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of New York. Here he continued five years. His labors were very- 

 great ; but neither the strength of his fine constitution nor the ardor of 

 his zeal failed, and he was again, as on Staten Island, richly rewarded 

 for all his toils by the abundant bestowment of God's blessing on the 

 work of his ministry. He found a small congregation, and only about 

 thirty communicants. After a short nTinistry of five years he left a 

 crowded church and between four and five hundred communicants. 

 There is, I believe, to this day, in St. Stephen's Church, an honorable 

 monument to the zeal and efficiency of his ministry while there. When 

 the whole church had become crowded, every pew, not only in the 

 body of the church, but also in the galleries being occupied, a gentle- 

 man called on the rector and applied for a pew. " There is none," was 

 the reply. "Will you permit me to build one?" was the answer. 

 "Where?" said the doctor. "There, over the gallery, against the 

 wall," said the persevering applicant. "But how will you obtain ac- 

 cess to it?" said the doctor. "By cutting a small door in the wall, and 

 building a private stairway outside of the church," said the zealous 

 man; and there, I understand, high up against the wall, is that pew to 

 this day, a lasting memorial of pastoral zeal, fidelity and eloquence, 

 such as few ministers of Christ are cheered by. 



The next important change which occurred in the life of Dr. Moore 

 was his call to the Rectorship of the Monumental Church, at Richmond, 

 and to the Episcopate of Virginia. These events occurred in the spring 

 of 1S14. The peculiar history of the church of which he now became 

 Rector is too well known to require more than the remark, that it was 

 built upon the site of the old theatre — the burning of which had caused 

 the death of more than a hundred persons, and involved Richmond in 

 the deepest distress. 



Dr. Moore enjoyed all the real blessings of life to the last ; with un- 

 usual physical strength, and mental faculties but little impaired, except 

 his memory, he continued his duties even to the end. Two days only 

 before the last visitation on which he died, he officiated and preached 

 at a funeral. His address was ex tctJipore, and such was his energy, 

 animation and fervor, and such the influence of his exhortation, that an 

 old Christian of another Christian society said, "Surely this must be 

 his last, last message to Richmond." It was so; two days al'ter he 

 obeyed the call of duty, and commenced, in his 80th year, a journey 

 of one hundred and fifty miles, to Lynchburg, to perform Episcopal 

 functions. He arrived in Lynchburg on Thursday, the 5th of Novem- 

 ber. On Friday he attended Divine service in the forenoon; in the 

 afternoon he met at the Rector's house the candidates for confirmation, 

 and made them a very admirable address on the qualifications for that 



