{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_37583/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_37583","id":"gutenberg_37583","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37583","summary":null,"tags":["Baptists -- Periodicals","Category: Biographies","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","The Baptist Magazine"],"text":"</pre>\n\n\n\nProduced by Bryan Ness, Charlene Taylor and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This\nbook was produced from scanned images of public domain\nmaterial from the Google Print project.)\n\n\n\n\n\n[Transcriber's Notes:\n\nThe typesetting on this was poor, especially with respect to\npunctuation. I have reconciled all of the mismatched single and double\nquotes with the images. I chose to leave the quotations hanging as\nprinted, rather than forcing personal opinion on placement.\n\nDue to the number of tables, this file would read better in a monospaced\nfont.]\n\n\n\n\n                              THE\n                        BAPTIST MAGAZINE.\n\n                          MARCH, 1835.\n\n\n      MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. BOSWELL BEDDOME, OF WEYMOUTH.\n\nThe highly respected subject of this memoir was the youngest son of Mr.\nBoswell Brandon Beddome, who for many years filled the office of a\ndeacon at Maze Pond; and grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Beddome, of\nBourton-on-the-Water, whose sermons and hymns are still the admiration\nof the churches. The talents and amiability of Mr. Boswell Beddome began\nvery early to develope themselves. He is described by his surviving\nrelatives as having been a most interesting boy; his intelligence,\ngenerosity, vivacity, and principle, inducing them to conclude that he\nwould prove no common character in after life. The testimony given to\nhis spirit and deportment at this early period, by his maternal\nguardian, is worthy of record, as it points to a striking and lovely\nexample of filial obedience: \"_He_ never gave me a moment's uneasiness;\nwhatever perplexity was sometimes occasioned by the rest, I had no\ntrouble with him; affection and a sense of duty invariably induced his\ncheerful obedience; and if childish disputes arose between any of the\nother juvenile members of the family, Boswell was sure to be the\npeace-maker.\" He was educated at a school under the superintendence of\nthe Rev. S. Palmer, of Hackney, where he was distinguished for the\nreadiness and accuracy with which he accomplished the exercises of his\nclass, and for that general activity of mind which afterwards became one\nof his leading characteristics.\n\nWhen he was about fourteen years of age, a situation which promised well\nfor his secular interests offering itself at a highly respectable\nmercantile establishment at Dorchester, he was removed from school\nsomewhat sooner than his friends had anticipated. His employers speedily\nbecame sensible of the worth of his talents and integrity, and as a\nreward for his services and a proof of their esteem, introduced him to a\nvaluable business at Weymouth, which happened to be at their command,\ntwo years before the legal term of his connexion with them would have\nexpired. This movement had the most important bearing on his spiritual\ninterests; and had he not been generous almost to a fault, would, in a\nfew years, have been the means of procuring him a retiring competency.\n\nThe family, to the full companionship of which he was thus early\nintroduced at Dorchester, was distinguished by its very zealous\nprofession of Unitarianism. There he saw the system under its most\nspecious and delusive aspect: the sabbath was observed with the\nstrictest decorum; family worship maintained with invariable regularity;\nhabits of private devotion were strongly encouraged; and opportunities\nfrequently occurred of association with some of the most intelligent and\ninfluential members of the party. Under these circumstances, although\nmatter of regret to the more judicious of his friends, it was none of\nsurprise, that he espoused and became the ardent advocate of sentiments\nat total variance with those in which he had been previously trained.\n\nUnder the preaching of Mr. Rowe, the first pastor of the Baptist church\nat Weymouth, and afterwards under that of Mr. Flint, its second\nminister, he was gradually restored to the presumed scriptural faith of\nhis venerated ancestors. The exercises of his mind on this important\nsubject were often deeply distressing and protracted. After his\nsuspicions respecting the correctness of his opinions were awakened, he\nbecame a most diligent, anxious, and prayerful student of the word of\nGod; determined, by divine assistance, to follow conviction wherever it\nmight conduct him; and profess, at whatever cost, what should eventually\nappear to be the truth. Desirous of doing the will of God, after many\npainful mental conflicts he was permitted to know it; he made a public\nprofession, by baptism, of his newly-adopted faith during the pastorship\nof Mr. Hawkins, now of Derby; and about four years afterwards was\ninvested with the office of a deacon, during the ministry of Mr. Hoby,\nat present of Birmingham.\n\nThat the sentiments of Mr. Beddome in after life, on some abstruse\npoints, were not slightly modified by his previous notions, is not\npretended; but that he decidedly embraced all that is fundamental in the\nCalvinistic system, no doubt is entertained by those who had the most\nample means of obtaining an accurate knowledge of his creed. He\ncontemplated himself as a depraved, guilty, perishing, and helpless\ncreature; the grand doctrine of justification by grace, through faith in\nthe propitiation of Christ, was his refuge and his solace; in the sense\nin which we should employ the words, he was \"looking for the mercy of\nGod unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.\"\n\n  [This article--as will be remembered by those who heard\n  it--contains part of the funeral sermon preached for Mr. B. at\n  the Baptist chapel, Weymouth, by the minister of the place.\n  Hitherto the form of the discourse has not been adhered to;\n  through the remainder of the article that form will be preserved.]\n\nPsalm xxvi. 8, \"Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, &c.\"\nThat our invaluable, but now, alas! departed, brother Beddome cherished\nfor this house of God an attachment peculiarly strong, unwavering, and\ndevoted, is a fact too generally and distinctly known by you to require\nannouncement from me. Long before his religious sentiments underwent a\ndecided alteration, he interested himself most seasonably in its\nwelfare; and after his views of divine truth became, for the most part,\nconsonant to those which are here professed, he was ever ready to engage\nin any practicable undertaking, and make any possible sacrifice, for its\nbenefit. Simply to affirm that he manifested his attachment in an\nordinary way, by the regularity of his attendance, by the spirituality\nof his worship, and by contributing the general amount of pecuniary aid,\nwould be but a feeble statement of the truth: he threw his whole soul\ninto every department to which his influence could extend; every thing\nconnected with the cause engaged his attention, solicitude, and\nactivity; the interest of the chapel was the first and the last object\nof his thoughts. His solicitude for the _spiritual prosperity_ of the\nchurch and congregation was not that of a deacon only, but a pastor; on\nthis behalf he constantly wrestled with God in private; and you know,\nbrethren, how solemnly, how earnestly, how affectionately, he pleaded\nfor it in your meetings for social prayer. You know also his readiness,\nas opportunity allowed, to prove himself a friend, a brother, a father\nto you all. He was ever disposed to hear, to sympathize, to advise, to\naid; and even for those who, mistaking his motives, sometimes appeared\nto think of him unkindly, he was prepared, in the exercise of a truly\nChristian spirit, to perform any act of generosity by which their\nwell-being might be advanced. Over the interests of your Sabbath-school\nhe watched with a tender solicitude. For many years he was its\nsuperintendent. During this period he prepared, with great diligence and\njudgment, a series of Scripture questions for the use of the teachers,\nseveral volumes of which are still in existence; and after his official\nduties as a deacon, and the attention required by his family, compelled\nhim to relinquish the direct superintendence of the school, he still\ncontrived to make himself acquainted with all its movements, and\npromote, by his wise suggestions and decisions, the efficiency of its\noperations. The poor and the afflicted connected with this sanctuary\nfeel that in losing him they have lost a tender benefactor, who was not\nonly willing to relieve them in proportion to his means, but who knew\nhow to render assistance doubly grateful by the considerate delicacy\nwith which it was bestowed. Many and fervent were the blessings which\nthe sons and daughters of distress poured upon his head; and many and\ndeep are the lamentations of the widow and fatherless now. By his\nremoval the minister of this place has lost a counsellor eminent for his\nknowledge and prudence; a friend, truly generous and devoted, who was\naccustomed to assist him in many of his labours, to sympathize with him\nunder all his trials, to anticipate, in a thousand ways, his wishes and\nhis wants, and on every occasion of difficulty to consult his feelings,\nin a manner which proved him to possess an extensive acquaintance with\nhuman nature, and an amiability of disposition still more commendable.\n\nAlthough the cause of Christ in connexion with this sanctuary enjoyed\nthe best affection and engaged the best energies of our departed\nbrother, his walks of usefulness were not restricted to this\ncircumscribed beat, but embraced a wider, a more ample range. He was, it\nis well known, the manager, the life, of almost every institution\nconnected with the dissenting interest in this town and neighbourhood;\nand in various other societies, formed for civil, literary, and\nbenevolent objects, he took an active part. Such were his knowledge,\ndiligence, and prudence, that, in general, our committees had to do\nlittle more than hear his report of the past, and assent to his plans\nfor the future. With the utmost modesty he made his suggestions; with\nthe utmost courtesy he invited discussion; but his suggestions were, in\ngeneral, too wise to be improved; and discussion, after he had evidently\nexamined the subject in all its bearings, appeared completely useless.\nHow far such careful anticipations may in general be really serviceable\nto those who are thus saved the trouble of thinking and acting, may be\nquestionable; but, certainly, the mind which is sufficiently benevolent\nand energetic to perform the part of our late invaluable friend, is\nworthy of no ordinary share of admiration.\n\nThe pecuniary affairs of this place of worship were entirely committed\nto his management, which has been long and deservedly held as\ninvaluable. He regularly attended the committees of the Branch Bible\nSociety, the Dispensary, The Young Men's Improvement Society, and other\nlocal institutions of a general nature, where the weight of his talents\nand character were always felt. He was the President of one of the\nBenefit societies, and the most valuable honorary member of another. To\nall this it must be added, that hundreds in this town and neighbourhood\nwere accustomed to make him acquainted with their trials, and seek his\nprompt and valuable advice in difficulty. In general he wished to forego\na very prominent part in politics; but in cases of emergency his\nopponents soon became sensible that he was in the field. During the\ncontest on the Reform question, he displayed powers, both of writing and\nspeaking, of a superior order; nor have his most decided political\nenemies been backward in expressing their high respect for his\ncommanding talents and unbending integrity.\n\nBut we have not yet reached the limits of Mr. Beddome's sphere of\nusefulness. You are aware that he engaged as an occasional preacher. For\na considerable period he lectured on alternate Sabbath evenings at the\nneighbouring village of Wyke, where his labours were highly acceptable.\nI never had the gratification of hearing him on such occasions; but\njudging, as well from the testimony of some of his friends, as from his\nmental capabilities, his extensive acquaintance with the word of God,\nhis clear conceptions and consequently lucid statements on other\nsubjects, in connexion with his fervent piety and habitual solicitude\nfor the salvation of souls, I should conjecture that his addresses were\ncharacterized by their perspicuity, their judiciousness, their deep\nseriousness, and their manifest tendency to usefulness. Respecting these\nand similar qualities, he was accustomed to express warm approbation\nwhenever he witnessed their discovery by the stated ministers of truth;\na class of men, for whom, on account of their sacred office, he\ncherished a deep respect. He magnified their office; obeying the\napostolic injunction, he \"esteemed them very highly, in love for their\nwork's sake.\" In his conduct towards his own minister he was a model of\nexcellence; the whole of that conduct being studiously regulated by the\nmost Christian principle and benevolence.\n\nHis inclination, especially during the last few years of his life, to be\nwholly devoted to the work of the ministry, was sometimes exceedingly\nstrong. Had he been permitted to select his own employment, doubtless he\nwould have chosen that of an ambassador of peace. But while he possessed\nmany qualifications suited to the preacher and the pastor, and which\nwould have secured him great respectability in the sacred profession,\nProvidence had richly endowed him also with certain other qualities, and\nhad placed him in a sphere of action, which enabled him to be useful in\na great variety of ways, not quite within the province of the stated\nminister. As it was, for some time he was contemplated by many as a kind\nof second pastor to this church and congregation; and his minister ever\nfound in him a brother who, in many respects, could labour as well as\nsympathize with him, in conducting the oversight of this people in the\nLord. If, with the exception of Wyke, and one or two similarly-situated\nplaces, he did not preach publicly, he most literally taught \"from house\nto house.\" He appeared to seize every favourable opportunity of speaking\nfor religion: the inquiring found in him a wise and kind director; he\nwas a faithful reprover of sin; and when consolation was requisite, none\nknew better how it should be administered.\n\nWhile home engaged the first, it did not engross all, the energies of\nour departed friend. Of the enviable power of producing charming\nepistles of friendship, with ease and rapidity, he possessed a\nremarkable share. This power he habitually made subservient to\nthe interests of religion; considering a talent for epistolary\ncorrespondence as involving serious responsibility. Could his numerous\nletters of remonstrance, advice, and Christian sympathy be collected, I\nam persuaded they would constitute a volume of no ordinary interest and\nusefulness. As in common conversation he was accustomed to throw out\nuseful hints to those around him; so in letters of business, he often\ntook occasion to remind his friends that they were only probationers in\na world \"which passeth away,\" the inordinate love of which must ruin the\nsoul inevitably and for ever.\n\nTo his friends it has always been a mystery how he could discharge, with\nhis proverbial correctness, the numerous and onerous duties which he\nimposed on himself; the management of his private concerns being always\nsufficient to engross the attention of any ordinary mind. His habits of\nextreme regularity doubtless afforded him great assistance; but had he\nnot possessed an incessantly active and a master mind, no such habits\ncould have enabled him to attempt one half of what he accomplished. As a\nman of business his motto was \"dispatch;\" and whatever he undertook for\nthe interests of benevolence, he attempted with all his might,\nexemplifying that beautiful and comprehensive injunction of Scripture:\n\"Be diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.\"\n\nThat a life so valuable should have been suddenly terminated, in the\nmidst of usefulness, at the vigorous age of forty, is a providence, in\nmany respects, deeply painful, and mysterious; especially when,\nsurveying society at large, we behold the useless and the injurious\npermitted to prolong their earthly existence. There are, however, in\nthis case, various modifying circumstances which demand observation and\ngratitude. If the days of our departed brother on earth were short, they\nwere singularly _vigorous_ and useful. He had already acted his part\nboth in civil and religious society: scarcely had the dew of his youth\npassed away when he performed many of the duties, and was invested with\nmany of the honours, of age; and although the continuance of a judgment\nso mature, a disposition so benevolent, and habits of usefulness so\nself-denying and energetic, would have been an invaluable favour,\ncomparing the amount of his speedily accomplished work, with what is\nordinarily allotted to the servants of God, we ought not, perhaps, to be\ngreatly surprised that he has been thus early admitted to his rest.\n\nYet who was prepared for the severe, the complicated trial which we are\nnow summoned to sustain? Who could have anticipated that the\ncomparatively young, the vigorous, the active Beddome, would have been\nso speedily and so suddenly called to go the way of all the earth?\nNotwithstanding his occasional physical infirmities, we seemed to forget\nthat he was mortal; so completely was he identified with our interests,\nso necessary did he appear to our welfare, that we never calculated that\nhe could die! Even after his medical attendants had repeatedly announced\nthe impossibility of his recovery, many of you could not surrender the\nhope, that God would yet spare him, for the sake of his family and the\nchurch. But, alas! the stroke has come suddenly and irresistibly. We\nhave buried our brother; we have heard the lamentations of all classes\nat his death; we are now paying our last public token of respect to his\nuniversally admitted worth; and yet, his removal appears like a dream.\n\nThis day three weeks he came for a few minutes in the morning to witness\nthe ordinance of baptism, but was too much indisposed to render his\nusual assistance. We conjectured, during that and the three following\ndays, that he was suffering from a severe cold; but on the Thursday it\nwas manifest that a formidable disease had taken full possession of his\nframe. During the whole of Thursday night he was very delirious, and so\ncontinued, under the influence of the fever which preyed upon his\nvitals, with scarcely an intermission, until death released him from his\nsufferings on the following Thursday morning; when, at half-past one,\nhis spirit departed to be with Christ. From the moment he was thought to\nbe dangerously ill, he had no opportunity of making statements\nrespecting his spiritual prospects. Such statements, however, were\nunnecessary to our sure and certain hope of his salvation. He had\npreviously witnessed a good profession. His character had already been\nstamped for a happy immortality; and pleasing as might have been his\ndying testimony to the religion of the cross, it is not to be forgotten,\nthat while he was called to forego the delight of giving, and we of\nreceiving, such a testimony, he was spared the pang of separation from\nhis beloved partner, and four interesting babes, for whose welfare he\nfelt all the tender solicitude which the husband and the father could\nfeel.\n\nDuring the former part of his illness, before it had assumed a dangerous\naspect, I conversed with him respecting the importance of not leaving\nthe concerns of religion to a moment when disease unfits the mind for\nreflection, and congratulated him on the fact of his having been\nenabled, through grace, to prepare in health for the solemnities of\neternity. He devoutly acknowledged the mercy which, in this respect, he\nhad received; but neither then, nor on the following day, when our\nrespected independent brother, with whom he had long been on terms of\nclosest intimacy, prayed with him, did he appear to have the conviction\nthat his \"sickness was unto death.\" About a week before this period,\nhaving occasion to consult him respecting some important business\nconnected with the church, our conversation assumed a more than commonly\nserious tone. I was led to ask him several questions respecting his own\nexperience in religion, and the motives by which he had been actuated in\nhis singular devotedness to this particular interest; and such were his\nreplies, and in so affecting a manner were they given, that I left him\nwith the deepest conviction that he was eminently a man of God: and\nsince his departure, I have considered the statements which he then made\nas an anticipatory dying testimony to the genuineness and vigour of his\npersonal piety.\n\nThere were public as well as private circumstances of a somewhat similar\nnature, which are now cherished in the memories of his friends. At the\nlast monthly prayer-meeting at which he was permitted to attend, he\nmanifested a most solemn and intense devotional spirit. When praying for\nthe prosperity of the church, he was so greatly affected as to be\nscarcely able, for several minutes, to proceed, while sympathy made the\nexercise one of general weeping as well as of supplication. At the last\nSunday-school Union prayer-meeting also, many of the teachers remarked\nat the time, how very earnestly he wrestled on their behalf; and since\nthat period, they have very naturally dwelt much on the fact, that he\nconcluded the engagement by giving out and setting the tune to the\nfollowing expressive lines:--\n\n  \"Come, Christian brethren! ere we part,\n  Join every voice and every heart,\" &c.\n\nHaving laboured for us ardently and efficiently, instead of repining at\nhis removal, let us, by divine assistance, be grateful that a still more\nspeedy termination was not put to his probationary career; and rejoice\nin his blissful possession of the \"recompence of reward;\" our loss being\nhis imperishable gain.\n\n\n              THE TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE OVER INTOLERANCE,\n     ILLUSTRATED IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. BERRIDGE, OF EVERTON\n\n               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\nThe following letter was written by the late Mr. Sutcliff of Olney, and\nnot having been extensively circulated, may perhaps be acceptable to\nsome of the readers of the Baptist Magazine.\n\nIt was published under Mr. Sutcliff's signature in a small collection of\nMr. Berridge's letters, which I have in my possession, under the title\nof \"Cheerful Piety, or Religion without Gloom,\" in the year 1797. And\nif its insertion meets your approbation, I will give it in Mr.\nSutcliff's own words.\n\n                                                      A CONSTANT READER.\n\n_Harley Place, Bow._\n\nAbout two years ago a friend of mine, wishing to enjoy an hour or two of\nMr. Berridge's company, rode over to Everton for that purpose. He was\nintroduced by a dissenting minister in the neighbourhood, with whom Mr.\nB. lived upon terms of friendship. When seated, my friend requested Mr.\nB. if agreeable, to favour them with a few outlines of his life. The\nvenerable old man began, and related several things as narrated in the\nfirst number of the Evangelical Magazine. But as some are there\nunnoticed, I have selected the following, which I think will not be\nuninteresting.\n\nSoon after I began, said he, to preach the gospel of Christ at Everton,\nthe church was filled from the villages around us, and the neighbouring\nclergy felt themselves hurt at their churches being deserted. The\nesquire of my parish, too, was much offended. He did not like to see so\nmany strangers, and be so incommoded. Between them both, it was\nresolved, if possible, to turn me out of my living. For this purpose\nthey complained of me to the bishop of the diocese, that I had preached\nout of my own parish. I was soon after sent for by the bishop. I did not\nmuch like my errand, but I went. When I arrived, the bishop accosted me\nin a very abrupt manner: \"Well, Berridge, they tell me you go about\npreaching out of your own parish; did I institute you to the livings of\nA----y, or E----n, or P----n?\" No, my lord, said I, neither do I\nclaim any of these livings, the clergymen enjoy them undisturbed by me.\n\"Well, but you go and preach there, which you have no right to do.\" It\nis true, my lord, I was one day at E----n, and there were a few poor\npeople assembled together, and I admonished them to repent of their\nsins, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of their\nsouls; and I remember seeing five or six clergymen that day, my lord,\nall out of their own parishes, upon E----n bowling-green. \"Poh!\" said\nhis lordship, \"I tell you, you have no right to preach out of your own\nparish; and if you do not desist from it, you will very likely be sent\nto Huntingdon.\" As to that, my lord, said I, I have no greater liking to\nHuntingdon gaol than other people; but I had rather go there with a good\nconscience, than live at my liberty without one. Here his lordship\nlooked very hard at me, and very gravely assured me that I was beside\nmyself, and that in a few months I should either be better or worse.\nThen, said I, my lord, you may make yourself quite happy in this\nbusiness; for if I should be better, you suppose that I shall desist\nfrom this practice of my own accord; and if worse, you need not send me\nto Huntingdon gaol, as I shall be provided with an accommodation in\nBedlam.\n\nHis lordship now changed his mode of attack: instead of threatening, he\nbegan to entreat: \"Berridge,\" said he, \"you know I have been your\nfriend, and I wish to be so still. I am continually teazed with the\ncomplaints of the clergymen around you; only assure me, that you will\nkeep to your own parish; you may do as you please there. I have but\nlittle time to live; do not bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the\ngrave.\" At this instant two gentlemen were announced, who desired to\nspeak with his lordship. \"Berridge,\" said he, \"go to your inn, and come\nagain at such an hour, and dine with me.\" I went, and, on entering a\nprivate room, fell immediately upon my knees. I could bear threatening,\nbut knew not how to withstand entreaty, especially the entreaty of a\nrespectable old man. At the appointed time I returned. At dinner I was\ntreated with great respect. The two gentlemen also dined with us. I\nfound they had been informed who I was, as they sometimes cast their\neyes towards me in some such manner as one would glance at a monster.\nAfter dinner, his lordship took me into the garden. \"Well, Berridge,\"\nsaid he, \"have you considered of my request?\" I have, my lord, said I,\nand have been upon my knees concerning it. \"Well, will you promise me\nthat you will preach no more out of your own parish?\" It would afford me\ngreat pleasure, said I, to comply with your lordship's request, if I\ncould do it with a good conscience. I am satisfied the Lord has blessed\nmy labours of this kind, and I dare not desist. \"A good conscience!\"\nsaid his lordship, \"do you not know that it is contrary to the canons of\nthe church?\" There is one canon, my Lord, I replied, which saith, \"Go,\npreach the gospel to every creature.\" \"But why should you wish to\ninterfere with the charge of other men? one man cannot preach the gospel\nto all men.\" If they would preach the gospel themselves, said I, there\nwould be no need of my preaching it to their people; but as they do not,\nI cannot desist. His lordship then parted with me in some displeasure;\nand I returned home not knowing what would befall me, but thankful to\nGod that I had preserved a conscience void of offence.\n\nI took no measures for my own preservation; but Divine Providence\nwrought for me in a way that I never expected. When I was at Clare Hall,\nI was particularly acquainted with a fellow of that college, and we were\nboth upon terms of intimacy with Mr. Pitt, the late Lord Chatham, who\nwas at one time also at the university. This fellow of Clare Hall, when\nI began to preach the gospel, became my enemy, and did me some injury in\nsome ecclesiastical privileges which beforetime I had enjoyed. At\nlength, however, when he heard I was likely to come into trouble, and to\nbe turned out of my living at Everton, his heart relented. He began to\nthink, it seems, within himself, \"We shall ruin this poor fellow among\nus.\" This was just about the time that I was sent for by the bishop. Of\nhis own accord he writes a letter to Mr. Pitt, saying nothing about my\nMethodism, but to this effect: \"Our old friend Berridge has got a living\nin Bedfordshire, and I am informed he has an esquire in his parish that\ngives him a deal of trouble; has accused him to the bishop of the\ndiocese; and, it is said, will turn him out of his living; I wish you\nwould contrive to put a stop to these proceedings.\" Mr. Pitt was at that\ntime a young man, and not choosing to apply to the bishop himself, spoke\nto a certain nobleman to whom the bishop was indebted for his promotion.\nThis nobleman, within a few days, made it his business to see the\nbishop, who was then in London. \"My lord,\" said he, \"I am informed you\nhave a very honest fellow, one Berridge, in your diocese, and that he\nhas been ill treated by a litigious esquire who lives in his parish; he\nhas accused him, I am told, to your lordship, and wishes to turn him out\nof his living; you would oblige me, my lord, if you would take no\nnotice of that esquire, and not suffer the honest man to be interrupted\nin his living.\" The bishop was astonished, and could not imagine in what\nmanner things could have thus got round: it would not do, however, to\nobject; he was obliged to bow compliance; and so I continued ever after\nin my sphere of action.\n\nThe squire, having waited on the bishop to know the result of the\nsummons, had the mortification to learn that his purpose was defeated;\non his return home, his partisans in this prosecution fled to know what\nwas determined on, saying, \"Well, have you got the old devil out?\" He\nreplied, \"No, nor do I think the very devil himself can get him out.\"\nAfter this interesting narration was ended, which had alternately drawn\nsmiles and tears from my friend and his companion, they requested him to\npray with them one five minute's before they departed. \"No,\" said the\ngood old man to my friend, you shall pray with me. \"Well, but if I\nbegin, perhaps you will conclude.\" He consented: after my friend had\nended, he, without rising from his knees, took up his petitions, and\nwith such sweet solemnity, such holy familiarity with God, and such\nardent love to Christ, poured out his soul, that the like was seldom\nseen. They parted, and my friend declares he thinks he shall never\nforget the savour of this interview to his dying day.\n\n                                                           J. SUTCLIFF.\n\n\n                       RELIGIOUS REVIVAL MEETINGS.\n\n                 _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\nI have been surprised and pained by the appearance of the paper, headed\n\"On Revivals in America,\" in the number of your Magazine for the present\nmonth. Though the paper is headed \"Revivals in America,\" Mr. Clarke has\nnot confined his remarks to American revivals; he has animadverted with\nconsiderable freedom on revival meetings in England. As I, and several of\nmy brethren in this part of the country, have sanctioned these meetings,\nI trust you will in justice allow me a little space in your next number,\nfor a few remarks on his very singular production.\n\nMr. C. commences with some observations on revivals in America. On this\nsubject, I think, he does not write very consistently. It is scarcely\npossible to give a more gloomy, disparaging description of the American\nrevivals than that which he presents. He represents them as exerting a\nmost pernicious influence on the churches, on the young, and on the\nenemies of religion, rendering \"the character of Christians undignified\nand uninfluential,\" and reducing them to a state of \"contempt and\nridicule.\" He says, \"The good that they are occasionally the means of\neffecting is secured at the expense of the dignity, influence, and\nsubsequent enjoyment of the church; and at the expense, too, of much\nthat is lovely and permanent in the character of pure religion.\" Now, if\nthis account of American revival meetings be correct, they must be a\nvery great evil, and ought to be entirely discountenanced by Christians.\nYet Mr. C. says, \"Revival meetings may do for America.\" \"The system is\ntheir own, and is almost universally understood and recognized.\" He also\nsays, \"The correctness of the reports which have reached this country\nrespecting their revivals, perhaps, ought not to be seriously\nquestioned.\" But if the reports of American revivals which have reached\nthis country be in general correct, I think the description of Mr. C.\nmust be very defective in that important quality; for there is a very\nwide difference between his description and those reports. If we doubt\nthe correctness of his description, he has himself supplied us with an\napology; for he says, \"Things are not always in reality what they appear\nto be to the persons who describe them. Besides, truth is seldom naked,\nand its dress frequently makes an erroneous impression.\"\n\nMr. C. says, \"It is not my intention to degrade our American brethren;\nindeed, I cannot.\" True. But I suppose they will not consider that he\npasses a very high compliment on them, by first describing their\nmeetings as he has done, and then saying, \"The system is their own, and\nis there almost universally understood and recognized.\" His remarks on\nthe American revivals \"are, no doubt well intended,\" but I believe it\nwould be difficult for any one to say what good end they are calculated\nto answer.\n\nBut I hasten to a consideration of the latter part of Mr. Clarke's\npaper, which contains some extraordinary strictures on \"revival meetings\nin England.\" He admits that the revival meetings in England may be well\nintended, but says, \"They appear to have originated in a wish to imitate\nthe Americans.\" I trust they originated in a sincere desire to glorify\nGod, and to promote the salvation of immortal souls. Mr. C. says,\n\"Religion cannot be imported.\" Indeed! Was not religion imported into\nthis country? Was it not imported into America? And has it not been\nimported into other countries by our Missionaries? \"Revival meetings,\"\nsays Mr. C., \"may do for America, but they will not do for England.\" How\ndoes he know they will not do for England? Has he ever made the attempt?\nHas he ever attended a revival meeting in England? If not, I think he\nought to have been less hasty in his conclusion. But they will not do\nfor England, \"because the people here do not understand them, neither do\nthey heartily approve them.\" I am not much surprised that people do not\n_heartily approve_ that which they do not _understand_. He says in\nAmerica the meetings are \"almost universally understood and recognized.\"\nHence it appears where they _are_ understood they _are_ approved, and\nthat they are _not_ approved only where they are _not_ understood. This\nsurely cannot be a very powerful argument against such meetings. Another\nof Mr. C.'s reasons why these meetings will not do for England is, \"Our\ncountry has long been inhabited, and distinguished for religious\ninstitutions.\" As to the length of time our country has been inhabited,\nthat can have very little to do with the subject; and as to our being\ndistinguished for religious institutions, I do not know that we have\nsuch a mighty advantage over the Americans. Some of our religious\ninstitutions, instead of diminishing, greatly increase our need of\nrevival meetings. Mr. C. next attempts to draw from the Scriptures an\nargument against revival meetings. \"Besides,\" says he, \"it is said,\n'Six days shalt thou labour,' and necessity makes many in England keep\nthis commandment.\" And I should think necessity makes many in America\nkeep it too. I suppose he does not mean to say that this commandment\nforbids persons from attending public worship on the \"six days\" if their\ncircumstances will allow them to do so. And if he do not mean this, for\nwhat purpose can it be referred to? Once more. He says, \"The unconverted\ninhabitants of this country are far more likely to raise bitter\npersecutions where revivals are attempted, than to feel willing to\nengage in them.\" And suppose the wicked were to raise bitter\npersecutions, are they to deter the Christian from doing that which he\nbelieves is for the glory of God? Has not the Saviour said, \"Blessed are\nye when men shall revile you, and persecute you,\" &c.? But experience\nhas proved to me that Mr. C.'s assertion is far from correct; several\nrevival meetings have been held in Lincolnshire, each of which was\nattended by many unconverted persons, and at not one was there any\npersecution. \"The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall\nbe slain in the streets.\" Prov. xxii. 13.\n\nMr. C.'s feelings warm as he advances; and, if I be not greatly\nmistaken, they carry him very far beyond the bounds of Christian charity\nin the following sentences: he says, \"But, perhaps, the secret is this;\nthese meetings in England look like a burlesque; they appear like a body\nwithout a soul, or like an orator without originality. We cannot,\ntherefore, expect people to be charmed and benefited by them; for the\nmind cannot be wrought upon by what is felt to be a farce, nor will God\nbless what is not perfectly sincere.\" Revival meetings in England, \"not\nperfectly sincere!\" but are \"a farce!!\" and \"a burlesque!!!\" Really, Mr.\nEditor, I think this is \"set forth with a little too much sharpness of\ninvective,\" and I fancy all your readers, except Mr. Clarke, will think\nthe same.\n\nAs we proceed we find Mr. C. attempting to describe \"the views and\nfeelings of our churches associated in the capacity of Revivalists.\" I\nwill not do our churches the injustice to believe that they would talk\nsuch nonsense as that which he puts into their lips; the language is\nmuch more befitting infidels than Christians. I am quite sure the views\nand feelings of our churches in this country, respecting revival\nmeetings, are as different as possible from what Mr. C. states, and I\nbelieve many of our members are in no small degree disgusted by what he\nis pleased to say on the subject. If there be no more truth in what he\nsays of the American revivals, than there is in his descriptions of\nrevival meetings in England, he had better never given his \"opinion\" on\nthe subject.\n\nMr. C. says, \"I would advise an adherence to _ordinary services_; for\nthese being evidently scriptural and reasonable,\" &c. It is a pity he\ndoes not tell us what _are_ the \"ordinary services that are scriptural\nand reasonable.\" Our Lord \"taught daily in the temple,\" Luke xix. 47.\nThe first converts at Jerusalem \"continued daily with one accord in the\ntemple and breaking bread from house to house,\" Acts ii. 46. Paul told\nthe elders of the church at Ephesus, \"that by the space of three years\nhe ceased not to warn every one night and day.\" Acts xx. 31. These are\nscriptural services, and I suppose they are reasonable too. As to\n\"ordinary services,\" they differ in different churches; some having one,\nand others having three or four, on the Sabbath; some having no service,\nand others having several, during the \"six days.\" It is frequently\nmentioned to the honour of Whitefield and Wesley, that they preached\nalmost every day in the week. The services that were \"ordinary\" to these\ngood men would be extraordinary to most of our churches and ministers.\nMr. C.'s advice to the churches is virtually, \"Continue to go on as you\ndo; quicken not your pace; devise no liberal scheme different from what\nyou have already in operation; if you hear of other churches doing a\ngreat deal of good, by employing different means from those which you\nemploy, regard it not; 'no plan can prove serviceable that is learned\nonly from hearsay.' Above all things, carefully avoid whatever is\nextraordinary in the service of God.\" Mr. C. would make an admirable\nreformer!\n\nA statement of a few facts will be the best reply to what Mr. C. says\nabout revival meetings in England. In this part of the country, six\nrevival meetings have been held within the last nine or ten months, at\nfour of which I have been present. None of the evils of which he speaks\noccurred at any of these meetings; they were attended by ministers and\nmembers of different denominations of Christians, most of whom\nexpressed, not merely their approbation of the services, but their\ngratitude to God for the great spiritual delight they experienced in\nattending them. I believe every church that has held one of these\nmeetings feels anxious that it should be repeated. Since they were held,\nsome have been added to our churches, who state that it was whilst\nattending them that they first felt the importance of religion. Last\nSabbath, three were added to the church at Lincoln, to whom these\nmeetings were greatly blessed; and I hope in a few weeks to baptize\nthree others who can say the same. What are Mr. C.'s flippant remarks\nwhen weighed in the balance with these facts?\n\n                                                             JOHN CRAPS.\n\n_Lincoln, February, 5th, 1835._\n\n\n                            WIDOWS' FUND.\n\n               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\nObserving in your Magazine for last month a notice of the annual sermon\nto the Society for the Relief of the Widows of Protestant Dissenting\nMinisters, as intended to be preached at Salters' Hall meeting-house,\nCannon-street, on Wednesday the 1st of April next, will you allow a\nwell-wisher to that institution to occupy a small part of your pages to\nstate a few particulars respecting that highly-valuable institution, as\nI apprehend many of your readers are but little acquainted with its\norigin and design. The proposed anniversary is the 102nd, it having been\nestablished in the year 1733. It was founded on a broad and liberal\nscale; no theological basis was intended; but the necessitous widows of\nministers of the denominations of Presbyterians, Independents, and\nBaptists, were to be the recipients of its bounty. For these classes of\nProtestant Dissenters it was their aim to provide; and as our ancestors\ntruly imagined that union was strength, their combined efforts were\nexerted to form this society. It is, however, but justice to say that,\nin the first instance, the interests of the society were greatly\npromoted by the exertions of our Presbyterian friends. To Dr. Chandler,\na minister of that denomination, it was indebted for its rise. It has,\nhowever, since that period, been liberally supported by the other\ndenominations of Dissenters, and diffused its blessings for more than a\ncentury \"to the fatherless and the widow.\" The annual sermon has been\npreached alternately by a minister of each denomination; it was formerly\nat the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, where the writer of this has\nwitnessed, with high satisfaction, a thronged assembly listening to the\nurgent and sympathizing strains of a Fuller, a Hall, a Toller, and\nvarious others of different denominations. In the present year it falls\nto the Baptists to provide a place and a preacher; and may it not be\nreasonably hoped that that denomination will give the meeting its\ncountenance and support, when they are informed that they have near\neighty widows in the English counties, who receive an annuity from its\nfunds, from one to twelve pounds each; besides more than twenty widows\nin the principality of Wales, who receive from seven to nine pounds of\nannual allowance.\n\nHow creditable, Mr. Editor, would it be to the dissenters to revive this\ncause, which of late has been drooping! And the writer of this would\nfain entertain a hope that, whilst exertions are making amongst the\nfriends of religion for so many important objects, ancient institutions\nwill not be overlooked and forgotten; but that a spirit of revival will\nappear to the cause of the \"widow and fatherless.\"\n\n_Denmark Hill._                                           J. GUTTRIDGE.\n\n  *.* We understand that the whole amount of subscriptions to this\n  benevolent institution is under L120.\n\n\n                     THE REV. L. S. E.'s PUBLICATION.\n\n (COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, A MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.)\n\n_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\n  DEAR SIR,\n\nAs you were so kind as to favour me with the loan of a publication,\nentitled \"_Letters to a Dissenting Minister, by L. S. E., containing\nRemarks on the Principles of the Sect_,\" &c., and to request my opinion\nof its merits and tendency, I have put down what occurred to me on the\nperusal of some parts of its contents: to have toiled through the whole\nof it, was a task to which my patience was by no means equal.\n\nThe first impression produced on my mind was, the total absence of that\ncharity and forbearance so often enjoined in the holy Scriptures.\n\"_Judge not, that ye_ BE NOT JUDGED,\" was one of the precepts\ndelivered, in his first sermon, by our divine Lord and Master; and in\naccordance with this direction, when his disciples, instigated by a\nmistaken regard for his cause, came to him complaining that they had met\nwith some who followed not with them, and inquiring whether they should\nforbid them, his reply was, \"Forbid them not, for he that is not against\nus is with us.\" The apostle Paul recommended the same line of conduct\ntowards weak and mistaken brethren, and in the First Epistle to the\nCorinthians, which abounds with directions as to the conduct of\nprofessing Christians one towards another, he sums up the whole by a\nglowing description of _charity_, as superior to all other graces:\n\"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; thinketh no evil; hopeth all\nthings; endureth all things.\" To me it appears utterly impossible to\nreconcile these expressions with the arrogant pretensions and sweeping\ncensures of this writer, not only with respect to the overt conduct, but\nthe _motives_, of those who differ from him, charging them with a\nsin more heinous than drunkenness, and with being under the influence\nof the devil, because they cannot see alike with him respecting some\nof the circumstantials of Christianity, though they may agree as to\nthe essentials.\n\nBut the censorious language of the writer is not exhausted in the use of\nthe most opprobrious epithets, and such as have hitherto been only\nappropriate to the vilest of characters; but it is diffused through the\npages of his publication, by raking together and detailing anecdotes,\nwith a view to degrade and vilify individuals, and the body of\ndissenters at large. That there are imperfections and inconsistencies to\nbe found among the professors of religion, must be acknowledged; and has\nin every age been a source of lamentation to truly pious and devoted\nChristians; but how different their feelings from those of this\nclergyman, who endeavours to expose to ridicule the failings of others;\nwho dwells upon them with a kind of malignant pleasure, and thus affords\na handle to the common enemies of Christianity!\n\nAs to many of the anecdotes contained in this publication, many are\ngarbled and distorted, and some of them are, in many of their\nparticulars, palpable falsehoods. The very quotations from the writings\nof his opponents--though it must be conceded that at this period of\ngreat excitement many unguarded expressions have been used by some\nindividuals--are, some of them, so garbled and mangled as scarcely to\nbear any resemblance to the original, and calculated to convey a meaning\nvery different from what was intended by the writer.\n\nNot to dwell any longer on these statements, which occupy a considerable\nportion of the book, in the chapters on _the Authority of the Church_,\nand _the Ordination of Christian Ministers_, much will be found so\nextravagant in its assumptions, as to throw the pretensions of the\nchurch of Rome into the shades (within whose pale, if he had any regard\nfor consistency, he ought certainly to have been), and calculated to\nundermine and overthrow the grounds of the Protestant succession. They\nare indeed so full of absurdity as to amuse rather than offend, and\nexhibit in the clearest light the inability of L. S. E. to form a\ncorrect judgment, either as to matters of faith or practice. With all\nthe consequence and arrogance which assumed infallibility can induce, he\nmaintains that none ought to be teachers of religion but those who are\n_authorized_, or otherwise _specially inspired_ of God. According to his\ndefinition, an _authorized_ minister is one who has passed through the\nordeal of episcopal ordination, and what constitutes that authority is,\nthe _regular succession_ from the times of the apostles to the present\nperiod. In order to make this most important discovery of a regular\nsuccession, on which, in his estimation, so much depends, I have been\nemploying myself for some time, in rummaging the different volumes of\necclesiastical history within my reach, and endeavouring to trace the\nsuccession, from the time of Peter downwards; and upwards from the time\nof the Reformation. In the former case, there is great confusion in the\ncatalogue of bishops. Few of these are alike; some names of persons are\ngiven, who, there is reason to believe, never existed; there are many\nperiods entirely without names; and it is well known, that for some time\nthere were rival popes, each claiming exclusive authority. In tracing\nthese tainted and impure currents, where shall we discover, either\nbefore or after the Saxon invasion, the perennial stream which will\nalone confer sanctity on the priestly office?\n\nIn attempting to make discoveries in a retrograde movement, from the\ntime of the Reformation, we find the names of Bonner, Gardiner, &c.;\nthose immaculate characters, who, of course, transmitted this divine\nauthority, and afterwards committed those to whom they had given it to\nthe flames. In this lack of information on so momentous a subject, L. S.\nE.--_alias_ the Rev. Augustus Gathercole--will confer an invaluable\nbenefit on the church to which he belongs, if he can produce, from his\nhidden stores, in the musty parchments which have been concealed for\nages, the direct and unbroken line of succession, and append it to the\nnext edition of his popular production. Of course the dissenters can\nhave no pretensions to be _authorized_ teachers on these grounds; and\nnot more so, as having _a special inspiration from God_ to become\nteachers, which is represented by this writer as the only other ground\nof a call to this office. It is true that some enthusiasts, with whom,\nas a body, they have no connexion, have laid claim to this high\nprerogative; but the avowed sentiment of the nonconformist body is, that\nthe supernatural powers connected with a _special inspiration_ from God\nceased with the first ages of Christianity. The Holy Spirit, in his\nordinary and gracious operations, is promised to all good men, and\nespecially to the ministers of the gospel, who, whether professing to be\nauthorized teachers in the way before described or not, are insufficient\nin themselves for any good work, their sufficiency being of God, who\nalone can make them able ministers of the New Testament. Destitute of\nthis, the hands of the bishop cannot confer any of the necessary\nqualifications.\n\nIf none have any claim to the sacred office but those who have had\nepiscopal ordination, or are specially inspired, not only the present\nrace of teachers among different denominations, both Methodists and\nregular Dissenters, must be degraded to the rank of intruders, whatever\nsuccess may have attended their labours; but the same will apply to the\n2,000 ministers of whom the world was not worthy, the brightest\nornaments of the church to which the reverend gentleman belongs, who\nwere expelled from their situations by the act of uniformity. Also the\nministers of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, of which, as well as\nof the church of England, the king, by his representative, is the head,\nwith many of the most eminent men who have flourished in these and\nforeign lands. Whatever excellences the universal suffrage of the wisest\nand best of men, both Churchmen and Dissenters, have attributed to the\nwritings and public labours of an Owen, a Howe, a Charnock, a Watts, a\nDoddridge (the intimate friend of Archbishop Secker), a Henry, with a\nlong train of others that might be enumerated, they must now retire into\nthe shades, and pass into oblivion, because this infallible judge has\nmade it out that they were not _authorized teachers_. Like their\nsuccessors, they were incompetent to administer the ordinances aright;\nlike them, to use his own language, they could not lay _claim to be\nconsidered as Christians. They were without the pale of the visible\nchurch of God. As schismatics, who forsook the church, they ought to\nhave been the very first persons to whom the church should have refused\nher burial service; the principles of independency, which they in\ngeneral maintained, being those of depraved human nature instilled into\nman, and fostered in him by his great enemy the devil, who was the first\ndissenter._\n\nWhatever inconveniences or evils may attend the choice of their own\nteachers by each respective congregation, the imposition of teachers is\nfar from being free from the most serious objections, and especially\nwhen the patronage is in the hands of persons, as it often is,\nregardless of the spiritual welfare of the flock, who are left in a\nstarving condition, and too often feel no interest either in the\npreacher or his doctrine.\n\nBut I forbear, and shall leave it to a discerning public to determine\nwhether the contents of this unique publication--a specimen of which is\nnow given, can do any service to the church of which the Rev. A.\nGathercole prides himself as being a member, or do any credit to the\njudgment of the reverend clergymen and the lordly bishop, who have\ncondescended to give it their sanction.\n\nFor myself (and I can without hesitation say the same of those with whom\nI am connected), I have no wish to see the downfal of the venerable\nfabric of the church, though in its patronage, often improperly used,\nand in some of its formularies, particularly the baptismal service and\nothers connected with it, I think I see much that calls for alteration.\nMany of its ministers and members I respect, and wish to consider them\nas fellow-Christians. To this however, in the estimation of the Rev. A.\nGathercole, I have no right to lay a claim, and must not therefore\npresume to subscribe myself by any other name than that with which he\ndesignates every Dissenter,--\n\n                                            A HEATHEN MAN AND A PUBLICAN.\n\n\n    ON THE PROPRIETY OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN DISSENTING CHAPELS.\n\n               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\nI trust your candour will permit me, through the medium of your\nexcellent publication, shortly to reply to some remarks that were made,\nand I think rather hastily, in your last number, relative to the\nintroduction of instrumental music in dissenting places of worship. Your\ncorrespondent, Mr. Wilkin, I am fearful, was not in the most composed\nframe of mind when he sat down to pen the communication alluded to. The\nsounds of the instrument which he states to have \"greeted\" him with its\n\"hideous tones,\" must have been vibrating in his ears at the time, or he\ncould not have expressed sentiments bearing so close an affity to\nthose _discordant_ notes with which he professes to have been so much\nannoyed on his entering some Baptist chapel.\n\nFor my own part, I should deem no act inconsistent with the worship of\nGod, in its simplest and purest form, which has a tendency to create a\nunison of voices which must tend so materially to produce a unity of\nfeeling in the minds of those engaged in one of the most sublime parts\nof a religious service. I would only advocate the introduction of\ninstrumental music into dissenting chapels to assist the singing, not\nwhen it merely offers an opportunity for the display of professional\nskill. With regard to the parts of Scripture bearing upon the subject,\nthere are no direct commands in the New Testament, either for or against\nthe practice. We read in the Revelations of \"the harpers harping with\ntheir harps before the throne of God,\" while, in the Old Testament, we\nalso read of praising God on the high-sounding organ. Surely, if praise\nwas offered to God in this form with acceptance formerly, why shall it\nnot be so in the present day? Some of the Psalms have titles signifying\nthe author who was to set them to music, while others indicate the\ninstrument it was to be played upon; clearly denoting that the\naccompaniment of music, when directed to God with pious feeling and\nsincerity of purpose, cannot be unacceptable, and consequently not\ninconsistent with the worship of the Divine Being; so that, so far from\nits being a departure from Scripture, it appears to me to be an\nadherence to it. Your correspondent states that, if he is wrong, he is\nopen to correction. I trust, also, he is open to conviction, and\nsincerely hope he will not let early prejudices bias his mind to that\nextent as to pervert his judgment, or gain the ascendancy of his nobler\nand better feelings.\n\n                                                                 MUSICUS.\n\n_London, Feb. 7, 1835._\n\n\n                                 POETRY.\n\n                           PLEADING FOR MERCY.\n\n  When at thy footstool, Lord, I bend,\n    And plead with Thee for mercy there,\n  Think of the sinner's dying Friend,\n    And for His sake receive my prayer.\n  O think not of my shame and guilt,\n    My thousand stains of deepest dye:\n  Think of the blood which Jesus spilt,\n    And let that blood my pardon buy.\n\n  Think, Lord, how I am still Thy own,\n    The trembling creature of Thy hand;\n  Think how my heart to sin is prone,\n    And what temptations round me stand.\n  O think how blind and weak am I;\n    How strong and wily are my foes:\n  They wrestled with Thy hosts on high,\n    And can a worm their might oppose?\n\n  O think upon Thy holy word,\n    And every plighted promise there;\n  How prayer should evermore be heard,\n    And how Thy glory is to spare.\n  O think not of my doubts and fears,\n    My strivings with Thy grace divine:\n  Think upon Jesus' woes and tears,\n    And let his merits stand for mine.\n\n  Thine eye, Thine ear--they are not dull;\n    Thine arm can never shortened be:\n  Behold me here!--my heart is full----\n    Behold! and spare, and succour me.\n  No claim, no merits, Lord, I plead:\n    I come a humbled, helpless slave:\n  But, ah! the more my guilty need,\n    The more Thy O glory Lord, to save.\n\n\n                                REVIEWS.\n\n_Revealed Characteristics of God: in a Series of Essays._ By G. BARROW\n    KIDD, Minister of Roe Street, Macclesfield.--Westley and Davis.\n\n\nWho Mr. Kidd is we know not, but we have read his eighteen essays with\ngreat satisfaction; and we shall be greatly surprised if they do not\ncontribute to make him far more widely known than he has been. The\nsubjects are as follow: \"On the Divine nature--On the Eternity of God,\nin contrast with the Duration of Man--On the Act of Concealment, as\ncontaining the Divine Glory--On God, as the Dwelling-place of his\nPeople--On Ezekiel's Vision of the Divine Glory--On the Equality of all\nPeriods in the Sight of God--On the Divinity [Deity] of Jesus Christ--On\nthe Revealed Representation of Jesus Christ's two Natures--On the\nIncarnation of the Word of God--On the Design of the Death of Christ--On\nthe Atonement of Jesus Christ--On God, as the Original of Man's Love to\nhis Maker--On the Supremacy of Jesus Christ--On the Deity as in Jesus\nChrist, and in him alone--On the Deity as in Jesus Christ, and in all\nbelievers--On the Extent and Surrender of Jesus Christ's\nAdministration--On the Blessedness of Jesus Christ--On the Worship of\nHeaven.\" All these subjects are, it is obvious, important, evangelical,\nand interesting, in a very high degree, to those who believe in a divine\nrevelation.\n\nThe _spirit_ of these essays is eminently devotional; every essay is\nfull of Christ, and he is \"all in all.\" The writer believes all the\ngreat articles of the gospel system, as they are commonly held by\nevangelical Christians. Nor does he make any affectation of novelty or\nparadox, though, probably while unconscious of it himself, he has given\nus many original and uncommon thoughts. There is no pompous announcement\nof something to be expected very new, and recondite, and far removed\nfrom the beaten track. A holy unction from above seems to have rested on\nthe writer; and though he is very grave and serious throughout, the\nreader will find some lively and tender appeals to his conscience and to\nhis heart, mixed with long trains of elevated sentiment, and chains of\nreasoning very close and compact.\n\nThe _method_ is admirable for its simplicity. The _lucidus ordo_, which\nHorace prescribes, he has uniformly observed. Always anxious, first, to\ninvestigate the true sense of the scripture which he has selected for\nthe foundation of his essay, some of his elucidations, without any\ndisplay of critical apparatus, are singularly happy.\n\nAs to _style_, we think his _forte_ is in strength and vigour. Some long\nsentences (with parenthesis after parenthesis) involving thought within\nthought, have reminded us of the essays of our celebrated friend John\nFoster. We have observed many passages of great sublimity and splendour;\nand there are many of great depth, in which he finds \"fountains below\nfountains,\" to borrow his own words, when traversing the ocean of \"the\nunsearchable riches of Jesus Christ.\"\n\nWhere Mr. Kidd studied, or to what school he belongs, we have never\nheard; but he is evidently a profound, original, independent thinker,\nwriting out of his own mind. He has taken the thoughts, he says, \"out of\nthe mine of revealed truth.\" At the same time, it is pleasant to observe\nthat he every where discovers a deep reverence for scripture authority.\nHe is penetrated too with a strong conviction of the limits of all\ncreated minds. With chastened feelings he delights to soar aloft. He\nspreads his wings, and pursues a well-sustained upward flight, gazing\nwith a strong and steady eye on the Sun of righteousness, as the proper\nobject of all human and all angelic contemplation.\n\nA few words from the \"advertisement\" may be acceptable to our readers.\nThe author mentions \"the fact, that no two persons in any world\nentertain precisely the same intellectual views; and that, consequently,\nevery sincere contemplator of revealed beauty, whatever may be his\ncapacity, has it in his power to make broader the reflected light of\nGod's word; and that the utmost efforts of human beings on earth,\nhowever diversified, and however harmonious in their diversity, will be\nno more than an approximation to the revealed mind of God.\"\n\nThe volume is neatly got up, and printed with remarkable care and\naccuracy. Our limits will permit only a few extracts.\n\n  \"If nothing were forgotten, if a distinct impression were\n  retained of all the words which he had ever spoken; of all the\n  deeds which he had ever done; of all the thoughts which he had\n  ever entertained; of all the places in which he had ever been;\n  of all the persons whom he had at any time seen and conversed\n  with; of all the words which he had ever heard; of all the\n  pleasures which he had ever tasted and enjoyed; of every\n  remonstrance from conscience; of every warning or invitation\n  from God or man; and could he, moreover, have continually in\n  his view these things in the precise order in which they all\n  occurred; could he behold every cause and every effect; and\n  every thing which he had been invisibly operating so as to\n  prevent a manifest cause from producing the effect which might\n  have been looked for as the usual one; and every thing, on the\n  other hand, which had secretly assisted a cause apparently\n  inadequate to produce a greater effect than could have been\n  anticipated; how very different a thing from what it is would\n  be human life! Now, although this accurate remembrance from\n  vivid impressions of the past is not man's prerogative on\n  earth, yet it is easily conceivable that he might attain to\n  this in a purer and brighter world. It cannot, indeed, be\n  imagined that the angels do not remember every thing which has\n  occurred during the whole of their wakeful being.\" pp. 28, 29.\n\nIn another place, when referring to the Messiah, he says,--\n\n  \"He has, in one word, adapted himself to your circumstances.\n  It was in all the defective and sinful parts of your history\n  that he was likely to be the least capable of affording to you\n  succour or supply. It was in the pity that your misery\n  demanded; in the forbearance that your propensity to crime\n  required; in the minute example that your dulness called for;\n  in the suffering which was necessary for your deliverance;\n  that there was apparently the greatest occasion to the sinner\n  for apprehension and fear. But all these parts of the\n  condition of the human fallen, their Redeemer has met in a\n  manner which bespeaks wisdom the most amazing, benevolence\n  that defies adequate admiration. With the view that has been\n  given of Jesus Christ, in this essay, we cannot reasonably\n  allow ourselves to be subject to despondency; for finite,\n  little, imperfect, diminutive, frail, occupying so small a\n  portion of creation as we are, we cannot possibly despair of\n  being complete in Him, in whom dwells all the fulness of the\n  Godhead bodily. Oh, let us then unite ourselves to Him in the\n  bond of a covenant which can never be dissolved.\" p. 321.\n\nTowards the close of the 16th essay, he exclaims:\n\n  \"Oh, what honour is accumulating in the world above! We inform\n  them of a morning which is not to be succeeded by night; of a\n  subjection which is more illustrious than all the victories\n  that the universe will have ever before beheld; of a finite\n  nature which is clothed with eternal and uncreated light; of\n  the very last of all the complicated actions belonging to the\n  redemption of the world; when Jesus Christ shall bring before\n  his Father the millions that He has saved from every species\n  and degree of crime and degradation, for the purpose of\n  introducing them to everlasting fellowship with Jehovah; and\n  when _He_ shall become subject, to whom perpetual supremacy\n  belongs, in order that He may show to saints and angels what\n  has been the greatness of His humiliation, and how unutterable\n  is the grandeur of God; since when He has risen from infancy\n  in Bethlehem on earth, to a degree of strength, of lustre, of\n  possession, and of renown, which all created capacity is\n  inadequate to comprehend, the next degree of glory above this,\n  is an act of voluntary subjection to his heavenly Father;\n  which the honours of the supreme throne, and the laws of\n  infinite existence, require.\" p. 365.\n\n\n  _Dissent not Schism. A Discourse delivered in the Poultry Chapel,\n        December 12th, 1834, at the Monthly Meeting, &c._\n             By T. BINNEY--Robinson, 25, Ludgate Hill.\n\nVery elaborate, acute, argumentative, instructive, and convincing.\nThe term _schism_, Mr. B. tells us, is literal, figurative, or\necclesiastical; but query, is not the ecclesiastical figurative? If\nso, the division is only twofold. Dr. Campbell's Dissertations (art,\nheresy and schism) deserve to be consulted.\n\nMr. B., when referring to the three great forms of church\ngovernment--episcopacy, presbyterianism, and congregationalism, has\nsurprised us a little, by saying:--\n\n  \"There is something in the record in favour of all; but the\n  book is not the exclusive property of any. There is more,\n  perhaps, in support of each than the thorough-going advocates\n  of the others will admit. There is more of episcopacy than is\n  quite palatable to the presbyterian and the independent; there\n  is more of presbyterianism than the independent and the\n  episcopalian can easily digest; and there is more of\n  congregationalism than either the priest or the presbyter can\n  manage to get rid of.\" p. 69.\n\nIs this to be understood _cum grano salis_, or are we left to infer that\nthe worthy author himself is not quite settled in his own mind as to the\ninterpretation of the record?\n\nIt might have been as well if Mr. B. had confined himself to Dissenters,\n_as such_; however, his animadversions on the Methodists and the\nstrict-communion Baptists, pp. 81-83, will do them no harm.\n\nHis castigation of the present bishop of London, in the \"notes,\" is not\nmore severe than just. The bishop will remember it as long as he lives.\n\nWe must make room for the concluding paragraph:--\n\n  \"Finally, let us all scrupulously attend to the nourishment\n  and exercise of the catholic principle. Let us impress upon\n  our minds the necessity of 'keeping the heart with all\n  diligence, for out of it' arise 'schisms' and 'strifes.' Let\n  us watch over ourselves, and guard against every circumstance\n  that may diminish candour, pervert the judgment, or poison the\n  affections. As Christians, let us war with what separates man\n  from God; as dissenters, with what separates Christian from\n  Christian. Let us seek the nearer approximation of church to\n  church, and the ultimate recognition and union of all. Let\n  each of us so enter into the spirit of our faith, and so feel\n  the propriety and understand the reasons of our ecclesiastical\n  position, as to be able to say with boldness and truth, 'I am\n  a Dissenter, because I am a Catholic; I am a separatist,\n  because I cannot be schismatical; I stand apart from some,\n  because I love all; I oppose establishments, because I am not\n  a sectarian; I think little of uniformity, because I long for\n  union; I care not about subordinate differences with my\n  brother, for CHRIST _has received him_, and so will _I_;\n  thus, cultivating the spirit of universal love, I am hastening, I\n  hope, that day when the world itself shall become the church,\n  and preparing, I trust, for that world in which the church\n  shall be ONE--one in faith, in feeling, and in worship; in a\n  higher sense than can be witnessed here. While here, however,\n  so far as the _spirit_ and _expression_ of affection is\n  concerned, I am longing to witness and realize some approach\n  to what I anticipate hereafter,--anticipate in that region\n  where, amid the lustre and the loveliness of heaven, the jars\n  and the jealousies of earth shall have passed away.' This,\n  brethren, _ought_ to be the feeling and the consciousness of\n  'all who profess and call themselves Christians.' It ought\n  pre-eminently to be ours. May God make it to be so, and to be\n  so universally, by pouring down upon his church the Spirit\n  from on high; and by diffusing and sustaining in every part of\n  it the strength of love, and the meekness of wisdom! Amen.\"\n\n\n_A Memoir of the Rev. James Upton, late of Church Street, Blackfriars;\nthe Addresses delivered at the Interment, by the Rev. G. Pritchard and\n    the Rev. W. B. Collyer, D.D., with the Funeral Sermons by the\n     Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. J. Davis, the Present Pastor._\n\nIn the November number of our last volume--which contains a brief\nmemorial of this revered and beloved servant of Christ--it is intimated\nas \"probable, that some account of our departed friend will appear in\nanother form.\" This account is contained in the small volume now before\nus. It has been prepared by the members of his family, by those who are\nengaged in proclaiming the truths of that blessed gospel which was the\ntheme of his ministry, and the solace of his dying hour. Hence the\nsorrows of the mourning relatives are alleviated by the most joyful\nanticipations, even while \"with tears they cast this wreath of filial\nduty and affection on his tomb.\"\n\nWe can, however, assure our readers that this tribute of natural esteem\nto the memory of a deceased parent--a feeling not always to be trusted\nin sketches of this description--has not produced in this instance an\novercharged exhibition of his character. If filial affection has held\nthe pencil, modesty and fidelity have guided its delineations. In a\nletter dated from St. Alban's, 1834, Mr. W. Upton thus writes:--\n\n  \"I would just remark, that neither my dear brother nor myself,\n  I am sure, pretend to eulogize our father as a faultless man,\n  or a faultless minister. In him the effects of a depraved\n  nature were seen as well as in others, but in him also were\n  seen, to a far greater degree than in most, the counteracting\n  and restoring influences of the gospel and the grace of God.\n  We feel therefore bound to say--not indeed with any design to\n  attribute unmerited honour to him, much less with a view to\n  borrow splendour from his rays, but with a desire to glorify\n  God, to encourage others, and to excite a holy emulation--that\n  \"he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith;\"\n  while by his instrumentality \"much people was added to the\n  Lord.\" p. 100.\n\nIn accordance with this sentiment, the elder brother, the principal\nwriter of the memoir, observes:\n\n  \"Now the Head of the church has called him to his rest, it\n  would be improper not to make the attempt to 'glorify God in\n  him,' by gathering such facts respecting his early history and\n  subsequent course, as our slender materials for such a purpose\n  will furnish.\"\n\nThe scantiness of the materials which the life of this excellent man has\nsupplied to his biographer, though to his friends a matter of regret,\nwill be none of surprise to those who knew him. Modesty and diffidence\nseem to have been the native elements of his character; and humility,\ninducing a deep sense of his own unworthiness, constituted a\ncharacteristic feature of his renewed nature. To our departed brother,\nSELF had no attractions. It was not the idol of his idolatry; it was not\neven an object of his complacency. It was therefore scarcely to be\nexpected that he should contribute much to perpetuate the memory of one\nof whom he habitually entertained so lowly an estimate.\n\nIt appears, indeed, that Mr. Upton did at one time entertain the idea of\npreparing \"a short narrative of his own life,\" urged so to do by the\naffectionate request of a friend; but the purpose was afterwards\nabandoned, probably, in part at least, from the cause to which we have\nadverted. Humility is a beautiful garment; it is a lovely and attractive\ngrace; but its tendency is to conceal from view the excellencies with\nwhich it is associated. Hence men who are remarkably humble will be but\nimperfectly known. These plants of righteousness, not less than others,\n\"have their fruit unto holiness;\" but they are like those of the\nvegetable kingdom, whose richest products are often concealed beneath\nthe broad foliage with which they are invested.\n\nMr. U. was, however, not only \"a tree which the Lord had planted,\" but\nhe was like those \"planted by the rivers of waters,\" he was eminently\nfruitful. A brief history of his connexion with the church over which he\nso long and so honourably presided, is modestly given by himself, in a\nletter to his son, dated November 9th, 1826, to which we must refer our\nreaders. It appears that from the date of 1791 to 1800, including a\nperiod of ten years, 293 persons were baptized and added to the church;\nand from 1800 to 1820, 350 more; and after all the changes produced by\ndeath and removals, the number of members at the time of his decease is\nstated to be probably above 400: on his first connexion with this pious\npeople there were but 16 members, and from 50 to 60 hearers. He was\npastor of the church more than forty-eight years, and entered into his\nrest in the seventy-fifth year of his age.\n\nThe contributions to the volume of the respected friends whose names are\ngiven in the title-page, cannot fail to add to its value. While they\nhave attempted to magnify the grace of God in him, and to improve the\nevent for the benefit of survivors, their concurrent testimony in\nrelation to the deceased seems to have been, \"Behold an Israelite\nindeed, in whom was no guile.\"\n\n\n  _The Reciprocal Duties of Church Members. A Sermon before the London\n    Baptist Association._ By the REV. EDWARD STEANE. pp. 44.--London:\n    Thomas Ward and Co. 27, Paternoster Row.\n\nWe have read this sermon with considerable satisfaction, both on its own\naccount, and on that of the Association to which it is dedicated. An\nAssociation must do good which calls for such clear, faithful, and\ninstructive expositions of Christian duty, as this sermon furnishes. Mr.\nS. founds his discourse on John xiii. 34; and, as we think, wisely\nselects as his chief topic of illustration, that mutual love which Jesus\nChrist enjoins upon all disciples, and out of which the reciprocal\nduties of Church members will naturally flow, as \"so many practical\ndemonstrations of their obedience to the law of love.\"\n\nThe nature of the love which our Lord inculcates, as a new commandment,\nis first explained in the sermon before us; though we doubt whether the\npreacher has put all, or even the principal, reasons for its being so\ndenominated. _New_, in the text as well as in several other\npassages--for instance, _new_ heavens and a _new_ earth--has always\nappeared to us to indicate especial excellence or paramount importance.\nThis commandment is not, as Mr. S. very properly observes, merely a\nrevival, a vindication, or fresh enforcement of the spirit of the\noriginal law.\n\n\"It is new,\" he says, \"in relation to the parties commended to its\nexercise, the peculiarity of its nature, and the motive by which it is\nenforced. Under the second of these particulars the remarks of the\npreacher are somewhat feeble. The discriminative differences of\nChristian love are not clearly and forcibly drawn. We are told that it\nis \"a spiritual principle--a supernatural endowment,--a property\nacquired in the process of that change by which Christians are born from\nabove.\" So is that love to our enemies which Christianity requires us to\ncherish.\n\nWe learn, further, that Christian love is \"something more than good\nwill; it is not simple humanity; it is brotherly love; an affection\nhaving its seat, not in the sympathy of the feelings, but in the\nsincerity of the heart.\" The distinction between \"sympathy of the\nfeelings\" and \"sincerity of the heart\" is not very obvious; but, passing\nthis, mere friendship, apart from Christianity, might be described in\nthe same terms. Mr. S. adds: Christian love is \"stronger than death; if\nneeds be, it will lead a Christian to that last act of a devoted and\ndivine friendship, to lay down his life for the brethren.\" True: so also\nis the love, not Christian, to which the apostle adverts, Rom. v. 7; and\nthat of which, now and then, the idea and the precept is given; nay, and\nthe example too, as Mr. S. must have known, by those to whom\nChristianity utterly unknown.\n\nMr. S. appears to us, at pp. 11, 12, to have somewhat too sweepingly\nintimated that an \"exclusive principle in the constitution of our\nchurches\" is indicative of a deficiency of the principle inculcated in\nthe text. He has gone out of his way for the observations introduced on\nthis point; and, as nineteen twentieths of the Christian world have\nalways been, and are now, thus exclusive, it is somewhat daring to\ninsinuate such a charge. If we take a narrower view of this subject, and\nregard only what are called _strict_ Baptists, whom Mr. S. appears to\nhave had in his eye, we should be unwilling to pronounce judgment on the\namount of the Christian love of such men as Kiffin, of olden time;\nFuller, Kinghorn, and a host of others, of more modern date.\n\nIn the second division of the sermon before us, the occasions and modes\nof fulfilling the new commandment of our Lord are exhibited. If all that\nMr. S. has remarked upon are not strictly modifications of that mutual\ncomplacency in which he appears to think Christian love consists, each\nis of such vast importance that it could be but ill spared. This\ncommandment, we are told, will be obeyed by affording _each other\nmutual_ (redundant) countenance, in supporting the public means of\ngrace; by embracing opportunities for social devotion and spiritual\nintercourse; by _mutual_ submission _to one another_, especially in\ncases where a difference of opinion exists; by treating offenders\nproperly; by mutually sympathizing, interchanging kindly offices, and\nwatching over one another in the spirit of meekness; and by a hearty\nco-operation with fellow-christians in whatever tends to promote the\nprosperity of the church, and the general interests of Christianity in\nthe world. These topics are respectively remarked upon with considerable\npropriety; as are also the motives enforcing this new commandment. These\nare, Christ's love to us; our mutual love will afford one of the best\nevidences of personal piety; it will make known our character to the\nworld; and it will exist for ever. We a little regret that Mr. S. has\nfallen into the common error of supposing faith and hope excluded from\nheaven. \"Faith and hope,\" he says, \"will expire; but love never dies.\"\nWe need not say that Scripture furnishes no ground for such a\nrepresentation; neither is such ground involved in the nature of faith\nand hope, or in the views the Bible opens to us of heaven. Under some of\ntheir present modifications faith and hope will indeed be unknown there;\nbut as much may be said of love. Do not the spirits of the just made\nperfect now anticipate, with faith and hope, \"the adoption; to wit, the\nredemption of the body?\" And will not the glorified assembly around the\nthrone of God be always anticipating large accessions to their\nknowledge, holiness, and joy?\n\nOn the whole, however, notwithstanding these free remarks, we cordially\nrecommend this sermon to our readers; and shall be glad, at any time, to\nmeet with the author in a department of Christian instruction for which\nhis habits and experience have so well qualified him.\n\n\n              BRIEF NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.\n\n_The Soul's Independence of Death, and God's Sovereignty in Man's\nRemoval. A Sermon occasioned by the Decease of Mr. E. Bliss, aged 22,\ndelivered on Sunday, February 1st, at Shortwood, by Thomas Fox Newman.\nLondon, Holdsworth and Ball, 1835._--This is a valuable sermon;\ncontaining many striking reflections, conceived with vigour, and\nexpressed with much force. The circumstances under which it was preached\nevidently exerted a powerful and solemn influence on the mind of the\npreacher, and he speaks throughout under a deep impression of the\ninfinite importance of eternal things. The unexpected death of so\nestimable a young man as Mr. Bliss appears to have been, was calculated\nto excite the liveliest emotions of grief, although there was every\nthing in his character to allay anxiety respecting himself, and to give\nthe assurance of his having entered, thus early, upon the joys of the\nblessed. It will afford us sincere pleasure if our brief notice shall\naid the circulation of the sermon, and thus contribute to its\nusefulness.\n\n_A Discourse occasioned by the Decease of William Maynard, Esq.,\npreached at the Meeting-house, Union Street, Southwark, Nov. 23rd, 1834.\nBy John Arundel. With the Address delivered at the Interment, Bunhill\nFields. Westley and Davis; Jackson and Walford._--A very serious,\nsuitable, evangelical discourse, which could not be heard without great\ninterest, and will not be read, we trust, without profit.\n\n_The Parent's Book. A Series of Tales. By Rosa Edwena Gordon, Nos. 1 and\n2. Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row._--Very sensible, entertaining,\nelegant and pathetic; but where is the Saviour, whom every parent should\nplace before the eyes of his children?\n\n_The Mother's Magazine. Reprinted from the American Edition, No. 18. J.\nPaul, Paternoster Row._\n\n_Illustrations of the Bible from Original Paintings, by Westall and\nMartin, with Descriptions by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B. D. part 10.\nChurton, 26, Holles Street._--An admirable work for all our young\nreaders.\n\n_Primitive Christianity, &c. By William Cave, D.D. Hatchard._--The\nintroductory essay by Mr. Trollope is very respectable; but we lament to\nsay, that in Dr. Cave's popular work, now reprinted under the especial\npatronage of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, there are many\ntraditions, fables, and idle ceremonies of human invention, which\n\"primitive Christianity,\" or the religion of the first Christians, was\nnot encumbered with. But, alas! \"in the first ages of the gospel,\" her\nfair form was corrupted and defiled.\n\n_The Devotional Psalter._ \"There is not a page of the book of Psalms in\nwhich the pious reader will not find his Saviour, if he reads with a\nview of finding him.\" Bishop Horsley.--Oliphant and Sons, Edinburgh.\n\n_Bible Lives. By B. H. Draper, 2 Vols. Westley and Davis._--Mr. Draper's\nentertaining pen could not be better employed than in such a work as\nthis, from which, we trust, hundreds and thousands of young persons will\nderive both pleasure and profit.\n\n_Common Scenes Improved by the Rev. James Smith, late of Ilford--Christ\nPrecious--The Temper of Jesus, by Dr. Grosvenor--Gilbert's Last\nBirth-Day--Christ the only Foundation. Ward and Co._--All fit\ninstruments for much usefulness.\n\n_The Condensed Commentary, &c. Ward and Co._--The commencement is\npromising. We hope to be able to notice this cheap and valuable work\nmore at large in its progress.\n\n_Bruce on Sympathy, 2nd Edition._--This respectable book we recommended\nseveral years ago, and we heartily do so again.\n\n_The British and Foreign Temperance Advocate and Herald. For January.\nPrice Threepence._\n\n_On the Punishment of Death. By John Pell. Hamilton and Co._--This\nletter to the Marquis of Northampton, dated from Yardley, Hastings, in\nDecember last, is very powerfully written on Evangelical principles; and\ndeserves the most profound consideration on the part of our\nlegislators--and indeed of all our countrymen. The object is to prove\nthat the punishment of death is unlawful.\n\n_Three Tracts on Public, Secret, and Social Prayer. Jackson and\nWalford._--When the reader has heard that these tracts were written by\nMr. Sheppard, of Frome, he will not want any recommendation.\n\n_Educational Magazine, No 1. Simpkin and Marshall._--If this work\nproceeds as it has commenced, it will throw a flood of light upon the\ndarkness of our own beloved country and of others.\n\n_The Scriptural Constitution of Christian Churches. A Discourse\ndelivered November 13th, 1834, at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Penman,\nA.M., to the Pastorship of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge, Kent.\nBy Thomas James, Woolwich. Westley and Davis._--A very sensible, clear,\nand candid discourse on a subject always interesting, and peculiarly so\nat the present time. The author, when referring to 1 Tim. iii. 17, \"Let\nthe _elders_ that rule well,\" &c., remarks: \"That the term _elder_\ncomprehends the office of deacon, is manifest from this:\" but we confess\nit is not manifest to us. We have great satisfaction, however, in\ncopying the following sentence in reference to the deacons: \"And they\nshould be sufficient in number to render unnecessary the many expedients\nto which some churches have resorted, in the appointment of managers,\nstewards, and committees, which are as unscriptural as the high sounding\ntitles which are given to the multiplied officers of the national\nchurch.\"\n\n_James's Anxious Inquirer--Morison's Morning Meditations--Anecdotes (The\nYoung)--Stephen Morell's Family Memorial--Case's Mount Pisgah._--Of\nthese it is sufficient recommendation to say that they are published or\nrepublished by 'The Religious Tract Society.'\n\n\n                                  OBITUARY.\n\n                          MR. SAMUEL WARMINGTON.\n\nMr. Samuel Warmington was the youngest of a numerous family. He had\nenjoyed many religious advantages from early childhood, and had grown up\nin the society of persons many of whom were distinguished for their\nprudence and piety. His early youth was strictly moral, and gave\npromising indications of future worth. He had much simplicity of\npurpose, with a remarkable freedom from those moral taints which many\nyouths imbibe as they rise into manhood. He enjoyed no particular\nendowments of mind that might serve to distinguish or raise him above\nhis fellows; but he possessed those more useful characteristics which\nattracted the respect and love of the circle by whom he was best known.\nNaturally of a retiring disposition, he avoided many worldly dangers and\ntemptations, and acquired a salutary acquaintance with his own heart in\nprivate. In due time, God, in infinite mercy, though by a very gradual\nprocess, created him anew in Christ Jesus. This change was seen and felt\nby himself and others, not so much in the outward conduct, as by the\nflow of feeling and affection towards subjects of the highest\nimportance. He united himself to the church under the pastoral care of\nthe Rev. Dr. Newman, about three years since; and from that period has\nconstantly maintained an exemplary Christian deportment, though\ncircumstances over which he had no control prevented his fulfilling his\nduties as a church member as he could have wished.\n\nHe was soon subjected to the discipline of his heavenly Father, who\ncorrecteth every son whom he receiveth. A tender attachment he had\nformed for a very accomplished and pious young lady was reciprocated and\nmutually cherished, till it became interrupted by her illness and death.\nThe excitement consequent on the commencement and ripening of this\naffection, under circumstances so mournful, gave the first development\nof incipient disease. His friends observed its effects with concern, but\nnot with alarm. In the meantime his mind had been acquiring both\nfortitude and dignity. The warmest sympathies of his heart had been\ndrawn forth on behalf of his fading, dying friend; but, at the same\ntime, he had been brought so near to the realities of the eternal world\nas never to lose the impression afterwards. The beneficial effects this\ntrial had upon his character was evident to all who observed him. He\nmingled again amidst the busy scenes of life with feelings of heartfelt\ngratitude for the grace and mercy which had been manifested towards his\nlate friend, and with renewed devotion to the God who had mingled so\nlarge a share of parental love with the affliction he had appointed him\nto endure. He likewise mingled in scenes of family affliction with much\nsensibility and a matured judgment. He did his part, with other\nbrothers, in solacing a mother's dying pillow by his prayers and by\nother filial attentions.\n\nAnd thus it was that he became gradually prepared for the dissolution of\nthe earthly house of his _own_ tabernacle. Symptoms of disease were\nrenewed and accumulated, so as to awaken apprehension as to their issue.\nHe retired from the avocations of business with graceful submission to\nthe divine will, and zealously applied himself to means for the recovery\nof health. Testimonials of respect from his late employers, and his\ncompanions, frequently followed him into retirement, either at his\nfather's house, or at some distant part of the country. The last journey\nhe undertook was to Dover, where his stay was short and distressing. He\nreturned home much worse, and with slight alternations of disease,\nslowly sunk beneath its influence.\n\nUnder the paternal roof he enjoyed those soothing attentions his case\nrequired; and often mentioned, with touching emotion, his gratitude to\nGod for giving him so kind a father, and such affectionate sisters, to\nalleviate his last affliction. One of these sisters, herself the subject\nof long affliction, was frequently detained with him from public\nworship, and on such seasons of sacred tranquillity, would read and\nconverse with him. When too weak to bear either, he would lament his\nwant of energy; but regarding it as a part of his affliction, desired to\nsubmit to it with acquiescence as the will of God. He would say, \"I\ndepend on the quiet, though powerful, teaching of the Holy Spirit; who\nwill, himself, impress the truth on my mind.\" At other times he would\nsay, \"Read one of those sublime chapters at the conclusion of the\nRevelations, to draw my thoughts towards heaven.\" He was fond of the\nPilgrim's Progress, and said of it, \"In my weak state, it is the only\nbook I can listen to with ease or profit, besides the Bible.\" When he\nspoke of the providence of God, it was always with evident satisfaction:\nhe would say, \"I am quite helpless, unable to do any thing for my own\nmaintenance, or for the benefit of others; but I am so perfectly\nsatisfied to cast all my care on the kindness and wisdom of God, that I\ndo not desire to have a choice if I might. If my health be restored, I\nknow he can direct my pursuits; and for the present, all is infinitely\nbetter than I could have arranged.\" On another occasion, he said to one\nof his sisters, \"I should like to know Mr Beale's opinion (his medical\nattendant) of my disorder: if he thinks it will terminate fatally, I\nhope he will tell me: I am not alarmed at the thought of death.\" And\nshortly afterwards, added, \"What a mercy it is that I have not _now_ to\nseek the Saviour, nor go to him now for the _first_ time: this is a\nseason when I need the comfort and support of religion.\" On the evening\nof the same day, he enjoyed great composure of mind; and when referring\nto his departure, he said, \"He trusted, as a family, we should all meet\nagain: the separation would not be for long.\" He frequently requested to\nhear the 23rd Psalm read, saying, \"Though I can repeat it, I like to\nhear it.\" A few days after confinement to his own room, he said to one\nof his sisters, \"I shall never go down into the parlour again; I feel I\nam sinking; I can hardly describe my sensations of weakness.\" It was\nreplied, that should it be so, it would be gain to him. He was asked if\nhe felt any distress in the prospect, as to the actual pain of dying. He\nsaid, \"No, my thoughts go beyond that; I endeavour to keep them fixed on\nthe bright side--the glory that shall follow.\" On another occasion he\nwas assisted to walk to the window of his apartment, and, looking out\nupon the garden, he said, \"Ah! there is the garden I used to enjoy, it\nlooks very winterly now, and I shall never walk there again; but I am\nquite satisfied.\" When alluding to his departure, he said, \"He hoped it\nmight be like falling asleep. Oh! to fall asleep, and wake in the\nlikeness of Jesus!\" His bodily sufferings were often very severe;\nespecially as he drew near his end. On one occasion, when suffering\nextreme agony, he asked, \"If it was proper to pray for an object\nseemingly desirable to ourselves!\" The answer implied, there was no\nrestriction; that we might call upon God in the day of trouble, asking\nfor any mercy in submission to his will. He rejoined, \"Oh! yes; _in\nsubmission to the will of God_, I do desire a little relief from pain;\nbut,\" he added, \"can you remind me of a _scripture_ example, where this\nhas been done; for my mind seems so weak, I cannot think?\" The words of\nthe apostle Paul were referred to: \"For _this thing_ I besought the\nLord,\" &c. And also the words of Jesus himself: \"If it be possible, let\n_this cup_ pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done.\"\nHe seemed earnestly to adopt this language, and became more composed.\nThe same evening he requested his father to pray with him; and being\nasked what he most desired, he said, \"That I may have patience, and bear\nthis affliction to the glory of God.\" He appeared to spend much of his\ntime in mental aspirations after spiritual support, and the presence of\nJesus. His oft-repeated request to his pious attendants was, \"Oh! pray\nfor complete acquiescence, and for the presence of Jesus.\" On one\noccasion, appearing to be greatly depressed, it was said to him, \"Though\nflesh and heart fail, God will be your strength and portion for ever:\"\nhe replied, \"Yes, he will; that is a mercy.\" After a pause, he said, \"I\nam anxious to have the presence of Jesus to the last:\" and added, \"Does\nnot Bunyan describe Christian as leaving his garments of mortality\nbehind him, when he passed through the river? How delightful that will\nbe!\" At another time, when his hand had been lanced and dressed, he\nsaid, \"I long to lay my poor hand in the dust; I long to be at rest.\"\nAfter a minute, he added, \"There is a rest purchased and ready for me;\nand I shall be put in possession in God's own time.\" He was exceedingly\ngrateful to those who attended him and administered to his necessities;\ntelling them, he wished they might have the same support he felt, when\nthey should be placed in circumstances similar to his. On an occasion of\nbodily infirmity, he very feelingly said, \"The righteousness of Christ\nwill soon cover all our shame.\" He continued in a state of extreme\ndebility and suffering for many days, waiting his departure in a\ncondition of child-like dependance on the mercy and faithfulness of his\nheavenly Father, reconciled to him, a guilty sinner, through the\natonement of his blessed Saviour. He longed to depart, and be with\nJesus; and would sometimes ask if it was wrong to pray for this\nblessing, hoping he might not be impatient or presumptuous.\n\nOn his last sabbath on earth, his medical friend, having felt his pulse,\nsaid to him, \"Well, Sir, I think you will soon be where there will be no\nmore pain and suffering.\" He replied, \"Not on account of anything of my\nown; it is purchased by the blood of Christ.\"\n\nSoon after this, through weakness, his articulation became indistinct,\nand dissolution appeared hourly approaching. He lingered, however, till\nthe following Thursday morning, under the influence of much bodily\nanguish, but having his mind calm--often apparently quite happy--as he\npassed along the dark valley. It seemed as though a beam of heaven's\nglory illuminated his path, to assure his soul of her coming bliss. He\nhad bid adieu to his affectionate relatives once before, deeming himself\nin the last struggle; but again, on the last morning, the mourning\nfamily were assembled around his bed, witnesses of his bodily distress;\nand to receive, more by expressive looks than by words, his final adieu.\nHe faintly said, \"Pray for me; pray for the presence of Jesus.\"\nAfterwards, with more distinctness than he had spoken for several days,\nhe added; \"Oh, blessed Jesus! _once more_, I implore thy love.\" One of\nhis sisters remarked, \"You will soon _rest_ in his love,\" quoting an\nappropriate promise; to which he rejoined, expressively, \"That is no\nmere speculation.\" He said no more, but apparently listened to that\nverse, commencing--\n\n\"Jesus, I love thy charming name,\" and in a few minutes closed his eyes\non all terrestrial scenes. He died on the 18th of December, 1834, at his\nfather's house, at Plaistow, Essex, aged twenty-seven years.\n\n\n                          RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.\n\n                                 FOREIGN.\n\n                                 CANADA.\n\n                _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\nDEAR SIR,\n\nI send you the two following letters, as they tend to throw some light\non the religious state of Canada. The details of the first are chiefly\nstatistical; and the extremely interesting communications in the other\nare illustrative of the important facts alluded to in the previous one.\nYour insertion of these in the Magazine as soon as possible, will much\noblige yours sincerely,                                    DOMESTICUS.\n\n_Hamsterley, Feb. 9th, 1835._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n                                           _Montreal, 6th Nov. 1834._\n\nMY DEAR BROTHER,\n\nThe receipt of yours gave me great pleasure. I was happy to learn that\nyou were so deeply interested in Canada. It does appear to me the duty\nof our denomination to do something for it; and I have no doubt that, if\nit were properly advocated, something would be done. I am deeply\nconvinced that to do good in this world, it is necessary to keep one\nobject chiefly in view. Now, my brother, suppose you keep Canada before\nyou, and introduce it frequently to the notice of our brethren on your\nside of the water, much good might be done. I have written several\nletters, this fall, to different individuals, soliciting their\nattention, and have now sat down to answer some of your queries. My\nremarks particularly apply to Lower Canada.\n\n1. By the census in 1831, the population of Lower Canada was 511,000; of\nthese, more than 100,000, were Catholics. There are, at present, two\nCatholic bishops in the province: the bishop of Quebec, who resides at\nQuebec; and the bishop of Telemesse, who resides at Montreal. The number\nof Catholic clergymen is about 150. The influence of these is very\ngreat, and I hesitate not to say, very pernicious, both in a temporal\nand spiritual point of view. Nothing has yet been done to evangelize\nthis people. Here and there, indeed, I have met with a person brought to\nknow the Lord, through reading the Scriptures. Be it observed, however,\nthat few of them can read, and those that can are chiefly females. I am,\nhappy, however, to state, that a missionary, Mr. Olivier, from the\nCanton de Vaud, has arrived, I hope good will result from his labours.\n\n2. The Episcopalians are, I suppose, the most numerous Protestant body\nat present in the Lower province. The two Canadas compose one diocese,\nunder the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Hon. and Right Rev. Charles\nStewart, D. D., Lord Bishop of Quebec. The number of Episcopal clergy in\nthe province is twenty-eight. With a few happy exceptions, I fear vital\ngodliness is not a prevailing article in this body.\n\n3. Presbyterians, of the church of Scotland, by the census of 1831, were\nabout 15,000. The number of ministers twelve: of these, six are in the\ncities of Quebec and Montreal. According to the report of this year,\n1834, they have increased to forty churches, and forty ministers. These\nare also said to be formed into five presbyteries. This, however,\nrelates to both provinces. In regard to what may be termed the\nDissenting Presbyterians, there are seven or eight churches, and five\nministers in this province; and in the Upper, there is a synod of the\nsecession: but the number of presbyteries in connexion with it, and the\nnumber of churches and ministers in connexion with each of these, I have\nnot as yet been able to ascertain.\n\n4. In respect to the Congregationalists, they have seven or eight\nchurches, and four ministers. I do not know precisely what they have in\nthe Upper province; perhaps four or five more.\n\n5. The Methodists, in both provinces have 14,000 in society, and sixty\npreachers. They also print a paper, called \"The Christian Guardian.\"[A]\n\n[Footnote A: This, I was told lately by Dr. Matheson, of Durham, is a\nmost efficient instrument of usefulness in America. Our people should\ntry to get one up.]\n\nIn fine, here, as to Protestants in general, in the Lower province, the\ngreater part are not gathered into regularly organized congregations, no\ninconsiderable portion of them being scattered in the Catholic\nsettlements. To sum up, there are in the province about sixty ministers\nto 100,000 people. You could easier, however, supply 500,000 in England\nthan 100,000 here, owing to bad roads, and the scattered state of the\npeople. I am sorry to add, that I fear only twenty out of the sixty are\nefficient men.\n\nI now come to our own denomination. There is, however, much difficulty\nin collecting definite information concerning it. Seldom able to leave\nmy own church, personal observation is defective, and most of the\ninformation I have is through report. I begin with what are called the\nEastern Townships. This is a district of country lying on the south of\nthe St. Lawrence, and bordering on the States. It is from 60 to 100\nmiles east of Montreal; 30 of which are occupied in passing what is\ncalled the French Country. There are in it between 40 and 50,000\ninhabitants. The land is good, but the people in general are poor. Most\nof these have emigrated from the States, where the means of grace were\nenjoyed by them. They are still disposed to have the gospel preached. I\nam credibly informed that there are among them twenty or thirty little\nBaptist churches. They would be styled General Baptists in England; here\nthey are denominated Free-will Baptists. They are ill supplied with\nwholesome teaching. They are also rather wild in their meetings, being\nmore disposed to consult their own feelings than the word of God. Many\nof them, however, are decidedly good people. Were our General Baptist\nfriends in England to send out a missionary or two into this district,\nthey would confer, under God, a lasting benefit on this people. I wish\nvery much the General Baptists at home would take the matter into deep\nand serious consideration. It presents a fine field, for labour. But, in\naddition to these, there are, perhaps, from fifteen to twenty churches\nof our own denomination. These are miserably supplied with preachers, as\nnot above three or four of the churches have regular pastors; the others\nhave only occasional supplies. An itinerant here is much needed, would\nbe of great service, and could be maintained at small expense. Oh, my\nbrother, if you can, by any means, get a good, humble, prudent man, send\nhim into that field. I wish our denomination would take the subject into\nimmediate consideration. I have visited some of these churches, and the\npeople seemed exceedingly glad. Could an itinerant be supported for a\nyear or two, he would then, it is likely, not need further support.\nThere are some young persons of good natural abilities who, with a\nlittle training, would be of immense service. I have met with such young\nmen, and longed to be able to point out a seminary to them, whither they\nmight have gone for a season.[B] I purpose, God willing, two months\nhence, to spend a week or two in this district, and shall transmit the\nresult to you. Itinerants are much wanted in this country, on account of\nthe scattered population, bad roads, &c. I know one township in which\nthere had not been preaching for seven years: a missionary paid them a\nvisit, and the whole township turned out to hear. He visited them a year\nafterwards; but during the interval they had not heard a sermon. The\nmain efforts have been made by a very pious and zealous young man of the\nname of Hayt, who has been very active in establishing Sunday-schools,\nand supplying families with copies of the Scriptures. Without\nmissionaries, however, these schools will most assuredly languish and\ndie.\n\n[Footnote B: Who, on the perusal of this, does not feel a desire to\nassist these young men to a seminary? And who that knows our brother\nGilmore, but will be led to conclude that he is the man who is most\nlikely to become their tutor? I intend immediately to write to him to\ninquire how much it would require there to educate six young men; and\nshall then, if spared, appeal to the public in their behalf.]\n\nWe shall now turn westward: and, proceeding up the Ottawa, on its\nnorthern banks, about forty-five miles from Montreal, there is a Baptist\nchurch of nearly thirty members: they speak Gallic, yet understand\nEnglish; and have a high character as it regards moral conduct. They are\nwithout the regular ministrations of a pastor, but meet for mutual\nedification: they are, however, anxious to have regular preaching. About\nthirty miles from them, there is another Highland settlement. About two\nyears ago, a Mr. Fraser, a Baptist minister, paid them a visit. It was\nthe first sermon preached there, as supposed, from the foundation of\nthe world. The people themselves had not heard a sermon for the five\nyears they had been settled there. About seventy-five miles from\nMontreal, in the same direction, is another Baptist church, of about\nforty members: they have a good chapel, an excellent pastor, and, at\nthis very moment, God is visiting them with a most refreshing shower;\nmany are awakened to concern, and numbers have found peace, and are\nrejoicing in God our Saviour. I have just been sent for to come and\nhelp, and set off to-morrow morning. Again, twenty-five miles onward, in\nthe same direction, is a Baptist church of thirty members: they have a\npastor. We have sent a missionary about twenty miles farther; he left my\nhouse yesterday morning: there are a few Baptist families where he has\ngone, but no church has been organized; they have requested him to\nlabour among them. About forty miles farther, there is another little\nBaptist church, and after this, in that direction, they become rather\nplentiful; but they are then in the Upper province, and my information\nrespecting them is but scanty. A Baptist minister, in the Newcastle\ndistrict, writes me as follows, in consequence of some queries I had put\nto him: \"In the Upper province there are four Baptist associations,\nabout sixty churches, and forty ordained ministers. I am sorry to say we\nlabour under great disadvantages. Our preachers are generally unlearned\nmen, and destitute of useful books. There are many of them under the\nnecessity of attending to secular employments to support themselves and\nfamilies: this arises from our friends not feeling an inclination to\nfulfil the duty taught by Paul, 'Let him that is taught in the word\ncommunicate to him that teacheth in all good things.' I hope, however,\nthat things will not long continue in this sad state. We have recently\nbeen endeavouring to form a convention, and appoint a minister in each\nof the associations to visit the churches, for the purpose of raising\nsubscriptions to support itinerant preachers, and establish a printing\npress: how far the attempt will be attended with success is as yet\nuncertain.\" In addition to the statements of this gentleman, I may\nmention, that they had also a seminary in view: this, as yet, has not\nbeen carried into effect. As to academies, they are much wanted there,\nand might be established at a very small expense on the self-supporting\nprinciple. It is a little remarkable, that at the time you were writing\nyour letter for the Magazine, three of us, brother ministers, were\nengaged in prayer and consultation on the very subject of academies on\nthe labour system. We have written to several influential gentlemen on\nthe subject, and purpose giving it a more serious investigation, and\nwill remit the result to you and others. One of our brethren was anxious\nto proceed to England to lay the matter before the British public; but I\nthought it would be better to say something about it first through the\nMagazines. Urge it then, my dear brother, on the attention of the\npublic; do not let it sleep. I am glad to find, from a letter in the\nSeptember number of your Magazine, one hails yours of the preceding\nmonth. As a church, at Montreal, we have been much favoured of God\nduring the present year: not less than forty have been added to the\nnumber. Mrs. G. joins in love to you and yours, hoping to hear from you\nsoon.\n\n                                   I remain yours in Christ,\n                                                             JOHN GILMORE.\n\n*.* _We are compelled to defer the second letter to our next number._\n\n\n               THE DESPISER OF BAPTISM BAPTIZED.\n\nThe following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. N. Paul, of\nWilberforce Settlement, Upper Canada, to a friend in England:--\n\n\"MY DEAR SIR,\n\n\"Amongst all the numerous tracts and publications that have been printed\nand circulated on the subject of Baptism, I think there is no one that\nis more calculated to lead the honest inquirer after truth to a correct\nand scriptural decision upon that subject, than Mr. Pengilly's\n'Scripture Guide to Baptism.' It has been universally approved and\ncirculated by the Baptist churches in the United States of America, and\nI believe it has been the means of doing much good. A particular\ninstance of this occurred under my own immediate observation, whilst\npastor of a Baptist church in the city of Albany, state of New York.\n\n\"A young lady, who was a member of an Independent church, but who\noccasionally attended upon my ministry, was present with us one Sabbath\nmorning when I administered the ordinance in question. I endeavoured in\nmy address to adduce reasons for differing from my Paedobaptist brethren\nupon this subject, and to show that believers in Christ were the only\nproper subjects, and immersion the only scripture mode of baptism. The\nyoung lady, who had taken her station close beside the baptistry,\ninstead of being convinced by my arguments, was excited to a high degree\nof irritation, and allowed her temper so far to prevail over her better\nfeelings as, in retiring, to express her contempt of our practice in a\nvery unbecoming and offensive manner.\n\n\"Next day she called upon me in the same temper as when she left the\nchapel, and required to know, why I aimed to wound the feelings of those\nspectators who differed from myself upon the ordinance of baptism? I\nreplied that I did not intend to wound the feelings of any one; I only\naimed at the defence of the truth. After further conversation, I\nrequested her candid perusal of the pamphlet above mentioned, with a\ncopy of which I furnished her. She readily promised to comply with my\nrequest, and we parted. The result was, the ensuing month I again\nbaptized twelve persons, _and this young lady was one of that number_!\n\n\"Yes, Sir; by the blessing of God, accompanying the perusal of that\npamphlet, she clearly saw the path that Jesus had opened before his\ndisciples--the path in which the apostles and primitive Christians\nfollowed their Lord--the path in which she promptly resolved to walk,\nwithout reluctance, fear, or shame. 'I do not,' said she, 'leave my\nformer connexion because they are not Christians, for as such I esteem\nand love them; but the pattern and authority of Christ is more to me\nthan all the world. It is HIS to lead and command, and it is MINE to\nfollow and obey.' Truth, indeed, is mighty, and will prevail.\n\n\"May all the faithful defenders of the truth as it is in Jesus, be thus\nabundantly owned and blessed of God, in every work of faith and labour\nof love; and to His name be all the glory!\"\n\n\n                               DOMESTIC.\n\n                       BAPTIST BUILDING FUND.\n\nAt a special meeting of the Board of Baptist Ministers, held at Fen\nCourt, Feb. 17th, to take into consideration a communication from the\nCommittee of the above Institution,\n\nThe Rev. W. H. MURCH in the chair,\n\nIt was resolved:\n\nThat the members who compose this Board, feeling the evils that attend\nthe system of making personal application for liquidating the debts on\ncountry chapels, and the superior efficiency of the plan adopted in the\nBuilding Fund, resolve to sign no more cases, but to recommend them all\nin future to that Society.\n\nThat, in compliance with the request of the Committee of the London\nBaptist Building Fund, the members of this Board do meet them at their\nRooms, No. 5, Paternoster Row, on Friday evening, the 6th of March, at\nsix o'clock precisely, to devise measures for increasing the efficiency\nof their fund, and rendering it still more extensively beneficial to the\ndenomination.\n\n                                               J. B. SHENSTON, SECRETARY.\n\n\n                         DEPUTATION TO AMERICA.\n\nOn Thursday evening Feb. 19th, a very numerous and interesting meeting\nwas held in New Park-street chapel, Southwark, for special prayer,\npreparatory to the departure of our brethren, the Rev. Dr. Cox and the\nRev. J. Hoby, to represent the British Baptists in the Triennial\nConvention, at Richmond, Virginia, on the 27th of April next. The Rev.\nC. Room presided. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. E. Steane, _On\nthe advantages arising from such a Deputation_; the Rev. C. Stovel, _On\nthe spirit which should distinguish the present undertaking_; and the\nRev. Dr. Cox, _On the manner in which the Deputation proposed to\ndischarge their duties_. Prayers were offered by the Rev. Messrs. Dyer,\nGiles, Thomas, and Carey; and the hymns read by the Rev. Messrs. Davis,\nOverbury, Shenston, Rothery, Room, and Belcher. Our brethren will sail\nin the \"Hibernia,\" from Liverpool, on the first of March.\n\n\n                             BAPTIST UNION.\n\nWe are requested by the Secretaries of the Baptist Union, to entreat our\nbrethren in the country to forward, _during the present month_, their\ncircular letters, and whatever other documents may assist in the\npreparation of the next Report, addresed to the Secretaries, at the\nMissionary rooms, 6, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.\n\n\n                                NOTICE.\n\nThe Rev. Christopher Wollacott, late of Westminster, has accepted the\ninvitation of the church in Little Wild-street, to become their pastor.\n\n\n                            RECENT DEATHS.\n\n                          REV. DR. MORRISON.\n\n  Extract from a letter written by his son to the Secretary of the\n  London Missionary Society.\n\n                                           _Canton, August 17th, 1834._\n\n\"MY DEAR SIR,--How shall I tell you that my beloved father--that the\nfather of the Chinese Mission--Dr. Morrison, is no more! Scarce can the\nannouncement come to you more suddenly than the event did to me. My dear\nfather had, indeed, been long unwell, and was greatly debilitated by\ndisease; but we had not, within an hour of his peaceful end, much\napprehension that he was likely to be so soon taken away from us. The\npallid cheek and glazed eye, quickly succeeded by failure of speech,\nwere the first intimations to us that he had heard his Saviour say,\n'This night shalt thou be with me in paradise.' At about ten at night,\non the 1st of the present month,[A] while yet in the hands of the\nphysicians, who in vain endeavoured to restore warmth and pulsation, he\ngently breathed out his spirit, without a struggle or a groan. And oh!\nthe recollection of the many preceding days, spent by him in pain and\nextreme weakness, compels me to rejoice, even amidst my utmost grief,\nthat he has been released from sin and sorrow, has rested from his\nlabours, and shall henceforth be for ever with the Lord. In a letter,\nwritten not long before his death, he spoke of his apprehension that his\nwork was finished, expressing his gratitude to God for what he had been\npermitted to accomplish for the Redeemer's cause; adding, that he knew\nbut of two surviving missionary seniors, Drs. Carey and Marshman. I have\nthis morning learned, with great sorrow, that about the time he wrote\nthat letter, the venerable Carey also was called home.\n\n[Footnote A: _The First of August, 1834_, that memorable day in the\nannals of our country, when the sun neither set nor rose upon A SLAVE\nthroughout all her vast dominions.]\n\n\n                      JOHN BROADLEY WILSON, ESQ.\n                         (_From the Patriot._)\n\nDied, on Monday evening, the 16th Feb., at his house on Clapham Common,\naged 70, John Broadley Wilson, Esq. well known and universally esteemed\nas an eminently devout Christian, and most liberal supporter of the\ncause of the Christian religion in every section of the church. His\nillness was of very short duration; an attack of paralysis on Saturday,\nthe 14th, the effects of which no medical skill was permitted to remove,\nbeing the appointed messenger to convey him into the presence of the\nSaviour he ardently loved, and in whose service it was his supreme\ndelight to spend and be spent. Mr. Wilson was connected, more or less,\nwith a great number of religious and charitable institutions; to the\nReligious Tract Society, and the Baptist Missionary Society, he stood in\nthe relation of Treasurer, and each of these valuable Societies will\nhave to mourn, not merely the loss of his munificent donations, but also\nof his judicious counsels and holy example. We trust some authentic\naccount of this eminent philanthropist will be prepared, to edify the\nworld which has sustained so great a loss by his removal; but we could\nnot forbear inserting this hasty tribute of immediate respect to the\nmemory of a man, whom to know was to love, venerate, and admire.\n\n\n                             REV. JOHN MASON.\n\nAt Exeter, on January 20th, after a protracted and painful illness of\ntwelve months' duration, the Rev. John Mason, for 17 years the beloved\nand eminently devoted and useful pastor of the Baptist church in\nBartholomew-yard, in that city. His removal is felt throughout Exeter as\na public calamity. He died at the age of 45. We hope to be able to\nfurnish our readers with a memoir of this excellent servant of Christ.\n\n\n                             MRS. ANN CARROLL.\n\nDied on Thursday, Jan. 29th, in the 79th year of her age, at her\nresidence, Baalzephon-street, Long-lane, Bermondsey, Mrs. Ann Carroll,\nafter a protracted illness in which her exemplary piety and sterling\nfaith proved the efficacy of those doctrines of which, during a long\nlife, she had been the consistent and humble believer. Her remains were\ninterred in the family vault of St. John's, Southwark: and it may,\nindeed, with truth be said, that in her the poor have lost a humane and\nbenevolent friend; the Baptist denomination, a consistent member; and\nthe various Christian charities of the metropolis, a worthy and generous\nbenefactor.\n\n\n                             NEW PUBLICATIONS.\n\n                             _Just Published._\n\nMr. Bagster has now ready for delivery the QUARTO EDITION of the\nTREASURY BIBLE, which is elegantly printed on a fine writing paper of a\nnew manufacture, being prepared with lines in the fabric of the paper\nfor manuscript notes and remarks.\n\nThe Pocket edition was published in January.\n\n                        _Preparing for Publication._\n\nIn a few days, Baptismal Immersion defended by Christians and Churches\nof all Denominations. In a letter to a Paedobaptist. Second Edition. By\nW. NEWMAN, D.D. Wightman, Paternoster-row. Price Threepence.\n\n\n\n\n                              IRISH CHRONICLE.\n\n                                MARCH, 1835.\n\n\nThe Committee would not be insensible to the many instances in which\nkind attention has been paid to their appeals under the pecuniary burden\nstill resting upon the Society. Certainly, were it not for such\nbenevolent assistance, the difficulties and discouragements connected\nwith carrying on its operations, would be greatly increased. Yet the\narrear of debt, amounting to nearly, or quite, a _thousand pounds_,\ncannot fail to excite a considerable measure of solicitude in the minds\nof those who are principally concerned in the management of its affairs;\nbut it is recollected that the silver and the gold are the Lord's; and\nin the history of this Society, many indeed have been the opportunities\nafforded for gratefully acknowledging the remarkably seasonable relief\nwhich He has been pleased to send, and in this time of exigence, it is\nhoped He will again appear. The Rev. J. Allen returned to Ballina, after\ncollecting for the Chapel, the latter end of January. He wishes to\nacknowledge the kindness he experienced during his tour, and hopes to\npresent, next month, an account of the contributions he has received.\n\n\n                      _To the Rev._ JAS. ALLEN.\n\nI have been employed during the last quarter in this neighbourhood\naccording to the ability that God hath given, in making known to my\nfellow-sinners the unsearchable riches of Christ, the ignorance of which\nis the cause of all the wickedness, delusion, and error, in this or any\nother country.\n\n_Oct. 5._--Visited a family in Brook Street, where I read the\ntwenty-first chapter of Job, and several other passages of Scripture, I\nmade some remarks as I read, the people frequently lifting up their eyes\nwhen the name of Jesus was mentioned. Those people have a form of\nreligion, but they are destitute of the power.\n\n12.--Visited an old woman in Bohunssup who is convinced of her sinful\nstate by nature, and pointed out the Saviour to her as plainly as I\ncould; I told her I feared she would prefer a priest to the Saviour in\nher last hours, and if so, she might as well deny him altogether, and in\nall his offices, as he alone is able to save from sin; and those who\nbelieve on him shall not come into condemnation. She declared she had no\nhope, no desire, to look to anything a priest could do for her. I prayed\nwith this poor woman.\n\n19.--Visited a family this afternoon, named Whalin, where I read several\nportions of God's word, and endeavoured to explain as I read. I prayed\nwith them also.\n\n26.--I had a conversation with an old Roman Catholic lady on the folly\nof those people who, she said, exposed their children to the fearful\ndoom, should they die unbaptized, of being shut out from the light of\nheaven. I asked her if she did not read the New Testament. She said she\ndid. I asked her where she found any thing there that would lead her to\nsuppose or believe that those unbaptized children were thus exposed. I\nsaid: I find no command to sprinkle infants; but the contrary, seeing no\npersons were admitted to that ordinance but those who were able to make\na profession of faith, and this no infant could do; nor do we read of\nany but adults being received into the church. I showed her, from the\nNew Testament, the practice of the Apostles, and our Lord's commission\nto his Apostles. Then, why do Protestants baptize their infants? said\nshe. Because, said I, instead of abiding by what is written they have\nthought proper to adopt the customs of those who teach the commandments\nof men for those of God. You mean to say, said she, that the Church of\nRome do so? Certainly, I replied. Then she said she believed in the\nSaviour alone, and through faith in him she hoped to be forgiven. You\nare a Protestant then, said I. No; I detest your Calvinistic doctrines,\nand I know no name sufficiently odious to brand them with. You may call\nme any name you please, said I. She pledged her honour that she always\nthought me an honest man and a good Christian. I told her I was glad to\nhear her give another proof of her Protestant principles; seeing she was\nmore charitable than to believe all Protestants must be damned. She\nsaid, no Catholics held such an opinion. I told her what the Council of\nTrent said on that subject. She would not believe what I told her. She\nsaid she did not believe that she received the body and blood\nspiritually in the Eucharist. I said she believed more. No, said she.\n\nI must not lengthen this subject, as the whole of our argument would\nfill my sheet; nor would I have gone so far, were it not to show how\nlittle Roman Catholics know what they believe. After running over most\nof the absurdities of her religion, some things she denied, others she\nnever heard of before. This woman got a good education, if any can be so\nwhile the Scriptures are left out. She is one of the strictest in this\ntown for the last fifty years.\n\n_Nov. 2._--Visited a family in Garden Street, named Timlin, where I read\nseveral portions of Scripture; but they would not hear of my praying\nwith them; such is their fear of being spoken of.\n\n9.--I had several conversations with people this day, one with an old\nman, named Dowd, for whom I read many portions which I thought suited to\nhis case, an old man on the verge of eternity, who never thought on\nthose things.\n\n16.--Visited poor old F., with whom I read, conversed, and prayed. He is\nnear his rest. He thanks God for having afflicted him; for before he was\nafflicted he went astray. I had a good opportunity to show some Roman\nCatholics, who were in the house, what the believer rests his hopes upon\nin the hour of trial. They listened with attention.\n\n23.--Visited a family in Ardnaree, named Gardner, where I read a chapter\nand prayed with the family: and I always make some remarks as I read,\nand propose questions, in order to arrest their attention.\n\n30.--Visited the Staff, where I found some children reading the\nScriptures; I read with, and turned this little company into a class, by\nquestioning them on what we read. I prayed with them, and promised to\nvisit them again.\n\n_Dec. 14._--Visited a family in Hill Street, named McNautly, where I\nattempted to read, but was interrupted by a woman who said she did not\nwant any thing out of Protestant books. I reasoned with her for some\ntime, when I referred to the Testament for the truth of what I said; and\nas she seemed pleased with what I said, I continued to read, and\nexplained as I read, without any further interruption. So we parted good\nfriends.\n\n21.--Conversed with a young man named Poots, who asked me my opinion of\nalmost every article of the Popish doctrines. He said, he was satisfied\nwith any thing written in the Scriptures, as he found very little\ndifference between _ours_, as he called it, and _his_ Testament. I need\nnot enter into particulars, as this subject lasted more than two hours,\nwithout an angry feeling on either side. He at length exclaimed: There\nis so much mystery in our religion, and those things known only to the\npriests, that he did not know what to think; but, said he, if I could be\nproperly convinced on the subject of transubstantiation and confession,\nI would not remain one day in the church of Rome.\n\n28.--Visited an old woman in Brook Street, named Brennan, who is\nconfined to her bed. I read and conversed with her for about an hour: I\nprayed with her also.\n\n                                                        AUSTIN BRENNAN.\n\n_Ballina, Jan. 3, 1835._\n\n                         _To_ Rev. J. BATES.\n\nI am happy to inform you, that the work of the blessed Redeemer is\nprospering in this part of his vineyard, though the wicked one has his\nsecret agents in this place, as well as every other place, resisting the\nwork of Christ, and the gospel of the grace of God.\n\nOn the 20th of July I went to read to the house of one James McPartlin,\nnear the town of Drumahair. This poor man is ignorant and unlearned,\nalthough a great devotee in the Church of Rome. I read for this poor man\nand family several chapters in both English and Irish; and the poor man\nwas astonished to hear the words of eternal life in his native language.\nHe asked me several questions concerning the sacrifice of the mass, and\npurgatory, and other doctrines taught by his church. I asked him: \"What\nsacrifice is the mass?\" He answered, in the words of his catechism, \"An\nunbloody sacrifice.\" I then read for him the ninth and tenth chapters of\nHebrews, and showed him from the twenty-second verse of the ninth\nchapter, that without shedding of blood there is no remission, and\nconsequently, as the mass was an unbloody sacrifice, there could be no\nremission in it. I again referred him and family to the ninth and tenth\nchapters of Hebrews, to show that when _He_, the _Lord_, by himself\npurged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;\nand that by one offering _He_ hath perfected for ever all them that are\nsanctified. I read part of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and especially\nthe 1st chap. 7th ver., \"In whom we have redemption through his blood,\neven the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.\" I\nthen read for him the 1st chapter of 1 John, to show them that it is the\nblood of Christ alone that cleanseth us from all sin. All the family\nseemed well satisfied to hear me read, and invited me to come and read\nfor them as often as I could. I have often read for this family since,\nand I trust the Lord has made his word a blessing to them.\n\nOn the 15th of August, I read in the house of James McHugh the 9th and\n10th chapters of John's Gospel; and poor McHugh was so delighted that he\nsaid he had no greater comfort in the world than to hear his children\nread the Testament. He said his daughter committed one hundred chapters\nat the Drumahair female school; and he prayed for the prosperity and\nlong continuance of the Baptist Irish Society; \"for,\" said he, \"only for\nthem my children would never get a word of learning.\" Oh, that the word\nof the Lord may run and be glorified! and may the boundaries of Christ's\nfold be still more extended, until the whole number of his elect be\naccomplished!\n\nFew days pass but I read at some place. It is all the pleasure I have,\nto be conversing with my poor neighbours about their eternal happiness.\nI wish I could afford to spend all my time in this blessed employment;\nbut I thank God I would rather be a door-keeper in the house of the\nLord, than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.\n\nThere are many inquiring what they must do to be saved. We direct them\nto believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and strive to point them to the\nLamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.\n\n                                                         ADAM JOHNSON.\n\n_Drumahair, September 26, 1834._\n\n                         To Rev. J. BATES.\n\nSince my last, I have visited more than twenty different places, and\nsome of them are about twenty miles asunder. This, together with my\noccasional visits in this neighbourhood, has afforded me very many\ninteresting opportunities of directing sinners to the Saviour. In my\nvisits to the Night Schools, I have been highly gratified in observing\nan increase of scriptural knowledge among those who attend. In J.\nMonaghan's Night School, I found many adult persons assembled together,\nsome of them heads of families with their children, solely for the\npurpose of reading the Scriptures and inquiring after their meaning,\nsome of these being Roman Catholics, asked me several very important\nquestions, to all which I endeavoured to give scriptural answers, with\nwhich they were highly gratified and thankful, and wished that I might\nsoon visit them again.\n\nNovember 24th, visited the house of a poor tradesman in Balli Murray,\nread the 3rd of John, and pointed out the way of a sinner's acceptance\nwith God. All who were in the house quitted their several employments,\nand drew around me. They all heard with eager attention, whilst I\npointed out the dreadful nature of sin, showing that nothing but the\nblood of the Saviour cleanseth from it. One of them told me, that the\npriest teaches that there is a purgatory, and that those who are not\nguilty of mortal sins are cleansed from venial sins in purgatory. I told\nthem that there are no sins venial in the sight of God, for that it is\nwritten, \"Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written\nin the book of the law to do them;\" that the blood of Jesus Christ\ncleanseth believers from all sin, and that there is no other purgatory.\nOn the 4th inst. read the word near Ballymote. A poor man, named Rooney,\ntold me of a sermon which he had heard from the priest on the last\nSabbath; the priest, he said, preached on the General Judgment, and so\nterrified him that he was almost in despair. He told his hearers that\nnot only for every evil action men must give an account, but also for\nevery idle thought; and oh, said he, if you had heard the Priest, you\nwould be terrified. I asked him, did the Priest tell him what he must do\nto be saved? but he was totally ignorant of this. I then endeavoured to\nbring to the understanding of this poor man the gospel plan of\nsalvation, which seemed to be the only thing calculated to give him\ncomfort and peace of mind.\n\nOn the 8th visited Killoran; met with a young man, a Roman Catholic, who\nis a hired servant; he told me that he had been studying on the subject\nof baptism; that when a school-boy he got a Testament, which he had\nsince kept very carefully; that in it he read that our Saviour was\nbaptized in the river Jordan; that from this he was led to believe that\nimmersion is the proper mode. I then read for him the account of the\nbaptism of the eunuch by Philip, also of Lydia, and the jailor, &c. He\nheard with eager attention, and said that he was fully persuaded that\nbelievers were the proper subjects for baptism, and that immersion was\nthe primitive mode. On the 12th March, travelled in company with several\npeople with a hearse going to a burial. I told them that it is appointed\nunto all men once to die, and after death the judgment; and that it is\nof the highest importance for us to be prepared for judgment. I was\nsorry to learn that they did not know the Saviour, nor their need of\nhim. I made the best use I could of the short time I was with them. One\nof them said he was sorry I was leaving them, &c.\n\n                                                           ROBERT BEATY.\n_Carintavy, Dec. 14, 1834._\n\n\n                                CONTRIBUTIONS.\n\nBy Rev. J. DYER.\n\nA Friend, Yorkshire                                           5  0  0\nMr. Holleck, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher                             5  0  0\nJ. Chippendale, Esq., Uxbridge, by Rev. A. G. Fuller          1  0  0\nFrom profits of Youth's Magazine, per W. B. Gurney           20  0  0\nFrom one who has tasted that the Lord is gracious\n  (per General Post)                                          1  0  0\n\nCollected by Rev. S. DAVIS.\n\nBristol                                                      41  2  6\n  Mrs. Holland                                               50  0  0\nBath                                                          8  1  0\nBradford, Wilts                                               4  8  6\nTrowbridge                                                   15 19  0\nBratten                                                       5 13  0\nWestbury                                                      1 10  0\nFrome                                                         8  4 10\nBridgwater                                                    4  4 10\nTaunton                                                      13  5  8\n\nCollected by Mr. LILLYCROP, Exeter.\n\nSir John Kennaway, Bart.                                      2  0  0\nW. Rouse, Esq., Tor                                           1  0  0\nMrs. Rouse                                                    0 10  0\nRev. J. Mason                                                 0 10  0\nRev. E. H. Brewer                                             0 10  0\nMiss Salter                                                   0 10  0\nMr. Lillycrop                                                 0 10  0\nMiss Booth                                                    0  8  0\nMiss Pates, collected by                                      0 16  6\nMr. Upham                                                     0  5  0\nMrs. Mason                                                    0  5  0\nJ. C. Wilcocks, Esq.                                          0  5  0\nMrs. Lillycrop                                                0  5  0\nMrs. Glyde                                                    0  5  0\nMr. Tanner                                                    0  5  0\nMr. Nichols                                                   0  5  0\nMr. Vinicombe                                                 0  5  0\nMr. Jeffery                                                   0  5  0\nMrs. Gregory                                                  0  5  0\nMiss Beal                                                     0  5  0\nMrs. Cummin                                                   0  5  0\nMr. Wilson                                                    0  5  0\nMiss Lee                                                      0  5  0\nMr. Rowse                                                     0  5  0\nMiss Cole                                                     0  5  0\nMr. S. Davis                                                  0  5  0\nMr. Goodridge                                                 0  5  0\nMr. Mills                                                     0  5  0\nMrs. Higgs                                                    0  5  0\nMrs. Furze                                                    0  5  0\nSunday-school, Bartholomew Chapel                             0  5  2\nMiss Bury                                                     0  4  0\nMrs. Ford                                                     0  4  0\nMr. Hooker                                                    0  2  6\nMrs. Maynard                                                  0  2  6\nMr. Wright                                                    0  2  6\nMrs. Tanner                                                   0  2  6\nEllen Bridgeman                                               0  2  6\n\nBy the TREASURER.\n\nT. B., per Mr. W. Burls, jun.                                 2  0  0\nD. P., per Mr. W. L. Smith                                    0 10  0\nCharles Davis, Wallingford                                    1  0  0\nRev. E. West, Amersham Sub.                                   2  2  0\nRev. W. Nicholls, Collingham, Don.                            4  0  0\nDo.       do.         Sub.                                    1  0  0\nMrs. Fernie, of Tottenham, and Friends, for Mary's\n  Philanthropic  School, Mount Shannon, Galway               11  0  0\n\nBy the SECRETARY.\n\nW. Burls, Esq., Edmonton                                      5  0  0\nA. Bose        Ans. Sub.                                      2  0  0\nFrom Mrs. Burls and Daughters,\n  a valuable parcel for the poor children in the Society's Schools\n\nSubscriptions received by S. Marshall, Esq., 181, High Holborn; Mr. P.\nMillard, Bishopsgate Street; Messrs. Burls, 56, Lothbury; Rev. G.\nPritchard, 4, York Place, Pentonville, gratuitous Secretary; by Messrs.\nLadbrokes and Co., Bankers, Bank Buildings; by Mr. H. D. Dickie, 13,\nBank Street, and Rev. Mr. Innes, Frederick Street, Edinburgh; and P.\nBrown, Esq., Cardigan.\n\n        LONDON: J. MADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE-STREET, FINSBURY.\n\n\n\n\n                            MISSIONARY HERALD.\n                            CXCV. MARCH, 1835.\n\n\nSubscriptions and Donations in aid of this Society will be thankfully\nreceived at the Baptist Mission House, No. 6, Fen Court, Fenchurch\nStreet, London: or by any of the Ministers and Friends whose names are\ninserted in the Cover of the Annual Report.\n\n  With feelings of deep sorrow we have to announce the decease\n  of the excellent Treasurer of this Society, JOHN BROADLEY\n  WILSON, Esq., which took place, after a very short illness, at\n  his house on Clapham Common, Monday evening, the 16th instant.\n  His disease was palsy, rendering respiration difficult, and\n  considerably affecting the organs of speech, but leaving his\n  mental faculties in full vigour to the last. He died,\n  rejoicing in the Saviour, whom he had long loved, and whose\n  example, through divine grace, he had been enabled so\n  eminently to follow. Never, perhaps, was there an individual\n  of whom it might more justly be said, _When the ear heard him,\n  then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness\n  to him: because he delivered the poor that cried, and the\n  fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of\n  him that was ready to perish came upon him; and he caused the\n  widow's heart to sing for joy. He was eyes to the blind, and\n  feet was he to the lame: he was a father to the poor, and the\n  cause that he knew not he searched out._\n\n  \"AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME, WRITE, BLESSED\n  ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD FROM HENCEFORTH: YEA, SAITH\n  THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS; AND THEIR\n  WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM.\"\n\n\n                                 JAMAICA.\n\nA number of letters from our various stations in this island have\nreached us, containing information to the end of the year. We subjoin a\nfew of the leading particulars.\n\nMr. Tinson refers, with great satisfaction, to the growing thirst for\ninstruction among the negro population. He had been under the necessity\nof opening an evening school, principally for adults, whose progress was\nvery rapid, and a large proportion of them had been reported able to\nread the New Testament. He expresses an earnest desire to establish a\nschool at his country station at Yallahs, situate in a parish (St.\nDavid's) containing 7,000 apprentices, without a single school of any\ndescription. Twenty-three persons had been accepted for baptism at this\nstation.\n\n\"The brethren from the London Missionary Society (writes Mr. T.) have\narrived. They landed on Tuesday, the 23rd inst. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge\nsuffered much from sea-sickness; in other respects they are all well.\nMr. Woolridge brought a letter from Mr. Ellis, and one from yourself.\nThey all took tea with us the evening after they landed, in company with\nbrother and sister Gardner, and an interesting meeting it was. We sang,\nbefore we knelt together around our domestic altar, I believe with\nunfeigned sincerity of heart, the hymn beginning,\n\n  \"Kindred of Christ, for his dear sake\n  A hearty welcome here receive;\"\n\nafter which, brother Gardner presented to the kind and gracious Redeemer\nour united thanksgiving for their safe arrival, and solicited the Divine\nguidance in reference to their future steps. Brother Woolridge preached\na most delightful sermon in our chapel yesterday morning, and I expect\nto be helped next Lord's-day by brother Hodge. They will probably\ncontinue in town a week or two, and then proceed on a tour of\nobservation. Should one remain in Kingston there is plenty to do, and I\nsee no cause in the world for contention between us.\"\n\nMr. Gardner has been tried by personal indisposition and by the loss of\nhis eldest child, but has been enabled to resume his accustomed labours.\n\nMr. Clarke has furnished us with the following tabular account of the\nstations under his superintendance:\n\n                Members.  Inquirers.  Average  Sabb.\n                                      Congreg. Schs.\n\nConstant Spring   450        200     6 to 700    40\nLucky Valley       20         63          300    35\nRetirement          6         30          300    40\nFairfield                     86          400\nGuy's Hill                                250\n\nOf these stations, Retirement is in the parish of St. John's, Fairfield\nin St. Ann's, and the other three in St. Thomas-in-the-Vale. The scene\nof violent outrage mentioned in our January number occurred at Guy's\nHill. Referring to that circumstance in a subsequent letter, Mr. C.\nobserves: \"The persecution some of my people suffered there is at an\nend. The hand of God appeared so plainly against them parties on the\nfollowing morning, that one of them declared we had been praying against\nthem. Their fear of us is such that their mistaken belief will prevent\nthem, we think, from annoying us a second time.\"\n\nAlthough the parish of St. Ann's has formerly presented greater\nobstacles than any other part of the island to the progress of gospel\ntruth, Mr. Coultart is favoured with great encouragement in his efforts.\nHe supplies St. Ann's Bay, Brown's Town, Ocho Rios, and the Pedroes, and\nat all these places has large and increasing congregations. In the three\nformer, he is commencing to build places of worship in the room of those\nwhich were destroyed; and in the last, ground has been offered him for a\nsimilar purpose by parties who, a few weeks before, had shown the most\nviolent hostility. More help is urgently needed in this, as well as in\nother parts of the island.\n\nFrom Montego Bay Mr. Dendy writes, under date 30th December: \"Our\nMissionary friends, Messrs. Vine and Alloway, of the London Society,\narrived at Falmouth on the 24th instant, in pretty good health. On the\n25th brother Knibb baptized 69 persons, and held public services in the\nchapel; on the 26th a further addition was made by the baptism of 68\ncandidates; and on sabbath-day, the 28th, there were between 700 and 800\ncommunicants sitting around the Lord's table. Mr. Vine preached in the\nmorning for brother Knibb, and Mr. Alloway in the evening; the services\nof the day were peculiarly interesting.\"\n\nBy the arrival of Mr. Burchell, Mr. Dexter will be left at liberty to\nvisit Rio Bueno and Stewart's Town. For the present, however, some\nintermission seems needful both for him and for Mr. Dendy, as both have\nbeen labouring beyond their strength to supply the deficiencies\noccasioned by the absence of Mr. Abbott. This last named brother, having\nbeen released from confinement by the rising of the House of Assembly on\nthe 20th of December, had returned to his family; and through the mercy\nof God his health, instead of being impaired, had been improved by his\ntemporary secession from active engagements. Previously to his arrest he\nhad enjoyed the pleasure of adding 59 members to the church at Montego\nBay, who were baptized on the 1st of November.\n\nOf the return of Mr. Burchell to the people of his charge after so long\na separation, we must give our readers an account in his own words. His\nletter is dated December 23rd:--\n\n  I shall commence my present letter by giving you some account\n  of my journey from Spanish Town, and my reception at this\n  place.\n\n  We left Spanish Town on Wednesday the 19th November, and\n  reached Brother Coultart's the same evening, a distance of\n  fifty miles; the following day we spent with our friends Mr.\n  and Mrs. Coultart, from whom we received the most interesting\n  and gratifying accounts of the progress of the Mission in the\n  parish of St. Ann's. In the evening I preached at St. Ann's\n  Bay, and although there were but a few hours' notice, still the\n  principal part of the chapel house was full. It was to me\n  unspeakably delightful to witness such an assembly in such a\n  notorious place. Friday we proceeded on to Falmouth\n  (thirty-four miles), which place we reached about two o'clock;\n  in the evening I preached for brother Knibb to a very large\n  congregation, the chapel was crowded, and one of the tents\n  also, and many on the outside of the chapel-house. Saturday\n  morning we left our old companions for the eventful town of\n  Montego Bay; when we were three miles distant from the town, we\n  had to pull up to shake hands with some who were come out to\n  meet us; as we proceeded onwards, the numbers and frequency of\n  the groups of friends increased. It was almost more than we\n  could bear. The poor people looked at us as though they could\n  scarcely believe their own eyes, and then they clasped their\n  hands, blessed God, and burst into tears. When we entered the\n  town, a crowd of recollections burst upon my mind as I looked\n  upon the situation where the Blanche was anchored when I was\n  first taken prisoner, &c.; but my attention was soon aroused\n  from reflection, for as we passed along the streets, many of\n  the inhabitants came to their doors and windows, congratulating\n  us as we passed by. As we proceeded more into the town, the\n  doors and windows became crowded, and many were the kind\n  congratulations of our former townsfriends; some expressed\n  their feelings by their remarks, some waved their\n  handkerchiefs, and others their hats; as we entered the centre\n  of the town we were recognised by one who had been a very\n  staunch friend in our difficulties, he took off his hat and\n  greeted us most cordially; this excited the attention of the\n  negroes in the market, and one of them recognising us,\n  exclaimed, \"Bless God, and him come for true. Massa Burchell,\n  him come for true.\" Others now joined him and began clapping\n  their hands, when the whole multitude, consisting of three or\n  four thousand, waving their hands and hats, set up their\n  shouts, and made the whole town resound with their thundering\n  huzzas. I now endeavoured to press on to our house, but the\n  negroes leaving their baskets and the market followed us. I\n  drove hastily forward, fearing they would surround us and take\n  out our horse, which I have since found they would have done.\n  When we reached the house we were immediately surrounded; the\n  yard and the street were crowded. One of the friends took the\n  child and carried her into the house, for she was completely\n  frightened. It was a long time before we could get out of the\n  gig (which had been lent us for the journey) for every one was\n  trying to shake our hand, or lay hold of us in some way. When\n  we alighted from the gig, Mrs. B., who was nearly overcome, was\n  carried in by the friends, and then the throng crowded upon me,\n  some taking one hand, some the other, some threw themselves on\n  the ground. Indeed, the whole scene which followed was such\n  that I cannot describe. It would not be possible to do it\n  justice. The market square was almost vacated, except the\n  baskets of provisions, &c., which were for sale; and yet many\n  have since informed me, that when they returned to the market\n  they found all as they had left it, nothing was lost.\n\n  The whole of Saturday, the 22nd, was spent in receiving the\n  congratulations of the people, whose remarks were frequently\n  affecting. Many threw themselves down at my feet, and wept\n  aloud. Some looked at me, and then said: \"Hi, massa, and it you\n  for true! and you for we, massa Burchell! and me see you with\n  me own eye! blessed God!\" and then they burst into tears. After\n  speaking to a party and shaking hands, I was compelled to\n  request them to leave in order to give place to others. When\n  one said: \"No massa, me no go--me no able to believe yet--and\n  is it massa Burchell for true?\" Another one said: \"Now massa,\n  me know dat God him true--him hear for we prayer--but him take\n  him own time--and him work him own way--but him do every ting\n  quite good.\" Indeed, I could fill a sheet with their\n  interesting sayings. One poor afflicted negress came down from\n  the country (a distance of twenty miles) the next Saturday, the\n  29th; and when she saw me, looking upon me, as the tears rolled\n  down her face, she said: \"Massa, me hear you come--and me\n  _hungry_ for see you--and me cry for see you--me take two day\n  for walk for see you--and now me believe--God him too good--me\n  now willing for die--for now me know me God him true.\"\n\n  I had no idea whatever of such a reception, I knew my friends,\n  and knew they would be truly glad to see me, but I had not the\n  most distant idea of such a manifestation of feeling. It was\n  far beyond any description that I can give.\n\n  The following day, November 23, I again commenced my labours\n  among my poor but dear people. There were at least 4000\n  persons present at the 10 o'clock service. I preached out of\n  doors. On Sunday, November 30, the attendance was still\n  greater. At our morning prayer-meeting at 6 o'clock in the\n  morning there were _full_ 2,700 present; and at 10 o'clock, not\n  less than 5000; but you must not be misled by this statement of\n  numbers, as there was a union of the churches of Montego Bay,\n  Salter's Hill, and Gurney's Mount, &c.\n\nWe conclude our present article by an extract of a letter of somewhat\nless recent date from Mr. Hutchins. It relates to the station at Lucea,\nand was addressed to a friend of the writer, who has kindly furnished it\nfor our pages.\n\n  A few sabbaths ago I had such a delightful day, that the\n  recollection of it will, I have no doubt, be ever attended\n  with feelings of peculiar pleasure. Early in the morning we\n  proceeded to the place of baptizing from Lucea, where I\n  baptized nine of my black brethren and sisters, nay nine of\n  our black brethren and sisters in Christ. The place was two\n  miles from the Bay. We arrived at break of day. It was not in\n  the river Jordan, but in a beautiful winding river in a most\n  retired situation. We were covered by the majestic and\n  graceful boughs of the bamboo, which, for grandeur of\n  appearance and loveliness of shade, excels every other tree in\n  the island, and is beautiful beyond description.\n\n  The congregation consisted of about 300 persons, all getting as\n  near as possible to the banks of the river, while we arranged\n  the candidates close to the border of the stream.\n\n  The day now dawned upon us, and I felt as if compelled to\n  commence by singing the verse:\n\n    \"Sweet is the work, my God, my King,\n    To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing;\n    To show thy love by morning light,\n    And talk of all thy truth at night.\"\n\n  And indeed, if one may speak for others, it was truly sweet. I\n  then engaged in prayer, and delivered an address to the various\n  classes present; and judging from appearances, we cannot but\n  hope that at some future period good results will be brought to\n  light.\n\n  The Spirit of the Most High seemed to rest upon us. Persons\n  whom I have seen trifling on other occasions, were overawed.\n  Others, who were anticipating with pleasure the time when they\n  shall have a name and a place among the people of God, were\n  seen with the tear silently rolling dawn their cheeks. While\n  others, with their hands clasped and pressed on their bosoms,\n  with their eyes raised towards heaven, seemed to be fervently\n  engaged in the interesting service, and to enjoy in their minds\n  something of that feeling which is peculiar to the Christian,\n  which the world can neither give nor take away. I then entered\n  the stream and baptized them, singing two lines between each;\n  after which I concluded, and thus ended one of the most\n  interesting services I ever knew. We then repaired to Lucea,\n  and commenced our morning prayer-meeting at seven instead of\n  six o'clock; we had a good congregation. At half-past ten the\n  next service was to commence. At ten I saw people going away to\n  seek for sittings at the kirk, for not one could be found here.\n  Our house is very commodious, being three stories high. The\n  lower parts we use for the chapel, and in the top we reside.\n\n  The whole of the chapel was crowded to excess. People coming\n  from all parts of the bay with a chair from any person they\n  could make their friend, filled the landings. The stairs\n  leading up the whole of the three stories (which are carried up\n  outside the buildings in this country) were occupied, by four\n  persons on each. And then the poor creatures went into our\n  hall, and laid their ears on the floor to listen from beneath.\n\n  This is a congregation in Jamaica; and often we have them\n  standing in the streets exposed to the rays of a vertical sun!\n  Behind and before, on the right hand and on the left, we are\n  surrounded, yea crowded, in every possible way.\n\n  The result is, that on the evenings of the sabbath we wear a\n  completely emaciated appearance. Oh, say you, this is not\n  right, you ought not to do so. I am fully aware that we ought\n  not to do so, but the remedy is not with us. You may try, and\n  try again, to overcome such feelings, but you cannot. I should\n  pity that man who professed to have the welfare of souls at\n  heart who would not be aroused by such overwhelming scenes as\n  we have here. When persons have come from two to twenty or\n  thirty miles to hear the word of eternal life, to disappoint\n  more than can possibly be helped, is what I cannot, what I dare\n  not, do. For as I value my own immortal soul, as I prize the\n  joys of heaven and dread the miseries of hell, so in proportion\n  I consider it my duty to let all, as far as in me lies, hear\n  the truths of that gospel which is able through Christ to raise\n  poor perishing creatures from the degradation of sin to a life\n  of righteousness and holiness by faith in him. Pardon me, my\n  dear brother, pardon me for giving vent to the flowing tear\n  while I am again considering that the remedy is not with us.\n  Here is myself and there are my brethren with congregations\n  which are enormous. We cannot refrain from shedding a tear\n  again and again, because we are not able to do more for their\n  thirsty souls. The remedy rests with friends at home.\n\n  I often think that I must as I am now doing fall, very soon\n  fall, a sacrifice to the cause in which I have embarked.\n  Through mercy I fear it not. I am happy, truly happy, in my\n  work, and feel confident that should I be a martyr to the\n  cause, I shall receive a martyr's reward.\n\n\n                              BAHAMAS.\n\nSince our last article respecting this station, we have received a\nvariety of communications from our brethren Burton and Pearson. Up to\nthe date of the last, the tenor of these letters was uniformly pleasing.\nThey showed with what diligence our dear brethren were prosecuting the\nwork of God, not only at Nassau, but at Eleuthera, Andros Island, and\nother places scattered through that extensive group of islands.\nAdditions to the number of converts were made every month, and there was\nreason to hope that in a short time some of them would be found capable\nof taking an efficient part in the instruction of their countrymen. But\nthe Society has more recently been called to the exercise of patient\nsubmission under the loss of one who, though but recently entered on the\nMissionary field, had afforded abundant evidence of holy devotedness to\nthe cause of his Saviour. We refer to Mr. Pearson, whose lamented\ndecease is reported by Mr. Burton under date of the 31st December. That\nletter will close this article: as an appropriate introduction to it, we\ninsert extracts from the last written to the Secretary by Mr. Pearson\nhimself. It was dated Nassau, December 1, 1834:\n\n  In the course of last September, I and my family were invited\n  to St. Salvador, by Mr. John Armbrister. I rejoiced in so\n  favourable an opportunity of communicating the glad tidings of\n  salvation where they were so little known, and I felt grateful\n  that on this occasion I could without aditional expense take\n  my family with me, because our medical friend strongly\n  recommended it, as the most likely means to renew my dear\n  wife's health after her dangerous illness in August. We\n  arrived at St. Salvador, Sabbath, Oct. 6th, were kindly\n  welcomed, and soon surrounded by an interesting congregation\n  of about 80 persons, to whom I preached twice on that day. On\n  Monday and Tuesday I was fully engaged in the work of\n  instruction among the children in the forenoon, and the adults\n  in the evening. On Wednesday I was expected to preach upon two\n  properties; but having preached to a few persons at one\n  estate, I was afflicted with such a violent head-ache that it\n  was with great difficulty I managed to ride to the house of\n  our friend, where, finding myself the subject of fever, I was\n  compelled at once to exchange the exercise of preaching, for\n  the exercise of submission upon a bed of sickness, under\n  indescribably agonizing and protracted pain, which entirely\n  precluded rest by night or day: under these circumstances my\n  second sabbath at St. Salvador was spent. My dear wife read\n  the Scriptures to many who were gathered together, and also a\n  few pages of Christian counsel which I had written for their\n  benefit, and otherwise assisted them to worship God. On the\n  following morning a conveyance offering to N. P., we availed\n  ourselves of it, in order that I might obtain medical advice.\n  We were glad to reach home on the following Thursday; but with\n  change of scene, we experienced an increase of affliction. My\n  dear wife, the child's wet nurse, and our servant boy, were\n  immediately subjected to the fever; and unable as we were to\n  provide for our disconsolate babe, it required the exercise of\n  faith cheerfully to acquiesce in the divine disposal of our\n  concerns. We _were troubled_, but _not distressed_; and our\n  compassionate God, who knew how much we could bear, and\n  delights to bind up the wounds which in mercy he inflicts,\n  almost entirely independent of our agency, sent us, that very\n  night, a suitable nurse for our child, who has since proved to\n  us a blessing. My dear wife was speedily restored to her\n  former state of convalescence, and after a week I was\n  permitted to rise from my bed, much reduced in body, yet, I\n  would hope, strengthened in my resolutions to love and serve\n  the Saviour. My recovery was rapid, and on the 30th of October\n  I again embarked with my family for St. Salvador. The health\n  of all was much promoted by the passage, and when I landed,\n  Monday, November 3, contrasting my bodily state with that\n  under which I had left the island, I was filled with\n  gratitude, my peace seemed like the beautiful canopy stretched\n  over my head, unsullied with a cloud, and abundant as the\n  waves of the sea. I was immediately put in possession of a\n  house, unoccupied by its owner (Mr. Henry Armbrister), on an\n  estate called \"Freeman's Hall:\" where, unmolested, I could\n  hold meetings whenever I was able; I adored the goodness of\n  God who thus disposed the planters to aid and encourage me in\n  my work, and longed for their salvation as well as that of\n  their dependents. During the first week I laboured to the\n  utmost of my ability, teaching the children, preaching to all\n  I could gather around me from evening to evening, and holding\n  inquiry meetings whenever opportunity offered; but I seemed to\n  labour in vain: my hearers were attentive, but their hearts\n  were hardened. I did not merely tell them that there was a God\n  who made and upheld them, who knew all their ways, and would\n  bring them to judgment. I did not merely endeavour to expose\n  the evil of fornication, drunkenness, lying, stealing, &c. I\n  told them of Him who died for sinners. The doctrines of the\n  total depravity of the human heart, the necessity of an\n  atonement, the efficacy of the blood of Christ, the loveliness\n  and suitableness of Jesus as an all-sufficient Saviour, the\n  exceeding sinfulness and awful consequences of rejecting him,\n  justification by faith, and the reward of eternal life, as the\n  _free gift_ of God for the sake of his dear Son, were the\n  themes which I most earnestly endeavoured to press home upon\n  their consciences, but I could discover no evidences of\n  relentings for sin, no meltings of heart at the recital of a\n  Saviour's sufferings, no emotions of gratitude for a Saviour's\n  love. Their hearts were inaccessible. Almost all were\n  professed Baptists, but taught by a man who could not decipher\n  a letter, who appeared wholly ignorant of the truth, and whose\n  life was at variance with it. After many conversations with\n  him, in which he seemed impervious to the light, I\n  affectionately warned him to desist from preaching, lest he\n  should entail the curse so solemnly denounced Gal. i. 8, 9.\n  Meeting with little encouragement in this part of the island,\n  on the first Friday after my arrival I rode to \"Golden Grove,\"\n  seven miles distant, where I preached, and returned the same\n  day. At this place I had an opportunity of addressing 100\n  persons, and, deeming it an important field for labour, I\n  again rode thither early on the following sabbath. Here I\n  found some living sparks. An old man who had come over with\n  his master at the American revolution, had been in the habit\n  of reading his Bible to all who would hear him, which he could\n  do tolerably well; he had taught them to sing many of Watts's\n  Hymns; and was accustomed to read to them from a good book\n  written by Guthrie, an old Scotch divine. Lydia, his\n  daughter-in-law, at an inquiry meeting, answered the questions\n  which were put to her very satisfactorily, and I thought her a\n  suitable subject for baptism, when I found that her character\n  was exemplary. The old man, I found, was overseer of the whole\n  property, which was extensive, during his master's absence;\n  and Lydia was intrusted with the care of the proprietor's\n  house, and much valuable property. What a proof that God's\n  servants are the best servants! At that time I regarded my\n  health as established, I was animated in spirit, and among\n  this people I laboured on the sabbath until the evening, when\n  suddenly, whilst preaching, I was taken ill, and was obliged\n  immediately to seek the open air, abruptly closing the service\n  in which we were engaged. I soon discovered that I was once\n  more under the influence of violent fever, and after a\n  restless night, though treated with the utmost attention,\n  agreeable to the instructions of the proprietor, H. Hunter,\n  Esq., I made the best of my way to \"Freeman's Hall,\" where I\n  remained an invalid thirteen days. I had no medical aid; but\n  the medicines I had with me, and Graham's popular work, proved\n  invaluable. My stay at St. Salvador from this period was\n  indeed a season of suffering; the fever was intermittent, but\n  would come on again and again with chilliness, succeeded by\n  ardent and continued heat, throbbing of the temple, continued\n  restlessness, unquenchable thirst, a distressing oppression at\n  the chest, difficulty in breathing, and nausea. My illness, I\n  am convinced, was protracted by the stagnant water, gathered\n  from among the bushes, which we were compelled to drink, and\n  which was deeply impregnated with putrid vegetable matter:\n  there was, indeed, a spring one mile distant; but of this we\n  were not informed until the eve of our departure, although we\n  daily complained of the water we were using. My affliction was\n  greatly increased by finding that my dear wife's exertions on\n  my behalf brought on a periodical fever, the paroxysms of\n  which would remain with her six or eight hours. The vessel by\n  which we were to return to N. P. sailed on Sunday, November\n  23, much to my grief, as I was then a little recovering, and\n  hoped to preach; and so indeed I did, in much weakness, on the\n  sea beach, to thirty or forty persons, whilst waiting for the\n  boat. Once more I exhorted them to repent and believe on the\n  Saviour. We arrived here November 28, again improved in health\n  by the passage, and yesterday I superintended and taught in\n  the Sabbath-school two hours, and preached twice to our\n  Nassau crowded congregations. In the evening I endeavoured to\n  improve the death of our late esteemed brother Penney, who\n  died of yellow fever, aged thirty-five years.[A] And now you\n  will not be surprised when I assure you that I can adopt the\n  language of David, \"Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am\n  weak.\" Our best thanks are due to Henry Armbrister, Esq., who\n  has allowed us to make four passages in his vessel\n  gratuitously, provided us with house, horses, &c., and\n  afforded us every help in his power. How mysterious, that with\n  such facilities coming from God, my lips should be sealed, and\n  my repeated efforts for the good of these islanders apparently\n  frustrated! But thus the great Sovereign shows that he has no\n  need of me; and that if he ever employ me, he is conferring a\n  great and undeserved favour. It is indeed to me a great\n  affliction to be prevented from labouring for my Master. There\n  is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of\n  being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the\n  society and to the church. I feel that I need affliction, and\n  I hope in the midst of it ever to desire its improvement,\n  rather than its removal. I am aware also, that my sufferings\n  bear no comparison with those of Brainerd, Zeisberger, and\n  many others, who in the midst of great tribulation cheerfully\n  bore the cross and scorned the shame; but when month after\n  month passes away, with nothing done for Christ, and no souls\n  brought near to God by my instrumentality, I feel depressed in\n  spirit. The Lord knows how much of self and pride there is in\n  all this; may he pardon and purify me! I can give you no\n  cheering accounts of usefulness, but I can most sincerely\n  assure you, if I know myself, I only desire to live actively,\n  faithfully, and perseveringly; to serve Christ with body,\n  soul, and spirit. Oh, pray for me, that I may not live in\n  vain, but that I may acquit myself as a good soldier until\n  death remove me from the field.\n\n[Footnote A: Our readers will rejoice to notice these kind references to\nother labourers in the vineyard, sent forth by a kindred society.\nElsewhere Mr. P. mentions another Christian Missionary of the same body\nin terms which we gladly quote: \"Here I would most particularly mention\nthe zeal and kindness of Mr. Horne, Wesleyan Missionary, by whose\nefforts the little flock (at Turk's Island) I united in church\nfellowship have been kept in order. He has read to them our pastoral\nletters, and in their own words 'has taken great pains with them.'\"]\n\nIt is affecting to think that, in sixteen days after the expression of\nthese devout sentiments, the departure of our dear brother took place.\n(We are constrained by want of room to defer Mr. Burton's letter till\nnext month).\n\n\n                              BELIZE.\n\nA letter has reached us from this station announcing the safe arrival of\nMr. Henderson, who writes as follows, under date of December 10th:--\n\n  Through the gracious providence of our heavenly Father we all\n  arrived safely here on Friday, Nov. 28th, being eight weeks\n  from the day of our departure from London.\n\n  The passage, except when passing the Bay of Biscay a few days,\n  and some squalls on our approach to the coast (which hindered\n  us one day), was remarkably moderate, affording many pleasing\n  testimonies to our minds that we had a compassionate God, and\n  praying friends. The Divine goodness has been especially\n  displayed toward us in regard to bodily health, which has\n  continued, with the exception of a little sea-sickness, as well\n  as when we left England; indeed, rather better.\n\n  We came to anchor off Belize early in the forenoon, when I made\n  it my business to see Mr. Bourn first alone; afterwards\n  returned for Mrs. Henderson and child in the afternoon. I found\n  Mr. Bourn himself well, but fatigued on account of the\n  indisposition of Mrs. B., who had been ill about a week\n  previously. She is now recovered so as to attend to family\n  matters, and we are living altogether as one family, as happy\n  as they can make us. There is no vessel here at present by\n  which Mr. and Mrs. B. can go to New York, but one is expected\n  daily. For myself, I rather desire his stay a little time to\n  have instructions relative to the state of the Mission. It is\n  almost our daily employment to visit some of the members at\n  their homes. We are preparing to-day for a journey by water\n  southward to Stern Creek, where Mr. B. is in the habit of\n  occasionally visiting; on our return we intend another journey\n  about the same distance up the river.\n\nMr. Henderson then states that he had been making arrangements for the\nimmediate establishment of an infant school, which Mrs. H. is well\nqualified to superintend, and of a boys' school for the children of the\nrespectable inhabitants of the place. Three sabbath-schools had been\npreviously established by Mr. Bourn.\n\n_Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society,\nfrom Jan. 20, 1835, to Feb. 20, 1835, not including individual\nsubscriptions._\n\n\nGraham's Town (South Africa) Auxiliary Society,\n  by Mr. Kidwell, Secretary                                 138 14  1\n\nWigan, by Mr. W. Park:\n  Collection, Lord Street Chapel                   8 13  7\n  Teachers and children of Sabbath School          3 12  3\n                                                  --------   12  5 10\nDunkeld Missionary Society, by Rev. John Black                5  0  0\n\nLoughton Missionary Association, by Rev. S. Brawn             6 14  2\n\nTwickenham, collected by Mr. Scott                            1  5  0\n\nEast Essex and Colchester Auxiliary, by Thomas Blyth, Esq.   53  8  8\n\nBuchan Bible Society, for circulating the\n  Scriptures in India, by Mr. Boulton                         5 10  0\n\nBristol, Rev. F. Clowes and friends, for School Books\n  to be sent to the Rev. James Coultart                       2  0  0\n\nMilton, (Northamptonshire), by Rev. W. Gray                   2  0  0\n\n\n                               LEGACY.\n\nFurther Residue under the will of the late\n  Mr. Thomas King, of Birmingham,\n  by Messrs. Fiddian and Mumford                             13  9  6\n\n\n                             DONATIONS.\n\n  G. B.                                                        1  1  0\n\n  Two Friends, on perusing the Tract 'Amelia Gale,'\n  by Mr. James Jones, _Manchester_                             2  4  0\n\n  Friend in _Yorkshire_, by the Secretary                     10  0  0\n\n  Mr. Hollick, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher                            5  0  0\n\n                 _On Account of Jamaica School Rooms._\n\n  Friends at _Peel_ Meeting, by Mr. J. Barrett                15 12  0\n\n  We readily comply with the wishes of our kind friends at Liverpool to\n  insert the _particulars_, recently sent, of their Collection by Cards,\n  for the Jamaica Chapels.\n\n             _Lime Street, Rev. J. Lister._\n\n  Mrs. Hampton                                2  0  0\n  Miss Sarah Bell                             0  6  6\n  Elizabeth Wilson                            2 11  0\n  Misses Lang                                10 10  0\n  Ellen Houghton                              7  0  0\n  Mrs. Billings                               1 15  0\n    Baistow                                   1 13  6\n  Mrs. Lister                                 1  0  0\n  Mrs. Lister, jun.                           1  0  0\n  Friend                                      1  0  0\n  Friends at Grappend, by Miss Clare          4  0  6\n  Miss Carpenter                              1 13  6\n  Miss E. Carpenter                           1 12  0\n  Mr. Ball                                    1 10  0\n  Mr. Rushton, jun.                           2  7  8\n  Mrs. Godfrey                                2 15  0\n  Mr. Dobson, donation                        5  0  0\n  Miss Cunningham                             2 10  6\n  Miss Bayliss                                3  0  0\n  Mr. Maynard                                 1  0  0\n  John Minto                                  1  0  4\n  Miss Pearce                                 0 11  0\n  Miss Winstanley                             1  0  6\n  Misses Pryce                                7 10  0\n  James Bolland                               0 10  0\n  John Banks                                  0  5  0\n  Mrs. Major                                  0 15  0\n  Miss Edwards                                1  4  0\n  Mr. Fisher's Friends, by Mr. Travenn        2  4  6\n  Miss Lea                                    2  0  2\n  Miss Eglington                              1  9  6\n  Miss Quick                                  1  0  8\n  William Jones                               0  8  6\n  Mr. W. S. Tyrer                             1  5  0\n  Miss Foxcroft                               0 17  0\n    Eccleston                                 0  5  0\n  John Edwards                                0 10  6\n  Mrs. Page                                   3 10  0\n  Mrs. Henton                                 5  1  0\n  Elizabeth Briggs                            0 19  0\n  Sarah Briggs                                0  7  0\n  Elizabeth Copeland                          0  1  2\n  Mr. Hampton                                 0  7  6\n  Friend, by Miss Lacy                        0 10  0\n  Miss Ashcroft                               5  0  0\n  Samuel Cearnes                              1 10  0\n  Misses Dicker                               2  4  0\n  Mr. Sunderland                              1 13  0\n  Friends                                     1  7  2\n                                           -----------\n                                             99 17  0\n  Friend                                      0  3  0\n                                           -----------\n                                            100  0  0\n                                           -----------\n\n  Collected by Mrs. Sutlow\n    for the Education of Negro Children       1  3  0\n\n          _Byram Street, Rev. S. Saunders._\n\n  Mr. John Hodgkinson                         0 14 10\n  Mrs. Allcot                                 1  1 10\n  Misses Haughtons                           12 14  6\n  Miss Cribbin                                2 16  0\n  Miss M. Smallshaw                           9  5  0\n  Mrs. Hindle                                 3  6  6\n  Miss Julia Hope                             0 17  0\n  Miss M. L. Hope                             0 13  6\n  Miss Walthew                                2 13  6\n  Mrs. Lewis                                  0 16  0\n  Mr. Lewis                                   0  7  6\n  A Friend                                    0  1  0\n  Miss Pritchard                             12  8  0\n  Miss Lyon                                   4 10  0\n  Miss Edwards                                3  5  0\n  Mr. Whitehead                               0 16  0\n  Mr. Evans and the Miss Baynes's             4 10  6\n  Mr. Cowper                                  1  0  0\n  Mrs. Burkett                               11  0  0\n  Miss Saunders and Mr. W. Saunders          10  0  0\n  Mr. Morrison                                2  6  0\n  Miss Emily and Mr. W. Jones                 2 17  0\n  Mrs. John Foster                            1  0  0\n  Miss Harsnett                               1  3  0\n  Mrs. Jackson                                2  0  0\n  Miss Helena Meyer                           3  6  0\n  Miss King                                   1 14  0\n  Miss Dugard                                 0 12  6\n  Miss F. Glover                              1  2  6\n  Mr. Edward Cowper                           9  0  0\n  Miss M'Cullock                              1 14  6\n  Mr. Danson                                  0 17  6\n  Mr. Joseph King                             0  7  6\n                                           -----------\n                                            110  2  8\n\n  Mr. Underhill, jun., Edge Hill              4  4  4\n                                           -----------\n                                            114  7  0\n\n\n                             TO CORRESPONDENTS.\n\nA very valuable package of Elementary School Books for Jamaica has been\nreceived, and forwarded to that island. The Committee feel greatly\nindebted to those kind 'Friends' at Birmingham by whom they were\npresented.\n\nSimilar acknowledgments are respectfully offered to the Rev. Thomas\nGisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, and the worthy gentlemen\nassociated with him, whose seasonable liberality has placed at the\ndisposal of the Committee, 3000 copies of 'Selections from the Old\nTestament,' drawn up expressly for the emancipated negroes. The whole\nhave been forwarded to various parts of the island.\n\nJoseph Fletcher, Esq. and T. B. Oldfield, Esq. have laid the Society\nunder great obligations by permitting their vessels to convey, freight\nfree, a large quantity of Bricks and other articles for rebuilding the\nChapels in Jamaica.\n\nParcels of Magazines and other Books are gratefully acknowledged from\nMrs. Gillman, Bank Buildings, and from Mrs. Bryant and other friends at\nBath.\n\nMr. Burchell (December 30) requests that we would make an apology on his\nbehalf to those private friends who may have been expecting to hear from\nhim. Continual occupation has hitherto prevented his writing, but he\nhopes soon to be able to do so.\n\n\n             J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.\n\n\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"pg-footer\">","title":"The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":30062}