 
 that it would have been of the greatest serv- 
 ice to me had I acquired it early in life. I 
 am very anxious that my children should 
 learn from my experience, and I shall en- 
 deavor that they may not be exposed to many 
 things which I have suffered from. 
 
 "The welfare of our children is the object 
 that constantly occupies the thoughts and 
 engages the prayers of myself and your 
 mother. I trust, my dear boy, that we shall 
 have our reward in the good conduct of those 
 who are infinitely dearer to us than any 
 other earthly object. I must say again, that 
 I am anxious about your handwriting. You 
 are improving, but not as fast as I could 
 wish in this particular. Do you practise 
 enough ? Be careful of your spelling, and do 
 not make blots and erasures. This is more 
 important for a merchant than a literary man. 
 We are too apt to be careless in this matter. 
 Give your mind closely to your studies. Try 
 
106 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 to understand tliorouglilj every thing you 
 take in hand. Above all things, keep a 
 watch over your temper. Do not be impe- 
 rious to your brother, but watch over him 
 with kindness, and if he does any thing 
 wrong, do not rebuke, but advise him affec- 
 tionately. 
 
 " Ever your affectionate father, 
 
 " JoN. M. Wainwbight." 
 
 Strange as it may seem, two brothers in 
 the same school, and especially in the same 
 class, are more apt to get along badly to- 
 gether, than perfect strangers do. Hence 
 the need of forbearance on the part of both. 
 The hints contained in Dr. Wainwright's let- 
 ters, on this subject, are of the greatest value, 
 and I trust that they may not be overlooked. 
 
filjaptn" Sljirtteittlj. 
 
 THE YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN A BEAUTIFUL LETTER RULES 
 
 FOR AN OFFICER TO LIVE BY THE ONLY WAY IN 
 
 WHICH THEY CAN BE CARRIED OUT TIME FOR READ- 
 ING THE BIBLE, AND FOR PRAYER IMPORTANCE OF A 
 
 JOURNAL A PLACE AMONG HONORED NAMES — CALL 
 
 TO RETURN TO NEW YORK FINAL DECISION — THE 
 
 WORK OF SEVENTEEN YEARS PUBLIC TRUSTS THE 
 
 WORLD OF SCIENCE AND ART— THE SECRET OF BEING 
 ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH MUCH PATIENCE AT INTERRUP- 
 TION. 
 
 OINTE of Dr. Wainwright's sons entered 
 the navy, and while occupying the post 
 of a midshipman, he received the following 
 beautiful letter from his father: 
 
 *' Boston, Jxdy 2Sth, 1837. 
 " My Dear Son — Your letter gave me the 
 greatest pleasure. To hear of you, and that 
 you were well and contented, was cause of 
 
108 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 great thankfulness. I trust to learn that you 
 are now devotedly attentive to your duties, 
 are assiduously learning all you can, and thus 
 give promise of one day making a distinguish- 
 ed officer. I have said it to you before, but 
 it is so important for you to think of it, that I 
 cannot help repeating the caution ; noio is 
 your time for improvement and for forming 
 the character that will probably attach to 
 you during life. The next five years, if well 
 employed, will place you in a position of 
 honor and comparative safety, should you 
 live so long ; but if you waste and idle away 
 these five years, you never can recover the 
 loss ; repentance, the most anxious exertions, 
 and floods of tears cannot then put you in the 
 situation which you should fill. 
 
 "In my view, it depends upon these ^yq 
 years, whether for the remainder of your life 
 you are a disgrace to your friends and a 
 miserable burden to yourself, or, on the other 
 hand, our pride and delight, and happy in 
 
A BEAUTIFUL LETTER. 109 
 
 yourself as you are esteemed and loved by all 
 around yon. Think of this daily, and never 
 give way to indolence or dissipation of any 
 kind. By assiduous and prompt attention to 
 duty, by anxiety to learn all you cnn, by re- 
 spectful and affectionate behavior to your 
 brother officers, and by kind and considerate, 
 but yet firm and dignified, deportment to the 
 men, endeavor to form a character which 
 must command the esteem of all. 
 
 " I need not speak upon the importance of 
 truth, and unbending integrity in every word 
 and action, of unwavering courage in every 
 emergency, and of uniform habits of temper- 
 ance ; for if I did not think that you possessed 
 and valued these qualities, I should never 
 have consented to your entering the service 
 of your country. Tell the truth, fear jiothing, 
 command your temper, and restrain your ap- 
 petites, reverence your Maker, and remember 
 your future accountability to Him. Let these 
 precepts mingle with every thought and ac- 
 
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110 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGIIT. 
 
 tion of your life. I doubt not, my dear son, 
 that this advice will recommend itself to your 
 good sense, that you will say it is all right ; 
 but the question is how you are to keep it in 
 constant influence. Only one way : by mak- 
 ing your conduct daily the subject of self-in- 
 quiry, and by offering to God daily prayer 
 that He would instruct, guide, and sustain 
 you. Never turn into your hammock at 
 night without thinking, if it be but for two 
 minutes, how you have passed the day, 
 whether you have employed it as well as you 
 could have done, and without offering your 
 prayers to God for his protection and bless- 
 ing. And every time you rise to your watch, 
 let your thoughts ascend in prayer to your 
 Maker. 
 
 " I know that on board of a ship of war there 
 is little or no opportunity for retired thoughts, 
 and that there is much that is unfavorable to 
 a life of devotion. Still, there is no situation 
 where dependence upon God should be more 
 
KrLES FOR AN OFFICER. Ill 
 
 constantly felt, and you certainly can find 
 brief spaces of time for secret prayer. The 
 heart can always pray, even if there be no 
 place to bend the knees. Frequently, and 
 for a moment or two, you can lift up your 
 thoughts. I would, too, that you could find 
 time for reading in your Bible, if it be only 
 eight or ten verses each day. On Sundays, 
 I trust you will give more time to this duty. 
 But I have said enough for this time. I trust, 
 my dear son, you will not find it tedious. 
 May God be with you. Let us know how 
 you get on, every opportunity. Keep a daily 
 journal ; by all means keep a journal. If you 
 have not begun, begin this day. 
 
 "Ever your afiectionate father, 
 
 " JoN. M. Wainwright." 
 
 The hand which wrote these lines is now 
 cold in death, but this excellent advice has 
 not been lost upon him for whose benefit it 
 was given. He is now a lieutenant in the 
 
112 LIFE OF EISIIOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 navy, and perhaps, in course of time, among 
 the names of Decatuk, and Perry, and those 
 other heroes whom America deli splits to hon- 
 or, the son of Bishop Wainwkight may find 
 a conspicuous place. 
 
 About two years after Dr. Wainwright's 
 removal to Boston, he was invited to resume 
 his former position as an assistant minister of 
 Trinity Church, New York ; but although 
 this call was seconded by the earnest solici- 
 tations of his old parishioners and friends, he 
 felt obliged to decline. A year later (Janu- 
 ary, 1838), the invitation was renewed, and 
 with the full persuasion that the interests of 
 the Church, on the whole, would be promoted 
 thereby, he resigned the charge of his parish 
 in Boston. 
 
 In hi-s labors in ]S"ew York city, while 
 officiating in Trinity Church, and her two 
 chapels, as occasion might require, St. John's 
 was more especially assigned to Dr. Wain- 
 wright, as being under his pastoral care. 
 
WOKLD OF SCIENCE AND AET. 113 
 
 This arrangement was most happily continued 
 for seventeen years. But besides his duties 
 in Trinity Parish, he discharged many public 
 trusts, the mere enumeration of which is ap- 
 palling. He was, for a long period, a mem- 
 ber of the Standing Committee of the Diocese 
 of New York, and represented the Diocese 
 in the General Convention of 1832. From 
 1841, until after his consecration as Bishop, 
 in 1852, he was Secretary of the House of 
 Bishops. He also bore a prominent part in 
 conducting some of the more important soci- 
 eties of the Church, such as the Bible and 
 Prayer Book Society, the Tract Society, and 
 the Sunday School Union. 
 
 Moreover, his influence was felt in the 
 world of Science and Art ; and still, no duty 
 was neglected. He never seemed in a hurry, 
 or overtasked with work, and was always 
 ready to welcome the presence of a friend. 
 It was a wonder to many how he accom- 
 plished so much, and did everything so well. 
 
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114: LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 The secret was this — ^he rose early ; saved all 
 the odds and ends of time ; laid out his work 
 in a systematic way ; and kept at it until it 
 was done. In this connection, the writer 
 hopes that he may be pardoned for quoting a 
 single paragraph from a letter w^ith which he 
 has been favored by her who knew Bishop 
 Wain Wright best. 
 
 " One trait in my blessed husband's char- 
 acter which I think it well for you to know, 
 was his wonderful patience at interruption, 
 even when engaged in important studies, or 
 in any other engrossing pursuit. I have of- 
 ten and often been astonished at it. When- 
 ever even children would call upon him (no 
 matter how much engaged), he was always 
 ready, with a smile, to attend to their requests. 
 You may call this a small virtue ; but I think 
 it is a very important one." 
 
THE MILD Am) GENTLE MAN SHOWS THAT HE HAS THE 
 
 NERVE AND FIRMNESS OF A HERO THE NEW ENGLAND 
 
 SOCIETY AND ME. CHOATE's ORATION RAPTUROUS AP- 
 PLAUSE THE INTERPRETATION WHICH DR. WAIN- 
 WRIGHT PUT UPON IT — DR. potts' CHALLENGE — THE 
 
 CONTROVERSY AND ITS RESULTS MORE PEACEFUL 
 
 THEMES YOUNG LADIES' CLASS SERMON FULL OF 
 
 COMFORT WHOOPING-COUGH LATE IN LIFE THE PHY- 
 SICIAN'S VETO ON LABOR LIBERALITY OF TRINITY TO 
 
 HER MINISTERS — ^ANOTHER AND LONGER VISIT ABROAD. 
 
 DE. WAIXWRIGHT was so mild and 
 gentle in his manners, and had so long 
 kept himself aloof from the troubled field of 
 controversy, on which the orthodoxy maintain 
 the authority of the Church against all who 
 venture to make an assault upon her, that it 
 had been thorght by some that his love of 
 moderation and peace would never permit 
 him to take part in such a warfare. 
 
116 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 During tlie later years of his life, an occa- 
 sion presented itself, when the man of elegant 
 letters and the eloquent preacher pros^ed to 
 the satisfaction of all, that he possessed the 
 nerve and vigor to contend unflinchingly for 
 the truth, at whatever hazard of losing the 
 friendship of the world. 
 
 At the anniversary of the 'New England 
 Society, held in l^ew York, on the 22d of 
 December, 18-13, Mr. Rufus Choate, an emi- 
 nent lawyer of Massachusetts, delivered the 
 oration. In the course of his remarks, while 
 tracing the career of the Puritans, whose 
 landing at Plymouth they had met to cele- 
 brate, he said, that having fled from foreign 
 oppression to these distant shores, ^' they 
 found a State without a King, and a Church 
 without a Bishop." This sentiment was re- 
 ceived by the audience with loud and pro- 
 tracted applause. 
 
 At the public dinner, on that day, a toast 
 was given, "The Clergy of l^ew England," 
 
NEKYE AND FIRMNESS OF A HERO. 117 
 
 to wliicli Dr. Waiiiwriglit was called upon to 
 reply. He did so, and in the course of his 
 address he repeated the unfortunate remark 
 of Mr. Clioate, which had grated so harshly 
 on his ear, wlien he also was interrupted by 
 tumultuous cheering. »Feeling that the hon- 
 or of God's holy Church was thus rudely and 
 ruthlessly assailed, Dr. Wainwright said to 
 the presiding officer, with his own majestic 
 manner, "I^ow, sir, notwithstanding this 
 strong burst-of approbation to the sentiment, 
 were this a proper arena, should even the 
 orator of the day throw down his gauntlet, I 
 would take it up, and say, There cannot be 
 A Church without a Bishop." 
 
 Soon afterwards, Dr. George Potts, a 
 prominent Presbyterian divine, of the Old 
 School, addressed a letter to Dr. Wainwright, 
 through the columns of a newspaper, calling 
 him to account for what he had said, and of- 
 fering to debate with him the position, that 
 " there cannot be a Church without a Bishop." 
 
118 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 He, however, expresses the hope that he has 
 been misinformed as to the purport of the 
 speech, and that so courteous a gentleman 
 had not been thus far betrayed into the ex- 
 pression of harsh and uncharitable judgment 
 against his neighbors. 
 
 I cannot refrain from giving a part of Dr. 
 Wainwright's eloquent and manly response. 
 After stating that he had received a special 
 invitation to hear Mr. Choate's oration, and 
 that he had gone, as the son of a New Eng- 
 land mother, to show his resj)ect for all that 
 was high-minded and noble in the character 
 of the Puritans, he then refers to the objec- 
 tionable remark of the orator, and the ecstatic 
 delio:ht with which it was welcomed. " Had 
 the sentiment produced only the applause 
 which follows the happy expressions of every 
 popular speaker, had it been cheered even in 
 the same degree with other emphatic portions 
 of the oration, I should have taken no notice 
 of it. But the cheering was obviously, to 
 
DR. potts' CnALLENGE. 119 
 
 mj apprehension, not that of approbation of 
 the orator, but of defiance of such as did not 
 sympathize with the sentiment. It seemed 
 to me to speak this language : IS'ow, you ad- 
 vocates of Prelacy, we have you ; we are in 
 the majority ; we will make you feel how we 
 detest your opinions, and if we cannot drive 
 you from them, we will show you how un- 
 popular they are, and at least, if we can, 
 make you ashamed of them." 
 
 This is undoubtedly the true interpretation 
 of the rapturous applause which followed 
 Mr. Choate's epigrammatic remark. Dr. 
 Wainwrio;ht felt oblis^ed to vindicate the 
 honor of the Church, and he did not shrink 
 from the performance of so unpopular a 
 duty. 
 
 The challenge of Dr. Potts was accepted, 
 and although his antagonist modestly ob- 
 served, before the contest began, that he did 
 not believe that either party could throw any 
 additional light upon a question which had 
 
120 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIXWKIGIIT. 
 
 been so often and so ably discussed, it must 
 be acknowledged by all that the champion 
 of the Church exhibited the most masterly 
 skill, and preserved his Chrisjtian temper un- 
 ruffled to the last. The effect of this contro- 
 versy was to strengthen the position of the 
 Church. This is not said in a boasting spirit, 
 for with truth on our side, the advocate must 
 certainly be a poor one who does not finally 
 prevail. 
 
 And here we gladly lay down the weapons 
 of warfare, and return to more peaceful and 
 pleasant themes. It was during this period 
 that I enjoyed frequent opportunities of 
 hearing Dr. Wainwright preach. Besides all 
 his other cares, he established a class, for 
 young ladies, to be attended, with his own 
 daughters, to carry out a full course in his- 
 tory, literature, and philosophy. A relative 
 of ours (now gone to a better world) enjoyed 
 this rare privilege, with the rest. In this 
 way we learned many little incidents which 
 
wirooriNG-couGn late in lh^e. 121 
 
 showed the tenderness and afiection of Dr. 
 Waimvright's heart. 
 
 Bj one of those reverses of fortune which 
 so often occur in an overgrown city like ]^ew 
 York, an old friend of his had suddenly been 
 reduced from comparative wealth to strait- 
 ened circumstances ; and that at a period of 
 life when too late to hope to be able to rise 
 again to a prosperous state. The Sunday af- 
 ter this occurrence, Dr. Wainwright proposed 
 an exchange with the rector of the church 
 where this friend was accustomed to worship, 
 and preached that beautiful and consoling 
 sermon, from the text, "Jiy son, give me 
 thine heayf'^ {Proverhs xxiii. 26), now pub- 
 lished with his other discourses. Tlie sermon 
 was written, I believe, some years before, 
 at the request of Washington Irving. Let 
 those read it who would judge of its sooth- 
 ing effect. 
 
 In 1848, Dr. Wainwright had a severe 
 attack of whooping-cough, but he persisted iu 
 
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122 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 going on with his labors until his physician, 
 alarmed at the unfavorable symptoms which 
 presented themselves, required him to abstain 
 from all public duty. The vestry of Trinity 
 Church, always so considerate towards their 
 ministers, allowed him leave of absence for a 
 year, and provided liberally for his expenses, 
 in going to Europe and Palestine. Two ele- 
 gant volumes, entitled " The Pathways and 
 Abiding Places of our Lord," and " The 
 Land of Bondage," furnish a pleasing account 
 of this extensive tour. 
 
Cljajftu liftuntlj. 
 
 NATURAL DESIEE TO VISIT THE HOLT LAND THE FEEL- 
 
 IJfGS WITH WHICH DR. WAINWRIGHT WENT THITHER 
 
 THE SHIPS OF THE DESERT — MOUNTING THE CAMEL 
 
 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CAMEL AND A DROMEDARY 
 TRAVELLING SADDLE PRATER CARPET MANT DIF- 
 FERENT POSTURES IN the" SADDLE — THREATENING TO 
 BITE THE camel's COMPLAINTS A NECESSART CAU- 
 TION FATIGUES OF TRAVELLING THE CUNNING DRAG- 
 OMAN ARRIVAL AT JERUSALEM GOOD FRIDAT 
 
 BISHOP GOB AT DEPARTURE SAD AND THOUGHTFUL 
 
 MOMENT. 
 
 I 
 
 T is natural that, every Christian should 
 feel a desire to visit that land 
 
 ** Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, 
 Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, 
 For our advantage, on the bitter cross." 
 
 Such a wish had long been cherished by 
 Dr. Wainwright, and now it was about to be 
 gratified. A careful study of every book 
 
124: LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 upon Palestine wliicli liacl fallen in his way, 
 had prepared his mind for what he might 
 expect, and he visited the Holy Land, not as 
 some have done, to throw discredit npon 
 many of those traditions which have come 
 down from ancient times, but, as he himself 
 expressed it, " to see, to feel, and to believe ; 
 yielding to doubt only when com]3elled by 
 common sense and his measure of inform- 
 ation." 
 
 "We find him, on the 24:th. of March, 1849, 
 making his way through the dreary wilder- 
 ness of Shur, with his face turned towards 
 Jerusalem. His description of the mode of 
 travelling in the East is very graphic. " The 
 first undertaking is to mount the camel. This 
 proved to us an easier task than we had an- 
 ticipated. 
 
 " You have heard of both camels and 
 dromedaries, and perhaps suppose them 
 to be difi'erent, but they are precisely the 
 same species of quadruped, only the drome- 
 
FKAYER CARPET. 125 
 
 darj is selected for riding, as having an easier 
 gait. The difference is that which we lind 
 between a saddle horse and a cart horse. 
 When you are preparing to mount, the ani- 
 mal, whose head is up in the air beyond your 
 reach, is taken by the halter, and the keeper 
 makes a quick succession of sounds like hawk- 
 ing from the upper part of the throat. This 
 brings him unwillingly upon his knees, then 
 his haunches, and he gradually gets upon his 
 belly, with his awkward legs and cushioned 
 feet beneath him. Tlien the saddle, whicli 
 is a wooden frame padded, and fitting upon 
 the hump, with pommels like short, round 
 posts, about eight inches high before and be- 
 hind, is filled out with cushions, spare coats 
 and cloaks, or with the bed-mattress, and the 
 whole covered with a thick soft carpet, shaped 
 like a hearth rug, thrown across, called in 
 Arabic a seqadeh, or prayer carpet ; because 
 the Mussulman uses it at home, and carries 
 it with him in travelling to stand and kneel 
 
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126 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 upon at his frequent devotions, and for tins 
 purpose there is on its surface the figure of a 
 niche, to remind him of the niche in the 
 mosque towards which he prays, as making 
 him look in the direction of Mecca. This we 
 found a very useful and comfortable article, 
 not only to ride upon, but also to lay in our 
 tents or spread upon the sand when we wished 
 to rest. Thus arranged, the rude saddle 
 changed into a broad, pillion-like seat, with 
 pommels before and behind to hold on by, 
 and with stirrups fastened to the front one, 
 you may ride as on horseback. You can 
 take other positions, however, seating your- 
 self lady-fashion, or with both legs on either 
 side of the camel, or else turn completely 
 round and ride backwards, or if you have 
 dexterity and suppleness enough, you may sit 
 cross-legged like a Turk. Thus you may face 
 to or from the wind or the sun, or change 
 posture for relief, and this, together with be- 
 ing raised up nine feet, and above the effects 
 
THE CAISIEl's COMPLAINTS. 12' 
 
 of the sand, and in a free current of air, gives 
 the camels great advantages over the donkey 
 or the horse as an animal for crossing the 
 desert, in addition to its essential qualifica- 
 tion in the power of enduring thirst for suc- 
 cessive days. 
 
 "But to the mounting. Here, however, 
 the growling of one of the camels near the 
 tent in which I am writing, reminds me that 
 I have omitted to mention that all the while 
 your saddle is preparing, or the load being 
 put on, the surly animal keeps up a constant 
 grumbling and snarling, turning his head 
 back by means of his long, supple neck, and 
 showing his teeth as if he would bite you, 
 which he very rarely has the courage to do. 
 He seems to be complaining bitterly, and 
 showing all the resentment he dares at your 
 treatment of him ; and your pity might be 
 excited for him, but you find that it makes 
 no difiference whether your load is light or 
 heavy, and after it is put on, if you only at- 
 
V2S LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 tempt to adjust a rope or throw on your 
 cloak, lie begins liis complaints again. 
 
 "All being prepared, you take your seat 
 while the animal is still on the ground, and 
 are told to hold on fast, a caution by no 
 means useless, for as he raises himself up on 
 his haunches, then his knees, and at last gets 
 to his feet, you are in danger of being thrown 
 over his head, or over his tail, or off on one 
 side. When he is fairly up you feel safe 
 after a little while, though at a somewhat 
 giddy elevation to one who had been accus- 
 tomed only to a horse or a donkey. Your 
 ship of the desert (as some poet, after the 
 Arabs, has fancied to call it) now gets under 
 way, and considering the smooth sea it has to 
 cross it is certainly a very uneasy craft; for 
 moving the two oars, as we must call the legs, 
 on tlie same side alternately, your body is 
 jerked forward at each stroke, as if you were 
 making a succession of quick, -ungainly bows, 
 and you have no change of motion or rest 
 
V 
 
 THE CUNXING DRAGOMAN. 129 
 
 till you come to anclior for the niglit, except 
 when you lay by for half an hour in the mid- 
 dle of the day. After the ride of the first 
 two days I was excessively tired ; never, I 
 think, was I so completely exhausted by fa- 
 tigue before. ]^ow, however, having discov- 
 ered that our dragoman was riding an easier 
 dromedary than mine, which he had cunning- 
 ly taken for himself, I made him exchange 
 with me, and thus got along with comparative 
 comfort."* 
 
 We would gladly go on, and make the 
 whole tour with our amiable fellow-traveller, 
 but our chapters are too nearly exhausted to 
 permit us to do so. I hope that my readers 
 will have an opportunity of examining the 
 large work from which this extract has been 
 made. On the 5th of April (Thursday before 
 Easter), Dr. Wainwright and his companions 
 
 ^ Pathways of Our Lord, p. 9. Those who wish to form 
 an Ultimate acquaintance with Arab character should read 
 an episode in Badger's Nestorians, Vol. I., p. 344. 
 
130 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 entered the gates of Jerusalem, where they 
 remained ten days, spending many of the sa- 
 cred hours of Passion Week in visiting the 
 spots so memorable in Bible history. Good 
 Friday found him among the worshippers in 
 the English Church, which had been recently 
 built upon Mount Zion, where Bishop Gobat 
 preached an appropriate sermon, from St. 
 Luke xxiii. 46. On the 14th of April the 
 travellers were ready to depart. " Going out 
 of the Damascus Gate, we turned our faces, 
 not without sorrow, towards the north, and 
 wound slowly down the hill, crossing the 
 upper part of the valley of Jehoshaphat, with 
 Olivet, so sacred in our affections, upon the 
 right hand somewhat behind us. A rough, 
 rocky way, over a succession of high grounds 
 and plains, led, in about an hour, to the point 
 whence the pilgrim obtains his last view, and 
 must take his farewell of Jerusalem ! It was 
 a sad, thoughtful moment, and we could not 
 easily tear ourselves from the spot, but lin- 
 
SAD AND THOUGHTFUL MOMENT. 131 
 
 gerod with a fondness almost akin to that of 
 an old friendship ; and while our eyes dranh 
 in the last view we should have on earth of 
 the material walls and battlements of Jerusa- 
 lem, the sight of the soul seemed to be en- 
 larged, and embraced in one vision, as in 
 some mental chart, the history and the des- 
 tiny of that Holy City."* 
 
 ~ Among the popular works on Jerusalem, the writer 
 would commend, most heartily, Odenheimer's " Jerusalem, 
 and its Sacred Localities. ' ' 
 
AT HOME AGAIN — ANOTHER CALL TO GO ABROAD — A 
 ■ JUBILEE A DELEGATION SENT TO ENGLAND — WELL- 
 DESERVED DEGREE A FAR HIGHER HONOR, STILL 
 
 DR. WAINWRIGHT ELECTED BISHOP HIS CONSECRA- 
 TION, AND THE SANGUINE HOPES INSPIRED A MAN 
 
 OF SIXTY DOING MORE WORK THAN THE VIGOR OF 
 
 YOUTH COULD SAFELY UNDERTAKE SYMPTOMS OF 
 
 SERIOUS DERANGEMENT IN THE SYSTEM FRIENDLY 
 
 EXPOSTULATIONS THE LABORS OF TWO-AND-TWENTY 
 
 MONTHS INCIDENTS OF A VISIT TO TROY. 
 
 DE. WAmWEIGHT returned home in 
 October, 1849, with invigorated ener- 
 gies, and entered again upon his parochial 
 and other diversified labors. Nothing which 
 calls for particular notice occurred until 1852, 
 when a very pleasing duty required him to 
 make another visit to England. The venera- 
 ble Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 
DELEGATION SENT TO ENGLAND. 133 
 
 iu Foreign Parts had determined to celebrate 
 their third jubilee (the one hundred and fifti- 
 eth anniversary), on the 15th of June, in that 
 year ; and as a token of the kindly feelings 
 existing between the churches in England 
 and America, our Bishops were invited to 
 send two or more of their number to take 
 part in the closing services. 
 
 Bishop M'Coskry, of Michigan, and Bishop 
 De Lancey, of Western New York, were ac- 
 cordingly appointed to be the bearers of 
 resolutions expressive of the grateful love and 
 cordial sympathy of the daughter towards 
 the mother Church. 
 
 It was very doubtful, however, whether 
 the prelates would be able to go, and while 
 this question remained unsettled, it was con- 
 cluded best that Dr. "Wainwright, as secre- 
 tary of the House of Bishops, should depart 
 at once, with the resolutions which had been 
 adopted. He accordingly went, but it so 
 happened that the two Bishops who had*been 
 
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134 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 appointed delegates were able to attend, and 
 sailed soon after. 
 
 Notwithstanding tlieir nnexpected arrival, 
 great res2:>ect was paid to Dr. Wainwright, 
 and on every suitable occasion the halls of 
 Old England resounded with his fervent 
 Christian eloquence. Upon him, as well as 
 upon the two Bishops, the University of Ox- 
 ford conferred the degree of D. C. L. 
 
 But a far higher honor, still, was in store 
 for Dr. Wainwright, at home. On the first 
 of October, 1852, not long after his return 
 from this honorable mission to the English 
 Church, he was elected Provisional Bishop 
 of the Diocese of N'ew York. " The day of 
 his consecration was one not soon to be for- 
 gotten by any who had the good fortune to 
 be present. Regarded as the happy termi- 
 nation of diocesan contests, which had lasted 
 with great acrimony for years, this occasion 
 was honored by the presence of ten Bishops ; 
 and, for the first time since the establishment 
 
DR. WAINWRTGHt's CONSECRATION. 13.J 
 
 of the American Episcopate, an English 
 Bishop (of Montreal) united in consecrating an 
 American prelate. This happy commence- 
 ment of reunion and peace, celebrated as it 
 was with uncommon splendor, and the united 
 devotion of thousands, was fondly looked upon 
 as the inauguration of a long Episcopate.""^ 
 
 Dr. Wainwright's consecration took place 
 in Trinity Church, New York, on the tenth 
 of I^ovember, the venerable Dr. Brownell, of 
 Connecticut, Presiding Bishop of the Church 
 in the United States, acting as consecrator, 
 assisted by the other Bishops present. 
 
 The enormous diocese of x^ew York (which 
 we hope to see divided into three or four 
 smaller ones) presented a field far too vast 
 for even the most vigorous man in the flower 
 of his age; but Bishop Wainwright, in his 
 auxiety to leave no duty neglected, seems to 
 have forgotten that he was now sixty. lu 
 
 » Church Journal, No. 87. 
 
136 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 spite of the repeated and anxious remon- 
 strances of friends, and of several premoni- 
 toiy warnings, that he was overtaxing his 
 strength, he pursued his unceasing round of 
 labors, as if he realized that the time, for 
 him, was short. 
 
 " The first time I met Bishop Wainwright 
 after his consecration," writes a Western 
 prelate, " was at a meeting of the House of 
 Bishops at Camden, about a year after the 
 labors and exposures of the duties of his high 
 and arduous ofiice had begun to tell most 
 disastrously upon his hitherto uncommonly 
 robust frame. My eye, unfortunately, being 
 somewhat more practised than that of many 
 of my brethren, in detecting the symptoms 
 of serious bilious derangement, at once ob- 
 served the influence over his fine constitution 
 of that kind of exposure, in rural districts, on 
 the lake shore, and upon water courses, to 
 which, from his city life, he had never yet 
 been exposed ; and I lost no time in calling 
 
FEEENDLY EXPOSTULATIONS. 137 
 
 Upon him, in his sick room, to point out 
 remedies, palliatives, and above all, prevent- 
 ives for the time to come, for all which he 
 seemed to be truly grateful. But early the 
 next season, on looking over the published 
 schedule of his proposed work for two or 
 three months, I was amazed at the rash zeal 
 which had led him to lay out an amount of 
 labor which, it appeared to me, far exceeded 
 the power of any human frame to endure 
 unharmed ; and, about that time, having oc- 
 casion to write to him, I playfully remarked, 
 that if he could not possibly find sufficient 
 work in his own vast diocese to kill him off 
 soon enough, if he would only come out to 
 the West, I had no doubt that we could make 
 up the deficiency in a very short time. And 
 so, that great heart and stout will impelled 
 him forward in his indiscreet but noble ca- 
 reer, until the wheels of life stopped, and 
 the measure of his days, and of his vast use- 
 fulness, ended together." 
 
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138 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 His Episcopate lasted but one year and ten 
 months, and yet wliat an amount of work 
 was accomplished ! 
 
 He consecrated fifteen churches ; ordained 
 thirty-seven Deacons and twelve Priests ; 
 and confirmed four thousand one hundred 
 and twenty-seven persons. But more than 
 this, he had settled and harmonized a diocese 
 which had been long distracted, and set the 
 machinery in operation which has since been 
 moving on so well. 
 
 Many touching incidents are treasured up 
 by his friends, which show the faithfulness 
 and love* which marked Bishop Wainwright's 
 course. Dr. Yan Kleeck, who was then rec- 
 tor of a church in Troy, thus describes a visi- 
 tation to that place : '' I remember, at one of 
 the Bishop's visits to Troy, he came after an 
 accident at Copake, which caused a painful 
 lameness. He not only laid the corner-stone 
 of St. John's Church, on Saturday, when se- 
 verely sufiering, but insisted on preaching 
 
INCIDENTS OF A VISIT TO TliOY. 139 
 
 and confirming, the next morning in St. 
 Paul's. He was so lame that he preached 
 sitting in his chair ; and never with more 
 earnestness or eftect. In the Confirmation, 
 the candidates came to him, one by one, as 
 he stood at the centre of the chancel rail ; 
 and the scene was very touching, as, on 
 bended knees, they severally received the 
 laying on of hands, with his earnest blessing. 
 After the service, though evidently suflering 
 much, he refused to have a physician called, 
 and intended to persevere with the other 
 duties of the day. I sent, however, for my 
 family physician ; who no sooner ' saw liim 
 than he discovered the signs of erysipelatous 
 inflammation, and positively enjoined rest 
 and remedies." 
 
C^apin Sebententtlj. 
 
 LAST PUBLIC MINISTEATIONS HAVERSTEAW KIND IN- 
 
 TEEEST IN LITTLE CHILDEEN SUNDAY MOEXING, AND 
 
 THE SEVERAL DUTIES OF THAT DAT CHILLINESS — A 
 
 GOOD night's EEST AND AN EARLY START THE DAN- 
 GEE BY NO MEANS PAST LAST ACT OF BUSINESS 
 
 RISING FROM A SICK BED, TO ATTEND A MEETING OF 
 
 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION BECOMES SUDDENLY AND 
 
 ALAEMINGLY ILL THE STUPOE OF DISEASE " MY BE- 
 LOVED, YOU AEE GOING TO BE WITH JESUS" THE 
 
 FULL ASSURANCE OF HOPE — FALLING ASLEEP IN JESUS. 
 
 iISHOP WAIIvrWEIGHT'S last public 
 ministrations were at Haverstraw, where 
 lie arrived on Saturday evening, August the 
 26th. The missionary of the station (the Rev. 
 J. B. Gibson) met him at the boat, and ac- 
 companied him to the parsonage ; where, af- 
 ter a short evening, spent in talking over 
 church affairs, he retired early to rest, evi- 
 
SUNDAY MORNING. 141 
 
 dentlj miicli fatigued. " One incideut," re- 
 marks the missionary, " I cannot forbear men- 
 tioning, as it illustrates his kind interest in 
 little children. Remembering that I had two 
 little boys, though he had seen them but 
 once, and that a year before, he had thought 
 of them on his way to the boat. "While we 
 were sitting at the tea-table, he left it for 
 a moment, to go to his carpet-bag, and 
 brought them a paper of candy. A trifling 
 circumstance ; but the proof of no ordinary 
 kindness of heart, in one so occupied with 
 the highest responsibilities. On Sunday 
 morning the Bishop rose at six, and came 
 from his room looking perfectly well ; and, 
 he said, feeling so. After breakfast he rode 
 with me, about a mile and a half, to the 
 humble room in which our services were 
 held. He there addressed the children of 
 the Sunday School in a most earnest and af- 
 fectionate manner. He then returned to my 
 house, and remained there until the hour of 
 
142 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 morning service. We met in the First Pres- 
 byterian Churcli. He read tlie Ante-Com- 
 munion Service, and preached from Romans 
 X. 10 : ' With the heart, man believeth unto 
 righteousness.' The power of the sermon, 
 and the eloquence with which it was deliv- 
 ered, were manifested by the manner in 
 which it was listened to, and the effect which 
 it produced. 
 
 "The place of worship was large, and filled 
 with a congregation representing almost all 
 shades of religious opinion. The breathless 
 attention and deep interest shown, some- 
 times in tears, were highly gratifying. After 
 the sermon, the Bishop explained the holy 
 rite of Confirmation. He especially endeav- 
 ored to do away the erroneous impressions 
 of those without the Church, as to the word 
 ' regeneration.' He confirmed thirteen per- 
 sons, and addressed them most solemnly and 
 aflectionately. 
 
 " There had been a great change in the 
 
CHILLIXESS. Ii3 
 
 Tveather during the service ; the wind hav- 
 ing become damp and cold, and the sky over- 
 clouded. As we were riding home, the Bish- 
 op regretted that he had onlj a thin coat. 
 lie felt rather chilled. After dinner, of 
 which he partook with an excellent appetite, 
 he retired to his room and rested till half- 
 past four. The afternoon service was in the 
 Central Presbyterian Church. This, also, was 
 crowded, with an attentive and interested 
 congregation. He preached a most excellent 
 sermon, with great animation and fervor, 
 from 1st St. John ii. 3 : ' Hereby we do know 
 that we know Him, if we keep His command- 
 ments.' A deep impression was evidently 
 made on the minds of the listening congre- 
 gation. After the sermon, he gave out tlie 
 40th Hymn, and then pronounced the greater 
 Benediction. Our little flock look back to 
 their great privilege in thus receiving, as it 
 were, his dying blessing, witli tliankful, 
 though with saddened hearts. The Bishop 
 
IM LIFE OF BTSnOP WATNWEIGHT. 
 
 then thanked the pastor and trustees of the 
 congregation for the nse of the church ; allu- 
 ded to a spirit of courtesy thus manifested ; 
 and said, in words which will be ever in our 
 ears, that it was impossible they could all 
 meet again on earth ; but he hoped that all 
 might, before the throne of God, to receive 
 the sentence, ' Well done, good and faith- 
 ful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy 
 Lord.' 
 
 " On our way home the Bishop again spoke 
 of the chilliness of the atmosphere, although 
 he was rather more warmly clad than in the 
 morning. He retired early, not seeming much 
 fatigued. Indeed, he said that his labors 
 that day had been comparatively light. He 
 rose on Monday at -^ve. Breakfast was pre- 
 pared, and there was ample time ; but he 
 declined it, saying that he was used to eat- 
 ing at any hour, and it would not hurt him to 
 wait for his breakfast till he reached Kew 
 York. He added, that he had recently gone 
 
RISING FKOM A SICK BED. 145 
 
 from Catskill to ^New York without any 
 nourishment. I drov^e him to the boat; 
 and as he stood on the bow he seemed, in 
 spite of the previous day's work, like one in 
 full and vigorous health, and fresh as though 
 he had passed a day of rest instead of one of 
 toil." 
 
 Thus far Mr. Gibson's interesting narrative. 
 
 Although Bishop Wainwright had appear- 
 ed fresh and vigorous on his departure from 
 Havers traw, the chilliness which he had felt 
 on Sunday had been only the precursor of 
 fatal disease. He reached home on Monday, 
 but the next day his fever began. On Wed- 
 nesday evening, in spite of his indisposition, 
 he insisted on being carried down to the De- 
 pository of the Sunday School Union, where 
 an important meeting was to be held, with 
 reference to its affairs. Here he presided 
 until the close of a long debate, though 
 scarcely able to sit up at all. This was his 
 last act of Episcopal business. And how this 
 
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146 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 should endear liim to every friend of the 
 Sunday School Union ! 
 
 His family, as yet, felt no serious alarm ; 
 but he soon after became worse, and Doctors 
 Hosack and Wilkes were sent for, who did 
 all that skill and science could do to preserve 
 a life so valuable. But their efforts proved 
 in vain. A stupor (so generally the attend- 
 ant of typhoid fever) settled upon him, more 
 and more deeply, from day to day. He 
 manifested no wish for nourishment, and al- 
 most wholly refused it. And so he lingered 
 on until September the twenty-first. For 
 the last five hours he lay in silence, surround- 
 ed by his wife and children and their faith- 
 ful Mend and physician. Dr. Hosack, who 
 watched with anxious eyes the slow ebbing 
 away of life. " All was composed, except 
 when, now and then, a gust of sorrow would 
 break forth : ' My beloved, you are going to 
 be with Jesus ; to be forever happy. Do you 
 rest in Him V The closing eyes half opened. 
 
FALLING ASLEEP IN JESUS 
 
 14:7 
 
 The venerable head moved its assent. The 
 mother and the children impressed their fare- 
 well kiss upon that noble brow. And all was 
 still. The spirit was with God." 
 
 This was on Thursday, the feast of St. 
 Matthew the Apostle, 1854. The departed 
 saint had reached his sixty-third year. Who 
 can gaze, unmoved, on such a scene ? The 
 writer's eyes have been blinded by his tears, 
 while recording the events of this chapter. 
 
THE FUNERAL OLD TRINITY DRAPED IN BLACK MTTL- 
 
 TITUDE OF MOURNERS — ORDER OF THE SERVICE, AND 
 
 THOSE WHO OFFICIATED DR. HIGBEE's ADDRESS — THE 
 
 MUSIC "l KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETIl" THE 
 
 BODY BORNE TO ITS RESTING-PLACE THE SACRED PRI- 
 VACY OF GRIEF LEFT UNDISTURBED TINTED SUNBEAMS 
 
 FALLING UPON THE DARKENED ALTAR GATE OF PARA- 
 DISE. 
 
 BISHOP WAmWRIGHT'S funeral took 
 place in Trinity Cliurcli, 'New York, 
 on Saturday, September 23d, at one o'clock 
 in the afternoon. Not two years liad passed 
 since the magnificent temple had been 
 crowded by those who had come, with thank- 
 fulness and joy, to witness his consecration. 
 The same dense throng has assembled there 
 again, but how sad the occasion of this 
 meeting ! The solemn silence of death pre- 
 
ORDEK OF THE SEKYICE. 149 
 
 vails throughout the crowded church, except 
 when broken by the pathetic accents of those 
 who unite in the beautiful service, or by the 
 sobs of multitudes that mourn. 
 
 The body of the deceased Bishop had been 
 brought down early in the morning, and lay 
 in state until the time approached for the 
 funeral. The pulpit and altar, and' other 
 parts of the church, were heavily draped with 
 black cloth. Eight clergymen officiated as 
 pall-bearers. 
 
 Dr. Berrian, the venerable rector of Trini- 
 ty Church, repeated the opening sentences 
 of the Burial Service; the anthem, "Lord, 
 let me know my end," etc., being chanted by 
 the choir. " All that music could lend of 
 tenderness and solemnity to such a scene, 
 was lovingly contributed by Dr. Hodges and 
 those whom he directed ; and worthily to one 
 who has done more than any other man to 
 make church music what it should be." The 
 lesson was read by Bishop Whitehouse, of II- 
 
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150 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 linois, who, wlien a youth, had been a pa- 
 rishioner of Dr. Wainwright's, then rector of 
 Grace Church. The remainder of the service 
 was by Bishop Doane, of 'New Jersey. 
 
 When the last three verses of the 13th Se- 
 lection of Psalms had been sung, Dr. Higbee 
 ascended the pulpit to pronounce the funeral 
 discourse. At times his overpowering emo- 
 tions of sorrow obliged him to stop. "As 
 one suddenly hurled from some high cliff into 
 the sea," he beautifully remarked, "I only 
 hear the confused, mournful sounds of death 
 amid the waves, except as these sounds ever 
 and anon are overborne by God's awful voice 
 saying to all human hearts and to all human 
 tongues, ' Peace ! be still.' " 
 
 He then went on to give an outline of the 
 character of the departed, in which the lovely 
 and beautiful traits of his character were 
 drawn with masterly skill, and with the thor- 
 ough appreciation of an intimate and warmly 
 attached friend. 
 
DR. higbee's address. 151 
 
 Referring to his untiring efforts to fulfil to 
 the uttermost every duty which devolved 
 upon him, the eloquent preacher remarked : 
 " I seek not to portray him to you in his la- 
 bors in the diocese, bringing to those labors 
 his whole life and soul, yet in meekness and 
 humility. The record of his toil during the 
 two years of his Episcopacy is known to you 
 all; and the fruits of his labor will remain 
 in the hearts of thousands of the young, the 
 old, the rich, the poor, clergymen, and lay- 
 men of this city and this diocese. And 
 there," pointing to the bier, " is the result to 
 him. He did labor unto the death. But no, 
 thank God, that is not the result to him ; for 
 ^ they who are wise shall shine as the bright- 
 ness of the firmament ; and they who turn 
 many to righteousness, as the stars forever 
 and ever.' One of the morning papers of 
 this city, yesterday, in announcing his death, 
 used the following touching words : ' Since 
 the period of his election he has known but 
 
152 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGnT. 
 
 little rest ; we have often seen him wrapt in 
 an ample cloak, waiting in severe storms the 
 arrival of conveyances to take him to and 
 from the city. The clergy respected him ; 
 the laity supported him ; his friends loved 
 and honored him.' 
 
 " Waiting — waiting in severe storms ! Ay ! 
 in every part of the diocese he has been at 
 times seen — waiting in the summer's heat and 
 in the winter's cold. E'o, not waiting ; but 
 everywhere, on the great highways and aside 
 from the thoroughfares of travel, in lonely 
 vales and among bleak hills, braving the in- 
 clement seasons, and wet with the autumnal 
 dews of the night, he has been constantly 
 seen pursuing his way by any conveyance 
 which might be presented to him, from one 
 distant point to another, to visit the populous 
 town or the humble country church, or the 
 obscure school-house, hastening to bestow 
 his blessing, whether on the ' great congrega- 
 tion' or on the poor there gathered together 
 
DK. higbee's address. 153 
 
 in God's name. iSTo consideration of person- 
 al convenience or comfort, no mere weakness 
 and languor and j)ain, no private interests or 
 social invitation, no anxious remonstrances 
 from his fRends — and they were many — 
 were allowed to interfere with his duties, 
 from the least to the greatest. My last words 
 to him were a remonstrance, in case of a re- 
 covery, against this so excessive labor. His 
 reply told me that he was unconscious of any 
 excess ; and then his mind ran off on past 
 and prospective duties. 
 
 "Alas ! our master is taken from our head 
 to-day. The field misses the strong laborer. 
 The shield of the warrior is 23ierced in the 
 battle. Alas ! my brethren, alas ! but not 
 for him. His toil, his pain, his conflicts are 
 over. The rough toil, the weary way, the 
 heat and cold, are past. The tempest no 
 more breaks over his head, and the rude 
 wind is still. The good soldier has fallen 
 ' with his face to the foe' and with his armor 
 
154 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 on. The faithful laborer has gone upward, 
 not deserting the harvest, but bearing liis 
 sheaves with him." 
 
 At the close of this beautiful address (the 
 whole of which I trust that my readers may 
 be privileged to see for themselves) the con- 
 soling words, "I know that my Redeemer 
 liveth," were most feelingly sung, and the 
 service was closed with the prayers and the 
 benediction. 
 
 The body was then borne to the door, as 
 the solemn strains of the Dead March in Saul 
 floated through the air, and was accompanied 
 to Trinity Cemetery only by the family of the 
 deceased, and the Rev. Drs. Muhlenberg and 
 Higbee. Thousands would gladly have tes- 
 tified their love for Bishop "Wainwright by 
 going to the grave, but the mourning kindred 
 preferred to be alone at such a trying moment. 
 
 The Churoh Journal^ in dwelling on this 
 melancholy theme, thus appropriately con- 
 cludes : " We do not cease to hope and pray 
 
GATE OF PARADISE. 155 
 
 that even this sorrow will, in God's hand, 
 prove a blessing to' that diocese which has 
 been now so long and so grievously chastened. 
 The day of his burial was a day of peaceful 
 calm, of brilliant and cheerful sunshine. In 
 vain was the altar of old Trinity hung all 
 over with the sable weeds of mourning. The 
 tinted sunbeams fell upon the darkened altar, 
 and wherever they fell, they painted it with 
 fullest brightness in the colors of heaven. 
 Even so the love of God, if the windows of 
 the Churches faUh be unclouded by doubt or 
 despair, will descend upon the sorrowing, 
 and kindle a new glory even upon the dark- 
 ness of the shadow of Death. The Tomb is 
 but the Gate of Paradise." 
 
OIITLrNE OF CHARACTER — LOVE OF HOME THE GOOD SON, 
 
 LOVING BROTHER, TENDER HUSBAND, AND AFFECTION- 
 ATE FATHER AN ACCOMPLISHED GENTLEMAN — REFIN- 
 ED AND CULTIVATED TASTES — GENIAL, SOCIAL MAN — 
 GENEROSITY AND MAGNANIMITY — MEEK AND RETIRING 
 CHRISTIAN — PULPIT ORATOR — THE TEXT SUGGESTED BY 
 DANIEL WgBSTER — ABLE TO TURN HIS HAND TO ANY 
 
 WORK HIS SPECIAL MISSION — THE MAN WHO COULD 
 
 NOT, POSSIBLY, BE SPARED. 
 
 ALTHOUGH so mucli has been already 
 said concerning the subject of this 
 memoir, our little book would be incomplete 
 without a more formal outline of his charac- 
 ter. 
 
 1. And first, it must have been observed 
 by those who have followed his career from 
 his boyhood until the close, that Bishop 
 Wainwright was a man who appreciated, to 
 
AN ACCOMPLISHFD GENTLEMAIT. 157 
 
 the fullest extent, the delights of home. ]^o 
 son was ever more kind, or respectful, or af- 
 fectionate. A more loving brother never 
 lived. And, as the child is father to the 
 man, we are prepared to find him a tender, 
 confiding, and indulgent husband, and a gen- 
 tle and devoted father. He endeavored to 
 control his children rather by love than by 
 authority, and there was no sacrifice which 
 he was not ready to make, in order to pro- 
 mote their comfort and advantage. 
 
 2. Bishop Wainwright was a most accom- 
 plished gentleman. His whole manner was 
 urbanity itself, and the law of kindness was 
 ever on his lips. " ^o grace or courtesy was 
 ever wanting to his daily life. In his man- 
 ners, in his habits, in his bearing, in the ex- 
 pression of his countenance, in the tones of 
 his voice, in the propriety of his dress, in 
 his whole carriage and appearance, there was 
 that which would have commended him at 
 court and made him welcome in a cottage." 
 
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158 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWIIIGIIT. 
 
 I inquired of one wlio had recently returned 
 from England, and who had enjoyed the most 
 favorable opportunities for learning the opin- 
 ions of our trans- Atlantic brethren about our- 
 selves, "Who of all the American Bishops 
 and clergy that have visited England during 
 the last few years, has left the most decided 
 impressions behind him, as a high-toned, pol- 
 ished Christian gentleman ?" The reply was 
 returned at once, " Bishop "Wainwright." 
 
 3. He possessed a refined and cultivated 
 taste. Had he been a mere worldly man, 
 his name would have been numbered among 
 the most appreciating admirers and patrons 
 of the Fine Arts. Even with all his multi- 
 plied employments, he found time for the 
 gratification of this elevating taste. 
 
 " I well remember," says the Hon. Willard 
 Phillips, of Boston, " that, on his introducing 
 me to Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated portrait 
 painter, at the rooms of the latter, about 
 1809, he was intimately familiar with that 
 
GENIAL, SOCIAL MAN. 159 
 
 artist. Some twenty years after, during my 
 visit to him, in Xew York, I found him re- 
 taining the same tastes and cultivating simi- 
 lar associations, when he took me to Col. 
 Trumbull's rooms, to show me the original 
 portrait of Washington, by that artist ; with 
 whom he was evidently on a familiar footing. 
 He had also an ardent, appreciating fond- 
 ness for music, of which he had considerable 
 scientific knowledge ; and in which he was 
 not without some artistic skill, on the piano 
 and the Welsh harp ; on each of which he 
 was in the habit of practising." 
 
 4. Bishop Wainwright was a genial, social 
 man. I use these words in their best and 
 highest sense. I mention this, because I 
 have known those who, having never seen 
 him, fancied him to belong to the class of 
 worldly clergymen (fortunately a small one), 
 who are fond of dining at the tables of the 
 rich, and who are no great credit to their 
 sacred calling. No opinion could be more 
 
160 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWHIGHT. 
 
 unfounded. One who knew liim well has 
 happily described his real character in this 
 particular. '' He was ' in simplicity a child.' 
 A brief run into the country, a visit from an 
 old friend, a social supper on some cold meat 
 and a potato, would overflow him with de- 
 light." No one could say that any duty was 
 ever neglected by him, for the sake of his 
 own ease or self-indulgence. 
 
 5. Bishop "Wainwright was distinguished, 
 from his earliest manhood, for generosity of 
 disposition and for great magnanimity of 
 soul. His very look and tone of voice were 
 enough to convince one of his frankness and 
 his freedom from all deceit. He was inca- 
 pable of doing any thing which was con- 
 temptible or base. Cordial, and free, and 
 generous to a fault, no wonder that all men 
 loved him. 
 
 6. The lamented prelate was also a meek 
 and retiring Christian. His conversation, 
 while it was always elegant and instructive, 
 
PULPIT ORATOR. 161 
 
 never bordered on religious cant. His 
 Christianity appeared in everything he did. 
 He felt himself the humblest instrument in 
 God's hands, and rejoiced and gave thanks 
 to Him, when he was permitted to accom- 
 plish any good. 
 
 7. Bishop Wainwright was remarkable for 
 the correctness, and force, and beauty which 
 always appeared in his pulpit discourses, and 
 which rendered him so popular as a preacher. 
 Mr. Prescott, our great historian, observes : 
 " !Never have I known a minister who ac- 
 quired a wider influence over his people, or 
 who took' a stronger hold of their affections." 
 Unlike those preachers who are fond of 
 handling abstruse and difficult subjects, he al- 
 ways preferred those which were simple and 
 practical. During his residence in Boston 
 the late Daniel Webster several times sug- 
 gested topics to him which he wished to hear 
 treated from the pulpit. On one occasion 
 he proposed to Dr. Wainwright to prepare a 
 
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162 LIFE OF BISHt)P WAINWRIGUT. 
 
 sermon on the text, " There is one Lawgiver ^'^ 
 saying tliat it presented a grand subject. 
 The work was readily undertaken, but never 
 finished. "The more I meditated,", says Dr. 
 Wainwright, "the larger grew the subject, 
 and I put myself seriously to the task for the 
 remainder of the week. Saturday came, and 
 the mighty idea had stretched beyond my 
 narrow grasp ; and I gave the subject up for 
 the time, saying to myself. Hooker has bent 
 that bow, and Webster could, were he to try, 
 but I cannot." The real difficulty, in his 
 mind, was to adapt so lofty a theme to the 
 instruction of his people. What a lesson, 
 here, for such as delight in vain and curious 
 speculations ! 
 
 8. Bishop Wainwright could turn his hand 
 to any work. " He was a man," remarks Dr. 
 Berrian, " of unwearied industry, borrowing 
 from the night whatever was lost in the day ; 
 ready at all times for any emergency, sys- 
 tematic in his studies, and persevering in his 
 
HIS SPECIAL MISSION. 163 
 
 aims." He was willing to help along with 
 anygood work. If a country parish wanted 
 an organ, he was the person to look it up. 
 If a standard edition of the Prayer Book 
 was to be published, his careful, critical eye . 
 was depended upon to undergo the painful 
 drudgery of reading the proof-sheets. Chil- 
 dren of English parents had wandered off to 
 this Western world, and had long been un- 
 heard of, and anxious friends apply to him 
 to make inquiries for them. Wlien the Crys- 
 tal Palace was to be opened, he is expected 
 to inaugurate the* American Exhibition of 
 the Arts and Sciences, with his prayers and 
 benediction.* Alas ! how a man of such 
 miiversalness of character must be missed ! 
 
 9. And lastly, it cannot be doubted that 
 Bishop Wainwright was raised up by a gra- 
 
 ^ So prominent a place did he occupy in the public 
 mind, in connection with this grand pageant, that in the 
 New York " Illustrated News" for July 30th, 1853, he 
 is portrayed, in his Episcopal robes, officiating on this oc- 
 casion. 
 
IGi LIFE OF .EISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 cious Providence to accomplish a special 
 work for the distracted diocese in which he 
 lived. Dr. M'Yickar, in his opening sermon 
 before the Convention of 'New York, on the 
 ^Wednesday after the Bishop's death, speaks 
 of this work as his raission, and shows 
 that bj nature, by education, and by grace, 
 he was most admirably qualified to ac- 
 complish it. "This was a task as conge- 
 nial to his nature as it was prominent in his 
 choice and open in his policy, and towards 
 the attainment of which he was made, under 
 God's blessing, eminently successful." There 
 are many good men who pass through life 
 and do their duty, but who, after all, are so 
 much like hundreds and thousands more, 
 equally sincere and equally faithful, that we 
 must acknowledge that some one else could 
 readily have accomplished their particular 
 task. But who can say this, with truth, of 
 BidHOP Wainweight ? 
 
PEOPOSED MONUMENT — DEAD, YET SPEAKING A GREAT 
 
 ENTEEPEISE UNDEETAKEN BY THOSE MOST LIKELY TO 
 ACCOMPLISH IT — AN IMPORTANT CIRCULAR — AN EARLI- 
 ER PERIOD THE LITTLE BAND OF CHURCHMEN AT THE 
 
 "bLEECKER building" WHAT THEY RESOLVED TO DO, 
 
 AND HOW THEY KEPT THEIR PLEDGE EREE SEATS FOE 
 
 ALL BISHOP WAINWEIGHt's LAST CONFIRMATION IN 
 
 THE CITY — SPECIAL EFFORTS FOR SECURING A CHURCH 
 
 BUILDING THE RESULT A GLORIOUS EASTER — FREE 
 
 FROM DEBT— CONSECRATION OF THE MEMORIAL CHURCH 
 
 DR. morgan's sermon PLEASANT INCIDENT A LIST 
 
 OF NAMES WHICH WILL BE OF INTEREST HEREAFTER. 
 
 WHEN the many friends of Bisliop 
 Wainwright had recovered, in some 
 degree, from the shock occasioned by his 
 death, steps were speedily taken to show 
 honor to his name. Memorial windows and 
 monuments were proposed, but the measure 
 which seemed most desirable, and which was 
 
166 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WEIGHT. 
 
 certainly most in harmony with the character 
 of the lamented prelate, was that which has 
 led to the permanent establishment of another 
 free church in the city of J^ew York. Thus 
 will he always be preaching the Gospel to the 
 poor, and ministering to the sick and the 
 needy — a work in which he so much de- 
 lighted. 
 
 This beautiful enterprise was undertaken 
 by those who would be most likely to carry 
 it through in spite of difficulties and labors. 
 It was the willing offering of woman's loving 
 heart. I shall best accomplish my task as a 
 historian, by inserting here the appropriate 
 circular which was issued, to set forth the 
 nature of the work proposed : 
 
 To the Ladies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
 this Diocese, sorrowing with ourselves, though not mur- 
 muring, under the inscrutable dispensation which struck 
 down, on the field, and in the midst of his labors and his 
 usefulness, our beloved friend and father in God, Bishop 
 Wainwright, the undersigned, members of different par- 
 ishes in the City of New York, venture to make appeal 
 for AID, in founding a Memorial, which shall at once at- 
 
AN IMPORTANT CIRCULAR. 16' 
 
 test and perpetuate our regrets, and his example, services, 
 and name. 
 
 Among the wishes that lay nearest to his heart, and to 
 the speedier accomplishment of which he gave his life, 
 was that of spreading more widely our Church, its liturgy, 
 and its ministry — its faith, its hopes, and its consolations. 
 It is believed that no more fitting or grateful memorial of 
 our deceased Bishop could be devised than in giving effect 
 to this wish by building, in a part of our city most inad- 
 equately provided in that respect, an Episcopal Church, 
 of which the seats, should forever be free. This labor of 
 love and of gratitude the undersigned have undertaken. 
 In order to accomplish it, they rely upon obtaining a 
 sufficient number of subscriptions of five dollars per 
 annum, for three successive years (or $15,00 in all), and 
 by this circular they make known their plan and their 
 hopes. 
 
 It is proposed to designate the Church as that of ' ' St. 
 John the Evangelist," and that it be known as "The 
 Ladies' Memorial of Bishop Wainwright, ' ' with * ' seats 
 forever free." 
 
 It is intended to build it on the western side of the 
 city, in the vicinity of Eighth Avenue and Fourth Street, 
 where already is gathered a dense population, among 
 whom are numerous emigrants from Europe, accustomed 
 in their own land to the beautiful order and devotions of 
 our Church, and eager to resume their connection with it, 
 if only the opportunity be afforded them. 
 
 Not doubting that this plain statement will commend 
 its object to the hearts and judgments of those to whom 
 we address ourselves, it remains only to add, that sub- 
 scriptions may be sent to the Treasurer, Mrs. Heney A, 
 
168 
 
 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 CoiT, No. 55 Clinton Place, or left cat Stanford & Swords., 
 No. 637 Broadway. 
 New York, November \Mh, 1854. 
 
 President, Mrs. ALEXANDER CLINTON, 219 West Four- 
 teenth Street. 
 
 Vice-President, Mrs. CHARLES H. HALSEY, 9 East 
 Eighteenth Street. 
 
 Secretary, Mrs. MARY E. BLEECKER, 219 West Four- 
 teenth Street. 
 
 Treamrer, Mrs. HENRY A. COIT, 55 Clinton Place. 
 
 Mrs. J. T. Adams, 
 
 " George P. Cammann, 
 
 " t. b. coddington, 
 
 *' David Colden, 
 
 " Charles De Rham, 
 
 * ' Lewis Gregory, 
 
 " Peter Hayden, 
 
 ' ' Margaret G. Hamilton, 
 
 " F. U. Johnston, 
 
 ' ' Henry Laight, 
 
 " John R. Livingston, 
 
 ** Schuyler Livingston, 
 
 " Wm. Lowerre, 
 
 " MgEvers, 
 
 " Henry Meigs, 
 
 " Robt. B. Minturn, 
 
 ' ' Henry Morris, 
 
 " Lucy Osborn, 
 
 " Nicholas G. Rutgers, 
 
 Mrs. Schmidt, 
 " Adam Stodart, 
 " G. N. Titus, 
 " Fanning C. Tucker, 
 " Wm. E. Wilmerdinq, 
 " Wm. H. Wisner, 
 Miss M. R. Babcock, 
 M. L. Bleecker, 
 Sarah Carville, 
 Anna E. Clinton, 
 Mary E. Foster, 
 Mary W. Johnston, 
 Henrietta King, 
 Julia Lawrence, 
 Jane Rowe, 
 Susan K. Walton, 
 Susan H. Wendell, 
 Catharine Wilmerdinq, 
 Mary Woolsey. 
 
 Hector, Rev. EDWIN R. COOK, 
 
 104 Twelfth Street. 
 
THE LITTLE BxiND OF CnUECHMEN. 1G9 
 
 I must beg my readers to go back with me 
 now to a period somewhat earlier than the 
 date of this circular. 
 
 On the sixth of June, 1853, a small band 
 of Churchmen met in an upper room of what 
 is known as the " Bleecker Building," and or- 
 . ganized a parish, designed to provide for the 
 spiritual wants of a portion of the western 
 side of the city of l^ew York. The Eev. 
 Edwin R. T. Cook, now the devoted rector 
 of the Memorial Church, presided on the 
 occasion, and was afterwards called to the 
 pastoral charge. 
 
 The undertaking met with the hearty ap- 
 proval of Bishop Wainwright. There, in that 
 upper room, regular service was held, and 
 the seats being free, a congregation was soon 
 gathered. 
 
 During the General Convention of 1853 
 (which met in New York), a number of the 
 Bishops and Clergy took their turn in preach- 
 ing in this place, and the zealous rector, who 
 
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170 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWEIGHT. 
 
 had from the first kept the project of build- 
 ing a church in view, began to make collec- 
 tions for this end. 
 
 It is a fact worth recording, that the last 
 time that Bishop Wainwright administered 
 Confirmation in the city, it was in that upper 
 room, when twenty-two persons received his 
 blessing. He preached with even greatei 
 fervor than usual, as though. he realized that 
 he was soon to depart from earth. Among 
 those confirmed, on the occasion, was a lady 
 advanced in years, who seemed especially to 
 attract the Bishop's notice. Bowed down 
 with infirmity, and apparently on the very 
 border of the grave, she came forward with 
 the rest to receive the blessing so precious to 
 the soul. During the summelp of 1854, spe- 
 cial efforts were made by the rector and tlie 
 more devoted members of his charge to carry 
 out their original plan of securing a suitable 
 place for public worship — a house of prayer 
 free to all people. 
 
EFFORTS FOR SECURING A CHURCH. 171 
 
 Meanwliile, Bishop Wainwright died. And 
 then, in due time, the whole business assumed 
 the shape as explained in the circular copied 
 on a former page. It was resolved that this 
 new church should be the Bishop's monument. 
 
 Services were held in the " Bleecker Build- 
 ing" for two years, when the congregation 
 removed to the lecture-room of the Metro- 
 politan Academy, where they continued to 
 worship for a year. 
 
 The ladies who had undertaken the task 
 of raising funds kept steadily at work, until 
 (including about twelve hundred dollars se- 
 cured before) ten thousand dollars had been 
 subscribed. 
 
 About this time, a place of worship which 
 had been built by the Presbyterians, and af- 
 terwards sold in succession to the Congrega- 
 tionalists and Baptists, was offered to the 
 new parish on very reasonable .terms. The 
 bargain was made, the church, with neces- 
 sary alterations, costing $33,000. ^ 
 
172 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 Upon their removal to the new and larger 
 place of worship- the good rector was fearful 
 lest the congregation should be lost, as it 
 were, in so commodious a place ; but he was 
 too faithful a pastor to allow such a thing to 
 happen. A clergyman who visits his people 
 faithfully, and is not above going aside into 
 narrow and crooked streets, will never be 
 left alone at church. The new place of wor- 
 ship was filled at once. 
 
 The Sunday School and Bible Class and 
 the Ladies' Sewing Circle were all in active 
 operation. The Memorial Church soon 
 Ihowed that it would be no failure. 
 
 But where is that great debt of $33,000 ? 
 
 On Easter morning, 1858, a collection was 
 made which (in addition to the sums previ- 
 ously secured) cleared oif the heavy load, and 
 at the close of the service the indefatigable 
 rector announced, with evident emotion, that 
 the Memorial Church was free from all em- 
 barrassment. 
 
CONSECRATION OF MEMORIAL CHURCH. 173 
 
 After evening prayer, on the same day, 
 Bishop Potter confirmed eighty-seven persons, 
 most of whom were of middle age or ad- 
 vanced in years. 
 
 And now everything being ready for the 
 glad event, the Church of St. John the Evan- 
 gelist — Bishop Wainwright's fitting monu- 
 ment — was consecrated to the worship of Al- 
 mighty God, on the 12th of April, 1858. 
 A very large congregation attended, and 
 about forty clergymen, in their robes, show- 
 ed their interest in the enterprise, the Rev. 
 Drs. Turner, Muhlenberg, Price, Johnson, 
 Bedell, Yan Kleeck, and others, taking part 
 in the service. The act of consecration was 
 performed by the Provisional Bishop of ^New 
 York. 
 
 The sermon — a very able and appropriate 
 one — was preached by Dr. Morgan, of St. 
 Thomas' Church. We ofier no apology for 
 giving a report of it here. 
 
 " ' And I saw no temple therein ; for the 
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174 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT. 
 
 Lord God Almiglity and the Lamb are the 
 temple of it.' — Rev. xxi. 22. 'And Jesus 
 went into the temple and overthrew the 
 tables of the money-changers, and would not 
 suffer that any man should carry any vessel 
 through the temple.' — Mark xi. 15, 16. 
 The former part of this discourse related par- 
 ticularly to the sacredness and the uses of 
 Christian temples, set apart exclusively for 
 the worship of Almighty God. The Rev. Doc- 
 tor argued that such temples are absolutely 
 essential to religious faith and religious im- 
 provement; he claimed that the necessity 
 for them would not exist if it were not for 
 man's guilt ; he described them as the truest 
 symbols on earth, both of man's present in- 
 firmity and his anticipated glory, and as con- 
 tinual reminders to him, not only of his sins, 
 but also of his hopes beyond this life ; and 
 he urged that, being significant of the one 
 temple of the Lord God Almighty and the 
 Lamb, they were worthy of suitable adorn- 
 
DR. morgan's sermon. 175 
 
 ment and reverential care. The latter por- 
 tion of the discourse, which had special refer- 
 ence to the occasion, contained so much that 
 is of general interest among our readers, and 
 possessed so much merit in other respects, 
 that we have reported it almost entire : 
 
 "Dear friends, let me cease from these 
 general observations. I know how entirely 
 your own convictions will accord with their 
 justness and their truth. This allusion, how- 
 ever, to the warm and generous-hearted Mary 
 reminds me that general thoughts, however 
 well considered, fall short of this occasion. 
 
 " The consecration of your church — may I 
 not rather say of our church ? for we all have 
 a property in it — is something apart from or- 
 dinary solemnities of the kind. Other church- 
 es are consecrated because the cap-stone has 
 been ' brought with shoutings,' and they stand 
 complete, ready for the Master's use ; but 
 this beautiful sanctuary, now and henceforth 
 separated to the worship of the Triune God, 
 
176 LIFE OF BISHOP WAIN WRIGHT. 
 
 has its own history registered through many 
 years, and its own peculiar and more recent 
 reminiscences of love, and faith, and unparal- 
 leled devotion. When its corner-stone was 
 laid, other hearts and other interests were en- 
 gaged, and probably no thought was so for- 
 eign to that hour as a holy convocation, and 
 a dedication day like this. But God reserves 
 to Himself the issues of all our mortal under- 
 takings. It became — for I shall not speak of 
 its earlier occupancy — in the wise and inscru- 
 table providence of God, it became a memo- 
 rial church. After much deliberation and 
 many prayers for guidance, it was selected 
 and transfigured as a fitting shrine for the 
 memory of the dead and the spiritual benefit 
 of the living. The memory of the dead! 
 Dear fathers and brethren, dear people of 
 this flock, it is not for me, a stranger among 
 you, as it were — it is not for me, who joined 
 the ranks after your noble leader had fallen 
 and was entombed — it is not for m^ to tell 
 
DK. morgan's sermon. 177 
 
 you what he was, or why he deserved to be 
 enshrined among the living, after he had ta- 
 ken his place among the elect of God in Par- 
 adise. And the zealous pastor of this church 
 will testify how reluctantly I yielded to his 
 request when he urged me to stand up and 
 speak in this place to-day. It was too high 
 a privilege and too great an honor for me, 
 and I shrank from the sacred office. One 
 thought only weakened my denial. He 
 whose beloved name is written upon this 
 temple, he whose virtues, whose faithful la- 
 bors, whose endurance unto death, are record- 
 ed here, was my first pastor. Your preacher 
 was an infant in the cradle when Wainwright 
 read from the desk and preached from the 
 pulpit of his native city — read and preached 
 so that both his reading and preaching be- 
 came traditional henceforth. In that city, 
 dear to me as my birth-place, and dearer as 
 the burial-place of my kindred, and the spot 
 where I hope to sleep at last, he, the good 
 
178 LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWRIGIIT. 
 
 shepherd, went in and out among the people, 
 ' gathered the lambs in his arms and carried 
 them in his bosom.' There he was a Deacon 
 in his first parish, and, as was truly said by the 
 excellent Bishop of E^ew Jersey, in the mem- 
 oir, ' It was his first love, and he was entire- 
 ly happy in it. There he met, and was join- 
 ed to his life-companion, and there the light 
 of human endearment came in upon his 
 heart to brighten and to sanctify it.' After 
 the lapse of thirty-six years I only speak of 
 him as the pastor of my childhood ; but you 
 have known him throughout the interspace 
 of time, and the Church on this continent, to 
 her farthest border, and the Mother Churcli 
 of England, have known and honored "him as 
 a Presbyter most faithful, earnest, accom- 
 plished ; as a Bishop who, from the moment 
 he grasped the pastoral staff, determined to 
 know nothing but Jesus Christ and the 
 Church of his blood-bought Redeemer. He 
 had always been marked, always sought after, 
 
DR. morgan's sermon. ' 179 
 
 filwajs eminent ; but when he rose from liis 
 knees a Bishop, he had received, it would al- 
 most seem, a fresh anointing. The prints 
 of the Crucified were more plainly upon him, 
 and onward he went to do his work, as Peter 
 Avent from Bethany on the Ascension morn- 
 ing, and Paul from Damascus, when the 
 scales had fallen from his eyes. Xor did he 
 pause until, with appointments not yet over- 
 taken and high Episcopal engagements 
 crowding every present hour, he was sum- 
 moned to yield up his trust and lie down and 
 die. Submissive to the inexorable call, he 
 rested from his labors as a racer might 
 rest when suddenly hurled backward on his 
 rapid course, stunned, unconscious, delirious, 
 dead. So he slept in Jesus with his armor 
 on. A few watched his last and quivering 
 breath. Then came desolation to his hearth- 
 stone, and bitter lamentation to his diocese. 
 Above his soulless effigy, above ' the dull, 
 cold ear of death,' was poured the eloquence 
 
ISO LIFE OF BISHOP WAINWKIGHT. 
 
 of fraternal love and grief, fervent as the la- 
 ment of David over his brother Jonathan, on 
 the mountain of Gilboa. But time, more 
 than eulogies or dirges, is the beaiitifier of 
 the dead ; and hence this holy temple ! The 
 valiant Bishop, among a thousand tributes of 
 full-hearted respect and veneration, hath this 
 for his enduring memorial. Those who loved 
 the Saviour most, and were ever glad to wash 
 and kiss His feet — those who clung to Him 
 weeping, while the disciples fled — those who 
 sank in speechless agony around the cross 
 while His life was wasted — those who heard 
 His last expiring groau, and went first to 
 meet Him when angels rolled away the stone 
 — those, or such as those, their sisters now at 
 a later period, have here embalmed the 
 memory of Christ's faithful soldier and serv- 
 ant with the sweet spicery of their love, their 
 untiring zeal, their unceasing prayers, their 
 pious labors. It is the ladies' memorial — the 
 offering of their hearts. Accept it, Lord. 
 
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