d down the course of the bounding river, as it rushed onward
to earn its title of "Father of Waters"--on the vast prairies of Illinois
and Missouri--among the blue hills which hem in the salubrious dwellings of
the Cherokees--and in the thick canebrakes of Louisiana--everywhere were
found the members of the Society of Jesus. Marquette, Joliet, Brebeuf,
Jogues, Lallemand, Rasles and Marest,--are the names which the West should
ever hold in remembrance. But it was only by suffering and trial that these
early labours won their triumphs. Many of them too were men who had stood
high in camps and courts, and could contrast their desolate state in the
solitary wigwam with the refinement and affluence which had waited on their
early years. But now, all these were gone. Home--the love of kindred--the
golden ties of relationship--all were to be forgotten by these stern and
high-wrought men, and they were often to go forth into the wilderness,
without an adviser on their way, save their God. Through long and
sorrowful years, they were obliged to "sow in tears" before they could
"reap in joy."


Rev. William Staunton, D. D.

With this author, the fifth rector of old St. Peter's Church, in
Morristown, we go back in association to the ancient city of Chester,
England, where he was born and where his grandfather on his mother's side
was a leading dissenting minister and the founder of Queen's Street Chapel,
Chester. His father, an intellectual man and well read in Calvinistic
theology, also affiliated with the Independents, but was often led by his
fine musical taste to attend with his son the services of the Cathedral. It
was in this Cathedral of Chester, which is noted for the beauty and majesty
with which the Church's ritual is rendered,--that the boy acquired that
love of music which placed him in after life in the front rank of church
musicians. One who knew him well has said of him in this respect: "This
knowledge of music was profound and comprehensive. He was not simply a
musical critic or a composer of hymn tunes and c