order and beauty of the service. I shall undertake no description of the building. You have seen it. It speaks, for itself. It is, I believe, the first instance, in this country, of a cruciform Church, with a central tower and spire; all of which is of stone.† It does honour to the eminent architect, Mr. Richard Upjohn. For solidity and durableness, the building can hardly be surpassed. Its promise of perpetuity is as great as can be predicated, of any work of man. From age to age, it will remain, I trust, a monument of the faith, and a temple for the worship, of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. To have been an humble instrument, in a work so gracious, is among the highest blessings of my life. To worship, while I live, within its walls; and to lie down, at last, within its shadow, are first and chief, among my prayers. Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and the weekly administration of the Holy Communion, began, from the Consecration; and, I trust, will never cease. 'Let Thy Priests, O God, be clothed with salvation; and let Thy saints. rejoice in goodness."-Episcopal Address, 1855. The land occupied by this new structure first came into the possession of the Church, through the pious will of Paul Watkinson (see p. 267). The item reads: "I give and bequeath unto Mary Watkinson my Wife, my House and Lot where I now live [corner of Watkinson's alley and Pearl street extending to the river] and my little Orchard, joining the Church Yard, during her natural life, and after her decease my will is that my said House, Lot and Orchard shall go to the use of the Church called St. Annes Church in Burlington forever-but my Will and mind is that the House and Lot and Orchard be rented, and the rent thereof be put to interest and that same money be appropriated towards the building a Steeple to the said Church and then to the use of the said Church towards other Repairs." The "little orchard" was leased to the corporators of the Burlington Academy-see pp. 332-334-who erected thereon a building of brick, in which was maintained, for thirty years, an English and Classical School of the highest order. The Principals of this Institution, as nearly as can be learned without records, were William Staughton, John Michael Hanckel, Christian Hanckel, Jonathan Price, Elias Crane, Cleanthes Felfth. At a meeting of the Building Committee of the new Church, January 4th,. 1847, Dr. Ellis reported "that in accordance with the instructions of the Committee he had sold the Academy building for the sum of Four Hundred Dollars." In excavating for the foundations of the spire to be laid, Dr. Ellis says: "The workmen went to the depth of from nine to thirteen feet, until they reached enormous boulders-such as are found in the bed of the Delaware river." It is to this fact that Bishop Doane alludes in his Episcopal Address of 1848, when he says: "The new St. Mary's Church is sufficiently advanced to show its fine proportions, and majestic outline. Nothing that has been done in it, that has not been done for perpetuity. It will stand, while any human structure stands; a rock, upon 'THE ROCK.'" DIOCESIS NEO-CESARIENSIS. MEDITATIONES ANNO POST DEDICATIONEM ECCLESIE SANCTE MARIE PAROCHIALIS, IN OPPIDO BURLINGTON, X. DIE AUGUSTI, A. D. M DCCCLV. OMNIBUS FIDELIBUS EX ANIMO GRATO-OBLATE. Rogate, quæ lem: et a bundantia diligentibus te. Fiat pax in virtute tua: et abundantia in turribus tuis. Propter fratres meos, et proximos meos loquebor pacem de te: Propter domum Domini Dei nostri quæram. bona tibi. IN MEMORIAM DEDICATIONIS ECCLESIE SANCT.E MARLE PAROCHIALIS, IN OPPIDO BURLINGTON, ET DIOCESI NEO-CESARIENSI ; X DIE AUGUSTI, A. D. M DCCC LIV. Sursum Corda! Celebrantes Fratres in Sacrario! Hilari cum gaudio. Bis sex menses evasérunt, Domini, quidquid in terris Inter Fratres Fide claros Sancta Crux in fundamento Robur ædificii. Crux sublimis in ascendo Ardet apex capiti ! Tuta Stant-stant et concinna Lædunt Castra colica. Aestus pariter ac frigus Et nunc iterum adeste Ferte novum Canticum! Ecce parvulos infantes, Fontem cingunt mysticum: Aquis-per Fidem-lavantes Omne cordis nocuum! "Mrs. Bradford † removed, from Philadelphia, to Burlington, with her aged and venerable father, in 1805. He died, in 1821, in the eighty-second year of his age. She was long a communicant of St. Mary's Church, Burlington; where she was confirmed, by Bishop Doane, in 1834. She died, on St. Andrew's Day, 30 November, 1854; far advanced in her ninetieth year. "Susan Vergereau, eldest daughter of the Honorable Elias Boudinot, was born, at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, December 21, (St. Thomas' Day,) 1764. He was President of the Congress of the United States, in 1783; and, in that capacity, signed the Treaty of Peace, with Great Britain. Her mother was Hannah, daughter of John Stockton, Esq., of Princeton, New Jersey; and sister of Richard Stockton, one of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence. The great-grandfather of her father, was a Huguenot, by the name of Oudinot; who left France, for England, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes: and took the name of Boudinot, under letters patent, from the Crown, in 1686. He, afterwards, came to America. His confidence, in the restitution of his family, to their native land, was so great, that, by his last will, he regularly devised his estates, there, as if still in possession of them; though, they had, long before, been confiscated, and sold, She was of sufficient age, to feel, and to remember, the trials, and incidents, of the struggle for independence; and, with her distinguished father, shared the fortunes of her country. An occurrence of her childhood, is characteristic of her spirit, while it illustrates her patriotism. Passing the evening, at Governor Franklin's, in Burlington, soon after the seizure of the tea, in Boston harbour, a cup of tea was offered to her; which she declined. When it was so pressed, that farther refusal would have been rude, she took it; touched it to her lips, without swallowing a drop of it; and, crossing the room, emptied it, from the window. She was nine years old. The family, on one occasion, were surprised by a party of the British; and robbed. After remonstrating with the officer, in command, she told him, that her aunt, who was with them, had asked protection. "Not, by your advice, I presume;" said the officer. "That it never was, I can tell you;" was her prompt reply. The girl was mother of the woman."-Bishop Doane. |