entered Vermont.

We dined and rested at the first inn, and then advanced twenty miles further along White River, to our destination, which we reached about six o'clock, having completed a journey of one hundred and twenty miles in two days. Our horse appeared more lively and active at the termination of his labours than at the commencement.

Bethel, Vermont, is situated among high and picturesque hills, and upon the waters of White River. The population is chiefly agricultural, and much attention is paid to general education. The soil in the neighbourhood is poor, and great numbers of the young and enterprising continually emigrate to the west. The people are much divided in religious opinion, and Universalism has of late extensively prevailed. There is, however, an Episcopal Church and parsonage; and many respectable Episcopal families reside in the vicinity, a large portion of whom are near relations of Bishop Chase. Mr. Thomas Russell, a nephew of the bishop, kept the congregation together for many years by lay-reading, assisted occasionally by the Hon. Dudley Chase, a senator in Congress, and a brother of the bishop. The present rector is a venerable English gentleman, once a strong dissenter, and the minister of an Independent congregation in the mother country. Having arrived in America, he formed an acquaint

ance with the Episcopal Church, and became convinced that the chief grounds on which the dissenters originally seceded from the Church of England had been fully removed in this country. After due consideration, he was received as a candidate for the ministry, and was ultimately ordained to the priesthood, and elected rector of Christ Church, Bethel. He is a faithful and laborious pastor, and a zealous defender of the Apostolic succession and other distinctive principles of Episcopacy. The Bishop of Vermont, Dr. Hopkins, is an able man and an eloquent preacher. He resides at Barlington, on Lake Champlain, where he is actively engaged in preparing young men for the sacred ministry.

After an agreeable visit we returned homewards. We took a different route from that which we had come, in order to avoid the New Hampshire hills. The way was more circuitous, and ultimately proved to be more fatiguing. We crossed the Connecticut river near Charleston, New Hampshire, and, proceeding by way of Nashua, arrived at our lodgings after a three days' journey.

CHAPTER IX.

THE CHURCH IN HARTFORD, NEW YORK,
PHILADELPHIA, &c.

Author appointed to a Professorship in Kentucky.-Commences a tour in behalf of the Kentucky Theological Seminary.Bristol.-Providence.-Church at Newton.-Good-Friday in Hartford.-Church in Hartford.-Washington College.-Its income and resources.-Voyage to New York.-Prosperity of the Diocese of New York.-Bishop's Address.-Episcopacy in New York and Brooklyn.-General Theological Seminary. -Character of the New York Episcopalians.-Journey to Philadelphia. - Diocese of Pennsylvania. —Episcopacy in Philadelphia.-Society in Philadelphia.-Return to Hartford.-Journey to the West.-Kenyon College revisited.—Arrival at Lexington.

A FEW weeks after my return, I received a communication from the trustees of a Theological Seminary just organized in the diocese of Kentucky, in which I was informed of my election to the professorship of Sacred Literature in that institution. This was accompanied by a request that I

should act for a few weeks as agent for the seminary, in the necessary work of soliciting donations in the Eastern cities towards the collection of a library.

I accepted the appointment, and having resigned my parochial charge, immediately commenced my new employment. I left Andover early in March, 1834, and proceeded to Rhode Island by way of New Bedford. I preached several times in a new and beautiful Gothic church at Bristol, where a large Episcopal congregation is flourishing under the care of a devoted English pastor. Having brought the subject of religion in the West before the people, I proceeded the next day in company with the rector to ask for subscriptions. The pressure in the money market was considerable, on account, it was alleged, of the President's veto on the United States' Bank. Under these circumstances, the collection was not great, but as large as could be expected. I then went to Providence, where I remained two days under the hospitable roof of the rector of Grace Church. I addressed his overflowing congregation in the lecture-room, and endeavoured to impress upon them the necessity of strengthening the hands of the Western Church, and of building up such institutions as promise to become the sources of a wholesome religious influence. In answer to my appeal, I received a pretty good collection, and a few books. The rector of

Grace Church is the author of some well-written publications, which have served to promote the knowledge and love of the Church. Having returned to Andover, I called on the members of my late congregation in the vicinity, and bade them farewell. We then visited the agreeable village of Newton, ten miles west of Boston. Here we found a very neat Episcopal Church, surrounded by a burial-ground, which is quite unusual in America.

The worthy rector occupies a delightful parsonage immediately adjoining. The comfort of his residence, the taste displayed in his garden, and his well-worn pathway, leading to the church, reminded me strongly of former days, and of another country. These English ideas were materially increased when our reverend host informed us that the greater part of the residents in the vicinity were Episcopalians. I preached twice in the church on Sunday, and delivered a lecture on the wants of the West. A collection was made on the spot, which realized as much as could be reasonably expected.

In Boston I visited a few of the leading Episcopalians, and obtained a considerable sum, together with a few old and valuable books. We then proceeded by stage to Hartford, in Connecticut, where we arrived on the evening of March 27. The next day was Good-Friday, and we were agreeably surprised to find every shop closed, and the stillness