Born, on one Saint's Day, and dying, on another, she was saintly, in all her life; and waits, with Saints, the coming of her Lord. She was buried, in the Church-yard of St. Mary's, Burlington, on the second day of December; in the midst of relatives, and friends, and neighbors, who loved, and honoured, and lamented, her."-Bishop Doane.

“PLUCKING OUT THE RIGHT EYE.”

"On Saturday, 15 September, I was brought to know what that means, of which we read in the Holy Scripture, about cutting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye. It was my dreadful duty to pronounce Sentence of Deposition, from the Ministry, on my eldest son, and first-born child; whom I had admitted to the Diaconate, with such sacred joy, not seven months before. The record is as follows: To all, everywhere, who are in communion with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: Be it known, that George Hobart Doane, M. D., Deacon of this Diocese, having declared to me, in writing, hist renunciation of the ministry, which he received, at my hands, from the Lord Jesus Christ, and his design not to officiate, in future, in any of the offices thereof, intending to submit himself to the schismatical Roman intrusion, is deposed from the Ministry; and I hereby pronounce and declare him deposed, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Given at Riverside, this fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, 1855, and in the twenty-third year of my Consecration.

"G. W. DOANE, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of New Jersey.

"In the presence of

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"M. MAHAN, D. D., Presbyter ;

"M. F. HYDE, A. M., Presbyter.'

+"On the 4 March, 1855, (Ember Sunday in Lent,) at the stated ordination, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, I admitted Robert F. Chase, Tutor in Burlington College, and George Hobart Doane, A. M., M. D., Instructor in Chemistry, in Burlington College and St. Mary's Hall, to the Holy Order of Deacons; and the Rev. Franklin Babbitt, Deacon, Assistant Minister of Christ Church, Elizabethtown, to the Holy Order of Priests. Rev. Dr. Doane is Assistant to the Rector of Grace Church, Newark. In his admission, I have given, of my own flesh, the second Deacon, to the Church; and, in the two brothers, all I have. God be thanked, for the permission to devote them, to His service."-Episcopal Address, 1855.

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"This sentence was not executed, until the provisions of the Canon, where the party has acted unavisedly and hastily,' which is pre-eminently the present case, had been offered, urged and refused. It only remains, for me, humbly to ask the prayers of the faithful, in Christ Jesus, that my erring child may be brought back, to the way of Truth and Peace; and, for myself, that I may have grace, to bear and do the holy will of God.

"G. W. DOANE."

"Not because I have anything to gain, nor, because I have anything more to lose the heart-wound of this loss must go with me, into the grave; and bring me sooner, there-but, simply, because the truth alone is always true, I shall briefly recite the leading circumstances of what, I deem, a case, peculiar, and by itself. God will, I trust, sustain me, for His Church's sake, in an anatomy, more agonizing, than the dissection of my own. heart strings.. My darling child was, from his birth, impulsive and impetuous, beyond any one, whom I have ever known. He is of a candid, generous, and noble nature. And, through the heavenly grace, vouchsafed to him, his impulses were never toward vice. He was carefully taught and trained, as a child of the Church and brought up in its atmosphere. I challenge contradiction, when I assert, that there is not a house, on earth, that can be less imbued with sympathy with Rome, than that, in which he lived, for five and twenty years. And, for myself, of all the falsehoods, which have ever been imagined, and alleged, a tendency towards Rome is the one, which, my deepest impressions, and clearest conclusions, not only, but the very instincts of my nature, make impossible. It was in the air, which my poor child had always breathed, that Winslow, when, at Cambridge, he was almost lost, found health and strength; and was restored to duty and to truth. If he had a special admiration, it was for Bishop Hobart; whose name he bears. And the churchmen, of his sympathy, were such as Dr. Ogilby, and Dr. Croswell, and Dr. Mahan. From his childhood, he inclined to Surgery. And, when his education, at Burlington, was completed, became a student, at Jefferson College, in Philadelphia;

and the private pupil of that distinguished Surgeon, Dr. Mütter. He was confirmed early; and had long been a devout communicant. When he had completed his first course of Medical lectures, he asked me, to use his own expression, if I thought him good enough,' to permit him to change his profession; and study for the Ministry. I told him, that I had no doubt, as to his religious character; and that the wish gratified me. But, that I feared, it was a hasty impression; more promoted, than he was aware of, by the hardness and disagreeableness of the first year's pursuits and occupations; and suggestive of an instability, which, in minor matters, was characteristic of him; and, in one so grave, would involve the most serious risk. I reminded him, that he was young; that he was pursuing the profession of his choice; that it would qualify him for greater and more extensive usefulness, in any other line of life, which he might adopt; and, that he should, by all means, now that he had begun, go through with it. And I promised him, that, if, when his Medical education was complete, he was still of the same mind, I would entertain the proposition. He did not revive the conversation. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in Philadelphia. He went abroad, for nearly a year and a half; much of which he spent, in the hospitals, at Paris and Vienna; and he came back, as I believe, well qualified and well furnished, for that department of his profession, which he had chosen, as his speciality, diseases of the eye. At the first convenient opportunity, he renewed his former proposal; said that he had great searchings of heart, on the subject, while abroad; spoke of the urgent want of clergymen, and especially of such as were not entirely dependent on their ministrations, for the means of support: and said, again, that, if I thought him fit for it, his heart's desire was to become a candidate for holy orders. I admitted the obligation of my promise, to entertain the subject: but, again, reminded him that his nature was unstable; that the change was a very serious one; that the step once taken was irrevocable: and said, I must take time to consider it. I kept him off, for several months: until I saw that he would not enter on the medical profession; that his whole

time was occupied in theological reading; and, that he felt hurt at, what, he thought, was, a distrust, in me, of his religious principles. After most thoughtful consideration, on my own part, and consultation, with those, who knew him best, and were best qualified to judge, I consented to his desire: and he became a candidate for holy orders. I never saw one more delighted with his studies, or more in earnest. He was, literally, 'totus in illis.' As a Sunday School Teacher, and as a District Visitor, he was foremost, in every good work; and, while, yet, he was a layman, was doing, as far as might be, the service of a Deacon. In his recitations, to the several instructors, in theology, he was, always, satisfactory; and, in the homiletic exercises, before me, eminently so. His examination was all that could be desired. His whole life had been passed, under the shadow of the Altar. He seemed to have found his place, at its foot. It was the happiest day of my life, when I knelt, before it; and could say, to Him, Whose sacrifice it commemorates, 'behold I, and the children, which Thou hast given me.' After remaining, a few weeks, with me, perfectly happy in the exercise of his Diaconate, as he had opportunity; and, especially, in serving me, on my Visitation, he went to Newark, at the earnest and repeated desire of the Rector of Grace Church, enforced by the wish of some of the best and dearest friends, that man has ever had, to be the Deacon of that parish. He went to work, as his way always was, with all his might. He was especially devoted to children, to the young, to the poor, to the sick, to the afflicted. He found his way to the hearts, as well as to the hearths. And he was forecasting-before the time, no doubt, and with a natural inability to wait-the largest plans, for every form and aspect of the Church's work. It seemed to be a great success: and, in three years, I am very sure, it would have been. On Friday, 30 July, he came, with his Rector's consent, for a short week. He is a loving child; and dearly loved his home, and every thing about it. He never was more loving. He never was so happy. He never was so devoted to every interest of the house, of the parish, of the schools, of the diocese, of the whole Church. And, at the same time, he never was so tender,

to every one, and about every thing. In that week, the inteligence came, that one whom he had pitied, and been interested in, had gone to Rome. He spoke of it, in the severest terms; and, that, to those of his own age and standing. There was nothing special, in this. He had been brought up, so. I may say, that he was born, so. In Rome, when he was there, he saw nothing to attract him. He would not see Bishop Ives, whom he had known, as only not a brother to his father. He was tempted by no courtesies, on the part of Mr. Manning, who had been his father's special friend. When Bishop Hopkins' able work, the End of Controversy Controverted,' came out, he read it, with the utmost avidity, again and again; and insisted on my thanking him for it. He left home, on the following Saturday, 4 August, with great reluctance. He parted from me, at six, in the evening, with my kiss and blessing. He could not have reached Newark, before 9 o'clock. And, before he slept, he had gone to the intruding representative of the Bishop of Rome; and had taken his counsel, as to any further ministration in the communion of his father. He wrote, on Monday, to his brother, that he had doubted, as to the authority of his ministry; and had asked advice, of one, who calls himself the Bishop of Newark. I sent for him, at once. And he came to me, on Tuesday night, a Papal petrification: his fine feelings all frozen up, and his beautiful features hardened into marble; so that two, who had known him, from his childhood, said, on Sunday, before one word was known of what had the night before, that his countenance was stone. duty, to devotedness, he continued inaccessible. now, at Rome, his natural feelings, I am glad to say, restored, a Student, in a College, which has been founded, there, for English perverts. If I am asked to explain this strange and instantaneous transmutation, I must do it, in his own words; and leave it, to whoever will, to frame the theory. To one, he said, that, it flashed across his mind, in the train, after he had left me, that his ministry might not be valid.' To another, that he 'felt something snap, in his head.' me, that he left the

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