after all, to" the blackness of darkness" for ever. The light of which our Saviour speaks, is the light of faith, which working by love of God and man is an inexhaustible principle, and like its divine origin, is "the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." The light of the true Christian is not confined to the sanctuary. He carries it with him "whithersoever he goeth," and even though engaged in a daily round of worldly occupations, can make those very occupations the means of glorifying his "Father which is in heaven."

Of this we have a most convincing instance, in the case of our lamented friend.

If any one might plead excuse for neglecting the momentous concerns of religion, or limiting his attention to it, within the narrow bounds of the Sabbath and the sanctuary, it would be one whose extensive mercantile connections seemed to demand his incessant care. But he had early learned to ponder the important question of his Redeemer," what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" And estimating rightly the incomparable difference between the gain and the loss, he gladly conse crated his secular employments to the service of his heavenly Master, and though never" slothful in business," was always " fervent in spirit serving the Lord." While he relied with humble confidence on the merits of Jesus Christ for acceptance

with God, and confessed that when he had done all he could he was "an unprofitable servant," yet that reliance did not relax but rather stimulated his exertions to abound in "all the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God." "Pure religion and undefiled" shone so manifestly in the daily transactions of his life, that without making it the subject of formal professions, or needlessly introducing it into common conversation, it was sufficiently evident to all who had the happiness of familiarity with him, that he " used this world as not abusing it," and valued it only so far as it afforded him the means of attaining to a better.

While many, with much inferior means, are constantly aiming at a shew of greatness which they do not possess, and with a culpable emulation of their superiors, straining every nerve to keep up a fictitious splendour, insomuch that they have nothing left wherewith to " lay up treasures in heaven;" this good Christian, actuated by that charity which" vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up," was content to " renounce (according to his baptismal covenant) the vain pomp and glory of the world," that he might "have to give to him that needeth." His many acts of charity were in the purest sense disinterested. Situated as he was, it is impossible to conceive him to have been influenced by the hope of any other benefit or re

ward than what he has been called to receive. How many hundreds-aye thousands, of poor children in this metropolis-(and some hundreds of them are now before us,) owe it to his exertions, under divine Providence, that they have been taught the way of salvation, and "brought nigh unto God!" How many "poor, and blind, and maimed," and destitute, of his fellow-creatures, have obtained by his means, relief and comfort! These were the objects of his unceasing attention. And though ever ready to "use hospitality without gruding," to his "friends and rich neighbours," who could make him "a recompence," he never forgot that these poor members of Christ's

The indefatigable and extensive exertions of Mr. Hatch, as Treasurer to the City National Schools, are too well known to need any detailed account of them here. That a layman in his situation should devote himself, as he did, to the promoting of Religious Education among the children of the poor, is perhaps no more than might have been expected from one who felt as he did the value of religious knowledge. Neither is it surprising that, attached as he was to our venerable Establishment, he should prefer that system of education which unites them to the faith and worship of the Church of England. But it may be interesting to those who do not feel quite so strongly upon these points as our departed friend did, to know that in addition to his religious motives, which were ever predominant, he was influenced in the support of these Schools by the fullest conviction that if ever the education of the poor is to be made a national benefit, it must be under the conduct and superintendance of the National Clergy.

body were recommended to him by the head of the Church, for this special reason, " they cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just."

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Nor let it be supposed that these remarkable evidences of his faith proceeded from any misunderstanding of that text of Scripture which says, Charity shall cover the multitude of sins." He had too just a sense of the attributes of God, to think that any act can be pleasing to him which proceeds from a bad motive, or to imagine it pos sible to secure an interest in the blood of his Saviour, by attempting to substitute a few deeds of benevolence for a life of " holiness, without which," it is declared, "no man shall see the Lord."-No. "The multitude of sins" which he sought to cover by charity, were those only of inadvertency and infirmity, which, according to the present constitution of our nature, will ever cling to the best, even while" the heart is right in the sight of God." But for wilful and habitual offences he neither expected nor wished to compound. In him godliness was as influential as charity. As both issued from the same source, so each had an equal share in his heart. The same faith which made him instruct the ignorant, clothe the naked, and succour the destitute, made him "worship God in spirit and in truth," not only by attending the outward forms of religion, and "walking in all

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the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless" himself, but by carrying religion into the bosom of his family, and like the Father of the faithful, commanding "his children and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment."

He was not content with allowing his domestics, if they wished, to be religious, but considered himself bound in duty both to them and to his Saviour, to exert the influence and authority with which Providence had invested him, to make them so.

Unincumbered by that false delicacy which rather than "interfere with the liberty of private conscience," would neglect this first and chief care of a good master, he felt persuaded that it was conferring on them an incalculable benefit to make them "faithful servants of their common Lord;" and much more consistent with the true spirit of Christian charity, to bind their conscience, if possible, to their eternal interest, than to allow them the liberty of having, (as might probably be the case,) no conscience at all upon the subject.

Every opportunity therefore which was afforded him, he gladly devoted to the moral and religious improvement of himself and his family, resolving with the pious Psalmist to" walk in” his "house with a perfect heart," discountenancing every kind of deceit and wickedness, and suffering none but