the giving of the ring. The service terminates with the blessing which follows the completion of the marriage covenant.

In the Visitation Service, the special confession of the sick person, together with the absolution, are omitted, and the "De Profundis " is substituted for "In te, Domine, speravi." A prayer for all persons present, and another for cases of sudden surprise, are added to the discretional prayers.

In the Burial Service, a selection from the two psalms is used instead of both. "To take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother," is substituted for "to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed," and "looking for the general resurrection in the last day, and the life of the world to come, 66 for sure and certain hope," &c. The Little Litany before the Lord's Prayer is omitted. In the last In the last prayer but one the American service reads "We give thee hearty thanks for the good example of all those thy servants who having finished their course in faith, do now rest from their labours." It also omits the petition for the accomplishment of the number of the elect.

In the Churching of Women, the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th verses of the first psalm are omitted, as well as the second psalm, and the Little Litany.

In the Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea, the necessary alterations in regard to the government have been made, and the expression, "prevent us," is changed, as elsewhere, to "direct us."

The form for the Visitation of Prisoners is taken from the Irish Prayer Book.

The forms of prayer for families are abridged from the excellent family prayers of Bishop Gibson.

In regard to the articles, the declaration at the beginning is omitted, as well as the 21st article. The eighth is accommodated to the omission of the Athanasian Creed. The 37th, being political in its nature, is of course laid aside, and another article substituted, which declares that the power of the civil magistrate has no authority in spiritual things.

The alterations in the ordinal are very slight. After the services for the consecration of Churches, follows an admirable form of prayer to be used at meetings of Conventions. The institution service has been already noticed, as also the metrical psalter, and the hymns, with which the book concludes.

The above minute account will fully justify the following assertion of the American Church contained in the Preface to the Prayer Book. "This Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doc

trine, discipline, or worship; or further than local circumstances require." And, indeed, considering the circumstances in which the Church was placed, the discerning reader, far from objecting to the number of these alterations, will be disposed to wonder that amid discordant opinions and conflicting wishes, so great an agreement has been successfully maintained.

CHAPTER XV.

MISSIONARY OPERATIONS OF THE CHURCH.

Trial of the Bishop of Kentucky.-Author becomes a Missionary.-Madison described. - Indiana.-Bishop Kemper's early zeal for Missions.-Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. —Its resources.—Present organization.—Systematic offerings. --Their results.-Missionary operations. Importance of Domestic Missions.-Account of the Rugby Missionary.

I HAD resided in Lexington between two and three years, when events occurred of an exceedingly unpleasant description. For various reasons, I forbear mentioning occurrences which may ultimately lead to important consequences, and may form a striking portion of the history of the Western Church. Suffice it to say, that the bishop was brought by his Convention to an ecclesiastical trial before three other bishops; that the proceedings, in default of a better precedent, were conducted after the manner of a court-martial; that judgment was pronounced; and that, although the bishop

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was not displaced, a penalty was inflicted. This was the first trial of an American bishop, and it is devoutly to be wished that it may be the last. During the continuance of these troubles, I received an invitation to take charge of a recently-formed Episcopal congregation at Madison, in Indiana, within the jurisdiction of Dr. Kemper, the missionary bishop. I immediately accepted the offer, and proceeded with my family to this new sphere of labour.

Madison is agreeably situated on the northern bank of the Ohio river. It is about eighty miles from Lexington, the same distance below Cincinnati, and fifty miles above Louisville. Its inhabitants amount to between 4000 and 5000, and are characterized by industry, enterprise, and general morality. On an average about six steam-boats daily stop at the wharfs. There are daily packetboats to Cincinnati and to Louisville, which, besides numerous passengers, carry the mail-bags and a quantity of freight. There are seven places of worship in the town, viz. one Roman Catholic, one Episcopalian, two Presbyterian (old school and new school), two Methodist (Methodist Episcopal and Protestant Methodist), and one Baptist.

Indiana, which a few years since was a wilderness inhabited by savage tribes, is now a prosperous and improving state with a population of half a