He was the friend of all that were striving for the public good, and it is not too much to say that the dissenting preacher as well as the Church of England priest had a kind and a wise word Irom him. Throughout this county the odor of his good work was spread, to the discomfort at the time of none, but the benefit of all. The attempt to change the color of a life, which has been preserved undimmed with one hundred and fifty years of cherished admiration, aflbrds little evidence of sagacity. It is far better to account for its successes, if not by the truth of the principles which swayed it, then by the purity and loveliness of that natural character which they brought to such perfection and winning attractiveness.

But we must not omit here the judicious use which the Church of England clergy made, through the liberality and wisdom of the Society for Propagating the Gospel, of two instrumentalities -- schoolmasters and religious books -- in furthering the best interests of the people of the county. Westchester, East Chester, Rye, New Rochelle, North Castle, Yonkers, Mile Square, White Plains, at the instigation and under the direction of the clergy, were provided almost continuously with school advantages. Says Dr. Berrien, in his " History of Trinity Church, New York," " There is nothing with which I have been so much struck as the zeal, the earnestness and devotedness of the school-masters and catechists of that day. The former seem to have been selected from among the laity with great caution and care. . . Some of these were men of liberal education. . . . Intellectual was not then, to the extent that it is now, separated from religious improvement, but both went hand in hand throughout the iceel:."^ What the wise Rector of Trinity says of the schoolmasters of his parish was equally true of those whose work was in Westchester County.