tive at his will. At times he was perfectly irresistible. As a presiding officer he did not excel. He was a good companion where he was well acquainted, full of anecdotes; but he was diffident and avoided company, and had a perfect abhorrence of being questioned. He was very powerful in prayer. He would rise in the night, and, putting his cloak around him, would spend whole hours on his knees wrestling with the angel of the covenant." He would never permit his likeness to be taken, and in order to complete our Episcopal group our artist has done the best he could to reproduce the face of Bishop George from the descriptions of father Boehm, father John F. Wright, and others personally acquainted with him. ROBERT RICHFORD ROBERTS was a native of Maryland, the son of a poor farmer, who, at the call of his country, shouldered his musket in the war of the Revolution. Robert was born August 2, 1776. At the age of ten he removed with his parents into Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was converted at the age of fourteen. At the age of twenty he married, which created quite a difficulty in his reception into the Baltimore Conference, to which he was recommended in 1802. His talents and great promise, with the excellent character of his young wife, carried him through, and he was received and appointed to the Carlisle circuit. His marriage was still, however, an embarrassment to him, and he endeavored to eke out the scanty pittance received for his support by maintaining a mill. For this he was censured by a vote of the Conference. He was present at the General Conference of 1808. He preached in several of the churches with so much acceptance that by the urgent request of the people Bishop Asbury transferred him to the pastoral charge of the Church in Light-street, in the city of Baltimore. Here he maintained his reputation, and after two years was transferred to Fell's Point, thence to Alexandria, then to Georgetown, and in the years 1813 and 1814 he was stationed in the city of Philadelphia. The year following he was made presiding elder of the Schuylkill district, and there being no bishop at the session of the Annual Conference in 1816, he was chosen to preside over the deliberations of that body. In this position he first evinced his peculiar talent as a presiding officer. Calm, courteous, and a perfect master of the rules for the government of deliberative bodies, all present, including many of the delegates from New York and New England, who were on their way to the General Conference at Baltimore, were perfectly charmed with him, so that at the meeting of that body he was elected to the office of bishop." He laboriously served the Church twenty-seven years in this office, and fell asleep at Lawrenceport, Indiana, March 26, 1843, aged sixty seven. On a beautiful spot within the inclosure of the college grounds of Indiana Asbury University, his body awaits the summons of the last trumpet. ELIJAH HEDDING, one of the mighty men of more recent times, was a native of Pine Plains, Dutchess county, New York. He was born June 7, 1780. His mother and other relatives were converted in 1789 through the ministry of Benjamin Abbott. When ten years of age the family removed to Vermont, and settled in the town of Starksboro, on the western slope of the Green Mountains. Here he was converted on the 27th of December, 1798, and immediately gave his name as a probationer in the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the Spring of 1800, being not yet twenty years old, he received license to preach, and in November following left his home to begin the work of a Methodist itinerant, under the presiding elder, and was admitted on probation in the New York Conference in New York city the 16th of June, 1801. By changes of boundaries made by the General Conference of 1804, Mr. Hedding became a member of the New England Conference, with which body his membership continued till his election as bishop, in 1824. His labors in this holy office continued for about twentyfive years, and were arduous, trying, and exceedingly important in their bearing on the history of the Church. From whatever point he is observed, whether as a man, a Christian, a minister, or a bishop, he appears a man of might. "His mind, naturally clear and discriminating, had been well matured by reading and study, by intercourse with men, by a large and well-improved experience. He was possessed of great simplicity and sincerity of manner, a peculiar and confiding openness in his intercourse with his brethren, that at once won their confidence and affections. At the same time, his natural dignity and great discretion made him an object of interest as well as of affection. The soundness of his views upon the doctrines and discipline of the Church was so fully and universally conceded that in the end he became almost an oracle in these respects, and his opinions are yet regarded with profound veneration." He died at Poughkeepsie, New York, April 9, 1852. JOHN EMORY was born on the 11th of April, 1789, at Spaniard's Neck, Queen Ann's county, Maryland. His parents were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He completed his education at Washington College, Maryland. His father intended him for the bar, and he commenced the study of law at the age of seventeen. He was converted on the 18th of August, 1806. He was admitted to the bar in 1808, and opened an office in Centerville. "On the 9th of October, 1809," he writes, "I made a covenant on my knees, wrote and signed it, to give up the law, after much reading, prayer, and meditation, and on the 10th I did so." He was received on trial in the Philadelphia Conference in the Spring of 1810. From 1813 to 1820 he filled the most important pastoral stations in the connection, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, etc. At the General Conference of 1820 he was chosen delegate to the British Conference. At the Conference of 1824 he was elected Assistant Book Agent, with Rev. Dr. Bangs as senior, and in 1828 was elected Agent, with Rev. Beverly Waugh as assistant. In this position he rendered most efficient service to the Church. At the General Conference of 1832 he was elected bishop. His career in the Episcopacy was brief but brilliant. The appointment was hailed with joy through the Church. Great expectations were indulged, and in the three episcopal tours which he was permitted to make they were fully met. On Wednes. day, the 16th of December, 1835, he was thrown from his carriage and so severely injured that he died at seven o'clock the same evening. He was in his fortyeighth year. BEVERLY WAUGH, a native of Fairfax county, Vir " ginia, was born on the 25th of October, 1789. He was admitted on trial in the Baltimore Conference in 1809. In 1811 he was admitted into full connection, ordained deacon, and stationed in Washington City. For nineteen years he continued in the regular work, filling some of the most important charges in the Baltimore Conference. In 1828 he was elected Assistant Book Agent, and in 1832 Principal Agent. He was a delegate to the General Conferences of 1816, 1820, 1828, and at the Conference in 1836, in Cincinnati, he was elected bishop. He filled that position nearly twentytwo years. The whole term of his itinerant ministry was nearly forty-nine years, and during that protracted period he never sustained any other than an effective relation. One of his colleagues writes: In whatever position Bishop Waugh was placed he proved himself a working man. He shared with his colleagues the toil and responsibility of the general oversight, and of presiding over five sessions of the General Conference, some of which were the most laborious and stormy ever known in the history of our Church. He presided on an average over about seven Conferences in a year, or say one hundred and fifty in all. And so tenacious was he of performing his whole duty that, sick or well, he seldom called an elder to the chair to relieve him for a moment." He died in the city of Baltimore, February 9, 1858, of an affection of the heart. He expired in a moment and without a struggle. On the 10th his remains were borne to the Mount Olivet Cemetery, where also rest the ashes of Asbury, George, and Emory. We have now reached the living and well known, whose portraits and sketches have been given in recent volumes of the Repository, and for this reason, as well as for want of room, we must give more brief records. THOMAS A. MORRIS was born in Kanawha county, Virginia, April 28, 1794. Was admitted into the Ohio Conference in 1816, and appointed junior preacher at Marietta, Ohio. The next year he was in charge of Marietta circuit; in 1818, 1819, he was in charge of Zanesville circuit, with Charles Elliot as junior preacher the first year; 1820, stationed at Lancaster; 1821, 1822, Christian, in the Kentucky Conference; 1823, Hopkinsville; 1824, Red River; 1825, 1826, presiding elder of Green River district; 1827, stationed at Louisville; 1828, transferred to Ohio Conference, stationed at Lebanon; 1829, Lebanon; 1830, Columbus; 1831, 1832, Cincinnati; 1833, presiding elder Cincinnati district; 1834, became editor of Western Advocate-continued till May, 1836, when he was elected bishop. LEONIDAS L. HAMLINE was born in the town of Canton, Connecticut, May 10, 1797, and was admitted on trial into the Ohio Conference in 1832. At the General Conference held in Cincinnati, May, 1836, Rev. William Phillips was elected assistant editor of the Western Christian Advocate, Dr. Elliott being editor. Mr. Phillips dying in the Fall of the same year, L. L. Hamline was chosen his successor. In 1841, on the issue of its first number, he became editor of the Ladies' Repository, holding the position till chosen bishop in 1844. Feeling his health insufficient for the duties of the Episcopacy, he tendered his resignation of the same at the General Conference of 1852. Since that time he has resided chiefly in his own dwelling, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He died March 23, 1865. EDMUND S. JANES was born April 27, 1807, in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, was admitted on trial into the Philadelphia Conference in 1830, and appointed junior preacher to Elizabethtown; 1831, the same; 1832, Orange, (this year his twin brother, Edward L. Janes, was received on trial and stationed in Philadelphia;) 1832, junior at Orange; 1834, 1835, Agent of Dickinson College; 1836, Fifth-street, Philadelphia; 1837, 1838, Nazareth, Philadelphia; 1839, transferred to New York Conference, stationed at Mulberry-street; 1840, the same; 1841, became Financial Secretary of American Bible Society, in which office he continued till 1844, when he was elected bishop. LEVI SCOTT was born in New Castle county, Delaware, October 11, 1802. Was admitted into the Philadelphia Conference 1826, and appointed to Talbot circuit; 1827, Dover; 1828, 1829, to St. George's, Philadel phia; 1830, 1831, West Chester; 1832, supernumerary; 1833, Kent; 1834, 1835, Delaware district; 1836, stationed in Newark; 1837, 1838, stationed in Philadelphia; 1839 St. Paul's, Philadelphia; 1840 to 1843, Principal of the granimar school in Dickinson College; 1843, 1844, stationed at Union Church, Philadelphia; 1845, 1846, 1847, presiding elder of South Philadelphia district, and from this position was elected Assistant Book Agent at New York in 1848, and in which position he continued till elected bishop in 1852. MATTHEW SIMPSON was born near Cadiz, Ohio, June 21, 1810. Joined the Pittsburg Conference in 1833, and was appointed junior preacher at St. Clairville; 1834, 1835, stationed in Pittsburg; 1836, Williamsport; 1837 to 1838, Professor in Alleghany College; in 1838, became President of Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, and transferred to Indiana Conference. From 1848 to 1852, editor of Western Christian Advocate; 1852, elected bishop. cennes. EDWARD R. AMES was born May 20, 1806. Joined the Illinois Conference in 1830, and was appointed junior preacher on Shoal Creek circuit; 1831, VinThe Conference being divided in 1832 he fell into the Indiana Conference, and was junior at New Albany: 1833, Jeffersonville; 1834, stationed at Indianapolis; 1835, 1836, Agent Preachers' Aid Society; 1837, transferred to Missouri, stationed at St. Louis; 1838, back to Indiana, stationed at Madison; 1839, Greencastle district; 1840, elected by General Conference Secretary of Missionary Society, in which office he continued till 1844, when he resumed the regular work, and was presiding elder of New Albany district to 1846; 1846 to 1850, presiding elder of Indianapolis district; 1850 to 1852, Jeffersonville district; in 1852 elected bishop. OSMON C. BAKER was born July 30, 1812, in Marlow, New Hampshire. Joined the New Hampshire Conference in 1839, and was Principal of Newbury Seminary, where he organized the theological class which was the nucleus of the first Biblical Institute. He continued at Newbury till 1844, when he was appointed to Rochester, New Hampshire; 1845, Manchester; 1846, presiding elder of Dover district; 1847 to 1852, Professor in the Biblical Institute at Concord; 1852, elected bishop. DAVIS WESGATT CLARK was born at Mount Desert, Maine, February 25, 1812. EDWARD THOMSON was born at Portsea, Eng.. 1810. CALVIN KINGSLEY was born at Annsville, Oneida county, New York, September 8, 1812. The last three were elected at the General Conference of 1864. Excellent sketches of them were given in the last volume of the Repository. Three other names appear on our plate: JOSHUA SOULE was born in Bristol, Maine, August 1, 1781. When the separation occurred, in 1844, he went with the South. He still survives, in great feebleness. JAMES O. ANDREW was born in Georgia, 1794. He entered the South Carolina Conference in 1813. Having married a wife with slaves, his case came before the General Conference of 1844, resulting in the " "great secession." FRANCIS BURNS was not in the regular line of General Superintendents, but was the first missionary bishop of the Church, elected for Africa in 1858. He was a native of the city of Albany, New York. An excellent sketch of him may be found in the number for March, 1859. Interwoven among the ornamental work of the picture will be found a number of statistical items, giving quite a conception of the progress and present state of American Methodism. The plate has been a labor of love to Mr. Jones, the artist, and we feel that he has certainly laid ourselves and readers under a weight of obligation by producing with great toil and care a picture so beautiful, valuable, and appropriate. Bilor's lor's Tablr. tredge and Lentze, his progress was rapid. After spending three years in Germany and a Summer in Switzerland, Mr. Bierstadt went to Italy, where he passed twelve months in close attention to his studies. He then returned to the United States, and soon after his arrival was induced to take a trip to the Rocky Mountains in company with the lato General Lander. There he spent his Summer, making sketches of the scenery of that grandly-picturesque region. Last year he again visited the Rocky Mountains, California, and CHIMNEY ROCK.-In addition to the magnificent Centenary picture we present to our readers a charming scene from a painting by the eminent artist, Albert Bierstadt, in the possession of W. G. Blackler, Esq., of New Bedford, Massachusetts. It has been most delicately and accurately put on steel expressly for the Repository by Mr. S. V. Hunt, of New York, who is rapidly taking a high rank among the first engravers of the country. The subject is a camp of Ogalillah Sioux Indians, with the famous Chimney Rock, discovered by General Fremont, looming up in the distance. As the picture so well explains itself, we will occupy our space with a sketch from Watson's Art Journal of the eminent artist who painted it, first acknowledging our indebtedness to S. P. Avery, Esq., Europe, it is not to be wondered at that a course of travel for his services in securing the engraving for us: Albert Bierstadt was born near Dusseldorf, Prussia, in the year 1830. His parents came to this country before he was two years old. They were impelled to emigrate less by any actual necessity than by the desire to breathe a freer atmosphere than that which they enjoyed under the despotic institutions of the father-land. Young Bierstadt early exhibited a love for art, but was not encouraged in it from the belief entertained by his parents that it would always keep him poor. They continually impressed upon him the hard struggles which his cousin Hasenclever, the painter of "The Wine Tasters," had passed through before he was able to earn a livelihood. In compliance with their wishes the young man engaged for a time in mercantile pursuits; but finally, in 1852, he determined on following the bent of his own inclinations and became an artist. In 1853 he sailed for Europe, and after stopping in London a short time, proceeded to Dusseldorf, where he became a pupil of Mr. Whittredge, who occupied a studio adjoining Mr. Leutze's, then a place of constant resort for most of the leading artists of Germany. Here, guided by the friendly counsels of Whit Oregon, going as far north as Victoria, Vancouver's Island. He remained several weeks in Colorado Territory, a couple of months in the Yo Semite Valley, with its stupendous mountains and wonderful waterfalls, and made the journey from San Francisco to the Columbia River on horseback, returning by steamer to Panama and New York. With the preliminary training which he had undergone in and observation such as this should produce important fruits. But few artists before his time had ventured to penetrate regions where the difficulties of communication were, if not insurmountable, at least such as to deter any but the most adventurous. Mr. Bierstadt, however, made light of the hardships and dangers by which his route was beset, and thought only of the great object which he had in view. To the happy facility which he possessed of ingratiating himself with the Indians, he frequently owed his safety. To it is also due that remarkable intimacy with their habits and modes of life which forms so interesting a feature in his pictures of those wild regions. Mr. Bierstadt has not been as prolific as other artists of his standing, if we are to consider merely the number of works he has produced. He wisely preferred postponing present considerations for the prospective rewards attendant upon a great reputation. This is why all the works he has put out of his hands are so much thought of by the profession and the public. They are painted with a breadth and truthfulness which evince not only the highest order of manipulative skill, but a carefulness of consideration that is beyond all praise. When you look upon one of Bierstadt's landscapes you feel satisfied that before a brush has been laid on the canvas its whole plan has been decided. He does not arrive at his results by accident or experiment as do many artists. An effect of atmosphere or remarkable configuration of mountain or rock is never forgotten by him. Once he has arranged the plan of his work in his mind he dashes it rapidly on to his canvas, and rarely or never has to correct his first sketch. He is slow to begin, but a commencement made he works with great rapidity. This accounts for the remarkable breadth and vigor of his style. Of Mr. Bierstadt's works the best are his "Lake Lucerne," in the possession of Mr. Alvin Adams, Boston; "Capri, Bay of Naples," in the possession of the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts; "A Street Scene in the Jews' Quarter at Rome," owned by the Boston Athenæum; "Laramie Park," owned by the Buffalo Academy; and "Sunlight and Shadow," and the "Rocky Mountains." The two latter he still possesses, though he has had large offers for them. He has either such of at present. Our contributors will find several of them disposed of by being published in this number. The following we place on file: Day-Dreams; Aunt Debby; Edward Young; Savanarola; Fashionable Costumes, etc.; Religion on the Plantation; Out of Despondency: Unknown; At My Window; The Little Visitor; Margaret; Submission; Trust; Inconstancy; Our Life Cross; Prospicio; Midnight; Watching and Judging; Song of the Weary; The Inner Temple; and Our Life. ARTICLES DECLINED.-The following we will be unable to use. Some of them have merit, some fail through want of adaptedness; one is anonymous, and one or two accompanied only with a nom de plume— two kinds of articles we never use: Beneath The an affection for them that he can not bear to part with them, Cypress; Nature's Anthem; Thoughts; A Day's Ex or he thinks that, like old wine, their value will be enhanced by keeping. Several others of his pictures have been sent to Europe. His finest work is, perhaps, that which he has just completed" Mount Hood, on the Columbia River." In addition to the two superior engravings already noticed, we present a beautifully-engraved title-page, prepared for us by the indefatigable Mr. Jones. Its principal feature is the little gem-like picture in the center of Sugar Loaf Mountain on the Hudson. Reader, have we not redeemed our pledge that the engravings of the first number should be almost worth the whole subscription price for the year? "LIFE'S DAY."-The Repository, we doubt not, has been instrumental in developing and cultivating a taste for the highest style of engravings. An excellent authority in the department of art, not of our Church, and by no means likely to speak from a too favorable prejudice, has said that "the Repository has done more to disseminate and cultivate throughout the West a love for the beautiful in art and nature than any other periodical in the country." If this be so our readers will thank us for directing their attention to a series of three engravings, the most pleasing, impressive, and instructive we have seen for many a day. Mr. Wellstood, of New York, who has made so many fine things for the Repository, has placed on our table this series. It is the Story of a Life-to the Font, to the Altar, to the Tomb; the Morning, and the Noon, and the Evening of a Human Life. The first picture gives us the happy infant in the protecting arms of its father just about to embark to be christened in the Church across the stream. In the second pic ture the year is ripe with Summer beauty, and the child, grown to womanhood, is represented as a bride led to the altar. In the third and last of the series, the funeral procession of this being, now an aged woman, lifeless and under a pall, moves before our saddened eyes. It is the evening of the day, it is the Winter of the year. There is something indescribably touching in this picture. The series was painted by A. F. Bellows and engraved by Mr. Wellstood for the famous house of Goupil, in New York, from which they may be ordered. ARTICLES ACCEPTED.-A crowd of other matters filled up our space and occupied our time so much a month ago that we were unable to announce in the December number the disposition made of articles that had reached us. This leaves us quite a list to dispose perience; Christianity a Development; Rambling Letters; Prejudice; The Sabbath; Resurrection of Christ; Stanzas; Hope Ever; Weary; A Sabbath Musing; and At Eve it shall be Light. A NEW YEAR'S GREETING.-Having closed up our last necessary article for the number, we have still a little space left for friendly greeting to our readers. We come to you in the midst of your holiday enjoyments, wishing you a HAPPY NEW-YEAR, and desiring to contribute some little share to the intellectual and social pleasures of the season. To many thousands of you we come as an old friend to whom you will give a cordial welcome. We feel quite familiar with you; we have so often pictured to ourselves your quiet, loving homes that they seem like our own, and as if we had a prescriptive right to enter. Be assured, we bring you nothing but good-will, and will introduce to your homes nothing that will mar your pure pleasures or suggest one harmful thought. You need not fear to introduce us to your sons and daughters, and allow us to shake hands with the tender little ones. We will only speak to them words of wisdom and good counsel, and endeavor to inspire them with noble aims and generous purposes. We hope to continue our acquaintance and our visits throughout the year, and to bring to you, month by month, our gatherings of good thoughts, our treasury of valuable facts, our inspiring poetry, and our cheerful entertain ment. From indications in the newly forming subscription list, we are assured that we shall be permitted to enter many new households and make the acquaintance of many new friends during the year. To you, also, we offer our cordial greetings. We welcome you into the circle of our friends, and trust that our acquaintance will be mutually profitable. Like the preacher, we gather inspiration from the largeness of our audience, and when we remember that we are preparing to address an audience of thousands, and that these thousands are still increasing, we are inspired by the magnitude of numbers, and the very sense of responsibility nerves us to greater zeal and carefulness. We enter hopefully upon the new year; we go out cheerfully on our first monthly visit, and trust in God and the generous appreciation of our friends for another successful year. May the richest blessings of the Heavenly Father rest upon you all, and may his good Spirit ever inspire and direct in the mission of the Repository! |