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Williams & Whiting of New-York propose to publish, in 6 royal octavo volumes, cott's Family Bible. The price to subscribers will be, according to the quality of paper, &c. from two dollars to three dollars and fifty cents per volume. William Wells, and T. B. Wait and Co. propose publishing An Attempt towards an Improved Version, a Metrical Arrangement, and an Explanation of the Twelve Minor Prophets. By WILLIAM NEWCOME, D.D. Primate of Ireland. Now enlarged and improved with additional Notes, and a comparison of the chief various Renderings of Dr. Horsely on Hosea, and Dr. Blayney, on Zechariah. 1810.] Sketch of the Life and Character of Mrs. Sarah Gray. 383 OBITUARY. A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF MRS. MRS. GRAY was the daughter of Mr. Henry Spring, of Watertown, where she was born February 25th, 1737. She was married, February 5th, 1761, to James Gray, Esq. of Stockbridge, in which town she resided from her marriage till her death, and during the sixteen last years of her life, in the family of her son-inlaw, the Hon. Barnabas Bidwell, Esq. For more than 40 years she sat under the ministry of her friend, the Rev. Stephen West, D. D. In the early part of that period, she experienced the power of Divine grace, became a public professor of christianity, and continued, through life to adorn her profession, by an illustri ous exemplification of the christian virtues. She was a firm believer of the doctrines of grace, and had the satisfaction to witness the piety of her consort and her two only children, who all died in the exercise of the christian faith. In the interesting relations of human life, as a daughter, a wife, a mother, and a neighbor, she was an example of female excellence. Naturally kind, affectionate, sprightly, facetious, and companionable, she was the object of peculiar endearment to her family and friends, and the delight of social circles. But religious society was her choice. The truths of the gospel were her favorite themes. On these she loved to converse, and the charms of her animated conversation exhibited religion in its most attractive form. Her life was chequered with vicissitudes. Col. Gray, her husband, having served in the Revolutionary war, as Commissary General of the United States for the Northern Department, was obliged, by declining health, to resign that office, and quit the service. He repaired to his home; and, after a long and painful sickness, during which her endearing assiduities administered every possible alleviation,died of a consumption, August 25th, 1782. By the circumstances of the times, his engagements in the army, and his premature death, his affairs were so deranged, that his estaté proved insolvent, and his widow was left quite poor and destitute. Unaccustomed to such a scene, she, nevertheless, supported her poverty with exemplary cheerfulness and fortitude. In the midst of this trial, her oldest daughter, Mrs. Sarah Hunt, a beautiful and lovely woman, in the prime of life,fell into a decline. Mrs. Gray, attended her in her last sickness, and closed her eyes, Feb. ruary 20th,1788. Having broken up house-keeping, she was now a boarder in a very respectable family, until her daughter, Mary Gray, who had in the mean time resided at Wa. tertown with her uncle, Dr. Marshal Spring, was married to Mr. Bidwell, when she became a member of their family, and enjoyed every attention and accommodation, which her heart could wish. Thus happily situated, she was scarcely sensible of her widowed state, and, indeed, often spoke of the time when she was a widow, alluding to the period immediately subsequent to her husband's decease. But earthly joys are short lived. In February, 1808 she was called to mourn Mrs. Bidwell's sudden death. These repeated bereavements affected her with deep sensi. bility. The last, in particular, evidently impaired her constitution. Her memory was observed to fail; and a degree of deafness deprived her of much of the pleasure of social intercourse. Yet, amidst the decay of her faculties, the infirmities of age, and the symptoms of approaching dissolution, she was devoutly grateful to her heavenly Father, for his continued blessings, and at the same time thankful to her friends for their kindness, particularly to Mr. Bidwell, for his filial exertions to render the evening of her day comfortable and serene. She was attached to Stockbridge, as the place of her long residence, of the commencement of her religious hopes, and the deposit of the remains of her dearest friends. There she had chosen and marked out the spot for her own grave, by the side of those of her husband and daughters. Satisfied with life, and humbly confiding in the mercy of God, through the atonement of the Savior, she waited with patience and pious resignation for the expect ed call from this to the eternal world; and on the 26th of October, 1809, she died of an apoplexy. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord! ODE ON THE RESURRECTION. SING my AURANIA the stupendous period Wakes the dead nations. Earth hears the Summons, trembling to her centre, Spreading destruction: Scene less terrific, when astonish'd Sinai, Shakes with amazement. Hoarse jarring thunders rend heaven's spacious conclave Sounds his dire trumpet. As the bright myriads which the night illumine, Ages eternal, Trembled with horror. Now deck'd in splendor and unfading glory, Sound forth his praises. TO CORRESPONDENTS. WE honor the literary character of Dr. Parr; but as his "opinion" of Mr. Fellowes and his works is neither so "decisive," nor so "valuable,” is our estimation, as in that of our unknown correspondent, we are not “eager to insert" the extract, so obligingly communicated, "in" this "number" OSMYN has a share of poetical merit; but, with us, the pastoral hymns, even of Watts, are not favorites. The communication on the death of THOMAS PAINE, from a much esteemed correspondent, did not come to hand in season for this month; but shali have a place in our next. MR. GILPIN on his return to England, proceeded directly to Durham, where his uncle, bishop Tunstal, then resided; by whom he was cordially received, and from whom he obtained, in no long time, the archdeaconry of Durham, with the rectory of Easington. He immediately repaired to his parish, which he found in a state of deplorable ignorance and disorder. He began his pastoral labors by earnestly reproving, both in public and private, the vices of the people; setting before them, at the same time, in a plain and affecting way, the great doctrines of salvation. This was a conduct which, in those dangerous times, was likely to excite much enmity towards him. The Re. formation had advanced far more slowly in the north than in any other part of England. The clergy were sunk in the grossest superstitions of popery; and their vices kept pace with their ignorance. Their pastoral duties were wholly neglected. This, indeed, was too much the case throughout England generally, VOL. II. New Series. though with many bright exceptions. In the north, the representation applied almost univer. sally. While, therefore, a sense of his duty as rector of Easington led him boldly to reprove the evils prevailing among his parishioners, he felt that he should shrink from the performance of his archidiaconal functions, if he omitted to bear his testimony against the corrupt principles and scandalous lives of his clerical brethren. He employed all methods of reclaiming them from their shameful courses; and especially in his charges at visitations, he zealously ramon. strated against whatever he judg ed to be amiss among them. Pluralitics and non-residence appearing to him to be great sources of ecclesiastical corrup tion, he earnestly protested against them, both as wrong in themselves, and highly prejudicial to the interests of religion. He was accustomed also to dwell on those irregularities which were known to prevail among the clergy belonging to the dio. cese. The bishop, fearing bris 3A zeal would expose him to dan. ger, labored, though ineffectually, to repress it. The examples found in Scripture of holy men, who boldly denounced vice in the face of still greater perils, wrought powerfully on his mind: and he would have deemed it criminal to accept an employment, especially if he derived emolument from it, the duties of which he did not faithfully discharge. At length the clergy were so exasperated by his reproofs, that they raised a great clamor against him, as "an enemy of the church and clergy, a broacher of new and dangerous doctrines," &c. Some alleged that all who had been known to preach against pluralities and non-residence had, in no long time, turned out heretics; while others chiefly blamed him for preaching repentance and salvation by Christ, and not preaching, as they did, about transubstantiation, purgatory, holy water, &c. &c. A formal accusation was, after no loug time, preferred against him to the bishop, who, being naturally disposed to judge favorably of his conduct, on hearing the evidence, pronounced him inr. cent of the heresy with which he had been charged. This failure, however did not damp the zeal of his persecutors, who continued to harass him with such incessant opposition, and so to misrepresent and blacken every part of his conduct, that he found himself under the necessity of proposing to the bishop to resign either his arch. deaconry or his parish, on the ground that, though he was will ing to perform the duties of one of the offices, he was incompe tent to both. The bishop refused to separate them. "The income of the archdeaconry," he said, "without the parish, is not an adequate support. I found them united, and mean to leave them so." On this, Gilpin appears to have resigned both, and to have lived for a short time with the bishop as his chaplain. The only trouble he seems to have experienced in this situation, arose from the eagerness with which his brother chaplains, and the neighboring clergy, when they met him at the bishop's ta. ble, sought to engage him in religious controversy. The val. uable rectory of Houghton-leSpring, which was in the gift of the bishop, soon fell vacant, and was bestowed upon him. Houghton afforded a sphere of action exactly suited to the turn of Gilpin's mind. It was very extensive, comprising no less than fourteen villages; and this circumstance had probably contributed to the full growth of that gross ignorance and su. perstition which he had here to encounter. The religion he found here was nothing more than the worst corruptions of popery. Scarcely a vestige of true religion was to be seen. Mr. Gilpin was deeply grieved to behold the state of his people. But he encouraged him. self in his God, and girded him. self for his arduous undertaking in the strength of divine grace. He earnestly implored the aid of the great Head of the Church, in gathering in that part of the flock which was committed to his care; and his prayer was an swered in due time. Even from the first, the people were attracted in crowds by his earnestness, |