we nave recorded is introductory to a brief sketch of one person in the sacred succession, one link in the unbroken chain, which we have traced and followed.

HIS YOUTH AND EARLY MANHOOD.

By HAMILTON ANDREWS HILL, A.M., of Boston, Mass.

"INSTEAD of the fathers, the children." Such a succession used to show itself with almost the uniformity of law in the New-England churches, when the population was homogeneous, and before the emigration set strongly in from the country towns to the seaboard, and from the seaboard to the West, changing all the old conditions. Examples might be taken from nearly all the historic churches, which it would be interesting to collate and dwell upon. A reference to one of these churches-the Old South, in Boston -will illustrate the character of the succession to which we refer. The third minister of this church, the Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, was the child of parents whose names are enrolled among its founders, and he was baptized by its first pastor, the Rev. Thomas Thacher. The Rev. Joseph Sewall, who became Mr. Pemberton's colleague and successor, was a grandson of one of the founders, John Hull, and the son of a father who lived to complete fifty-three years of membership in the church, and he had himself been baptized by its second minister, the Rev. Samuel Willard. Mr. Sewall, in turn, baptized his son Samuel, and, on the fiftieth anniversary of his own. ordination and installation, welcomed him to official relations with himself as deacon. Deacon Samuel Sewall's son-in-law, Samuel Salisbury, and his grandson, Josiah Salisbury, became deacons in the Old South in the years that followed; and his great-grandson, Edward Elbridge Salisbury, who, happily, still survives, was reared in and joined himself to the fellowship of the old church in which, from the days of John Hull to his own time, there had, in his line, been a seed to serve God in all the generations. Other instances of the kind might be taken from the history of the same church. What we have recorded is introductory to a brief sketch of one person in the sacred succession, one link in the unbroken chain, which we have traced and followed,