While it is fully allowed that the clashing claims diminished much then, as it does now, the result of professional elforts, it is yet apparent enough how, in the setting forth of the moral code, in the urgent use of ordinances and customs, in encouraging calls to individual reform, in the exhibition of the results of good and evil, in the discountenancing-- sometimes denunciation -- ofbadmen, inthe enforcement of rights, individual and magisterial, as well as those Divine, in examples of domestic felicity and order, -- in these and so many other ways the servant of God and friend of the people filled up his mission of usefulness. In a scattered population, growing in eighty years from one thousand one hundred to six- ; teeu thousand, these clergy, never ten in number at one time, in some decades not more than three, held up in the most remarkable manner in the face of all opposing influences the moral tone of the various communities of the County. Of course, traditional sentiments and healthy prejudices, still fresh, much assisted, and might be readily invoked ; for a very large proportion of the Westchester new-comers were religious people. But the gratifying fact is the more conspicuous, as, amid much to discourage them, the standard under the care and efforts of godly men is again and again restored. No doubt a great source of their strength was the establishment of the Christian dogma by law. The assistance, too, of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts could not but bear witness in the minds of thoughtful people to the value of Christian truth and duty felt by the devout and humane peojjle of the mother-country in thus assisting in the support of the colonial clergy.