Stoke-on-Trent, St. Peter, C. Stafford Lichfield R.ofStoke-on-Trent Preb. in Cath. Church of Wells Somerset B.&Wells Bp. of Bath & Wells Bp. of Bath & Wells Willisham, C. CLERGYMEN DECEASED. We record, with deep regret, the severe loss which the Church in the United States has recently sustained, by the death of the Right Rev. JOHN HENRY HOBART, Bishop of New-York, which took place at Auburn, in the central part of that diocese, 350 miles from the capital, on Sunday the 12th of September. He was upon his visitation, and had officiated at the place above-mentioned on the 2d; when he was seized with a bilious fever, under which he gradually sunk, worn out, not by age, but by incessant toil both of body and mind, in the various functions attached to his important station. He entered the Christian ministry in or about the year 1799, when he appears registered as a Deacon officiating at Christ Church, New Jersey; and in the same year had the honour conferred upon him of being appointed Secretary to the House of Bishops, at the triennial Convention of the United States Episcopal Church, then held in the city of Philadelphia. Having transferred his pastoral labours to the State of New-York, and been appointed one of the assistant Ministers of Trinity Church in that city, he was chosen one of the Clerical Deputies to the Church Convention in 1801; and, from the trusts confided to him by that assembly, was evidently looked up to at this early period of his ministry, as one of its ablest members. He was admitted to the degree of Doctor in Divinity in 1808; and, having been chosen coadjutor to Bishop Provoost, of New-York, in 1811, was consecrated on the 29th of May in that year, and in 1815, succeeded to the sole government of the diocese. He had already, before his elevation to the Episcopate, distinguished himself by his Apology for Apostolical Order, published in 1807-a work in which the argument in defence of Episcopacy is unanswerably stated, in as condensed and at the same time perspicuous a form as it has ever been exhibited. But from the moment of his contracting that high responsibility his labours have been almost past belief. Besides continuing the indefatigable Rector of Trinity Church, engaging annually in extensive visitations, and actively superintending the concerns of various Church Societies, established for the purpose of diffusing its pure Christian principles amongst its members of all ages and degrees, and of extending its pale into the remotest corners of the vast district committed to his superintendance; there is scarcely a department of Theology to which he has not contributed; as his Manuals of Devotion, both public and private-his Catechetical and Pastoral Treatises-his enlarged edition of the Christian Knowledge Society's Bible-together with his Discourses, both single and collected, most amply testify. At the commencement of his Episcopal course his diocese did not contain fifty congregations of his own communion; at the close of it, considerably above double that number are his splendid epistle of commendation, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, on the fleshy tables of the heart of an affectionate and deeply afflicted people. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. The Rev. Dr. Jones, Rector of Exeter College, has been the third time nominated and admitted Vice-Chancellor, by letters from the Chancellor of the University, and approved by Convocation. The new Vice-Chancellor has nominated as his Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the following gentlemen: The Rev. Dr. Hall, Master of Pembroke The Rev. Dr. Jenkyns, Master of Balliol The Rev. Dr. Rowley, Master of Univer- The Rev. Dr. Gilbert, Principal of Brasennose Coll. The Rev. Henry Rookin, M. A. has been elected Fellow of Queen's College on the Old Foundation. DEGREES CONFERRED. DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. Benjamin Saunders Claxson, Worcester Coll. BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, Rev. Wm. Davison Thring, Wadham Coll. DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. William Rosser Williams, B. C. L. Michel Rev. Wm. Marsh, Magdalen Hall. Rev. Jacob Jos. Marsham, Christ Church. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Thos. Jas. Agar Robartes, Christ Church, Edward Power, Magdalen Hall. John Welstead Sharpe Powell, St. Edmund Herbert Randolph, Scholar of Balliol Coll. Thomas Garnier, Worcester Coll. The following noblemen have been admitted of Christ Church : Lord Visc. Alford, son of Earl Brownlow. Earl of Hillsborough, son of the Marquis of ELECTIONS. MARRIED. The Rev. John Wickham Griffith, M. A. Michel Fellow of Queen's College, to Maria Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Wm. Bayly, D. D. of New College, and Vicar of Hartbury, Gloucestershire. At Letcombe Bassett, Berks, (by the Rev. Charles Meredith,) the Rev. Wm. Firth, B. D., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Rector of Letcombe Bassett, and one of the City Lecturers, to Miss West, of Holywell, in this city. The Rev. Francis Fulford, Fellow of Exeter College, second son of Baldwin Fulford, Esq., of Great Fulford, Devonshire, to Mary, eldest daughter of Andrew Berkeley Drummond, Esq., of Cadland, Hants. CAMBRIDGE. The Caput for the ensuing year are: Rev. M. Davy, D. D. Caius Coll. Divinity. Rev. W. Clark, M.D. Trinity Coll. Physic. Rev. G. O. Townshend, M. A. King's Coll. PROCTORS. Jas. C. Bernard, Esq. M.A. King's Coll. MODERATORS. James Challis, Esq. M. A. Trinity Coll. SCRUTATORS. Rev. A. J. Carrighan, B.D. St. John's Coll. TAXORS. Rev. Joseph Cape, M.A. Clare Hall. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. The criticism on Gen. iv. 26, already in types, is unavoidably postponed. We repeat our acknowledgments to "H. T." A similar suggestion has been offered by "P. H." who will oblige us by transmitting the promised list, &c. "E. B." and "G. M." will find their communications, of which we are unable to avail ourselves, at our publishers'. "U. Y." and "W." are under consideration. Want of room must be our excuse for the non-appearance of several interesting communications. THE CHRISTIAN REMEMBRANCER. DECEMBER, 1830. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. ART. I.—1. A Sermon preached in Trinity Church, New-York, at the Funeral of the Right Rev. JOHN HENRY HOBART, D. D. Bishop of the Diocese of New-York, and Rector of the said Church, Sept. 1830. By BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK, D.D. An Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, and Professor of Ecclesiastical Polity in the General Theological Seminary. With an Appendix. New-York: Swords. pp. 56. 2.-A Sermon preached in Grace Church, New-York, Sept. 1880, on occasion of the Death of the Right Rev. JOHN HENRY HOBART, D.D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the State of New-York. By JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT, D. D. Rector of Grace Church, New-York. To which are appended, Extracts from a Sermon delivered in the same place. By the Rev. F. H. CUMING. New-York: Swords. pp. 31. 3.-" The Wise and Faithful Steward:" A Sermon, preached in St. Stephen's Church, New-York, Sept. 19, 1830, being the Sunday after the decease of the Right Rev. Bishop HOBART. By HENRY ANTHON, Rector of St. Stephen's Church, New-York. New-York: Swords. pp. 19. In our last number, we communicated the melancholy intelligence of Bishop Hobart's death, with as particular an account of this very eminent prelate, as the short interval before publication would admit. We have since received the discourses in reference to this event, which are named at the head of this article; and can hardly offer to our readers a more interesting subject than some notice of their contents. At a time when apathy on the one hand, or contempt of ecclesiastical order on the other, are dividing mankind between them; 5 A VOL. XII. NO. XII. "when the claim of apostolic authority would be received but with a smile or a sneer;"* and the only religion thought to be worth possessing, is of that sort which accounts the form thereof to be a matter of perfect indifference; it is refreshing to turn our eyes to a part of the world, where the influence of such misguided opinions is not yet prevalent, and to relieve our despondency at the decay of oldfashioned churchmanship at home, with the sight of a people capable of appreciating the worth of those distinctions, which we are grown so silly as to despise. The death of Bishop Hobart must be, in the estimation of every one acquainted with his character and station, a great public loss: and to those who knew him in private life and enjoyed the privilege of his friendship, it is heavy and irreparable. To the whole of Christendom it is the privation of one of its greatest ornaments, the setting of the brightest star in, the western hemisphere; and our sympathy with that church (the offspring of our own venerable mother), which has immediately sustained this bereavement, is lively and affectionate. It is not a few tears only of genuine grief which we could mingle with hers on this melancholy occasion; but, in the midst of them, we do not disguise the pleasing and grateful emotions we experience, that such a man as Bishop Hobart should be so honoured and lamented, as the publications before us sufficiently testify;-that so faithful and active, so conscientious and uncompromising an advocate of "EVANGELICAL TRUTH AND APOSTOLIC ORDER," should be so sincerely and universally deplored. † The first of the discourses, which now lay open before us, is from *See Mr. Allen's Sermon, Remembrancer for last month, p. 677. In almost every part of the diocese of New-York, resolutions of the churchwardens and vestries vie with each other in expressions of "veneration for a beloved friend and pastor, and a high sense of his promptitude, unexampled zeal, and unwearied exertions to promote every object connected with the best interests of religion and of the Church, of which he was one of the most able, disinterested, and indefatigable servants."Resolutions of Trinity Church, New-York. "Resolved, that the members of this Vestry have heard with the deepest grief of the loss which they, the diocese, and the church at large, have sustained in the death of the Right Reverend Bishop Hobart; they are desirous of thus recording their sorrow, and the unqualified respect and affection with which they regard the character of their late diocesan. "That in their estimation, the Church in this diocese is chiefly indebted, under Providence, for its rapid increase, and its present peaceful and flourishing condition, to the wisdom, zeal, energy, self-devotion, and piety of its late Bishop, in whose character were beautifully combined, virtues that dignify and adorn our nature, varied talents of the highest order, piety deep and unaffected, a heart replete with affectionate sentiments, and a deportment that won the confidence and love of all who knew him."-Resolutions of the Vestry of Grace Church New-York. To the same effect, varying in form of expression only, but emulous of each other in sentiments of admiration and esteem, are the resolutions of no less than THIRTY other churches and religious societies, contained in an unfinished pamphlet now before us; the members thereof, both Clergy and laity, determining to wear the customary badge of mourning for thirty days, and the interior of the Churches throughout the diocese being hung with black until the festival of Christmas. |