the parting smile of benignity and confidence. The candid integrity of the monitor was, at the same time, both confirmed and softened by the sympathy of a parent. His sagacity was remarkably exemplified in his discrimination of characters, even on their first appearance at the University."

Among those whom he is represented as having distinguished by his preference, and who wished to repay that preference by every mark of esteem, gratitude, and attachment, allusion is significantly made, in the course of the sermon, to the late Mr. Pitt, who so long represented the University of Cambridge in Parliament, upholding the noble destiny of his country to the latest hour of his political life, with unrivalled talents, disinterested zeal, and truly British fortitude.

When the chair of "Regius Professor of Physic" became vacant, he made the offer of it to Dr. Glynn; but, well qualified as he was to fill it, he felt that he was then growing old, and modestly declined its acceptance; not caring to incur additional responsibility, and thereby increase the final account to which talents must one day be brought. Can we then entertain a doubt that the end of such a man was peace? Let us see what Mr. Michell, who was himself an eye-witness, says of it: "As he approached that hour in which he was summoned to appear before his Eternal Judge, conscious that man, in his best estate on earth,' walketh in a vain shadow,' he expressed, with the most fervent humility, his aversion to hear from

others, or to cherish in himself, any opinion of his past services. A very long and very vigorous life, exhausted in the dignified duties of a most laborious profession, could only suggest to him the utter inability of the heart to derive any substantial comfort from the mere retrospect of human excellence or human efforts. He seemed, in the spirit of Christian hope, to deprecate all dependence upon his own works, and to trust to the mercy of God alone, through his blessed Redeemer, for pardon, for peace, and for salvation."

To me, this testimony, "which a sense of duty forbad the friendly preacher to suppress," is the more gratifying, not merely for the sacred lustre which it throws over departed worth, but as nobly exemplifying the sentiments which I have elsewhere declared to belong to every true member of the Church of England. Conscious of the infirmities of his fallen nature in its best estate, his hope of heaven rests exclusively on the atoning blood of Christ; but he knows where it is written that our merciful Redeemer, in laying down His life for us, "became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him.” (Heb. v. 9.)

The preceding very inadequate memoir of Dr. Glynn would be still more incomplete than it is, if I were to omit, in conclusion, to subjoin the following well-known lines in "The Pursuits of Literature :"

"While Granta hails (what need the sage to name)
The loved Iapis on the banks of Cam."

I will, likewise, annex a copy of the inscription on an urn erected to Dr. Glynn's memory, in King's College Chapel, in a little oratory on the right hand after entering the south door of that magnificent temple.

M. S.

ROBERTI GLYNN-Cloberry, M.D.
ex veteri in Agro Cornubiensi prosapiâ oriundi;
Hujus Collegii LXIII annos Socii;
morum antiquorum et literarum bonarum
Cultoris, Patroni, Vindicis ;
qui Collegio

amplissimam pecuniæ summam,
ad studia juventutis promovenda,
ad novas ædis astruendas

legavit.

Obiit viii Id. Feb. MDCCC., æt. LXXXI.
Hanc tabulam

In pietatis et desidirii testimonium

P. C.

ex publico decreto
Collegium.

I this day (Sunday, January 8, 1843) heard the Bishop of Antigua, Dr. Davis, preach at the newly-erected church of St. Thomas, in Chancery Lane.

The text was taken from Eccles. ix. 10.-" Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."

The first words of the sermon were, "The poet Young

has commenced a Book of his a Book of his "Night Thoughts"

The clock strikes one. We take no note of time,
But from its loss. To give it, then, a tongue
Is wise in man."

His Lordship proceeded to expatiate on the necessity of having our attention called to the concerns of religion, not by a single tongue, from hour to hour, from day to day, and from year to year, but continually-by the tongues of men and angels. The leading doctrines of our church were interwoven throughout the discourse with great precision and earnestness; and the simplicity, the variety, and the energy with which the considerations of the shortness of time, and the uncertainty of the hour, yet certainty of the approach of death, were enforced, were admirable.

The idolatrous love of riches; the syren voice of pleasure; the parable of the Ten Virgins, &c. &c., were beautifully introduced; and I was particularly pleased with the strong and uncompromising manner in which the eloquent Bishop dwelt upon the certainty that the day of death is conclusive of the doom of every one; and that we shall but awake to judgment.

I was sorry to perceive that his Lordship (whose qualifications for the sacred office to which he has been appointed seem to be of the highest order) has passed his meridian; and that, although naturally robust, he is not, apparently, in robust health.

In the afternoon of the same day I attended divine service in the Temple Church, newly and splendidly fitted up, and, as to the seats, most commodiously and exemplarily.

The service, since the renovation, has been conducted in the cathedral fashion; but, finely conducted as it is, I could not help regretting the departure from the olden times, when the tones of a noble organ peeled through the vaulted roof, and the Psalms of David were sung with heart and voice by the whole congregation, sustained by few voices only from the front of the organ-loft.

The text was,

"Let your moderation be known unto all men; the Lord is at hand."-Philip. iv. 5.

Here again, as in the morning, the moral and religious doctrine of the discourse was enforced by the consideration of the uncertain duration of our probationary state, and the certainty that the day of our death will be to all, with reference to their final doom, contemporaneous with the day of judgment. And it is somewhat remarkable that I should, thus accidentally, have heard two such sermons at the very time when the preceding little memoir of Dr. Glynn, where there is so much allusion to the same topics, was in the hands of the printer.