XN , IIENIORIAIII . :'. , ` 1iZ17,113.T.WJAM.114 , Roelof of Christ Chnfch,• s „ •• , k Philadelphia. • , • . • .Departed this life • .September 18, 1869. ' Loved,,lionored and Lamented. %/Win:been in every relation an ensarnple to flock ; vI affectionate pastor, hearing always with him the meeyness and gentleness .j.;:,tit4 lirist.." Earliest in every good word and work, He walked with God, and was not, for God took him. • Okl ChriSt Church bells are ringing,. In soft and muffled tone; H. faithful shepherd ipf . the flock From earthly scenes has gone. Wrapped in his snowy surplice, With fragrant.flowers Werspread, His people pause; with tearful glance,t To view the honored dead. ' In the dim aisles Are gathered The young•and.old once more, 'While visions of a vanished past, Like spectres, throng the floor. The men so wise in.counsel, , . So valiant in the fray, The Saintly White .long since gone home Arethey not here. o-day? hear the dirge-like music,— . the doors wide open swing, surpliced priests,,with mournful tread, Prf.eede the form they bring Once more before the altar, Where he so long has stood, Ineading in the dear Saviour's name, .And through his precious blood, , B ‘ triiing to save the wayward, The wilful .and the blind • In sorest grief, his comfort still • In:duty sure to find. "ItTo selfish rest for weary feet, . But onward still he trod, source' of strength full well we knnw— Comminion with his God. The little child, the hoary head, Each felt his loving care. The kindly grasp, the cheerful tone Both rich and poor might' hare. But now we see a vacant seat, Shrouded his household pew ' The face we loved to look upon' No more shall Met our view. Oh! pastor loved and tender, Are all thy teachings o'er ? Thy voice, like music,to the ear, Shall it ne'er greet us more? in days of joy and sadness, We looked alike for thee Our joy to share, ourgrief•to soothe With earnest sympathy. Well done, thou faithful servant! Enter joyfully thy rest, While the leaves of early autumn . Spread their mantle o'er thy breast. Thou bast borne the,heat and burden Of a long and toilsoine day, Andve know for thee 'tis.better To be called from earth away. Thou bast been true and faithful, To thy country and thy God, And wherever duty pointed With unflinching ardor trod. Thou art girded for the conflict, And we well may - wipe our tears, Since death may claim no victory, or thou art free from fears. - _ Thine is 'tile precious promise, To faithful pastors given,— As stars to shine through coming time, Forevermore in Heaven. Thy life'one long evangel, Of all men known and'read, Its peaceful close the bairn repoe Which crowns the holy 'dead! A holy song of triumph, We well may sing for thee, Thou faithful servant of the Lord, From earthly bondage free. The cross and crown,,lit tokens flf thy life, and sure reward— To dwell with saints in glory, And with our risen. Lord. E. 13. S PulL.AntLrnlA, Sunday, Sept: 26, 1869. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Messrs. Fields, Osgood & Co., having com pleted their serviceable "Household Edfficiu" of Thackeray's longer• novels,haVe now begun to add to those famous caps d'opera the minor works of the great satirist. First appears a conipendious vOltune of 520 pages, containing in a cover uniform with the first series . Barry Lindon, The Great Iloggar•ty Diamond, Novels by Eminent Hands, Jeames de la Pluche, Galiagan,The Legend of the Rhine, Rebecca and Roivena,. The Next French Revolution, and Cox's Diary. A better idea of Thacke ray's.boundless invention at the periOd of its youthful freshness can be derived from this miscellany than from any one of the homogeneous books of the first set. Barry Lindon is. a bitter _ and terrible menace against the class of unprincipled adventurers from Ireland, who, when Thackeray was a young man, swarmed over Europe; and whom be must have seen and hated ;it many a table d'hOte and Ambassador's ball in France and Germany ; Barry's account of how he tames the Lady Lindon and terrifies her into Marry ing him is perhaps stronger, and managed with more attention to probability, than tiliake speare's scene Of Richard 111.. wooing Lady Anne. 'Major Gatiagan is the same figure of the Swaggering lrishman,.deprived of its darker :fekures and transferred to Superb burlesque: „.lin the tales written th humiliate Bnlwer, Tbackeray proved a poiver of mockery of a dangerous order. The whole series bound in this volunte, in fact, peyeals the unmatched irony, ' readiness'' and resource of a 'genius' unexcelled since Swift in those qualities. different forin = an Octavo •pamphlet,= . the same publithers present Thackeray's early story of "Catherine," written, with the signa titre of Ikey Solornons, Jr., to: counteract the " 'influence of 'the Tyburn literature of 1840. (Me here exalts the character of Catherine • Days, an actual murderess, much as Bulwer • did that of Eugene Aram. It is a terrible • Stand on the shelf by DeFoe's • .Flue as •Thaek6ars'ingiight awl skill . are, he rutist always take a lower ylaCe, as a teacher by . satire, than the greater artist who ift6 our Conception of. human nature, and wbo,appreciates the slow, self-purifying pro jgess Inman fi.ociety. tl,s such Ueorge \ , From Harper. & Bros. we receive, through Turner, Bros., the third volume of their edition - 6f George Eliot; illustrate,d, in its new bind- Jag- "Felix Holt," the last :novel of the au , the, pile placed, as No. 3 in the series, which ivillclose with her earliest work. These publishers have prepared a mite, partly suggested; as they write to us, by continents of Our awu,.,in vindication of their right to hold .the market With their existing edition. This techniCal . right we, well remembering the mi. ginal appearance of that edition, never attempted to deny. We are quite at a loss to know What is the "good reason". MIS. Lewes alludes to; and asserts she has, for wishing Fields, Osgood . S. Co,• ,to be her American pur chasers, after having received an honorarium from . the Harpers amounting to five thousand dollars speeie. Here is .:,Messrs. Harper t Bros.' statement . , In Silk Attire, "_a novel of modern•Fnglish life just republished by Messrs. Iltirper, is by William Black, whose story ~L oge or Mar riage" showed unquestionable power, and who is attracting attention in both hemispheres by his power of concentrating, his readers' atten tion on his plot, and by the originality and Truth of his characters. Sold by T. B. Peter son & Bros. wbgse noi , Cls air too - ,ffSoon= cornpicten fis;e volnines,;nauSe out rackthe author of Vanity Fair and her booksy in this pretty set of Ifeade, Iliaclo*ty an#:•George Atiot;;'fic calied the captain jewels caicanet. Prie edition. is 'now. conipletby, in cluding Silas Afarner and the early and long unappreciated “Scenes in Clerical Life."—Sold ,by Turner Bros. .Sr. Co. I!'IIANKLIN '