scarcely the promise, which infancy often gives, of manhood. How all is changed now! Its clergy, from eighteen have grown to ninetynine; fifty-four parishes have been added to its thirty. One hundred and thirty-six clergymen have been ordained, and eighty have been instituted. Fifty-eight Churches have been consecrated. The confirmations, growing every year, have reached in all seven thousand four hundred and thirty. The communicants from six hundred and fifty-seven have become five thousand. The Sunday School teachers and scholars are multiplied tenfold. And from $392,20, the alms of the Diocese have reached the annual sum of $50,000. I do not speak of these so much as contrasts, as for tokens of a growth, which could not have been, but by God's blessing on a constant, faithful sowing of 'the good seed.' Beyond these mere statistics, the missionary spirit; the spirit of Christian education; the spirit of Christian alms-giving; the spirit of feeding Christ's lambs; the spirit of full conformity to the Prayer Book; the spirit of preaching the gospel to the poor; the spirit of frequent services and Eucharists; the spirit of faithful parochial work, pervade and animate the whole Diocese."-Memoir, p. 199, 200.

To carry forward such an Episcopate as this, Bishop Doane's chief resource was his steadiness of purpose. The old friend, by whose views we have already profited, says of him, with great truth, that "his one great object was the Church. Whatever else he attended to, and there were many things which he did attend to, was all for the advancement of the Church; on. this, his eye was steadily fixed; for this, his energies, time and money, were profusely and untiringly given; everything for the Church." "Dear brethren," begins the letter to the Committee of the Diocese, accepting the office to which he had been called:

"After as much of careful consideration as the time allowed, I have resolved to accept the office of Bishop, conferred upon me by the too favorable consideration of the Diocese of New Jersey. I do it cheerfully, and I do it resolutely. Cheerfully, though it involves the surrender of enjoyments peculiarly dear to me, and counted on for life; but resolutely, because I do it in the name and strength of God. All that I am, and all that I have given me of the Lord, I have long accustomed myself to consider as dedicated to the service of the Church. To God, and to the Church, then, in the service which His providence VOL. XIV.NO. I. 13*

now seems to indicate, I devote myself, body, soul, and spirit. May He graciously accept and bless the unworthy offering."-Memoir, p.

190.

Thus he began, and who will deny, now that the grave has closed over him and the controversies connected with him, who will deny that thus he continued? Who will honestly allege his mistakes or his failures, as tokens of his unfaithfulness to his vows?

We might dwell, with others, upon his executive ability, which, in many respects, was unquestionably great, and urge that this supported his Episcopal career. But we hesitate to do it, partly because no amount of executive power would explain the breadth of the policy in which it was enlisted, but rather, because we doubt whether it was equal, in all respects, to the estimate that has been formed of it. Had he possessed was less than he

less, or believed that what he did possess supposed, he would have been saved, we think, from many of the over-bold ventures to which he yielded. On the other hand, had he possessed more, had he really been the administrator that he is described to have been, he might have entered upon his enterprises and emerged from them, comparatively unscathed. But, as it was, he had executive talents which stimulated him, but not those which would have restrained him : he could form his plans, gather his means, and yet, for want of qualities indispensable to success, fail of attaining the ends which he had in view.

The great defect of his character, if we may pronounce upon it, was the imperfection of what may be styled the judicial element. He was not wont to weigh matters: he did not compare advantages with disadvantages, or circumstances with abstract principles; he did not deliberate or decide, with a full view of ultimate as well as immediate consequences. Neither could he put himself into another's position, or look at a point before him with another's eyes; what he saw, was for others to see, where he stood, was for others to stand. To him most questions had but one side, and that he took, and urged, as his motto expressed it, "right onward," against discouragement, interference, and opposition. That such a course may be lit up by many noble traits, that it may excite a general

stir among men, and provoke enthusiasm for it as well as resistance against it; that it may win reputation, and reach some great issues, may all be very true; but it remains equally true that one of the surest means of guidance, one of the strongest assurances of permanent success, is not there, or not there in its strength; the needle quivers, the deflection returns, and the compass can no more be depended on as invariable.

But this, it may be as it has been said, was all Bishop Doane's independence. He was too strong to bear the restraint of details; too straight-forward to impede his march with questionings on this side or on that; in short, too self-reliant to be hampered by the judicial faculty. There, we venture to think, is a great mistake; the judgment and self-reliance are not in conflict; he who first balances and then decides, is, if other things are equal, the really independent man, neither the sport of circumstances nor the consulter of other men's opinions beyond the bounds of a reasonable sympathy. Bishop Doane, as we have seen and understood him, was but too much influenced by what was, or might be, thought or said of him; if he had no fears of the opponent, he could not spare the champion; if he was to bear up against censure, it was, or it appeared to be grateful to him, to have more than mere approval, and we must use the same word in his case which we should use in other cases, and call it flattery. He lacked what his brother of Oxford praises, as the "courage which must act in quietness, out of the sight and apart from the praise of men." He was ambitious, and ambitious of earthly distinctions. He was vain, and vain of intellectual or temporal, as well as of spiritual honors. To this want of moral independence, we should be disposed to ascribe much that has been referred to other causes by those who do not regard the want as having existed in him.

On this part of our duty, however, we have no wish to linger. None who love his memory need or ought to deny his errors, but there can be no satisfaction in exposing them-none, even to those who do not love his memory. He was ready, for himself, to acknowledge "imprudences of word and act, which, though done with the purest intentions, he now feels were unbecoming in him as a Bishop in the Church of God, and deeply

deplores." With still deeper humbleness, he said on his deathbed, "I have no merits, no man has, but my trust is in the mercy of Jesus." Let his sins rest where he thus left them. There is one other subject fit for a reviewer to speak of, but we shall pass it by. It is not in our heart to re-open the lists in which Bishop Doane and his adversaries contended for themselves as much, we dare to say in charity, as for the principles which they professed. Whoever would take his seat to behold the conflict, must turn to the Memoir, where he will find sufficient opportunity to indulge his curiosity, or to revive his resentment. "My father," says the biographer, "was a man of war from his youth." It was, unhappily, too true, and as he was surrounded by others of the same temper, he had no difficulty in indulging his prowess. There is some light, however, on the angry scenes of his life, and that, we are bound to say, comes from him rather than from his antagonists. He gives them more credit than they are willing to give him; if he is full of wrath one day, he softens on the next; he allows their "purity of motives," at the very moment that they were most unwilling to spare him; he so bears himself, in short, in warfare as in peace, that one who knew him through "twenty-six years of closest intimacy," can say, "before God," that he "never knew a man who spoke less evil, or delighted more to speak well of others."

We speak what seem to us the words of truth and soberness, in saying that the memory of Bishop Doane is one which will be cherished. As generation succeeds generation, looking back to ours, as to a period of momentous issues for the American Church, they will behold him among her most earnest prelates, her most devoted sons; they will take into account, not so much what he did to throw discredit upon himself, as what he did to throw credit upon her, to maintain her principles, extend her influence, to quicken, strengthen, and ennoble her life. Whether he is portrayed in his own words, or in those of his biographer; whether such of his contemporaries as supported him, or such as opposed him, transmit the portrait, it will be handed down, and they who gaze into its open features will trace beneath every varying expression, a heart that will win, and we rejoice to believe, deserve their love.

ART. VII. THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW, AND OUR NATIONAL CRISIS.

SINCE the making up of our last Number of this Review, the storm which for years has been gathering, has broken upon the Country, and our once glorious Union has been dissolved. In times of Revolution men cannot, if they would, hesitate to declare themselves; and we here put on record our interpretation of the events of these troublous times, and of the duties which they impose. And first of all, we are grateful to be able to say, that, in looking back over our own thirteen years of Editorial labor, we have not only done nothing to precipitate such a calamity, but that we have done everything which seemed to us to lie in our power to avert it. We make no apology for quoting here from two among many letters lately received. The first is from one high in position in the Church at the South, and than whom no one is stronger in the confidence of Churchmen, both North and South. His statement of Southern sentiment and Southern affairs should be widely read.

"Sad days are these, and full of terror. I am glad that the Church Review, like the Church, has been faithful to the Truth. We have looked and longed for some olive-branch from the North. Northerners do not understand the matter. What we want is quiet. We cannot, we dare not go on as in the last few years. Justice to the negro forbids it; for agitation brings discontent and rebellion; and, on these, follow restraint and discipline. Our American servitude used to have its own mild and friendly character. The Abolitionists are doing all in their power to change it into the hateful type of Cuban slavery. I fear it is too late now for remedy, and can only pray, that to the many sins of brethren against brethren, blood-guiltiness may not be added."

A Clergyman of mature age and standing, at the West, writes:

"Suppose every house-holder had carefully imbued his own mind and those of his family with the principles of that Article in the Review, on "Loyalty to the Constitution," think you our political hori