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Meanwhile, he lost no time in seeking his entrance into the ministry; and on 21 December, in Fulham Palace, he was ordained Deacon by the- Bishop of Lincoln, and on the 23d was ordained Priest by the Bishop of Carlisle, each acting for the aged and infirm Sherlock, Bishop of London, who was present at the services. There were ordained with him Samuel Seabury, William Skerrington, Francis Hoyland, and James Pasteur. Seabury was two years his junior; brought up in boyhood at Hempstead, Long Island, a graduate of Yale, he ministered as a layman on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts at Huntington, Long Island, up to July, 1752, when he crossed the ocean to pursue his studies at Edinburgh University; he must have formed Smith's acquaintance shortly after the latter reached Long Island in Mr Martin's family, for Smith was of too active a temperament to remain unknown to any man of education within his reach, and it may be that from Samuel Seabury he derived some of those ideas of Episcopacy which helped him to a determination in his ecclesiastical career. They returned to America about the same time; v but we have no knowledge of their again meeting until 1789 when assembled in Philadelphia the Council of the American Episcopal Church, in which sat Samuel Seabury and Smith's early college pupil William White, and where Smith's instrumentalities for concord and union among all sections proved so potent to the strengthening of 'the church. Three days after his ordination Rev. William Smith started North to see his father, and on the last day of the year, he records in his Diary " preached in the Kirk in which I was baptized." Before his return to America he engaged the interest of the Propagation Society in the matter of education of the German emigrants in Pennsylvania, in which he felt much concern which was increased on his return to Pennsylvania, when he actively participated in a local movement there for that pur27 Mr. Smith arrived in Philadelphia on his return on 22 May, 1754, and Mr. Seabury reached his mission at Hempstead, Long Island, on 25 May; it is possible both were fellow passengers on the Falcon. In 1789 on Bishop Seabury's visit to Philadelphia he was the guest of Dr. Smith, then a resident of the South East corner of Chestnut and Fifth Streets.