undertook a voyage to Europe, and embarked for Liverpool in April, 1826.

During the four or five months of his stay in Europe, he travelled through the principal parts of Great Britain and Ireland, and visited the Continent. Several weeks were spent both in Paris and London. This tour was attended by many very interesting circumstances, and produced important results. His mind was intensely engaged. His heart and hands were constantly full. In accumulating valuable facts and observations, in closely observing national character, and in obtaining accurate and enlarged views of the present state of religion, literature and science, in different nations, his diligence and success have been rarely equalled. Amid all these varied scenes, the great business of his life was not intermitted. Whether on the mighty deep, or on the rapid journey, or in the crowded city; he ceased not to plead the cause of his Redeemer, and to persuade men to be reconciled to God. In Paris, he became intimate in a circle of devoted Christians, some of very high rank, who were greatly delighted and edified by his sermons and conversation. In London, his whole soul was engaged in viewing the vast operations of Christian benevolence, and in intimate association with eminent evangelical ministers, and the best religious society. Here he preached

frequently; and in one of the large dissenting churches, he delivered several familiar evening lectures, which were numerously attended, and afforded the highest satisfaction.

The high estimation in which Dr. HENRY was held in Europe, is evinced, by the solicitations for correspondence he received from numerous distinguished civilians as well as clergymen, and by the many valuable presents and memorials of kindness, which were pressed upon him both by individuals and communities. considerable collection of books, which he had bespoken from a bookseller, was paid for by one of the London churches, entirely without his previous knowledge. But the richest blessing of his tour was the testimony he received, that several of the attendants on his preaching, and of the companions of his travels, had been brought, through his instrumentality, to a saving experience of renewing grace.

About the beginning of October, he took a sorrowful leave of his English friends, and sailed for the United States. Arriving at Philadelphia, he paid a short visit to his venerable father and numerous relatives, destined, alas ! to prove a final one on earth, and early in December was welcomed, with the greatest joy, by his affectionate congregation. With redoubled vigour and engagedness, he re-entered upon his

labours among his beloved people, and upon the prosecution of his studies. The latter, indeed, had known no interruption. For in no part of life, probably, had the acquisition of knowledge been so rapid, or intellectual exertion so unremitting and successful, as during this season of relaxation. The effect produced upon Dr. HENRY'S mind, by surveying the splendid theological establishments, the vast treasures of sacred literature, and the towering eminence of many of the scholars and divines of the Old World, was altogether beneficial and animating. Instead of being disheartened and sinking into despondence, by a comparison of our institutions in these respects with those of Europe, as has been the case with others, he was stimulated to nobler efforts, and refreshed by higher hopes. The inspiring scenes he had witnessed in the religious world caused a more intense conviction of the moral grandeur and awful responsibility of the gospel ministry. The noble achievements of the learned champions in defence of the gospel abroad, disclosed to his mind more distinctly than ever the grand field of intellectual effort, and enkindled an inconceivable ardour, to do extensive and permanent good in the world. He felt that the standard of clerical learning and study was too low in this country; and fully imbibed the spirit of that holy man, whose maxim

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was, "Attempt great things, and expect great things."

While, therefore, he remitted nothing of his former attention to pastoral duty, he devoted himself, with extraordinary zeal and diligence to laborious study and composition. He pressed forward, as under the constant impression that he had much to do, which must be accomplished, and that his time was short. The following work, undertaken at the special request of an English gentleman who was his travelling companion for some time, was commenced soon after his return : and towards its completion, he could not have laboured more unremittingly, had he foreseen, that, before its publication, his opportunities of usefulness to his fellow-men would be closed for ever. Blessed is that servant who is found so doing." The messenger, which came from his Divine Master, to summon him away from all his labours, found him in the midst of most active and useful engagements. But his work was done. It is the Lord's doing and marvellous in our eyes. It is the duty of wounded affection to bow down in silence before the inscrutable mystery of this dispensation.

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On the appearance of that fatal scourge of Charleston, the yellow fever, in August, Dr. HENRY could not be persuaded that it was his duty to retire from the city, or intermit his usual

pastoral visits, or his course of study. Accordingly he continued to visit the sick and afflicted, and to fill his pulpit regularly, until the first of October; when, in the enjoyment of perfect health, he was suddenly seized with that dreadful malady, which, in four days, terminated his precious life, at the early age of thirty-seven, leaving a bereaved widow and three children to lament the loss of such a husband and father as few ever had to lose. The scenes of overwhelming distress which attended and followed this agonizing event, cannot be adequately described. Suffice it to say, that, amid the alarm and consternation occasioned by his fatal illness, he alone was calm and unappalled. While around him were wailings and lamentations, his expiring voice was employed in rejoicing and praise. And while a "horror of great darkness" fell upon others, at his sudden and premature departure, he viewed it with rapture, as the bright and cloudless dawning of immortal glory.

Dr. HENRY was richly endowed with the gifts of nature. In person, noble and attractive; in manner, polished and affable. He possessed, in an eminent degree, as to voice, look, and action, the attributes of a finished orator. In classical and theological learning, he had few equals of his own age and country. To a critical knowledge of the ancient languages, he