In  its  place  a  system  of  religious  instruction  was  now  de-
vised, and  has  been  carried  out  with  signal  success,  in
which  the  ordinary  religious  exercises,  of  both  Sundays
and  week-days,  are  conducted  by  preachers  of  high  stand-
ing chosen  each  year  from  at  least  three  of  the  leading
Protestant  bodies ;  while  Jew,  Catholic,  and  Hindoo  have
been  invited  on  special  occasions  to  address,  and  have
addressed,  the  students  in  Appleton  Chapel.  It  is  by
their  own  ecclesiastical  rule  that  Catholic  preachers  are
debarred  from  taking  their  place  with  others,  as  solicited,
in  the  ordinary  exercises  of  the  college  pulpit.
RECENT  NECROLOGY.  24 1

Contemporary  with  the  changes  now  recorded,  the  Uni-
tarian body  has  experienced  the  loss,  within  the  past
twenty  years  or  a  httle  more,  of  almost  all  its  well-known
leaders  who  had  survived  from  the  earlier  period.  Dr.
