Hence, the position of his accomplished daughter, biographically connnemorated as ' Mother Seton,' the gifted educator, as well as the founder, of the most eminent sisterhood (and we may add here, parenthetically, the more recent positions of his grandson, James Roosevelt Bayley, as having been, at first, rector of the Episcojial Church, at Harlem, and tlien, at last, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, Prinuite of America) seems the more particularly noteworthy. In a widening circle of relationships thus made up there could be evidently no lack of conversational topics adajited to keep us all mentally alive and wide-awake to note the driftings of thought throughout the whole community, so recently set free from the regime of a colonial church establishment, whoso ideal aim had been, of course, the legal maintenance of religious uniformity.

"Touching the first of the ecclesiastical transnuitations here mentioned, profoundly sad, indeed, was the tone of amazement discernible in the exclamation of I\Irs. Seton's elder sister, Mrs. Dr. Wright Post, of Throgg's Neck, addressed to my mother and by her repeated to me regarding the talented Ann Eliza, 'She has gone over to the church that per8ecut<;d her ancestors.' As we now look back over the seven decades that have gone by since that day, we may safely say that no change of ecclesiastical relations on the part of an individual has stirred ' society ' at the time' with questions so keenly conducting or has been effective of influences more widely felt in the homes of the coiintry.