THE edifice, a view of which is pre- portion 44 feet wide, at the extremities fixed, has recently been erected at the of which are executed angular butcorner of Broome and Elizabeth tresses, projecting on a line with the streets. It was designed by Mr. Le-towers, and raised nearly on a line fevre, Architect; and the following with the apex of the pedamental batdescription of the building, we doubt tlements, which cover the inclined not, will prove acceptable to our read

front, for the convenience of Sunday where they statedly assembled for schools. The ceiling is divided into public worship for several years. As three compartments, the middle of their numbers and resources increased, which is raised 2 feet 6 inches above they purchased ground in Gold street, the sides, and forms a horizontal nave, and built upon it a small Meeting finished, as well as the sides, in neat House, which was opened on the 14th pannel work, formed by plaister rib of March, 1760. This house was mouldings. The two sides appear to removed, and a large stone building rest on five brackets or spandrils, of erected upon the same site in 1802. bold mouldings and tracery work, In 1841, this building was taken down, painted in imitation of oak. The pul, and a large proportion of the stone pit is of original design, of large di- used in the commodious and perma. mensions, and presents a very bold nent edifice described in this article. and pleasing effect.

Our esteemed brother, S. H. CONE, The front portion of the Edifice accepted the call to become their Pascontains a number of apartments, de-tor, on condition that suitable offices signed for the accommodation of the for the Bible and Missionary Societies American and Foreign Bible Society, of the denomination, should be built in and the American Baptist Home Mis- connection with the Meeting House. sion Society. The largest of these This condition has been carried into rooms is 25 feet by 52 feet, and 30 generous execution, and the offices feet high; finished with groined arch- will be ready in April next, when, at es of various forms, ornamented with the anniversaries of said Societies, ribs, corbels and bosses, and lighted by they will be formally tendered to them the great window. The entire cost of -and at a merely nominal rent. building and ground, will somewhat May the venerable and distinguished exceed seventy thousand dollars. brother who has labored so long and

We learn from the preface to the so successfully to promote the best last edition of their Confession of interests of our denomination, have the Faith, that the First Baptist CHURCH happiness of seeing the new edifice in the city of New York, was founded reared by his influence, crowded with in 1745. The members met together spiritual worshippers; and the benein private dwellings, until 1753, when volent institutions which are to occupy they hired a Sail Loft in Cart and its towers, increasing rapidly in reHorse Street, now William Street, sources and usefulness.

BIOGRAPHICAL.

[The recent decease of the venerable and beloved Drs.

cause of the Redeemer, as, while avoiding all invidiousChaplin, and Mercer, and the Ilon. Nicholas Brown, in ness, would serve to indicate the special fitness of each, close proximity, has justly created an unusual sensation. for the part he was called to perform,-and how possible Rarely, if ever, in the whole history of our denomination, it is, in spheres widely different, and surrounded by irhave three individuals of such prominence and worth

cumstances exceedingly dissimilar, to discharge with who had filled different, but most responsible and impor- | equal acceptableness the higiı duties of the Christian tant spheres of influence-been removed at once from

Stewardship. But this hint may perhaps suffice to awaken among us, causing a void not easily filled. We prefer such reflections in the minds of our readers—and we giving such sketches of the incidents of their lives, and therefore hasten to chronicle the simple facts of their of their respective characters, as we can at once be able lives and characters.] to prepare or procure; assured that extensive Memoirs of each of them will in due season appear, in noticing 1.--JEREMIAH CHAPLIN

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born which we may supply the deficiency of our present hasty in Rowley, (now Georgetown,) Essex endeavors.

Co., Massachusetts, the 2d of Jan., It would be interesting and perhaps useful, to institute such a comparison between these honored servants of the

1776. Of his early life, nothing of very striking interest has been pre- brethren in the ministry had been served. But he was one of those obliged to enforce the obligation of his whom God called to himself in his doing so, in a manner which was as tender years, and at the age of ten, he rare, as it must be regarded honorable put on the Lord Jesus, and united with to his modesty and disinterestedness. the Baptist Church. Whether his im- His ministration in the city gave high pressions of duty were indistinct in satisfaction, and promised extensive reference to entering the ministry, or usefulness. His thirst for knowledge his diffidence and self-distrust with was also gratified here, as it could not held them from the knowledge of his be in his former retirement; and the friends, or the circumstances of his use he made of the extensive libraries parents forbade their encouraging his thrown open to his access evinced his views, is not certainly known; but unconquerable love of thorough and from some or all of these causes, he extensive investigation. Bụt the transiwas induced to remain with his father, tion from rural to city life, the weight assisting him in the labors of the farm, of cares now resting upon him, and till he was nearly of age. He then the too intense application to study, obtained the consent of his friends to proved unfavorable to his health, and secure a public education, and resorted produced, for a short period, an unfor that purpose to Brown University, happy depression of mind ; so that where, by rigid economy, and such before the end of one year he relinefforts in manual labor, and teaching quished his charge, and returned to school, as his vacations and other his former flock." With sincere af. hours of relaxation from study allowed fection on both sides, the sundered him, he succeeded in maintaining ties were again united, and he continhimself, and secured a high rank ued to serve them with mutual satisamong the graduates of his alma mater. faction for fourteen years. After holding for a very short time the When the Baptist Education Socieoffice of Tutor in the same institution, ty of Massachusetts was formed in he entered upon a course of theologi- 1814, several of its beneficiaries were cal instruction under the direction of directed to pursue their studies under Dr. Baldwin, of Boston. He remained his instructions. The number was here but a short period, however, and from year to year increased, till in after having supplied for a while some 1818, he was invited to accept a proof the churches in the vicinity, he ac- fessorship in “ The Maine Literary cepted the invitation of that in Dan- and Theological Institution,” and vers, in his native county. This church transferred himself and his pupils to was then small, and could render him its proposed site at Waterville. After but a scanty support; but they gave prayerful deliberation, and yielding him their love and their confidence, again to the earnest solicitations of which seems to have been on his part brethren and friends, whose opinions fully reciprocated. In 1804, he yielded seemed to him worthy of confidence, to the reiterated solicitations of the he accepted the office, and assented 1st Baptist Church in New York, to to the proposed transition. come to them, though not till after his Waterville was then in the midst of

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a comparative wilderness, and the site instruction and government, so as to of the institution was unreclaimed be helpers indeed, as well as in name, from its forest state. In a private are usually not small; and here the dwelling, hired temporarily for the embarrassed finances of the institution purpose, he commenced the duties of tended greatly to increase them. The an instructor on that consecrated ardent and natural wishes of the Pres. spot. His able and faithful services ident to increase the number of stugradually attracted an increasing num- dents as rapidly as possible, led him ber of pupils to the infant institution ; to express the desire, very earnestly, and although persevering efforts were that certain individuals who were made to secure an additional number reckoned prominent and influential of instructors, it would seem that it among the students would continue in was by his unaided labors, almost én- the College at any rate ; this had of tirely, that the institution was rais. necessity thrown into their hands an ed to so high respectability, that undue ascendancy. It was, perhaps, on the first meeting of the Legislature a combination of these two evils, and of Maine, after she became an inde- of another into which he had been led pendent State, the Trustees were au- in order to abate the former of them, thorized to confer such degrees as are namely, the constitution of the major usually conferred by colleges and part of the faculty of instruction and universities. In the following year, government out of the members of his 1821, an act was passed, altering the own family, thus creating or increasname to “ Waterville College.' In ing the prejudice against their action ; August, 1822, Mr. Chaplin, who a lit- - which led to his resignation, in the tle while previous had been elected to summer of 1833. It cannot but be that office by the Trustees, was pub. regarded as a triumphant exoneration licly inaugurated as President of the of him from all censure, that the Trus. College. This office, with all its tees, on their annual meeting shortly complicated, toilsome, embarrassing, after, entreated him to withdraw his and most responsible duties, he held resignation. This he deliberately and for nearly eleven years.

perseveringly declined. The truth was, Nothing short of the actual experi- he had for years been sighing for the ence of such cares and labors can give privilege of returning to the duties an adequate idea of their arduousness which of all others were most weland difficulty. The inexperience of come to his heart,--the care of souls,

, many of the Trustees, and their wide in the endeared relation of a Christian dispersion over that and neighboring pastor. He had reared up the college States, made it quite impossible for to a commanding elevation by his perthem to take the responsibility of ma. severing toils ; and he felt with rea

; ny measures deemed necessary for son, that in the pecuniary and other the prosperity of the College. An embarrassments which then pressed active and almost bitter hostility was upon it, there was a valid claim for manifested by a large portion of the other and younger hands, with unex. friends of the other College in the hausted vigor, to be put forth for its State,-many who evinced friendship recovery and advancement. The Trusat the first, soon grew cool, and the tees, in a manner as honorable to scanty pecuniary aid surnished for themselves as it was just to him, in establishing and carrying forward the finally accepting his resignation, tendinstitution, were among the external ed him, not merely the eulogy of a causes of embarrassment. Nor was resolution of thanks and approval, but the President free from solicitude and added to it one year's salary, as some vexation in the internal concerns of slight acknowledgment of his many the College. The difficulties experi- sacrifices for the welfare of the insti. enced in securing such coadjutors as tution. would give themselves to the work of He soon accepted the pastorship of a small church in Rowley, Mass., his , filial love to meet a parent's smile.native town. From this place he re- These traits of character belonged to moved to Willington, Conn., and him in all the relations of life, in the served with fidelity an interesting family—as a teacher—as a man-and church there, till the year 1839, when a minister-when he prayed or wrote he retired from the field of public la- in his chamber-or when he mingled bor, and spent the last two years of his with men in the bustle, and dust, and life in dignified and happy retirement turmoil of life's cares. When his bent with his family and friends in Hamil- form, and not graceful elocution or ton, N. Y. In that place, however, he gesture would have repelled, this drew evinced his readiness to engage in back the mind and the heart; and few such services as his strength allow. who heard him preach or pray, could ed. His occasional preaching in the fail to feel the conviction, that he was church, in the Theological Institution, mighty in the scriptures, mighty in and in destitute places in the vicinity, prayer; and if they had known him showed how brightly the flame of piety long and intimately, they would also and of devotedness to his Master's feel that he was mightier still in a cause burned to the last.

blameless life, of earnest, self-denying His final illness was of short continu- conformity to the Son of God, who ance, and he evinced in it, delightful went about doing good. submission to the will of God. "Christ has appeared very precious to me, and I have had great comfort,” was among II.-HONORABLE NICHOLAS BROWN the last of his recorded testimonies. was descended from a noble ancestry. He died in peace, May 7th, in the 66th Chad Brown, one of the associates in year of his age.

exile of Roger Williams, and with him The prominent traits in the mind a suffering witness for the truth of Bapand heart of Dr. Chaplin, were worthy tist principles, was the distant progeof universal imitation. His clear per- nitor of the subject of this memoir. ception, and indomitable zeal in the Williams, in some of his writings, pursuit of truth, made him intellectu- speaks of him as “that holy man now ally great. While he called no man with God, Chad Brown.” He was ormaster, he had too much of the wis- dained as pastor of the first Baptist dom of a truly independent mind, to Church in Providence, in 1642, about undervalue the acquisitions of others; three years after its constitution. and consequently was an indefatigable When R. I. College (now Brown Unistudent. All the way through life, he versity) was about to be removed to was gathering the best and worthiest Providence from its first location in treasures of the noblest minds. The Warren, the present eligible site was philosophy of morals and theology, selected for it, “ because it had been systematic and practical, were his fa- the residence of the revered first pasvorite pursuits ; and in these fields he tor of the church.” It has, therefore, has probably left few equals behind an early claim to the honored name him.

which it subsequently received from He ever evinced the humility of one of his worthy descendants. “Nichtrue greatness. It adorned him like a olas Brown was born in Providence, seamless and unsullied robe. This April 4, 1769—and was the only surwas the real secret of that guileless viving son of the late Nicholas Brown simplicity, which shone in all his -once an eminent merchant of that character and conduct. He imbibed city, and a truly wise, benevolent, and it from the cross of Christ, and while pious man. In the year 1782, he enit made him wise, and great, and holy, tered Rhode Island College, over it humbled him to the posture of a lit- which the venerated Dr. Manning had tle child, looking up with reverent long presided. Of this excellent man,

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