CONTENTS. 7- 



House where Independence was declared in 1776, and the Constitu- 

 tion OF THE United States signed in 1787 — Happy Conclusion of 



MUCH LABOR AND OF MANY SOLICITUDES 264 



CHAPTER LII. 



The Convention now becomes Bi-Cameral — Both Houses sit in the 

 State House; the Clerical and Lay Deputies, over whom Dr. 

 Smith is elected to preside, in the Chamber of Independence — 

 Strange Vicissitudes in Dr. Smith's Life — The History of the 

 Formation of the Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Epis- 

 copal Church in the United States of America — The House of 

 Bishops consists of Bishop Seabury and Bishop White, Bishop Pro- 

 voosT absent — The Selection of Psalms — Some Comparison of the 

 Proposed Book with the new Book of Common Prayer — Prospects 

 of the Church — Alterations of the Prayer Book deprecated unless 

 IN conjunction with the Church of England, and unless the Books 

 OF the two Churches are made nearly or quite alike — Dr. Smith 

 writes an Address ordered by the Convention to President Wash- 

 ington AND ONE TO THE ENGLISH ARCHBISHOPS 287 



CHAPTER LHI. 



Restoration by the State of Pennsyla^ania of the Charter of the 

 College of Philadelphia, Unjustly taken away in 1779 — An Anec- 

 dote Illustrative of Dr. Smith's ready humor — He takes leave 

 OF the Convention in Maryland — Bishop White's Tribute to his 

 Services to the Church and Otherwise in that State — Dr. Wroth's 

 Account of Washington College — Dr. Smith's return to Philadel- 

 phia, July ist, 1789 — Proposed Inscription upon his College — Pro- 

 ceedings in the different branches of the Reconstruction — First 

 Commencements, Medical, and in the Departments of Arts, since 

 THE Restoration — Union of the College of Philadelphia with the 

 University of the State of Pennsylvania under the name of the 

 University of Pennsylvania — The Rev. John Ewing elected Provost 

 — The new institution languished and continued to languish for 

 many years, and until the Provostship of Dr. Stille — Dr. Smith 

 preaches before the Cincinnati, July 4TH, 1790 — Engagement and 

 I\L\.rriage of his son Charles with Miss Yeates — Death of his 



DAUGHTER, MrS. GoLDSBOROUGH — BEAUTIFUL INSCRIPTION ON HER TOMB 



— Letters in connection with her Death 305 



CHAPTER LIV. 



Death of Franklin — Impromptu thereon at a Dinner Party by Dr. 

 Smith — Capped by Mr. Thomas Willing — Franklin's Funeral — Dr. 

 Smith to Dr. West — The Same to the Same — Dr. Smith's Eulogy 

 ON Franklin — Une Anecdote de Famille — Dr. Odel's Verses on the 

 Franklin Stove — Franklin a Natural Philosopher and not a 

 Statesman , 324 



