XVlii. IN MEMORIAM. 



and himself at one time a pupil of Mr. BARNES'. Here in the 

 faithful work of his small secluded parish and in his own studies 

 and literary recreation the autumn and winter of his life passed 

 on in peace, happiness, and usefulness, until from the natural 

 decay of extreme age he passed away on the 7th of October last 

 at 86 years old. 



It has been said that there must be blame somewhere that 

 Mr. BARNES, with all his genius and great talents, should have 

 thus passed a long life without any signal or very substantial 

 recognition in high or influential quarters. I think this is un- 

 just both to himself and to the world in which he was known. 

 He had no ambition i.e., no desire to use his talents as a mere 

 means of obtaining either the world's fame or its more solid 

 rewards ; his mind and powers were emphatically himself, and his 

 happiness consisted, and was amply found, in attacking and 

 assimilating those subjects which cropped up at every turn of his 

 path. He would have considered it a prostitution of his powers 

 to have designedly aimed at wealth or position by their means ; 

 the attainment of knowledge was the end he always had in view, 

 and that end was to him its own sufficient reward. No greater 

 injury could, I conceive, have been done to him than to have offered, 

 or, perhaps, pressed upon him, the acceptance of honours or position 

 which might have turned him in his course or tended to obscure 

 the end he had in view. So far as concerned himself ! ; and as 

 respects the fancied neglect of him by others, what was there in 

 his life and work to draw upon him, perforce, the notice of any 

 excepting those of his moi-e immediate circle? From that circle, as 

 occasion called, he did receive such recognition as put him in the 

 very position of all others where his talents would be freely used 

 and his worldly requirements sufficiently supplied for the modest 

 needs of himself and his family. In this view of it Mr. BARNES' 

 life forms a harmonious whole such as the world rarely sees, and 

 if I were going to lecture to young men on the examples set by 

 striking characters gone before, I do not know of one whom I could 

 select, like Mr. BARNES, as so pre-eminent in all that a Christian 



