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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 pp MPP «aject of this brief memoir t\'as originally destined for the Royal Xavy, alid brought by his father from Windsor to Halifax when about nine years of age for the purpose of joining \\\\\\. service, but he was adjudged as being too young then for such arduous duties as were in- volved in that profession. But he sooi- turned his thoughts to the snci'ed ministry of the clinn-h. A>* a coiiseijuence ^i this decision he matriculated at KiuL^'s College in 1821. succe>-sf"ully passed the vari- ous examinations, and t(jok his degree ol P>.A. in l.S'ia, and that of M.A. in 18:5.'). Though his degree of liaclielor of Aits was not conferred on him until 1825, he had passed the examination which entitled him to it in 1824, and immediately proceeded to Quebec for the purpose of being ordained to the Deaconate and Priesthood by Bishop Mountian — the Bishop of Nova Scotia, Dr. Stanser, being absent froin this diocese and then resident in England. For a short time after his ordination Mr. Cochran undertook the duties of a travellnig missionary, officiat- ing at Falmouth, Rawdon, Liverpool, and many other parts of the Province in which there were few opportunities for the people to en- joy the ordinances of the Christian church. At the close of the years of his ordination he was appointed Rector of the Parish of Lunenb- urg, an office which he filled for no less a period than twenty-eight years. It would be impossible within the compass of such a notice as this to enumerate all his labours in this place — for he was a man of stroMnr mind j'tkI vij^orons Inime .'ind wiiru) hciirt. The parish I \ I then consisted of Upper and Middle LaHave, New Dublin, Bridge- water, New Germany and Mahone Bay, in all which districts (now served by five or six clergymen) he ministered single handed tor many years. We of the present day scarce know the toil to be endured in the discharge of such duties. The carriage roads were few, and the best were bad. Most of the journeys were made, of necessity, on liorst; back, the only baggage accompanying the traveller that which could be carried in the old-fashioned saddlebags. On one occasion the inde- fatigable missionary nearly lost his life, having been thrown over his horse's head down the steep bank of the river, where he remained unconscious part of the uight, not recovering from the effects of this fall for more than a year. During the time that he was rector of J^unenburg he built live cliuiches and a number of schoolhouses, establishing one of the first Sunday-schools of the Church of England, if not the first, outside the city of Halifax, in the Province, and, undoubtedly, was tiie pioneer of Sunday evening services in that chuich. He always iield three full services on the Lord's day, necessitating a drive of about sixteen miles to one or other of his out-stations. Nor was he content with his parochial works; but, full of zeal for the welfare of the church, of which he wns one of the ablest nijiiistcis he determined to bring the press into requisition, and in IS.'?.") lie started the publication of tiie Colovuil Chnrchmav — the first relijjior.s newspaper of any denomination 'printed and published in the \vit staunch supporter of the great cause ot temperance. Little do the men of the present day know how much they are indebted to thin ironwilled man for the progress of the total abstinence question. It is easy now to advocate the custom of abstainiu' from all exhilarating drinks; it was no li^ht matter then. All honour to his memary as champion of the good work. While engaged in work like this he was far from forgetful of the profit and delight of literary labour, and a few years ago charmed and instructed the public with two excellent lectures entitled, "Recol- lections of Half a Century," But his work h over: for the evening has come and the sun has set. The massive frame and the busy brain are at rest and " his works do follow him." Dr. Cochran leaves behind him a venerable widow and several chiMren. He was married on the loth December, 1326, to Ann Matilda Power, of Liverpool, N. S. They had six sons and six daughters — of the former two survive, the eldest, the Rev. William Rupert Cochran, Rector of I^angton, Lincolnshire, England, and the fourth, Mr. Fitxgerald Cochran, Barrister, of this city. Of the daughters, live are married and one unmirriel. He aUo leaver seventeen grand-children. In closing the record of the life of this aged and long prominent man, we may say that he took part in almost every public movement in which a clergyman could legitimat'dy join, and that he has left behind him no more sincere lover of his native land and not one who has more lealouslv sought to serve at once his country and his God. From the Acadian Recorder, Yesterday morning's papers contained lengthy obituary n.»ti(^es of the late Rev. James C. Cochran, who pjissel -iway on Sunday at 4 a,m. From the record of his long and useful life, we learn that he was born in King's College, Windnor, on the 17 th Sciptember 1798, his father being then Vice- President of that, the only University In the Province. At nine years of age, he was brought to Halifax to join tlie Navy; but these views were changed, and he became a clerk with the then ^rm ox Belcher & Wright. In 1821, he entered at King's College, and in 1825 graduated with the usual dejrrees. He was then ordained as a cler<;vmaii of the Episcopal Church; and for a fe^v months oificiated as a travelling missionary in the then sparsely settled districts of the Province. Shortly after, he was appointed Rector of Lunenburg, and filh'd tlint office (or 2ft vt'iirs, I'c tluMi nniovcd to ITjiIifiix, In ]f^^>2, f\\A oiriciftti'd ill >^onu' of the oiitlviii;: «]i(^lri('l.«, liCf^idcs (ditiiifr n clunh or«r!iii piiMislu'd silioiit llmt fiiiif. tiiid vss like a sturdy tree In a forx'sf — or "the i-lijidov. dl' a ^iciit jcck in a w c? ry Isuul. ' lie wns n man o/ten tlionsand. 1- vn\iv(j Hera Id. TIk! death of IJev. Canon Cochran \vfiich occurred at an early houi- yesterday nio'i'nin«r, removed from/jimon/ist ns one of the oldest, most widely knoAvn, and uiiivei'sallv l/'loved (>t our I*rovincial elereiha]is more familiar to our lathers than to us, hut his active i/fiihinthrctphy — continued Uj) till hi^ )a^t illness, endeared him, in an iMiiinent degree, to old and youiif^ alik<\ His lite, wliic!i \va> a \p\\'j^ an I ai> active one, forms, in a lar«ie dejj;rer% the; hist,,ry of myir than one of our charitablt institu- f'cjiis, and carrie*^ iis )>ack ov/r period^ in our history of which lew m(3U now livmn' liave auv e.vperieu(;e. Father Cocliran — as lie \y;is familiarly called — ^vas born in Wimlsor on the 17th of Se|t(('nihijr, 17'J8, and was tlic second ^ow 7ff( rei/imeiit. /lis eldest brother — I Ion. Andrew Cochran wmh lor many ycare oye of the leading public men of the Frov.ice of Quebec. James i^as fii-st intended by hi^ father (gv the Navy, and when quite n yoon^ lad was brought to Halifax with the purpose of being placed lis a midshipman on board one of the war vessels theu on this station./ Mis own dislike to the sea, joined to his mother's entrea- ties, led tc/liis being placed as a clerk in the mercantile house o( F^elcher vS« Wright, of this city, instead. Afer remaining in the employ of this fiyin for some time, he entered into business in Ilalifax on his own am)unt, in partnership with the late John Spy Morris — the late Dr. JXmes Ilume being for .some time (rierk in their employ. In 1821 olved to abandon trade and enter the church, to which he had long felt an inclination to devote himself. He accordingly, in that yowY, I'lilcrcd Kin«r's ColU'^rt', j:rmhiatii)«r Icmr yi'aiH latiT with tlu* dcgrt'i' (»t' li A. In IM,'!.") hv jcct'ivt'd flic (U«:i((' of M. A. jii<1 ill 1.S72 Mint of I). I), from the simie CoIIc^m' — Iioiiors wliicli ns will 1)0 t?con he iiohly cmi'ikmI j\ij(I worthily wore, hi 1H24 hv uns or(hiiiR!(l l»y Dr. Moiintaiti the Hislioj» of (^lulitc — iIk- liii-hop of Novti Scotia hcing in Knnlaml at the time It nay he noted as one of the «i;reat chan»,'('s that have taken place diiiiii*; the \n\tr the hitter part of \H'24 at J-nuenhnr«!, whtre he continued lo minister to a widely extended paris-h inclndinfi i.ot only Luuenhur;:: hut La Have, Xew Duhlin, Hridt ior a few years in charjie of Turn's Bay and S))iyfield, and other eutlyini; districts. In the first named place he secured the erection of a in at church, which still remains with manv other evidences of his sncctsslnl and arduous ministry. In 1853 at the request of the Cioveiiiois of Kings College, he undertook the task of raisiiiff S40,ochrau, Elector of Langton, Lincolnshire, England — and the fourth, Fitzgerald Cochran, Esq., Barrister of thi8 city. Of the daughters five are married and one unmarried. He also leaves seventeen grandchildren. To his numerous surviving friends and relatives, we tender our sin- cerest sympathy, feeling that the public has, alike with them, suffered a severe bereavement in the death of one so zealous and active in good words and works. From Church Guardian, The death of Hev. Dr. Cochran, which occurred last Sunday week has withdrawn from us the oldest and one of the most widely known, and universally beloved of our Nova Scotia clergy. Dr. Cochran was bora in Windsor on the 17th of September, 1798, and was the second son of Rev. William Cochran. D. D.(of Trinity College, Dublin) for many years president of King's College, Windsor. In the year 1821, he entered King's College, and four years later took the degree of B. A. In 1835 he received the degree of M. A., and in 1872 that of D. D. from the same College. In 1824 he was ordained by Dr. Mountain; the Bishop of Quebec — the Bishop of Nova Scotia being in England at the time. After assisting his father for a short time in Falmouth, he wa** settled during the latter part of 1824 at Lunenburg, where he coutiimed to minister to a widely extended parish, including not only Lunenburg but La Have, New Dublin. Bridgewater, New Germany, and Mahone Bay — for twenty-seven years. In 1835 ha commenced the publication at Lunenburg of the Colonial Ghurchrian, the lirst religious newspaper established in what is now the Dominion of Canada, and continued to edit it for five jears, after which he as8i.sted Mr. Wm. Gossip in the publication of the Church Times. In 1826 he initiated the practice of holding evening services which very soon became the practice in all the parishes. He founded Sunday Schools and Temperance Societies — among the first in the Province, and by great zeal and diligence, laid t!ie foundations of what are now four or five flourishing parishes. ^ g ill ' > \ I In 1852 he removed with \m family to Ilalifnx, juhI was at first for B few years \u char'je of Turn's Uay ami Spryfu'ld, and other oullyiii;; districtft. In tlie first nanutl ])\mv he fHruittl the tTirlion <»f a neat chureh, which still reniaiiif^ with man) othrr evideiwrs of his success fnl and arduous ministry. In IH."»3 at tiie rcfjucst of the (iovcniori* of Kinj»8 Collejre, he undertcwk the task of raisinjj: :i51(»,(M»(^ towards the endowment fu."d ot that Cioliejje — trHVcUinj; thpu'ili the three Lower Pmvinoes for the |)urp(»si* — a duty in wliich he was eniiiientiy successful, fn 1854 he was a|)|)ointeti to the jxisiontl char;ie of Sjdnii Church, which he held until 1H(><>, when he was apprauted to Trinity Church, of which he n'maiuetl fmstor until quite n^'ently. But {»reat as wei-e Dr. Otchrau's pastoral duties they hy ii<» means engrossed all his attention. Fitwn tlK^ first lie always uiunite.sted a stioiifj interest in his Afma Afnter, and was for twenty-thive years Secretary of the Board ot Governors of KiufT^s Collejre. In the supjxjrt of'lVm|H*i- ance. he was among the tii'^ pitMuoters, and i'ontiiaicil to Ik* among tlie most active-workers of that Kv i-jmi. He was one ol the toiuidcrs of the Deaf and Dumh institution oMhis city, and was its Sec!«(iiry Iroiu its establishment in 1858 til! ais death, lie w. Hw. After a lan^ life of useliilness he had gone to the wa^i that remaineth for the people of Gou The Lord Bi«hop said that he generally had the misfortune to l»e the last speaker, and had consequently to curtail his remarks. After what :^. 10 had already been said by preceding speakers in allusioa to the Alumni who had been called away by death during the last year, he would not make any lengthy remarks, but he would fail in his duty if he omitted to notice the great los8 the College had sustained by the recent death of the Rev. Dr. Cochran. Born within the walls of the College, and intima- tely associated with its interests from his early youth, Dr. Cochran had, throughout his long life, labored earnestly for the advancement and wel fare of King's College. When the Government Grant was taken away some years ago, and the income of the College diminished, the friends of the Institution were compelled to devise some means to raisie an endow- ment fund, and by universal consent Dr. Cochran was selected as the fit- test man to accomplish that object, and marvellously well did he do his work. Devoting hira«?eU with all his energy to the object he had io view, he succeeded, in the face of many difficulties, in raising the sum required, ($40,000), and King's College to-day to a large extent, owes its present pro.-*perous position to the success ot that undertaking. Hit* Lordship advised the young men who were leaving College to try and follow in Dr. C(x;hran's footsteps, and to profit by the examples his life afforde tl « Railway Depot on the morning of the funeral. On the arrival of t' e train at Windsor, the Rev. Canon Maynard, Revd. Dr- Dart. Presi- dent of King's College, the Lord Bishop and other clergymen, and many of the principal residents of the town were in attendance and formed a procession to the Parish Church. The psalms prescribed py the liturgy ot the Church were read by the Rector, Rev. Canon Rfaynard. the lessons by Rev. G. .W Hill, Rec- or of St. Paul's, and the service at the grave by His Lordship P.isliop Binney. The body of Dr. Cochran was deposited beside the graves of his father, his mother and his sisters, in the quiet village chnrehyard^ near where the classic Avon, winds its sinuous course, amidst the scent; of his early boyhood in the place he loved so well. There were four 12 pall bearers who kindly volunteered their services, and carried the body into the churchy viz. : Rev. J. Partridge, Rev. George Butler, Mr. F. W- Vroom, student of King's College, and Mr. G. K. Martell, student of King's College. There were a number of other clergymen present as mourner s, including Rev. John Abbott, Rector of St. Luke's, Rev. Dr. Jarvis of Shediac, N. B., and Rev. J. A. Kaulback, Vicar of Truro, &c. Thus ended the closing scenes of the life of this eminent clergy- man, of whom it may truly be said he rests from his labors, and his works do follow him.