of his days-to you these silent lips speak today as they never spoke before. And their message is just what it has always been, "Prepare to meet your God." As in life, so in death, he entreats you, "Be ye reconciled to God." Oh, if you spurn this last entreaty, what reason is there to fear that God will be your irreconcilable enemy!

Fathers and brethren in the ministry, we all mourn today, as did the prophets at Jericho, when the Lord took away their head. We have all lost a friend, a father, a man of God, who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. We shall never again go to him for counsel. We shall never again unite with him in prayer, or listen to his words of wisdom and of love. But we can take up his mantle, and recrossing, as it were, the Jordan which we have passed with him today, labor to carry on his work. Would that a double portion of his spirit might rest upon us! As we can no longer look to him for advice and counsel, it is the more important that we ourselves have understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. The times in which we live are stirring and eventful. Great events follow each other with startling rapidity. Whole decades of ordinary centuries have been crowded into the last half century. And the whole half century concentrates and culminates, as it were, in this year of the right hand of the Most High. And the coming year promises to exceed even the past. Divine influences hang over us like a cloud, and saturate, as it were, the very atmosphere. The bending heavens are full, even to bursting, of spiritual blessings that wait only for the asking and the acting of the churches. The day of Pentecost has again fully come; and it behooves them to be with one accord in one place, waiting in earnest prayer

for the promised Spirit, and at the same time holding all their property and all their talents sacredly devoted to the service of the Master. It becomes the ministers of the Gospel to be holy men, full of the Holy Ghost and of power, fit leaders of a church fit for the world's conversion. It were a shame, a calamity, and a crime almost beyond a parallel, if Christians, and especially Christian ministers, should fail to discern the signs of such a time, and to welcome the dawning of the day which calls the church to new enterprises, sufferings, and sacrifices in the cause of her Redeemer. God grant that, instructed by the life of our friend and father, impressed by his death, and taught by the Spirit, we may all so number our days that we may apply our hearts unto this wisdom!

GENEALOGY OF THE EDDY FAMILY.

BY MRS. H. B. ALLEN.

To visit Cranebrook, the cradle of the Eddy family, take an early train from London on the Dover railway. Stop over a few hours at the lovely watering-place, Tunbridge Wells. In the afternoon take a train to Staplehurst, six miles from Cranebrook, or stop at Marden, which will give a drive of eight miles. This is in the midst of the great hop region of England. The drive is over the gently undulating Rentish downs, with green lanes winding between hedges of holly and hawthorne and over broad stretches of moorland covered with golden heather.

Arriving at Cranebrook, alight at "The George," an ancient inn. Like all the old houses at Cranebrook, it is built in the old Dutch style; a stuccoed exterior with inlaid timbers; a steep, tiled roof, with eye-like windows and many gables; the lower windows with small diamondshaped panes of glass; the interior dark, with small, low, irregular rooms, and stairs springing up in the most unexpected places; odd corners and passages where you must walk with circumspection. After a night's rest and a good English breakfast, stroll along the principal street, until you come to the church. Before entering, call on the Rev. Mr. Carr, the courteous vicar, and send for Mr. Wm. Tarbutt, the antiquary and historian of St. Dunstan's Church. The church was built some 600 years ago, in the perpendicular Gothic style, with groined roof,

mullioned windows. and well proportioned nave and aisles. The tower is square and heavy, and a turret is attached to one of the angles and carried above the tower. Here William Eddy was vicar for twenty-six years. Here he preached his last sermon, and in the church-yard without his dust reposes, though the precise spot is forgotten. One memorial of him survives—the old "Parish Record " -Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, eighty pages, all of which are engrossed in Williams Eddye's handwriting; three title pages being richly illuminated.

The name Eddy is Anglo-Saxon, according to "Ferguson's English surnames." It comes from Ead, which signifies " Prosperity." Ede, Eada, Eadig, Eddi, Eday, Eadie, Eady, and Eddy, are variations of the same name.

Charles Eddy, M. A., Vicar of Bramley Hunts, late Tutor and Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and John Eddy, Collaton Vicarage, Paignton, Devonshire, are English branches of the same family.

William Eddy, M. A., Vicar of the Church of St. Dunstan's of the town of Cranebrook, of the County of Kent, England; a native of Bristol, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Cranebrook from 1589 to 1616, married Nov. 20, 1587, Mary Fostin, who died Nov. 23, 1816, and was buried in Cranebrook churchyard. Their children were :

MARY, born Sept., 1591.
PHINEAS, born Sept., 1593.

JOHN, born Mar., 1597.

ELLEN, born Aug., 1599.
ABAGAIL, born Oct., 1601.

ANNA, born May, 1603.

SAMUEL, born May, 1605.

ELIZABETH, born Dec., 1606.

ZACHARIAS, born Mar., 1610.

NATHANIEL, born July, 1611.

John and Samuel left for America Aug. 10, 1630, in the ship Handmaid, and arrived at Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 29, 1630, twelve weeks at sea, spent all her masts, and of twenty-eight cows lost ten. Soon after their arrival at Plymouth, Nov. 11, 1630, they went to Boston with Capt. Grant and Capt. Standish, visited Gov. Winthrop, who termed them "two gentlemen passengers." John Eddy settled in Watertown, Mass., and died there Oct. 12, 1684.

Samuel Eddy, born May, 1605, died in 1685. After he arrived in Plymouth he was admitted to the freedom of that Society and received the oath. Nov. 7, 1637, he had three acres of land in Plymouth set off to him. In 1641 was given six acres of land and thirty acres of meadow. His wife's name was Elizabeth. She died in 1689.

April 3, 1645, he sent his son John to dwell with Francis Gould until he should occomplish the age of 21.

Oct. 7, 1651, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Eddy, was fined for wringing out clothes on the Lord's Day. The fine, ten shillings, was afterward remitted.

May 1, 1660, Elizabeth was summoned to court to make answer for travelling from Plymouth to Boston on Sunday. She affirmed that she was necessitated to go, on account of the illness of Mistress Soffin. The court excused, but admonished her.

Samuel Eddy bought a house and lot of Experience Mitchell, May 9, 1631, at Spring Hill, at the end of Main street, Plymouth. This house he sold in 1645. He was one of the original purchasers of Middleboro, Mass. He was a large land owner at other places, and in 1631 his assessment was half that of Capt. Standish. In 1633 it was the same.