be entreated and persuaded to regard your office, your people, the church of God, and God himself, with that spirit of knowledge, goodness, and wisdom, which shall enable and embolden you to teach and preach the true knowledge of God and man. And so may you have favor and help from God and man, in your constant cares and burdens, in your conflicts and weakness.

But who, more than he who now speaks unto you, can need, or who more heartily and humbly request, the countenance and assistance of God and man? For on whom do the instructions and admonitions of God, by the life and death of Dr. Emmons, fall with more weight than on him, whom he requested, more than twenty-two years ago, to preach on this present affecting dispensation, and who has enjoyed his constant friendship almost forty years? Well may I exclaim, though unworthy so to speak, "My father! my father! the chariot and horsemen of Israel!"

When such a guide and guard is taken from our head, who will not cry, "Where is the Lord God of Elijah?" He lives; he reigns for ever! From his throne he says, "My counsel shall stand; and I will do all my pleasure."

Though we submit and rejoice, while we fear and tremble before him; yet who will not cry, "Where is my Lord and my God; who was dead, and is alive, and lives for ever?" He answers, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have com

manded you; and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

"Now unto him, who is able to do exceeding abundantly, above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."

"Alleluia! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth!" AMEN AND AMEN.

APPENDIX.

No. I.

FUNERAL PROCESSION.

In announcing to the congregation, the order which is thought proper to be observed at the funeral solemnities of the Rev. Dr. Emmons, it seems right to say, that there is great propriety in noticing the event with peculiar attention. The exemplary life, the eminent abilities, and valuable works of Dr. Emmons, will secure to his memory the high consideration of men; but the people of this town, as they have enjoyed for so long a period the benefit of his counsels and services, owe to his memory special tokens of respect and esteem.

As a testimony of these sentiments, it is proposed to observe the following arrangement at his funeral, which will take place tomorrow, at 11 o'clock, (Monday, September 28.)

ORDER OF PROCESSION FROM THE HOUSE.

Children of both sexes, two abreast, under direction of D. P. Baker.
Youth, under direction of George W. Morse.

Citizens, under direction of A. E. Daniels.
Strangers, under direction of Capt. D. Baker.
Church, under direction of John H. Fisher.
Clergy, under direction of H. C. Fisher.
Bearers.

Corpse.

Mourners, under direction of Maxcy Fisher,

From Professor Kingsley, of Yale College, 18th November, 1840. “At the time Dr. Emmons was in college, an oration, called the Cliosophic Oration, was pronounced by some one of the Senior class, at the close of their examination for the Bachelor's degree. This exhibition was in July, generally, eight weeks before commencement. This is the oration which Dr. Emmons delivered in 1767. The Valedictory Oration, at that time, was delivered when the class received their Master's degree. Dr. Emmons's class received their Master's degree in 1770, at which time Samuel Wales, afterwards Professor of Divinity, was valedictory orator. The Valedictory Oration was always in Latin; the Cliosophic Oration sometimes in Latin, and sometimes in English."

DEAR SIR,

No. III.

DEDHAM PILLAR OF LIBERTY.

Dedham, Nov. 27, 1840.

The inscription, of which you request a copy, on the granite pillar, which was formerly the pedestal of a column erected in

honor of the Earl of Chatham, and which stands at the north-west corner of the Court-house Square in this village, is this, viz.

On the West side.

"The Pillar of Liberty. To the honor of William Pitt, Esq., and other patriots, who saved America from impending slavery, and confirmed our most loyal affection to king George III., by procuring a repeal of the Stamp Act, 18th March, 1766.

"Erected here July 22d, 1766, by Dr. Nathaniel Ames, 2d, Col. Ebenezer Battle, Major Abijah Draper, and other patriots friendly to the rights of the Colonies at that day.

"Replaced by the citizens, July 4, 1828."

On the North side.

"The Pillar of Liberty. Erected by the Sons of Liberty in this vicinity.

"Laus Deo. Regi et Immunit autoribusq. maxime Patrono. Pitt, qui Rempub. rursum evulsit faucibus orci."

The column that was originally on this pillar, and the bust of Pitt, which surmounted it, were gone before I came to reside in this town, in 1809. The pillar itself was prostrate, and lay at the corner, where it now stands, until 1828, when the old inscription was made more legible, by touches of the chisel, and the words "Replaced," &c. were added.

Your friend and ob❜t serv't,
THERON METCALF.

REV. T. WILLIAMS.

No. IV.

THERON METCALF'S COMMENDATION OF DR. EMMONS.

"It might occur, one would think, to the discretion of all men, and especially clerical men, that the only way, in which lasting respect can ever be acquired, is in the pursuit of worthy ends by worthy means. Indeed, as a matter of immediate popularity, a clergyman would find his account in the bold and faithful discharge of his sacerdotal functions, without anxious regard to applause or