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of the children of God is purified and
exalted.

The Bishop had been thoroughly
trained in the school of affliction. Do-
mestic bereavement, prostration of
bodily strength by overwork and con-
stant exposure, with consequent pro-
tracted physical suffering−disapoint-
ment in well-devised plans for the ex-
tension of the Church, and for the pro-
motion of sound learning and religious
eduction in his own Diocese−these
were a part of the severe discipline to
which he was subjected.

Two beloved daughters were snatched
away, within the period of a few months,
by the ruthless hand of death. A son
in the gospel−the gifted Alston−whom
he had trained, with a father's solicitude
and affection, for the ministries of the
altar, home from his parish work to lie
down and die in his house and in his
arms. Another, who was as a son in his
own house, whom he had nursed for the
service of the sanctuary, on whom
he had laid his hands in setting him
apart to the office of a deacon in the
Church of God, and poured upon his
head the unction of priesthood; who,
for so many years, held up his arms in
his own diocese while the Church was
struggling with unequal hosts; whose
footprints are still visible in this sanctu-
ary; the fragrance of whose virtues is
still fresh amoungst this people; whose
memory is enshrined in their hearts; he,
too, the loving and the loved Tomas,
was laid in the dust. These were the
tribulations falling at intervals like
blows of a hammer, which wrought out,
link by link, that golden chain of
patience, and experience, and hope, in
that great heart, until it was tender and
gentle as a ministering angel's towards
all the children of sorrow.

Cut off from him in his later bereave-
ments and trials, we know only from the
testimony of those whose high privilege
is was to be near him, the latest graces
which the trial unmasked as he wat
passing under the rod appointed for the
sons of God. "Whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth, and scourageth every son
whom he receiveth."

But with him the discipline of trial−
without which there can be no perfect-
ing of the Christian character−without
which these can be no companionship
with Christ, no brotherhood with the
Son of the Highest−without which there
can be no adoption to the title and heri-
tage of the Sons of God−with him this
holy, blessed discipline of trial has
served the appointed purpose, and is
over. His conflicts are ended. "The