Great Churchmen Dead

The year which has just closed will be memorable in the annals of the Church. of Bome for the loss of Newman and Von Dollinger; in those of the Church of England for the loss of Lightfoot, Liddon, Hatch, Littledale, Oakley, Henry WMte, Canon Cure and of the dean of St. Paui's. The deanery of St. PauTs has been held by many greater men than Dr. Church, but never by one of more stainless and beautiful lif e, riper culjture, more untiring devotíon, completer self forgetfulness. The story of his life would be little more, however, than the story of his friendships with most of the brightest and most fruitf ui minds of his generation. He was a severe judge of himself, and shrank from anything like "leadership," even from that of the London head. His affection for Newman was unbounded and reciprocal. It was in the quaint old house under St. Paul's that Newman played on his favorito 'cello for the last time and put it away forever. He