The piety of Father Jocelyn was sincere, deep and all-pervading. He was a man of prayer and of close communion with God, active in Christian labors in public and private, and of a beautiful simplicity and transparency of character—a saintly man. A Puritan by birth and conscientious conviction, his religious life was after the strictest model, yet his tender sympathies rendered him kind as well as faithful in counsel or warning, while his broad Christian charity made him liberal toward all who loved the Saviour. Father Jocelyn was born in New Haven, Ct., in 1799, and was early converted to Christ. He began active life as an engraver, but relinquished a prosperous business to preach the Gospel to the poor, devoting his ministry to a feeble colored church in New Haven. The anti-slavery cause from the beginning had his warmest sympathies and most earnest co-operation. The American Missionary Association had no earlier or steadier friend. When the Amistad captives were landed in New London, and prompt and persevering efforts were made to re-enslave them, a committee of gentlemen was organized in New York to watch over their interests, and at the head of that committee stands the name of S. S. Jocelyn. Throughout the long struggle that secured their liberties and their return to their native land, accompanied by a missionary and teacher, Mr. Jocelyn was constant in his active exertions; and when at length that committee and other similar bodies were united in the formation of this Association, he was forward in founding, and constant thereafter in sustaining the new organization. He attended the meeting in Albany when the Association was formed. He was its Recording Secretary from 1846 to 1853, Corresponding Secretary with charge of the Home Department from 1853 to 1863, and from that time till his death was a member of the Executive Committee. We extract from an article in the _Advance_, by Dr. Roy, the following account of the funeral: “The funeral was held in the New England Church of Brooklyn, E. D., where he had his membership. In the large congregation there was a fine representation of colored people. The Executive Committee and other officers of the American Missionary Association were present. The pall-bearers were a squad of veterans of the old Liberty Guard. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Hibbard, presided. A few words of affectionate sympathy with the brothers and sisters who had been bereaved of their father, were spoken by Rev. J. E. Roy, whose father, also at the age of eighty, a few months before had been called away.