on the subject of baptism, and a short time after his landing, received the rite of immersion from the hands of one of the English missionaries resident in Calcutta.  His sermon on that occasion, which produced a deep impression on the religious world, is a masterpiece of logical argument, Scriptural research and grave eloquence.  After connecting himself with the Baptist denomination, he selected the Burman empire as the seat of his future labors—­at which post he has remained, with scarcely an interval of relaxation, for nearly forty years.  His efforts and sufferings in the prosecution of his mission are well known.  He was a man of high and resolute courage, of remarkable self-reliance, of more than common mental ability and of devotion to the performance of his duty, almost without a parallel in modern times.  He had all the elements of a hero in his composition, and whoever would look for a rare specimen of a life consecrated to noble, ideal aims, inspired with an elevated and almost romantic self-devotion, and daily exercising a valiant energy more difficult of attainment than that which animates the soldier amid the smoke of battle, must contemplate the strange and beautiful history of the lion-hearted missionary of Burmah.

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HENRY WHITE, D.D.

The REV.  HENRY WHITE, D.D., Professor of Theology in the Union Theological Seminary, died in this city on Sunday, August 25th, in the fifty-first year of his age.  We obtain the following biographical facts from The Independent: “Professor White was born in Durham, Greene county, in this state.  He had nearly reached the age of manhood before commencing a liberal course of education; was graduated at Union College in 1824; studied theology at Princeton, N.J., and after being licensed to preach the Gospel, was employed as an agent of the American Bible Society in Georgia and the Carolinas.  In this service he remained during parts of the years 1826 and 1827.  In 1827-28 he was engaged as an agent of the same society in New York and the vicinity; and during that period he supplied for some time the pulpit of the second Presbyterian church in Newark, N.J.  In March, 1829, he became pastor of the Allen-street Presbyterian church in this city, in which office he remained until after his appointment to the Professorship of Theology in the Union Theological Seminary, then newly formed in this city.  He was dismissed from his pastoral charge in March, 1837.  The labors of his professorship were begun and carried on for some years in discouragement.  The pecuniary basis on which the Seminary rested was inadequate, and there were arrearages in the salaries.  In 1843 Professor W. was invited to Auburn, and great anxiety was felt lest he should accept the invitation.  But his own attachment to the Seminary and the entreaties of his friends, and an effort which was made to endow his Professorship with a sufficient permanent fund, induced him to remain, and he held the office as long as he lived.”