the Greek Church at Constantinople. He had also visited Germany, and seen the superiority of the Protestant Church; and he returned to England an accomplished traveller, and most sincere and pious Protestant preacher. All the family of Dr. Barrow, as we have observed, were attached to King Charles the First, as was also his uncle, the Bishop of St. Asaph, who gave Dr. Barrow a curacy in Wales. He had gladly returned from his travels to reside in his native country; finding superior advantages in England. Yet the vices of the court in the reign of Charles the Second, had been very evident to him: we find in his sermons strong expressions of the ardent desire which he felt to correct the vices of various sorts, which, after the death of Oliver Cromwell, began to be more openly and daringly practised in London.

The Puritans who supported and surrounded Cromwell were regarded by the royalists as hypocrites, and void of all good principles. The King was received by a vast majority of the nation with great joy; sincere and unaffected were the general rejoicings. If his Majesty had acquired wisdom and virtue in his adversity, prosperity and all public and private happiness would have marked his reign of twenty five years. But history cannot record his virtues; and though Dr. Barrow and all his friends were royalists, yet he could not help seeing and lamenting the great wickedness which prevailed at Court. His sermons were written and preached to improve the morals

of the aristocracy: while from his great and constant anxiety to recommend charity to the poor, we must believe that poverty then existed in London to a melancholy extent.

The King certainly died a Catholic, and, agreeably to the corrupt doctrines of that faith, the Priest who attended his Majesty in private had promised pardon for the wicked and gross vices which had been encouraged by the Royal example.

Dr. Barrow died of a fever in May 1677, after a short illness. He had preached the Sunday before his death. In one of his sermons he mentioned death as being the happy hour to many who had struggled with adversity and bodily pain or mental distress. "The good man will feel," said Dr. Barrow," that death comes to him like a friend. He has long been in the habit of looking up to God every morning and every evening as the light of his heart, and the strength of his soul. Good men in distress will not suffer themselves to sink into despondency; they will say, Have patience O my soul! by faith and hope shall I see immortal life, and escape from this state of trouble and constant discipline. Am I lodged in a weak and sickly body? am I depressed by poverty? am I falsely accused by enemies who have slandered me? even some who I had believed were my friends? do I feel difficulty and disappointment in my worldly affairs? Let any or all of these vexations only

give strength to my soul in my

house of clay.'

The Gospel of Christ shall be my hope and my

strength, This is the promise He has promised us, even eternal life. Again in the same chapter his words are, The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. By such consolation did St. John and all the martyrs die full of good hopes. They considered the death of Christ and his resurrection from the dead as the consummation of a great plan, which for a course of ages had been foretold uniformly by the Prophets; our Divine Saviour said My kingdom is not of this world. In this world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.'"

Dr. Barrow, as we have said, died on the 4th of May, 1677; and his epitaph on his tomb, in Westminster Abbey, is written in Latin: the following is a translation:

"Isaac Barrow, D.D. was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles the Second; a truly great and pious man, of unblemished integrity and truth, with most extensive learning and talents, void of vanity, or ostentation. He was professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and of Greek and Mathematics at Cambridge. He added lustre and great profit to that University by laying the foundation of a truly Royal Library. He was an ornament to the Church and to the nation. Riches and honours he did not eagerly pursue, being born to greater and more noble views. He served God

J 1 John ii. 25.

from his youth at home and abroad. He did good to all, even to posterity, by his example and his writings; by them, though dead, he yet speaketh. The rest, and even greater things may be found in his writings.-Go reader and imitate him. His friends have erected this monument to his memory."

ST. CHRYSOSTOM.

It is probable that very many persons who read the short and excellent prayer " Of St. Chrysostom" at the conclusion of the prayers in the Church, have never met with any information respecting the life and character of that distinguished personage; we therefore think that to such the following memoir of him may well prove very interesting; it is extracted from the History of the Church by Mosheim, and from the History of the Popes of Rome.

John Chrysostom was born in the city of Antioch, which was the capital of Syria, A. D. 392. He was of a noble and opulent family, and distinguished from early life by great talents and virtues. We read in the book of Acts, that St. Paul preached with Barnabas, at the city of Antioch, A. D. 42; "And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church, and taught much people; and the Disciples were called Christians first at Antioch " The ancestors of St. Chrysostom were noble and eminent. John was a Presbyter of Antioch, and was distinguished

1 Acts xi. 26.