ly than any man I ever knew the language of Christ, that he who would receive the kingdom of God must become 'as a little child.' His prayers, his addresses, his intercourse with Christians, all partook of this childlike spirit. It was not assumed, but seemed perfectly natural, an essential part of his character. Nor did it give to him any appearance of weakness. The language he uttered might be pure and simple, but the thoughts were the great revelations of the Gospel of God. He seemed to be entirely unconscious of possessing any remarkable degree of grace; upon the contrary, he constantly manifested a profound humility. He appeared to be deeply sensible of the plague of his own heart-so sensible of it that not unfrequently, while the light that was in him was shining forth so that all saw it, and many were rejoicing in his pious words and generous acts, he was doubting whether the enlightening influence of the Spirit of grace had ever entered his heart. His clear and habitual views of the greatness and holiness of God seemed to repress and banish self-confidence and spiritual pride. He shrank from adulation; he was afraid of self-righteousness as a foe to his peace and to God; and even in his last sickness, when one recalled to his memory the useful life he had lived, he begged all present to remember that he was the chief of sinners. Not one ray would he detract, even in thought, from the glory of God's grace.

"One could not be with him long without discovering how strong was his faith. The time for reasoning and doubt had long since passed away. Christianity was not put on, but was interwoven, as it were, with all the faculties of his mind and heart-with his very being; it spoke out spontaneously in his language; the idea of the kingdom of God entered wholly into all his conceptions and plans of life. I often felt, when with him, how utterly impossible it would be for any power on earth to shake his faith in the Word

of God; he 'seemed to be a pillar' in the house of the Lord; his heart was fixed; he might have conflicts, but he could no more fall away from the Gospel of Christ than from any other essential condition of human existence. This impression arose, I think, from the spontaneousness with which he uttered the language of the Christian.

"I have more than once admitted the exceeding clearness of his views of truth. To many of the modern works of error he had evidently given no special reading, but it was in vain that any errorist attempted to deceive him. As if by a kind of Christian instinct, his soul refused to receive any thing but the pure milk or the strong meat of the Lord. He did not love controversy, but he detected in a moment what was contrary to sound doctrine, and without censoriousness, with a few simple words, usually drawn from Scripture, he set aside the fallacy.

"That a beautifully consistent life should flow from such a faith was a necessity. Of his constant study of the Scripture in his home, and his long communings with God, there are friends enough to testify. În public he was where duty called him, among the first at the weekly prayer-meeting and lecture, frequently speaking words of kindly Christian warning to such as had no hope, not only to the students in the college, but to the thoughtless in the street, and irrespective of their condition in society; and where the honor of Christ was concerned, I verily believe, never fearing the face of man; ever ready to relieve the distressed, to comfort the mourner, to advise the doubting. He was a true man, in every respect true, in word never exaggerating; in action, in all his life, conscientious to a degree that often occasioned remark. He was kind and gentle, one who attracted to confidence, and to whom you would go in the day of trouble. I have many a time thought that, were a skeptic to ask for the living testimony of the power

of the Gospel on the heart and life of man to make him true, and honest, and lovely, and of good report, I would point him to Theodore Frelinghuysen, and ask an explanation of such a life and death. His path was that of the just, shining more and more unto the perfect day.

"Yours in the Gospel,

S. M. WOODBRIDGE.'

CHAPTER IX.

HIS RELIGIOUS LIFE.

At Home-at the Bar-in Washington-in Church Relations-Sunday-school.-Charity.-Catholicity of Feeling.

THE piety, the origin and leading features of which have just been described, manifested itself in every appropriate way in Mr. Frelinghuysen's life. It controlled his entire conduct at home and abroad, in private and in public. Gentle, and courteous, and conciliating, he yet never shrank from carrying out his principles to the very letter. Whatever it might cost, he stood immovably for the right, not only as a man of integrity and honor, but as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He was careful, in accordance with the apostolic precept, "to show piety at home." Having no children, he adopted a nephew and niece of his own, also a nephew of Mrs. Frelinghuysen, who continued with him until they were settled in life. Besides these, he took a paternal interest in the numerous children of his brothers and sisters and those of his wife, all of whom were cordially welcomed to his house, and received his best aid and counsel in their temporal and their spiritual interests. Although always free from nepotism in any official trust, he never forgot the claims of kindred, but held his heart and hand open to them as a sacred duty.

He was "given to hospitality," and being a generous liver, as far from asceticism as he was from riotous prodigality, he delighted to gather congenial associates around his table. The company was always a cheerful one. The refined courtesy, buoyant spirits, and genial tact of the host and hostess, put all at their ease, and made old and young equal participants in the enjoyment of the occasion. Yet, with all this, the household was a Christian one. Not only did the fire never go out on the domestic altar, but there was a pervading sense of holy things which filled the house like an atmosphere, and shed its mellowing influence on even the commonest relations and duties.

Here

the character of the man came out in a thousand incidental ways, indicating his largeness of heart, his sensibility, his appreciation of social excellence, his careful consideration for others, his benevolence in little things, his thankful enjoyment of God's temporal goodness, and his supreme regard for the Divine will in all things. His domestic life was a picture of piety without austerity, of purity without affectation. The voice of rejoicing and salvation was heard in his tabernacle. His own innocent hilarity was contagious. The peace of a good conscience, and the love of man springing from the love of God, opened and expanded every fountain of natural affection, and sweetly developed the ordinary contrasts of age, sex, and character. It is said that the skeptic who once passed a week in the home of the eminent and pious London physician, Dr. Hope, was converted by the beautiful exhibition of cheerful godliness which he there witnessed. A similar result might easily have been produced by a visit