liberally to their erection and endowment. His labours as a preacher, even after he became a Bishop, were incessant, and exceeded those usually undertaken by active parochial clergymen. It was sometimes suggested to him that he preached too often, and made himself too common. In allusion

to this charge, he one day said to a friend, "Does not the consecration service for Bishops exhort us diligently to preach God's Word;' and is not the clerical body solemnly warned by St. Chrysostom to take heed, lest indolence and secularity should exclude more of their order from heaven, in proportion to their number, than from any other profession."

During his residence at Wells, he usually preached twice on the Sunday, once at the Cathedral, and again in the large parish church, which was then destitute of any evening service, except when he thus voluntarily officiated. The crowded auditories on these occasions attested his powers as a preacher. His sermons were truly impressive, and composed in a strain of simple, persuasive, and affectionate eloquence. Their great object was to arouse the slumbering souls of men to a lively concern for their eternal interests, and to attract them in the spirit of deep humility and penitential faith to the Cross of Christ. It is often difficult to select particular incidents out of the daily tenor of a life spent in doing good, but the following will illustrate some of these general statements.

Observing, on various occasions, that on Tuesday mornings when at Wells, the Bishop disappeared at a very early hour, and did not join the party again till dinner time, I was induced to inquire into the cause, and learned that the two large parishes of Mark and Wedmore, forming part of his Peculiar as Dean, the former distant from Wells twelve miles, the latter eight, were in a state of much spiritual destitution, from the distance of a great part of the population from their respective churches, as well as from the want of church-room.

The state of these parishes had so deeply affected his feelings, that he could not be easy to bestow upon them only a barren sympathy, and finding that the prompt and effectual remedy would be to act the part of Curate to them himself, he undertook and discharged this office with equal zeal and cheerfulness, every other week for many successive years, during his official residence in Wells. Early in the morning of the day mentioned, he mounted his horse or drove over thither, in order to give the full service of the Church in each; and so much was his heart interested in this labour of love, that no weather, however unfavourable, no guests, however distinguished, were allowed to interfere with it. His Christian kindness was quickly rewarded by the attendance of large congrega tions. The people belonged almost exclusively to the labouring class, and such kind condescension in a Bishop, such disinterested zeal for their spirit

ual good, naturally excited their gratitude and attachment, an impression which was greatly heightened by his amiable affectionate manners, and by the earnestness of his preaching. Before he quitted the Deanery of Wells, he perfected this work of charity by raising a sum of money to establish a second full service every Sunday in the parish of Mark, where also he built a National School. In the parish of Wedmore, aided by the contributions of the public and the landholders, he was the means of building and endowing two chapels in the hamlets of Blackford and Theale, and also of founding a school. In his Tuesday pastoral visits the instruction of the children was not overlooked. His benevolent care was repaid by the affectionate gratitude of those who were its objects; and so long as any among the inhabitants survive, who personally attended his ministry, the name of Bishop Ryder will not cease to be pronounced with a heartfelt blessing. Only a short time before his lamented death, I reminded him of his constant rides to Wedmore and Mark, when he told me that he looked back to the hours which he had thus spent as among the happiest of his life. Such was Bishop Ryder such were the lessons he had learnt in the school of Christ. The same spirit of charity, the same zeal for the salvation of souls, which prompted him, overlooking ordinary considerations of personal dignity, to go to these two neglected parishes, and to labour assiduously and in the most

disinterested manner for their good, influenced the daily course of his life and feelings. His memory is fragrant in the affections of his family and friends, and it is embalmed in the veneration of the Church of Christ.

AMONG the topics to which the Bishop of St. David's adverted with much interest in the course of our meeting at Gloucester, was his projected college for clerical education in South Wales; but at this time he did not appear to be sanguine in the hope of speedily realising the plan. The subject was brought home much more closely to myself before the expiration of the year, by the following incident. Happening to be on a visit to my estate at Lampeter, in Cardiganshire, I was informed that the Bishop was inclined to erect the college at this place, in preference to Llandewybrefy, the site hitherto proposed, because, though these places are only a few miles distant from each other, Lampeter is much more accessible and convenient.

The pressing want of such an institution in South Wales, its literary and theological objects, and the probability that, independently of its direct and