34 Monument to Bishop Butler. 



Mr. Southey supplied the inscription, a noble testimony of his power as 

 an author, as well as of his regard for his native cityj and the design was 

 presented by Mr. S. C. Fripp, who also, we believe, superintended its 

 erection. 



SACRED 



TO THE MEMORY 



OF 



JOSEPH BUTLER, D.C.L. 



TWELVE YEARS BISHOP OF THIS DIOCESE, 



AND 



AFTERWARDS BISHOP OF DURHAM, 



WHOSE MORTAL PART IS DEPOSITED 



IN THE CHOIR OF THIS CATHEDRAL. 



OTHERS HAD ESTABLISHED 



THE HISTORICAL AND PROPHETICAL GROUNDS 



or THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, 



AND 



THAT SURE TESTIMONY OF ITS TRUTH 



WHICH IS FOUNDED IN ITS PERFECT ADAPTATION 



TO THE HEART OP MAN. 



IT WAS RESERVED FOR HIM TO DEVELOPE 



ITS ANALOGY TO THE CONSTITUTION 



AND COURSE OF NATURE ; 



AND LAYING HIS STRONG FOUNDATIONS 



IN THE DEPTH OF THAT GREAT ARGUMENT, 



THERE TO CONSTRUCT 



ANOTHER AND IRREFRAGABLE PROOF ; 



THUS RENDERING PHILOSOPHY 



SUBSERVIENT TO FAITH, 



AND FINDING, IN OUTWARD AND VISIBLE THINGS, 



THE TYPE AND EVIDENCE 



OF THOSE WITHIN THE VEIL. 



BORN A.D. 1692, DIED 1752. 



"HE WHO BELIEVES THE SCRIPTDRES TO HAVE PROCEEDED FROM HIM WHO IS THE AUTHOR OP 

 NATURE, MAY WELL EXPECT TO FIND THE SAME SORT OF DIFFICULTIES IN IT AS ARE FOUND IN THE 

 CONSTITUTION OF NATURE." 



Origen, Philocal. p. 23. 



lEmiEeD^lEIB 131 S®t13Sffi1RE^®E©lsr, %M. jmiBcctxxxil). 



The monument is about thirteen feet in height, by eight broad, and 

 occupies the side entrance (blocked up for the purpose) to the Newton 

 chapel, in the north transept of the cathedral. In style it is perpendicular 

 gothic, harmonizing well with the building. It consists of three divisions, 

 each subdivided by an embattled transom into two compartments j in the 

 upper central compartment, upon a pannel of white marble, is Dr. Southey's 

 inscription, and below the quotation from Origen. 



In the lateral compartments are escutcheons ; that on the right charged 

 with the paternal coat of Butler, argent, three covered cups in bend between 



