may The work concludes with the following eloquent passages, which may justly compare with the best specimens of writing in the language: The rage of of Brackenridge rose again, even higher than it on the East of the mountains be happy, as I am, had been before. Those who had looked upon that they met with no resistance. him as a traitor to the whiskey cause, now sympa- the forest would have been more awful than its Be not offended that I am partial to the thized with him, when they saw the treatment he solitude. had met with from the army; while the important spirit of these people; they are ourselves; you had services he had rendered the country were admit- them for your compatriots against a common foe; ted by all but his personal enemies, and a few and I will pledge myself, they will not disgrace be." whose prejudices were immovable. He now set you in any enterprise, for the glory of our Repubabout the task suggested by Alexander Hamilton, lic, however daring and hazardous it of defending his reputation before the bar of public opinion. He addressed circular letters to a number of the most distinguished individuals of the "I have now finished the detail I had in view. Western counties, whose opportunities enabled them to speak from their own knowledge of his That my information may not have been correct in conduct. Among them are the names of James all cases; that my memory may have led me into Ross, Alexander Addison, Judge of the district, error; that my imagination may have colored facts, Henry Purviance, David Reddick, General John is possible; but that I have deviated from the Wilkins, John Hoge, and many others, who all strictness of truth, knowingly, is what I will not concurred in completely exonerating him from all admit. That I have been under the painful necesBut it has been censure, and in applauding the course pursued by sity of giving touches which may affect the feelings of some persons, is evident. him.* Not satisfied with this, he published an octavo with all the delicacy in my power, consistent with volume, entitled "Incidents of the Western Insur- doing justice to myself. If I have done them inrection," written with uncommon vigor of style, justice, they have the same, with me, in their power, and replete with graphic descriptions of scenes an appeal to the public. This is the great and reand incidents. As a vindication, it was unan-spectable tribunal at whose bar I stand; for, though swered, and unanswerable. Its republication, how-I have not been arraigned at the bar of a court of ever, would require some things to be struck out, which bear severely upon individuals, as it would answer no good purpose to perpetuate them; and it is possible that there may have been some misconception in his mind towards them, as there was in theirs towards him, but productive of different effects; in the latter case, endangering life and reputation; in the former, bringing down the lash of invective and ridicule. In reply to some of those who affected to speak with contempt of the Western people, for their cowardice in making so mean a resistance the same persons having previously denounced them on the other side of the mountains as traitors for taking up arms against the government-he uses this language: "I have seen the waves when they were calm, and I have wondered that they could ever be wrought into a tempest to shipwreck navies. Let my fellow-citizens *"I saw many alarmed and anxious for the safety of of government, while that government remains retheir country, and for the reestablishment of the govern-publican? And who ever touches it with any other ment, and who expressed an abhorrence of all that was doing. I thought none of them more seriously so than view than that of salutary and regular reform, deserves the anathema of the people." yourself."-James Ross. My opinion of the whole of your conduct throughout the insurrection in this county, I will give without reserve. It appeared to me to have two objects; to arrest the progress of the present violence, and to procure an amnesty for that already committed, and thus prevent the flame from spreading beyond the county in which it originated."---Henry Purviance. you It is impossible for me, without erasing all my impres- justice, yet from the first moment of obloquy against From this time Mr. Brackenridge was considered the man of the people, but devoting himself to the profession of which he stood at the head. Two years after the insurrection, he published the first volume of Modern Chivalry, in which many traces of those times may be discovered. His object was to write something that would indoctrinate the people themselves on the subject of government, and correct those errors into which their almost boundless state of freedom would be apt to lead "I had daily opportunities of observing your conduct, and conversing with you. I never had a doubt, but that you were influenced by the purest motives, and was anxious for the restoration of order and the laws."-John Wilkins. The foregoing extracts are deemed sufficient for this place. them. Dry dissertations, like those of Montesquieu THE LATE BISHOP MOORE. and others, would do for the learned, but would not be read by one in ten thousand of the people. He, at first, thought of a form like Butler's HudiIt is not our habit to insert in the Messenger bras-but concluding that this would not be so obituary notices of even the distinguished dead; likely to be read as prose, he determined to try the but there was something so singularly endearing in plan of Cervantes in his Don Quixotte. His hero, the character of the late Richard Channing Moore, Capt. Farrago, is however no madman, but simply an the lamented Bishop of the Episcopal Church in this eccentric. He found it difficult to supply the place State; he was so universally beloved, not only in this of Sancho, and had recourse to a Milesian Irish- community, but in truth, in every part of the country man of the lower order, of the Thady or Paddy- where he was known;-the "elements were so from-Cork species. The character is certainly not mixed up in him," and he presented so rare a comso successful as that of Sancho; but there is much bination of apostolic excellence, with the qualities humor in it; and it answered his purpose better than which secure mere human popularity,-that, for any he could find of American original. His Scotch- once, at least, we must be excused for deviating man, Duncan Ferguson, is better sustained, and from our usual rule. The following biographical more natural. Modern Chivalry is a profound sketch of the venerable deceased has been already philosophical and political work, under the guise of published extensively, we believe, by the newspapleasantry. It is wonderful what a variety of topics is touched, in the most compendious way, and admirably adapted to form the people to the true principles of a democratic republic. Sketch of the Life and Character of Bishop Moore. per press. It is from the pen of his late parochial than whom no one could have enjoyed better opassistant, the Rev. Mr. Norwood of this city,portunities of knowing and appreciating the merits He was one of the most active and efficient, in of the lamented Bishop, and few certainly possess bringing about the revolution of party in the year superior qualifications for exhibiting his bright and 1800. On the election of Governor, Mr. McKean, he shining example to the imitation of the present and was appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme future generations. We desire to preserve this Court of the State; which place he continued to faithful tribute to a good and holy man, in a more fill during sixteen years, until his death in 1816; enduring form than the columns of the newspaper and of him, it might truly be said, "when a learned press. It will be read long after the fleeting subman dieth, much learning dieth with him." Few jects of the day shall have passed into oblivion, persons who have risen to distinction in this coun- because it suggests a train of feeling and reflection try, combined in themselves a greater variety of of a far more exalted character than the perishing brilliant qualities. He possessed wit, great acthings of time.-[Ed. Sou. Lit. Mess. quirements on all subjects, sound judgment, and extraordinary powers of eloquence. Numerous anecdotes are related of, and many sayings attributed to him, some of them of doubtful authenticity: Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, of His wit was rather delicate irony, than broad whom there is any thing known, was Sir John Moore, humor and always employed as the means of con- whose family seat was Frawley, in Berkshire. This genveying some important truth, or correcting some-tleman was knighted by Charles I, of England, on the 21st thing wrong. His style is remarkable for its trans- of May, 1627, two years after he came to the throne. He parency, presenting the idea almost naked to the lost both his estate and life in the revolution which ended in the execution of that unfortunate King. The motto of mind; so that one in perusing his page, may fancy his coat of arms was "Nihil utile quod non honestum." Of that he is merely pursuing a train of thought of his the descendants of Sir John Moore little is known, until own, instead of tracing the words and sentences of we come to John Moore, the grandfather of our lamented another. Originality was the peculiar character- Bishop, three of whose brothers were distinguished as well istic of his mind. His compositions were gene-as himself. One of thern was the Rev. Dr. Thomas Moore, rally dictated to an amanuensis, and even the chaplain to the celebrated scholar and Bishop of Rochester, Dr. Atterbury, whose sermons he published. He died Recpunctuation was attended to as he went along. tor of Little Britain, in London, leaving a highly respectaHis opinions on the bench bear the stamp of strict ble family; among whom were Thomas Moore, D.D., Recintegrity, and the most perfect independence. They tor of North Bray, in Kent, and the Rev. Dr. Charles are generally clear and concise, unencumbered by Smyth, whose sermons were published in England in 1822, authorities, usually ascending to first principles, and are highly esteemed. Another of the brothers of John Moore, was Daniel Moore, a gentleman of large estate, who and in consequence they have been increasing in was a member of Parliament for many years, whose daughreputation. ter married Lord Chancellor Erskine. Another of the Such was Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a man brothers was William Mooie, of Moore Hall, Pennsylbut imperfectly appreciated in his own day, be- vania, who left a highly respectable family. One of his cause like others of an original cast of intellect, he daughters was married to the Rev. Dr. William Smith, was ahead of the age; but whose fame is destined a preacher of Philadelphia, and formerly President of the University of Pennsylvania. John Moore, the broto increase, as it becomes more removed from the ther with whom our narrative has to do, being the grandtimes in which he lived. father of the Bishop, was an eminent merchant of New 20 The Late Bishop Moore. York, in colonial times. He was an Alderman of that city; for many years a member of the Legislature; and at the time of his death, Colonel of one of the New-York regiments, and a member of the King's council for the province. He was born in 1686, and died in 1749, at 63 years of age. He was the first person buried in Trinity Church-yard; and the title of the family vault was in Bishop Moore at his death. in 1787, he resolved to devote himself to the ministry of the Here Dr. Moore labored for twenty-one years with emi- Mr. John Moore married Frances Lambert, and was blest through her with eighteen children, among whom were three pairs of twins. The descendants of Mr. Moore married into the Bayard, Livingston, Hoffman, Onderdonk,gion, his love of his Divine Master and of his work, his Bailey, Tredwell and Rogers' families, which are among the most respectable families of the North. unaffected love of all men, his amenity of manners and entire freedom from spiritual pride and all moroseness in his theological views, gave him not only an unbounded popularity among his people, but won for him their warm admiration and sincere attachment. The fruits of such labors, and of such a Christian character, were soon abundantly manifested. The bounds of his Parish were greatly enlarged, his congregation soon overflowed, and it became necessary to enlarge his church edifice. The number of his communicants rapidly increased, and the standard of their piety was much elevated. Even after a large addition to the sittings of his church, it soon became necessary to make still further provision for the numbers who flocked to his ministry, and the Chapel of Ease was provided six miles distant from the Parish Church. During his attend Stephen, the seventeenth child, owned West Point, which he sold to the United States, and removed to North Carolina. Upon the invasion of the Southern States by the British in 1779, he commanded a regiment of North Carolina militia. He was afterwards taken prisoner at the first battle of Camden. Being exchanged, he returned to his beautiful seat, Mount Tirza, in North Carolina, where he died, leaving in that State a highly respectable family. The seventh of the thirteen sons of John Moore, was Lambert, the father of Bishop Moore. He was born in 1722-was sent to England for education, and was bred a scholar in Westminster school. At twenty-one years of age he returned to his native country, and settled in that part of the State of New-York which was called the neu-ance upon the late General Convention, in October last, tral ground. Here he lost all his property amidst the de- the writer of this sketch visited this scene of the early lavastation and plunder which desolated that part of the bors of his venerated and beloved friend. It was grateful His house, at West Point, where he resided du- to every good feeling of the heart to witness the ardent country. ring the early part of the Revolutionary War, was plun- love and unaffected veneration for their old pastor, which dered by the Hessians, when the British took the posts of were still cherished and remained enshrined in the hearts the Highlands, and his family was turned out of doors in a of his former parishioners and their children. It was dedestitute condition. He removed thence to the city of lightful to address, in the two beautiful churches of the New-York, where he obtained an appointment in the Cus- Parish, large congregations of zealous worshippers of Altoms, and lived in comfort until the conclusion of the war. mighty God, and to see the son of this venerable man, who After this event, he removed to his brother John's, in Nor- had, in his earliest manhood, and immediately after his adwich, Connecticut, where he died of a pulmonary disease, mission to Holy Orders, succeeded his father in this interon the 19th of June, 1784, in the communion of the church. esting charge, now himself more than fifty years of age, still ocIn the Spring of 1785, his remains were removed to New- and honored with the title of Doctor of Divinity, after a York, and deposited in the family vault, in Trinity Church- useful and successful ministry of thirty-two years, yard, by his son, the late Bishop of Virginia, who then re-cupying the post of his father's duties, and walking in the sided in that city. steps of that good old man, as a faithful and beloved ShepElizabeth Channing, the mother of Bishop Moore, was herd of Christ's Flock. The Bishop loved, in his social descended of a highly respectable family. Being left an intercourse with his friends, to revert to this scene of his orphan at two years of age, she was brought up in the former ministry-to talk of those zealous members of his family of her uncle, John Pintard, Esq., one of the Alder- congregation, who were wont to hold up his hands in his men of New-York. She was an accomplished lady, having arduous duties, and to recount the many evidences of his received the best education which New-York afforded, and Heavenly Father's goodness, then vouchsafed to him. The was highly esteemed in the best society of her native city. reader will pardon me for here introducing one or two of She was polished in her manners, of the most amiable dis-the many anecdotes which I have heard him relate: It position, and exemplary piety, and was remarkable for pleased God at one time eminently to bless his labors, by sound judgment and strong good sense. To the early reli- an unusual influence of Divine Grace among his people. gious instructions, the prayers, and lovely and pious exam- There was a true revival of Religion-the work of God's ple of this exemplary Christian mother, Bishop Moore often spirit, and not the ephemeral effect of those hot-bed contridelighted to revert, with tears of gratitude in his eyes, and vances and human devices, which have, with pernicious To consequences, so often been resorted to for doing that work a bosom swelling with filial affection and reverence. her early nurture and admonition in the Lord, he ascribed which the Holy Spirit only can really effect. Within a under God all his happiness and usefulness in this world, few weeks, more than sixty persons were added to the list and his hopes of a blessed immortality in the next. She of his communicants. During the prevalence of this happy entered upon her eternal rest at his house on Staten Island, state of religious feeling, Dr. Moore went to officiate in the on the 7th of December, 1805, in the 78th year of her age. chapel where he regularly performed divine service in the Of the eleven brothers and sisters of Bishop Moore, our afternoon. After the services and sermon, the blessing limits will allow us only to say, that they were all honora- was pronounced; but, instead of the usual business of a bly connected in marriage, were respectable, virtuous and retiring congregation, entire stillness pervaded the assembly, interrupted only by suppressed sobs. A church-waruseful. Richard Channing Moore, the late Bishop of Virginia, den arose and said, " Dr. Moore, the people are not satiswas born in the city of New-York, on the 21st of August,fied: they desire more of the bread of life; will you not 1762. He received a liberal education, and was bred a preach again?" Hastily selecting a portion of Scripture physician; but after practising medicine for several years, during the singing of a hymn, he again preached an ex tempore discourse of the usual length and pronounced the benediction; but all was quiet; and again this people, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, asked and received in a third sermon heavenly food from their shepherd's hands. The afternoon by this time being far spent, and the strength even of this able laborer having been exhausted, he was obliged to entreat the enchained throng to depart to their homes. Such an instance may in vain be searched for since apostolic times. On another occasion, the Doctor was invited to meet a company of highly esteemed friends at dinner. Just as he was getting into his gig. a messenger arrived from a distant part of the island, requesting him to visit a very poor communicant who was dangerously ill. Obedient to the call of duty, he relinquished his proposed pleasure, but still with some reluctance, wishing the call of duty had not been made, and almost inclined to delay it until the morrow When arrived at the humble cottage, he was unusually successful in imparting the consolations of Religion, and succeeded in quieting the fears and animating the hopes of his humble friend. As he knelt on the dirt floor, the Grace of God warmed his affections, and with unwonted fervor he poured forth his supplications for the dying Christian before the Throne of their common Father and God. As he returned home late in the evening, with his own faith strengthened, and his Christian graces enlivened, he wept at the thoughts of the reluctance with which he had gone to so delightful a duty, and was humbled under a sense of his ingratitude to that merciful God, who had thus by his very kindness rebuked him. That night his sick friend died full of peace and hope. The Bishop continued to his death to look back to that evening, spent in the dying Christian's chamber, as perhaps the happiest of his life; and he learned from the occurrence a lesson which he did not forget, never under any circumstances to postpone duty to pleasure. consideration of the claims of religion, his zealous labors were soon rewarded by a full church, and rapidly increasing communion. But the superior importance of the subject must withdraw our attention, for a time, from his parochial to his Episcopal character. Never was there a man more happily constituted for the peculiar work assigned him, by the Divine Head of the church, than was Bishop Moore for the trying duties of Diocesan of Virginia, at the period when he entered upon that sacred office. The Episcopal Church, in this State, then labored under accumulated difficulties. The evils which grew out of the colonial system of ecclesiastical affairs, were still felt. The want of Episcopal supervision, of the administration of the Episcopal functions, and of the restraining influence and discipline of executive control, had greatly retarded the prosperity of the infant church. She had not the benefit of her own ecclesiastical government, and was too far removed from her distant mother to be much benefited by the connection which was still maintained, or much restrained by a ruling power so far distant, and consequently so inefficiently exercised. Without an executive head, there was no sufficient restraint laid upon her ministers. Orthodoxy in doctrine, and piety and morality of life, among those who were the spiritual guides and examples of the people, could only be enforced, when needed, by an impeachment on the other side of the ocean, before the Bishop of London, who was the ecclesiastical head of the colonial churches. This, owing to the invidiousness of the office of accuser, the distance of the tribunal, the expense of the voyage, and the delay of justice, was rarely done. The colonies, in consequence, became the last resort of some of those bad men, who, in all ages and churches, will intrude into the holy office, and who feared the discipline of the church at home. Others, who from inefficiency, could not find desirable cures in the In 1809, Dr. Moore was called by God's providence to a mother country, easily obtained situations, in a rapidly still more important sphere of usefulness in St. Stephen's growing community, where ministers were greatly needed. Church in the city of New-York. Here he continued five From the operation of these causes, the colonial church in years. His labors were very great; but neither the strength Virginia long labored under the infliction of the inefficiency, of his fine constiution nor the ardor of his zeal failed, and immorality, and want of piety of some in her ministry. he was again, as on Staten Island, richly rewarded for all The disastrous influences of this great evil were widely his toils by the abundant bestowment of God's blessing on felt. The confidence and attachment of the people were, the work of his ministry. He found a small congregation, in a great degree, weaned from their spiritual guides. The and only about thirty communicants. After a short minis-efforts of the good and zealous were much thwarted by the try of five years, he left a crowded church and between counteracting influence of evils, which there was no power four and five hundred communicants. There is, I believe, in the defective system of church government to eradicate. to this day, in St. Stephen's Church an honorahle monu- At this critical juncture came on the American Revolution. ment to the zeal and efficiency of his ministry while there. The strong prejudices which were excited by this great When the whole church had become crowded, every pew, event against a church, which was then connected with the not only in the body of the church, but also in the galleries oppressive government of England,-the jealousy which being occupied, a gentleman called on the Rector and ap- was aroused in the dissenting denominations in conseplied for a pew: there is none, was the reply. Will you quence of the possession by the church of valuable glebe permit me to build one? was the answer. Where? said lands-the dispersion of most of her ministers-and the the Doctor. There, over the gallery against the wall, said zealous efforts of her enemies in the use of all these means the persevering applicant. But how will you obtain ac- of injuring her, when added to the sore evils under which cess to it? said the Doctor. By cutting a small door in she had before groaned, constitued a burden too heavy for the wall, and building a private stairway outside of the her strength, and she sunk to the dust. An extended popuchurch, said the zealous man; and there, I understand, lation being thus deprived in a great degree of their relihigh up against the wall, is that pew to this day, a lasting|gious teachers and of moral restraints, and exposed during memorial of pastoral zeal, fidelity and eloquence, such as many years to all the distracting and demoralizing influfew Ministers of Christ are cheered by. ences of war, presented, after the potracted troubles were over, an inviting field for that subtle system of infidelity, which was introduced from France, and was zealously, and The next important change which occurred in the life of Dr. Moore, was his call to the Rectorship of the Monumental Church at Richmond, and to the Episcopate of Virginia. too successfully, disseminated by men of high standing and These events occurred in the Spring of 1814. The pecu- talent. Added to the baleful influence of this demoralizing liar history of the church of which he now became Rector, system, those who undertook, under God, the arduous task is too well known to require more than the remark, that it of reviving the church in Virginia, had to operate on the was built upon the site of the old theatre-the burning of minds of a high-minded people, long unaccustomed to the which had caused the death of more than a hundred per- restraints of religion. Thus infidelity, immorality, repugsons, and involved Richmond in the deepest distress. En-nance to restraint, and inveterate prejudices against the tering upon his charge at so favorable a time, for a serious Episcopal Church, produced fearful difficulties in the way of a revival of the church. This great work, however, was | influence of the most kindly feeling for all men, and the begun by a little band of faithful men, who trusted in God's tenderest sympathy for the afflicted, he associated with his promise, that "the gates of hell should not prevail against people as their spiritual father and guide. He delighted in his church." Still, at the time of Bishop Moore's arrival, the Gospel; Christ crucified was his constant theme, and the evils above-mentioned were widely prevalent. He he loved especially to dwell in his preaching on the bright seemed to have been raised up by Divine Providence to and cheering topics of christianity. The mercy of God, the guide the church successfully through these difficulties. tender and kind invitations of the Saviour, the soothing He entered upon the arduous task at fifty-two years of age, consolations of Religion, and its glorious hopes, constituted though with all the vigor, animation and zeal of youth. His the burthen of his preaching; and when set forth with great evangelical system of doctrine, his pure and beautiful style | animation, the most moving pathos, in an eloquent style of of preaching, the tenderness and pathos of his appeals, the composition, aided by a delightful voice and fine manner, gracefulness and eloquence of his delivery, aided by a vene-gave to his preaching a peculiar charm which all appreciated. rable form, a countenance beaming with benevolence, and a heart glowing with love, rendered him to all an acceptable preacher. 44 He dearly loved the Liturgy of the church; and as in its eloquent and holy strains he presented to God the prayers and praises of his people, he often wept. Love to God In his visitations through his new diocese, crowds every and love to man dwelt in his bosom and pervaded his conwhere assembled to hear him; and charmed by the man, versation and sermons. He could seldom speak of the many went away disarmed of their prejudices against his dying love of Christ without tears; and, like the beloved office and his church. His gentle and conciliating manner Apostle, whom Jesus most loved, and whom he greatly reof pleading the claims of the church of their fathers, soon sembled in character, the prevailing sentiment of this aged awakened in many families an attachment which had slum- Minister of Christ during his latter years was, little chilbered, but had never become extinct. The mild, forbear-dren, love one another." O! that his bereaved people may ing and parental manner in which he exercised the power remember and obey this godly admonition. They all love of his office, won the hearts of his ministry. His widely him, and well they may; for there are few of the younger spread reputation for piety and zeal, soon drew to his dio- part of them whom he did not receive in those arms now cese a large accession of efficient clergy. His faithful in- cold and stiff in death, and at the baptismal font dedicate culcation of true religion elevated the tone of piety in the them to God's service, and adimit them into the church of church, and secured the confidence of the community. In Christ, and make them heirs of all the precious promises of his private and social intercourse with the families of the the Christian Covenant. O! that they may never forget church, their Bishop won all hearts. To the courteous and the obligations then assumed for them, and that they may graceful manners of a well-bred gentleman, he added a sin- not, by failure to comply with the conditions of salvation, gularly pleasing amenity. He was kind to all, for he loved forfeit that rich inheritance, the title to which was then bestowed upon them. Most of those of his flock, who now mourn his loss, also had their earthly happiness cemented by him in holy matrimony. The large body of communicants now worshipping in the Monumental Church, were all. means of grace by the imposition of his hands in the apostolic and beautiful rite of confirmation. Often have they assembled around that chancel, before which his venerated remains so lately lay cold in the embrace of death, and seen that much loved form instinct with life, within their kneeling circle, and heard that gentle and dear voice, now silent forever, invite them in the most affectionate tones to the spiritual feast of their Lord, and receive from his hands the emblems of the crucified body and shed blood of their dying Redeemer. Brethren, let the memory of these consecrated scenes of the communion of saints never fade from your minds, and never forget the faithful teaching of this godly old man. Few among you, who so lately followed this beloved pastor to his last resting-place on earth, have not been led by him to that city of the dead, where his dust will lic, until summoned on the resurrection morn by the archangel's trump, to a new and eternal life; you have there seen him commit your loved ones to the grave in the solemn service of your church, and with the trembling ac cents of the deepest sympathy and tenderest love. Remember, also, those solemn scenes-and O, prepare to follow them to the tomb, and him to the bliss of Heaven! He loved social and friendly intercourse with his people, and all have enjoyed his sprightly and cheerful conversations, and heard his fatherly advice and spiritual encouragement around their firesides. His benevolence overflowed towards all mankind. His venerable appearance, and countenance beaming with love, disarmed enmity; his sprightly and entertaining conversation attracted old and young to his society. He presented religion to view in all her most pleasing and attrac-all, with very few exceptions, admitted to that sacred tive graces. More austerity of manners would have failed to win back hearts long alienated from the church. Greater sternness in the exercise of his authority, would have strengthened and perpetuated the prejudices entertained towards his office. But he seemed to have been happily endowed with the very qualities as a man, a christian and a bishop, which peculiarly fitted him for the exigencies of the church, when he entered upon the duties of her chief Shepherd. Having guided the church committed by the Great Shepherd to his care, safely through her early difficulties, having witnessed the rebuilding of her fallen edifices, the extensive revival of true religion through all her borders, the return of her formerly alienated children to her bosom, a rapidly increasing attachment to her excellencies, a fast growing esteem and respect even among those without her communion, he well deserves for her sake, as well as for his own virtues, the love and reverence of all who love the church of God. Truly, God has blest his labors, and those of the godly man who has aided him of late years in the Episcopal office. When he came to the Episcopate of Virginia, there were in the Diocese only four or five actively laboring ministers-now there are about ninety-five, most of whom minister zealously at the sacred altar. Never, probably, was there a Bishop more universally popular, and more ardently loved by his ministers and all the members of the church under his episcopal charge. But it is in his parochial character, as Rector of the Monumental Church congregation, that he is best known and most beloved in Richmond. His pastoral labors here, for twenty-seven years, have exceedingly endeared him to his congregation. Gentle, amiable, kind and courteous, with a heart full to overflowing with benevolence, with a charity which included in the wide circle of his affection all the lost world for whom the Redeemer died-always under the Never did the writer, whose opportunities of observation have been constant, during the last five years, know a minister who equalled Bishop Moore, in the kindness, frequency and efficacy of his attentions to the sick and the affliated. The gentleness and kindness of his manner, the depth of his sympathy, the soothing character of his conversation, his happy and tender mode of presenting the conso 'lations of the Gospel, all accompanied by prayers of the |