will dismiss the subject by just hinting at a few of his more prominent traits. And I may mention, first of all, his singular purity. He had neither guile nor the suspicion of it. Long as he had lived in the world, he seemed to have suffered little from its contact. There was a delicacy of sentiment and feeling in him, which not only bespoke his own purity of heart, but kept the atmosphere about him pure. And it was this that gave to all his conversation and conduct an air of the most engaging simplicity. In speech and manner he was artless as a child. You read his heart at once. And if, in turn, you did not lay your own open, you gave him all the advantage he wished or would avail himself of,-the advantage of sincerity and candour. He was distinguished also for his humility. With the best education that Europe could afford; as a divine, second perhaps to none in America; as a controversialist, unanswered and unanswerable; he was not only unconscious of his distinction, but he would not be made conscious of it. He was also one of the most disinterested of men. The principle of self seemed in him, as nearly as in humanity it can, to have been absorbed and lost. He lived for the Church first, and then for those whom he loved. And he was full of kindness and charity. He desired good to all men, and, therefore, he ever sought to do them good. He was the kindest husband, and the most devoted friend. And his crowning and completing grace was his earnest and consistent piety. The faith by which he triumphed in his death, had made him conqueror through life. The Cross in which he gloried had crucified the world unto him, and him unto the world. His piety did not burn with fitful and uncertain flame, but with a pure, sustained, and steady lustre. The aliment on which it fed was the sincere word of God. It was enkindled in him by the Holy Spirit. He nourished and cherished it by daily intercourse with Heaven.

"As a Preacher of the Gospel, I never had an opportunity to know Dr. Wharton. His sermons which I have read are of a chastened and persuasive style of oratory, well arranged, written evidently from the heart, and in a diction which is like crystal for its purity and clearness. Everywhere, and on all occasions, he preached Christ and Him crucified.

"I will only add that he was a Churchman in heart and in soul; while yet, in the exercise of his truly Catholic spirit, he regarded all who name the name of Chirst with affectionate interest. It was his deep and strong conviction, again and again expressed, that the entire Church was to be inviolately preserved; and that the strictest adherence to all its provisions and regulations was the surest path not only of truth and duty, but of charity and peace."-Annals of American Ep. Pulpit, pp.

337-340.

EXTRACTS FROM THE WILL OF THE REV. DR. WHARTON.

"THIRD.-I direct that after my dear Wife shall have selected from my Library, such books as she may particularly desire for her own absolute use, All the residue of my Books shall go to the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Saint Mary's Church, Burlington City-to be by them preserved for the use of the rectors of said Church in succession.

"FOURTH.-All the rest and residue of my estate, real and personal, whatever, and wherever, I give and devise to the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey-so being at my death, and to his successors as Bishops as aforesaid-IN TRUST-nevertheless to permit my said dear Wife to take the rents and annual income of said residue for her life, in case she survive me-But in case she die before me, or if otherwise, at her death in further trust, to pay over One thousand dollars, to the Treasurer of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, for the use of the said Missionary Society-And finally in trust to pay over and assign all the residue of the estate, and monies, or other property, whatever, herein, given and bequeathed to him in trust to the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Saint Mary's Church Burlington City aforesaid, or to any officer appointed by the legal authorities of said Church, to receive the same-to be by them invested in such fund or security, as they may approve,

and the interest thereof to be applied annually to increase the Salary of the rectors of said Saint Mary's Church—

"FIFTH.-I nominate the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey & so being at my death, Executor and Trustee under this my will-And in case said Bishop, so being at my death, shall die before the final completion of all the objects and the complete execution of all the trusts, mentioned and created herein, It is my will that his successors as Bishops as aforesaid, shall succeed him as trustees under this my will, and have full power to complete and execute all the trusts then incomplete and unexecuted And that the said powers and trusts given as aforesaid to the Bishop of said Diocese, so being at my death, and to his successors, shall not survive to his or their heirs, or Executors

"SIXTH. Before my said Executor and Trustee shall proceed to execute the trusts-or to pay the pecuniary legacies, herein created and mentioned, he shall first pay all my just debts.

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"CHARLES H. WHARTON. [L. S.]"

'Signed sealed and Published by the testator on the 28th of February 1833, in the presence of Jane P. Folwell, William Hargest, H. McIlvaine."

Proved, "the 5th of August, A. D., 1833, at Mt. Holly" "before Charles Kinsey, Surrogate."

"George W. Doane, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey and being Bishop as aforesaid at the death of Charles H. Wharton, the Testator within named and Executor in the annexed Testament named being duly sworn did depose and say that the Within Instruments contain the true last Will and Testament of Charles H. Wharton the testator therein named so far as he knows and as he verily believes; that he will well and truly perform the same by paying first the debts of the said deceased, and then the Legacies in the said Testament specified, so far as the goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased can thereunto Extend; and that he will make an Exhibit or cause to be made and Exhibited into the Prerogative Office at Trenton, a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular, the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased that have or shall come to his

knowledge or possession, or to the possession of any other person or persons for his use, and render a just and true account when thereunto lawfully required—

"Sworn at Mt Holly

5th August, A. D., 1833

before me

CHARLES KINSEY

Surrogate."

-Surrogate's Office, Mt. Holly, N. J.

"G. W. DOANE.

THE EFFECTS OF THE LATE REV. DR. WHARTON.

"A true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits of the Reverend Charles H. Wharton, D. D., late of the City and County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey deceased made the Seventeenth day of September A. D. 1833 and the Second day of August A. D. 1837— "Wearing Apparrel .........

"Books.........

$100.00

280.00

INSCRIPTION FOR A MURAL MONUMENT TO DR. WHARTON.

The following was written by Bishop Doane for a mural tablet to Dr. Wharton; but the tablet was never erected,† and the words designed for it are here inserted for preservation :

In the sacrarium of the new St. Mary's Church, however, on the South side, in the stained glass window, is the following:

IN MEMORIAM Rev. Hujus Ecclesie Rectoris, A. D. MD

Caroli Henrici Wharton, D. D.

CCXCVI A. D. MDCCCXXXIII

"Behind the Chancel

rests the mortal part of

CHARLES HENRY WHARTON, D. D.,

who died July 23, 1833,

aged 86 years;

during 37 of which he was Rector of this Church.
A finished scholar,

an elegant writer,

a sound divine,

a faithful preacher of the Cross;

in peace and meekness, purity and charity,

in childlike simplicity, and unaffected piety,

a daily example of the lessons which he taught;
while he lived, the faithful servant of this Church,
and, at his death, its generous benefactor:
such was he

whose name this stone commemorates,

and whose virtues

are embalmed in the affections of his people."

BISHOP DOANE BECOMES RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH.

"1833. The Vestry of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, at a special meeting, held 3 August, unanimously invited the Right Reverend George Washington Doane, D. D., to accept the vacant Rectorship.-1 October, the invitation was accepted. G. W. D."-Parish Register.

THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THIS DECISION.

"Since the last Convention, my residence at Burlington, which was then temporary, and without parochial charge, has assumed a different character. Being, of course, from my distant residence, unacquainted with the local peculiarities of the diocese, I determined at my consecration, not to decide on my place of abode among you, until I had become satisfied by personal investigation, and the careful comparison of individual opinions, as to what seemed the position most favourable to the