7. DYDDIADUR YR ANNIBYNWYR-Published annually, under the joint editorship of Revs. J. Davies, Aberaman; H. Pugh, Mostyn ; T. Rees, D.D., Beaufort, and W. Williams, Hirwaun. The "Gwladgarwr," "Baner Cymru," "Udgorn y Bobl," and "Cyfaill y Werin" newspapers, are all partly edited by Congregational Ministers. CANADIAN CONGREGATIONAL PERIODICALS. "The Montreal Witness," published daily at 3 dollars, semi-weekly at 2 dollars, and weekly at 1 dollar 50c. per annum, at Montreal. A commercial and family newspaper, looking at public events from a Christian point of view. John Dougall, proprietor. "The Canadian Independent," a monthly magazine, devoted to the interests of the Congregational churches of Canada. Published for the proprietors by Chewitt & Co., Toronto. Rev. Thomas Reikie, of Bowmanville, editor. 1 dollar a year. "The Sunday School Dial," an illustrated religious paper for children. Monthly, 15 cents a year. Owen Sound; William Wye Smith, editor and proprietor. CHORUS NOVÆ HIERUSALEM. [This Paschal Hymn-attributed to Fulbert of Chartres, who died about A. D. 1029-may quicken the pulses of our modern devotion. The Latin is from Königsfeld's Hymnen und Gesange aus dem Mittelalter, p. 106, and the translation from the Rev. J. M. Neale's exquisite Mediaval Hymns and Sequences, p. 29. Chorus novæ Hierusalem Quam devorarat, improbus Triumphat ille splendide Ipsum canendo supplices Ut in suo clarissimo Nos ordinet palatio. H. M. D.] Thou New Jerusalem on high Swallowed in other years, his prey Right gloriously He triumphs now, This praise as we His soldiers sing, . We may keep watch and ward at last. * The allusion here is to the medieval belief that the lion's whelps are born dead, but that their father, by roaring over them on the third day, raises—or restores-them to life. Congregational Necrology. Rev. OTIS LOMBARD, the subject of this obituary, was born in Springfield, December 24, 1814, a descendant of one of the long settled and respected families of that place. In March, 1827, he entered Monson Academy, where he fitted for college. While yet in only his fifteenth year, 1829, he became a member of Amherst College, and after teaching a year in Greenfield, 1833, graduated from that institution in 1834. Early in the winter of the succeeding year he took charge of the Academy in Goshen, Ct., soon after leaving which he had a severe attack of brain fever, which, for nearly a year, unfitted him for much mental labor. From this time on till the winter of 1844, he was engaged in teaching and study, when this entry is made in his journal:-"The question whether I ought not to abandon every other occupation and enter immediately upon the duties of the Christian ministry, or at least upon a diligent preparation for them, is pressing with great weight upon my mind. I have not felt satisfied for more than a year past. The question is continually pressing itself upon me. But in truth, I do not feel willing. I have been trying to evade and escape from the responsibility, but my conscience is ill at ease. I am more and more troubled every day, and must now take the whole subject into serious and deliberate consideration, and settle it finally, for I have no time to lose.". A month later, he writes:-"My mind is at length settled, and I have resolved to make an effort to serve God, as a minister of reconciliation. I have come to this conclusion, after much thought, and have taken my resolution, be- . cause in my inmost soul I believe it my duty. I dared not do otherwise, because I felt a constraint upon me. Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel." He immediately entered upon a course of theological reading, and meanwhile, to give himself a support, opened a small school. In May, 1845, he presented himself before the Hampden East Association, asking their advice as to his future course, and desiring a license, if in their judgment proper under the circumstances. After an examination, he received the license, still, however, continuing his studies. For six months he supplied the church in Curtisville, Berkshire Co., Ms. ; for three years was a teacher in Williston Semina ry; in August, 1848, went to the 2d church in New Marlboro', Ms. ; was ordained there June 14, 1849, dismissed June 14, 1860; leaving the church much strengthened and revived. For a year and more afterwards he supplied the church in Indian Orchard, Ms., when he died, February 13, 1863, in the 49th year of his age. While in New Marlboro', he married Miss Elizabeth Sheldon, of the same town, a true helpmeet, who, with their only child, survives him. As his sickness was quite singular, a postmortem examination was had, and disclosed a tumor in the brain, as the cause of his death. His last was a second painful attack, from the first of which he had comfortably recovered only a little while before. He was a pastor rather than a preacher; a thinker rather than an orator; a strong lover of the truth, and thence a diligent searcher after it; strictly conscientious in all his duties-very methodical in his plans and life; mild in his disposition, beloved by all; a good man without guile, whose light shone with a daily brightness, convincing that he was a Christian indeed. The brethren of the Berkshire South Association, with which he had been connected twelve years, deeply regretted his removal from them and his death. It was by him, while acting as their Statistical Scribe, that the present mode of collecting the statistics of Massachusetts, was suggested. W. H. P. Rev. ALBERT SMITH, D.D., died in Monticello, Ill, April 24, 1863, aged 59 years, 2 months and 9 days. He was a son of Harry and Phebe (Henderson) Smith, and was born at Milton, Vt., February 15, 1804. He was clerk in a store at Vergennes, Vt., till he arrived at the age of majority, and it was his intention to make the mercantile business his pursuit for life; but finding no satisfactory opening, he commenced the study of law at Hartford, Ct. When about twenty-three years old, he experienced a change of heart, and turned his attention to the ministry. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1831, taught a year in Hartford, Ct., and Medford, Ms.; and commenced the study of theology at New Haven, but removed to Andover, where he was graduated in 1835. He was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Williamstown, Ms., February 10, 1836, and was dismissed, May 6, 1838, to become Professor of Languages and Belles Letters, in Marshall College, at Mercersburgh, Pa. In 1840 he was called to the Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature, in Middlebury College, where he remained about four years. He was installed pastor of the Congregational church in Vernon, Ct., in May, 1845, and dismissed in October, 1854, on account of declining health. The winter of 1854-55, he spent in Peru, Ill., preaching as he was able. A part of the following year he spent in Duquoisne, in the service of the Home Missionary Society. In the fall of 1855, he was settled at Monticello, and there remained till his death, for several years prior to which he was in feeble health. "He was a man of uncommon intellectual power, a superior scholar, and in all respects an admirable man. With a mind highly disciplined, and accustomed to close logical reasoning, and stored with varied and extensive knowledge, his sermons, while eminently evangelical, were rich in matter and conclusive in argument. By some they were sometimes regarded as too profound, if not incomprehensible. But to the cultivated mind, they were rich and instructive. He was a man of system and method. Every thing had its time and place, and was sure to be attended to. As a man and friend he was genial and sincere, in prosperity a monitor, and in adversity a tender sympathizer and wise counsellor." He received the degree of D.D., from Shurtliff College, in 1860. P. H. W. Rev. RUFUS WILLIAM BAILEY died in Huntsville, Texas, April 25, 1863, aged 70 years and 12 days. He was a son of Lebbeus and Sarah S. (Mirrick) Bailey, and was born in Yarmouth, Me., April 13, 1793. He was of Pilgrim descent, and six generations of his ancestors lie buried around Plymouth Rock in different towns in Plymouth county. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, and after teaching the acadamies in Salisbury, N. H., and Blue Hill, Me., commenced the study of law with Daniel Webster; but, at the end of the first year, experiencing a change of religious views and feelings, he entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he spent one year, and completed his studies with Rev. Francis Brown, D. D., President of Dartmouth College. He was tutor in his Alma Mater one year, 1817-18. In the fall of 1817 he was licensed by the Orange Association at Windsor, and commenced preaching to a congregation at Norwich Plain. Here a church was organized June 15, 1819, and he was or dained its first pastor, Nov. 24, 1819. Rev. Nathan Perkins, of. Amherst, Ms., preached the sermon. During his ministry at Norwich, they were added to the church, including the constituent members, forty seven persons. He was at the same time Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Military School. He was dismissed from Norwich Nov. 12, 1823, and then went to Pittsfield, Ms., where he was installed April 14, 1824, the immediate successor of Rev. Heman Humphrey, then recently elected to the Presidency of Amherst College. Here his health failed, after the labor of nearly four years, and the pastoral relation was dissolved, Sept. 27, 1827. By the advice of physicians he sought a warmer climate, and was thereafter engaged mainly in teaching and in literary pursuits, preaching as opportunity offered and health permitted. He taught twelve years in South Carolina, three years in North Carolina, and seven years in Virginia. He also traveled six years in Virginia as agent of the Colonization Society. In 1854 he went to Texas on business, and was elected Professor of Languages in Austin College at Huntsville. This office he accepted, and occupied a part of two years, when he resigned. He was elected President of the same College, Dec. 16, 1858, and continued in that office till his death. In 1837 a series of his letters on slavery originally published in a newspaper, and addressed to Rev. Silas McKeen, were gathered and published in New York in a duodecimo volume of 110 pages, entitled "The Issue." In 1838 he published a volume of eight sermons, called "The Family Preacher," which was afterwards stereotyped and published by the Presbyterian Board of Publication, under the title of "Domestic Duties, or the Family on Earth a Nursery for Heaven." He also published a volume of letters to daughters, under the title of "The Mother's Request." This was adopted by the Presbyterian Board and published as "Daughters at School." He was the author of the tract "The Beginnings of Evil," published by the American Tract Society, of several sermons published at intervals in the National Preacher, and of a Waterbury, Ct. She died at Saratoga Springs, in March, 1853, leaving one daughter. P. H. W. Rev. JAMES AVERILL died at Lafourche, La., June 11, 1863, aged 48 years. He was born in Griswold, Ct., May 29, 1815. He was the eldest child of his parents, who died on two successive mornings, and were buried in the same grave. Of them it might be truly said, "lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." The father sustained the office of Deacon in the First Church of Griswold, at the time of his death-an office which he had filled for many years, to entire acceptance, always having the interests of the church at his heart; and in this respect it is enough to say of his wife, that she was like minded. The most important incident in the early life of our departed friend was his conversion, and his desire for the ministry from the moment of his conversion. He fitted for college at the then famous institution, Plainfield Academy; graduated at Amherst College, in 1837; pursued his theological studies at New Haven, and graduated from the theological department of that institution in 1840; was ordained over the church in Shrewsbury, Ms., June 22, 1841, where he continued to labor with much success (his people enjoying two seasons of special religious interest during his continuance with them) till ill health compelled him to resign his charge in 1848, and for a season to remit his labors. With the improvement of health he was resettled in Plymouth Hollow, Ct., Oct. 13, 1852, and was dismissed at his own request, June, 1862, with an understanding that the dismission was to take effect on the anniversary of his installation, giving him a ministry of ten years with that people. Soon after his last dismission he accepted the Chaplaincy of the 23d Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, and accompanied his regiment to Louisiana. His health was unfavorably affected by the climate from the first, and with the sultry heat of summer he became the victim of remittent fever, of which he died after a sickness of two weeks. Such is a brief outline of one who has passed away in the midst of his days, but who lived long enough to leave his mark on the age. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Dr. Wm. H. Trowbridge, the surgeon, bears testimony to the esteem in which his friend and room-mate was held by the regiment. "He died as a soldier, not the less a martyr to his country's cause because the enemy's sabre did not cleave, or the enemy's bullets pierce him; but ever true to his country's cause, he thought of no danger, felt no fear, lived for liberty, and died at his post with the harness buckled. His memory is embalmed in our hearts. May his example inspire us on in the good cause of freedomthe cause of God." The truth is, Mr. Averill was every whit a man, naturally genial; good feeling came out through the eye before the voice had time to give it utterance. He thought for himself, and expressed what he thought with great firmness; not obtrusive in giving his opinions, but ready to give them at any time, without equivocation or qualification. He was an ardent friend of the great philanthropic and moral enterprises of the day; a stanch advocate of temperance, and a bold, everywhere outspoken anti-slavery man. His love for his country ahd human freedom, as connected with the suppression of this most atrocious rebellion, moved him to break away from his family and join the army, join as a soldier, if in no other capacity; at all events to cast in his lot with the men who were ready to lay down their lives at the call of their country. He has laid down his life at the call of his country and his God. Praise for yet one more name with power endowed, As a preacher and as a pastor, Mr. A. enjoyed a very desirable reputation; straight forward and energetic in the pulpit, kind and faithful in his pastoral intercourse, he was loved for his own sake, yet more for his Master's sake while he lived, and in his death is greatly lamented. Mr. Averill was twice married, and leaves a wife and five children, the eldest son by his first marriage being himself connected, in medical service, with the army. His remains are to be removed from their temporary resting-place when the season will permit, and to be deposited by the side of his first wife in the cemetery at New Haven-a cemetery which is garnering much precious dust. Rev. JONATHAN KITCHEL, (father of Rev. H. D. Kitchel, D.D., of Detroit, Mich.,) died at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, July 4, 1863. He was born in New Jersey, November 17, 1785, and was, therefore, nearly 78 years old, at the time of his death. He was licensed to preach, September 29, 1808, and was first in the |