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blessed." Judge Lee was born on December 1, 1:69, a year remarkable for the birth of many of our distinguished men. His infancy and youth were passed under the vicissitudes which marked the progress of our revolutionary war. His father was a watchmaker in Charleston, and must have been distinguished among his fellowcitizens, as he was successively appointed to several responsible offices. Young Lee passed some part of his early boyhood in the excellent society at Philadelphia. At the age of fifteen he studied in the office of an eminent lawyer now living, and took part in a Debating Society, where his distinguished eloquence was acquired. He also gained a perfect knowledge of the French language. When in 1789 the news of the destruction of the Bastile reached Charleston, though he was but in his twentieth year, he won his first honors by an address to his fellow-citizens. When he became of age he commenced the practice of the law, and was elected a member of the State Legislature, and though cast in times of great political agitation, he never became the slave, or the leader of a faction. He was married in 1792, and a widow and many children now mourn his loss. His integrity and his merits procured for him successively the offices of Solicitor General of the State, Judge of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas, Comptroller General of the State, President of the State Bank, and Judge of the District Court of the United States for South Carolina. Testimonies of respect have been offered to his memory by those who were associated with him in the duties of his stations. Judge Lee likewise took a prominent lead in the Temperance cause, when it was new, weak and unpopular, and at the time of his death he was preparing lectures to aid it. That the good citizen, magistrate and father should be a good and even an eminent Christian likewise, if not a consequence, is a confirmation of his virtues. Dr. Gilman traces the Christian life of his departed parishioner with a calm and touching eulogy on its reasonableness, its sincerity, its consistency, and its final peace. Judge Lee was educated a Trinitarian, but became a Unitarian from study and conviction. He was a pillar of his church, from its first adoption of the sentiment by which it is now distinguished, a hearty friend and cooperator in all its interests,-in the improvement of its music, and in its Sunday-school, a benefactor to its charities, a communicant at its table, and in the absence of the Pastor during one summer season he conducted its devotions. In reading the discourse before

us we accept all its commendation of one whom we have never known, for there is no lavish praise, no excited eulogy of a merely correct and amiable character, but a calm exhibition of many virtues, beautiful and fruitful, because nurtured in a Christian heart. "The memory of the just is blessed."

A DISCOURSE PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF MR. ROBERT C. WATERSTON, AS MINISTER-AT-LARGE, November 24, 1839. By Henry Ware, Jr. With the Charge, by William E. Channing, D. D., and the Right Hand of Fellowship, by George Ripley. Boston: 1840. PP. 52. 8vo.

WE cannot complain of the delay in the publication of these services, when we have enjoyed so much in their perusal. Dr. Ware's sermon is a clear and forcible exposition of the character of the ministry-at-large, and its claims to a liberal support. He points out its peculiarities, and shows its relations to the ministry of our churches; "working with it side by side, in honor equal, and in duty, sharing and completing its toils." He then proceeds to speak of its value to the community, which he establishes by a simple but conclusive course of argument." The great problem of human society in all ages has been to provide effectually for its own order and security, and for the advancement of the race;" but every attempt to effect this end has been a failure, because the "infallible remedy" for the evils of the world exists only "in the doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth." Let there be" a universal application of Christianity to the community," such as has never yet been seen, but is practicable, and is contemplated by the institution of the ministry-at-large, and the result will be the protection of "the great interests of society and humanity." Still, remarks Dr. Ware in conclusion, the chief value of this ministry is not witnessed in its effects upon the community, which "is temporary, fleeting, earthly." "The primary, chief and crowning interest of this ministry is its worth to the suffering souls which it calls home to God." We commend the whole discourse to the perusal of those who would either understand the nature or justly appreciate the

importance of the institution, which it is the immediate object of the Fraternity of Churches" to uphold.

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The Charge by Dr. Channing was "prepared for the occasion, but not delivered on account of the author's state of health." It is marked by the same directness and earnestness which distinguished his charge at the ordination of Mr. Waterston's predecessor. He insists upon the essential resemblance between this and "the common ministry," because "it is not the outward condition of men that the minister should habitually regard, but their spiritual nature, their participation of that divine humanity' which is the only wealth of rich and poor." He counsels the young minister to labor for the redemption and elevation of the immortal spirit,-" to do nothing to discourage his hearers" because they belong to the class of the poor, but "to raise the dispirited to effort, and reveal to the indigent their boundless wealth." He then brings into notice "two short rules," which are expanded with his usual fertility of expression,-viz. to" preach the truth, and to preach it as the truth." He exposes the common error," that it is no great task to acquire religious truths in a country which enjoys, as we do, a revelation from God;" as if the revelation were meant " to save us the trouble of research, to do our work for us." Whereas "the very familiarity of a revelation hides its truths from us." The words of religion may be easily learned, but to acquire religious ideas is a hard work. When, too, we have got the truth, we must preach it as " matter of deliberate and deep conviction. Preaching is too often traditional, conventional, professional, the repetition of what is expected, of what it is the custom to say;" (how true, alas, is this!) "not the free, natural utterance of persuasion, of experience, of truths which have a substantial being within our souls." The minister should "not speak as a machine, an echo, but from a living soul." He will then "preach with faith, hope, confidence." Dr. Channing reminds his young friend, in conclusion, of the necessity of maintaining a studious habit of mind, both at home and abroad, of addressing the poor in the language at once of candor and of honesty, and "of going to Jesus Christ for guidance, strength and inspiration in his office "—" of sparing no effort to place himself nearer and nearer to the Divine Master."

Dr. Channing closes with a remark which we think has not been properly understood. He says that the ministry-at-large, though" its

success has surpassed our hopes, yet is not as firmly established as it should be. It awakens little interest in our churches. It receives little aid from them. The contributions to it from most of our congregations are small, and do little honor to us as a body of Christians." Now any such estimate of pecuniary contribution or of moral interest is of course comparative. Looking at the naked sums, it might seem that much had been given; and yet when they are viewed in connection with the claims of this ministry as exhibited in the sermon before us, or with its undeniable benefits to the rich no less than to the poor, they may be thought to betoken little interest. For years the incumbents of this office laboured on the pitiful salary of $400 or $500 a year, which was probably expended by them in acts of beneficence; and the largest salary which the Executive Committee of the Benevolent Fraternity have felt themselves justified in voting is $1000. Can any one show why these ministers should receive a less compensation than the clergy of our regular churches, who are not called, to say the least, to severer labor, and whose expenses can hardly be greater? Besides, from most of our congregations the contributions hare been small. While, therefore, we feel no disposition,-nor do we believe any such was felt by Dr. Channing,-to undervalue the liberality which has been shown, whether in the erection of chapels, or in the compensation (inadequate, indeed,) given to the ministers, we cannot but agree with him in the hope that much larger sums may be drawn from the sympathies of our established churches.

Mr. Ripley, after adverting to past acquaintance and communion with the brother to whom he presents the right hand of fellowship, welcomes him to a ministry in the midst of associations with which he has long been familiar, and congratulates him on the peculiar character of this service, in which he "must be guided by the light of the soul, rather than by prescriptive usage, in which he will be conversant with man in his essential nature, and which in its form, as well as in its spirit, resembles the ministry of his Divine Master;" to the influence of whose spirit he is affectionately commended.

The occasion for which these services were designed was one of peculiar interest; the institution which they bring before our notice deserves the warmest and largest encouragement. The good which it has accomplished we regard as a pledge of its still wider usefulness.

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INTELLIGENCE.

DEDICATION IN BOSTON.-The Suffolk Street Chapel, recently erected in aid of the Ministry-at-large in the south part of this city, was dedicated on Wednesday, February 5, 1840. The services were as follows, the officiating clergy being all from Boston:-Introductory Prayer, by Rev. Samuel Barrett; Selections from Scripture, by Rev. Paul Dean; Prayer of Dedication, by RevAlexander Young; Original Hymn; and Sermon, by the Pastor of the chapel, Rev. John T. Sargent; Original Hymn; Address to the People, by Rev. S. K. Lothrop; Concluding Prayer, by Rev. R. C. Waterston; Benediction. The passage of Scripture from which Mr. Sargent took occasion to discourse was Haggai ii. 9: "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts, and in this place will I give peace." The object of the sermon was, to prove that the progress of Christianity is indicated rather by the influence and diffusion of its principles, than by the size, increase, or multiplicity of its temples. The preacher considered the existence of a ministry-at-large and the encouragement it had received as among the strongest evidences of this progress. He traced, briefly, the origin and results of this ministry, illustrating the idea that however humble in its outward aspect a chapel for the poor might be, yet the glory of its purpose was, to say the least, as great as that of any other edifice.—The Address to the people was expressive of the sympathy existing between the "Fraternity of Churches," by whom this chapel was built, and the congregation it is intended to receive. Mr. Lothrop, as Secretary of that Association, having succeeded Mr. Henry B. Rogers, paid a merited tribute to the former efforts and zeal of that gentleman.

The cost of this chapel was about $14,500, exclusively of the land, which was given by the city, according to a grant, in 1806, to the first religious society which should build a church thereon. The architectural style of the house is somewhat imposing and peculiar. It is built of rough stone, with rustic finishings of granite at the corners and around the windows, which have circular heads. Its position is prominent, and one of the most singular features of the edifice is its height together with the unusual projection of the coving, or eaves, 4 feet 6 inches on all sides beyond the body of the walls. This peculiarity gives a massive and somewhat novel appearance to the whole. It has a portico in front, supported by four or five granite piers with intervening arches. It is somewhat larger, every way, than the chapel in Pitts Street, with which in its general internal plan it corresponds. It measures, with the porch, 93 feet by 56; and contains, on the lower floor, a spacious vestry or Sundayschool room, 50 1-2 feet by 48; adjoining which are two commodious Above rooms, 18 feet by 24, communicating with each other by sliding doors. these is the chapel, 68 feet by 50 1-2, containing 88 pews on the lower floor,

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