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 DISCOURSE 
 
 ON THE 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 OK THE 
 
 Rev. HENRY Y. D. JOHNS, I). D, 
 
 I.ATE RKCIOR OK EMANUEL CHURCH, BALTIMORE, 
 
 By JOSEPH T. SMITH 
 
 Pastor of the 2d Presbyterian Church, 
 
 MAY 22, L859. 
 
 jgeconti Elution tuitfj an ®ppentiti. 
 
 B A L T I M ORB! 
 
 Published by the Maryland Tract Society, 
 
 Tract House, 73 Fayette-st. 
 
 JOHN W- AVOODS, PRINTER. 
 
 1859 
 

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A 
 
 DISCOURSE 
 
 OX THE 
 
 L I F 15 A N D C H A R A 0 T E R 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Rev. HENRY Y. D. JOHNS, D. D. 
 
 LATE RECTOR OF EMANUEL CHURCH, BALTIMORE, 
 
 By JOSEPH T. SMITH, 
 
 Pastor of the 2d Presbyterian Church, 
 
 MAY 22, 1859. 
 
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 ■SeroiVO latiitton tuitlj an 3pprirtjii. 
 
 BALTIMORE: 
 
 Published by the Maryland Tract Society, 
 
 Tract House, 73 Fayette-st, 
 
 JOHN W- WOODS, PRINTER. 
 
 1859. 
 
The circumstances connected with the publication 
 of this Memorial of Affection are sufficiently ex¬ 
 plained by the following extracts and correspondence : 
 
 Tract House, 
 Baltimore, May 3 d, 1859. 
 
 At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Maryland 
 Tract Society, this day held, it was, on motion of Mr. A. M. 
 Carter, unanimously resolved, that the Rev. Joseph T. Smith 
 be requested to preach a Sermon commemorative of the Life 
 and Character of our late lamented President, and that ar¬ 
 rangements be made for its delivery at as early a day as may 
 be convenient. 
 
 Extract from the Minutes , 
 
 S. B. BRACKETT, 
 
 Rec. Secretary. 
 
 Tract House, 
 Baltimore, May 2ith , 1859. 
 
 At a special meeting of the Managers of the Maryland Tract 
 Society, this day convened, it was, on motion, unanimously 
 resolved, that this Board hereby express our very great grati¬ 
 fication with the Sermon commemorative of the life and char¬ 
 acter of our late lamented President, the Rev. H. V. D. Johns, 
 D. D.j that we tender our cordial thanks to the Rev. Dr. 
 Smith for the service rendered us, and that we request a copy 
 for publication. 
 
 Extract from the Minutes, 
 
 S. B. BRACKETT, 
 
 Rec. Secretary. 
 
 Southern Pamphlets 
 are Book Collection 
 UNC-Chapel Hill 
 
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 Baltimore, May 25th, 1H59. 
 
 Rev. J. T. Smith, D. D., 
 
 Rev. and Dear Sir, 
 
 In presenting you the foregoing action of 
 the Managers of our Tract Society, allow us to assure you of 
 our earnest personal concurrence in the sentiments expressed, 
 and our hope that you will see no objection to furnishing a 
 copy for publication. Very truly, yours, 
 
 In behalf of the Board, 
 
 J. W. M. WILLIAMS, 
 
 G. C. M. ROBERTS, 
 ELIAS HEINER, 
 
 E. Y. REESE, 
 
 HALSEY DUNNING, 
 
 A. M. CARTER, 
 
 W. K. MERRITT, 
 WILLIAM BRIDGES. 
 
 Baltimore, May 25 th, 1859. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 The Discourse “on the Life and Character of Dr. Johns,” 
 a copy of which you request for publication, was prepared for 
 an audience of whose cordial sympathy in everything my heart 
 prompted me to say of him I was sure. I fear that it may not 
 be suited for the press, or for the hands of readers w r ho did not 
 know our dear friend and brother. I do not feel at liberty, 
 how r ever, under the circumstances, to refuse your request, and 
 the manuscript is herewith placed at your disposal. 
 
 Respectfully and fraternally, 
 
 Yours, &c. 
 
 JOSEPH T. SMITH. 
 
 To Rev. J. W. M. Williams, 
 
 Rev. Dr. G. C. M. Roberts, 
 
 Rev. Dr. E. Heiner, 
 and others. 
 
NOTE 13V COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. 
 
 The Sermon, it may be proper to add, was delivered in the 
 Central Presbyterian Church, Rev. Tuos. E. Pkck, D. D., Pas¬ 
 tor, on Sabbath P. M., May 2‘2d, to one of the largest assem¬ 
 blages ever convened in this city on any similar occasion, the 
 vast church being filled to its utmost capacity, and multitudes 
 being unable to gain admittance. 
 
 The services, which were of the deepest solemnity and ten¬ 
 derness, were also a beautiful illustration of Christian union, 
 ministers of the Gospel connected with eight different denomi¬ 
 nations participating in the exercises. 
 
FOR TO ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST. AND TO DIE IS GAIN.—Philippians i, 21. 
 
 These words were penned by tlie Apostle while a 
 prisoner in Rome, and just upon the eve of his trial. 
 They may be regarded as his last words—the deliber¬ 
 ate testimony of a Christian minister, uttered while 
 standing upon the border-line between life and death, 
 calmly surveying both. In writing to the Philippians, 
 who seem to have been to him what the family 
 of Bethany was to the Master, the Apostle admits 
 them to the inmost secrecies of his soul in that 
 solemn hour. He tells them how he is “in a 
 strait betwixt two”—having “a desire to depart, and 
 be with Christ,” yet wishing still “to abide with 
 them in the flesh longing for his rest and his re¬ 
 ward, yet willing still to labor and to suffer. And 
 then, in the volume-embracing words of our text, he 
 sums up his whole estimate of those two tremendous 
 facts—Life and Heath. “For to me to live is Christ, 
 
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 and to die is gain.” As if lie had said, “I live, yet 
 not I, but Christ, who is my life, livetli in me; and 
 the life that I now live, I live by Faith in the Son of 
 God. I live not unto myself, but unto Him who 
 loved me, and gave Himself for me. Christ is the 
 beginning and the end ; the centre and the _circum- 
 ference; the all in all of my being. I live for no 
 selfish or secular end ; for nothing which men seek 
 after, or the world can bestow. Accounting my 
 life as but a season and an opportunity for doing good, 
 I live only to labor for Christ, and to fill up what is 
 behind of His sufferings, and I am willing to live 
 for Christ. But ‘to die is gain’—infinite and ever¬ 
 lasting gain. I shrink not from the approach of the 
 last enemy, for to me Christ hath abolished Heath, 
 and put these words of triumph in my mouth : 0 ! 
 Heath, where is thy sting ? 0! Grave, where is thy 
 victory? The sting of Heath is sin, and the strength 
 of sin is the law; but thanks be unto God who givetli 
 us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 And then Faith looks beyond and above. Hence¬ 
 forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous¬ 
 ness. In my Father’s house are many mansions, and 
 Christ has gone before to prepare a place for me, and 
 it will be gain for me to be at home—forever at home 
 —with Him.” 
 
 Our detailed exposition of the text will be found in 
 the life and death of that man of God, who has just 
 been removed from among us to join the great cloud 
 of witnesses above. We undertake this service as a 
 
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 feeble tribute to departed worth—as a new testimony 
 to the grace of God towards His servants, in life and 
 in death—and as a fresh incentive to renewed dili¬ 
 gence in the duties of our high calling. It is not of 
 the man we would speak, but of the disciple. It is 
 not the man we would glorify, but the grace of God 
 which was “exceeding abundant” towards him. And 
 our design in this service will be altogether frustrated 
 if it do not redound to the praise of the glory of 
 God’s grace. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Van Dyke Johns, D.D., wvas 
 born in Newcastle, Delaware, on the 23d day of 
 October, in the year of our Lord, 1803. He was the 
 descendant of an old Maryland family, founded by 
 Richard Johns, who emigrated from England and 
 settled in Calvert County in 1717. He was the son 
 of the late Judge Kensey Johns, and brother of the 
 late Chancellor of Delaware, and of the present Bishop 
 of Virginia. He inherited from his ancestors the rich¬ 
 est of all legacies—the blessing entailed from father 
 to son upon the generations of those who fear God. 
 A child of the covenant, and sealed with the seal of 
 the covenant in infancy, his character was formed and 
 unfolded amidst the hallowed influences of a Christian 
 home. 
 
 His collegiate education was commenced at Prince¬ 
 ton, while the college, under the Presidency of Dr. 
 Green, was visited with that memorable revival which 
 
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 gave so many ministers to the Church, and baptized 
 them with so large a measure of the Spirit. The 
 subject of religious impressions from his earliest child¬ 
 hood, these were deepened by contact with the revival 
 spirit, and especially by the ministrations of the late 
 Dr. Archibald Alexander The following incident, 
 connected with this period of his life, is from the pen 
 of Dr. James W. Alexander. “The first person 
 with whom I ever talked freely concerning the infinite 
 concerns of my soul, was Henry V. D. Johns, and he 
 has told me that a like remark was true of himself. 
 It was in Nassau Hall, then the principal edifice of 
 Princeton College, and in No. 27 in the ‘second 
 entry,’ a locality fresh in the memory of old Nassovi- 
 ans. We were boys of sixteen, though I was about 
 to commence Bachelor of Arts. Such conversations 
 begin one scarcely knows how ; in a short time we 
 had unbosomed ourselves to one another, and entered 
 upon a close and tender friendship, which, I trust in 
 God, is never to cease. During the days in which 
 Henry was under the work of the law, and humbly 
 doubting whether, indeed, he had attained to justifi¬ 
 cation or not, he used to walk in the grove behind the 
 college, which, alas, with other forest shades of my 
 boyhood, has long since vanished away. As he 
 strayed, musing, his eye was attracted by a small 
 folded paper upon the ground ; this he picked up, 
 and afterwards showed to me ; it contained these 
 words: ‘And they that are Christ’s have crucified 
 the flesh with the affections and lusts.’ Gal. v, 24. 
 
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 * Try yourself by this.'’ This incident made a deep 
 impression on us both, conveying to our apprehen¬ 
 sions, at that time, something of the supernatural. 
 We have talked it over in later years, and there is 
 reason to believe that it had a moulding influence on 
 Johns’ experience and life.” Under these blessed 
 influences the seed, sown and watered through so 
 many years, ripened in his heart into its glorious har¬ 
 vest. Here he received that Baptism of the Spirit 
 which made him the Evangelist he was. 
 
 Partly from considerations of health, and partly 
 from the disturbed state of the college during the last 
 years of Dr. Green’s administration, he removed from 
 Princeton, and was graduated at Union, in 1823. 
 Immediately after his graduation he commenced his 
 studies for the ministry, first with his brother, and 
 then at the General Theological Seminary, N. Y. 
 He was ordained a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church by the venerated Bishop White, in Emanuel 
 Church, Newcastle, Delaware, in 1826, and a Presby¬ 
 ter by Bishop Chase, in St. John’s Church, Wash¬ 
 ington, D. C., in 1828. Soon after he received an ap¬ 
 pointment as Chaplain in the Navy, and was assigned 
 to the vessel which was to convey Lafayette back 
 from his last visit to the United States to his native 
 land. After prayerful deliberation, however, he was 
 led to devote his life to the pastorate. And in a little 
 unfurnished hall, with a rude pine table for his pulpit, 
 lie gathered and organized his first church, now 
 Trinity Church, in Washington. Thence he removed 
 
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 to Baltimore, and ministered, for a time, to “Old 
 Trinity,” under circumstances of great discourage¬ 
 ment. Thence lie removed to Frederick, Md., and 
 thence, after the lapse of five years, back to Baltimore, 
 where he organized and served for a time St. Andrew’s 
 Church. This church being weak and struggling with 
 many embarrassments, he was induced to accept a 
 charge in Cincinnati, where he labored with great 
 acceptance until 1842, when he was called to Christ 
 Church, Baltimore, to which he ministered until the 
 organization of Emanuel, in 1854, in the service of 
 which he died. 
 
 In asking me to sketch the character of this man of 
 God, so as to give the proper relief to its more prom¬ 
 inent features, you have called me to a task to which 
 I feel myself inadequate. My personal relations to 
 Dr. Johns have so endeared his memory, that I can 
 speak of him only with the affectionate partiality of a 
 son for a revered father. My personal intercourse 
 with him was such, that his faults, whatever they 
 were, were never discovered. The only portrait I can 
 draw of him, truthfully, must be all in light; you 
 must supply the shades. 
 
 I. Intellectually, he may be best characterized, per¬ 
 haps, by that expressive phrase, “a well balanced 
 mind.” His mental faculties, such as they were, 
 were all in a state of happy equipoise. None were 
 wanting, none were in excess, and all were blended 
 into a structure, beautiful and symmetrical as a Grecian 
 
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 temple. He had not Genius, but lie had many and 
 varied Talents. He was not the Palm, gathering all its 
 riches into its tufted top, and lifting that up to the 
 clouds, and out of reach ; he was the humbler Olive 
 tree, covered all over with branches, laden with the 
 choicest fruit, and bending down to the earth. 
 
 He was, through life, an indefatigable student ; 
 feeding his people with knowledge and not with wind. 
 It was his habit to spend the earlier part of every 
 week in reading, chiefly professional; and the latter 
 part in arranging and elaborating his discourses, not 
 writing, but manipulating them with his thoughts till 
 they stood out complete and illuminated in every part 
 before his mind’s eye—scrupulously redeeming for 
 this purpose, every fragment of time, cut up as his 
 time always was, into fragments. Ilis style was sin¬ 
 gularly chaste, almost classic. Ilis language was pol¬ 
 ished, until like the clearest crystal, it transmitted 
 without tinofincc or refracting the light of his thoughts. 
 He had acquired the art, so seldom acquired, of say¬ 
 ing exactly what lie wanted to say. He was not elo¬ 
 quent, in the popular and profane sense of that word. 
 He knew not, and despised to know how to make the 
 crowd gape and applaud. He practiced no stares or 
 starts, or mouthings or attitudenizings, or stage tricks, 
 or pulpit impertinencies of any kind. Self-possessed, 
 simple, solemn, he might have served for the original 
 of Cowper’s preacher. 
 
 But his chief power, and it is the highest species 
 of power—far mightier than the strong arm, or 
 
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 the giant intellect, or the iron will—was the power 
 of goodness. I say it deliberately, and you, who 
 have known him so long and so well, are ail 
 witnesses, Dr. Johns approached as near perfection 
 in moral character, as is allowed to mortals. His 
 tastes were all elevated, his sensibilities refined, his 
 whole nature recoiled with its very strongest instincts 
 from the approach of anything low or base. His 
 spirit, gentle as that of a child, loving as that of a 
 mother, was the clear reflection of His “who was 
 meek and lowly in heart.” He was “clothed with 
 humility,” as with a garment, which only heightened 
 while it sought to conceal his excellence. Simple and 
 unpretentious, always ready to take the lowest place, 
 and to esteem others better than himself; like the 
 Master, lie accounted it his highest honor to be 
 “the servant of all.” Forgetful of himself, there was 
 nothing about him to repel the approach of the hum¬ 
 blest ; and “nothing which concerned man did he re¬ 
 gard as foreign to himself.” His sympathies were quick 
 and warm, leading him to enter intuitively, and with 
 his whole heart, into the feelings of others—to “rejoice 
 with those who rejoiced and to weep with those who 
 wept.” Who ever approached him in perplexity or 
 in sorrow and did not find him a brother indeed ? O ! 
 how this large-heartedness grappled his friends to him 
 with hooks of steel. The purity of his motives was 
 transparent, the sincerity of his professions undoubted. 
 And this goodness made itself felt everywhere as a 
 mighty power. There was a majesty about it which 
 
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 rebuked from its presence everything mean or un¬ 
 manly. There was an inspiration about it which im¬ 
 parted, at least a temporary, elevation, to all who 
 came within its reach. There was a charm about it 
 which extorted the homage even of the worldly and the 
 profane. How often has the remark been heard from 
 the lips of such, “I like Dr. Johns, for I believe he is 
 a good man.” Seldom has the power of goodness 
 been more signally exemplified in any community. 
 The gentleness and purity which surrounded him as a 
 halo, were, however, far from being associated with 
 weakness or pusillanimity of spirit. He was firm and 
 inflexible, as was shown more than once in the course 
 of his ministerial life, where the truth was at stake. 
 He was always courageous for the Right—a very hero 
 where the glory of his Master, the success of his cause 
 or the liberties of his people were concerned. 
 
 But we have not yet reached “the hiding” of his 
 power. His Goodness was sanctified and sublimated 
 into Piety. His Virtues were transfigured into Graces. 
 He was a temple of the Holy Ghost; and the light 
 which shone about him was the light of Heaven. 
 His piety was after the earlier, apostolic standard— 
 healthful, genial, expansive, laborious. He was no 
 enthusiast, floating through dream-lands, and feeding 
 on visions and ecstacies. He had no revelations, 
 save such as were common to his brethren. The holy 
 things of his own heart he delighted not to drag from 
 their inner sanctuary, and expose to the rude gaze, 
 and ruder handling of the multitude. His religious 
 
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 experiences were eminently sober and scriptural. 
 His religion approved itself, as towards God, in a life 
 of Consecration. 
 
 “All that I am and all I have 
 Shall be forever thine.” 
 
 These words in his lips, were to be taken in their 
 true literal import. He was pre-eminently a man of 
 prayer. He saw Him who is invisible. He walked 
 with God. He was often with Him on the Mount, 
 talking with Him “as a man with his friend,” till his 
 face shone. Three times a day, it was his invariable 
 custom, from his first entrance on the divine life, to 
 retire for secret prayer. Every important under¬ 
 taking was commenced with prayer; and in every 
 perplexity he sought first the wisdom that cometh 
 from above. How often when friends have gone to 
 consult him, has he risen up and locked his study 
 door, and said, now that we can be alone, let us pray. 
 As towards man his religion approved itself by a life 
 of Benevolence. He was always ready to do good. 
 What good cause ever failed to find in him a friend 
 and an advocate? His time, his talents, his influence, 
 his money, all were freely employed to promote the 
 best interests of society. Throughout his life it was his 
 rule to devote the one-tenth of all his income to char¬ 
 itable uses. And so scrupulous was he in enforcing 
 this rule upon himself, that whenever he received a 
 present, even thoughtrifling—a book, a wedding-fee, 
 a basket of fruit—he put a valuation upon it, and gave 
 
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 the one-tenth unto the Lord. For to him “to live 
 was Christ.” 
 
 II. The gospel he preached was the gospel of the 
 apostles and the reformers—the gospel of the articles 
 and the homilies. His doctrinal views were clearly 
 and distinctively evangelical; sharply distinguished 
 on the one side from Rationalism, and on the other 
 from Romanism. I cannot better express them than 
 in his own language: “Holy Scripture; the sole 
 source and rule of faith, not Scripture and tradition 
 as its joint rule Man—a fallen and depraved being, 
 utterly unable by his own strength to save himself; 
 and our Lord Jesus Christ an all-sufficient and per¬ 
 fect Saviour. Repentance—consisting in the know¬ 
 ledge of sin, sorrow for sin, abandoning of sin, and 
 turning fully unto God. Saving Faith—the repose of 
 the stricken soul upon the testimony of God concern¬ 
 ing his Son Jesus Christ, our only Saviour, Mediator 
 and Redeemer. Pardon—the direct gift of Christ to 
 every one that believeth with the heart, with no in¬ 
 tervention other than the truth and spirit of God, not 
 dependent on a priestly or human agency for its cer¬ 
 tainty of reception. Justification—a free act of God, 
 in consideration of the obedience and death of Christ, 
 received by faith without works; ‘notan inward char¬ 
 acter in man, consisting of faith as one of a catalogue 
 of justifying graces.’ Sanctification—the progressive 
 work of the Holy Ghost, restoring the image of God 
 in righteousness and true holiness to the soul, and thus 
 in all scriptural obedience and Godly living, by the 
 
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 truth, making us new creatures in Christ Jesus. 
 Sanctification, being a work performed within us; 
 Justification, a work performed without us. Justifi¬ 
 cation, rendering us safe in view of death and judg¬ 
 ment ; Sanctification giving us evidence that we are 
 safe.” Paul could have subscribed such a creed as 
 that, and Luther and Cranmer, for it is the glorious 
 gospel of the blessed God. And in proclaiming 
 these great cardinal truths, he uttered no “uncertain 
 sound,” his silvery voice rang them out clearly and 
 sharply, so that all must hear and none could mistake. 
 
 As a Pastor, he chiefly excelled. His great useful¬ 
 ness, and the almost unexampled love his people bore 
 to him were largely attributable to his ministrations 
 at the fireside, and in the sick chamber, and the 
 house of mourning; his earnest personal appeals to 
 the careless and impenitent, and his affectionate coun¬ 
 sels to those who were asking after the “way of life.” 
 
 His ministry was eminently fruitful He has left 
 to this city three churches, free from debt, and main¬ 
 taining regularly the ordinances of God’s house— 
 Emanuel Church—Emanuel Chapel, and Cranmer 
 Chapel. The church he served, though one of the 
 youngest, appears from the last Journal of the Pro¬ 
 testant Episcopal Church in Maryland, to be the first 
 in the State, in the number of its communicants, 
 and the general evidences of pastoral usefulness. 
 All over this city are those who honor him, and 
 mourn for him as their spiritual father. And in 
 every place where he has ministered, many—how 
 
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 many, the judgment alone can declare—have been 
 given him, and will yet be given him, as “seals of 
 his ministry.” 
 
 Dr. Johns was earnestly, and honestly, and upon 
 mature conviction, attached to the distinctive polity of 
 his own church, as, in his view, most closely con¬ 
 formed to the apostolic model. Be was in principle, 
 what he was by profession, a Protestant Episcopalian. 
 
 1 make this remark emphatic, because his hearty 
 sympathy and co-operation with evangelical Chris¬ 
 tians of all churches, have sometimes given rise to 
 the suspicion—a suspicion which has been even pub¬ 
 licly expressed—that ho was not fully loyal to the 
 church he served. He held that there was nothing 
 in his relations as an Episcopalian, inconsistent with 
 his higher relations as a Protestant and a Christian— 
 nothing which compelled him, for a form or a rite, 
 “a baptism or a laying on of hands” to unchurch and 
 hand over to “uncovenanted mercies,” millions of the 
 living and the dead, who bore the seal of the Spirit. 
 With the founders and earlier and greater lights of 
 his own church—her Cranmers, and Ushers, and 
 Burnets, and Taylors, and Leightons, and Halls, he 
 held that Episcopacy was not a doctrine, but a fact; 
 not of divine command, but only of apostolic example— 
 the best, but not the only form; so that, while all are 
 bound to accept it, the want of it does not necessarily, 
 and of itself, exclude from the covenant. He believed 
 that the visible church with its ministries and sacra- 
 
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 ments, was but a means of grace, not that grace itself; 
 an instrumentality for diffusing the blessings of salva¬ 
 tion, not that salvation itself. But he did not believe 
 that the grace of God was inseparably incorporated 
 with the church, nor that his truth and spirit were so 
 tied to the episcopate as to be “of none effect” without 
 it. External forms and rites, and orders and succes¬ 
 sions in the ministry, however necessary to the com¬ 
 pleteness, he did not regard as essential to the being of 
 a church. In his view there was nothing incompatible 
 between the ideas of a divinely appointed ministry, 
 and a church which embraces all who believed the 
 truth, and were sanctified by the spirit of God. 
 Outside of the pale of episcopacy were thousands who 
 gave ample evidence that they were partakers of the 
 same grace, and heirs of the same promises as those 
 within, and these he rejoiced to acknowledge as breth¬ 
 ren. “Although,”—-I quote his own words from a 
 letter addressed to a Presbyterian Minister—“Al¬ 
 though of another branch of the great family of our 
 common Lord, I long to see the cause of true religion 
 prosper every where; and while I could wish all you 
 Presbyterian brethren were as I am, save these bonds 
 of sin which hang around my own poor heart, I am 
 yet content to wish you God speed in your own way; 
 and to rejoice whenever, and wheresoever, and by 
 whomsoever Christ is preached and souls brought 
 home to God.” In the language of one who speaks 
 by authority here, “matters of ecclesiastical arrange¬ 
 ment and government were esteemed by him within 
 
the privilege of individual choice, and were not en¬ 
 grafted into the essentials of Christianity itself. He 
 respected the preferences of others, and claimed the 
 same for his own, in the matter of form and order, 
 but he belonged, by the grace of God, also, to that 
 heaven destined body which his own church defines 
 as “the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of 
 saints, which is the blessed company of all faithful 
 people.” He occupied the broad Protestant platform 
 where we stand side by side to-day, in perfect consist¬ 
 ency with his own principles, and in the full integrity 
 of his heart. His professions of fraternal regard to¬ 
 ward all, of every name, who bore the imprint of 
 his Master’s image (professions so often suspected 
 and suspicious, so often but the cloak of selfish and 
 sinister designs) were the genuine and unaffected ut¬ 
 terances of his heart. Everywhere, in the pulpit, 
 on the platform, in ecclesiastical conventions, he 
 maintained, consistently, and with unflinching firm¬ 
 ness, the broad principles of Christian Fraternity. 
 His name belongs to no sect or segment of the house¬ 
 hold of faith, it is the common inheritance of us all. 
 The whole “company of faithful people” honored him 
 living, and mourned for him dead, as the champion 
 of Protestant unity. 
 
 III. His sympathies overleaping all narrow denom¬ 
 inational limits, were wide as the world—wide as both 
 worlds. How largely were all our benevolent insti¬ 
 tutions, our House of Refuge, our Asylums, our In¬ 
 firmaries, indebted to his judicious counsels, and un- 
 
wearied labors. “When the ear heard him then it 
 blessed him, and when the eye saw him it bare wit¬ 
 ness to him, because he delivered the poor that cried, 
 and the fatherless, and him that had none to help 
 him; the blessing of him that was ready to perish 
 came upon him, and he caused the widow’s- heart to 
 sing for joy.” 
 
 His heart was knit especially to those great twin 
 institutions which unite all who love the Lord Jesus, 
 in direct efforts to save souls. When he spoke of the 
 Bible Society, or the Tract Society, his countenance 
 always glowed, his tongue was always eloquent. Ho 
 loved them for their works’ sake. He loved them as 
 the visible signs and symbols of Christian unity, the 
 broad banner of our common Protestantism flung 
 to the winds, and rallying around itself all the divi¬ 
 sions of the great army of salvation. He was present 
 at the organization of the American Tract Society, in 
 1825, a scene which all who witnessed described as a 
 foreshadowing of heaven—and to use his own lan¬ 
 guage, at its recent anniversary, “From that day to 
 this, I have felt it a privilege and a duty, in the pul¬ 
 pit and upon the platform, and upon every occasion 
 in which Providence afforded me an opportunity, to 
 advocate the claims of this Society, as one of the great 
 movements in our Protestant cause ; and I have look¬ 
 ed upon it as spreading an influence over the general 
 literature of our country, with which no other agency 
 could begin to compare, Hence, I most cordially 
 
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 endorse the sentiments of Bishop Mcllvaine, that if 
 this Society were crippled in anyway in its operations, 
 it would he a day of darkness to our common Christi¬ 
 anity ; a day of rejoicing to infidelity and Romanism, 
 from one end of the land to the other.” He believed 
 with Dr. Archibald Alexander, when he said, “I doubt 
 whether there is in the world at this time, an institu¬ 
 tion, the Christian Ministry excepted, more efficiently 
 employed in conveying the Gospel to all classes of 
 society.” Next to the Ministry, both these sainted 
 men regarded the Tract Society as the great instru¬ 
 mentality for evangelizing the world. 
 
 At the time of his death, Dr. Johns was the President 
 of the Maryland Tract Society. “Dr. Johns,” I quote 
 the language of its Secretary, the Rev. S. Guiteau, in 
 announcing officially his death, “has presided over this 
 Society during the whole of its existence. It is now 
 about fifteen years since the friends of this branch of 
 Christian effort judged best to reorganize the Baltimore 
 Tract Society, one of the oldest associations of the kind 
 in the country, to enlarge the sphere of its action ; and 
 assume the name it now bears. On that occasion it 
 was made my duty to call on Dr. Johns, and ascer¬ 
 tain if he was willing to become our President. His 
 reply was characteristic, ‘I would advise you to get 
 a man better suited for the place, but if my services 
 are desired, they shall be cheerfully rendered.’ You 
 will all bear witness how fully he has redeemed this 
 pledge. From that day to this day of mourning, it 
 has been both my duty and my happiness, often to 
 
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 call and confer with him as to what was wise and best 
 to do. I have never found him so busy, or so 
 fatigued, that he was not ready to listen to my state¬ 
 ments. Nor was it a mere passing consideration that 
 he gave to these interests; but an earnestness of 
 thought, such as men are wont to bestow on their per¬ 
 sonal concerns. I have never conversed with a man 
 who had a higher appreciation of this department of 
 Christian benevolence.” His services, in organizing 
 and presiding so long and so efficiently over the 
 Maryland Tract Society, were invaluable; and his 
 name will always be preserved among her most pre¬ 
 cious household treasures. 
 
 IV. And now we come to the last sad scene of 
 all. His work here was done, and the Master had 
 need of him for a more glorious service above. 
 While he yet went in and out among us, we saw the 
 handwriting of death upon him. A concealed malady 
 was slowly drying up the fountains of life, and em¬ 
 balming his body for its burial. His soul was mel¬ 
 lowing and ripening for Heaven, and bathing itself 
 continually in the light of G-od’s countenance. Ere 
 yet he approached the dark border river, or felt its 
 first ripples upon his feet, he was admitted—as is 
 sometimes granted to Pilgrims—to “the Land of 
 Beulah,” that Heaven this side of death, and close 
 upon its borders, where the birds always sing, and 
 the flowers always bloom, and the sun shineth night 
 and day, and the shining ones come forth and walk— 
 he stood upon the Delectable Mountains, whence he 
 
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 could see the open gates of the Celestial City ; and so 
 strengthened and cheered by these glimpses and fore¬ 
 tastes of the Better Land beyond, he was enabled to 
 go forward, singing that blessed Psalm of faith : “Yea 
 though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 
 death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me ; thy 
 rod and thy staff they comfort mo.” 
 
 His last sickness, he knew from the first, was the 
 Messenger of Jesus to call him home. His sufferings 
 were intense and protracted, till his poor body was 
 weary with its groanings, and its tossings to and fro; 
 but his soul was kept in perfect peace ; for God was 
 the strength of his heart, and his portion. Come let 
 us gather around his death-bed and see how a Chris- 
 tiandies. He is looking back over his past life, and 
 thinking of that world he must so soon leave, but 
 there are no regrets ; for his language is “I am now 
 ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at 
 hand; I have fought a good* fight; I have finished 
 my course ; I have kept the faith ; henceforth there is 
 laid up for me a crown of righteousness.” His weep¬ 
 ing family are around him; the memories of dear 
 absent friends come crowding fast upon him ; but he 
 shrinks not from the stroke which must sunder so 
 many tender ties at once ; for he knows his Heavenly 
 Father will take care of the bleeding hearts he leaves 
 behind, and all will soon be reunited, never, never to 
 part again. He sees death, the last dread enemy, 
 approaching nearer and nearer; but even as he looks, 
 the monster is suddenly transformed into a Messenger 
 
of Mercy, his crown of terrors falls off, his dart is 
 broken, his sting withdrawn, and the dying saint sings, 
 “0 ! Death where is thy sting? 0! Grave where 
 is thy victor) 7 -? Thanks be unto God who givetli us 
 the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” He 
 looks down into the grave just opening at his feet, 
 but it is no longer a cold, or dark, or silent, or 
 lonely place. It is a hallowed spot—Jesus lay there. 
 His father lies there, his mother, the dear friends of 
 other days, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, all the 
 sainted dead, and he is ready to lie down and sleep 
 by their side. He looks upward ; and his countenance 
 becomes radiant, his filmy eye sparkles with more 
 than its old lustre, the anticipated radiance of Heaven 
 surrounds him as a glory; for he sees his Saviour 
 beckoning him away; and with glad voice he answers— 
 they were among his last words—“Yes, Jesus, I come! 
 I come to thee !” It would seem, as if like the dying 
 Stephen, he saw Heaven opened, and the Son of Man 
 standing at the right hand of God, calling and beck¬ 
 oning him away. 
 
 On his death-bed he left these three legacies. The 
 first is for that people he loved and served so well in 
 the Gospel. Said he to those who stood around him : 
 
 “I CANNOT EXPRESS THE PLEASURE IT HAS BEEN TO ME 
 TO SERVE THIS PEOPLE ; THEY HAVE BEEN SO KIND, SO 
 
 considerate.” The second is for us all. It was in 
 his last night on earth. His sufferings were intense, 
 and he had thrown himself across the bed, with his 
 face downward. His brother, Bishop Johns, was by his 
 
side, holding his hands; while a beloved son pillowed 
 his head. The windows were thrown open to the 
 night to give him air. Controlling his sufferings for a 
 moment, by a strong mental effort, he looked up, and 
 said in a clear calm voice to his brother, “Brother! 
 
 IT IS ALL AS CLEAR AS A SUNBEAM, AND SO COMFORT¬ 
 ING.” Racked with pain ; his face bowed to the earth; 
 amidst the darkness of midnight; his only comfort the 
 cold night winds that swept over him ; it was noonday 
 in his soul, for Heaven’s own sunbeams filled and flooded 
 its chambers. The third, too, is for us all. A few 
 hours before his death, he said to those who watched 
 around him, “Before my mind leaves me, I wish to 
 
 SAY THREE THINGS. I COMMIT MY FAMILY TO THE CARE 
 
 of my Heavenly Father—knowing that he will 
 
 DO FAR MORE THAN I HAVE EVER BEEN ABLE TO DO FOR 
 THEIR PROTECTION ; THAT I LEAVE MY ClIURCII TO THE 
 GUARDIAN CARE OF ALMIGHTY GoD ; AND THAT YOU 
 MUST TELL MY FRIENDS, I AM A SINNER SAVED BY GRACE, 
 
 and that God my Saviour has not forsaken his 
 poor servant in iiis dying hour.” And so he fell 
 asleep, calmly peacefully, as an infant sinks to slum¬ 
 ber. 
 
 “He died, as sets the Morning Star, which goes 
 Not down behind the darkened west; nor hides 
 Obscured among the tempests of the sky, 
 
 But melts away into the light of heaven.” 
 
 And then, devout men came and carried him to his 
 burial. That funeral, who that witnessed, can ever 
 
forget it. It seemed as if this whole city were draped 
 as a funeral mansion, and every inhabitant came 
 forth as a mourner That densely crowded church; 
 its death-like stillness, broken only by the stifled sobs 
 that could not be suppressed—the multitudes who 
 thronged all the surrounding streets—the long pro¬ 
 cession—the crowded cemetery—the tears which con¬ 
 secrated the last resting place of one so loved. Hal¬ 
 lowed spot! The footsteps of undying affection will 
 often revisit it. Our hearts will often make their 
 pilgrimages there. Softly may the sunlight sleep 
 upon it; and fresh and green be the turf that covers it. 
 
 And now, farewell! Brother, farewell! With 
 trembling hands we have woven this garland for thy 
 grave—would it were worthier. We bless God that 
 we were permitted to know thee. We bless God 
 that we were worthy to love thee. Very pleasant 
 hast thou been unto us, my brother ! And now that 
 thou art gone from us we will cherish all that thou 
 hast left to earth. We will watch over thy grave. 
 We will keep thy memory fresh and fragrant in our 
 midst. We will embalm thy name in our heart of 
 hearts. We will try to follow thee, brother! even as 
 thou didst follow Christ. Just translated from among 
 us; even yet we are standing and gazing after the 
 chariots of fire which conveyed thee away. 0! that 
 thy mantle may fall upon us ! 
 
 Why linger any longer about his grave. “He is 
 not here, he is risen.” 
 
‘•Hark! the golden harps are ringing 
 Sounds unearthly greet his ear : 
 
 Millions now in Heaven singing, 
 
 Greet his joyful entrance there.” 
 
 He was wise to win souls unto Christ., and he 
 shines to-day as the brightness of the upper firmament! 
 “He turned many to righteousness,” and he will 
 shine “as the stars for ever and ever.” The crown he 
 wears to day is all sparkling—gemmed with immortal 
 brilliants—the souls he won to Jesus. The mansion 
 he inhabits to-day is very near to the throne; many 
 were waiting to meet and rejoice with him there, and 
 many more will yet go up to join them, and a great 
 multitude will gather around him over whom he will 
 rejoice forever as “his crown and his joy,” and “his 
 works will still follow him.” 
 
 A word I must say in parting, to the Officers and 
 Members of the Maryland Tract Society. A dear 
 personal friend, a brother beloved—an honored Presi¬ 
 dent, “our stay and our staff,” has been taken from 
 us in the noon of manhood, and in the very midst of 
 his usefulness. We shall never see his face more— 
 never again meet him in the Committee-room. But a 
 voice comes from his grave to us saying, “Be ye also 
 ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of 
 man cometh. Work while it is day, for the night 
 cometh when no man can work.” 0! how rapidly 
 that night is hastening on, and how soon it will close 
 around us. How many of those who started out on 
 
life’s journey with us—the friends and companions of 
 other days—have fallen at our side, and are sleeping 
 to-day in some quiet country church-yard, or in our 
 own crowded cemeteries. Already we begin to feel 
 ourselves “strangers in the earth.” And what we 
 have to do for our own souls, for the souls of- others, 
 for that precious Saviour who redeemed us with his 
 own blood, must be done quickly. 
 
 Here, in this solemn hour, and as over the remains 
 of our dear departed friend and brother, let us conse¬ 
 crate ourselves afresh to that great cause whose pre¬ 
 cious interests are entrusted to our guardianship. We 
 bless God, that here, though bearing many a name 
 other than that new name we shall all be known by 
 in Heaven, we see eye to eye, and are joined hand to 
 hand, “laborers together” in building up our Master’s 
 Kingdom. Let us ever cherish that spirit of brotherly 
 kindness, which so eminently characterised our la¬ 
 mented President, and which glows in our hearts to¬ 
 day . Let us not be weary in well doing. Let us 
 scatter abroad still more widely the leaves of the tree 
 of life—the printed words of God—till they bring heal¬ 
 ing to all the dwellings of our City and State. And 
 when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, we tao “shall 
 receive from him a Crown of Life.” 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Charged by the Managers with the duty of having the fore¬ 
 going Sermon issued from the press, I have taken the liberty 
 of adding (he subjoined documents in an Appendix to the 
 Second Edition, without the trouble of convening the Board 
 to ask its sanction. Of the acceptableness of these documents 
 to those with whom the memory of Dr. Johns is so precious, 
 there can be no doubt, and as no responsibility is devolved upon 
 any one but myself, I am confident of the approbation of the 
 Managers. 
 
 Tract House, Fayette street, 
 June 15, 1859. 
 
 Cor. Secr'y. 
 
 Extract from the forthcoming Annual Report of the American 
 Tract Society, of which Dr. Johns had been an exceedingly 
 influential Corporate Director for many years, and by whom 
 it was most nobly represented on the platform of the London 
 Tract Society, at its anniversary in 1852. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Van Dyke Johns, 1). D., of Baltimore, 
 who for eight years has been a Director of this Society, and 
 for fifteen years President of the Maryland Branch, departed 
 this life April 22, 1859, at the age of fifty-six. 
 
 Dr. Johns early imbibed the friendship of the late Rev. Dr. 
 Milnor, was present with him at the organization of the Amer¬ 
 ican Tract Society, and continued its cordial active friend and 
 supporter not only during the twenty years that Milnor lived, 
 but through thirty-four years till they were called to meet be¬ 
 fore the throne above. None present at the Society’s last an¬ 
 niversary will fail to remember the Christian kindness and 
 courtesy with which he addressed that meeting. 
 
“It was my privilege,” he said, “to be at the meeting in 
 1825, when the Society was organized, and I never shall forget 
 the tone, sentiment, and emotion which pervaded that whole 
 assembly. If there ever was an occasion when the Spirit of 
 God, of love, of concord, and a sound mind was poured out, 
 it was upon that occasion. I recollect seeing venerated men 
 bathed in tears, and weeping like children in sympathy, heart 
 with heart, as the plans and prospects of this institution one 
 after another were presented. And, Mr. President, from that 
 day to this, I have felt it a privilege and duty, in the pulpit or 
 upon the platform, and upon every occasion in which Provi¬ 
 dence afforded me an opportunity, to advocate the claims of 
 this Society, as one of the great movements in the Protestant 
 cause, and I have looked upon it as spreading an influence over 
 the general literature of our country, with which no other 
 agency could begin to compare. Hence I most cordially en¬ 
 dorse the sentiments of Bishop Mcllvaine, that if this Society 
 were crippled in any way in its operations, it would be a day 
 of darkness to our common Christianity, a day of rejoicing to 
 infidelity and Romanism from one end of the land to the other.” 
 
 The Board of the Maryland Branch Tract Society, at a meet¬ 
 ing the day after Dr. Johns’ death, unanimously 
 
 “ Resolved , That this Board have heard with feelings of 
 deepest sadness of the death of their highly esteemed and much 
 loved President, Rev. H. V. D. Johns, I). D. 
 
 “ Resolved , That in this solemn and painful bereavement, 
 which an all-wise Providence has visited upon us, we would 
 5 recognize the hand of our heavenly Father, would bow with 
 meek and humble submission to his will, and acknowledge that 
 he ‘doeth all things well.’ The Board desire to record their 
 high estimate of the character and usefulness of their much 
 loved associate. As their President, he has rendered the So¬ 
 ciety most valuable service; his sound judgment, active efforts, 
 his extensive influence, and above all, his earnest piety, warm¬ 
 hearted Christian love and fervent philanthropy, all combined, 
 made him most uselul to our cause, and attached him to everv 
 member ol this Board with almost the affection of a brother. 
 ! hey would bear testimony to his enlarged and liberal views, 
 
to bis singleness of purpose in promoting the cause of Christ— 
 the highest welfare of his fellow-men, uninfluenced by personal 
 or sectarian interests, seeking only to win souls to salvation, 
 and to promote the glory of the Redeemer’s name. His eleva¬ 
 ted Christian character as a minister of Christ, his kind, 
 sympathizing spirit, gentleness of manner, and mildness of 
 disposition, were characteristics that rendered him influential 
 as a man of God, valuable as a citizen, and beloved by all who 
 knew him. We feel that the church of Christ has lost a faith¬ 
 ful minister, our community a most valuable citizen, our So¬ 
 ciety and influential and devoted friend and President, and 
 ourselves as individuals an attached friend.” 
 
 At this meeting of the Board of the Maryland Branch, the 
 Rev. J. W. M. Williams, of the Baptist church, Chairman of 
 their Executive Committee, said : 
 
 “I should do violence to my feelings if I did not say some¬ 
 thing before taking the vote on these resolutions. There is no 
 man living I love more, in a religious sense, than I loved Dr. 
 Johns. I said this while he was living; I say it now he is 
 gone. We have labored together in this Society for the last 
 eight years. My acquaintance with him has been of the most 
 pleasant and profitable character. I scarcely ever met him 
 but he uttered some word that made me love him more, and 
 cheered me on in my work of preaching the gospel. 
 
 “In former years, while we as a Society were struggling 
 under difficulties, he was our guiding spirit, and his counsels 
 were always wise and safe. We shall miss him greatly. His 
 death comes near to me ; I feel it deeply. He being Chairman 
 of the Board of Managers and I of the Executive Committee, 
 we have alternated in presiding over the deliberations of this 
 Society. As I stand here this afternoon in the place he filled 
 with so much pleasure to us all for fifteen years, I feel as if a 
 fellow-soldier had been shot down at my side, and I had stepped 
 up to fill his place, and perhaps the next ball may reach iny 
 heart. Let us all lay his death to heart, and hear our common 
 Master saying to us, ‘Work while it is called to-day.’ ‘Be ye 
 also ready.’ ” 
 
The Rev. S. CIuiteau, Secretary of the Maryland Branch, 
 said on the same occasion : 
 
 “There is not a member of this Board, I might almost say 
 there is not a religious man in Baltimore, who has not heard 
 with feelings of deepest sadness that the Rev. H. Y. D. Johns, 
 so long the beloved President of this Society, is numbered 
 with the dead. Yesterday morning, at about six o’clock, he 
 passed awav from earth. His last words were, as if called to, 
 ‘Yes, Jesus, I come, I come to thee.’ 
 
 “Dr. Johns has presided over this Society during the whole 
 of its existence. It is now about fifteen years since the friends 
 of this branch of Christian effort judged best to reorganize 
 ‘The Baltimore Tract Society,’ one of the oldest associations 
 of the kind in the country, to enlarge the sphere of its action, 
 and assume the name it now bears. On that occasion it was 
 made my duty to call on Dr. Johns, and ascertain if he was 
 willing to become our President. His reply was characteristic : 
 ‘1 would advise you to get a man better suited for the place; 
 but if my services are desired, they shall be cheerfully ren¬ 
 dered.’ You will all bear witness how fully he has redeemed 
 his pledge. From that day to this day of mourning, it has 
 been both my duty and my happiness often to call and confer 
 with him as to what it was wise and best to do. I have never 
 found him so busy or so fatigued that he was not ready to 
 listen to my statements. Nor was it a mere passing considera¬ 
 tion that he gave to these interests, but an earnestness of 
 thought such as men are wont to bestow upon their personal 
 concerns. I have never conversed with a man who had a 
 higher appreciation of this department of benevolence. 
 
 “He loved the Society as an efficient agency for proclaiming 
 to men of all grades their ruin and their remedy. I speak 
 what I know when I say that he specially delighted in the dec¬ 
 laration of the late Dr. Alexander, of Princeton, a man whom 
 he greatly revered, in his letter resigning his place on the Pub¬ 
 lishing Committee, and quoted by Bishop Mcllvaine in his 
 speech at the last annual meeting : ‘I doubt whether there is 
 in the world at this time an institution, the Christian ministry 
 excepted, more efficiently employed in carrying the gospel to 
 all classes of society.’ 
 
“Ho loved the Society also, peculiarly loved it, because it 
 tended to promote the unity of the church. How he loved to 
 talk of the meeting; when the Parent Society was organized, 
 and when ‘Milnor, Summerfield, and others/ to use his often 
 repeated words, ‘manifested a spirit so much like heaven, that 
 the recollection of it is refreshing.’ 
 
 ‘•You all remember how we were impressed with his remarks 
 at our Colporter convention last autumn. We shall not for¬ 
 get that memorable declaration: 
 
 “1 love these associations, assemblages such as these, com¬ 
 posed of members of various branches of the church. They 
 serve to counteract that sectarian zeal to which we are so 
 prone—a spirit of which I am so afraid that for years I have 
 made it a habit not to pass a place of worship of another de¬ 
 nomination without lifting up a silent prayer that God would 
 bless that people.’ 
 
 “Happy spirit! How congenial to that world where he now 
 is, where names are lost, and Christ is all and in all 1” 
 
 Extract from the Records of the Maryland Bible Society. 
 
 “At a special meeting of the Board of Managers of the Ma¬ 
 ryland State Bible Society, held on the 23d instant, the follow¬ 
 ing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 “ Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, by the dispensation 
 of His providence, to remove from this transitory life Rev. 
 Henry V. D. Johns, D. D., and whereas the deceased was for 
 a number of years a member of the Maryland State Bible So¬ 
 ciety, therefore, 
 
 “ Resolved, , By the Managers of the Maryland State Bible 
 Society, in special meeting assembled, that we entertain and 
 herebv express our high appreciation of the Christian meek¬ 
 ness, devotion, usefulness, and truly Catholic spirit of Rev. 
 Henry V. D. Johns, D. D., and that our associations with him, 
 in the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, greatly endear him 
 to us, as an able, intelligent and constant supporter of the 
 
 Bible cause. 
 
“ Resolved , That we sincerely sympathise with the bereaved 
 family of the late Rev. 11. V. D. Johns, D. D., and also with 
 his afflicted parishioners, to whom he was a faithful Minister of 
 the Lord Jesus; and that we commend them to the Chief 
 Shepherd, for the consolation and support of Divine grace. 
 
 “Resolved, That a copy of the above proceedings be fur¬ 
 nished to the family of the late Rev. Henry V. D. Johns, D. 
 D., to the Vestry of Emanuel Church, and that they also be 
 published in the newspapers of this city.” 
 
 Signed by order of the Board, 
 
 0. H. TIFFANY, 
 Recording Sec’y. 
 
 Extract from the Records of the Young Men’s Christian As¬ 
 sociation. 
 
 Rooms ok the Young Men’s Christian Association of Balto., / 
 
 Saturday Evening April 23, 1859. $ 
 
 At a special meeting of the Board of Managers, the following 
 resolution was unanimously adopted, as expressive of the sense 
 of that body : 
 
 Resolved, “That in the death of the Rev. Henry Van Dyke 
 Johns, D. D., the Y'oung Men’s Christian Association of Balti¬ 
 more, hits sustained a loss so great, that its Board of Managers 
 cannot withhold expressions of its grief. 
 
 “The Board is deeply sensible that it has been deprived of a 
 friend, whose mature judgment, wise counsel, and godly ex¬ 
 ample greatly contributed to the advancement of its truest in¬ 
 terests, and of one whose name was a Rower of strength,’ in 
 securing the Christian fellowship, which unites the various de¬ 
 nominations of this city. 
 
 “The Board desires to mingle its heartfelt sympathy with his 
 family, which has been so sorely bereaved, and earnestly prays 
 that the ‘God of the fatherless and the widow’ mav abundantlv 
 
 J * 
 
 administer to them the peace and the consolation of His Holy 
 Spirit. 
 
 “To his afflicted congregation also, would the Board extend 
 its condolence, and devoutly pray that God in his infinite 
 mercy, may send ‘a man after his own heart,’ who will ‘know 
 
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 nothing but Christ and Him crucified/ to guide His people in 
 the way of life everlasting.” 
 
 J. DEAN SMITH, President. 
 John R. Kelso, Jr., Pec. Sec’y. 
 
 TRACT HOUSE, Fayette Street, June 14, 1859. 
 
 To the Yestry of Emanuel Church : 
 
 Gentlemen :—A second edition of Dr. Smith’s Sermon Commemorative of the 
 Life and Character of your late Rector, the lamented Rev. H. Y. D; John, D.D., is 
 called for. As almost every item of authentic information, and every utterance of af¬ 
 fection relative to this beloved man seems to be craved by the Christian public, I have 
 thought the pamphlet would be rendered more valuable as a memorial of Dr. Johns 
 by the insertion, in an Appendix, of a few other documents called forth by his death. 
 Among others, your Minutes adopted at the announcement of his decease, seems to 
 me eminently appropriate. For this purpose I solicit a copy from your records- 
 With high esteem and the sincerest sympathy, I am, gentlemen. 
 
 Very truly, yours, 
 
 S. GUITEAU, 
 
 Cor. Sec. Maryland Tract Society. 
 
 To Members of Vestry, care of 
 H. A. Thompson, Esq., Register. 
 
 Baltimore, June 15, 1859- 
 
 To the Rev. Mr. S. Quiteau, 
 
 Cor. See. Maryland Tract Society : 
 
 Rev. and Dear Sir :—Your letter of 14th Inst, to the Vestry of Emanuel Church 
 has been received, and I have been desired to hand you a copy of the proceedings of 
 tlio Vestry consequent upon the death of our lato much beloved and revered rector, 
 the Rev. Henry V. D. Johns, D.D., which you will receive with this note. 
 
 With much respect, yours, very truly, 
 
 II. A. THOMPSON, Register. 
 
 Emanuel Church Yestry Room, > 
 Baltimore , 22 d April , 9 o’clock , A. J\I. y 
 
 The Yestry met. Present: The Rev. Charles R. Howard, 
 Assistant Minister. Messrs. James Carroll, Henry A. Thomp¬ 
 son, Henry M. Bash, Leonard Mackall, Haslett McKim, Wil¬ 
 liam Bose, Robert Dorsey of Ed., and James H. Millikin. 
 
 Prayers were oflered by the Assistant Minister. 
 
 The Assistant Minister communicated to the vestry the sad 
 intelligence of the death of cur beloved rector, the Rev. 
 
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 Henry Van Dyke Johns, D. D. He fell asleep in Jesus, at six 
 o’clock, A. M., this 22d day of April, 1859. 
 
 Whereupon, it was 
 
 Resolved , That a committee, consisting of Messrs. Carroll, 
 Thompson and Bash, be, and the same is hereby appointed, to 
 convey the heartfelt condolence of this afflicted vestry to his 
 afflicted family: to claim the mournful privilege of sympathiz¬ 
 ing with their sorrows, and affectionately to ask them to unite 
 with us in seeking consolation under their and our sad bereave¬ 
 ment, in the full assurance that our loss is his everlasting 
 gain. 
 
 Resolved, That the committee be instructed to confer with 
 the family on the order of the funeral and to tender the ser¬ 
 vices of the vestry in any and every way in which they will 
 consent to receive the same. 
 
 Resolved, That the following address to the congregation be 
 adopted. 
 
 From the Vestry to the Congregation of Emanuel 
 
 Church, Baltimore. 
 
 It has pleased Almighty God to take our beloved Rector 
 home. He died as he had lived, trusting in God his Saviour, 
 and praying for us all. 
 
 The earthly ties which bound him and this congregation 
 together are severed: he has gone to his eternal rest, and we 
 are left to mourn our sad bereavement. 
 
 In our deep distress it becomes us to bow our heads in the 
 dust, and to say, “Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in 
 thy sight.” 
 
 But there are ties which death cannot sever. Henry Johns 
 is embalmed in our hearts. 
 
 The man, the Christian, the Minister of the Word and Sa¬ 
 craments lives in our tenderest affections. And although we 
 shall no more receive at his hallowed hands the memorials of a 
 Saviour’s dying love, no longer look upon his beaming counte¬ 
 nance, and hear the silvery tones of his voice, directing us to 
 Christ, as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, we shall retain a 
 constant preacher of the blessed gospel in the Godly example 
 of his holy life and conversation. 
 
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 Our dear brother is not dead. He is still a living member of 
 the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, which is 
 the blessed company of all faithful people. 
 
 “Angels and living saints and dead 
 But one communion make, 
 
 All join in Christ their vital head, 
 
 And of his love partake.” 
 
 He has only left the Church militant to take the place pre¬ 
 pared for him in the Church triumphant. And it is our blessed 
 privilege to know and feel that we may receive health and sal¬ 
 vation only in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Let us, then, take our place at the foot of the cross, in the 
 assured hope and trust that there is a place prepared for us, 
 even for us, unworthy as we are, if we also be found faithful to 
 the end ; and that we shall again unite with him in ascribing 
 glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, 
 not in an earthly sanctuary, but before the throne of God and 
 the Lamb. 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of these proceedings be forwarded to 
 the family of our late Rector, and that they be read to the con¬ 
 gregation on the first occasion of public service. 
 
 Eight o'clock, P. m. 
 
 The Vestry met by adjournment. 
 
 Present all the members. 
 
 Prayers were offered by the assistant minister. 
 
 The committee appointed this morning reported, That they 
 have had an interview with Mr. Henry Johns, to whom they 
 delivered a copy of the proceedings of this morning’s session, 
 which had been previously read to the congregation at morn¬ 
 ing prayer—this day being good Friday. They learned from 
 him that the family had directed an advertisement in the pub¬ 
 lic papers announcing the death of Dr. Johns, and inviting his 
 friends to attend the funeral at Emanuel Church, on Sunday, 
 at 3 o’clock, p. m. That the family desired as much privacy as 
 was practicable, aud wished that the assemblage at his late 
 residence should be confined to his immediate relatives. They 
 desired that the members of the vestry should act as pall 
 
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 bearers, and should attend at his house at half past two o’clock, 
 for the purpose of accompanying his remains to the church, 
 and to the grave. They desired to have the usual funeral ser¬ 
 vices, without a sermon, and wished the services to be con¬ 
 ducted entirely by the Rev. Mr. Howard. 
 
 These directions, given at the express wish of our late Rector, 
 should be a law to the Yestry. 
 
 Their duties will then be confined to an endeavor to accom¬ 
 modate in the best way they can, those who attend at the 
 church. 
 
 On motion, 
 
 Resolved, That the report be accepted, and the Yestry cheer¬ 
 fully acquiesce in the wishes of the family, that the Rev. Mr. 
 Howard perform the funeral services, and that they attend at 
 the residence as pall bearers at the hour designated. 
 
 Resolved, That the Yestry wear crape on the left arm, and 
 that the church be put in mourning for the space of one month. 
 
 Resolved, That the Register be, and he is hereby authorized 
 to give such directions for the carriages, Ac., as may be ne¬ 
 cessary. 
 
 Baltimore, 25th April, 1859. 
 
 The Vestry met. 
 
 Present all the members. 
 
 Prayers were offered by the Assistant Minister. 
 
 The committee reported, That having learned from Mr. 
 Howard that it was the desire of the family to make some 
 change in the order of the funeral of our late Rector, have 
 thought proper to address to him the following letter : 
 
 Baltimore, 24th April, 1859. 
 
 Rev. a>iD Dear Sir: —The Yestry had matured a plan for 
 the order of the funeral of our beloved Rector, in strict com¬ 
 pliance with the expressed wishes of his family. That plan 
 contemplated your performance of all the funeral services. 
 
 We have learned this morning that the family desire the as¬ 
 sociation with you of the Rev. Mr. Hoff in the performance of 
 those services. 
 
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 It is not our province to interfere in any way with your min¬ 
 isterial functions. But we desire to say to you, that, as at first, 
 so now, the wish of the family is a law to us; and that you 
 have our sanction for any alterations they may desire to make. 
 
 Very respectfully and affectionately yours, 
 
 James Carroll, 
 
 IB. A. Thompson, 
 
 H. M. Bash, 
 
 Committee of the Vestry. 
 
 Rev. Charles R. Howard, 
 
 Ass’t Minister Emanuel Churchy Baltimore. 
 
 The committee further reported, that at half past two o’clock 
 on the 24th instant, being Easter Sunday, the Vestry attended 
 at the residence of our late Rector, where they received his 
 sacred remains and accompanied them to the church. They 
 found the church filled to its utmost capacity. 
 
 We bore the coffin through a wave of suppressed sobs, testi¬ 
 fying the heartfelt love and veneration of the congregation, 
 tempered by a profound respect for the place and the occasion. 
 
 We deposited it in front of the chancel, when two of our 
 members removed the Bible and Prayer book from the desk, 
 and placed them directly over that heart in which they had 
 been so long enshrined. 
 
 After the services, which were performed by the Rev. Messrs. 
 Howard and Hoff, all that was mortal of Henry Johns was for 
 the last time taken from that church he so fondly loved, and 
 laid in the grave, there to await the Resurrection. We close 
 as w r e began—“Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy 
 sight.” 
 
 On motion the report was adopted. 
 
 [Certified extract from the records of the Vestry of Eman¬ 
 uel Church, Baltimore.] 
 
 Henry A. Thompson, Register. 
 
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 A Letter from the Vestry of St. Paul’s Church, Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, to the Vestry of Emanuel Church, in this city. 
 
 [Copy.] 
 
 At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Paul’s Church, Cincinnati, 
 held on the second Monday after Easter, 1859, it was, on motion, 
 
 Resolved, That the Rector, the Rev. Dr. Greenleaf, and 
 Messrs. D. K. Cady and S. VV. Pomeroy, be a Committee to 
 take suitable notice of the death of the Rev. Henry V. D. 
 Johns, D. D., late Rector of Emanuel Church, Baltimore, 
 and for several years Rector of St. Paul’s, Cincinnati, Ohio, 
 and to communicate the same to the family and parish of the 
 deceased. 
 
 In the performance of this duty, the Committee can only re¬ 
 peat the tribute which has elsewhere been spontaneously offered 
 to the purity of character, the affectionate sympathy, and 
 untiring zeal in all good works, of this departed minister of 
 Christ, and most respectfully and kindly offer to his bereaved 
 family the assurance of our sympathy in their sorrow, and to 
 the parish from which he has been removed, our sincere con¬ 
 dolence on this afflictive dispensation of God’s providence. 
 
 P. H. Greenleaf, 
 
 D. K. Cady, 
 
 S. W. Pomeroy, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 A very admirable writer in the Episcopal Recorder of May 
 7th, referring to conversations with Dr. Johns, when topics 
 were discussed likely to induce censorious remarks, says : 
 
 “I felt as if I stood in the presence of one who was so far 
 receding from earth as to lose sight, in the atmosphere of 
 love which encircled him, of all but those grand and dear rela¬ 
 tions which bind Christians to each other as the common ser¬ 
 vants of a crucified Lord.” 
 
 He concludes his notice as follows: 
 
 “The last time I heard Dr. Johns preach was on Thanksgiv¬ 
 ing day last. He had just risen from an attack of sickness. 
 That this sickness had brought him, not merely very near to 
 
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death, but very near to heaven, was impressed upon me not 
 merely by the appearance of his body, but Jby the working of 
 his mind. There was an etherealness in the way in which his 
 subject was treated, which spoke of one whose thoughts were 
 now much more conversant with things spiritual than with 
 things temporal. The topic was of a thanksgiving character, 
 but the thanksgiving was one for eternity rather than earth. 
 Three months afterwards, when I again met him, and spent 
 some time with him this impression grew deeper. Three 
 months more passed, and death stood at the very door of his 
 mortal tenement, announcing, in unmistakeable language, his 
 approach. But the messenger came to him not by surprise. 
 That calm preparation which had been proceeding so long 
 and so gradually was not ruffled by the knowledge that in a 
 very short time probation was to end. And then, in three 
 weeks more, that probation did end in peace. 
 
 ‘ ‘Dr. Johns’ death is the greater loss to the Church, from the 
 fact that his mature and gentle wisdom, and his wide charity, 
 now beginning to be the more fully understood, are qualities 
 which our present wants peculiarly require. ‘God buries his 
 workmen,’ was an epitaph prepared by John Wesley for his 
 brother Charles, ‘that he may carry on his work.’ Let this be 
 our comfort, and let us unite in the prayer that to fill the place 
 of him who has been taken, others may be called to do the 
 work of the Lord with increased energy and meekness.” 
 
 From the Baltimore American of 22d April. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Van Dyke Johns, D. D., Rector of Eman¬ 
 uel Church, of the Protestant Episcopal denomination, died 
 this morning, a few minutes after six o’clock, at the family 
 residence, corner of Bolton and Lanvale streets. For a week 
 previous the press of the city had announced the fact that the 
 Doctor was extremely ill, and daily thereafter continued to re¬ 
 port the progress of the disease. A year ago, the deceased ex¬ 
 perienced a similar attack, and for several days was prostrate, 
 but under judicious medical treatment recovered, and resumed 
 the active discharge of his ministerial duties. Nearly two 
 
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 months since, however, he experienced symptoms of the same 
 indisposition, but continued his clerical labors until the middle 
 of March, at which time, with the advice of the vestry of the 
 Church, and the members of his own family, he was con¬ 
 strained to resign his work to the assistant of the parish, Rev. 
 Charles Howard, and submit to medical treatment. 
 
 Soon after, the family physician, Dr. John Buckler, was 
 called in, and at once pronouncing his disease of a dangerous 
 character, treated it with unusual skill and watchfulness. The 
 frequent changes in the condition of the patient, sometimes en¬ 
 abling him to leave his bed and converse freely with the assist¬ 
 ant rector, his family, and the vestry of the Church, than 
 whom all others were positively forbidden to see him, seemed 
 to justify anticipations of his final recovery, but it was other¬ 
 wise decreed. On last Monday, the Right Rev. John Johns 
 was summoned from the active discharge of the duties of the 
 Episcopate of the Diocese of Virginia, and soon appearing at 
 the bedside of his brother, never left it until the vital spark 
 had fled. 
 
 Extract from the recent Address of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Whit- 
 
 tingham, “To the Seventv-sixth Annual Convention of the 
 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland.” 
 
 “We are again warned to diligence and faithfulness in our 
 work by the presence of death among us since our last assem¬ 
 blage. A name that had stood, with the exception of a compar¬ 
 atively brief interval, for upwards of thirty years upon the roll 
 of the Clergy of the Diocese will appear there no more. Pre¬ 
 maturely, as it might seem to man, certainly in the very height 
 of activity and usefulness, the Rev. Henry Van Dyke Johns, 
 the beloved and influential Rector of Emanuel Church in this 
 city, has been taken from his family, his ardently devoted 
 flock, and a whole mourning city. His extensive connexions 
 and long residence in the diocese had made him one of the most 
 generally known of all our band. His winning manners and 
 earnest zeal for the service of his Master, secured the respect 
 of all, the love and admiration of such as were more inti¬ 
 mately associated in his work. Probably none among us, when 
 
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 called to rest, would be missed and mourned by so many. Long 
 years must pass before the void which his departure makes in 
 the ministry of Baltimore can be so supplied as to appease the 
 sense of grievous loss, now tilling so many hearts with anguish. 
 Eulogy of such a man would be out of place, on this occasion. 
 To you, the mere mention of the deceased is his ample praise.” 
 
 The following beautiful tribute from the distinguished Pastor 
 of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, will be 
 read with great pleasure. 
 
 From the Presbyterian. 
 
 Messrs. Editors. —Though very much unfitted for literary 
 work by a low state of health, I cannot refrain from sending 
 you a few paragraphs concerning my honored and beloved 
 friend, the late Henry Van Dyke Johns, D. D. That he be¬ 
 longed to a different branch of Christ’s Church from that in 
 which I serve, has always added zest to our friendship and fra¬ 
 ternity. So many years have elapsed since the events which 
 are presently to be related, that I feel like one who speaks con¬ 
 cerning strangers, or persons very remote; they are indeed 
 events which I never expected to disclose to the public. 
 
 The first person with whom 1 ever talked freely, respecting 
 the infinite concerns of my soul, was Henry Y. D. Johns; and he 
 has told me that a like remark would he true of himself. It 
 was in Nassau Hall, then the principal edifice of Princeton 
 College; and in No. 27, the “second entry;” a locality fresh 
 in the memory of old Nassovians. We were boys of sixteen ; 
 though I was about to commence bachelor of arts. Such con- 
 versations begin, one scarcely knows how ; in a short time we 
 had unbosomed ourselves to one another, and entered upon a 
 close and tender friendship which I trust in God is never to 
 cease. During the days in which Henry was under the work 
 of the law, and humbly doubting whether indeed he had at¬ 
 tained to justification or not, he used to walk in the grove be¬ 
 hind the college, which, alas, with other forest shades of my 
 boyhood, has long since vanished away. As he strayed, mus- 
 
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 ing, his eye was attracted by a small folded paper upon the 
 ground; this he picked up, and afterwards showed to me; it 
 contained these words : “And they that are Christ’s have cru¬ 
 cified the flesh with the affections and lusts, Gal. v, 24. Try 
 yourself by this /” This incident made a deep impression on us 
 both, carrying to our apprehensions at that time something of 
 the supernatural. We have talked it over in later years, and 
 there is reason to believe that it had a moulding influence on 
 Johns’ experience and life. Soon after this we became com¬ 
 municants at our respective homes. 
 
 In the survey of many brethren whom it has been my 
 exceeding great privilege to know during thirty odd years 
 of ministry, I can recall none who “followed” the Lord 
 “fully” (Numb, xv, 24,) in a higher sense than Henry V. D. 
 Johns. He was not a great genius, a man of extraordinary 
 erudition, a famous author, or a pulpit-phenomenon ; but he 
 was a faithful, fervent, and most successful minister of the 
 Lord Jesus. Great honesty, transparency, directness, tho¬ 
 roughness, intrepidity, earnestness and melting affection, char¬ 
 acterized his words and acts. He was a man of heart, always 
 glowing ; for, so far as I could discern, the fire never went out. 
 This made him truly and powerfully eloquent, as he uttered 
 just such doctrines and exhortations, as those of Bickersteth, 
 ltyle, and McGhee. The catholicity of his spirit was great, 
 and savored of the nobler days of the Church of England. 
 Equally remarkable were his courage and independence, in 
 resisting ecclesiastical domination. Such a union of manly 
 force and feminine gentleness showed how closely he had fol¬ 
 lowed the Master. 
 
 In the summer of 1844, a slight steamboat disaster caused me 
 to stop, with my family, on Saturday evening, at Newcastle, 
 where we became the guest of Henry’s distinguished brother, 
 Chancellor Johns. These were hospitalities never to be for¬ 
 gotten. On this occasion we were presented to the father of 
 the three justly honored sons, the venerable Judge Johns, then 
 more than eighty years of age. A few days after, at Cape May, 
 all three brothers met, and I sat beside another friend of my 
 boyhood, Bishop Johns, who, I am quite sure, will forgive the 
 allusion. That most delightful of seaside resorts was made 
 
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 thrice blessed by such company of scholars, gentlemen, and be¬ 
 lievers. Many an innocent, but keen rejoinder, passed between 
 the two Episcopalians and the two Presbyterians. 1 had not 
 met Henry for many years, and we became boys again, as we 
 rehearsed the scenes of beautiful Princeton along the resound¬ 
 ing strand of cool Cape May. Everything now confirmed me 
 in my judgment, respecting those traits of Henry’s character, 
 which I have ventured to note above—his incorruptible truth, 
 his contempt for all indirectness and finesse, his genuine liber¬ 
 ality in church matters, his boldness, and his triumphant love. 
 
 On the 22d of July, he gave a discourse in the Methodist 
 Church, from Ezek. xxxiii, 11, “As I live, saith the Lord God, 
 1 have no pleasure in the death of the wicked,” &c. It was 
 delivered without notes, and was a sermon among a thousand, 
 if measured with reference to the real ends of preaching, being 
 true, correct, fluent, warm, and above all, full of unction ; this 
 is the word which characterizes Johns’ preaching. It was the 
 doctrine of the Reformers, the Articles, and the Homilies; 
 sound, evangelical, cogent. I never heard that voice again in 
 public, till it rang forth its affectionate warnings, just a year 
 ago, at the Anniversary of the American Tract Society. On 
 the 28th of July, Bishop Johns preached at Cape May, from 
 Jer. ii, 19. 
 
 These lines have been penned before I could receive any but 
 the most general account of dear brother Johns’ death. The 
 papers tell, indeed, that on the arrival of the Bishop, he said, 
 “Brother John, here is a sinner saved by grace!” 
 
 I wish these hasty sentences were not so egotistical; but any 
 attempt to make them less so would have impaired their sim¬ 
 plicity. In conclusion, I will not say with Shenstone’s cele¬ 
 brated epitaph, Heu quanto minus cum reliquis versari, quam 
 tui meminisse! because I see and feel that I am surrounded by 
 many ministers, and other beloved servants of our Lord; but 
 
 1 will add, in remembrance of my youth : 1 am distressed for 
 thee , my brother Johns; very 'pleasant hast thou been unto me ! 
 
 2 Sam. i, 26. 
 
 I am always faithfully yours, 
 
 Jas. W. Alexander. 
 
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 Dr. Newton's estimate of Dr. Johns' Character. 
 
 Extract from a letter of Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., of Phil¬ 
 adelphia, to H. A. Thompson, Esq. 
 
 “Many thanks for the excellent funeral discourse delivered 
 by Dr. Smith on the occasion of the death of Dr. Johns. It is 
 a beautiful analysis of his lovely character. I was so much 
 interested in it that I read it to my people in place of the 
 usual lecture on last Wednesday evening. Every body was 
 delighted with it, and many inquiries have been made for 
 copies of it. 
 
 “I hope the Tract Society that has published it will send a 
 supply to the Tract Depository here.” 
 
 These several extracts I have collected as so many flowers 
 culled from the wide field of Christian affection, and strewn 
 them upon the new made grave, mementos of fifteen years of 
 harmonious companionship in benevolent effort, and of a 
 friendship, the recollection of which is precious to my heart. 
 
 I may be permitted to add, in the words used by Dr. Alex¬ 
 ander, not “in remembrance of my youth,” but of my riper 
 years, “I am distressed for thee, my brother Johns; very 
 pleasant hast thou been unto me.” 2 Sam. i, 26. 
 
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