Johnson, President of King's College, in a sermon at East Chester, in 1755, from Heb, xiii. 1-1: "For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come " urges, " Let us not be so foolish as to raise any great expectations from this fleeting uncertain world for we shall be wretchedly frustrated and the greatness of the misery of our disappointment will be proportioned to the greatness of our expectations." It is, moreover, to be remarked that the influence thus exerted is in a degree to be referred to the extended pastorates of a number of the clergy, half a dozen of them at least lasting over thirty years.

It is also suggested with no little pleasure that what Dr. Dougla.ss, quoted by William Smith, the historian of New York, absurdly proposes in order to increase the usefulness of the clergj', was realized for their people iu the intermarriage of their children. "Our missionaries," says this far-sighted propagandist, " may procure a perpetual alliance and commercial advantages with the Indians, which the Roman Catholic clergy cannot do, because they forbid to marry. I mean our missionaries may intermarry with the daughters of the Sachems, and other considerable Indians, and their progeny will forever be a certain cement between us and the Indians." Contempt for such insolencell' But as from the fireside of a Bartow, a Wetmore, a Smith, a Sackett, a Mead, a White, a Thomas, a Monroe went forth son or daughter, to be joined unto godly wife or husband, to perj>etuate the principles and heart wishes of their devoted fathere, date the commencement of influences for the highest welfare of the people, which in their eflects are seen as visibly in the post-Revolutionary periods as in the years before the strife. Nor is it amiss in this connection, when speaking of the usefulness of the Westchester clergy, to mention the moral support which they received from the efforts and assistance of prominent citizens of the county and province during these eighty years.