[1] A most faithful servant, to whom Mrs. P. was greatly attached.

[2] The Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, of New York, was one of the most honored members of the Mercer street church.  He was known throughout the country as an eminent lawyer and patriotic citizen.  In the circle of his friends he was admired and beloved for his singular purity of character, his scholarly tastes, the kindness of his heart, and all the other fine qualities that go to form the Christian gentleman.  During a portion of President Jackson’s administration Mr. Butler was Attorney-General of the United States.  He died in the sixty-third year of his age.

[3] Referring to the death of Dr. Stearns’ mother, Mrs. Abigail Stearns, of Bedford, Mass.

[4] Mrs. Wainwright and her husband, the late Eli Wainwright, were members of the old Mercer street Presbyterian church, and both of them unwearied in their kindness to Mrs. Prentiss and her husband.

[5]

  “Far along,
  From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,

  Leaps the live thunder!  Not from one lone cloud,
  But every mountain now hath found a tongue,

  And Jura answers, through her misty shroud,
  Back to the joyous Alps, which call to her aloud!”

[6] Now Bishop of the P. E. Church of Central New York.

[7] “Christian Believing and Living.”

[8] The Rev. George B. Little was born in Castine, Maine, December 21, 1821.  He was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1843.  Having studied theology at Andover, he was ordained in 1849 pastor of the First Congregational church in Bangor, Me.  In 1850 he married Sarah Edwards, daughter of that admirable and whole-souled servant of Christ, the Rev. Elias Cornelius, D.D.  In November, 1857, Mr. Little was installed as pastor of the Congregational church in West Newton, Mass.  Early in March, 1860, he went abroad for his health, but returned home again in May, and died among his own people, July 20, 1860.  The last words he littered were, “I shall soon be with Christ.”  Mr. Little was a man of superior gifts, full of scholarly enthusiasm, and devoted to his Master’s work.

[9] Miss Bird is known to the world by her remarkable books of travel in Japan and elsewhere.

[10] An account of the Volunteer Review in Hyde Park is given in Sir Theodore Martin’s admirable Life of the Prince Consort, Vol.  V., pp. 105-6, Am.  Ed. The Prince himself, in responding to a toast the same evening, speaks of it as “a scene which will never fade from the memory of those who had the good fortune to be present.”

[11] It is hardly possible to allude to the great affliction of this illustrious lady without thinking also of the persistent acts of womanly sympathy by which, during the anguish and suspense of the past two months, she has tried to minister comfort to the stricken wife of our suffering and now sainted President.  Certainly, the whole case is unique in the history of the world.  By this most tender and Christ-like sympathy, she has endeared herself in a wonderful manner to the heart of the American people.  God bless Queen Victoria! they say with one voice.—­New York, September 24, 1881.