DEPARTMENT OF STATE SEN W. FDRTSQN, JR. SECRETARY OP STATE ATLANTA 3, QEIDRBIA Churches, scopal^ St. Paul's E^jisoopal Church (Augusta) Richmond County. "Funeral Services at the Burial of the Reel No. _222_ Positive' filed in Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D., Together with the Sermon Delivered in St. Paul's Church, Augusta, Ga., on June 29, 1864: Being the Feast of St. Peter the Apostle." 28 pp. Pub. Columbia, S. C., 1864. In passession of: St. Paul's Episcopal Church Augusta, Ga. Date microfilmed; Feb. 9, i960 MICROFILMED BIl HORACE ^ Georgia Department OF Archives, and History Microfilm Division 1516 Peachtree ST., NE a J Atlanta 9, Georgia. 4 3 KUNUKAI. SKI!VK;|';s UIGHT RUV. LKONIDAS POLK. I).0. TO9, 1804 liKlNd rHK FKAST OK SI'. KKTKIt THK AKOSTLK. They (liitl Hiiw iti tcar.'i, Hlmll re;ii> in.jt*y. IVulni I'xxvi, (1. OOLUAiniA, K. C. I'KINTKD BY EVANS 4 COrtSWELL, 1861. FUNERAL SERVICES AT TIIK BniAL OF TRR RIGHT REV. LEONIDAS POLK, D.D TOO ETHER WITH THE 8ERMON niLITFJtCD IN ST PAUL*S OHUROIT, AUGUSTA, GA., ON JUNE 29, 18C4; BEING THE FEAST OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE. They tbat sow in tnrs, nball reap in joy.--Psalm cxxvt, 8. COLUMBIA. 8. C. PRINTED BY EVANS A COGSWELL. 1M4. CORRESPONDENCE, Tt>aSnttkad*teeBP.irgtehitdBinegveJrfeinadioSpteio'Uf EthIeI ProteitantDE.Dp.i,ieBoi$phaolp Cohfutriceh Diniocthteet oCfonQfeedoergraiate, cmBttohoroepTITodutyhtemhrhielneosieanfrsuitbe,notDtueatghLirttdemeekleyjtouhraaamesdseccimtrydgiihocrdnoaoeaeevrassfWdaespt,cryPo.pdtooirteMenthueirhl.cre.ixeobrii.GearrfedrethRsioeplvoaapdeEretlaceifEorutthtrohNnleiiifesbdas,rurtewBdhttareahiieirteyraehhyttmCuoaotehpthuehsunlIirh^hsrstac,afoonhrvriudee,fSeunnsiaappenetnerearleiidyacirfedahtemefloliuteopefoolfplnfmyhitu,htiarshnseehnueqmoiAsuruhnerelaalmmdsasltmoy,hiwrnaefyecovna.lireltndepdetdqhunuNebtFa.llaaibictfrehiayenet,deirofwinayt,nohoduoaf JH.ELNORNYGSCT. RLABYET, ,BLieiheoupteonafHAtr'Okaeuiteearaei., Artnif of Virginia. JOSIAH TATNALL, C. B. N., CommaHtling Naval Station, SavuMHuk, Georgia. GEORGE W. RAINS, Colonel Commanding Post, Augusta, Go, * CCMMCMCWW.ooA.aaM.liTJ.j.MHH....WHTFE..QH..H.RHH.UCDHOOACEI...NNSYLRNGH.TABRDFPAcAARI.EENLSRMKTRTOAEDMESEc,Nl,R,RORAS,CHAYtNNSBaheE,,f,,ecafS,BSSctpoottHtteloaraaafcefrffoitfcfnfGoCftoroooeahSrfnfftuotteo.arGfGGrcfcPaheEeehlaSnnneoonPteeedt.lfrmror'JaaaetltoloalkAlknPC.PPGnaoohoAe'eelulllkkntkro.Cce..Onhrkea,knmlnArPoennnkokgt,l,,uSkAAef'tttntvahSga.entunasefextf,aa.h.Q. a. W. W. LORD, Bector of Chritt Cknreh, Vickeburg, MUeieeippi. STAHMOAS'Ll.aOJb.a.mBPaIE.NAKREDR,T^iOeeNio, nCahrgapltaoinA,rmg of TeGnenoeregeeiae., Bioctee of JJOOHHNSNouNUthE. ECCLaOfYoRl,iNnAIanS,gHu,etaH,eDctioorceosefoSft.OTeokra^dtdam. ne' GEOPRrGeeEbgWter. oSTf IthCeKDNtoEcYes,eCqk/*apLUoiuiineioanfat.he Poet, Church, Aiken, CJumbxte, Ua., tRoTiofoiBGCIAgnhto,hihhbtigimsteamegh.rivRBtUtecelewBToiktugavpheais,hetyvbtthrtrGmemeloBrsoneeafeno:cdnlnsvrtidIdhg.Le,mierLbaahceC,oiuaacmomoJvddoulreodp.itildrhryydyreaeHea.sso1csasBf,ePiKiIidt1Pvoeht8eSheote0li,doais4lvap,as.etdVeyn,hDrddoeeoeDr.rduDfey.torDsr.Mositt,.rbri,vleeuiuaseeqrlittreynu^eeicettoahtBaesYtenfretpieeodspoetluhrhyinmerroaaeemwpbonitlwpbaieodseeidIhfhndeAoisitLwnnefrltgaoknoooSluatvuflttTniyehlhasmdeEdee.aiaaryPtfhevnfuHi,iaaubtmrn.GnnEewtliee,Naoasnrshvs.ae,aEbLldfeoLbot,xMr%LtroeaIsrtmpeOhTnnwceRTbdcroU,l.TerKtte.hhoTaye-f, COLLECT FOR FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. O God, the Protector of all that trust in Thee, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy; Increase and multiply upon us Thy mercy; that Thou, being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not the things eternal. Grant this, O heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake our Lord. Amen. OCCASION OF HIS DEATH. On Tuesday morning, Juno General Johnston, Lieutenant-Generals Tolk and Tlardee, and IBrigadier Genci*al W. H. Jackson, accompanied by membei's of their respective statfa, visited Pine mountain, an elevated position lyingbeyond the Confederate lines, and some six miles from the Town of Marietta, for the purpose of making a military reconnoissance. Leaving their escorts and horses behind the hill, they proceeded to the top on foot. Their observations having been completed, they were about to return, when a shot from a Federal battery, striking the ground a short distance in front of their position, warned them that their presence had been discovered by the enemy. The grcnip at once separated: Generals Johnston and Polk passing along the brow of the hill, still farther to the left, while the other officers withdrew toward the right and rear.* After finishing their survey in that direction the two parted-- the former moving around the hill to rejoin his escort, and the latter leisurely retracing his course across the summit. Upon reaching a commanding point he paused for a moment, either to make a final examination of the scene before liim, or, as is more probable, to spend a short interval in silent coramuTiion with his God. As he stood thus occupied, his arms folded upon his breast, and his face wearing the composed and reverent look of an humble and tnisting worshipper, a second shot was heard, and the cry arose that General Polk had fallen. Colonels Jack and Gale, members of his staff, at once returned to the spot, but life was already extinct. His body, badly torn, was lying upon the ground at full length, with the face upturned, and retaining its last expression of pray- 6 erful faith, aud the arms, though broken, still crossed upon the breast. The enemy's bAttory was by this time shelling the hill with great rapidity and precision, and the remains were borne to a place of safety in the rear under a heavy hre. In the left pocket of his coat was found his Book of Common-I^rayer, and in the right four copies of a little manual entitled "Balm for the Weary and Wounded." Upon the fly-leaf of three of these had been written the names respectively of " Geneml Jos. E. Johnston," " Lieutenant-General Hardee," " Lieutenant-General Hood," "with the compliments of Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk, June 12th, 1864." Upon that of the fourth was inscribed his own name. All were saturated witli his blood. The General-in-Chief at once made known the great loss which his army had sustained, in the following order: "IIead-quartbks Army of Tennessee, ] In the Field, June 14, 1864. / " General Field Orders^ No. 2.] Comrades ! You are called to mourn your first oaptain, your oldest companion-in-arms. Lieutenant-General Polk fell tp-day at the outpost of this army--the army he raised and commanded--in all of whose trials he has shared--to all of whose victories he contributed. " In this distinguished leader we have lost the most cour- teous of gentlemen, the most gallant of soldiers. "The Christian, patriot, soldier, has neither lived nor died in vain. His example is before you--^his mantle rests with you. tL E, JOHNSTON, General. "Official: Kinloch Falconer,.A. A. G." ^ The members of his military staff not feeling at liberty to determine upon the place of his interment without consultation with his family and friends, sent telegraphic despatches to his eldest son, then in Montgomery, Ala., and to Bishop Elliott, at Savannah, to. meet the body at Augusta, as it was their intention to proceed with it to that point. 7 On reaching Atlanta the body was received by a com- mittee appointed for the purpose by the Mayor of the city, aud taken directly to St Luke's Church. It continued lying in state for several hours, aud then, after appropriate religious services and an impressive eulogy pronounced by the Rev. Br. Quintard, Rector of the Church and Chaplain attached to the staff of General Polk, was conveyed to the depot under a proper military escort, attended by a laige concourse of sympathizing citizens. A car having been provided expressly for their use, the immediate attendants proceeded with it to Augusta, and upon their arrival, early the following morning, were met by the Rectors, Wardens, and Vestrymen of St. Paul's Church and the Church of the Atonement. The remains were reverently conveyed to St. Paul's Church, where a guard of honor had been stationed to receive them by the Commandant of the Post. Upon consultation at Augusta with such members of General Polk's family as could be gathered at the spot, aud with Bishop Elliott, it was decided to be most appropriate to commit his remains to the keeping of the Diocese of I Georgia, whose Bishop had now become the Senior Bishop of the Church in the Confederate States, until the Church of Louisiana should claim them as her rightful inheritance. The following bivitation was accordingly issued: " The Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Epis- copal Church in the Confederate States, the officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States, and the citizens generally, are invited to attend the funeral services of the Ht. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D.D., from the City Hall of Au- gusta, Georgia, pii Wednesday, the 29th of June. The T procession will move fmra the City Hall to St. Paul's Church. His remains will be deposited in the chiirch-yard of St. Paul's until the war closes. " Stephen Elliott, "Senior Bp. of Prot. Epis. Ch. in C. S. A." I After remaining two days in St. Paul's Church, the body. FUNKRAL SOLEMNITIES: . U^n the day appointed--being, by a happy coincidence, the Feast of St. Peter the Apostle--the local military force of Augusta, consisting of one full regiment of infantrj^ a battery of light artillery, and a company of cavalrj-, was drawn up on Telfair st., in the rear of the City Hall, at halfpast nine o'clock, a. m. The case enclosing the remains was brought and placed within the hearse by soldiers detailed for the purpose. The hearse was draped in the flag of the Confedei-ate States, with its broad folds of white and its starry cross of Trust and Truth upon a field ot blood, anuud materials for a grandeur ot design.Aud a high-souled energy which made him foremost in all the acts which illustrated the earth-life of our Saviour and the annals of the Apostolic Church. Is any one inclined to disparage Peter because he was not tho same gentle, loving spirit as John, or to quarrel with him ])ecause his fervent temper and burning zeal made him sometimes liable to rebuke? God raises up instruments in his Church * for his pwii purposes, aud moulds them according to bis own predetermined counsels. A man can not bo ardent, uucom])romiBing, single-miuded, full of a grand ideal of religion, without being a mark for the criticism of the Church as well as of the world. Such men have been filled with a divine afflatus of which lookerson know nothing. They seem, in the fulness of their zeal and ardor, to be carried away by a spirit w'hich is mistaken for the spirit of the world. It is not indeed the spirit of the world; it is only that they are fighting the world with the world's own fearlessness. "The children of this world," said pur Savioui*, " are wiser in their generation than tho children of light." Such men as these--men specially raised up--do not permit the children of this world to assume this superiority. They meet them face to face--use different weapon^., 't is true, but use tliem alike.--hurl at their adversaries the armor of the Lord, iu the like spirit of zeal in which the armor of the world U hurled against them; and God means them to do it. There are times and occasions when such a spirit is not only right, but glorious, in the sight of the Lord. Look at our Saviour himself, when he lashed from the temple those who were dishonoring liis u Fadier's house! Sec him i-agiag, like a man of war, among the money-ohauget^nd the hucksterer*, overturning their tables,Ind casting out their merchandise! Hear that same Saviour when he burst forth in indignation against the Scribes and Pharisees, hyiiocrites, using such language as a weak Christianity would now find fault with. "Ye serpents, ye genei-stion of vipere, how can ye escape the damnation of liell ?" Hear St. Stephen, when he stood in the midst of the infiiriated multitude and said: "Yb stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and cars, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just one; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers." Hear St. Paul, when he was withstood by Elymas the sorcerer: "O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Loi-d?' Recalling instances like these, tell me if you can not perceive, mingled with the grace and the love of the Gospel, a spirit of fiery indignation, rising and swelling in the bosoms of the Apostles, and Martyrs, and Saints, and even of our Lord himself, which should make us careful how we judge and condemn our brethren who may differ from us in spirit and in action. God raises up his own servants for his own use; elects them, calls them, prepares them, places them where they shall be ready for action, and in due time gives them their work to do. It rises up so plainly before them, that they can not avoid it. It sweeps up to their feet; it involves them in its current. They ofttimes struggle against it, but it overpowers them by its irresistible circumstances, until at last they find themselves mere instruments in God's hands, doing His will, driven on by His spirit, supported by His strength, dying as His martyrs! Let us apply these principles to the life and conduct of him whose murdered body now lies before us. In the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six we find, ill the military school of the United States, a young man of heroic lineage, with the fiery blood of the Kevolutioii coursing in his veins, of independent fortune, of chivalric tone, of high and noble impulses, preparing himself for the service of his country. He had every quarrfication to ensure him success as a military man; every prerequisite for carrying him up to lofty reputation. No one doubts, for a moment, that had he followed the beck of ambition, he might have risen, as a soldier, to the very proudest rank in the array of the Union. His most fastidious critic has never doubted that he had military traits in his character of the very highest order. If personal couhige, comprehensive views, quick perception, rapid combination, prompt decision, great administrative capacity, with the faculty of commanding men, ar^ at the same time of attaching them to him, are the qualities which make a great military leader, then we, who know him best and have longest acted with him, can bear our testimony to his possession of these qualities in a most eminent degree. They were his characteristics in everything he did--the qualities which have made him illustrious in every phase of his life-. Upon this young man, thus preparing for the service of the world, Christ laid the touch of His divine spirit, and transformed him into a soldier of the Cross. He had work tor him to do in his Church. Ife had use for those very qualities which would have fitted him for a glorious service of the world. The Church needed a bold and fearless man, full of youth and nerve, to plunge into the great wilderness of the Southwest, teeming, as it then was, with the young and vigorous life of the republic, swelling and surging under the rushing tide of emigration, and consecrate it to her service; and she found that champion in this youth of military training. The Church needed a man of high social position, with the carriage and mannei*s of a gentleman, with the courtesy aiMi grace of a well-bred Christian, to commend her to the consideration of men of hereditary wealth, of great refinement, of cultivated accomplishments. For in the vast country over which he was appointed to establish the Church, extremes were meeting--extremes of established position. 1 h> uml ol bU;ut;'^le i'or position--of old aettlod luudholdera uiul of needy adventurers--of men with all the polieh of foreign refinement, and of men witli all the strength of unpolished intelligcnee. The Bishop who should go forth to conquer that country f>r the Churcli must possess manners as well ;u> energy--cultivation as well as Christian courage--and the Church found such a combination in this young soldier, \vh. had hceu snatclied from the flatteries of the world. The Church ucedeil a large slaveholder, who might speak boldly and fearlessly to liis peers, as being one of thehiselves, I about their duty to their slaves, and might teach them, by his living example, what that duty was,and how to fulfil it; and slie found it in this young disciple. He combined in liiinsclf just tle natural qualities and the accidental cir- cumstances which fitted him for the work to which he was culled; and when these had been sanctified by the Spirit of Christ, and constrnint was laid upon liim to preach the Gospel, he went forth in the power of the Holy Ghost to iho eanieiit tulJUmeiit of liis bishopric. And who shall dare to sav that the foreknowledge and election of the Head of the (.'hurch ended at this point ? Who shall pre- ..uine to sav that Christ did not prepare this glorious ser- vant for tile final work of his life? It all depends upon the stand-point from which we view this conflict. If wo oon.fidcr it a mere struggle for political power a question ot sovereignty and of dominion, then should I he loath to ,uin-le the ('hurch of Christ with it in any toriu or manner. 15nt%ncli is not the nature of this conflict. It is no such power, or for the adjustment ot a boundary. a.oSnvtdreariihoitnusriotdatel vomordt1eeendr, cawonhudtone,trlhyahvcyilniegf ehaasvtfepotefsltim'gsaanCctarhlihUfuolreemcedheoetfhsaelotlhifretChludheaerraircstelth-i by defiling the altars upon which the sauin 17 of our Saviour is commemorated, by violating our women, by raieing the baiiirfer of Hervile insurrection', by fanning into f\iry the demoniac passions of the ignoi'ant and the vile! For active personal resistancS to such an invasion might Obrisf well liave fitted and prepared a servant, even thongh that servant should meanwhile have worn the mitre of a bishop. It is a wonderful coincidence (to say the least of it) that he who, in his young manhood, consecrated his sword as an oftering to the Lord, should, in tlie ripened of his old age, have resumed that sword to do the battles of Religion and the Chui*cb ! Who knows the comninnings of a spirit like his with his Master? Up to that moment he had commended himself to the Church as a self-sacrificing, selt-devoted servant "and bishop. He had laid down evervthhig at the foot`of the Cross. He had stripped himself and his family of riches and of home. He had wandered with them, delicately trained and delicately luirtnred, fi'om resting-place tO resting-place, until they felt that they were pilgrims and strangers,'and had no sure abiding place. He had laid aside, for the Church's sake, the comforts of domestic life^--being separated for months from wife and children-- until at times he was, as Job says, strange to thorn. He had his mind, his heart, his sonl teeming at all times with great ideas for her advancement and glory, so that his lujlile. generous soul was well-nigh bursting with its exuberant riches; and can you believe that all this was suddenly changed into a vain and paltry ambition of winning renown upon the battle-field ? Why, his views were as much above all such littleness as the heavens are above the earth ! 1 speak what T do know when I affirm that the complexion which this war was to assume was known to him long before it burst upon our country. We had studied together for yearn the gathering elements; we had analyzed them; we had seen in them the ripening germs of irreligion, of unbelief, of ungodlineSf^ of corruption, of cruelty, of license, which have since distinguished them, and we came long since to the deliberate conclusion that it was a struggle against which not only the l^tate hut the Church must do 18 licr utmost. Not merely tlio layuiuu, but the priest. And thirt couclusiou was not cfHiiiued to our owu bi*east8. Others of our bretliren coincided with u in our views, and even the gentle, loving Cobbs told us, again and again, that when the moment came, old and intirm as be wa.s, he slionld shoulder his luuskpt and march to the battle-field! And when at last this great responsibility was hud upon him unexpectedly, it met him-in the strict performance of his duty. During the first year of the war, when our armies were lu the peninsula of Virginia, ho left his diocese upon an episcopal visitation to the soldiers from Louisiani^ who then thronged those armies. Having tullilled that mission, ho returned to Richmond just when the Federal armies were preparing to sweep down tiie valley of the Mississippi aud bbt out its civilization.. A committee oi'gentlemen from that valley was then at Richmond beseeching the President to appoint some man in whom the people of that vast region could Imve confidence, and around whom they might rally for its defence and preservation. Sidney JolmsUm, upon whom the President had relied as the commander of tlw forces of tlie Southwest, had not yet arrived from California. Beauregard and Joe Johnston were in coniuiaiid in Vii'ginia. Magruder was in the peninsula. Jackson and the Hills and Longstreet had not yet exhibited their military skill, and were unknown in the valley of the Wosb The incomparable Lee was engaged in detending the frontiers of his own native state. Hardee was in the service of the State of Georgia. The emergency was great, for tlie Northwest was gathering all its clans to open the coui*sc of the Mississippi, the point which most nearly touched its interests. The people of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana were ' clamoring for a leader, and, unless one was furnished them, might abate their enthusiasm and make but faint resistance to invasion. At this critical moment *jJie President betlrought him of this man, whom lie remembered as a young soldier of the academy, whom he knew as a bishop of the Church, whose lofty qualities ho had marked all through life, aud whose wide and commanding intinence in the valley of the Mississippi he well understood An unusual sphere in which to seek for a general; bnt, witli his usual promptness and sagacity, he marked his man, ami asked the commissioners if Bishop Polk would meet the wishes of the people of the valley. The reply was as prompt as the nominaticii. "The very man; uo one whom you eould name of all at your command, would be so acceptable." Tlicn arose the important question--" Can he be persuaded, in this moment of his country's peri), when all eyes arc turned upon him, and all hearts are yearning for him; when his home, his diocese, his Clmi'ch, the sheep entrusted to his keeping and for whom Christ had died, are threatened not only with temporal but witii spiritual destruction ; when hordes of infidel foreigners, sj)awiied upon our sliores from their hotbeds of infidelity aud ungodliness, are coming to preach blood and license* to the slaves he was laboring to humanize an.d christianize ; can lie bo persuaded, was the interesting qiic'stion, to resume the sword whicli lie had laid in yontli upon tlic altar of God, and use it in their defence? There it lay, where he had placwl it in the prime of lifb, a virgin and uiisiiiliod sword. Not a stfiin had dimmed its brightness; not a fb'Op of blood had ever marred its purity! It was consecrated to his Saviour--a votive offering which he had made in the days of his early love. Can it be resumed with honor to his Ciinrch--with safety to Ids soul ? For vain ambition, no I For worldly distinction, no! For the preservation of property, or even life under ordinary circumstances, no! But for the defence of his Church, tlie spouse and bride of Christ, for the purity o/the altars to which he had been bound as a sacrifice, for the care of the sheep bought with Christ's death and committed to his charge, for the maintenance of the sacred trust of slavery, yes!--a thousand times yes! That sword had heen laid upon that altar tor the glory of God. and for the glory of God it might be resumed, and for the glory of God it was I'csumed, and has tlaslied with a celestial lirightnoss in the eyes of the adversuiy, dazzling and confounding them. And God has \ blcsttcd that bwonl upon ever^' occji^bioii of its usv. matter what was the. fate of the rest of the army, wherever that sword was wielded, there was victory. He never knew St defeat. He never received a wound. He moved unharmed through all the perils of the battle-held. Until his work was accomplished upon eartli and God would call him to his rest, no. weapon that was directed against him ever pivwpered. The mode In which Bishop Polk accepted the responsi* hility which was laid upon him was eminently characteristic of him. When he had determined to assume the militaty rank with which the President thought fit to iuvest him, he wrote to me to inform me of the step. " 1 did not consult you beforehand (were his v>v>rds), for I felt that it was a matter .to be decided between my Master and myself. I knew how it. would startle the Church.; how much critiewm and obloquy it might fetch down; and I determined that all the responsibility should rest upon myself. When I had fully nmde up my mind to the step, I went to the valley and paid a visit to our vonerablc Father Meade, feeling it to be my duty to let him know, as the presiding bislmp of our fiock, whatX hail determined upon. 1 told him distinctly that 1 had not come to consult him; 1 had cotne to conmiu< nicate a decision and to ask his blessing. His answer was, * Hud you consulted me, I might nut have advised you to ussuine the office ofu general; but knowing you to be a Hin< cere, eaitiest, God-fearing man, believing you to Imve cuiue to your decision after earnest prayer for light and for direction, I will not* blame you, but will send you to the field with .my blessing.' ' What our brother did he always did boldly, fearlessly, openly, in the face of God and of man. The act was always his own; the responsibility he never laid upon the shoulders of another. There was in Bishop Polk's character an earnestness of purpose and a concentration of energy which distinguished everything he did. Whatever Christian work he took in hand, he labored at it with all his heart and soul. His early missionary work, his later diocesan su|>ervi8ion, bis in- terest.iu the advancement oi* the slave, his grand iiniversity scheme, his military career, were all marked by a like intense devotion and absorption. And this characteristic mail caused Jiiin sometimes to be niisundci'stood. He appeared to be so wrapped up in what he had in hand, that superficial observers supposed him to be neglecting concurrent duties, uiidevenhia ownspiritual discipline. But never was there a greater mistake in tlie Judgment of a man's character. During his conception and conduct of that gioiious scheme of education which will remain as hU enduring momitnent, I was his chosen colleague and constant companion. For months together we lived under the same roof, often occupying the same chamber, and interchanging, as brothers, our thoughts anld indeed wa.s that nature, and selfish that heart, which he could not awaken to some generous and liberal emotions. V^ery fascinating were his manners, and that not from any art or design, but from the high-toned frankness of his nature, and the noble feelings wliich welled up from his soul as from a fountain of truth and of purity. Alul during all tlis (um\ wliilo lu' whh ho abHoebod in his great pm*poao of Unkittg oduoHlion to tlio chariot-wheels of the Church, ho lorgt't tho fVi'*h Hi^rtng of his concoptiou, the author and doaignor <*f hi plan. <4(Wl was enir ill hia thoughts; Olirist, the head of tlio Chineli, was ever upon hia lips; the Holy Gluwh the onMghtenerof the understnmliiig of men and tlio oontrxdlor ot their wills, was imceasinglv invoked, Xovor was any step taken in this great work which was not proceiiott iUul aocompunied by constant pmyor. Never was any man approached whose coo|>eratioii was imilorhuit, unless prayer preceded that approacii. Every morning, ere lie sallied forth u[K>n his work, waatho |K>\vcr of Christ called down to bless and forward his plan. Never was any enterprise more bedewed with the spirit of prayer. At the same time that he was busy aihoiig men, enlisting the (>owov of the prewi, securing the sj'nipathios of the wise, opening the purses of the rich, bringing into harmonious action minds and interests of the most diversified nature--seeming only to be employing hitman means and human appliunces--he was likewise busy in his closet invoking upon these efforts the blessing of the Most High. And as it wjis in his connection \ritli his imiversity plans, so w'as it likewise during his. inilitar}- career. lie entered upon that with the like concentration of energy and of will, because he believed it to be, for the time, his highest duty toward God and hia Church. The dutie.s of his episcopal office he laid on the high honor which the I'resident had confereed upon him, his indignant reply was; " Honor, sir! there is no honor ujKm this earth equal to the honor of being a Bishop in the Church of God.'* And never did he depai't from this proper feeling. He felt his military character to be a burden to him, and again and again, as opportunity offered, did lie pray to be released from its trammels. But.tlie same necessity which called for his appointment required the continuance of his semces, and our highest civil magistrate, the power which we believe to be ordained of God, denied liis request. At Harrodsbiirgh, Kentucky, after the bloody field of Perr^ ville, he said to Di-. Quintard, who accompanied him al! thi-ongb that campaign, with the deepest emotion, "Oh! for the days when we went up. to the House of the Lord and compassed liis altar with the voice of prayer and of thanksgiving!" Whenever it w.as iKjssible, during his military career, he surrounded himself with all the appliances of hia priestly office, and rejgiced in them to the bottom of his soul. Two days before his death--a Sunday of storm and darkness--he sai