strong.] ^^ [Jan. 6, 



in savings institutions, and in all agencies adapted 

 to promote the thrift and comfort of persons in hum- 

 ble life, and he was associated with other public 

 charities. He was also deeply interested in the be- 

 nevolent institutions of the Church, to which he 

 belonged, giving to them much of his time, his 

 matured wisdom, and his pecuniary support. The 

 most delicate, refined, and unostentatious charides 

 seemed most to enlist his sympathies. He was a mem- 

 ber of the corporation for the relief of the widows and 

 children of clergymen in the communion of the Prot- 

 estant Episcopal Church from 1831, until his death, 

 and much of the time its President. To it, and to all 

 other associations with which he suffered himself to be 

 connected, he gave much more than his name. He 

 gave his sound judgment, his wise counsels, and, when- 

 ever needed, his labor and his money. Their records 

 are full of the evidences of his efficient services, and 

 the touching minutes adopted by them after his 

 decease, attest the value of his co-operation, and the 

 strong hold he had upon the reverence and affection 

 of his associates. 



Mr. Binney's friendships were warm, and they were 

 lasting. No envy or jealousy interfered to disturb 

 their harmony. If ever broken, it was because his con- 

 fidence was necessarily withdrawn. His addresses after 

 the death of Mr. Chauncey, and Mr. Sergeant bear 

 witness to the intensity of his affection for those 

 friends, though more than all others, they had been his 



