his care. The mode by which he pursued those ends was not so peculiar two hundred years since, as now, nor would it be now so obnoxious in England, as among us. Some modification of his strictness is still retained there, and its good effects are still visible in every school that you visit, in the order, obedience, and acquisition of the pupils. Dr. Busby raised the character of Westminster school to a high rank, by his learning and indefatigable industry, and died on the verge of 90, in the possession of his intellectual faculties, with the reputation of profound learning and piety. Amid all the authority with which he surrounded his office, he showed kindness to studious pupils, and was anxious to advance their religious as well as scholastic improvement. The Rev. Phillip Henry, who was long under his care, while he bears testimony to the severity of his discipline, speaks of the affection with which he regarded dili- gent boys, and the zeal with which he strove to prepare those, who were religiously disposed, for the more solemn duties of their faith, "for which, he adds, the Lord recompense him a thousand fold into his bosom."
"A throng is at thy gates."
The contrast between the silence of this receptacle of the mouldering dead, and the ceaseless press and tumult of the living throng without, is strangely im-
