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+Project Gutenberg's The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, March 1835, by Various
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+Title: The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, March 1835
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+Author: Various
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+Editor: George  Wightman
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+                              THE
+                        BAPTIST MAGAZINE.
+
+                          MARCH, 1835.
+
+
+      MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. BOSWELL BEDDOME, OF WEYMOUTH.
+
+The highly respected subject of this memoir was the youngest son of Mr.
+Boswell Brandon Beddome, who for many years filled the office of a
+deacon at Maze Pond; and grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Beddome, of
+Bourton-on-the-Water, whose sermons and hymns are still the admiration
+of the churches. The talents and amiability of Mr. Boswell Beddome began
+very early to develope themselves. He is described by his surviving
+relatives as having been a most interesting boy; his intelligence,
+generosity, vivacity, and principle, inducing them to conclude that he
+would prove no common character in after life. The testimony given to
+his spirit and deportment at this early period, by his maternal
+guardian, is worthy of record, as it points to a striking and lovely
+example of filial obedience: "_He_ never gave me a moment's uneasiness;
+whatever perplexity was sometimes occasioned by the rest, I had no
+trouble with him; affection and a sense of duty invariably induced his
+cheerful obedience; and if childish disputes arose between any of the
+other juvenile members of the family, Boswell was sure to be the
+peace-maker." He was educated at a school under the superintendence of
+the Rev. S. Palmer, of Hackney, where he was distinguished for the
+readiness and accuracy with which he accomplished the exercises of his
+class, and for that general activity of mind which afterwards became one
+of his leading characteristics.
+
+When he was about fourteen years of age, a situation which promised well
+for his secular interests offering itself at a highly respectable
+mercantile establishment at Dorchester, he was removed from school
+somewhat sooner than his friends had anticipated. His employers speedily
+became sensible of the worth of his talents and integrity, and as a
+reward for his services and a proof of their esteem, introduced him to a
+valuable business at Weymouth, which happened to be at their command,
+two years before the legal term of his connexion with them would have
+expired. This movement had the most important bearing on his spiritual
+interests; and had he not been generous almost to a fault, would, in a
+few years, have been the means of procuring him a retiring competency.
+
+The family, to the full companionship of which he was thus early
+introduced at Dorchester, was distinguished by its very zealous
+profession of Unitarianism. There he saw the system under its most
+specious and delusive aspect: the sabbath was observed with the
+strictest decorum; family worship maintained with invariable regularity;
+habits of private devotion were strongly encouraged; and opportunities
+frequently occurred of association with some of the most intelligent and
+influential members of the party. Under these circumstances, although
+matter of regret to the more judicious of his friends, it was none of
+surprise, that he espoused and became the ardent advocate of sentiments
+at total variance with those in which he had been previously trained.
+
+Under the preaching of Mr. Rowe, the first pastor of the Baptist church
+at Weymouth, and afterwards under that of Mr. Flint, its second
+minister, he was gradually restored to the presumed scriptural faith of
+his venerated ancestors. The exercises of his mind on this important
+subject were often deeply distressing and protracted. After his
+suspicions respecting the correctness of his opinions were awakened, he
+became a most diligent, anxious, and prayerful student of the word of
+God; determined, by divine assistance, to follow conviction wherever it
+might conduct him; and profess, at whatever cost, what should eventually
+appear to be the truth. Desirous of doing the will of God, after many
+painful mental conflicts he was permitted to know it; he made a public
+profession, by baptism, of his newly-adopted faith during the pastorship
+of Mr. Hawkins, now of Derby; and about four years afterwards was
+invested with the office of a deacon, during the ministry of Mr. Hoby,
+at present of Birmingham.
+
+That the sentiments of Mr. Beddome in after life, on some abstruse
+points, were not slightly modified by his previous notions, is not
+pretended; but that he decidedly embraced all that is fundamental in the
+Calvinistic system, no doubt is entertained by those who had the most
+ample means of obtaining an accurate knowledge of his creed. He
+contemplated himself as a depraved, guilty, perishing, and helpless
+creature; the grand doctrine of justification by grace, through faith in
+the propitiation of Christ, was his refuge and his solace; in the sense
+in which we should employ the words, he was "looking for the mercy of
+God unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
+
+  [This article--as will be remembered by those who heard
+  it--contains part of the funeral sermon preached for Mr. B. at
+  the Baptist chapel, Weymouth, by the minister of the place.
+  Hitherto the form of the discourse has not been adhered to;
+  through the remainder of the article that form will be preserved.]
+
+Psalm xxvi. 8, "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, &c."
+That our invaluable, but now, alas! departed, brother Beddome cherished
+for this house of God an attachment peculiarly strong, unwavering, and
+devoted, is a fact too generally and distinctly known by you to require
+announcement from me. Long before his religious sentiments underwent a
+decided alteration, he interested himself most seasonably in its
+welfare; and after his views of divine truth became, for the most part,
+consonant to those which are here professed, he was ever ready to engage
+in any practicable undertaking, and make any possible sacrifice, for its
+benefit. Simply to affirm that he manifested his attachment in an
+ordinary way, by the regularity of his attendance, by the spirituality
+of his worship, and by contributing the general amount of pecuniary aid,
+would be but a feeble statement of the truth: he threw his whole soul
+into every department to which his influence could extend; every thing
+connected with the cause engaged his attention, solicitude, and
+activity; the interest of the chapel was the first and the last object
+of his thoughts. His solicitude for the _spiritual prosperity_ of the
+church and congregation was not that of a deacon only, but a pastor; on
+this behalf he constantly wrestled with God in private; and you know,
+brethren, how solemnly, how earnestly, how affectionately, he pleaded
+for it in your meetings for social prayer. You know also his readiness,
+as opportunity allowed, to prove himself a friend, a brother, a father
+to you all. He was ever disposed to hear, to sympathize, to advise, to
+aid; and even for those who, mistaking his motives, sometimes appeared
+to think of him unkindly, he was prepared, in the exercise of a truly
+Christian spirit, to perform any act of generosity by which their
+well-being might be advanced. Over the interests of your Sabbath-school
+he watched with a tender solicitude. For many years he was its
+superintendent. During this period he prepared, with great diligence and
+judgment, a series of Scripture questions for the use of the teachers,
+several volumes of which are still in existence; and after his official
+duties as a deacon, and the attention required by his family, compelled
+him to relinquish the direct superintendence of the school, he still
+contrived to make himself acquainted with all its movements, and
+promote, by his wise suggestions and decisions, the efficiency of its
+operations. The poor and the afflicted connected with this sanctuary
+feel that in losing him they have lost a tender benefactor, who was not
+only willing to relieve them in proportion to his means, but who knew
+how to render assistance doubly grateful by the considerate delicacy
+with which it was bestowed. Many and fervent were the blessings which
+the sons and daughters of distress poured upon his head; and many and
+deep are the lamentations of the widow and fatherless now. By his
+removal the minister of this place has lost a counsellor eminent for his
+knowledge and prudence; a friend, truly generous and devoted, who was
+accustomed to assist him in many of his labours, to sympathize with him
+under all his trials, to anticipate, in a thousand ways, his wishes and
+his wants, and on every occasion of difficulty to consult his feelings,
+in a manner which proved him to possess an extensive acquaintance with
+human nature, and an amiability of disposition still more commendable.
+
+Although the cause of Christ in connexion with this sanctuary enjoyed
+the best affection and engaged the best energies of our departed
+brother, his walks of usefulness were not restricted to this
+circumscribed beat, but embraced a wider, a more ample range. He was, it
+is well known, the manager, the life, of almost every institution
+connected with the dissenting interest in this town and neighbourhood;
+and in various other societies, formed for civil, literary, and
+benevolent objects, he took an active part. Such were his knowledge,
+diligence, and prudence, that, in general, our committees had to do
+little more than hear his report of the past, and assent to his plans
+for the future. With the utmost modesty he made his suggestions; with
+the utmost courtesy he invited discussion; but his suggestions were, in
+general, too wise to be improved; and discussion, after he had evidently
+examined the subject in all its bearings, appeared completely useless.
+How far such careful anticipations may in general be really serviceable
+to those who are thus saved the trouble of thinking and acting, may be
+questionable; but, certainly, the mind which is sufficiently benevolent
+and energetic to perform the part of our late invaluable friend, is
+worthy of no ordinary share of admiration.
+
+The pecuniary affairs of this place of worship were entirely committed
+to his management, which has been long and deservedly held as
+invaluable. He regularly attended the committees of the Branch Bible
+Society, the Dispensary, The Young Men's Improvement Society, and other
+local institutions of a general nature, where the weight of his talents
+and character were always felt. He was the President of one of the
+Benefit societies, and the most valuable honorary member of another. To
+all this it must be added, that hundreds in this town and neighbourhood
+were accustomed to make him acquainted with their trials, and seek his
+prompt and valuable advice in difficulty. In general he wished to forego
+a very prominent part in politics; but in cases of emergency his
+opponents soon became sensible that he was in the field. During the
+contest on the Reform question, he displayed powers, both of writing and
+speaking, of a superior order; nor have his most decided political
+enemies been backward in expressing their high respect for his
+commanding talents and unbending integrity.
+
+But we have not yet reached the limits of Mr. Beddome's sphere of
+usefulness. You are aware that he engaged as an occasional preacher. For
+a considerable period he lectured on alternate Sabbath evenings at the
+neighbouring village of Wyke, where his labours were highly acceptable.
+I never had the gratification of hearing him on such occasions; but
+judging, as well from the testimony of some of his friends, as from his
+mental capabilities, his extensive acquaintance with the word of God,
+his clear conceptions and consequently lucid statements on other
+subjects, in connexion with his fervent piety and habitual solicitude
+for the salvation of souls, I should conjecture that his addresses were
+characterized by their perspicuity, their judiciousness, their deep
+seriousness, and their manifest tendency to usefulness. Respecting these
+and similar qualities, he was accustomed to express warm approbation
+whenever he witnessed their discovery by the stated ministers of truth;
+a class of men, for whom, on account of their sacred office, he
+cherished a deep respect. He magnified their office; obeying the
+apostolic injunction, he "esteemed them very highly, in love for their
+work's sake." In his conduct towards his own minister he was a model of
+excellence; the whole of that conduct being studiously regulated by the
+most Christian principle and benevolence.
+
+His inclination, especially during the last few years of his life, to be
+wholly devoted to the work of the ministry, was sometimes exceedingly
+strong. Had he been permitted to select his own employment, doubtless he
+would have chosen that of an ambassador of peace. But while he possessed
+many qualifications suited to the preacher and the pastor, and which
+would have secured him great respectability in the sacred profession,
+Providence had richly endowed him also with certain other qualities, and
+had placed him in a sphere of action, which enabled him to be useful in
+a great variety of ways, not quite within the province of the stated
+minister. As it was, for some time he was contemplated by many as a kind
+of second pastor to this church and congregation; and his minister ever
+found in him a brother who, in many respects, could labour as well as
+sympathize with him, in conducting the oversight of this people in the
+Lord. If, with the exception of Wyke, and one or two similarly-situated
+places, he did not preach publicly, he most literally taught "from house
+to house." He appeared to seize every favourable opportunity of speaking
+for religion: the inquiring found in him a wise and kind director; he
+was a faithful reprover of sin; and when consolation was requisite, none
+knew better how it should be administered.
+
+While home engaged the first, it did not engross all, the energies of
+our departed friend. Of the enviable power of producing charming
+epistles of friendship, with ease and rapidity, he possessed a
+remarkable share. This power he habitually made subservient to
+the interests of religion; considering a talent for epistolary
+correspondence as involving serious responsibility. Could his numerous
+letters of remonstrance, advice, and Christian sympathy be collected, I
+am persuaded they would constitute a volume of no ordinary interest and
+usefulness. As in common conversation he was accustomed to throw out
+useful hints to those around him; so in letters of business, he often
+took occasion to remind his friends that they were only probationers in
+a world "which passeth away," the inordinate love of which must ruin the
+soul inevitably and for ever.
+
+To his friends it has always been a mystery how he could discharge, with
+his proverbial correctness, the numerous and onerous duties which he
+imposed on himself; the management of his private concerns being always
+sufficient to engross the attention of any ordinary mind. His habits of
+extreme regularity doubtless afforded him great assistance; but had he
+not possessed an incessantly active and a master mind, no such habits
+could have enabled him to attempt one half of what he accomplished. As a
+man of business his motto was "dispatch;" and whatever he undertook for
+the interests of benevolence, he attempted with all his might,
+exemplifying that beautiful and comprehensive injunction of Scripture:
+"Be diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
+
+That a life so valuable should have been suddenly terminated, in the
+midst of usefulness, at the vigorous age of forty, is a providence, in
+many respects, deeply painful, and mysterious; especially when,
+surveying society at large, we behold the useless and the injurious
+permitted to prolong their earthly existence. There are, however, in
+this case, various modifying circumstances which demand observation and
+gratitude. If the days of our departed brother on earth were short, they
+were singularly _vigorous_ and useful. He had already acted his part
+both in civil and religious society: scarcely had the dew of his youth
+passed away when he performed many of the duties, and was invested with
+many of the honours, of age; and although the continuance of a judgment
+so mature, a disposition so benevolent, and habits of usefulness so
+self-denying and energetic, would have been an invaluable favour,
+comparing the amount of his speedily accomplished work, with what is
+ordinarily allotted to the servants of God, we ought not, perhaps, to be
+greatly surprised that he has been thus early admitted to his rest.
+
+Yet who was prepared for the severe, the complicated trial which we are
+now summoned to sustain? Who could have anticipated that the
+comparatively young, the vigorous, the active Beddome, would have been
+so speedily and so suddenly called to go the way of all the earth?
+Notwithstanding his occasional physical infirmities, we seemed to forget
+that he was mortal; so completely was he identified with our interests,
+so necessary did he appear to our welfare, that we never calculated that
+he could die! Even after his medical attendants had repeatedly announced
+the impossibility of his recovery, many of you could not surrender the
+hope, that God would yet spare him, for the sake of his family and the
+church. But, alas! the stroke has come suddenly and irresistibly. We
+have buried our brother; we have heard the lamentations of all classes
+at his death; we are now paying our last public token of respect to his
+universally admitted worth; and yet, his removal appears like a dream.
+
+This day three weeks he came for a few minutes in the morning to witness
+the ordinance of baptism, but was too much indisposed to render his
+usual assistance. We conjectured, during that and the three following
+days, that he was suffering from a severe cold; but on the Thursday it
+was manifest that a formidable disease had taken full possession of his
+frame. During the whole of Thursday night he was very delirious, and so
+continued, under the influence of the fever which preyed upon his
+vitals, with scarcely an intermission, until death released him from his
+sufferings on the following Thursday morning; when, at half-past one,
+his spirit departed to be with Christ. From the moment he was thought to
+be dangerously ill, he had no opportunity of making statements
+respecting his spiritual prospects. Such statements, however, were
+unnecessary to our sure and certain hope of his salvation. He had
+previously witnessed a good profession. His character had already been
+stamped for a happy immortality; and pleasing as might have been his
+dying testimony to the religion of the cross, it is not to be forgotten,
+that while he was called to forego the delight of giving, and we of
+receiving, such a testimony, he was spared the pang of separation from
+his beloved partner, and four interesting babes, for whose welfare he
+felt all the tender solicitude which the husband and the father could
+feel.
+
+During the former part of his illness, before it had assumed a dangerous
+aspect, I conversed with him respecting the importance of not leaving
+the concerns of religion to a moment when disease unfits the mind for
+reflection, and congratulated him on the fact of his having been
+enabled, through grace, to prepare in health for the solemnities of
+eternity. He devoutly acknowledged the mercy which, in this respect, he
+had received; but neither then, nor on the following day, when our
+respected independent brother, with whom he had long been on terms of
+closest intimacy, prayed with him, did he appear to have the conviction
+that his "sickness was unto death." About a week before this period,
+having occasion to consult him respecting some important business
+connected with the church, our conversation assumed a more than commonly
+serious tone. I was led to ask him several questions respecting his own
+experience in religion, and the motives by which he had been actuated in
+his singular devotedness to this particular interest; and such were his
+replies, and in so affecting a manner were they given, that I left him
+with the deepest conviction that he was eminently a man of God: and
+since his departure, I have considered the statements which he then made
+as an anticipatory dying testimony to the genuineness and vigour of his
+personal piety.
+
+There were public as well as private circumstances of a somewhat similar
+nature, which are now cherished in the memories of his friends. At the
+last monthly prayer-meeting at which he was permitted to attend, he
+manifested a most solemn and intense devotional spirit. When praying for
+the prosperity of the church, he was so greatly affected as to be
+scarcely able, for several minutes, to proceed, while sympathy made the
+exercise one of general weeping as well as of supplication. At the last
+Sunday-school Union prayer-meeting also, many of the teachers remarked
+at the time, how very earnestly he wrestled on their behalf; and since
+that period, they have very naturally dwelt much on the fact, that he
+concluded the engagement by giving out and setting the tune to the
+following expressive lines:--
+
+  "Come, Christian brethren! ere we part,
+  Join every voice and every heart," &c.
+
+Having laboured for us ardently and efficiently, instead of repining at
+his removal, let us, by divine assistance, be grateful that a still more
+speedy termination was not put to his probationary career; and rejoice
+in his blissful possession of the "recompence of reward;" our loss being
+his imperishable gain.
+
+
+              THE TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE OVER INTOLERANCE,
+     ILLUSTRATED IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. BERRIDGE, OF EVERTON
+
+               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+The following letter was written by the late Mr. Sutcliff of Olney, and
+not having been extensively circulated, may perhaps be acceptable to
+some of the readers of the Baptist Magazine.
+
+It was published under Mr. Sutcliff's signature in a small collection of
+Mr. Berridge's letters, which I have in my possession, under the title
+of "Cheerful Piety, or Religion without Gloom," in the year 1797. And
+if its insertion meets your approbation, I will give it in Mr.
+Sutcliff's own words.
+
+                                                      A CONSTANT READER.
+
+_Harley Place, Bow._
+
+About two years ago a friend of mine, wishing to enjoy an hour or two of
+Mr. Berridge's company, rode over to Everton for that purpose. He was
+introduced by a dissenting minister in the neighbourhood, with whom Mr.
+B. lived upon terms of friendship. When seated, my friend requested Mr.
+B. if agreeable, to favour them with a few outlines of his life. The
+venerable old man began, and related several things as narrated in the
+first number of the Evangelical Magazine. But as some are there
+unnoticed, I have selected the following, which I think will not be
+uninteresting.
+
+Soon after I began, said he, to preach the gospel of Christ at Everton,
+the church was filled from the villages around us, and the neighbouring
+clergy felt themselves hurt at their churches being deserted. The
+esquire of my parish, too, was much offended. He did not like to see so
+many strangers, and be so incommoded. Between them both, it was
+resolved, if possible, to turn me out of my living. For this purpose
+they complained of me to the bishop of the diocese, that I had preached
+out of my own parish. I was soon after sent for by the bishop. I did not
+much like my errand, but I went. When I arrived, the bishop accosted me
+in a very abrupt manner: "Well, Berridge, they tell me you go about
+preaching out of your own parish; did I institute you to the livings of
+A----y, or E----n, or P----n?" No, my lord, said I, neither do I
+claim any of these livings, the clergymen enjoy them undisturbed by me.
+"Well, but you go and preach there, which you have no right to do." It
+is true, my lord, I was one day at E----n, and there were a few poor
+people assembled together, and I admonished them to repent of their
+sins, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of their
+souls; and I remember seeing five or six clergymen that day, my lord,
+all out of their own parishes, upon E----n bowling-green. "Poh!" said
+his lordship, "I tell you, you have no right to preach out of your own
+parish; and if you do not desist from it, you will very likely be sent
+to Huntingdon." As to that, my lord, said I, I have no greater liking to
+Huntingdon gaol than other people; but I had rather go there with a good
+conscience, than live at my liberty without one. Here his lordship
+looked very hard at me, and very gravely assured me that I was beside
+myself, and that in a few months I should either be better or worse.
+Then, said I, my lord, you may make yourself quite happy in this
+business; for if I should be better, you suppose that I shall desist
+from this practice of my own accord; and if worse, you need not send me
+to Huntingdon gaol, as I shall be provided with an accommodation in
+Bedlam.
+
+His lordship now changed his mode of attack: instead of threatening, he
+began to entreat: "Berridge," said he, "you know I have been your
+friend, and I wish to be so still. I am continually teazed with the
+complaints of the clergymen around you; only assure me, that you will
+keep to your own parish; you may do as you please there. I have but
+little time to live; do not bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the
+grave." At this instant two gentlemen were announced, who desired to
+speak with his lordship. "Berridge," said he, "go to your inn, and come
+again at such an hour, and dine with me." I went, and, on entering a
+private room, fell immediately upon my knees. I could bear threatening,
+but knew not how to withstand entreaty, especially the entreaty of a
+respectable old man. At the appointed time I returned. At dinner I was
+treated with great respect. The two gentlemen also dined with us. I
+found they had been informed who I was, as they sometimes cast their
+eyes towards me in some such manner as one would glance at a monster.
+After dinner, his lordship took me into the garden. "Well, Berridge,"
+said he, "have you considered of my request?" I have, my lord, said I,
+and have been upon my knees concerning it. "Well, will you promise me
+that you will preach no more out of your own parish?" It would afford me
+great pleasure, said I, to comply with your lordship's request, if I
+could do it with a good conscience. I am satisfied the Lord has blessed
+my labours of this kind, and I dare not desist. "A good conscience!"
+said his lordship, "do you not know that it is contrary to the canons of
+the church?" There is one canon, my Lord, I replied, which saith, "Go,
+preach the gospel to every creature." "But why should you wish to
+interfere with the charge of other men? one man cannot preach the gospel
+to all men." If they would preach the gospel themselves, said I, there
+would be no need of my preaching it to their people; but as they do not,
+I cannot desist. His lordship then parted with me in some displeasure;
+and I returned home not knowing what would befall me, but thankful to
+God that I had preserved a conscience void of offence.
+
+I took no measures for my own preservation; but Divine Providence
+wrought for me in a way that I never expected. When I was at Clare Hall,
+I was particularly acquainted with a fellow of that college, and we were
+both upon terms of intimacy with Mr. Pitt, the late Lord Chatham, who
+was at one time also at the university. This fellow of Clare Hall, when
+I began to preach the gospel, became my enemy, and did me some injury in
+some ecclesiastical privileges which beforetime I had enjoyed. At
+length, however, when he heard I was likely to come into trouble, and to
+be turned out of my living at Everton, his heart relented. He began to
+think, it seems, within himself, "We shall ruin this poor fellow among
+us." This was just about the time that I was sent for by the bishop. Of
+his own accord he writes a letter to Mr. Pitt, saying nothing about my
+Methodism, but to this effect: "Our old friend Berridge has got a living
+in Bedfordshire, and I am informed he has an esquire in his parish that
+gives him a deal of trouble; has accused him to the bishop of the
+diocese; and, it is said, will turn him out of his living; I wish you
+would contrive to put a stop to these proceedings." Mr. Pitt was at that
+time a young man, and not choosing to apply to the bishop himself, spoke
+to a certain nobleman to whom the bishop was indebted for his promotion.
+This nobleman, within a few days, made it his business to see the
+bishop, who was then in London. "My lord," said he, "I am informed you
+have a very honest fellow, one Berridge, in your diocese, and that he
+has been ill treated by a litigious esquire who lives in his parish; he
+has accused him, I am told, to your lordship, and wishes to turn him out
+of his living; you would oblige me, my lord, if you would take no
+notice of that esquire, and not suffer the honest man to be interrupted
+in his living." The bishop was astonished, and could not imagine in what
+manner things could have thus got round: it would not do, however, to
+object; he was obliged to bow compliance; and so I continued ever after
+in my sphere of action.
+
+The squire, having waited on the bishop to know the result of the
+summons, had the mortification to learn that his purpose was defeated;
+on his return home, his partisans in this prosecution fled to know what
+was determined on, saying, "Well, have you got the old devil out?" He
+replied, "No, nor do I think the very devil himself can get him out."
+After this interesting narration was ended, which had alternately drawn
+smiles and tears from my friend and his companion, they requested him to
+pray with them one five minute's before they departed. "No," said the
+good old man to my friend, you shall pray with me. "Well, but if I
+begin, perhaps you will conclude." He consented: after my friend had
+ended, he, without rising from his knees, took up his petitions, and
+with such sweet solemnity, such holy familiarity with God, and such
+ardent love to Christ, poured out his soul, that the like was seldom
+seen. They parted, and my friend declares he thinks he shall never
+forget the savour of this interview to his dying day.
+
+                                                           J. SUTCLIFF.
+
+
+                       RELIGIOUS REVIVAL MEETINGS.
+
+                 _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+I have been surprised and pained by the appearance of the paper, headed
+"On Revivals in America," in the number of your Magazine for the present
+month. Though the paper is headed "Revivals in America," Mr. Clarke has
+not confined his remarks to American revivals; he has animadverted with
+considerable freedom on revival meetings in England. As I, and several of
+my brethren in this part of the country, have sanctioned these meetings,
+I trust you will in justice allow me a little space in your next number,
+for a few remarks on his very singular production.
+
+Mr. C. commences with some observations on revivals in America. On this
+subject, I think, he does not write very consistently. It is scarcely
+possible to give a more gloomy, disparaging description of the American
+revivals than that which he presents. He represents them as exerting a
+most pernicious influence on the churches, on the young, and on the
+enemies of religion, rendering "the character of Christians undignified
+and uninfluential," and reducing them to a state of "contempt and
+ridicule." He says, "The good that they are occasionally the means of
+effecting is secured at the expense of the dignity, influence, and
+subsequent enjoyment of the church; and at the expense, too, of much
+that is lovely and permanent in the character of pure religion." Now, if
+this account of American revival meetings be correct, they must be a
+very great evil, and ought to be entirely discountenanced by Christians.
+Yet Mr. C. says, "Revival meetings may do for America." "The system is
+their own, and is almost universally understood and recognized." He also
+says, "The correctness of the reports which have reached this country
+respecting their revivals, perhaps, ought not to be seriously
+questioned." But if the reports of American revivals which have reached
+this country be in general correct, I think the description of Mr. C.
+must be very defective in that important quality; for there is a very
+wide difference between his description and those reports. If we doubt
+the correctness of his description, he has himself supplied us with an
+apology; for he says, "Things are not always in reality what they appear
+to be to the persons who describe them. Besides, truth is seldom naked,
+and its dress frequently makes an erroneous impression."
+
+Mr. C. says, "It is not my intention to degrade our American brethren;
+indeed, I cannot." True. But I suppose they will not consider that he
+passes a very high compliment on them, by first describing their
+meetings as he has done, and then saying, "The system is their own, and
+is there almost universally understood and recognized." His remarks on
+the American revivals "are, no doubt well intended," but I believe it
+would be difficult for any one to say what good end they are calculated
+to answer.
+
+But I hasten to a consideration of the latter part of Mr. Clarke's
+paper, which contains some extraordinary strictures on "revival meetings
+in England." He admits that the revival meetings in England may be well
+intended, but says, "They appear to have originated in a wish to imitate
+the Americans." I trust they originated in a sincere desire to glorify
+God, and to promote the salvation of immortal souls. Mr. C. says,
+"Religion cannot be imported." Indeed! Was not religion imported into
+this country? Was it not imported into America? And has it not been
+imported into other countries by our Missionaries? "Revival meetings,"
+says Mr. C., "may do for America, but they will not do for England." How
+does he know they will not do for England? Has he ever made the attempt?
+Has he ever attended a revival meeting in England? If not, I think he
+ought to have been less hasty in his conclusion. But they will not do
+for England, "because the people here do not understand them, neither do
+they heartily approve them." I am not much surprised that people do not
+_heartily approve_ that which they do not _understand_. He says in
+America the meetings are "almost universally understood and recognized."
+Hence it appears where they _are_ understood they _are_ approved, and
+that they are _not_ approved only where they are _not_ understood. This
+surely cannot be a very powerful argument against such meetings. Another
+of Mr. C.'s reasons why these meetings will not do for England is, "Our
+country has long been inhabited, and distinguished for religious
+institutions." As to the length of time our country has been inhabited,
+that can have very little to do with the subject; and as to our being
+distinguished for religious institutions, I do not know that we have
+such a mighty advantage over the Americans. Some of our religious
+institutions, instead of diminishing, greatly increase our need of
+revival meetings. Mr. C. next attempts to draw from the Scriptures an
+argument against revival meetings. "Besides," says he, "it is said,
+'Six days shalt thou labour,' and necessity makes many in England keep
+this commandment." And I should think necessity makes many in America
+keep it too. I suppose he does not mean to say that this commandment
+forbids persons from attending public worship on the "six days" if their
+circumstances will allow them to do so. And if he do not mean this, for
+what purpose can it be referred to? Once more. He says, "The unconverted
+inhabitants of this country are far more likely to raise bitter
+persecutions where revivals are attempted, than to feel willing to
+engage in them." And suppose the wicked were to raise bitter
+persecutions, are they to deter the Christian from doing that which he
+believes is for the glory of God? Has not the Saviour said, "Blessed are
+ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you," &c.? But experience
+has proved to me that Mr. C.'s assertion is far from correct; several
+revival meetings have been held in Lincolnshire, each of which was
+attended by many unconverted persons, and at not one was there any
+persecution. "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall
+be slain in the streets." Prov. xxii. 13.
+
+Mr. C.'s feelings warm as he advances; and, if I be not greatly
+mistaken, they carry him very far beyond the bounds of Christian charity
+in the following sentences: he says, "But, perhaps, the secret is this;
+these meetings in England look like a burlesque; they appear like a body
+without a soul, or like an orator without originality. We cannot,
+therefore, expect people to be charmed and benefited by them; for the
+mind cannot be wrought upon by what is felt to be a farce, nor will God
+bless what is not perfectly sincere." Revival meetings in England, "not
+perfectly sincere!" but are "a farce!!" and "a burlesque!!!" Really, Mr.
+Editor, I think this is "set forth with a little too much sharpness of
+invective," and I fancy all your readers, except Mr. Clarke, will think
+the same.
+
+As we proceed we find Mr. C. attempting to describe "the views and
+feelings of our churches associated in the capacity of Revivalists." I
+will not do our churches the injustice to believe that they would talk
+such nonsense as that which he puts into their lips; the language is
+much more befitting infidels than Christians. I am quite sure the views
+and feelings of our churches in this country, respecting revival
+meetings, are as different as possible from what Mr. C. states, and I
+believe many of our members are in no small degree disgusted by what he
+is pleased to say on the subject. If there be no more truth in what he
+says of the American revivals, than there is in his descriptions of
+revival meetings in England, he had better never given his "opinion" on
+the subject.
+
+Mr. C. says, "I would advise an adherence to _ordinary services_; for
+these being evidently scriptural and reasonable," &c. It is a pity he
+does not tell us what _are_ the "ordinary services that are scriptural
+and reasonable." Our Lord "taught daily in the temple," Luke xix. 47.
+The first converts at Jerusalem "continued daily with one accord in the
+temple and breaking bread from house to house," Acts ii. 46. Paul told
+the elders of the church at Ephesus, "that by the space of three years
+he ceased not to warn every one night and day." Acts xx. 31. These are
+scriptural services, and I suppose they are reasonable too. As to
+"ordinary services," they differ in different churches; some having one,
+and others having three or four, on the Sabbath; some having no service,
+and others having several, during the "six days." It is frequently
+mentioned to the honour of Whitefield and Wesley, that they preached
+almost every day in the week. The services that were "ordinary" to these
+good men would be extraordinary to most of our churches and ministers.
+Mr. C.'s advice to the churches is virtually, "Continue to go on as you
+do; quicken not your pace; devise no liberal scheme different from what
+you have already in operation; if you hear of other churches doing a
+great deal of good, by employing different means from those which you
+employ, regard it not; 'no plan can prove serviceable that is learned
+only from hearsay.' Above all things, carefully avoid whatever is
+extraordinary in the service of God." Mr. C. would make an admirable
+reformer!
+
+A statement of a few facts will be the best reply to what Mr. C. says
+about revival meetings in England. In this part of the country, six
+revival meetings have been held within the last nine or ten months, at
+four of which I have been present. None of the evils of which he speaks
+occurred at any of these meetings; they were attended by ministers and
+members of different denominations of Christians, most of whom
+expressed, not merely their approbation of the services, but their
+gratitude to God for the great spiritual delight they experienced in
+attending them. I believe every church that has held one of these
+meetings feels anxious that it should be repeated. Since they were held,
+some have been added to our churches, who state that it was whilst
+attending them that they first felt the importance of religion. Last
+Sabbath, three were added to the church at Lincoln, to whom these
+meetings were greatly blessed; and I hope in a few weeks to baptize
+three others who can say the same. What are Mr. C.'s flippant remarks
+when weighed in the balance with these facts?
+
+                                                             JOHN CRAPS.
+
+_Lincoln, February, 5th, 1835._
+
+
+                            WIDOWS' FUND.
+
+               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+Observing in your Magazine for last month a notice of the annual sermon
+to the Society for the Relief of the Widows of Protestant Dissenting
+Ministers, as intended to be preached at Salters' Hall meeting-house,
+Cannon-street, on Wednesday the 1st of April next, will you allow a
+well-wisher to that institution to occupy a small part of your pages to
+state a few particulars respecting that highly-valuable institution, as
+I apprehend many of your readers are but little acquainted with its
+origin and design. The proposed anniversary is the 102nd, it having been
+established in the year 1733. It was founded on a broad and liberal
+scale; no theological basis was intended; but the necessitous widows of
+ministers of the denominations of Presbyterians, Independents, and
+Baptists, were to be the recipients of its bounty. For these classes of
+Protestant Dissenters it was their aim to provide; and as our ancestors
+truly imagined that union was strength, their combined efforts were
+exerted to form this society. It is, however, but justice to say that,
+in the first instance, the interests of the society were greatly
+promoted by the exertions of our Presbyterian friends. To Dr. Chandler,
+a minister of that denomination, it was indebted for its rise. It has,
+however, since that period, been liberally supported by the other
+denominations of Dissenters, and diffused its blessings for more than a
+century "to the fatherless and the widow." The annual sermon has been
+preached alternately by a minister of each denomination; it was formerly
+at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, where the writer of this has
+witnessed, with high satisfaction, a thronged assembly listening to the
+urgent and sympathizing strains of a Fuller, a Hall, a Toller, and
+various others of different denominations. In the present year it falls
+to the Baptists to provide a place and a preacher; and may it not be
+reasonably hoped that that denomination will give the meeting its
+countenance and support, when they are informed that they have near
+eighty widows in the English counties, who receive an annuity from its
+funds, from one to twelve pounds each; besides more than twenty widows
+in the principality of Wales, who receive from seven to nine pounds of
+annual allowance.
+
+How creditable, Mr. Editor, would it be to the dissenters to revive this
+cause, which of late has been drooping! And the writer of this would
+fain entertain a hope that, whilst exertions are making amongst the
+friends of religion for so many important objects, ancient institutions
+will not be overlooked and forgotten; but that a spirit of revival will
+appear to the cause of the "widow and fatherless."
+
+_Denmark Hill._                                           J. GUTTRIDGE.
+
+  *.* We understand that the whole amount of subscriptions to this
+  benevolent institution is under £120.
+
+
+                     THE REV. L. S. E.'s PUBLICATION.
+
+ (COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, A MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.)
+
+_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+  DEAR SIR,
+
+As you were so kind as to favour me with the loan of a publication,
+entitled "_Letters to a Dissenting Minister, by L. S. E., containing
+Remarks on the Principles of the Sect_," &c., and to request my opinion
+of its merits and tendency, I have put down what occurred to me on the
+perusal of some parts of its contents: to have toiled through the whole
+of it, was a task to which my patience was by no means equal.
+
+The first impression produced on my mind was, the total absence of that
+charity and forbearance so often enjoined in the holy Scriptures.
+"_Judge not, that ye_ BE NOT JUDGED," was one of the precepts
+delivered, in his first sermon, by our divine Lord and Master; and in
+accordance with this direction, when his disciples, instigated by a
+mistaken regard for his cause, came to him complaining that they had met
+with some who followed not with them, and inquiring whether they should
+forbid them, his reply was, "Forbid them not, for he that is not against
+us is with us." The apostle Paul recommended the same line of conduct
+towards weak and mistaken brethren, and in the First Epistle to the
+Corinthians, which abounds with directions as to the conduct of
+professing Christians one towards another, he sums up the whole by a
+glowing description of _charity_, as superior to all other graces:
+"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; thinketh no evil; hopeth all
+things; endureth all things." To me it appears utterly impossible to
+reconcile these expressions with the arrogant pretensions and sweeping
+censures of this writer, not only with respect to the overt conduct, but
+the _motives_, of those who differ from him, charging them with a
+sin more heinous than drunkenness, and with being under the influence
+of the devil, because they cannot see alike with him respecting some
+of the circumstantials of Christianity, though they may agree as to
+the essentials.
+
+But the censorious language of the writer is not exhausted in the use of
+the most opprobrious epithets, and such as have hitherto been only
+appropriate to the vilest of characters; but it is diffused through the
+pages of his publication, by raking together and detailing anecdotes,
+with a view to degrade and vilify individuals, and the body of
+dissenters at large. That there are imperfections and inconsistencies to
+be found among the professors of religion, must be acknowledged; and has
+in every age been a source of lamentation to truly pious and devoted
+Christians; but how different their feelings from those of this
+clergyman, who endeavours to expose to ridicule the failings of others;
+who dwells upon them with a kind of malignant pleasure, and thus affords
+a handle to the common enemies of Christianity!
+
+As to many of the anecdotes contained in this publication, many are
+garbled and distorted, and some of them are, in many of their
+particulars, palpable falsehoods. The very quotations from the writings
+of his opponents--though it must be conceded that at this period of
+great excitement many unguarded expressions have been used by some
+individuals--are, some of them, so garbled and mangled as scarcely to
+bear any resemblance to the original, and calculated to convey a meaning
+very different from what was intended by the writer.
+
+Not to dwell any longer on these statements, which occupy a considerable
+portion of the book, in the chapters on _the Authority of the Church_,
+and _the Ordination of Christian Ministers_, much will be found so
+extravagant in its assumptions, as to throw the pretensions of the
+church of Rome into the shades (within whose pale, if he had any regard
+for consistency, he ought certainly to have been), and calculated to
+undermine and overthrow the grounds of the Protestant succession. They
+are indeed so full of absurdity as to amuse rather than offend, and
+exhibit in the clearest light the inability of L. S. E. to form a
+correct judgment, either as to matters of faith or practice. With all
+the consequence and arrogance which assumed infallibility can induce, he
+maintains that none ought to be teachers of religion but those who are
+_authorized_, or otherwise _specially inspired_ of God. According to his
+definition, an _authorized_ minister is one who has passed through the
+ordeal of episcopal ordination, and what constitutes that authority is,
+the _regular succession_ from the times of the apostles to the present
+period. In order to make this most important discovery of a regular
+succession, on which, in his estimation, so much depends, I have been
+employing myself for some time, in rummaging the different volumes of
+ecclesiastical history within my reach, and endeavouring to trace the
+succession, from the time of Peter downwards; and upwards from the time
+of the Reformation. In the former case, there is great confusion in the
+catalogue of bishops. Few of these are alike; some names of persons are
+given, who, there is reason to believe, never existed; there are many
+periods entirely without names; and it is well known, that for some time
+there were rival popes, each claiming exclusive authority. In tracing
+these tainted and impure currents, where shall we discover, either
+before or after the Saxon invasion, the perennial stream which will
+alone confer sanctity on the priestly office?
+
+In attempting to make discoveries in a retrograde movement, from the
+time of the Reformation, we find the names of Bonner, Gardiner, &c.;
+those immaculate characters, who, of course, transmitted this divine
+authority, and afterwards committed those to whom they had given it to
+the flames. In this lack of information on so momentous a subject, L. S.
+E.--_alias_ the Rev. Augustus Gathercole--will confer an invaluable
+benefit on the church to which he belongs, if he can produce, from his
+hidden stores, in the musty parchments which have been concealed for
+ages, the direct and unbroken line of succession, and append it to the
+next edition of his popular production. Of course the dissenters can
+have no pretensions to be _authorized_ teachers on these grounds; and
+not more so, as having _a special inspiration from God_ to become
+teachers, which is represented by this writer as the only other ground
+of a call to this office. It is true that some enthusiasts, with whom,
+as a body, they have no connexion, have laid claim to this high
+prerogative; but the avowed sentiment of the nonconformist body is, that
+the supernatural powers connected with a _special inspiration_ from God
+ceased with the first ages of Christianity. The Holy Spirit, in his
+ordinary and gracious operations, is promised to all good men, and
+especially to the ministers of the gospel, who, whether professing to be
+authorized teachers in the way before described or not, are insufficient
+in themselves for any good work, their sufficiency being of God, who
+alone can make them able ministers of the New Testament. Destitute of
+this, the hands of the bishop cannot confer any of the necessary
+qualifications.
+
+If none have any claim to the sacred office but those who have had
+episcopal ordination, or are specially inspired, not only the present
+race of teachers among different denominations, both Methodists and
+regular Dissenters, must be degraded to the rank of intruders, whatever
+success may have attended their labours; but the same will apply to the
+2,000 ministers of whom the world was not worthy, the brightest
+ornaments of the church to which the reverend gentleman belongs, who
+were expelled from their situations by the act of uniformity. Also the
+ministers of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, of which, as well as
+of the church of England, the king, by his representative, is the head,
+with many of the most eminent men who have flourished in these and
+foreign lands. Whatever excellences the universal suffrage of the wisest
+and best of men, both Churchmen and Dissenters, have attributed to the
+writings and public labours of an Owen, a Howe, a Charnock, a Watts, a
+Doddridge (the intimate friend of Archbishop Secker), a Henry, with a
+long train of others that might be enumerated, they must now retire into
+the shades, and pass into oblivion, because this infallible judge has
+made it out that they were not _authorized teachers_. Like their
+successors, they were incompetent to administer the ordinances aright;
+like them, to use his own language, they could not lay _claim to be
+considered as Christians. They were without the pale of the visible
+church of God. As schismatics, who forsook the church, they ought to
+have been the very first persons to whom the church should have refused
+her burial service; the principles of independency, which they in
+general maintained, being those of depraved human nature instilled into
+man, and fostered in him by his great enemy the devil, who was the first
+dissenter._
+
+Whatever inconveniences or evils may attend the choice of their own
+teachers by each respective congregation, the imposition of teachers is
+far from being free from the most serious objections, and especially
+when the patronage is in the hands of persons, as it often is,
+regardless of the spiritual welfare of the flock, who are left in a
+starving condition, and too often feel no interest either in the
+preacher or his doctrine.
+
+But I forbear, and shall leave it to a discerning public to determine
+whether the contents of this unique publication--a specimen of which is
+now given, can do any service to the church of which the Rev. A.
+Gathercole prides himself as being a member, or do any credit to the
+judgment of the reverend clergymen and the lordly bishop, who have
+condescended to give it their sanction.
+
+For myself (and I can without hesitation say the same of those with whom
+I am connected), I have no wish to see the downfal of the venerable
+fabric of the church, though in its patronage, often improperly used,
+and in some of its formularies, particularly the baptismal service and
+others connected with it, I think I see much that calls for alteration.
+Many of its ministers and members I respect, and wish to consider them
+as fellow-Christians. To this however, in the estimation of the Rev. A.
+Gathercole, I have no right to lay a claim, and must not therefore
+presume to subscribe myself by any other name than that with which he
+designates every Dissenter,--
+
+                                            A HEATHEN MAN AND A PUBLICAN.
+
+
+    ON THE PROPRIETY OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN DISSENTING CHAPELS.
+
+               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+I trust your candour will permit me, through the medium of your
+excellent publication, shortly to reply to some remarks that were made,
+and I think rather hastily, in your last number, relative to the
+introduction of instrumental music in dissenting places of worship. Your
+correspondent, Mr. Wilkin, I am fearful, was not in the most composed
+frame of mind when he sat down to pen the communication alluded to. The
+sounds of the instrument which he states to have "greeted" him with its
+"hideous tones," must have been vibrating in his ears at the time, or he
+could not have expressed sentiments bearing so close an affity to
+those _discordant_ notes with which he professes to have been so much
+annoyed on his entering some Baptist chapel.
+
+For my own part, I should deem no act inconsistent with the worship of
+God, in its simplest and purest form, which has a tendency to create a
+unison of voices which must tend so materially to produce a unity of
+feeling in the minds of those engaged in one of the most sublime parts
+of a religious service. I would only advocate the introduction of
+instrumental music into dissenting chapels to assist the singing, not
+when it merely offers an opportunity for the display of professional
+skill. With regard to the parts of Scripture bearing upon the subject,
+there are no direct commands in the New Testament, either for or against
+the practice. We read in the Revelations of "the harpers harping with
+their harps before the throne of God," while, in the Old Testament, we
+also read of praising God on the high-sounding organ. Surely, if praise
+was offered to God in this form with acceptance formerly, why shall it
+not be so in the present day? Some of the Psalms have titles signifying
+the author who was to set them to music, while others indicate the
+instrument it was to be played upon; clearly denoting that the
+accompaniment of music, when directed to God with pious feeling and
+sincerity of purpose, cannot be unacceptable, and consequently not
+inconsistent with the worship of the Divine Being; so that, so far from
+its being a departure from Scripture, it appears to me to be an
+adherence to it. Your correspondent states that, if he is wrong, he is
+open to correction. I trust, also, he is open to conviction, and
+sincerely hope he will not let early prejudices bias his mind to that
+extent as to pervert his judgment, or gain the ascendancy of his nobler
+and better feelings.
+
+                                                                 MUSICUS.
+
+_London, Feb. 7, 1835._
+
+
+                                 POETRY.
+
+                           PLEADING FOR MERCY.
+
+  When at thy footstool, Lord, I bend,
+    And plead with Thee for mercy there,
+  Think of the sinner's dying Friend,
+    And for His sake receive my prayer.
+  O think not of my shame and guilt,
+    My thousand stains of deepest dye:
+  Think of the blood which Jesus spilt,
+    And let that blood my pardon buy.
+
+  Think, Lord, how I am still Thy own,
+    The trembling creature of Thy hand;
+  Think how my heart to sin is prone,
+    And what temptations round me stand.
+  O think how blind and weak am I;
+    How strong and wily are my foes:
+  They wrestled with Thy hosts on high,
+    And can a worm their might oppose?
+
+  O think upon Thy holy word,
+    And every plighted promise there;
+  How prayer should evermore be heard,
+    And how Thy glory is to spare.
+  O think not of my doubts and fears,
+    My strivings with Thy grace divine:
+  Think upon Jesus' woes and tears,
+    And let his merits stand for mine.
+
+  Thine eye, Thine ear--they are not dull;
+    Thine arm can never shortened be:
+  Behold me here!--my heart is full----
+    Behold! and spare, and succour me.
+  No claim, no merits, Lord, I plead:
+    I come a humbled, helpless slave:
+  But, ah! the more my guilty need,
+    The more Thy O glory Lord, to save.
+
+
+                                REVIEWS.
+
+_Revealed Characteristics of God: in a Series of Essays._ By G. BARROW
+    KIDD, Minister of Roe Street, Macclesfield.--Westley and Davis.
+
+
+Who Mr. Kidd is we know not, but we have read his eighteen essays with
+great satisfaction; and we shall be greatly surprised if they do not
+contribute to make him far more widely known than he has been. The
+subjects are as follow: "On the Divine nature--On the Eternity of God,
+in contrast with the Duration of Man--On the Act of Concealment, as
+containing the Divine Glory--On God, as the Dwelling-place of his
+People--On Ezekiel's Vision of the Divine Glory--On the Equality of all
+Periods in the Sight of God--On the Divinity [Deity] of Jesus Christ--On
+the Revealed Representation of Jesus Christ's two Natures--On the
+Incarnation of the Word of God--On the Design of the Death of Christ--On
+the Atonement of Jesus Christ--On God, as the Original of Man's Love to
+his Maker--On the Supremacy of Jesus Christ--On the Deity as in Jesus
+Christ, and in him alone--On the Deity as in Jesus Christ, and in all
+believers--On the Extent and Surrender of Jesus Christ's
+Administration--On the Blessedness of Jesus Christ--On the Worship of
+Heaven." All these subjects are, it is obvious, important, evangelical,
+and interesting, in a very high degree, to those who believe in a divine
+revelation.
+
+The _spirit_ of these essays is eminently devotional; every essay is
+full of Christ, and he is "all in all." The writer believes all the
+great articles of the gospel system, as they are commonly held by
+evangelical Christians. Nor does he make any affectation of novelty or
+paradox, though, probably while unconscious of it himself, he has given
+us many original and uncommon thoughts. There is no pompous announcement
+of something to be expected very new, and recondite, and far removed
+from the beaten track. A holy unction from above seems to have rested on
+the writer; and though he is very grave and serious throughout, the
+reader will find some lively and tender appeals to his conscience and to
+his heart, mixed with long trains of elevated sentiment, and chains of
+reasoning very close and compact.
+
+The _method_ is admirable for its simplicity. The _lucidus ordo_, which
+Horace prescribes, he has uniformly observed. Always anxious, first, to
+investigate the true sense of the scripture which he has selected for
+the foundation of his essay, some of his elucidations, without any
+display of critical apparatus, are singularly happy.
+
+As to _style_, we think his _forte_ is in strength and vigour. Some long
+sentences (with parenthesis after parenthesis) involving thought within
+thought, have reminded us of the essays of our celebrated friend John
+Foster. We have observed many passages of great sublimity and splendour;
+and there are many of great depth, in which he finds "fountains below
+fountains," to borrow his own words, when traversing the ocean of "the
+unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ."
+
+Where Mr. Kidd studied, or to what school he belongs, we have never
+heard; but he is evidently a profound, original, independent thinker,
+writing out of his own mind. He has taken the thoughts, he says, "out of
+the mine of revealed truth." At the same time, it is pleasant to observe
+that he every where discovers a deep reverence for scripture authority.
+He is penetrated too with a strong conviction of the limits of all
+created minds. With chastened feelings he delights to soar aloft. He
+spreads his wings, and pursues a well-sustained upward flight, gazing
+with a strong and steady eye on the Sun of righteousness, as the proper
+object of all human and all angelic contemplation.
+
+A few words from the "advertisement" may be acceptable to our readers.
+The author mentions "the fact, that no two persons in any world
+entertain precisely the same intellectual views; and that, consequently,
+every sincere contemplator of revealed beauty, whatever may be his
+capacity, has it in his power to make broader the reflected light of
+God's word; and that the utmost efforts of human beings on earth,
+however diversified, and however harmonious in their diversity, will be
+no more than an approximation to the revealed mind of God."
+
+The volume is neatly got up, and printed with remarkable care and
+accuracy. Our limits will permit only a few extracts.
+
+  "If nothing were forgotten, if a distinct impression were
+  retained of all the words which he had ever spoken; of all the
+  deeds which he had ever done; of all the thoughts which he had
+  ever entertained; of all the places in which he had ever been;
+  of all the persons whom he had at any time seen and conversed
+  with; of all the words which he had ever heard; of all the
+  pleasures which he had ever tasted and enjoyed; of every
+  remonstrance from conscience; of every warning or invitation
+  from God or man; and could he, moreover, have continually in
+  his view these things in the precise order in which they all
+  occurred; could he behold every cause and every effect; and
+  every thing which he had been invisibly operating so as to
+  prevent a manifest cause from producing the effect which might
+  have been looked for as the usual one; and every thing, on the
+  other hand, which had secretly assisted a cause apparently
+  inadequate to produce a greater effect than could have been
+  anticipated; how very different a thing from what it is would
+  be human life! Now, although this accurate remembrance from
+  vivid impressions of the past is not man's prerogative on
+  earth, yet it is easily conceivable that he might attain to
+  this in a purer and brighter world. It cannot, indeed, be
+  imagined that the angels do not remember every thing which has
+  occurred during the whole of their wakeful being." pp. 28, 29.
+
+In another place, when referring to the Messiah, he says,--
+
+  "He has, in one word, adapted himself to your circumstances.
+  It was in all the defective and sinful parts of your history
+  that he was likely to be the least capable of affording to you
+  succour or supply. It was in the pity that your misery
+  demanded; in the forbearance that your propensity to crime
+  required; in the minute example that your dulness called for;
+  in the suffering which was necessary for your deliverance;
+  that there was apparently the greatest occasion to the sinner
+  for apprehension and fear. But all these parts of the
+  condition of the human fallen, their Redeemer has met in a
+  manner which bespeaks wisdom the most amazing, benevolence
+  that defies adequate admiration. With the view that has been
+  given of Jesus Christ, in this essay, we cannot reasonably
+  allow ourselves to be subject to despondency; for finite,
+  little, imperfect, diminutive, frail, occupying so small a
+  portion of creation as we are, we cannot possibly despair of
+  being complete in Him, in whom dwells all the fulness of the
+  Godhead bodily. Oh, let us then unite ourselves to Him in the
+  bond of a covenant which can never be dissolved." p. 321.
+
+Towards the close of the 16th essay, he exclaims:
+
+  "Oh, what honour is accumulating in the world above! We inform
+  them of a morning which is not to be succeeded by night; of a
+  subjection which is more illustrious than all the victories
+  that the universe will have ever before beheld; of a finite
+  nature which is clothed with eternal and uncreated light; of
+  the very last of all the complicated actions belonging to the
+  redemption of the world; when Jesus Christ shall bring before
+  his Father the millions that He has saved from every species
+  and degree of crime and degradation, for the purpose of
+  introducing them to everlasting fellowship with Jehovah; and
+  when _He_ shall become subject, to whom perpetual supremacy
+  belongs, in order that He may show to saints and angels what
+  has been the greatness of His humiliation, and how unutterable
+  is the grandeur of God; since when He has risen from infancy
+  in Bethlehem on earth, to a degree of strength, of lustre, of
+  possession, and of renown, which all created capacity is
+  inadequate to comprehend, the next degree of glory above this,
+  is an act of voluntary subjection to his heavenly Father;
+  which the honours of the supreme throne, and the laws of
+  infinite existence, require." p. 365.
+
+
+  _Dissent not Schism. A Discourse delivered in the Poultry Chapel,
+        December 12th, 1834, at the Monthly Meeting, &c._
+             By T. BINNEY--Robinson, 25, Ludgate Hill.
+
+Very elaborate, acute, argumentative, instructive, and convincing.
+The term _schism_, Mr. B. tells us, is literal, figurative, or
+ecclesiastical; but query, is not the ecclesiastical figurative? If
+so, the division is only twofold. Dr. Campbell's Dissertations (art,
+heresy and schism) deserve to be consulted.
+
+Mr. B., when referring to the three great forms of church
+government--episcopacy, presbyterianism, and congregationalism, has
+surprised us a little, by saying:--
+
+  "There is something in the record in favour of all; but the
+  book is not the exclusive property of any. There is more,
+  perhaps, in support of each than the thorough-going advocates
+  of the others will admit. There is more of episcopacy than is
+  quite palatable to the presbyterian and the independent; there
+  is more of presbyterianism than the independent and the
+  episcopalian can easily digest; and there is more of
+  congregationalism than either the priest or the presbyter can
+  manage to get rid of." p. 69.
+
+Is this to be understood _cum grano salis_, or are we left to infer that
+the worthy author himself is not quite settled in his own mind as to the
+interpretation of the record?
+
+It might have been as well if Mr. B. had confined himself to Dissenters,
+_as such_; however, his animadversions on the Methodists and the
+strict-communion Baptists, pp. 81-83, will do them no harm.
+
+His castigation of the present bishop of London, in the "notes," is not
+more severe than just. The bishop will remember it as long as he lives.
+
+We must make room for the concluding paragraph:--
+
+  "Finally, let us all scrupulously attend to the nourishment
+  and exercise of the catholic principle. Let us impress upon
+  our minds the necessity of 'keeping the heart with all
+  diligence, for out of it' arise 'schisms' and 'strifes.' Let
+  us watch over ourselves, and guard against every circumstance
+  that may diminish candour, pervert the judgment, or poison the
+  affections. As Christians, let us war with what separates man
+  from God; as dissenters, with what separates Christian from
+  Christian. Let us seek the nearer approximation of church to
+  church, and the ultimate recognition and union of all. Let
+  each of us so enter into the spirit of our faith, and so feel
+  the propriety and understand the reasons of our ecclesiastical
+  position, as to be able to say with boldness and truth, 'I am
+  a Dissenter, because I am a Catholic; I am a separatist,
+  because I cannot be schismatical; I stand apart from some,
+  because I love all; I oppose establishments, because I am not
+  a sectarian; I think little of uniformity, because I long for
+  union; I care not about subordinate differences with my
+  brother, for CHRIST _has received him_, and so will _I_;
+  thus, cultivating the spirit of universal love, I am hastening, I
+  hope, that day when the world itself shall become the church,
+  and preparing, I trust, for that world in which the church
+  shall be ONE--one in faith, in feeling, and in worship; in a
+  higher sense than can be witnessed here. While here, however,
+  so far as the _spirit_ and _expression_ of affection is
+  concerned, I am longing to witness and realize some approach
+  to what I anticipate hereafter,--anticipate in that region
+  where, amid the lustre and the loveliness of heaven, the jars
+  and the jealousies of earth shall have passed away.' This,
+  brethren, _ought_ to be the feeling and the consciousness of
+  'all who profess and call themselves Christians.' It ought
+  pre-eminently to be ours. May God make it to be so, and to be
+  so universally, by pouring down upon his church the Spirit
+  from on high; and by diffusing and sustaining in every part of
+  it the strength of love, and the meekness of wisdom! Amen."
+
+
+_A Memoir of the Rev. James Upton, late of Church Street, Blackfriars;
+the Addresses delivered at the Interment, by the Rev. G. Pritchard and
+    the Rev. W. B. Collyer, D.D., with the Funeral Sermons by the
+     Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. J. Davis, the Present Pastor._
+
+In the November number of our last volume--which contains a brief
+memorial of this revered and beloved servant of Christ--it is intimated
+as "probable, that some account of our departed friend will appear in
+another form." This account is contained in the small volume now before
+us. It has been prepared by the members of his family, by those who are
+engaged in proclaiming the truths of that blessed gospel which was the
+theme of his ministry, and the solace of his dying hour. Hence the
+sorrows of the mourning relatives are alleviated by the most joyful
+anticipations, even while "with tears they cast this wreath of filial
+duty and affection on his tomb."
+
+We can, however, assure our readers that this tribute of natural esteem
+to the memory of a deceased parent--a feeling not always to be trusted
+in sketches of this description--has not produced in this instance an
+overcharged exhibition of his character. If filial affection has held
+the pencil, modesty and fidelity have guided its delineations. In a
+letter dated from St. Alban's, 1834, Mr. W. Upton thus writes:--
+
+  "I would just remark, that neither my dear brother nor myself,
+  I am sure, pretend to eulogize our father as a faultless man,
+  or a faultless minister. In him the effects of a depraved
+  nature were seen as well as in others, but in him also were
+  seen, to a far greater degree than in most, the counteracting
+  and restoring influences of the gospel and the grace of God.
+  We feel therefore bound to say--not indeed with any design to
+  attribute unmerited honour to him, much less with a view to
+  borrow splendour from his rays, but with a desire to glorify
+  God, to encourage others, and to excite a holy emulation--that
+  "he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith;"
+  while by his instrumentality "much people was added to the
+  Lord." p. 100.
+
+In accordance with this sentiment, the elder brother, the principal
+writer of the memoir, observes:
+
+  "Now the Head of the church has called him to his rest, it
+  would be improper not to make the attempt to 'glorify God in
+  him,' by gathering such facts respecting his early history and
+  subsequent course, as our slender materials for such a purpose
+  will furnish."
+
+The scantiness of the materials which the life of this excellent man has
+supplied to his biographer, though to his friends a matter of regret,
+will be none of surprise to those who knew him. Modesty and diffidence
+seem to have been the native elements of his character; and humility,
+inducing a deep sense of his own unworthiness, constituted a
+characteristic feature of his renewed nature. To our departed brother,
+SELF had no attractions. It was not the idol of his idolatry; it was not
+even an object of his complacency. It was therefore scarcely to be
+expected that he should contribute much to perpetuate the memory of one
+of whom he habitually entertained so lowly an estimate.
+
+It appears, indeed, that Mr. Upton did at one time entertain the idea of
+preparing "a short narrative of his own life," urged so to do by the
+affectionate request of a friend; but the purpose was afterwards
+abandoned, probably, in part at least, from the cause to which we have
+adverted. Humility is a beautiful garment; it is a lovely and attractive
+grace; but its tendency is to conceal from view the excellencies with
+which it is associated. Hence men who are remarkably humble will be but
+imperfectly known. These plants of righteousness, not less than others,
+"have their fruit unto holiness;" but they are like those of the
+vegetable kingdom, whose richest products are often concealed beneath
+the broad foliage with which they are invested.
+
+Mr. U. was, however, not only "a tree which the Lord had planted," but
+he was like those "planted by the rivers of waters," he was eminently
+fruitful. A brief history of his connexion with the church over which he
+so long and so honourably presided, is modestly given by himself, in a
+letter to his son, dated November 9th, 1826, to which we must refer our
+readers. It appears that from the date of 1791 to 1800, including a
+period of ten years, 293 persons were baptized and added to the church;
+and from 1800 to 1820, 350 more; and after all the changes produced by
+death and removals, the number of members at the time of his decease is
+stated to be probably above 400: on his first connexion with this pious
+people there were but 16 members, and from 50 to 60 hearers. He was
+pastor of the church more than forty-eight years, and entered into his
+rest in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
+
+The contributions to the volume of the respected friends whose names are
+given in the title-page, cannot fail to add to its value. While they
+have attempted to magnify the grace of God in him, and to improve the
+event for the benefit of survivors, their concurrent testimony in
+relation to the deceased seems to have been, "Behold an Israelite
+indeed, in whom was no guile."
+
+
+  _The Reciprocal Duties of Church Members. A Sermon before the London
+    Baptist Association._ By the REV. EDWARD STEANE. pp. 44.--London:
+    Thomas Ward and Co. 27, Paternoster Row.
+
+We have read this sermon with considerable satisfaction, both on its own
+account, and on that of the Association to which it is dedicated. An
+Association must do good which calls for such clear, faithful, and
+instructive expositions of Christian duty, as this sermon furnishes. Mr.
+S. founds his discourse on John xiii. 34; and, as we think, wisely
+selects as his chief topic of illustration, that mutual love which Jesus
+Christ enjoins upon all disciples, and out of which the reciprocal
+duties of Church members will naturally flow, as "so many practical
+demonstrations of their obedience to the law of love."
+
+The nature of the love which our Lord inculcates, as a new commandment,
+is first explained in the sermon before us; though we doubt whether the
+preacher has put all, or even the principal, reasons for its being so
+denominated. _New_, in the text as well as in several other
+passages--for instance, _new_ heavens and a _new_ earth--has always
+appeared to us to indicate especial excellence or paramount importance.
+This commandment is not, as Mr. S. very properly observes, merely a
+revival, a vindication, or fresh enforcement of the spirit of the
+original law.
+
+"It is new," he says, "in relation to the parties commended to its
+exercise, the peculiarity of its nature, and the motive by which it is
+enforced. Under the second of these particulars the remarks of the
+preacher are somewhat feeble. The discriminative differences of
+Christian love are not clearly and forcibly drawn. We are told that it
+is "a spiritual principle--a supernatural endowment,--a property
+acquired in the process of that change by which Christians are born from
+above." So is that love to our enemies which Christianity requires us to
+cherish.
+
+We learn, further, that Christian love is "something more than good
+will; it is not simple humanity; it is brotherly love; an affection
+having its seat, not in the sympathy of the feelings, but in the
+sincerity of the heart." The distinction between "sympathy of the
+feelings" and "sincerity of the heart" is not very obvious; but, passing
+this, mere friendship, apart from Christianity, might be described in
+the same terms. Mr. S. adds: Christian love is "stronger than death; if
+needs be, it will lead a Christian to that last act of a devoted and
+divine friendship, to lay down his life for the brethren." True: so also
+is the love, not Christian, to which the apostle adverts, Rom. v. 7; and
+that of which, now and then, the idea and the precept is given; nay, and
+the example too, as Mr. S. must have known, by those to whom
+Christianity utterly unknown.
+
+Mr. S. appears to us, at pp. 11, 12, to have somewhat too sweepingly
+intimated that an "exclusive principle in the constitution of our
+churches" is indicative of a deficiency of the principle inculcated in
+the text. He has gone out of his way for the observations introduced on
+this point; and, as nineteen twentieths of the Christian world have
+always been, and are now, thus exclusive, it is somewhat daring to
+insinuate such a charge. If we take a narrower view of this subject, and
+regard only what are called _strict_ Baptists, whom Mr. S. appears to
+have had in his eye, we should be unwilling to pronounce judgment on the
+amount of the Christian love of such men as Kiffin, of olden time;
+Fuller, Kinghorn, and a host of others, of more modern date.
+
+In the second division of the sermon before us, the occasions and modes
+of fulfilling the new commandment of our Lord are exhibited. If all that
+Mr. S. has remarked upon are not strictly modifications of that mutual
+complacency in which he appears to think Christian love consists, each
+is of such vast importance that it could be but ill spared. This
+commandment, we are told, will be obeyed by affording _each other
+mutual_ (redundant) countenance, in supporting the public means of
+grace; by embracing opportunities for social devotion and spiritual
+intercourse; by _mutual_ submission _to one another_, especially in
+cases where a difference of opinion exists; by treating offenders
+properly; by mutually sympathizing, interchanging kindly offices, and
+watching over one another in the spirit of meekness; and by a hearty
+co-operation with fellow-christians in whatever tends to promote the
+prosperity of the church, and the general interests of Christianity in
+the world. These topics are respectively remarked upon with considerable
+propriety; as are also the motives enforcing this new commandment. These
+are, Christ's love to us; our mutual love will afford one of the best
+evidences of personal piety; it will make known our character to the
+world; and it will exist for ever. We a little regret that Mr. S. has
+fallen into the common error of supposing faith and hope excluded from
+heaven. "Faith and hope," he says, "will expire; but love never dies."
+We need not say that Scripture furnishes no ground for such a
+representation; neither is such ground involved in the nature of faith
+and hope, or in the views the Bible opens to us of heaven. Under some of
+their present modifications faith and hope will indeed be unknown there;
+but as much may be said of love. Do not the spirits of the just made
+perfect now anticipate, with faith and hope, "the adoption; to wit, the
+redemption of the body?" And will not the glorified assembly around the
+throne of God be always anticipating large accessions to their
+knowledge, holiness, and joy?
+
+On the whole, however, notwithstanding these free remarks, we cordially
+recommend this sermon to our readers; and shall be glad, at any time, to
+meet with the author in a department of Christian instruction for which
+his habits and experience have so well qualified him.
+
+
+              BRIEF NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
+
+_The Soul's Independence of Death, and God's Sovereignty in Man's
+Removal. A Sermon occasioned by the Decease of Mr. E. Bliss, aged 22,
+delivered on Sunday, February 1st, at Shortwood, by Thomas Fox Newman.
+London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1835._--This is a valuable sermon;
+containing many striking reflections, conceived with vigour, and
+expressed with much force. The circumstances under which it was preached
+evidently exerted a powerful and solemn influence on the mind of the
+preacher, and he speaks throughout under a deep impression of the
+infinite importance of eternal things. The unexpected death of so
+estimable a young man as Mr. Bliss appears to have been, was calculated
+to excite the liveliest emotions of grief, although there was every
+thing in his character to allay anxiety respecting himself, and to give
+the assurance of his having entered, thus early, upon the joys of the
+blessed. It will afford us sincere pleasure if our brief notice shall
+aid the circulation of the sermon, and thus contribute to its
+usefulness.
+
+_A Discourse occasioned by the Decease of William Maynard, Esq.,
+preached at the Meeting-house, Union Street, Southwark, Nov. 23rd, 1834.
+By John Arundel. With the Address delivered at the Interment, Bunhill
+Fields. Westley and Davis; Jackson and Walford._--A very serious,
+suitable, evangelical discourse, which could not be heard without great
+interest, and will not be read, we trust, without profit.
+
+_The Parent's Book. A Series of Tales. By Rosa Edwena Gordon, Nos. 1 and
+2. Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row._--Very sensible, entertaining,
+elegant and pathetic; but where is the Saviour, whom every parent should
+place before the eyes of his children?
+
+_The Mother's Magazine. Reprinted from the American Edition, No. 18. J.
+Paul, Paternoster Row._
+
+_Illustrations of the Bible from Original Paintings, by Westall and
+Martin, with Descriptions by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B. D. part 10.
+Churton, 26, Holles Street._--An admirable work for all our young
+readers.
+
+_Primitive Christianity, &c. By William Cave, D.D. Hatchard._--The
+introductory essay by Mr. Trollope is very respectable; but we lament to
+say, that in Dr. Cave's popular work, now reprinted under the especial
+patronage of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, there are many
+traditions, fables, and idle ceremonies of human invention, which
+"primitive Christianity," or the religion of the first Christians, was
+not encumbered with. But, alas! "in the first ages of the gospel," her
+fair form was corrupted and defiled.
+
+_The Devotional Psalter._ "There is not a page of the book of Psalms in
+which the pious reader will not find his Saviour, if he reads with a
+view of finding him." Bishop Horsley.--Oliphant and Sons, Edinburgh.
+
+_Bible Lives. By B. H. Draper, 2 Vols. Westley and Davis._--Mr. Draper's
+entertaining pen could not be better employed than in such a work as
+this, from which, we trust, hundreds and thousands of young persons will
+derive both pleasure and profit.
+
+_Common Scenes Improved by the Rev. James Smith, late of Ilford--Christ
+Precious--The Temper of Jesus, by Dr. Grosvenor--Gilbert's Last
+Birth-Day--Christ the only Foundation. Ward and Co._--All fit
+instruments for much usefulness.
+
+_The Condensed Commentary, &c. Ward and Co._--The commencement is
+promising. We hope to be able to notice this cheap and valuable work
+more at large in its progress.
+
+_Bruce on Sympathy, 2nd Edition._--This respectable book we recommended
+several years ago, and we heartily do so again.
+
+_The British and Foreign Temperance Advocate and Herald. For January.
+Price Threepence._
+
+_On the Punishment of Death. By John Pell. Hamilton and Co._--This
+letter to the Marquis of Northampton, dated from Yardley, Hastings, in
+December last, is very powerfully written on Evangelical principles; and
+deserves the most profound consideration on the part of our
+legislators--and indeed of all our countrymen. The object is to prove
+that the punishment of death is unlawful.
+
+_Three Tracts on Public, Secret, and Social Prayer. Jackson and
+Walford._--When the reader has heard that these tracts were written by
+Mr. Sheppard, of Frome, he will not want any recommendation.
+
+_Educational Magazine, No 1. Simpkin and Marshall._--If this work
+proceeds as it has commenced, it will throw a flood of light upon the
+darkness of our own beloved country and of others.
+
+_The Scriptural Constitution of Christian Churches. A Discourse
+delivered November 13th, 1834, at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Penman,
+A.M., to the Pastorship of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge, Kent.
+By Thomas James, Woolwich. Westley and Davis._--A very sensible, clear,
+and candid discourse on a subject always interesting, and peculiarly so
+at the present time. The author, when referring to 1 Tim. iii. 17, "Let
+the _elders_ that rule well," &c., remarks: "That the term _elder_
+comprehends the office of deacon, is manifest from this:" but we confess
+it is not manifest to us. We have great satisfaction, however, in
+copying the following sentence in reference to the deacons: "And they
+should be sufficient in number to render unnecessary the many expedients
+to which some churches have resorted, in the appointment of managers,
+stewards, and committees, which are as unscriptural as the high sounding
+titles which are given to the multiplied officers of the national
+church."
+
+_James's Anxious Inquirer--Morison's Morning Meditations--Anecdotes (The
+Young)--Stephen Morell's Family Memorial--Case's Mount Pisgah._--Of
+these it is sufficient recommendation to say that they are published or
+republished by 'The Religious Tract Society.'
+
+
+                                  OBITUARY.
+
+                          MR. SAMUEL WARMINGTON.
+
+Mr. Samuel Warmington was the youngest of a numerous family. He had
+enjoyed many religious advantages from early childhood, and had grown up
+in the society of persons many of whom were distinguished for their
+prudence and piety. His early youth was strictly moral, and gave
+promising indications of future worth. He had much simplicity of
+purpose, with a remarkable freedom from those moral taints which many
+youths imbibe as they rise into manhood. He enjoyed no particular
+endowments of mind that might serve to distinguish or raise him above
+his fellows; but he possessed those more useful characteristics which
+attracted the respect and love of the circle by whom he was best known.
+Naturally of a retiring disposition, he avoided many worldly dangers and
+temptations, and acquired a salutary acquaintance with his own heart in
+private. In due time, God, in infinite mercy, though by a very gradual
+process, created him anew in Christ Jesus. This change was seen and felt
+by himself and others, not so much in the outward conduct, as by the
+flow of feeling and affection towards subjects of the highest
+importance. He united himself to the church under the pastoral care of
+the Rev. Dr. Newman, about three years since; and from that period has
+constantly maintained an exemplary Christian deportment, though
+circumstances over which he had no control prevented his fulfilling his
+duties as a church member as he could have wished.
+
+He was soon subjected to the discipline of his heavenly Father, who
+correcteth every son whom he receiveth. A tender attachment he had
+formed for a very accomplished and pious young lady was reciprocated and
+mutually cherished, till it became interrupted by her illness and death.
+The excitement consequent on the commencement and ripening of this
+affection, under circumstances so mournful, gave the first development
+of incipient disease. His friends observed its effects with concern, but
+not with alarm. In the meantime his mind had been acquiring both
+fortitude and dignity. The warmest sympathies of his heart had been
+drawn forth on behalf of his fading, dying friend; but, at the same
+time, he had been brought so near to the realities of the eternal world
+as never to lose the impression afterwards. The beneficial effects this
+trial had upon his character was evident to all who observed him. He
+mingled again amidst the busy scenes of life with feelings of heartfelt
+gratitude for the grace and mercy which had been manifested towards his
+late friend, and with renewed devotion to the God who had mingled so
+large a share of parental love with the affliction he had appointed him
+to endure. He likewise mingled in scenes of family affliction with much
+sensibility and a matured judgment. He did his part, with other
+brothers, in solacing a mother's dying pillow by his prayers and by
+other filial attentions.
+
+And thus it was that he became gradually prepared for the dissolution of
+the earthly house of his _own_ tabernacle. Symptoms of disease were
+renewed and accumulated, so as to awaken apprehension as to their issue.
+He retired from the avocations of business with graceful submission to
+the divine will, and zealously applied himself to means for the recovery
+of health. Testimonials of respect from his late employers, and his
+companions, frequently followed him into retirement, either at his
+father's house, or at some distant part of the country. The last journey
+he undertook was to Dover, where his stay was short and distressing. He
+returned home much worse, and with slight alternations of disease,
+slowly sunk beneath its influence.
+
+Under the paternal roof he enjoyed those soothing attentions his case
+required; and often mentioned, with touching emotion, his gratitude to
+God for giving him so kind a father, and such affectionate sisters, to
+alleviate his last affliction. One of these sisters, herself the subject
+of long affliction, was frequently detained with him from public
+worship, and on such seasons of sacred tranquillity, would read and
+converse with him. When too weak to bear either, he would lament his
+want of energy; but regarding it as a part of his affliction, desired to
+submit to it with acquiescence as the will of God. He would say, "I
+depend on the quiet, though powerful, teaching of the Holy Spirit; who
+will, himself, impress the truth on my mind." At other times he would
+say, "Read one of those sublime chapters at the conclusion of the
+Revelations, to draw my thoughts towards heaven." He was fond of the
+Pilgrim's Progress, and said of it, "In my weak state, it is the only
+book I can listen to with ease or profit, besides the Bible." When he
+spoke of the providence of God, it was always with evident satisfaction:
+he would say, "I am quite helpless, unable to do any thing for my own
+maintenance, or for the benefit of others; but I am so perfectly
+satisfied to cast all my care on the kindness and wisdom of God, that I
+do not desire to have a choice if I might. If my health be restored, I
+know he can direct my pursuits; and for the present, all is infinitely
+better than I could have arranged." On another occasion, he said to one
+of his sisters, "I should like to know Mr Beale's opinion (his medical
+attendant) of my disorder: if he thinks it will terminate fatally, I
+hope he will tell me: I am not alarmed at the thought of death." And
+shortly afterwards, added, "What a mercy it is that I have not _now_ to
+seek the Saviour, nor go to him now for the _first_ time: this is a
+season when I need the comfort and support of religion." On the evening
+of the same day, he enjoyed great composure of mind; and when referring
+to his departure, he said, "He trusted, as a family, we should all meet
+again: the separation would not be for long." He frequently requested to
+hear the 23rd Psalm read, saying, "Though I can repeat it, I like to
+hear it." A few days after confinement to his own room, he said to one
+of his sisters, "I shall never go down into the parlour again; I feel I
+am sinking; I can hardly describe my sensations of weakness." It was
+replied, that should it be so, it would be gain to him. He was asked if
+he felt any distress in the prospect, as to the actual pain of dying. He
+said, "No, my thoughts go beyond that; I endeavour to keep them fixed on
+the bright side--the glory that shall follow." On another occasion he
+was assisted to walk to the window of his apartment, and, looking out
+upon the garden, he said, "Ah! there is the garden I used to enjoy, it
+looks very winterly now, and I shall never walk there again; but I am
+quite satisfied." When alluding to his departure, he said, "He hoped it
+might be like falling asleep. Oh! to fall asleep, and wake in the
+likeness of Jesus!" His bodily sufferings were often very severe;
+especially as he drew near his end. On one occasion, when suffering
+extreme agony, he asked, "If it was proper to pray for an object
+seemingly desirable to ourselves!" The answer implied, there was no
+restriction; that we might call upon God in the day of trouble, asking
+for any mercy in submission to his will. He rejoined, "Oh! yes; _in
+submission to the will of God_, I do desire a little relief from pain;
+but," he added, "can you remind me of a _scripture_ example, where this
+has been done; for my mind seems so weak, I cannot think?" The words of
+the apostle Paul were referred to: "For _this thing_ I besought the
+Lord," &c. And also the words of Jesus himself: "If it be possible, let
+_this cup_ pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done."
+He seemed earnestly to adopt this language, and became more composed.
+The same evening he requested his father to pray with him; and being
+asked what he most desired, he said, "That I may have patience, and bear
+this affliction to the glory of God." He appeared to spend much of his
+time in mental aspirations after spiritual support, and the presence of
+Jesus. His oft-repeated request to his pious attendants was, "Oh! pray
+for complete acquiescence, and for the presence of Jesus." On one
+occasion, appearing to be greatly depressed, it was said to him, "Though
+flesh and heart fail, God will be your strength and portion for ever:"
+he replied, "Yes, he will; that is a mercy." After a pause, he said, "I
+am anxious to have the presence of Jesus to the last:" and added, "Does
+not Bunyan describe Christian as leaving his garments of mortality
+behind him, when he passed through the river? How delightful that will
+be!" At another time, when his hand had been lanced and dressed, he
+said, "I long to lay my poor hand in the dust; I long to be at rest."
+After a minute, he added, "There is a rest purchased and ready for me;
+and I shall be put in possession in God's own time." He was exceedingly
+grateful to those who attended him and administered to his necessities;
+telling them, he wished they might have the same support he felt, when
+they should be placed in circumstances similar to his. On an occasion of
+bodily infirmity, he very feelingly said, "The righteousness of Christ
+will soon cover all our shame." He continued in a state of extreme
+debility and suffering for many days, waiting his departure in a
+condition of child-like dependance on the mercy and faithfulness of his
+heavenly Father, reconciled to him, a guilty sinner, through the
+atonement of his blessed Saviour. He longed to depart, and be with
+Jesus; and would sometimes ask if it was wrong to pray for this
+blessing, hoping he might not be impatient or presumptuous.
+
+On his last sabbath on earth, his medical friend, having felt his pulse,
+said to him, "Well, Sir, I think you will soon be where there will be no
+more pain and suffering." He replied, "Not on account of anything of my
+own; it is purchased by the blood of Christ."
+
+Soon after this, through weakness, his articulation became indistinct,
+and dissolution appeared hourly approaching. He lingered, however, till
+the following Thursday morning, under the influence of much bodily
+anguish, but having his mind calm--often apparently quite happy--as he
+passed along the dark valley. It seemed as though a beam of heaven's
+glory illuminated his path, to assure his soul of her coming bliss. He
+had bid adieu to his affectionate relatives once before, deeming himself
+in the last struggle; but again, on the last morning, the mourning
+family were assembled around his bed, witnesses of his bodily distress;
+and to receive, more by expressive looks than by words, his final adieu.
+He faintly said, "Pray for me; pray for the presence of Jesus."
+Afterwards, with more distinctness than he had spoken for several days,
+he added; "Oh, blessed Jesus! _once more_, I implore thy love." One of
+his sisters remarked, "You will soon _rest_ in his love," quoting an
+appropriate promise; to which he rejoined, expressively, "That is no
+mere speculation." He said no more, but apparently listened to that
+verse, commencing--
+
+"Jesus, I love thy charming name," and in a few minutes closed his eyes
+on all terrestrial scenes. He died on the 18th of December, 1834, at his
+father's house, at Plaistow, Essex, aged twenty-seven years.
+
+
+                          RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
+
+                                 FOREIGN.
+
+                                 CANADA.
+
+                _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+DEAR SIR,
+
+I send you the two following letters, as they tend to throw some light
+on the religious state of Canada. The details of the first are chiefly
+statistical; and the extremely interesting communications in the other
+are illustrative of the important facts alluded to in the previous one.
+Your insertion of these in the Magazine as soon as possible, will much
+oblige yours sincerely,                                    DOMESTICUS.
+
+_Hamsterley, Feb. 9th, 1835._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                           _Montreal, 6th Nov. 1834._
+
+MY DEAR BROTHER,
+
+The receipt of yours gave me great pleasure. I was happy to learn that
+you were so deeply interested in Canada. It does appear to me the duty
+of our denomination to do something for it; and I have no doubt that, if
+it were properly advocated, something would be done. I am deeply
+convinced that to do good in this world, it is necessary to keep one
+object chiefly in view. Now, my brother, suppose you keep Canada before
+you, and introduce it frequently to the notice of our brethren on your
+side of the water, much good might be done. I have written several
+letters, this fall, to different individuals, soliciting their
+attention, and have now sat down to answer some of your queries. My
+remarks particularly apply to Lower Canada.
+
+1. By the census in 1831, the population of Lower Canada was 511,000; of
+these, more than 100,000, were Catholics. There are, at present, two
+Catholic bishops in the province: the bishop of Quebec, who resides at
+Quebec; and the bishop of Telemesse, who resides at Montreal. The number
+of Catholic clergymen is about 150. The influence of these is very
+great, and I hesitate not to say, very pernicious, both in a temporal
+and spiritual point of view. Nothing has yet been done to evangelize
+this people. Here and there, indeed, I have met with a person brought to
+know the Lord, through reading the Scriptures. Be it observed, however,
+that few of them can read, and those that can are chiefly females. I am,
+happy, however, to state, that a missionary, Mr. Olivier, from the
+Canton de Vaud, has arrived, I hope good will result from his labours.
+
+2. The Episcopalians are, I suppose, the most numerous Protestant body
+at present in the Lower province. The two Canadas compose one diocese,
+under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Hon. and Right Rev. Charles
+Stewart, D. D., Lord Bishop of Quebec. The number of Episcopal clergy in
+the province is twenty-eight. With a few happy exceptions, I fear vital
+godliness is not a prevailing article in this body.
+
+3. Presbyterians, of the church of Scotland, by the census of 1831, were
+about 15,000. The number of ministers twelve: of these, six are in the
+cities of Quebec and Montreal. According to the report of this year,
+1834, they have increased to forty churches, and forty ministers. These
+are also said to be formed into five presbyteries. This, however,
+relates to both provinces. In regard to what may be termed the
+Dissenting Presbyterians, there are seven or eight churches, and five
+ministers in this province; and in the Upper, there is a synod of the
+secession: but the number of presbyteries in connexion with it, and the
+number of churches and ministers in connexion with each of these, I have
+not as yet been able to ascertain.
+
+4. In respect to the Congregationalists, they have seven or eight
+churches, and four ministers. I do not know precisely what they have in
+the Upper province; perhaps four or five more.
+
+5. The Methodists, in both provinces have 14,000 in society, and sixty
+preachers. They also print a paper, called "The Christian Guardian."[A]
+
+[Footnote A: This, I was told lately by Dr. Matheson, of Durham, is a
+most efficient instrument of usefulness in America. Our people should
+try to get one up.]
+
+In fine, here, as to Protestants in general, in the Lower province, the
+greater part are not gathered into regularly organized congregations, no
+inconsiderable portion of them being scattered in the Catholic
+settlements. To sum up, there are in the province about sixty ministers
+to 100,000 people. You could easier, however, supply 500,000 in England
+than 100,000 here, owing to bad roads, and the scattered state of the
+people. I am sorry to add, that I fear only twenty out of the sixty are
+efficient men.
+
+I now come to our own denomination. There is, however, much difficulty
+in collecting definite information concerning it. Seldom able to leave
+my own church, personal observation is defective, and most of the
+information I have is through report. I begin with what are called the
+Eastern Townships. This is a district of country lying on the south of
+the St. Lawrence, and bordering on the States. It is from 60 to 100
+miles east of Montreal; 30 of which are occupied in passing what is
+called the French Country. There are in it between 40 and 50,000
+inhabitants. The land is good, but the people in general are poor. Most
+of these have emigrated from the States, where the means of grace were
+enjoyed by them. They are still disposed to have the gospel preached. I
+am credibly informed that there are among them twenty or thirty little
+Baptist churches. They would be styled General Baptists in England; here
+they are denominated Free-will Baptists. They are ill supplied with
+wholesome teaching. They are also rather wild in their meetings, being
+more disposed to consult their own feelings than the word of God. Many
+of them, however, are decidedly good people. Were our General Baptist
+friends in England to send out a missionary or two into this district,
+they would confer, under God, a lasting benefit on this people. I wish
+very much the General Baptists at home would take the matter into deep
+and serious consideration. It presents a fine field, for labour. But, in
+addition to these, there are, perhaps, from fifteen to twenty churches
+of our own denomination. These are miserably supplied with preachers, as
+not above three or four of the churches have regular pastors; the others
+have only occasional supplies. An itinerant here is much needed, would
+be of great service, and could be maintained at small expense. Oh, my
+brother, if you can, by any means, get a good, humble, prudent man, send
+him into that field. I wish our denomination would take the subject into
+immediate consideration. I have visited some of these churches, and the
+people seemed exceedingly glad. Could an itinerant be supported for a
+year or two, he would then, it is likely, not need further support.
+There are some young persons of good natural abilities who, with a
+little training, would be of immense service. I have met with such young
+men, and longed to be able to point out a seminary to them, whither they
+might have gone for a season.[B] I purpose, God willing, two months
+hence, to spend a week or two in this district, and shall transmit the
+result to you. Itinerants are much wanted in this country, on account of
+the scattered population, bad roads, &c. I know one township in which
+there had not been preaching for seven years: a missionary paid them a
+visit, and the whole township turned out to hear. He visited them a year
+afterwards; but during the interval they had not heard a sermon. The
+main efforts have been made by a very pious and zealous young man of the
+name of Hayt, who has been very active in establishing Sunday-schools,
+and supplying families with copies of the Scriptures. Without
+missionaries, however, these schools will most assuredly languish and
+die.
+
+[Footnote B: Who, on the perusal of this, does not feel a desire to
+assist these young men to a seminary? And who that knows our brother
+Gilmore, but will be led to conclude that he is the man who is most
+likely to become their tutor? I intend immediately to write to him to
+inquire how much it would require there to educate six young men; and
+shall then, if spared, appeal to the public in their behalf.]
+
+We shall now turn westward: and, proceeding up the Ottawa, on its
+northern banks, about forty-five miles from Montreal, there is a Baptist
+church of nearly thirty members: they speak Gallic, yet understand
+English; and have a high character as it regards moral conduct. They are
+without the regular ministrations of a pastor, but meet for mutual
+edification: they are, however, anxious to have regular preaching. About
+thirty miles from them, there is another Highland settlement. About two
+years ago, a Mr. Fraser, a Baptist minister, paid them a visit. It was
+the first sermon preached there, as supposed, from the foundation of
+the world. The people themselves had not heard a sermon for the five
+years they had been settled there. About seventy-five miles from
+Montreal, in the same direction, is another Baptist church, of about
+forty members: they have a good chapel, an excellent pastor, and, at
+this very moment, God is visiting them with a most refreshing shower;
+many are awakened to concern, and numbers have found peace, and are
+rejoicing in God our Saviour. I have just been sent for to come and
+help, and set off to-morrow morning. Again, twenty-five miles onward, in
+the same direction, is a Baptist church of thirty members: they have a
+pastor. We have sent a missionary about twenty miles farther; he left my
+house yesterday morning: there are a few Baptist families where he has
+gone, but no church has been organized; they have requested him to
+labour among them. About forty miles farther, there is another little
+Baptist church, and after this, in that direction, they become rather
+plentiful; but they are then in the Upper province, and my information
+respecting them is but scanty. A Baptist minister, in the Newcastle
+district, writes me as follows, in consequence of some queries I had put
+to him: "In the Upper province there are four Baptist associations,
+about sixty churches, and forty ordained ministers. I am sorry to say we
+labour under great disadvantages. Our preachers are generally unlearned
+men, and destitute of useful books. There are many of them under the
+necessity of attending to secular employments to support themselves and
+families: this arises from our friends not feeling an inclination to
+fulfil the duty taught by Paul, 'Let him that is taught in the word
+communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.' I hope, however,
+that things will not long continue in this sad state. We have recently
+been endeavouring to form a convention, and appoint a minister in each
+of the associations to visit the churches, for the purpose of raising
+subscriptions to support itinerant preachers, and establish a printing
+press: how far the attempt will be attended with success is as yet
+uncertain." In addition to the statements of this gentleman, I may
+mention, that they had also a seminary in view: this, as yet, has not
+been carried into effect. As to academies, they are much wanted there,
+and might be established at a very small expense on the self-supporting
+principle. It is a little remarkable, that at the time you were writing
+your letter for the Magazine, three of us, brother ministers, were
+engaged in prayer and consultation on the very subject of academies on
+the labour system. We have written to several influential gentlemen on
+the subject, and purpose giving it a more serious investigation, and
+will remit the result to you and others. One of our brethren was anxious
+to proceed to England to lay the matter before the British public; but I
+thought it would be better to say something about it first through the
+Magazines. Urge it then, my dear brother, on the attention of the
+public; do not let it sleep. I am glad to find, from a letter in the
+September number of your Magazine, one hails yours of the preceding
+month. As a church, at Montreal, we have been much favoured of God
+during the present year: not less than forty have been added to the
+number. Mrs. G. joins in love to you and yours, hoping to hear from you
+soon.
+
+                                   I remain yours in Christ,
+                                                             JOHN GILMORE.
+
+*.* _We are compelled to defer the second letter to our next number._
+
+
+               THE DESPISER OF BAPTISM BAPTIZED.
+
+The following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. N. Paul, of
+Wilberforce Settlement, Upper Canada, to a friend in England:--
+
+"MY DEAR SIR,
+
+"Amongst all the numerous tracts and publications that have been printed
+and circulated on the subject of Baptism, I think there is no one that
+is more calculated to lead the honest inquirer after truth to a correct
+and scriptural decision upon that subject, than Mr. Pengilly's
+'Scripture Guide to Baptism.' It has been universally approved and
+circulated by the Baptist churches in the United States of America, and
+I believe it has been the means of doing much good. A particular
+instance of this occurred under my own immediate observation, whilst
+pastor of a Baptist church in the city of Albany, state of New York.
+
+"A young lady, who was a member of an Independent church, but who
+occasionally attended upon my ministry, was present with us one Sabbath
+morning when I administered the ordinance in question. I endeavoured in
+my address to adduce reasons for differing from my Pædobaptist brethren
+upon this subject, and to show that believers in Christ were the only
+proper subjects, and immersion the only scripture mode of baptism. The
+young lady, who had taken her station close beside the baptistry,
+instead of being convinced by my arguments, was excited to a high degree
+of irritation, and allowed her temper so far to prevail over her better
+feelings as, in retiring, to express her contempt of our practice in a
+very unbecoming and offensive manner.
+
+"Next day she called upon me in the same temper as when she left the
+chapel, and required to know, why I aimed to wound the feelings of those
+spectators who differed from myself upon the ordinance of baptism? I
+replied that I did not intend to wound the feelings of any one; I only
+aimed at the defence of the truth. After further conversation, I
+requested her candid perusal of the pamphlet above mentioned, with a
+copy of which I furnished her. She readily promised to comply with my
+request, and we parted. The result was, the ensuing month I again
+baptized twelve persons, _and this young lady was one of that number_!
+
+"Yes, Sir; by the blessing of God, accompanying the perusal of that
+pamphlet, she clearly saw the path that Jesus had opened before his
+disciples--the path in which the apostles and primitive Christians
+followed their Lord--the path in which she promptly resolved to walk,
+without reluctance, fear, or shame. 'I do not,' said she, 'leave my
+former connexion because they are not Christians, for as such I esteem
+and love them; but the pattern and authority of Christ is more to me
+than all the world. It is HIS to lead and command, and it is MINE to
+follow and obey.' Truth, indeed, is mighty, and will prevail.
+
+"May all the faithful defenders of the truth as it is in Jesus, be thus
+abundantly owned and blessed of God, in every work of faith and labour
+of love; and to His name be all the glory!"
+
+
+                               DOMESTIC.
+
+                       BAPTIST BUILDING FUND.
+
+At a special meeting of the Board of Baptist Ministers, held at Fen
+Court, Feb. 17th, to take into consideration a communication from the
+Committee of the above Institution,
+
+The Rev. W. H. MURCH in the chair,
+
+It was resolved:
+
+That the members who compose this Board, feeling the evils that attend
+the system of making personal application for liquidating the debts on
+country chapels, and the superior efficiency of the plan adopted in the
+Building Fund, resolve to sign no more cases, but to recommend them all
+in future to that Society.
+
+That, in compliance with the request of the Committee of the London
+Baptist Building Fund, the members of this Board do meet them at their
+Rooms, No. 5, Paternoster Row, on Friday evening, the 6th of March, at
+six o'clock precisely, to devise measures for increasing the efficiency
+of their fund, and rendering it still more extensively beneficial to the
+denomination.
+
+                                               J. B. SHENSTON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+                         DEPUTATION TO AMERICA.
+
+On Thursday evening Feb. 19th, a very numerous and interesting meeting
+was held in New Park-street chapel, Southwark, for special prayer,
+preparatory to the departure of our brethren, the Rev. Dr. Cox and the
+Rev. J. Hoby, to represent the British Baptists in the Triennial
+Convention, at Richmond, Virginia, on the 27th of April next. The Rev.
+C. Room presided. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. E. Steane, _On
+the advantages arising from such a Deputation_; the Rev. C. Stovel, _On
+the spirit which should distinguish the present undertaking_; and the
+Rev. Dr. Cox, _On the manner in which the Deputation proposed to
+discharge their duties_. Prayers were offered by the Rev. Messrs. Dyer,
+Giles, Thomas, and Carey; and the hymns read by the Rev. Messrs. Davis,
+Overbury, Shenston, Rothery, Room, and Belcher. Our brethren will sail
+in the "Hibernia," from Liverpool, on the first of March.
+
+
+                             BAPTIST UNION.
+
+We are requested by the Secretaries of the Baptist Union, to entreat our
+brethren in the country to forward, _during the present month_, their
+circular letters, and whatever other documents may assist in the
+preparation of the next Report, addresed to the Secretaries, at the
+Missionary rooms, 6, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.
+
+
+                                NOTICE.
+
+The Rev. Christopher Wollacott, late of Westminster, has accepted the
+invitation of the church in Little Wild-street, to become their pastor.
+
+
+                            RECENT DEATHS.
+
+                          REV. DR. MORRISON.
+
+  Extract from a letter written by his son to the Secretary of the
+  London Missionary Society.
+
+                                           _Canton, August 17th, 1834._
+
+"MY DEAR SIR,--How shall I tell you that my beloved father--that the
+father of the Chinese Mission--Dr. Morrison, is no more! Scarce can the
+announcement come to you more suddenly than the event did to me. My dear
+father had, indeed, been long unwell, and was greatly debilitated by
+disease; but we had not, within an hour of his peaceful end, much
+apprehension that he was likely to be so soon taken away from us. The
+pallid cheek and glazed eye, quickly succeeded by failure of speech,
+were the first intimations to us that he had heard his Saviour say,
+'This night shalt thou be with me in paradise.' At about ten at night,
+on the 1st of the present month,[A] while yet in the hands of the
+physicians, who in vain endeavoured to restore warmth and pulsation, he
+gently breathed out his spirit, without a struggle or a groan. And oh!
+the recollection of the many preceding days, spent by him in pain and
+extreme weakness, compels me to rejoice, even amidst my utmost grief,
+that he has been released from sin and sorrow, has rested from his
+labours, and shall henceforth be for ever with the Lord. In a letter,
+written not long before his death, he spoke of his apprehension that his
+work was finished, expressing his gratitude to God for what he had been
+permitted to accomplish for the Redeemer's cause; adding, that he knew
+but of two surviving missionary seniors, Drs. Carey and Marshman. I have
+this morning learned, with great sorrow, that about the time he wrote
+that letter, the venerable Carey also was called home.
+
+[Footnote A: _The First of August, 1834_, that memorable day in the
+annals of our country, when the sun neither set nor rose upon A SLAVE
+throughout all her vast dominions.]
+
+
+                      JOHN BROADLEY WILSON, ESQ.
+                         (_From the Patriot._)
+
+Died, on Monday evening, the 16th Feb., at his house on Clapham Common,
+aged 70, John Broadley Wilson, Esq. well known and universally esteemed
+as an eminently devout Christian, and most liberal supporter of the
+cause of the Christian religion in every section of the church. His
+illness was of very short duration; an attack of paralysis on Saturday,
+the 14th, the effects of which no medical skill was permitted to remove,
+being the appointed messenger to convey him into the presence of the
+Saviour he ardently loved, and in whose service it was his supreme
+delight to spend and be spent. Mr. Wilson was connected, more or less,
+with a great number of religious and charitable institutions; to the
+Religious Tract Society, and the Baptist Missionary Society, he stood in
+the relation of Treasurer, and each of these valuable Societies will
+have to mourn, not merely the loss of his munificent donations, but also
+of his judicious counsels and holy example. We trust some authentic
+account of this eminent philanthropist will be prepared, to edify the
+world which has sustained so great a loss by his removal; but we could
+not forbear inserting this hasty tribute of immediate respect to the
+memory of a man, whom to know was to love, venerate, and admire.
+
+
+                             REV. JOHN MASON.
+
+At Exeter, on January 20th, after a protracted and painful illness of
+twelve months' duration, the Rev. John Mason, for 17 years the beloved
+and eminently devoted and useful pastor of the Baptist church in
+Bartholomew-yard, in that city. His removal is felt throughout Exeter as
+a public calamity. He died at the age of 45. We hope to be able to
+furnish our readers with a memoir of this excellent servant of Christ.
+
+
+                             MRS. ANN CARROLL.
+
+Died on Thursday, Jan. 29th, in the 79th year of her age, at her
+residence, Baalzephon-street, Long-lane, Bermondsey, Mrs. Ann Carroll,
+after a protracted illness in which her exemplary piety and sterling
+faith proved the efficacy of those doctrines of which, during a long
+life, she had been the consistent and humble believer. Her remains were
+interred in the family vault of St. John's, Southwark: and it may,
+indeed, with truth be said, that in her the poor have lost a humane and
+benevolent friend; the Baptist denomination, a consistent member; and
+the various Christian charities of the metropolis, a worthy and generous
+benefactor.
+
+
+                             NEW PUBLICATIONS.
+
+                             _Just Published._
+
+Mr. Bagster has now ready for delivery the QUARTO EDITION of the
+TREASURY BIBLE, which is elegantly printed on a fine writing paper of a
+new manufacture, being prepared with lines in the fabric of the paper
+for manuscript notes and remarks.
+
+The Pocket edition was published in January.
+
+                        _Preparing for Publication._
+
+In a few days, Baptismal Immersion defended by Christians and Churches
+of all Denominations. In a letter to a Pædobaptist. Second Edition. By
+W. NEWMAN, D.D. Wightman, Paternoster-row. Price Threepence.
+
+
+
+
+                              IRISH CHRONICLE.
+
+                                MARCH, 1835.
+
+
+The Committee would not be insensible to the many instances in which
+kind attention has been paid to their appeals under the pecuniary burden
+still resting upon the Society. Certainly, were it not for such
+benevolent assistance, the difficulties and discouragements connected
+with carrying on its operations, would be greatly increased. Yet the
+arrear of debt, amounting to nearly, or quite, a _thousand pounds_,
+cannot fail to excite a considerable measure of solicitude in the minds
+of those who are principally concerned in the management of its affairs;
+but it is recollected that the silver and the gold are the Lord's; and
+in the history of this Society, many indeed have been the opportunities
+afforded for gratefully acknowledging the remarkably seasonable relief
+which He has been pleased to send, and in this time of exigence, it is
+hoped He will again appear. The Rev. J. Allen returned to Ballina, after
+collecting for the Chapel, the latter end of January. He wishes to
+acknowledge the kindness he experienced during his tour, and hopes to
+present, next month, an account of the contributions he has received.
+
+
+                      _To the Rev._ JAS. ALLEN.
+
+I have been employed during the last quarter in this neighbourhood
+according to the ability that God hath given, in making known to my
+fellow-sinners the unsearchable riches of Christ, the ignorance of which
+is the cause of all the wickedness, delusion, and error, in this or any
+other country.
+
+_Oct. 5._--Visited a family in Brook Street, where I read the
+twenty-first chapter of Job, and several other passages of Scripture, I
+made some remarks as I read, the people frequently lifting up their eyes
+when the name of Jesus was mentioned. Those people have a form of
+religion, but they are destitute of the power.
+
+12.--Visited an old woman in Bohunssup who is convinced of her sinful
+state by nature, and pointed out the Saviour to her as plainly as I
+could; I told her I feared she would prefer a priest to the Saviour in
+her last hours, and if so, she might as well deny him altogether, and in
+all his offices, as he alone is able to save from sin; and those who
+believe on him shall not come into condemnation. She declared she had no
+hope, no desire, to look to anything a priest could do for her. I prayed
+with this poor woman.
+
+19.--Visited a family this afternoon, named Whalin, where I read several
+portions of God's word, and endeavoured to explain as I read. I prayed
+with them also.
+
+26.--I had a conversation with an old Roman Catholic lady on the folly
+of those people who, she said, exposed their children to the fearful
+doom, should they die unbaptized, of being shut out from the light of
+heaven. I asked her if she did not read the New Testament. She said she
+did. I asked her where she found any thing there that would lead her to
+suppose or believe that those unbaptized children were thus exposed. I
+said: I find no command to sprinkle infants; but the contrary, seeing no
+persons were admitted to that ordinance but those who were able to make
+a profession of faith, and this no infant could do; nor do we read of
+any but adults being received into the church. I showed her, from the
+New Testament, the practice of the Apostles, and our Lord's commission
+to his Apostles. Then, why do Protestants baptize their infants? said
+she. Because, said I, instead of abiding by what is written they have
+thought proper to adopt the customs of those who teach the commandments
+of men for those of God. You mean to say, said she, that the Church of
+Rome do so? Certainly, I replied. Then she said she believed in the
+Saviour alone, and through faith in him she hoped to be forgiven. You
+are a Protestant then, said I. No; I detest your Calvinistic doctrines,
+and I know no name sufficiently odious to brand them with. You may call
+me any name you please, said I. She pledged her honour that she always
+thought me an honest man and a good Christian. I told her I was glad to
+hear her give another proof of her Protestant principles; seeing she was
+more charitable than to believe all Protestants must be damned. She
+said, no Catholics held such an opinion. I told her what the Council of
+Trent said on that subject. She would not believe what I told her. She
+said she did not believe that she received the body and blood
+spiritually in the Eucharist. I said she believed more. No, said she.
+
+I must not lengthen this subject, as the whole of our argument would
+fill my sheet; nor would I have gone so far, were it not to show how
+little Roman Catholics know what they believe. After running over most
+of the absurdities of her religion, some things she denied, others she
+never heard of before. This woman got a good education, if any can be so
+while the Scriptures are left out. She is one of the strictest in this
+town for the last fifty years.
+
+_Nov. 2._--Visited a family in Garden Street, named Timlin, where I read
+several portions of Scripture; but they would not hear of my praying
+with them; such is their fear of being spoken of.
+
+9.--I had several conversations with people this day, one with an old
+man, named Dowd, for whom I read many portions which I thought suited to
+his case, an old man on the verge of eternity, who never thought on
+those things.
+
+16.--Visited poor old F., with whom I read, conversed, and prayed. He is
+near his rest. He thanks God for having afflicted him; for before he was
+afflicted he went astray. I had a good opportunity to show some Roman
+Catholics, who were in the house, what the believer rests his hopes upon
+in the hour of trial. They listened with attention.
+
+23.--Visited a family in Ardnaree, named Gardner, where I read a chapter
+and prayed with the family: and I always make some remarks as I read,
+and propose questions, in order to arrest their attention.
+
+30.--Visited the Staff, where I found some children reading the
+Scriptures; I read with, and turned this little company into a class, by
+questioning them on what we read. I prayed with them, and promised to
+visit them again.
+
+_Dec. 14._--Visited a family in Hill Street, named McNautly, where I
+attempted to read, but was interrupted by a woman who said she did not
+want any thing out of Protestant books. I reasoned with her for some
+time, when I referred to the Testament for the truth of what I said; and
+as she seemed pleased with what I said, I continued to read, and
+explained as I read, without any further interruption. So we parted good
+friends.
+
+21.--Conversed with a young man named Poots, who asked me my opinion of
+almost every article of the Popish doctrines. He said, he was satisfied
+with any thing written in the Scriptures, as he found very little
+difference between _ours_, as he called it, and _his_ Testament. I need
+not enter into particulars, as this subject lasted more than two hours,
+without an angry feeling on either side. He at length exclaimed: There
+is so much mystery in our religion, and those things known only to the
+priests, that he did not know what to think; but, said he, if I could be
+properly convinced on the subject of transubstantiation and confession,
+I would not remain one day in the church of Rome.
+
+28.--Visited an old woman in Brook Street, named Brennan, who is
+confined to her bed. I read and conversed with her for about an hour: I
+prayed with her also.
+
+                                                        AUSTIN BRENNAN.
+
+_Ballina, Jan. 3, 1835._
+
+                         _To_ Rev. J. BATES.
+
+I am happy to inform you, that the work of the blessed Redeemer is
+prospering in this part of his vineyard, though the wicked one has his
+secret agents in this place, as well as every other place, resisting the
+work of Christ, and the gospel of the grace of God.
+
+On the 20th of July I went to read to the house of one James McPartlin,
+near the town of Drumahair. This poor man is ignorant and unlearned,
+although a great devotee in the Church of Rome. I read for this poor man
+and family several chapters in both English and Irish; and the poor man
+was astonished to hear the words of eternal life in his native language.
+He asked me several questions concerning the sacrifice of the mass, and
+purgatory, and other doctrines taught by his church. I asked him: "What
+sacrifice is the mass?" He answered, in the words of his catechism, "An
+unbloody sacrifice." I then read for him the ninth and tenth chapters of
+Hebrews, and showed him from the twenty-second verse of the ninth
+chapter, that without shedding of blood there is no remission, and
+consequently, as the mass was an unbloody sacrifice, there could be no
+remission in it. I again referred him and family to the ninth and tenth
+chapters of Hebrews, to show that when _He_, the _Lord_, by himself
+purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
+and that by one offering _He_ hath perfected for ever all them that are
+sanctified. I read part of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and especially
+the 1st chap. 7th ver., "In whom we have redemption through his blood,
+even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace." I
+then read for him the 1st chapter of 1 John, to show them that it is the
+blood of Christ alone that cleanseth us from all sin. All the family
+seemed well satisfied to hear me read, and invited me to come and read
+for them as often as I could. I have often read for this family since,
+and I trust the Lord has made his word a blessing to them.
+
+On the 15th of August, I read in the house of James McHugh the 9th and
+10th chapters of John's Gospel; and poor McHugh was so delighted that he
+said he had no greater comfort in the world than to hear his children
+read the Testament. He said his daughter committed one hundred chapters
+at the Drumahair female school; and he prayed for the prosperity and
+long continuance of the Baptist Irish Society; "for," said he, "only for
+them my children would never get a word of learning." Oh, that the word
+of the Lord may run and be glorified! and may the boundaries of Christ's
+fold be still more extended, until the whole number of his elect be
+accomplished!
+
+Few days pass but I read at some place. It is all the pleasure I have,
+to be conversing with my poor neighbours about their eternal happiness.
+I wish I could afford to spend all my time in this blessed employment;
+but I thank God I would rather be a door-keeper in the house of the
+Lord, than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.
+
+There are many inquiring what they must do to be saved. We direct them
+to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and strive to point them to the
+Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.
+
+                                                         ADAM JOHNSON.
+
+_Drumahair, September 26, 1834._
+
+                         To Rev. J. BATES.
+
+Since my last, I have visited more than twenty different places, and
+some of them are about twenty miles asunder. This, together with my
+occasional visits in this neighbourhood, has afforded me very many
+interesting opportunities of directing sinners to the Saviour. In my
+visits to the Night Schools, I have been highly gratified in observing
+an increase of scriptural knowledge among those who attend. In J.
+Monaghan's Night School, I found many adult persons assembled together,
+some of them heads of families with their children, solely for the
+purpose of reading the Scriptures and inquiring after their meaning,
+some of these being Roman Catholics, asked me several very important
+questions, to all which I endeavoured to give scriptural answers, with
+which they were highly gratified and thankful, and wished that I might
+soon visit them again.
+
+November 24th, visited the house of a poor tradesman in Balli Murray,
+read the 3rd of John, and pointed out the way of a sinner's acceptance
+with God. All who were in the house quitted their several employments,
+and drew around me. They all heard with eager attention, whilst I
+pointed out the dreadful nature of sin, showing that nothing but the
+blood of the Saviour cleanseth from it. One of them told me, that the
+priest teaches that there is a purgatory, and that those who are not
+guilty of mortal sins are cleansed from venial sins in purgatory. I told
+them that there are no sins venial in the sight of God, for that it is
+written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written
+in the book of the law to do them;" that the blood of Jesus Christ
+cleanseth believers from all sin, and that there is no other purgatory.
+On the 4th inst. read the word near Ballymote. A poor man, named Rooney,
+told me of a sermon which he had heard from the priest on the last
+Sabbath; the priest, he said, preached on the General Judgment, and so
+terrified him that he was almost in despair. He told his hearers that
+not only for every evil action men must give an account, but also for
+every idle thought; and oh, said he, if you had heard the Priest, you
+would be terrified. I asked him, did the Priest tell him what he must do
+to be saved? but he was totally ignorant of this. I then endeavoured to
+bring to the understanding of this poor man the gospel plan of
+salvation, which seemed to be the only thing calculated to give him
+comfort and peace of mind.
+
+On the 8th visited Killoran; met with a young man, a Roman Catholic, who
+is a hired servant; he told me that he had been studying on the subject
+of baptism; that when a school-boy he got a Testament, which he had
+since kept very carefully; that in it he read that our Saviour was
+baptized in the river Jordan; that from this he was led to believe that
+immersion is the proper mode. I then read for him the account of the
+baptism of the eunuch by Philip, also of Lydia, and the jailor, &c. He
+heard with eager attention, and said that he was fully persuaded that
+believers were the proper subjects for baptism, and that immersion was
+the primitive mode. On the 12th March, travelled in company with several
+people with a hearse going to a burial. I told them that it is appointed
+unto all men once to die, and after death the judgment; and that it is
+of the highest importance for us to be prepared for judgment. I was
+sorry to learn that they did not know the Saviour, nor their need of
+him. I made the best use I could of the short time I was with them. One
+of them said he was sorry I was leaving them, &c.
+
+                                                           ROBERT BEATY.
+_Carintavy, Dec. 14, 1834._
+
+
+                                CONTRIBUTIONS.
+
+By Rev. J. DYER.
+
+A Friend, Yorkshire                                           5  0  0
+Mr. Holleck, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher                             5  0  0
+J. Chippendale, Esq., Uxbridge, by Rev. A. G. Fuller          1  0  0
+From profits of Youth's Magazine, per W. B. Gurney           20  0  0
+From one who has tasted that the Lord is gracious
+  (per General Post)                                          1  0  0
+
+Collected by Rev. S. DAVIS.
+
+Bristol                                                      41  2  6
+  Mrs. Holland                                               50  0  0
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+Collected by Mr. LILLYCROP, Exeter.
+
+Sir John Kennaway, Bart.                                      2  0  0
+W. Rouse, Esq., Tor                                           1  0  0
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+Rev. J. Mason                                                 0 10  0
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+Mrs. Mason                                                    0  5  0
+J. C. Wilcocks, Esq.                                          0  5  0
+Mrs. Lillycrop                                                0  5  0
+Mrs. Glyde                                                    0  5  0
+Mr. Tanner                                                    0  5  0
+Mr. Nichols                                                   0  5  0
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+Mr. Jeffery                                                   0  5  0
+Mrs. Gregory                                                  0  5  0
+Miss Beal                                                     0  5  0
+Mrs. Cummin                                                   0  5  0
+Mr. Wilson                                                    0  5  0
+Miss Lee                                                      0  5  0
+Mr. Rowse                                                     0  5  0
+Miss Cole                                                     0  5  0
+Mr. S. Davis                                                  0  5  0
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+Mr. Mills                                                     0  5  0
+Mrs. Higgs                                                    0  5  0
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+Miss Bury                                                     0  4  0
+Mrs. Ford                                                     0  4  0
+Mr. Hooker                                                    0  2  6
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+Mr. Wright                                                    0  2  6
+Mrs. Tanner                                                   0  2  6
+Ellen Bridgeman                                               0  2  6
+
+By the TREASURER.
+
+T. B., per Mr. W. Burls, jun.                                 2  0  0
+D. P., per Mr. W. L. Smith                                    0 10  0
+Charles Davis, Wallingford                                    1  0  0
+Rev. E. West, Amersham Sub.                                   2  2  0
+Rev. W. Nicholls, Collingham, Don.                            4  0  0
+Do.       do.         Sub.                                    1  0  0
+Mrs. Fernie, of Tottenham, and Friends, for Mary's
+  Philanthropic  School, Mount Shannon, Galway               11  0  0
+
+By the SECRETARY.
+
+W. Burls, Esq., Edmonton                                      5  0  0
+A. Bose        Ans. Sub.                                      2  0  0
+From Mrs. Burls and Daughters,
+  a valuable parcel for the poor children in the Society's Schools
+
+Subscriptions received by S. Marshall, Esq., 181, High Holborn; Mr. P.
+Millard, Bishopsgate Street; Messrs. Burls, 56, Lothbury; Rev. G.
+Pritchard, 4, York Place, Pentonville, gratuitous Secretary; by Messrs.
+Ladbrokes and Co., Bankers, Bank Buildings; by Mr. H. D. Dickie, 13,
+Bank Street, and Rev. Mr. Innes, Frederick Street, Edinburgh; and P.
+Brown, Esq., Cardigan.
+
+        LONDON: J. MADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE-STREET, FINSBURY.
+
+
+
+
+                            MISSIONARY HERALD.
+                            CXCV. MARCH, 1835.
+
+
+Subscriptions and Donations in aid of this Society will be thankfully
+received at the Baptist Mission House, No. 6, Fen Court, Fenchurch
+Street, London: or by any of the Ministers and Friends whose names are
+inserted in the Cover of the Annual Report.
+
+  With feelings of deep sorrow we have to announce the decease
+  of the excellent Treasurer of this Society, JOHN BROADLEY
+  WILSON, Esq., which took place, after a very short illness, at
+  his house on Clapham Common, Monday evening, the 16th instant.
+  His disease was palsy, rendering respiration difficult, and
+  considerably affecting the organs of speech, but leaving his
+  mental faculties in full vigour to the last. He died,
+  rejoicing in the Saviour, whom he had long loved, and whose
+  example, through divine grace, he had been enabled so
+  eminently to follow. Never, perhaps, was there an individual
+  of whom it might more justly be said, _When the ear heard him,
+  then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness
+  to him: because he delivered the poor that cried, and the
+  fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of
+  him that was ready to perish came upon him; and he caused the
+  widow's heart to sing for joy. He was eyes to the blind, and
+  feet was he to the lame: he was a father to the poor, and the
+  cause that he knew not he searched out._
+
+  "AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME, WRITE, BLESSED
+  ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD FROM HENCEFORTH: YEA, SAITH
+  THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS; AND THEIR
+  WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM."
+
+
+                                 JAMAICA.
+
+A number of letters from our various stations in this island have
+reached us, containing information to the end of the year. We subjoin a
+few of the leading particulars.
+
+Mr. Tinson refers, with great satisfaction, to the growing thirst for
+instruction among the negro population. He had been under the necessity
+of opening an evening school, principally for adults, whose progress was
+very rapid, and a large proportion of them had been reported able to
+read the New Testament. He expresses an earnest desire to establish a
+school at his country station at Yallahs, situate in a parish (St.
+David's) containing 7,000 apprentices, without a single school of any
+description. Twenty-three persons had been accepted for baptism at this
+station.
+
+"The brethren from the London Missionary Society (writes Mr. T.) have
+arrived. They landed on Tuesday, the 23rd inst. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge
+suffered much from sea-sickness; in other respects they are all well.
+Mr. Woolridge brought a letter from Mr. Ellis, and one from yourself.
+They all took tea with us the evening after they landed, in company with
+brother and sister Gardner, and an interesting meeting it was. We sang,
+before we knelt together around our domestic altar, I believe with
+unfeigned sincerity of heart, the hymn beginning,
+
+  "Kindred of Christ, for his dear sake
+  A hearty welcome here receive;"
+
+after which, brother Gardner presented to the kind and gracious Redeemer
+our united thanksgiving for their safe arrival, and solicited the Divine
+guidance in reference to their future steps. Brother Woolridge preached
+a most delightful sermon in our chapel yesterday morning, and I expect
+to be helped next Lord's-day by brother Hodge. They will probably
+continue in town a week or two, and then proceed on a tour of
+observation. Should one remain in Kingston there is plenty to do, and I
+see no cause in the world for contention between us."
+
+Mr. Gardner has been tried by personal indisposition and by the loss of
+his eldest child, but has been enabled to resume his accustomed labours.
+
+Mr. Clarke has furnished us with the following tabular account of the
+stations under his superintendance:
+
+                Members.  Inquirers.  Average  Sabb.
+                                      Congreg. Schs.
+
+Constant Spring   450        200     6 to 700    40
+Lucky Valley       20         63          300    35
+Retirement          6         30          300    40
+Fairfield                     86          400
+Guy's Hill                                250
+
+Of these stations, Retirement is in the parish of St. John's, Fairfield
+in St. Ann's, and the other three in St. Thomas-in-the-Vale. The scene
+of violent outrage mentioned in our January number occurred at Guy's
+Hill. Referring to that circumstance in a subsequent letter, Mr. C.
+observes: "The persecution some of my people suffered there is at an
+end. The hand of God appeared so plainly against them parties on the
+following morning, that one of them declared we had been praying against
+them. Their fear of us is such that their mistaken belief will prevent
+them, we think, from annoying us a second time."
+
+Although the parish of St. Ann's has formerly presented greater
+obstacles than any other part of the island to the progress of gospel
+truth, Mr. Coultart is favoured with great encouragement in his efforts.
+He supplies St. Ann's Bay, Brown's Town, Ocho Rios, and the Pedroes, and
+at all these places has large and increasing congregations. In the three
+former, he is commencing to build places of worship in the room of those
+which were destroyed; and in the last, ground has been offered him for a
+similar purpose by parties who, a few weeks before, had shown the most
+violent hostility. More help is urgently needed in this, as well as in
+other parts of the island.
+
+From Montego Bay Mr. Dendy writes, under date 30th December: "Our
+Missionary friends, Messrs. Vine and Alloway, of the London Society,
+arrived at Falmouth on the 24th instant, in pretty good health. On the
+25th brother Knibb baptized 69 persons, and held public services in the
+chapel; on the 26th a further addition was made by the baptism of 68
+candidates; and on sabbath-day, the 28th, there were between 700 and 800
+communicants sitting around the Lord's table. Mr. Vine preached in the
+morning for brother Knibb, and Mr. Alloway in the evening; the services
+of the day were peculiarly interesting."
+
+By the arrival of Mr. Burchell, Mr. Dexter will be left at liberty to
+visit Rio Bueno and Stewart's Town. For the present, however, some
+intermission seems needful both for him and for Mr. Dendy, as both have
+been labouring beyond their strength to supply the deficiencies
+occasioned by the absence of Mr. Abbott. This last named brother, having
+been released from confinement by the rising of the House of Assembly on
+the 20th of December, had returned to his family; and through the mercy
+of God his health, instead of being impaired, had been improved by his
+temporary secession from active engagements. Previously to his arrest he
+had enjoyed the pleasure of adding 59 members to the church at Montego
+Bay, who were baptized on the 1st of November.
+
+Of the return of Mr. Burchell to the people of his charge after so long
+a separation, we must give our readers an account in his own words. His
+letter is dated December 23rd:--
+
+  I shall commence my present letter by giving you some account
+  of my journey from Spanish Town, and my reception at this
+  place.
+
+  We left Spanish Town on Wednesday the 19th November, and
+  reached Brother Coultart's the same evening, a distance of
+  fifty miles; the following day we spent with our friends Mr.
+  and Mrs. Coultart, from whom we received the most interesting
+  and gratifying accounts of the progress of the Mission in the
+  parish of St. Ann's. In the evening I preached at St. Ann's
+  Bay, and although there were but a few hours' notice, still the
+  principal part of the chapel house was full. It was to me
+  unspeakably delightful to witness such an assembly in such a
+  notorious place. Friday we proceeded on to Falmouth
+  (thirty-four miles), which place we reached about two o'clock;
+  in the evening I preached for brother Knibb to a very large
+  congregation, the chapel was crowded, and one of the tents
+  also, and many on the outside of the chapel-house. Saturday
+  morning we left our old companions for the eventful town of
+  Montego Bay; when we were three miles distant from the town, we
+  had to pull up to shake hands with some who were come out to
+  meet us; as we proceeded onwards, the numbers and frequency of
+  the groups of friends increased. It was almost more than we
+  could bear. The poor people looked at us as though they could
+  scarcely believe their own eyes, and then they clasped their
+  hands, blessed God, and burst into tears. When we entered the
+  town, a crowd of recollections burst upon my mind as I looked
+  upon the situation where the Blanche was anchored when I was
+  first taken prisoner, &c.; but my attention was soon aroused
+  from reflection, for as we passed along the streets, many of
+  the inhabitants came to their doors and windows, congratulating
+  us as we passed by. As we proceeded more into the town, the
+  doors and windows became crowded, and many were the kind
+  congratulations of our former townsfriends; some expressed
+  their feelings by their remarks, some waved their
+  handkerchiefs, and others their hats; as we entered the centre
+  of the town we were recognised by one who had been a very
+  staunch friend in our difficulties, he took off his hat and
+  greeted us most cordially; this excited the attention of the
+  negroes in the market, and one of them recognising us,
+  exclaimed, "Bless God, and him come for true. Massa Burchell,
+  him come for true." Others now joined him and began clapping
+  their hands, when the whole multitude, consisting of three or
+  four thousand, waving their hands and hats, set up their
+  shouts, and made the whole town resound with their thundering
+  huzzas. I now endeavoured to press on to our house, but the
+  negroes leaving their baskets and the market followed us. I
+  drove hastily forward, fearing they would surround us and take
+  out our horse, which I have since found they would have done.
+  When we reached the house we were immediately surrounded; the
+  yard and the street were crowded. One of the friends took the
+  child and carried her into the house, for she was completely
+  frightened. It was a long time before we could get out of the
+  gig (which had been lent us for the journey) for every one was
+  trying to shake our hand, or lay hold of us in some way. When
+  we alighted from the gig, Mrs. B., who was nearly overcome, was
+  carried in by the friends, and then the throng crowded upon me,
+  some taking one hand, some the other, some threw themselves on
+  the ground. Indeed, the whole scene which followed was such
+  that I cannot describe. It would not be possible to do it
+  justice. The market square was almost vacated, except the
+  baskets of provisions, &c., which were for sale; and yet many
+  have since informed me, that when they returned to the market
+  they found all as they had left it, nothing was lost.
+
+  The whole of Saturday, the 22nd, was spent in receiving the
+  congratulations of the people, whose remarks were frequently
+  affecting. Many threw themselves down at my feet, and wept
+  aloud. Some looked at me, and then said: "Hi, massa, and it you
+  for true! and you for we, massa Burchell! and me see you with
+  me own eye! blessed God!" and then they burst into tears. After
+  speaking to a party and shaking hands, I was compelled to
+  request them to leave in order to give place to others. When
+  one said: "No massa, me no go--me no able to believe yet--and
+  is it massa Burchell for true?" Another one said: "Now massa,
+  me know dat God him true--him hear for we prayer--but him take
+  him own time--and him work him own way--but him do every ting
+  quite good." Indeed, I could fill a sheet with their
+  interesting sayings. One poor afflicted negress came down from
+  the country (a distance of twenty miles) the next Saturday, the
+  29th; and when she saw me, looking upon me, as the tears rolled
+  down her face, she said: "Massa, me hear you come--and me
+  _hungry_ for see you--and me cry for see you--me take two day
+  for walk for see you--and now me believe--God him too good--me
+  now willing for die--for now me know me God him true."
+
+  I had no idea whatever of such a reception, I knew my friends,
+  and knew they would be truly glad to see me, but I had not the
+  most distant idea of such a manifestation of feeling. It was
+  far beyond any description that I can give.
+
+  The following day, November 23, I again commenced my labours
+  among my poor but dear people. There were at least 4000
+  persons present at the 10 o'clock service. I preached out of
+  doors. On Sunday, November 30, the attendance was still
+  greater. At our morning prayer-meeting at 6 o'clock in the
+  morning there were _full_ 2,700 present; and at 10 o'clock, not
+  less than 5000; but you must not be misled by this statement of
+  numbers, as there was a union of the churches of Montego Bay,
+  Salter's Hill, and Gurney's Mount, &c.
+
+We conclude our present article by an extract of a letter of somewhat
+less recent date from Mr. Hutchins. It relates to the station at Lucea,
+and was addressed to a friend of the writer, who has kindly furnished it
+for our pages.
+
+  A few sabbaths ago I had such a delightful day, that the
+  recollection of it will, I have no doubt, be ever attended
+  with feelings of peculiar pleasure. Early in the morning we
+  proceeded to the place of baptizing from Lucea, where I
+  baptized nine of my black brethren and sisters, nay nine of
+  our black brethren and sisters in Christ. The place was two
+  miles from the Bay. We arrived at break of day. It was not in
+  the river Jordan, but in a beautiful winding river in a most
+  retired situation. We were covered by the majestic and
+  graceful boughs of the bamboo, which, for grandeur of
+  appearance and loveliness of shade, excels every other tree in
+  the island, and is beautiful beyond description.
+
+  The congregation consisted of about 300 persons, all getting as
+  near as possible to the banks of the river, while we arranged
+  the candidates close to the border of the stream.
+
+  The day now dawned upon us, and I felt as if compelled to
+  commence by singing the verse:
+
+    "Sweet is the work, my God, my King,
+    To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing;
+    To show thy love by morning light,
+    And talk of all thy truth at night."
+
+  And indeed, if one may speak for others, it was truly sweet. I
+  then engaged in prayer, and delivered an address to the various
+  classes present; and judging from appearances, we cannot but
+  hope that at some future period good results will be brought to
+  light.
+
+  The Spirit of the Most High seemed to rest upon us. Persons
+  whom I have seen trifling on other occasions, were overawed.
+  Others, who were anticipating with pleasure the time when they
+  shall have a name and a place among the people of God, were
+  seen with the tear silently rolling dawn their cheeks. While
+  others, with their hands clasped and pressed on their bosoms,
+  with their eyes raised towards heaven, seemed to be fervently
+  engaged in the interesting service, and to enjoy in their minds
+  something of that feeling which is peculiar to the Christian,
+  which the world can neither give nor take away. I then entered
+  the stream and baptized them, singing two lines between each;
+  after which I concluded, and thus ended one of the most
+  interesting services I ever knew. We then repaired to Lucea,
+  and commenced our morning prayer-meeting at seven instead of
+  six o'clock; we had a good congregation. At half-past ten the
+  next service was to commence. At ten I saw people going away to
+  seek for sittings at the kirk, for not one could be found here.
+  Our house is very commodious, being three stories high. The
+  lower parts we use for the chapel, and in the top we reside.
+
+  The whole of the chapel was crowded to excess. People coming
+  from all parts of the bay with a chair from any person they
+  could make their friend, filled the landings. The stairs
+  leading up the whole of the three stories (which are carried up
+  outside the buildings in this country) were occupied, by four
+  persons on each. And then the poor creatures went into our
+  hall, and laid their ears on the floor to listen from beneath.
+
+  This is a congregation in Jamaica; and often we have them
+  standing in the streets exposed to the rays of a vertical sun!
+  Behind and before, on the right hand and on the left, we are
+  surrounded, yea crowded, in every possible way.
+
+  The result is, that on the evenings of the sabbath we wear a
+  completely emaciated appearance. Oh, say you, this is not
+  right, you ought not to do so. I am fully aware that we ought
+  not to do so, but the remedy is not with us. You may try, and
+  try again, to overcome such feelings, but you cannot. I should
+  pity that man who professed to have the welfare of souls at
+  heart who would not be aroused by such overwhelming scenes as
+  we have here. When persons have come from two to twenty or
+  thirty miles to hear the word of eternal life, to disappoint
+  more than can possibly be helped, is what I cannot, what I dare
+  not, do. For as I value my own immortal soul, as I prize the
+  joys of heaven and dread the miseries of hell, so in proportion
+  I consider it my duty to let all, as far as in me lies, hear
+  the truths of that gospel which is able through Christ to raise
+  poor perishing creatures from the degradation of sin to a life
+  of righteousness and holiness by faith in him. Pardon me, my
+  dear brother, pardon me for giving vent to the flowing tear
+  while I am again considering that the remedy is not with us.
+  Here is myself and there are my brethren with congregations
+  which are enormous. We cannot refrain from shedding a tear
+  again and again, because we are not able to do more for their
+  thirsty souls. The remedy rests with friends at home.
+
+  I often think that I must as I am now doing fall, very soon
+  fall, a sacrifice to the cause in which I have embarked.
+  Through mercy I fear it not. I am happy, truly happy, in my
+  work, and feel confident that should I be a martyr to the
+  cause, I shall receive a martyr's reward.
+
+
+                              BAHAMAS.
+
+Since our last article respecting this station, we have received a
+variety of communications from our brethren Burton and Pearson. Up to
+the date of the last, the tenor of these letters was uniformly pleasing.
+They showed with what diligence our dear brethren were prosecuting the
+work of God, not only at Nassau, but at Eleuthera, Andros Island, and
+other places scattered through that extensive group of islands.
+Additions to the number of converts were made every month, and there was
+reason to hope that in a short time some of them would be found capable
+of taking an efficient part in the instruction of their countrymen. But
+the Society has more recently been called to the exercise of patient
+submission under the loss of one who, though but recently entered on the
+Missionary field, had afforded abundant evidence of holy devotedness to
+the cause of his Saviour. We refer to Mr. Pearson, whose lamented
+decease is reported by Mr. Burton under date of the 31st December. That
+letter will close this article: as an appropriate introduction to it, we
+insert extracts from the last written to the Secretary by Mr. Pearson
+himself. It was dated Nassau, December 1, 1834:
+
+  In the course of last September, I and my family were invited
+  to St. Salvador, by Mr. John Armbrister. I rejoiced in so
+  favourable an opportunity of communicating the glad tidings of
+  salvation where they were so little known, and I felt grateful
+  that on this occasion I could without aditional expense take
+  my family with me, because our medical friend strongly
+  recommended it, as the most likely means to renew my dear
+  wife's health after her dangerous illness in August. We
+  arrived at St. Salvador, Sabbath, Oct. 6th, were kindly
+  welcomed, and soon surrounded by an interesting congregation
+  of about 80 persons, to whom I preached twice on that day. On
+  Monday and Tuesday I was fully engaged in the work of
+  instruction among the children in the forenoon, and the adults
+  in the evening. On Wednesday I was expected to preach upon two
+  properties; but having preached to a few persons at one
+  estate, I was afflicted with such a violent head-ache that it
+  was with great difficulty I managed to ride to the house of
+  our friend, where, finding myself the subject of fever, I was
+  compelled at once to exchange the exercise of preaching, for
+  the exercise of submission upon a bed of sickness, under
+  indescribably agonizing and protracted pain, which entirely
+  precluded rest by night or day: under these circumstances my
+  second sabbath at St. Salvador was spent. My dear wife read
+  the Scriptures to many who were gathered together, and also a
+  few pages of Christian counsel which I had written for their
+  benefit, and otherwise assisted them to worship God. On the
+  following morning a conveyance offering to N. P., we availed
+  ourselves of it, in order that I might obtain medical advice.
+  We were glad to reach home on the following Thursday; but with
+  change of scene, we experienced an increase of affliction. My
+  dear wife, the child's wet nurse, and our servant boy, were
+  immediately subjected to the fever; and unable as we were to
+  provide for our disconsolate babe, it required the exercise of
+  faith cheerfully to acquiesce in the divine disposal of our
+  concerns. We _were troubled_, but _not distressed_; and our
+  compassionate God, who knew how much we could bear, and
+  delights to bind up the wounds which in mercy he inflicts,
+  almost entirely independent of our agency, sent us, that very
+  night, a suitable nurse for our child, who has since proved to
+  us a blessing. My dear wife was speedily restored to her
+  former state of convalescence, and after a week I was
+  permitted to rise from my bed, much reduced in body, yet, I
+  would hope, strengthened in my resolutions to love and serve
+  the Saviour. My recovery was rapid, and on the 30th of October
+  I again embarked with my family for St. Salvador. The health
+  of all was much promoted by the passage, and when I landed,
+  Monday, November 3, contrasting my bodily state with that
+  under which I had left the island, I was filled with
+  gratitude, my peace seemed like the beautiful canopy stretched
+  over my head, unsullied with a cloud, and abundant as the
+  waves of the sea. I was immediately put in possession of a
+  house, unoccupied by its owner (Mr. Henry Armbrister), on an
+  estate called "Freeman's Hall:" where, unmolested, I could
+  hold meetings whenever I was able; I adored the goodness of
+  God who thus disposed the planters to aid and encourage me in
+  my work, and longed for their salvation as well as that of
+  their dependents. During the first week I laboured to the
+  utmost of my ability, teaching the children, preaching to all
+  I could gather around me from evening to evening, and holding
+  inquiry meetings whenever opportunity offered; but I seemed to
+  labour in vain: my hearers were attentive, but their hearts
+  were hardened. I did not merely tell them that there was a God
+  who made and upheld them, who knew all their ways, and would
+  bring them to judgment. I did not merely endeavour to expose
+  the evil of fornication, drunkenness, lying, stealing, &c. I
+  told them of Him who died for sinners. The doctrines of the
+  total depravity of the human heart, the necessity of an
+  atonement, the efficacy of the blood of Christ, the loveliness
+  and suitableness of Jesus as an all-sufficient Saviour, the
+  exceeding sinfulness and awful consequences of rejecting him,
+  justification by faith, and the reward of eternal life, as the
+  _free gift_ of God for the sake of his dear Son, were the
+  themes which I most earnestly endeavoured to press home upon
+  their consciences, but I could discover no evidences of
+  relentings for sin, no meltings of heart at the recital of a
+  Saviour's sufferings, no emotions of gratitude for a Saviour's
+  love. Their hearts were inaccessible. Almost all were
+  professed Baptists, but taught by a man who could not decipher
+  a letter, who appeared wholly ignorant of the truth, and whose
+  life was at variance with it. After many conversations with
+  him, in which he seemed impervious to the light, I
+  affectionately warned him to desist from preaching, lest he
+  should entail the curse so solemnly denounced Gal. i. 8, 9.
+  Meeting with little encouragement in this part of the island,
+  on the first Friday after my arrival I rode to "Golden Grove,"
+  seven miles distant, where I preached, and returned the same
+  day. At this place I had an opportunity of addressing 100
+  persons, and, deeming it an important field for labour, I
+  again rode thither early on the following sabbath. Here I
+  found some living sparks. An old man who had come over with
+  his master at the American revolution, had been in the habit
+  of reading his Bible to all who would hear him, which he could
+  do tolerably well; he had taught them to sing many of Watts's
+  Hymns; and was accustomed to read to them from a good book
+  written by Guthrie, an old Scotch divine. Lydia, his
+  daughter-in-law, at an inquiry meeting, answered the questions
+  which were put to her very satisfactorily, and I thought her a
+  suitable subject for baptism, when I found that her character
+  was exemplary. The old man, I found, was overseer of the whole
+  property, which was extensive, during his master's absence;
+  and Lydia was intrusted with the care of the proprietor's
+  house, and much valuable property. What a proof that God's
+  servants are the best servants! At that time I regarded my
+  health as established, I was animated in spirit, and among
+  this people I laboured on the sabbath until the evening, when
+  suddenly, whilst preaching, I was taken ill, and was obliged
+  immediately to seek the open air, abruptly closing the service
+  in which we were engaged. I soon discovered that I was once
+  more under the influence of violent fever, and after a
+  restless night, though treated with the utmost attention,
+  agreeable to the instructions of the proprietor, H. Hunter,
+  Esq., I made the best of my way to "Freeman's Hall," where I
+  remained an invalid thirteen days. I had no medical aid; but
+  the medicines I had with me, and Graham's popular work, proved
+  invaluable. My stay at St. Salvador from this period was
+  indeed a season of suffering; the fever was intermittent, but
+  would come on again and again with chilliness, succeeded by
+  ardent and continued heat, throbbing of the temple, continued
+  restlessness, unquenchable thirst, a distressing oppression at
+  the chest, difficulty in breathing, and nausea. My illness, I
+  am convinced, was protracted by the stagnant water, gathered
+  from among the bushes, which we were compelled to drink, and
+  which was deeply impregnated with putrid vegetable matter:
+  there was, indeed, a spring one mile distant; but of this we
+  were not informed until the eve of our departure, although we
+  daily complained of the water we were using. My affliction was
+  greatly increased by finding that my dear wife's exertions on
+  my behalf brought on a periodical fever, the paroxysms of
+  which would remain with her six or eight hours. The vessel by
+  which we were to return to N. P. sailed on Sunday, November
+  23, much to my grief, as I was then a little recovering, and
+  hoped to preach; and so indeed I did, in much weakness, on the
+  sea beach, to thirty or forty persons, whilst waiting for the
+  boat. Once more I exhorted them to repent and believe on the
+  Saviour. We arrived here November 28, again improved in health
+  by the passage, and yesterday I superintended and taught in
+  the Sabbath-school two hours, and preached twice to our
+  Nassau crowded congregations. In the evening I endeavoured to
+  improve the death of our late esteemed brother Penney, who
+  died of yellow fever, aged thirty-five years.[A] And now you
+  will not be surprised when I assure you that I can adopt the
+  language of David, "Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am
+  weak." Our best thanks are due to Henry Armbrister, Esq., who
+  has allowed us to make four passages in his vessel
+  gratuitously, provided us with house, horses, &c., and
+  afforded us every help in his power. How mysterious, that with
+  such facilities coming from God, my lips should be sealed, and
+  my repeated efforts for the good of these islanders apparently
+  frustrated! But thus the great Sovereign shows that he has no
+  need of me; and that if he ever employ me, he is conferring a
+  great and undeserved favour. It is indeed to me a great
+  affliction to be prevented from labouring for my Master. There
+  is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of
+  being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the
+  society and to the church. I feel that I need affliction, and
+  I hope in the midst of it ever to desire its improvement,
+  rather than its removal. I am aware also, that my sufferings
+  bear no comparison with those of Brainerd, Zeisberger, and
+  many others, who in the midst of great tribulation cheerfully
+  bore the cross and scorned the shame; but when month after
+  month passes away, with nothing done for Christ, and no souls
+  brought near to God by my instrumentality, I feel depressed in
+  spirit. The Lord knows how much of self and pride there is in
+  all this; may he pardon and purify me! I can give you no
+  cheering accounts of usefulness, but I can most sincerely
+  assure you, if I know myself, I only desire to live actively,
+  faithfully, and perseveringly; to serve Christ with body,
+  soul, and spirit. Oh, pray for me, that I may not live in
+  vain, but that I may acquit myself as a good soldier until
+  death remove me from the field.
+
+[Footnote A: Our readers will rejoice to notice these kind references to
+other labourers in the vineyard, sent forth by a kindred society.
+Elsewhere Mr. P. mentions another Christian Missionary of the same body
+in terms which we gladly quote: "Here I would most particularly mention
+the zeal and kindness of Mr. Horne, Wesleyan Missionary, by whose
+efforts the little flock (at Turk's Island) I united in church
+fellowship have been kept in order. He has read to them our pastoral
+letters, and in their own words 'has taken great pains with them.'"]
+
+It is affecting to think that, in sixteen days after the expression of
+these devout sentiments, the departure of our dear brother took place.
+(We are constrained by want of room to defer Mr. Burton's letter till
+next month).
+
+
+                              BELIZE.
+
+A letter has reached us from this station announcing the safe arrival of
+Mr. Henderson, who writes as follows, under date of December 10th:--
+
+  Through the gracious providence of our heavenly Father we all
+  arrived safely here on Friday, Nov. 28th, being eight weeks
+  from the day of our departure from London.
+
+  The passage, except when passing the Bay of Biscay a few days,
+  and some squalls on our approach to the coast (which hindered
+  us one day), was remarkably moderate, affording many pleasing
+  testimonies to our minds that we had a compassionate God, and
+  praying friends. The Divine goodness has been especially
+  displayed toward us in regard to bodily health, which has
+  continued, with the exception of a little sea-sickness, as well
+  as when we left England; indeed, rather better.
+
+  We came to anchor off Belize early in the forenoon, when I made
+  it my business to see Mr. Bourn first alone; afterwards
+  returned for Mrs. Henderson and child in the afternoon. I found
+  Mr. Bourn himself well, but fatigued on account of the
+  indisposition of Mrs. B., who had been ill about a week
+  previously. She is now recovered so as to attend to family
+  matters, and we are living altogether as one family, as happy
+  as they can make us. There is no vessel here at present by
+  which Mr. and Mrs. B. can go to New York, but one is expected
+  daily. For myself, I rather desire his stay a little time to
+  have instructions relative to the state of the Mission. It is
+  almost our daily employment to visit some of the members at
+  their homes. We are preparing to-day for a journey by water
+  southward to Stern Creek, where Mr. B. is in the habit of
+  occasionally visiting; on our return we intend another journey
+  about the same distance up the river.
+
+Mr. Henderson then states that he had been making arrangements for the
+immediate establishment of an infant school, which Mrs. H. is well
+qualified to superintend, and of a boys' school for the children of the
+respectable inhabitants of the place. Three sabbath-schools had been
+previously established by Mr. Bourn.
+
+_Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society,
+from Jan. 20, 1835, to Feb. 20, 1835, not including individual
+subscriptions._
+
+
+Graham's Town (South Africa) Auxiliary Society,
+  by Mr. Kidwell, Secretary                                 138 14  1
+
+Wigan, by Mr. W. Park:
+  Collection, Lord Street Chapel                   8 13  7
+  Teachers and children of Sabbath School          3 12  3
+                                                  --------   12  5 10
+Dunkeld Missionary Society, by Rev. John Black                5  0  0
+
+Loughton Missionary Association, by Rev. S. Brawn             6 14  2
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+Twickenham, collected by Mr. Scott                            1  5  0
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+East Essex and Colchester Auxiliary, by Thomas Blyth, Esq.   53  8  8
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+Buchan Bible Society, for circulating the
+  Scriptures in India, by Mr. Boulton                         5 10  0
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+Bristol, Rev. F. Clowes and friends, for School Books
+  to be sent to the Rev. James Coultart                       2  0  0
+
+Milton, (Northamptonshire), by Rev. W. Gray                   2  0  0
+
+
+                               LEGACY.
+
+Further Residue under the will of the late
+  Mr. Thomas King, of Birmingham,
+  by Messrs. Fiddian and Mumford                             13  9  6
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+
+                             DONATIONS.
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+  Friend in _Yorkshire_, by the Secretary                     10  0  0
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+  Mr. Hollick, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher                            5  0  0
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+                 _On Account of Jamaica School Rooms._
+
+  Friends at _Peel_ Meeting, by Mr. J. Barrett                15 12  0
+
+  We readily comply with the wishes of our kind friends at Liverpool to
+  insert the _particulars_, recently sent, of their Collection by Cards,
+  for the Jamaica Chapels.
+
+             _Lime Street, Rev. J. Lister._
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+
+                             TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+
+A very valuable package of Elementary School Books for Jamaica has been
+received, and forwarded to that island. The Committee feel greatly
+indebted to those kind 'Friends' at Birmingham by whom they were
+presented.
+
+Similar acknowledgments are respectfully offered to the Rev. Thomas
+Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, and the worthy gentlemen
+associated with him, whose seasonable liberality has placed at the
+disposal of the Committee, 3000 copies of 'Selections from the Old
+Testament,' drawn up expressly for the emancipated negroes. The whole
+have been forwarded to various parts of the island.
+
+Joseph Fletcher, Esq. and T. B. Oldfield, Esq. have laid the Society
+under great obligations by permitting their vessels to convey, freight
+free, a large quantity of Bricks and other articles for rebuilding the
+Chapels in Jamaica.
+
+Parcels of Magazines and other Books are gratefully acknowledged from
+Mrs. Gillman, Bank Buildings, and from Mrs. Bryant and other friends at
+Bath.
+
+Mr. Burchell (December 30) requests that we would make an apology on his
+behalf to those private friends who may have been expecting to hear from
+him. Continual occupation has hitherto prevented his writing, but he
+hopes soon to be able to do so.
+
+
+             J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h1>
+THE <br />
+BAPTIST MAGAZINE.<br />
+<br />
+MARCH, 1835.
+</h1>
+
+<div class="section">
+MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. BOSWELL BEDDOME, OF WEYMOUTH.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+The highly respected subject of this memoir was the youngest son of Mr.
+Boswell Brandon Beddome, who for many years filled the office of a
+deacon at Maze Pond; and grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Beddome, of
+Bourton-on-the-Water, whose sermons and hymns are still the admiration
+of the churches. The talents and amiability of Mr. Boswell Beddome began
+very early to develope themselves. He is described by his surviving
+relatives as having been a most interesting boy; his intelligence,
+generosity, vivacity, and principle, inducing them to conclude that he
+would prove no common character in after life. The testimony given to
+his spirit and deportment at this early period, by his maternal
+guardian, is worthy of record, as it points to a striking and lovely
+example of filial obedience: "<i>He</i> never gave me a moment's uneasiness;
+whatever perplexity was sometimes occasioned by the rest, I had no
+trouble with him; affection and a sense of duty invariably induced his
+cheerful obedience; and if childish disputes arose between any of the
+other juvenile members of the family, Boswell was sure to be the
+peace-maker." He was educated at a school under the superintendence of
+the Rev. S. Palmer, of Hackney, where he was distinguished for the
+readiness and accuracy with which he accomplished the exercises of his
+class, and for that general activity of mind which afterwards became one
+of his leading characteristics.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When he was about fourteen years of age, a situation which promised well
+for his secular interests offering itself at a highly respectable
+mercantile establishment at Dorchester, he was removed from school
+somewhat sooner than his friends had anticipated. His employers speedily
+became sensible of the worth of his talents and integrity, and as a
+reward for his services and a proof of their esteem, introduced him to a
+valuable business at Weymouth, which happened to be at their command,
+two years before the legal term of his connexion with them would have
+expired. This movement had the most important bearing on his spiritual
+<!-- Page 78 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span>
+interests; and had he not been generous almost to a fault, would, in a
+few years, have been the means of procuring him a retiring competency.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The family, to the full companionship of which he was thus early
+introduced at Dorchester, was distinguished by its very zealous
+profession of Unitarianism. There he saw the system under its most
+specious and delusive aspect: the sabbath was observed with the
+strictest decorum; family worship maintained with invariable regularity;
+habits of private devotion were strongly encouraged; and opportunities
+frequently occurred of association with some of the most intelligent and
+influential members of the party. Under these circumstances, although
+matter of regret to the more judicious of his friends, it was none of
+surprise, that he espoused and became the ardent advocate of sentiments
+at total variance with those in which he had been previously trained.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Under the preaching of Mr. Rowe, the first pastor of the Baptist church
+at Weymouth, and afterwards under that of Mr. Flint, its second
+minister, he was gradually restored to the presumed scriptural faith of
+his venerated ancestors. The exercises of his mind on this important
+subject were often deeply distressing and protracted. After his
+suspicions respecting the correctness of his opinions were awakened, he
+became a most diligent, anxious, and prayerful student of the word of
+God; determined, by divine assistance, to follow conviction wherever it
+might conduct him; and profess, at whatever cost, what should eventually
+appear to be the truth. Desirous of doing the will of God, after many
+painful mental conflicts he was permitted to know it; he made a public
+profession, by baptism, of his newly-adopted faith during the pastorship
+of Mr. Hawkins, now of Derby; and about four years afterwards was
+invested with the office of a deacon, during the ministry of Mr. Hoby,
+at present of Birmingham.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+That the sentiments of Mr. Beddome in after life, on some abstruse
+points, were not slightly modified by his previous notions, is not
+pretended; but that he decidedly embraced all that is fundamental in the
+Calvinistic system, no doubt is entertained by those who had the most
+ample means of obtaining an accurate knowledge of his creed. He
+contemplated himself as a depraved, guilty, perishing, and helpless
+creature; the grand doctrine of justification by grace, through faith in
+the propitiation of Christ, was his refuge and his solace; in the sense
+in which we should employ the words, he was "looking for the mercy of
+God unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+[This article&mdash;as will be remembered by those who heard
+it&mdash;contains part of the funeral sermon preached for Mr. B.
+at the Baptist chapel, Weymouth, by the minister of the place.
+Hitherto the form of the discourse has not been adhered to;
+through the remainder of the article that form will be preserved.]
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Psalm xxvi. 8, "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, &amp;c."
+That our invaluable, but now, alas! departed, brother Beddome cherished
+for this house of God an attachment peculiarly strong, unwavering, and
+devoted, is a fact too generally and distinctly known by you to require
+announcement from me. Long before his religious sentiments underwent a
+decided alteration, he interested himself most seasonably in its
+welfare; and after his views of
+<!-- Page 79 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span>
+                                divine truth became, for the most part,
+consonant to those which are here professed, he was ever ready to engage
+in any practicable undertaking, and make any possible sacrifice, for its
+benefit. Simply to affirm that he manifested his attachment in an
+ordinary way, by the regularity of his attendance, by the spirituality
+of his worship, and by contributing the general amount of pecuniary aid,
+would be but a feeble statement of the truth: he threw his whole soul
+into every department to which his influence could extend; every thing
+connected with the cause engaged his attention, solicitude, and
+activity; the interest of the chapel was the first and the last object
+of his thoughts. His solicitude for the <i>spiritual prosperity</i> of the
+church and congregation was not that of a deacon only, but a pastor; on
+this behalf he constantly wrestled with God in private; and you know,
+brethren, how solemnly, how earnestly, how affectionately, he pleaded
+for it in your meetings for social prayer. You know also his readiness,
+as opportunity allowed, to prove himself a friend, a brother, a father
+to you all. He was ever disposed to hear, to sympathize, to advise, to
+aid; and even for those who, mistaking his motives, sometimes appeared
+to think of him unkindly, he was prepared, in the exercise of a truly
+Christian spirit, to perform any act of generosity by which their
+well-being might be advanced. Over the interests of your Sabbath-school
+he watched with a tender solicitude. For many years he was its
+superintendent. During this period he prepared, with great diligence and
+judgment, a series of Scripture questions for the use of the teachers,
+several volumes of which are still in existence; and after his official
+duties as a deacon, and the attention required by his family, compelled
+him to relinquish the direct superintendence of the school, he still
+contrived to make himself acquainted with all its movements, and
+promote, by his wise suggestions and decisions, the efficiency of its
+operations. The poor and the afflicted connected with this sanctuary
+feel that in losing him they have lost a tender benefactor, who was not
+only willing to relieve them in proportion to his means, but who knew
+how to render assistance doubly grateful by the considerate delicacy
+with which it was bestowed. Many and fervent were the blessings which
+the sons and daughters of distress poured upon his head; and many and
+deep are the lamentations of the widow and fatherless now. By his
+removal the minister of this place has lost a counsellor eminent for his
+knowledge and prudence; a friend, truly generous and devoted, who was
+accustomed to assist him in many of his labours, to sympathize with him
+under all his trials, to anticipate, in a thousand ways, his wishes and
+his wants, and on every occasion of difficulty to consult his feelings,
+in a manner which proved him to possess an extensive acquaintance with
+human nature, and an amiability of disposition still more commendable.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Although the cause of Christ in connexion with this sanctuary enjoyed
+the best affection and engaged the best energies of our departed
+brother, his walks of usefulness were not restricted to this
+circumscribed beat, but embraced a wider, a more ample range. He was, it
+is well known, the manager, the life, of almost every institution
+connected with the
+<!-- Page 80 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>
+                   dissenting interest in this town and neighbourhood;
+and in various other societies, formed for civil, literary, and
+benevolent objects, he took an active part. Such were his knowledge,
+diligence, and prudence, that, in general, our committees had to do
+little more than hear his report of the past, and assent to his plans
+for the future. With the utmost modesty he made his suggestions; with
+the utmost courtesy he invited discussion; but his suggestions were, in
+general, too wise to be improved; and discussion, after he had evidently
+examined the subject in all its bearings, appeared completely useless.
+How far such careful anticipations may in general be really serviceable
+to those who are thus saved the trouble of thinking and acting, may be
+questionable; but, certainly, the mind which is sufficiently benevolent
+and energetic to perform the part of our late invaluable friend, is
+worthy of no ordinary share of admiration.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The pecuniary affairs of this place of worship were entirely committed
+to his management, which has been long and deservedly held as
+invaluable. He regularly attended the committees of the Branch Bible
+Society, the Dispensary, The Young Men's Improvement Society, and other
+local institutions of a general nature, where the weight of his talents
+and character were always felt. He was the President of one of the
+Benefit societies, and the most valuable honorary member of another. To
+all this it must be added, that hundreds in this town and neighbourhood
+were accustomed to make him acquainted with their trials, and seek his
+prompt and valuable advice in difficulty. In general he wished to forego
+a very prominent part in politics; but in cases of emergency his
+opponents soon became sensible that he was in the field. During the
+contest on the Reform question, he displayed powers, both of writing and
+speaking, of a superior order; nor have his most decided political
+enemies been backward in expressing their high respect for his
+commanding talents and unbending integrity.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But we have not yet reached the limits of Mr. Beddome's sphere of
+usefulness. You are aware that he engaged as an occasional preacher. For
+a considerable period he lectured on alternate Sabbath evenings at the
+neighbouring village of Wyke, where his labours were highly acceptable.
+I never had the gratification of hearing him on such occasions; but
+judging, as well from the testimony of some of his friends, as from his
+mental capabilities, his extensive acquaintance with the word of God,
+his clear conceptions and consequently lucid statements on other
+subjects, in connexion with his fervent piety and habitual solicitude
+for the salvation of souls, I should conjecture that his addresses were
+characterized by their perspicuity, their judiciousness, their deep
+seriousness, and their manifest tendency to usefulness. Respecting these
+and similar qualities, he was accustomed to express warm approbation
+whenever he witnessed their discovery by the stated ministers of truth;
+a class of men, for whom, on account of their sacred office, he
+cherished a deep respect. He magnified their office; obeying the
+apostolic injunction, he "esteemed them very highly, in love for their
+work's sake." In his conduct towards his own minister
+<!-- Page 81 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span>
+                                                      he was a model of
+excellence; the whole of that conduct being studiously regulated by the
+most Christian principle and benevolence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+His inclination, especially during the last few years of his life, to be
+wholly devoted to the work of the ministry, was sometimes exceedingly
+strong. Had he been permitted to select his own employment, doubtless he
+would have chosen that of an ambassador of peace. But while he possessed
+many qualifications suited to the preacher and the pastor, and which
+would have secured him great respectability in the sacred profession,
+Providence had richly endowed him also with certain other qualities, and
+had placed him in a sphere of action, which enabled him to be useful in
+a great variety of ways, not quite within the province of the stated
+minister. As it was, for some time he was contemplated by many as a kind
+of second pastor to this church and congregation; and his minister ever
+found in him a brother who, in many respects, could labour as well as
+sympathize with him, in conducting the oversight of this people in the
+Lord. If, with the exception of Wyke, and one or two similarly-situated
+places, he did not preach publicly, he most literally taught "from house
+to house." He appeared to seize every favourable opportunity of speaking
+for religion: the inquiring found in him a wise and kind director; he
+was a faithful reprover of sin; and when consolation was requisite, none
+knew better how it should be administered.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While home engaged the first, it did not engross all, the energies of
+our departed friend. Of the enviable power of producing charming
+epistles of friendship, with ease and rapidity, he possessed a
+remarkable share. This power he habitually made subservient to the
+interests of religion; considering a talent for epistolary
+correspondence as involving serious responsibility. Could his numerous
+letters of remonstrance, advice, and Christian sympathy be collected, I
+am persuaded they would constitute a volume of no ordinary interest and
+usefulness. As in common conversation he was accustomed to throw out
+useful hints to those around him; so in letters of business, he often
+took occasion to remind his friends that they were only probationers in
+a world "which passeth away," the inordinate love of which must ruin the
+soul inevitably and for ever.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To his friends it has always been a mystery how he could discharge, with
+his proverbial correctness, the numerous and onerous duties which he
+imposed on himself; the management of his private concerns being always
+sufficient to engross the attention of any ordinary mind. His habits of
+extreme regularity doubtless afforded him great assistance; but had he
+not possessed an incessantly active and a master mind, no such habits
+could have enabled him to attempt one half of what he accomplished. As a
+man of business his motto was "dispatch;" and whatever he undertook for
+the interests of benevolence, he attempted with all his might,
+exemplifying that beautiful and comprehensive injunction of Scripture:
+"Be diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+That a life so valuable should have been suddenly terminated, in the
+midst of usefulness, at the vigorous age of forty, is a providence,
+<!-- Page 82 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span>
+                                                                    in
+many respects, deeply painful, and mysterious; especially when,
+surveying society at large, we behold the useless and the injurious
+permitted to prolong their earthly existence. There are, however, in
+this case, various modifying circumstances which demand observation and
+gratitude. If the days of our departed brother on earth were short, they
+were singularly <i>vigorous</i> and useful. He had already acted his part
+both in civil and religious society: scarcely had the dew of his youth
+passed away when he performed many of the duties, and was invested with
+many of the honours, of age; and although the continuance of a judgment
+so mature, a disposition so benevolent, and habits of usefulness so
+self-denying and energetic, would have been an invaluable favour,
+comparing the amount of his speedily accomplished work, with what is
+ordinarily allotted to the servants of God, we ought not, perhaps, to be
+greatly surprised that he has been thus early admitted to his rest.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Yet who was prepared for the severe, the complicated trial which we are
+now summoned to sustain? Who could have anticipated that the
+comparatively young, the vigorous, the active Beddome, would have been
+so speedily and so suddenly called to go the way of all the earth?
+Notwithstanding his occasional physical infirmities, we seemed to forget
+that he was mortal; so completely was he identified with our interests,
+so necessary did he appear to our welfare, that we never calculated that
+he could die! Even after his medical attendants had repeatedly announced
+the impossibility of his recovery, many of you could not surrender the
+hope, that God would yet spare him, for the sake of his family and the
+church. But, alas! the stroke has come suddenly and irresistibly. We
+have buried our brother; we have heard the lamentations of all classes
+at his death; we are now paying our last public token of respect to his
+universally admitted worth; and yet, his removal appears like a dream.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This day three weeks he came for a few minutes in the morning to witness
+the ordinance of baptism, but was too much indisposed to render his
+usual assistance. We conjectured, during that and the three following
+days, that he was suffering from a severe cold; but on the Thursday it
+was manifest that a formidable disease had taken full possession of his
+frame. During the whole of Thursday night he was very delirious, and so
+continued, under the influence of the fever which preyed upon his
+vitals, with scarcely an intermission, until death released him from his
+sufferings on the following Thursday morning; when, at half-past one,
+his spirit departed to be with Christ. From the moment he was thought to
+be dangerously ill, he had no opportunity of making statements
+respecting his spiritual prospects. Such statements, however, were
+unnecessary to our sure and certain hope of his salvation. He had
+previously witnessed a good profession. His character had already been
+stamped for a happy immortality; and pleasing as might have been his
+dying testimony to the religion of the cross, it is not to be forgotten,
+that while he was called to forego the delight of giving, and we of
+receiving, such a testimony, he was spared the pang of separation from
+his beloved partner, and four interesting babes, for whose welfare he
+felt all the tender solicitude
+<!-- Page 83 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span>
+                               which the husband and the father could
+feel.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During the former part of his illness, before it had assumed a dangerous
+aspect, I conversed with him respecting the importance of not leaving
+the concerns of religion to a moment when disease unfits the mind for
+reflection, and congratulated him on the fact of his having been
+enabled, through grace, to prepare in health for the solemnities of
+eternity. He devoutly acknowledged the mercy which, in this respect, he
+had received; but neither then, nor on the following day, when our
+respected independent brother, with whom he had long been on terms of
+closest intimacy, prayed with him, did he appear to have the conviction
+that his "sickness was unto death." About a week before this period,
+having occasion to consult him respecting some important business
+connected with the church, our conversation assumed a more than commonly
+serious tone. I was led to ask him several questions respecting his own
+experience in religion, and the motives by which he had been actuated in
+his singular devotedness to this particular interest; and such were his
+replies, and in so affecting a manner were they given, that I left him
+with the deepest conviction that he was eminently a man of God: and
+since his departure, I have considered the statements which he then made
+as an anticipatory dying testimony to the genuineness and vigour of his
+personal piety.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There were public as well as private circumstances of a somewhat similar
+nature, which are now cherished in the memories of his friends. At the
+last monthly prayer-meeting at which he was permitted to attend, he
+manifested a most solemn and intense devotional spirit. When praying for
+the prosperity of the church, he was so greatly affected as to be
+scarcely able, for several minutes, to proceed, while sympathy made the
+exercise one of general weeping as well as of supplication. At the last
+Sunday-school Union prayer-meeting also, many of the teachers remarked
+at the time, how very earnestly he wrestled on their behalf; and since
+that period, they have very naturally dwelt much on the fact, that he
+concluded the engagement by giving out and setting the tune to the
+following expressive lines:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Come, Christian brethren! ere we part,</span>
+<span class="i0">Join every voice and every heart," &amp;c.</span>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Having laboured for us ardently and efficiently, instead of repining at
+his removal, let us, by divine assistance, be grateful that a still more
+speedy termination was not put to his probationary career; and rejoice
+in his blissful possession of the "recompence of reward;" our loss being
+his imperishable gain.
+</p>
+
+<div class="section">
+THE TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE OVER INTOLERANCE,<br />
+ILLUSTRATED IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. BERRIDGE, OF EVERTON
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The following letter was written by the late Mr. Sutcliff of Olney, and
+not having been extensively circulated, may perhaps be acceptable to
+some of the readers of the Baptist Magazine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was published under Mr. Sutcliff's signature in a small collection of
+Mr. Berridge's letters, which I have in my possession, under the title
+of "Cheerful Piety, or Religion without Gloom,"
+<!-- Page 84 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span>
+                                                in the year 1797. And
+if its insertion meets your approbation, I will give it in Mr.
+Sutcliff's own words.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+A Constant Reader.<br />
+<span class="smcaps"><i>Harley Place, Bow.</i></span>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+About two years ago a friend of mine, wishing to enjoy an hour or two of
+Mr. Berridge's company, rode over to Everton for that purpose. He was
+introduced by a dissenting minister in the neighbourhood, with whom Mr.
+B. lived upon terms of friendship. When seated, my friend requested Mr.
+B. if agreeable, to favour them with a few outlines of his life. The
+venerable old man began, and related several things as narrated in the
+first number of the Evangelical Magazine. But as some are there
+unnoticed, I have selected the following, which I think will not be
+uninteresting.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Soon after I began, said he, to preach the gospel of Christ at Everton,
+the church was filled from the villages around us, and the neighbouring
+clergy felt themselves hurt at their churches being deserted. The
+esquire of my parish, too, was much offended. He did not like to see so
+many strangers, and be so incommoded. Between them both, it was
+resolved, if possible, to turn me out of my living. For this purpose
+they complained of me to the bishop of the diocese, that I had preached
+out of my own parish. I was soon after sent for by the bishop. I did not
+much like my errand, but I went. When I arrived, the bishop accosted me
+in a very abrupt manner: "Well, Berridge, they tell me you go about
+preaching out of your own parish; did I institute you to the livings of
+A&mdash;&mdash;y, or E&mdash;&mdash;n, or P&mdash;&mdash;n?" No, my lord, said I, neither do I
+claim any of these livings, the clergymen enjoy them undisturbed by me.
+"Well, but you go and preach there, which you have no right to do." It
+is true, my lord, I was one day at E&mdash;&mdash;n, and there were a few poor
+people assembled together, and I admonished them to repent of their
+sins, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of their
+souls; and I remember seeing five or six clergymen that day, my lord,
+all out of their own parishes, upon E&mdash;&mdash;n bowling-green. "Poh!" said
+his lordship, "I tell you, you have no right to preach out of your own
+parish; and if you do not desist from it, you will very likely be sent
+to Huntingdon." As to that, my lord, said I, I have no greater liking to
+Huntingdon gaol than other people; but I had rather go there with a good
+conscience, than live at my liberty without one. Here his lordship
+looked very hard at me, and very gravely assured me that I was beside
+myself, and that in a few months I should either be better or worse.
+Then, said I, my lord, you may make yourself quite happy in this
+business; for if I should be better, you suppose that I shall desist
+from this practice of my own accord; and if worse, you need not send me
+to Huntingdon gaol, as I shall be provided with an accommodation in
+Bedlam.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+His lordship now changed his mode of attack: instead of threatening, he
+began to entreat: "Berridge," said he, "you know I have been your
+friend, and I wish to be so still. I am continually teazed with the
+complaints of the clergymen around you; only assure me, that you will
+keep to your own parish; you may do as you please there. I have but
+little time to live; do not bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the
+grave." At this instant two gentlemen were
+<!-- Page 85 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>
+                                           announced, who desired to
+speak with his lordship. "Berridge," said he, "go to your inn, and come
+again at such an hour, and dine with me." I went, and, on entering a
+private room, fell immediately upon my knees. I could bear threatening,
+but knew not how to withstand entreaty, especially the entreaty of a
+respectable old man. At the appointed time I returned. At dinner I was
+treated with great respect. The two gentlemen also dined with us. I
+found they had been informed who I was, as they sometimes cast their
+eyes towards me in some such manner as one would glance at a monster.
+After dinner, his lordship took me into the garden. "Well, Berridge,"
+said he, "have you considered of my request?" I have, my lord, said I,
+and have been upon my knees concerning it. "Well, will you promise me
+that you will preach no more out of your own parish?" It would afford me
+great pleasure, said I, to comply with your lordship's request, if I
+could do it with a good conscience. I am satisfied the Lord has blessed
+my labours of this kind, and I dare not desist. "A good conscience!"
+said his lordship, "do you not know that it is contrary to the canons of
+the church?" There is one canon, my Lord, I replied, which saith, "Go,
+preach the gospel to every creature." "But why should you wish to
+interfere with the charge of other men? one man cannot preach the gospel
+to all men." If they would preach the gospel themselves, said I, there
+would be no need of my preaching it to their people; but as they do not,
+I cannot desist. His lordship then parted with me in some displeasure;
+and I returned home not knowing what would befall me, but thankful to
+God that I had preserved a conscience void of offence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I took no measures for my own preservation; but Divine Providence
+wrought for me in a way that I never expected. When I was at Clare Hall,
+I was particularly acquainted with a fellow of that college, and we were
+both upon terms of intimacy with Mr. Pitt, the late Lord Chatham, who
+was at one time also at the university. This fellow of Clare Hall, when
+I began to preach the gospel, became my enemy, and did me some injury in
+some ecclesiastical privileges which beforetime I had enjoyed. At
+length, however, when he heard I was likely to come into trouble, and to
+be turned out of my living at Everton, his heart relented. He began to
+think, it seems, within himself, "We shall ruin this poor fellow among
+us." This was just about the time that I was sent for by the bishop. Of
+his own accord he writes a letter to Mr. Pitt, saying nothing about my
+Methodism, but to this effect: "Our old friend Berridge has got a living
+in Bedfordshire, and I am informed he has an esquire in his parish that
+gives him a deal of trouble; has accused him to the bishop of the
+diocese; and, it is said, will turn him out of his living; I wish you
+would contrive to put a stop to these proceedings." Mr. Pitt was at that
+time a young man, and not choosing to apply to the bishop himself, spoke
+to a certain nobleman to whom the bishop was indebted for his promotion.
+This nobleman, within a few days, made it his business to see the
+bishop, who was then in London. "My lord," said he, "I am informed you
+have a very honest fellow, one Berridge, in your diocese, and that he
+has been ill treated by a litigious esquire who lives in his parish; he
+has accused him, I am told, to your lordship, and wishes to turn him out
+of his
+<!-- Page 86 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span>
+       living; you would oblige me, my lord, if you would take no
+notice of that esquire, and not suffer the honest man to be interrupted
+in his living." The bishop was astonished, and could not imagine in what
+manner things could have thus got round: it would not do, however, to
+object; he was obliged to bow compliance; and so I continued ever after
+in my sphere of action.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The squire, having waited on the bishop to know the result of the
+summons, had the mortification to learn that his purpose was defeated;
+on his return home, his partisans in this prosecution fled to know what
+was determined on, saying, "Well, have you got the old devil out?" He
+replied, "No, nor do I think the very devil himself can get him out."
+After this interesting narration was ended, which had alternately drawn
+smiles and tears from my friend and his companion, they requested him to
+pray with them one five minute's before they departed. "No," said the
+good old man to my friend, you shall pray with me. "Well, but if I
+begin, perhaps you will conclude." He consented: after my friend had
+ended, he, without rising from his knees, took up his petitions, and
+with such sweet solemnity, such holy familiarity with God, and such
+ardent love to Christ, poured out his soul, that the like was seldom
+seen. They parted, and my friend declares he thinks he shall never
+forget the savour of this interview to his dying day.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcaps">J. Sutcliff.</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+RELIGIOUS REVIVAL MEETINGS.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I have been surprised and pained by the appearance of the paper, headed
+"On Revivals in America," in the number of your Magazine for the present
+month. Though the paper is headed "Revivals in America," Mr. Clarke has
+not confined his remarks to American revivals; he has animadverted with
+considerable freedom on revival meetings in England. As I, and several of
+my brethren in this part of the country, have sanctioned these meetings,
+I trust you will in justice allow me a little space in your next number,
+for a few remarks on his very singular production.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. C. commences with some observations on revivals in America. On this
+subject, I think, he does not write very consistently. It is scarcely
+possible to give a more gloomy, disparaging description of the American
+revivals than that which he presents. He represents them as exerting a
+most pernicious influence on the churches, on the young, and on the
+enemies of religion, rendering "the character of Christians undignified
+and uninfluential," and reducing them to a state of "contempt and
+ridicule." He says, "The good that they are occasionally the means of
+effecting is secured at the expense of the dignity, influence, and
+subsequent enjoyment of the church; and at the expense, too, of much
+that is lovely and permanent in the character of pure religion." Now, if
+this account of American revival meetings be correct, they must be a
+very great evil, and ought to be entirely discountenanced by Christians.
+Yet Mr. C. says, "Revival meetings
+<!-- Page 87 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span>
+                                   may do for America." "The system is
+their own, and is almost universally understood and recognized." He also
+says, "The correctness of the reports which have reached this country
+respecting their revivals, perhaps, ought not to be seriously
+questioned." But if the reports of American revivals which have reached
+this country be in general correct, I think the description of Mr. C.
+must be very defective in that important quality; for there is a very
+wide difference between his description and those reports. If we doubt
+the correctness of his description, he has himself supplied us with an
+apology; for he says, "Things are not always in reality what they appear
+to be to the persons who describe them. Besides, truth is seldom naked,
+and its dress frequently makes an erroneous impression."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. C. says, "It is not my intention to degrade our American brethren;
+indeed, I cannot." True. But I suppose they will not consider that he
+passes a very high compliment on them, by first describing their
+meetings as he has done, and then saying, "The system is their own, and
+is there almost universally understood and recognized." His remarks on
+the American revivals "are, no doubt well intended," but I believe it
+would be difficult for any one to say what good end they are calculated
+to answer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But I hasten to a consideration of the latter part of Mr. Clarke's
+paper, which contains some extraordinary strictures on "revival meetings
+in England." He admits that the revival meetings in England may be well
+intended, but says, "They appear to have originated in a wish to imitate
+the Americans." I trust they originated in a sincere desire to glorify
+God, and to promote the salvation of immortal souls. Mr. C. says,
+"Religion cannot be imported." Indeed! Was not religion imported into
+this country? Was it not imported into America? And has it not been
+imported into other countries by our Missionaries? "Revival meetings,"
+says Mr. C., "may do for America, but they will not do for England." How
+does he know they will not do for England? Has he ever made the attempt?
+Has he ever attended a revival meeting in England? If not, I think he
+ought to have been less hasty in his conclusion. But they will not do
+for England, "because the people here do not understand them, neither do
+they heartily approve them." I am not much surprised that people do not
+<i>heartily approve</i> that which they do not <i>understand</i>. He says in
+America the meetings are "almost universally understood and recognized."
+Hence it appears where they <i>are</i> understood they <i>are</i> approved, and
+that they are <i>not</i> approved only where they are <i>not</i> understood. This
+surely cannot be a very powerful argument against such meetings. Another
+of Mr. C.'s reasons why these meetings will not do for England is, "Our
+country has long been inhabited, and distinguished for religious
+institutions." As to the length of time our country has been inhabited,
+that can have very little to do with the subject; and as to our being
+distinguished for religious institutions, I do not know that we have
+such a mighty advantage over the Americans. Some of our religious
+institutions, instead of diminishing, greatly increase our need of
+revival meetings. Mr. C. next attempts to draw from the Scriptures an
+argument against revival meetings.
+<!-- Page 88 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span>
+                                   "Besides," says he, "it is said,
+'Six days shalt thou labour,' and necessity makes many in England keep
+this commandment." And I should think necessity makes many in America
+keep it too. I suppose he does not mean to say that this commandment
+forbids persons from attending public worship on the "six days" if their
+circumstances will allow them to do so. And if he do not mean this, for
+what purpose can it be referred to? Once more. He says, "The unconverted
+inhabitants of this country are far more likely to raise bitter
+persecutions where revivals are attempted, than to feel willing to
+engage in them." And suppose the wicked were to raise bitter
+persecutions, are they to deter the Christian from doing that which he
+believes is for the glory of God? Has not the Saviour said, "Blessed are
+ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you," &amp;c.? But experience
+has proved to me that Mr. C.'s assertion is far from correct; several
+revival meetings have been held in Lincolnshire, each of which was
+attended by many unconverted persons, and at not one was there any
+persecution. "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall
+be slain in the streets." Prov. xxii. 13.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. C.'s feelings warm as he advances; and, if I be not greatly
+mistaken, they carry him very far beyond the bounds of Christian charity
+in the following sentences: he says, "But, perhaps, the secret is this;
+these meetings in England look like a burlesque; they appear like a body
+without a soul, or like an orator without originality. We cannot,
+therefore, expect people to be charmed and benefited by them; for the
+mind cannot be wrought upon by what is felt to be a farce, nor will God
+bless what is not perfectly sincere." Revival meetings in England, "not
+perfectly sincere!" but are "a farce!!" and "a burlesque!!!" Really, Mr.
+Editor, I think this is "set forth with a little too much sharpness of
+invective," and I fancy all your readers, except Mr. Clarke, will think
+the same.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As we proceed we find Mr. C. attempting to describe "the views and
+feelings of our churches associated in the capacity of Revivalists." I
+will not do our churches the injustice to believe that they would talk
+such nonsense as that which he puts into their lips; the language is
+much more befitting infidels than Christians. I am quite sure the views
+and feelings of our churches in this country, respecting revival
+meetings, are as different as possible from what Mr. C. states, and I
+believe many of our members are in no small degree disgusted by what he
+is pleased to say on the subject. If there be no more truth in what he
+says of the American revivals, than there is in his descriptions of
+revival meetings in England, he had better never given his "opinion" on
+the subject.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. C. says, "I would advise an adherence to <i>ordinary services</i>; for
+these being evidently scriptural and reasonable," &amp;c. It is a pity he
+does not tell us what <i>are</i> the "ordinary services that are scriptural
+and reasonable." Our Lord "taught daily in the temple," Luke xix. 47.
+The first converts at Jerusalem "continued daily with one accord in the
+temple and breaking bread from house to house," Acts ii. 46. Paul told
+the elders of the church at Ephesus, "that by the space of three years
+he ceased not to warn every one night and day." Acts xx. 31.
+<!-- Page 89 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span>
+                                                             These are
+scriptural services, and I suppose they are reasonable too. As to
+"ordinary services," they differ in different churches; some having one,
+and others having three or four, on the Sabbath; some having no service,
+and others having several, during the "six days." It is frequently
+mentioned to the honour of Whitefield and Wesley, that they preached
+almost every day in the week. The services that were "ordinary" to these
+good men would be extraordinary to most of our churches and ministers.
+Mr. C.'s advice to the churches is virtually, "Continue to go on as you
+do; quicken not your pace; devise no liberal scheme different from what
+you have already in operation; if you hear of other churches doing a
+great deal of good, by employing different means from those which you
+employ, regard it not; 'no plan can prove serviceable that is learned
+only from hearsay.' Above all things, carefully avoid whatever is
+extraordinary in the service of God." Mr. C. would make an admirable
+reformer!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A statement of a few facts will be the best reply to what Mr. C. says
+about revival meetings in England. In this part of the country, six
+revival meetings have been held within the last nine or ten months, at
+four of which I have been present. None of the evils of which he speaks
+occurred at any of these meetings; they were attended by ministers and
+members of different denominations of Christians, most of whom
+expressed, not merely their approbation of the services, but their
+gratitude to God for the great spiritual delight they experienced in
+attending them. I believe every church that has held one of these
+meetings feels anxious that it should be repeated. Since they were held,
+some have been added to our churches, who state that it was whilst
+attending them that they first felt the importance of religion. Last
+Sabbath, three were added to the church at Lincoln, to whom these
+meetings were greatly blessed; and I hope in a few weeks to baptize
+three others who can say the same. What are Mr. C.'s flippant remarks
+when weighed in the balance with these facts?
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">John Craps.</span><br />
+<i>Lincoln, February, 5th, 1835.</i>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+WIDOWS' FUND.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Observing in your Magazine for last month a notice of the annual sermon
+to the Society for the Relief of the Widows of Protestant Dissenting
+Ministers, as intended to be preached at Salters' Hall meeting-house,
+Cannon-street, on Wednesday the 1st of April next, will you allow a
+well-wisher to that institution to occupy a small part of your pages to
+state a few particulars respecting that highly-valuable institution, as
+I apprehend many of your readers are but little acquainted with its
+origin and design. The proposed anniversary is the 102nd, it having been
+established in the year 1733. It was founded on a broad and liberal
+scale; no theological basis was intended; but the necessitous widows of
+ministers of the denominations of Presbyterians, Independents, and
+Baptists, were to be the recipients of its bounty. For these classes of
+Protestant Dissenters it was their aim to provide; and as our
+<!-- Page 90 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span>
+                                                              ancestors
+truly imagined that union was strength, their combined efforts were
+exerted to form this society. It is, however, but justice to say that,
+in the first instance, the interests of the society were greatly
+promoted by the exertions of our Presbyterian friends. To Dr. Chandler,
+a minister of that denomination, it was indebted for its rise. It has,
+however, since that period, been liberally supported by the other
+denominations of Dissenters, and diffused its blessings for more than a
+century "to the fatherless and the widow." The annual sermon has been
+preached alternately by a minister of each denomination; it was formerly
+at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, where the writer of this has
+witnessed, with high satisfaction, a thronged assembly listening to the
+urgent and sympathizing strains of a Fuller, a Hall, a Toller, and
+various others of different denominations. In the present year it falls
+to the Baptists to provide a place and a preacher; and may it not be
+reasonably hoped that that denomination will give the meeting its
+countenance and support, when they are informed that they have near
+eighty widows in the English counties, who receive an annuity from its
+funds, from one to twelve pounds each; besides more than twenty widows
+in the principality of Wales, who receive from seven to nine pounds of
+annual allowance.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+How creditable, Mr. Editor, would it be to the dissenters to revive this
+cause, which of late has been drooping! And the writer of this would
+fain entertain a hope that, whilst exertions are making amongst the
+friends of religion for so many important objects, ancient institutions
+will not be overlooked and forgotten; but that a spirit of revival will
+appear to the cause of the "widow and fatherless."
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">J. Guttridge.</span><br />
+<i>Denmark Hill.</i>
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+&#8258; We understand that the whole amount of subscriptions
+to this benevolent institution is under &pound;120.
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+THE REV. L.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;E.'s PUBLICATION.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+(COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, A MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.)<br />
+<i>To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="salut">Dear Sir</span>,
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As you were so kind as to favour me with the loan of a publication,
+entitled "<i>Letters to a Dissenting Minister, by L.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;E., containing
+Remarks on the Principles of the Sect</i>," &amp;c., and to request my opinion
+of its merits and tendency, I have put down what occurred to me on the
+perusal of some parts of its contents: to have toiled through the whole
+of it, was a task to which my patience was by no means equal.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The first impression produced on my mind was, the total absence of that
+charity and forbearance so often enjoined in the holy Scriptures.
+"<i>Judge not, that ye</i> <span class="smcap">BE NOT JUDGED</span>," was one of the precepts
+delivered, in his first sermon, by our divine Lord and Master; and in
+accordance with this direction, when his disciples, instigated by a
+mistaken regard for his cause, came to him complaining that they had met
+with some who followed not with them, and inquiring whether they should
+forbid them, his reply was, "Forbid them not, for he that is not against
+us is with us." The apostle Paul recommended the
+<!-- Page 91 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span>
+                                                 same line of conduct
+towards weak and mistaken brethren, and in the First Epistle to the
+Corinthians, which abounds with directions as to the conduct of
+professing Christians one towards another, he sums up the whole by a
+glowing description of <i>charity</i>, as superior to all other graces:
+"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; thinketh no evil; hopeth all
+things; endureth all things." To me it appears utterly impossible to
+reconcile these expressions with the arrogant pretensions and sweeping
+censures of this writer, not only with respect to the overt conduct, but
+the <i>motives</i>, of those who differ from him, charging them with a
+sin more heinous than drunkenness, and with being under the influence
+of the devil, because they cannot see alike with him respecting some
+of the circumstantials of Christianity, though they may agree as to
+the essentials.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But the censorious language of the writer is not exhausted in the use of
+the most opprobrious epithets, and such as have hitherto been only
+appropriate to the vilest of characters; but it is diffused through the
+pages of his publication, by raking together and detailing anecdotes,
+with a view to degrade and vilify individuals, and the body of
+dissenters at large. That there are imperfections and inconsistencies to
+be found among the professors of religion, must be acknowledged; and has
+in every age been a source of lamentation to truly pious and devoted
+Christians; but how different their feelings from those of this
+clergyman, who endeavours to expose to ridicule the failings of others;
+who dwells upon them with a kind of malignant pleasure, and thus affords
+a handle to the common enemies of Christianity!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As to many of the anecdotes contained in this publication, many are
+garbled and distorted, and some of them are, in many of their
+particulars, palpable falsehoods. The very quotations from the writings
+of his opponents&mdash;though it must be conceded that at this period of
+great excitement many unguarded expressions have been used by some
+individuals&mdash;are, some of them, so garbled and mangled as scarcely to
+bear any resemblance to the original, and calculated to convey a meaning
+very different from what was intended by the writer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Not to dwell any longer on these statements, which occupy a considerable
+portion of the book, in the chapters on <i>the Authority of the Church</i>,
+and <i>the Ordination of Christian Ministers</i>, much will be found so
+extravagant in its assumptions, as to throw the pretensions of the
+church of Rome into the shades (within whose pale, if he had any regard
+for consistency, he ought certainly to have been), and calculated to
+undermine and overthrow the grounds of the Protestant succession. They
+are indeed so full of absurdity as to amuse rather than offend, and
+exhibit in the clearest light the inability of L.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;E. to form a
+correct judgment, either as to matters of faith or practice. With all
+the consequence and arrogance which assumed infallibility can induce, he
+maintains that none ought to be teachers of religion but those who are
+<i>authorized</i>, or otherwise <i>specially inspired</i> of God. According to his
+definition, an <i>authorized</i> minister is one who has passed through the
+ordeal of episcopal ordination, and what constitutes that authority is,
+the <i>regular succession</i>
+<!-- Page 92 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>
+                              from the times of the apostles to the present
+period. In order to make this most important discovery of a regular
+succession, on which, in his estimation, so much depends, I have been
+employing myself for some time, in rummaging the different volumes of
+ecclesiastical history within my reach, and endeavouring to trace the
+succession, from the time of Peter downwards; and upwards from the time
+of the Reformation. In the former case, there is great confusion in the
+catalogue of bishops. Few of these are alike; some names of persons are
+given, who, there is reason to believe, never existed; there are many
+periods entirely without names; and it is well known, that for some time
+there were rival popes, each claiming exclusive authority. In tracing
+these tainted and impure currents, where shall we discover, either
+before or after the Saxon invasion, the perennial stream which will
+alone confer sanctity on the priestly office?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In attempting to make discoveries in a retrograde movement, from the
+time of the Reformation, we find the names of Bonner, Gardiner, &amp;c.;
+those immaculate characters, who, of course, transmitted this divine
+authority, and afterwards committed those to whom they had given it to
+the flames. In this lack of information on so momentous a subject,
+L.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;E.&mdash;<i>alias</i> the Rev. Augustus Gathercole&mdash;will confer an invaluable
+benefit on the church to which he belongs, if he can produce, from his
+hidden stores, in the musty parchments which have been concealed for
+ages, the direct and unbroken line of succession, and append it to the
+next edition of his popular production. Of course the dissenters can
+have no pretensions to be <i>authorized</i> teachers on these grounds; and
+not more so, as having <i>a special inspiration from God</i> to become
+teachers, which is represented by this writer as the only other ground
+of a call to this office. It is true that some enthusiasts, with whom,
+as a body, they have no connexion, have laid claim to this high
+prerogative; but the avowed sentiment of the nonconformist body is, that
+the supernatural powers connected with a <i>special inspiration</i> from God
+ceased with the first ages of Christianity. The Holy Spirit, in his
+ordinary and gracious operations, is promised to all good men, and
+especially to the ministers of the gospel, who, whether professing to be
+authorized teachers in the way before described or not, are insufficient
+in themselves for any good work, their sufficiency being of God, who
+alone can make them able ministers of the New Testament. Destitute of
+this, the hands of the bishop cannot confer any of the necessary
+qualifications.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If none have any claim to the sacred office but those who have had
+episcopal ordination, or are specially inspired, not only the present
+race of teachers among different denominations, both Methodists and
+regular Dissenters, must be degraded to the rank of intruders, whatever
+success may have attended their labours; but the same will apply to the
+2,000 ministers of whom the world was not worthy, the brightest
+ornaments of the church to which the reverend gentleman belongs, who
+were expelled from their situations by the act of uniformity. Also the
+ministers of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, of which, as well as
+of the church of England,
+<!-- Page 93 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span>
+                          the king, by his representative, is the head,
+with many of the most eminent men who have flourished in these and
+foreign lands. Whatever excellences the universal suffrage of the wisest
+and best of men, both Churchmen and Dissenters, have attributed to the
+writings and public labours of an Owen, a Howe, a Charnock, a Watts, a
+Doddridge (the intimate friend of Archbishop Secker), a Henry, with a
+long train of others that might be enumerated, they must now retire into
+the shades, and pass into oblivion, because this infallible judge has
+made it out that they were not <i>authorized teachers</i>. Like their
+successors, they were incompetent to administer the ordinances aright;
+like them, to use his own language, they could not lay <i>claim to be
+considered as Christians. They were without the pale of the visible
+church of God. As schismatics, who forsook the church, they ought to
+have been the very first persons to whom the church should have refused
+her burial service; the principles of independency, which they in
+general maintained, being those of depraved human nature instilled into
+man, and fostered in him by his great enemy the devil, who was the first
+dissenter.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Whatever inconveniences or evils may attend the choice of their own
+teachers by each respective congregation, the imposition of teachers is
+far from being free from the most serious objections, and especially
+when the patronage is in the hands of persons, as it often is,
+regardless of the spiritual welfare of the flock, who are left in a
+starving condition, and too often feel no interest either in the
+preacher or his doctrine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But I forbear, and shall leave it to a discerning public to determine
+whether the contents of this unique publication&mdash;a specimen of which is
+now given, can do any service to the church of which the Rev. A.
+Gathercole prides himself as being a member, or do any credit to the
+judgment of the reverend clergymen and the lordly bishop, who have
+condescended to give it their sanction.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For myself (and I can without hesitation say the same of those with whom
+I am connected), I have no wish to see the downfal of the venerable
+fabric of the church, though in its patronage, often improperly used,
+and in some of its formularies, particularly the baptismal service and
+others connected with it, I think I see much that calls for alteration.
+Many of its ministers and members I respect, and wish to consider them
+as fellow-Christians. To this however, in the estimation of the Rev. A.
+Gathercole, I have no right to lay a claim, and must not therefore
+presume to subscribe myself by any other name than that with which he
+designates every Dissenter,&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">A Heathen Man and a Publican.</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+ON THE PROPRIETY OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN
+DISSENTING CHAPELS.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine.</i><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I trust your candour will permit me, through the medium of your
+excellent publication, shortly to reply to some remarks that were made,
+and I think rather hastily, in your last number, relative to the
+introduction of instrumental music in dissenting places of worship. Your
+correspondent, Mr. Wilkin, I am
+<!-- Page 94 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>
+                                fearful, was not in the most composed
+frame of mind when he sat down to pen the communication alluded to. The
+sounds of the instrument which he states to have "greeted" him with its
+"hideous tones," must have been vibrating in his ears at the time, or he
+could not have expressed sentiments bearing so close an affity to
+those <i>discordant</i> notes with which he professes to have been so much
+annoyed on his entering some Baptist chapel.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For my own part, I should deem no act inconsistent with the worship of
+God, in its simplest and purest form, which has a tendency to create a
+unison of voices which must tend so materially to produce a unity of
+feeling in the minds of those engaged in one of the most sublime parts
+of a religious service. I would only advocate the introduction of
+instrumental music into dissenting chapels to assist the singing, not
+when it merely offers an opportunity for the display of professional
+skill. With regard to the parts of Scripture bearing upon the subject,
+there are no direct commands in the New Testament, either for or against
+the practice. We read in the Revelations of "the harpers harping with
+their harps before the throne of God," while, in the Old Testament, we
+also read of praising God on the high-sounding organ. Surely, if praise
+was offered to God in this form with acceptance formerly, why shall it
+not be so in the present day? Some of the Psalms have titles signifying
+the author who was to set them to music, while others indicate the
+instrument it was to be played upon; clearly denoting that the
+accompaniment of music, when directed to God with pious feeling and
+sincerity of purpose, cannot be unacceptable, and consequently not
+inconsistent with the worship of the Divine Being; so that, so far from
+its being a departure from Scripture, it appears to me to be an
+adherence to it. Your correspondent states that, if he is wrong, he is
+open to correction. I trust, also, he is open to conviction, and
+sincerely hope he will not let early prejudices bias his mind to that
+extent as to pervert his judgment, or gain the ascendancy of his nobler
+and better feelings.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Musicus.</span><br />
+<i>London, Feb. 7, 1835.</i>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+POETRY.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+PLEADING FOR MERCY.
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When at thy footstool, Lord, I bend,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And plead with Thee for mercy there,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Think of the sinner's dying Friend,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And for His sake receive my prayer.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O think not of my shame and guilt,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">My thousand stains of deepest dye:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Think of the blood which Jesus spilt,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And let that blood my pardon buy.<br /></span>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Think, Lord, how I am still Thy own,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The trembling creature of Thy hand;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Think how my heart to sin is prone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And what temptations round me stand.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O think how blind and weak am I;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">How strong and wily are my foes:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They wrestled with Thy hosts on high,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And can a worm their might oppose?<br /></span>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">O think upon Thy holy word,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And every plighted promise there;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How prayer should evermore be heard,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And how Thy glory is to spare.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">O think not of my doubts and fears,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">My strivings with Thy grace divine:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Think upon Jesus' woes and tears,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And let his merits stand for mine.<br /></span>
+</div>
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thine eye, Thine ear--they are not dull;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Thine arm can never shortened be:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Behold me here!&ndash;my heart is full&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Behold! and spare, and succour me.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No claim, no merits, Lord, I plead:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I come a humbled, helpless slave:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But, ah! the more my guilty need,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The more Thy O glory Lord, to save.<br /></span>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+REVIEWS.
+</div>
+
+<div class="hindent">
+<i>Revealed Characteristics of God: in a Series of Essays.</i> By <span class="smcap">G.
+Barrow Kidd</span>, Minister of Roe Street, Macclesfield.&mdash;Westley and
+Davis.
+</div>
+
+
+<p>
+Who Mr. Kidd is we know not, but we have read his eighteen essays with
+great satisfaction; and we shall be greatly surprised if they do not
+contribute to make him far more widely known than he has been. The
+subjects are as follow: "On the Divine nature&mdash;On the Eternity of God,
+in contrast with the Duration of Man&mdash;On the Act of Concealment, as
+containing the Divine Glory&mdash;On God, as the Dwelling-place of his
+People&mdash;On Ezekiel's Vision of the Divine Glory&mdash;On the Equality of all
+Periods in the Sight of God&mdash;On the Divinity [Deity] of Jesus Christ&mdash;On
+the Revealed Representation of Jesus Christ's two Natures&mdash;On the
+Incarnation of the Word of God&mdash;On the Design of the Death of Christ&mdash;On
+the Atonement of Jesus Christ&mdash;On God, as the Original of Man's Love to
+his Maker&mdash;On the Supremacy of Jesus Christ&mdash;On the Deity as in Jesus
+Christ, and in him alone&mdash;On the Deity as in Jesus Christ, and in all
+believers&mdash;On the Extent and Surrender of Jesus Christ's
+Administration&mdash;On the Blessedness of Jesus Christ&mdash;On the Worship of
+Heaven." All these subjects are, it is obvious, important, evangelical,
+and interesting, in a very high degree, to those who believe in a divine
+revelation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The <i>spirit</i> of these essays is eminently devotional; every essay is
+full of Christ, and he is "all in all." The writer believes all the
+great articles of the gospel system, as they are commonly held by
+evangelical Christians. Nor does he make any affectation of novelty or
+paradox, though, probably while unconscious of it himself, he has given
+us many original and uncommon thoughts. There is no pompous announcement
+of something to be expected very new, and recondite, and far removed
+from the beaten track. A holy unction from above seems to have rested on
+the writer; and though he is very grave and serious throughout, the
+reader will find some lively and tender appeals to his conscience and to
+his heart, mixed with long trains of elevated sentiment, and chains of
+reasoning very close and compact.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The <i>method</i> is admirable for its simplicity. The <i>lucidus ordo</i>, which
+Horace prescribes, he has uniformly observed. Always anxious, first, to
+investigate the true sense of the scripture which he has selected for
+the foundation of his essay, some of his elucidations, without any
+display of critical apparatus, are singularly happy.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As to <i>style</i>, we think his <i>forte</i> is in strength and vigour. Some long
+sentences (with parenthesis after parenthesis) involving thought within
+thought, have reminded us of the essays of our celebrated friend John
+Foster. We have observed many passages of great sublimity and splendour;
+and there are many of great depth, in which he finds "fountains below
+fountains," to borrow his own words, when traversing the ocean of "the
+unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Where Mr. Kidd studied, or to what school he belongs, we have never
+heard; but he is evidently a profound, original, independent thinker,
+writing out of his own mind. He has taken the thoughts, he says, "out of
+the mine of revealed truth." At the same time, it is pleasant to observe
+that he every where discovers a deep reverence for scripture authority.
+He is penetrated too with a strong conviction of the limits of all
+created minds. With chastened feelings he delights to soar aloft. He
+spreads his wings, and pursues a well-sustained upward flight, gazing
+with a strong and steady eye on the Sun of righteousness, as the proper
+object of all human and all angelic contemplation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<!-- Page 96 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span>
+A few words from the "advertisement" may be acceptable to our readers.
+The author mentions "the fact, that no two persons in any world
+entertain precisely the same intellectual views; and that, consequently,
+every sincere contemplator of revealed beauty, whatever may be his
+capacity, has it in his power to make broader the reflected light of
+God's word; and that the utmost efforts of human beings on earth,
+however diversified, and however harmonious in their diversity, will be
+no more than an approximation to the revealed mind of God."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The volume is neatly got up, and printed with remarkable care and
+accuracy. Our limits will permit only a few extracts.
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"If nothing were forgotten, if a distinct impression were
+retained of all the words which he had ever spoken; of all the
+deeds which he had ever done; of all the thoughts which he had
+ever entertained; of all the places in which he had ever been;
+of all the persons whom he had at any time seen and conversed
+with; of all the words which he had ever heard; of all the
+pleasures which he had ever tasted and enjoyed; of every
+remonstrance from conscience; of every warning or invitation
+from God or man; and could he, moreover, have continually in
+his view these things in the precise order in which they all
+occurred; could he behold every cause and every effect; and
+every thing which he had been invisibly operating so as to
+prevent a manifest cause from producing the effect which might
+have been looked for as the usual one; and every thing, on the
+other hand, which had secretly assisted a cause apparently
+inadequate to produce a greater effect than could have been
+anticipated; how very different a thing from what it is would
+be human life! Now, although this accurate remembrance from
+vivid impressions of the past is not man's prerogative on
+earth, yet it is easily conceivable that he might attain to
+this in a purer and brighter world. It cannot, indeed, be
+imagined that the angels do not remember every thing which has
+occurred during the whole of their wakeful being." pp. 28, 29.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+In another place, when referring to the Messiah, he says,&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"He has, in one word, adapted himself to your circumstances.
+It was in all the defective and sinful parts of your history
+that he was likely to be the least capable of affording to you
+succour or supply. It was in the pity that your misery
+demanded; in the forbearance that your propensity to crime
+required; in the minute example that your dulness called for;
+in the suffering which was necessary for your deliverance;
+that there was apparently the greatest occasion to the sinner
+for apprehension and fear. But all these parts of the
+condition of the human fallen, their Redeemer has met in a
+manner which bespeaks wisdom the most amazing, benevolence
+that defies adequate admiration. With the view that has been
+given of Jesus Christ, in this essay, we cannot reasonably
+allow ourselves to be subject to despondency; for finite,
+little, imperfect, diminutive, frail, occupying so small a
+portion of creation as we are, we cannot possibly despair of
+being complete in Him, in whom dwells all the fulness of the
+Godhead bodily. Oh, let us then unite ourselves to Him in the
+bond of a covenant which can never be dissolved." p. 321.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Towards the close of the 16th essay, he exclaims:
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"Oh, what honour is accumulating in the world above! We inform
+them of a morning which is not to be succeeded by night; of a
+subjection which is more illustrious than all the victories
+that the universe will have ever before beheld; of a finite
+nature which is clothed with eternal and uncreated light; of
+the very last of all the complicated actions belonging to the
+redemption of the world; when Jesus Christ shall bring before
+his Father the millions that He has saved from every species
+and degree of crime and degradation, for the purpose of
+introducing them to everlasting fellowship with Jehovah; and
+when <i>He</i> shall become subject, to whom perpetual supremacy
+belongs, in order that He may show to saints and angels what
+has been the greatness of His humiliation, and how unutterable
+is the grandeur of God; since when He has risen from infancy
+in Bethlehem on earth, to a degree of strength, of lustre, of
+possession, and of renown, which all created capacity is
+inadequate to comprehend, the next degree of glory above this,
+is an act of voluntary subjection to his heavenly Father;
+which the honours of the supreme throne, and the laws of
+infinite existence, require." p. 365.
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" />
+
+<p>
+<!-- Page 97 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="hindent">
+<i>Dissent not Schism. A Discourse delivered in the Poultry Chapel,
+December 12th, 1834, at the Monthly Meeting, &amp;c.</i> <span class="smcap">By T.
+Binney.</span>&mdash;Robinson, 25, Ludgate Hill.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Very elaborate, acute, argumentative, instructive, and convincing. The
+term <i>schism</i>, Mr. B. tells us, is literal, figurative, or
+ecclesiastical; but query, is not the ecclesiastical figurative? If so,
+the division is only twofold. Dr. Campbell's Dissertations (art, heresy
+and schism) deserve to be consulted.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. B., when referring to the three great forms of church
+government&mdash;episcopacy, presbyterianism, and congregationalism, has
+surprised us a little, by saying:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"There is something in the record in favour of all; but the
+book is not the exclusive property of any. There is more,
+perhaps, in support of each than the thorough-going advocates
+of the others will admit. There is more of episcopacy than is
+quite palatable to the presbyterian and the independent; there
+is more of presbyterianism than the independent and the
+episcopalian can easily digest; and there is more of
+congregationalism than either the priest or the presbyter can
+manage to get rid of." p. 69.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Is this to be understood <i>cum grano salis</i>, or are we left to infer that
+the worthy author himself is not quite settled in his own mind as to the
+interpretation of the record?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It might have been as well if Mr. B. had confined himself to Dissenters,
+<i>as such</i>; however, his animadversions on the Methodists and the
+strict-communion Baptists, pp. 81-83, will do them no harm.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+His castigation of the present bishop of London, in the "notes," is not
+more severe than just. The bishop will remember it as long as he lives.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We must make room for the concluding paragraph:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"Finally, let us all scrupulously attend to the nourishment
+and exercise of the catholic principle. Let us impress upon
+our minds the necessity of 'keeping the heart with all
+diligence, for out of it' arise 'schisms' and 'strifes.' Let
+us watch over ourselves, and guard against every circumstance
+that may diminish candour, pervert the judgment, or poison the
+affections. As Christians, let us war with what separates man
+from God; as dissenters, with what separates Christian from
+Christian. Let us seek the nearer approximation of church to
+church, and the ultimate recognition and union of all. Let
+each of us so enter into the spirit of our faith, and so feel
+the propriety and understand the reasons of our ecclesiastical
+position, as to be able to say with boldness and truth, 'I am
+a Dissenter, because I am a Catholic; I am a separatist,
+because I cannot be schismatical; I stand apart from some,
+because I love all; I oppose establishments, because I am not
+a sectarian; I think little of uniformity, because I long for
+union; I care not about subordinate differences with my
+brother, for <span class="smcap">Christ</span> <i>has received him</i>, and so will <i>I</i>;
+thus, cultivating the spirit of universal love, I am hastening, I
+hope, that day when the world itself shall become the church,
+and preparing, I trust, for that world in which the church
+shall be <span class="smcap">ONE</span>&mdash;one in faith, in feeling, and in worship; in a
+higher sense than can be witnessed here. While here, however,
+so far as the <i>spirit</i> and <i>expression</i> of affection is
+concerned, I am longing to witness and realize some approach
+to what I anticipate hereafter,&mdash;anticipate in that region
+where, amid the lustre and the loveliness of heaven, the jars
+and the jealousies of earth shall have passed away.' This,
+brethren, <i>ought</i> to be the feeling and the consciousness of
+'all who profess and call themselves Christians.' It ought
+pre-eminently to be ours. May God make it to be so, and to be
+so universally, by pouring down upon his church the Spirit
+from on high; and by diffusing and sustaining in every part of
+it the strength of love, and the meekness of wisdom! Amen."
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" />
+
+<div class="hindent">
+<i>A Memoir of the Rev. James Upton, late of Church Street, Blackfriars;
+the Addresses delivered at the Interment, by the Rev. G. Pritchard
+and the Rev. W. B. Collyer, D.D., with the Funeral Sermons by the
+Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. J. Davis, the Present Pastor.</i>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+In the November number of our last volume&mdash;which contains a brief
+memorial of this revered and beloved servant of Christ&mdash;it is intimated
+as "probable, that some account of our departed friend will appear in
+another form." This account is contained in the small volume now before
+us. It has been prepared by the members of his family, by those who are
+engaged in proclaiming the truths of that blessed gospel
+<!-- Page 98 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span>
+                                                         which was the
+theme of his ministry, and the solace of his dying hour. Hence the
+sorrows of the mourning relatives are alleviated by the most joyful
+anticipations, even while "with tears they cast this wreath of filial
+duty and affection on his tomb."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We can, however, assure our readers that this tribute of natural esteem
+to the memory of a deceased parent&mdash;a feeling not always to be trusted
+in sketches of this description&mdash;has not produced in this instance an
+overcharged exhibition of his character. If filial affection has held
+the pencil, modesty and fidelity have guided its delineations. In a
+letter dated from St. Alban's, 1834, Mr. W. Upton thus writes:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"I would just remark, that neither my dear brother nor myself,
+I am sure, pretend to eulogize our father as a faultless man,
+or a faultless minister. In him the effects of a depraved
+nature were seen as well as in others, but in him also were
+seen, to a far greater degree than in most, the counteracting
+and restoring influences of the gospel and the grace of God.
+We feel therefore bound to say&mdash;not indeed with any design to
+attribute unmerited honour to him, much less with a view to
+borrow splendour from his rays, but with a desire to glorify
+God, to encourage others, and to excite a holy emulation&mdash;that
+"he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith;"
+while by his instrumentality "much people was added to the
+Lord." p. 100.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+In accordance with this sentiment, the elder brother, the principal
+writer of the memoir, observes:
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+"Now the Head of the church has called him to his rest, it
+would be improper not to make the attempt to 'glorify God in
+him,' by gathering such facts respecting his early history and
+subsequent course, as our slender materials for such a purpose
+will furnish."
+</div>
+
+<p>
+The scantiness of the materials which the life of this excellent man has
+supplied to his biographer, though to his friends a matter of regret,
+will be none of surprise to those who knew him. Modesty and diffidence
+seem to have been the native elements of his character; and humility,
+inducing a deep sense of his own unworthiness, constituted a
+characteristic feature of his renewed nature. To our departed brother,
+<span class="smcap">SELF</span> had no attractions. It was not the idol of his idolatry; it was not
+even an object of his complacency. It was therefore scarcely to be
+expected that he should contribute much to perpetuate the memory of one
+of whom he habitually entertained so lowly an estimate.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It appears, indeed, that Mr. Upton did at one time entertain the idea of
+preparing "a short narrative of his own life," urged so to do by the
+affectionate request of a friend; but the purpose was afterwards
+abandoned, probably, in part at least, from the cause to which we have
+adverted. Humility is a beautiful garment; it is a lovely and attractive
+grace; but its tendency is to conceal from view the excellencies with
+which it is associated. Hence men who are remarkably humble will be but
+imperfectly known. These plants of righteousness, not less than others,
+"have their fruit unto holiness;" but they are like those of the
+vegetable kingdom, whose richest products are often concealed beneath
+the broad foliage with which they are invested.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. U. was, however, not only "a tree which the Lord had planted," but
+he was like those "planted by the rivers of waters," he was eminently
+fruitful. A brief history of his connexion with the church over which he
+so long and so honourably presided, is modestly given by himself, in a
+letter to his son, dated November 9th, 1826, to which we must refer our
+readers. It appears that from the date of 1791 to 1800, including a
+period of ten years, 293 persons were baptized and added to the church;
+and from 1800 to 1820, 350 more; and after all the changes produced by
+death and removals, the number of members at the time of his decease is
+stated to be probably above 400: on his first connexion with this pious
+people there were but 16 members, and from 50 to 60 hearers. He was
+pastor of the church more than forty-eight years, and entered into his
+rest in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The contributions to the volume of the respected friends whose names are
+given in the title-page,
+<!-- Page 99 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span>
+                         cannot fail to add to its value. While they
+have attempted to magnify the grace of God in him, and to improve the
+event for the benefit of survivors, their concurrent testimony in
+relation to the deceased seems to have been, "Behold an Israelite
+indeed, in whom was no guile."
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" />
+
+<div class="hindent">
+<i>The Reciprocal Duties of Church Members. A Sermon before the London
+Baptist Association.</i> By the <span class="smcap">Rev. Edward Steane</span>. pp. 44.&mdash;London:
+Thomas Ward and Co. 27, Paternoster Row.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+We have read this sermon with considerable satisfaction, both on its own
+account, and on that of the Association to which it is dedicated. An
+Association must do good which calls for such clear, faithful, and
+instructive expositions of Christian duty, as this sermon furnishes. Mr.
+S. founds his discourse on John xiii. 34; and, as we think, wisely
+selects as his chief topic of illustration, that mutual love which Jesus
+Christ enjoins upon all disciples, and out of which the reciprocal
+duties of Church members will naturally flow, as "so many practical
+demonstrations of their obedience to the law of love."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The nature of the love which our Lord inculcates, as a new commandment,
+is first explained in the sermon before us; though we doubt whether the
+preacher has put all, or even the principal, reasons for its being so
+denominated. <i>New</i>, in the text as well as in several other
+passages&mdash;for instance, <i>new</i> heavens and a <i>new</i> earth&mdash;has always
+appeared to us to indicate especial excellence or paramount importance.
+This commandment is not, as Mr. S. very properly observes, merely a
+revival, a vindication, or fresh enforcement of the spirit of the
+original law.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"It is new," he says, "in relation to the parties commended to its
+exercise, the peculiarity of its nature, and the motive by which it is
+enforced. Under the second of these particulars the remarks of the
+preacher are somewhat feeble. The discriminative differences of
+Christian love are not clearly and forcibly drawn. We are told that it
+is "a spiritual principle&mdash;a supernatural endowment,&mdash;a property
+acquired in the process of that change by which Christians are born from
+above." So is that love to our enemies which Christianity requires us to
+cherish.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We learn, further, that Christian love is "something more than good
+will; it is not simple humanity; it is brotherly love; an affection
+having its seat, not in the sympathy of the feelings, but in the
+sincerity of the heart." The distinction between "sympathy of the
+feelings" and "sincerity of the heart" is not very obvious; but, passing
+this, mere friendship, apart from Christianity, might be described in
+the same terms. Mr. S. adds: Christian love is "stronger than death; if
+needs be, it will lead a Christian to that last act of a devoted and
+divine friendship, to lay down his life for the brethren." True: so also
+is the love, not Christian, to which the apostle adverts, Rom. v. 7; and
+that of which, now and then, the idea and the precept is given; nay, and
+the example too, as Mr. S. must have known, by those to whom
+Christianity utterly unknown.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. S. appears to us, at pp. 11, 12, to have somewhat too sweepingly
+intimated that an "exclusive principle in the constitution of our
+churches" is indicative of a deficiency of the principle inculcated in
+the text. He has gone out of his way for the observations introduced on
+this point; and, as nineteen twentieths of the Christian world have
+always been, and are now, thus exclusive, it is somewhat daring to
+insinuate such a charge. If we take a narrower view of this subject, and
+regard only what are called <i>strict</i> Baptists, whom Mr. S. appears to
+have had in his eye, we should be unwilling to pronounce judgment on the
+amount of the Christian love of such men as Kiffin, of olden time;
+Fuller, Kinghorn, and a host of others, of more modern date.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the second division of the sermon before us, the occasions and modes
+of fulfilling the new commandment of our Lord are exhibited. If all that
+Mr. S. has remarked upon are not strictly modifications of that mutual
+complacency in which
+<!-- Page 100 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span>
+                     he appears to think Christian love consists, each
+is of such vast importance that it could be but ill spared. This
+commandment, we are told, will be obeyed by affording <i>each other
+mutual</i> (redundant) countenance, in supporting the public means of
+grace; by embracing opportunities for social devotion and spiritual
+intercourse; by <i>mutual</i> submission <i>to one another</i>, especially in
+cases where a difference of opinion exists; by treating offenders
+properly; by mutually sympathizing, interchanging kindly offices, and
+watching over one another in the spirit of meekness; and by a hearty
+co-operation with fellow-christians in whatever tends to promote the
+prosperity of the church, and the general interests of Christianity in
+the world. These topics are respectively remarked upon with considerable
+propriety; as are also the motives enforcing this new commandment. These
+are, Christ's love to us; our mutual love will afford one of the best
+evidences of personal piety; it will make known our character to the
+world; and it will exist for ever. We a little regret that Mr. S. has
+fallen into the common error of supposing faith and hope excluded from
+heaven. "Faith and hope," he says, "will expire; but love never dies."
+We need not say that Scripture furnishes no ground for such a
+representation; neither is such ground involved in the nature of faith
+and hope, or in the views the Bible opens to us of heaven. Under some of
+their present modifications faith and hope will indeed be unknown there;
+but as much may be said of love. Do not the spirits of the just made
+perfect now anticipate, with faith and hope, "the adoption; to wit, the
+redemption of the body?" And will not the glorified assembly around the
+throne of God be always anticipating large accessions to their
+knowledge, holiness, and joy?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On the whole, however, notwithstanding these free remarks, we cordially
+recommend this sermon to our readers; and shall be glad, at any time, to
+meet with the author in a department of Christian instruction for which
+his habits and experience have so well qualified him.
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+BRIEF NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<i>The Soul's Independence of Death, and God's Sovereignty in Man's
+Removal. A Sermon occasioned by the Decease of Mr. E. Bliss, aged 22,
+delivered on Sunday, February 1st, at Shortwood, by Thomas Fox Newman.
+London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1835.</i>&mdash;This is a valuable sermon;
+containing many striking reflections, conceived with vigour, and
+expressed with much force. The circumstances under which it was preached
+evidently exerted a powerful and solemn influence on the mind of the
+preacher, and he speaks throughout under a deep impression of the
+infinite importance of eternal things. The unexpected death of so
+estimable a young man as Mr. Bliss appears to have been, was calculated
+to excite the liveliest emotions of grief, although there was every
+thing in his character to allay anxiety respecting himself, and to give
+the assurance of his having entered, thus early, upon the joys of the
+blessed. It will afford us sincere pleasure if our brief notice shall
+aid the circulation of the sermon, and thus contribute to its
+usefulness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>A Discourse occasioned by the Decease of William Maynard, Esq.,
+preached at the Meeting-house, Union Street, Southwark, Nov. 23rd, 1834.
+By John Arundel. With the Address delivered at the Interment, Bunhill
+Fields. Westley and Davis; Jackson and Walford.</i>&mdash;A very serious,
+suitable, evangelical discourse, which could not be heard without great
+interest, and will not be read, we trust, without profit.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>The Parent's Book. A Series of Tales. By Rosa Edwena Gordon, Nos. 1 and
+2. Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row.</i>&mdash;Very sensible, entertaining,
+elegant and pathetic; but where is the Saviour, whom every parent should
+place before the eyes of his children?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>The Mother's Magazine. Reprinted from the American Edition, No. 18. J.
+Paul, Paternoster Row.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Illustrations of the Bible from Original Paintings, by Westall and
+Martin, with Descriptions by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B. D. part 10.
+Churton, 26, Holles Street.</i>&mdash;An admirable work for all our young
+readers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<!-- Page 101 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span>
+<i>Primitive Christianity, &amp;c. By William Cave, D.D. Hatchard.</i>&mdash;The
+introductory essay by Mr. Trollope is very respectable; but we lament to
+say, that in Dr. Cave's popular work, now reprinted under the especial
+patronage of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, there are many
+traditions, fables, and idle ceremonies of human invention, which
+"primitive Christianity," or the religion of the first Christians, was
+not encumbered with. But, alas! "in the first ages of the gospel," her
+fair form was corrupted and defiled.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>The Devotional Psalter.</i> "There is not a page of the book of Psalms in
+which the pious reader will not find his Saviour, if he reads with a
+view of finding him." Bishop Horsley.&mdash;Oliphant and Sons, Edinburgh.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Bible Lives. By B. H. Draper, 2 Vols. Westley and Davis.</i>&mdash;Mr. Draper's
+entertaining pen could not be better employed than in such a work as
+this, from which, we trust, hundreds and thousands of young persons will
+derive both pleasure and profit.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Common Scenes Improved by the Rev. James Smith, late of Ilford&mdash;Christ
+Precious&mdash;The Temper of Jesus, by Dr. Grosvenor&mdash;Gilbert's Last
+Birth-Day&mdash;Christ the only Foundation. Ward and Co.</i>&mdash;All fit
+instruments for much usefulness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>The Condensed Commentary, &amp;c. Ward and Co.</i>&mdash;The commencement is
+promising. We hope to be able to notice this cheap and valuable work
+more at large in its progress.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Bruce on Sympathy, 2nd Edition.</i>&mdash;This respectable book we recommended
+several years ago, and we heartily do so again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>The British and Foreign Temperance Advocate and Herald. For January.
+Price Threepence.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>On the Punishment of Death. By John Pell. Hamilton and Co.</i>&mdash;This
+letter to the Marquis of Northampton, dated from Yardley, Hastings, in
+December last, is very powerfully written on Evangelical principles; and
+deserves the most profound consideration on the part of our
+legislators&mdash;and indeed of all our countrymen. The object is to prove
+that the punishment of death is unlawful.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Three Tracts on Public, Secret, and Social Prayer. Jackson and
+Walford.</i>&mdash;When the reader has heard that these tracts were written by
+Mr. Sheppard, of Frome, he will not want any recommendation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Educational Magazine, No 1. Simpkin and Marshall.</i>&mdash;If this work
+proceeds as it has commenced, it will throw a flood of light upon the
+darkness of our own beloved country and of others.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>The Scriptural Constitution of Christian Churches. A Discourse
+delivered November 13th, 1834, at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Penman,
+A.M., to the Pastorship of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge, Kent.
+By Thomas James, Woolwich. Westley and Davis.</i>&mdash;A very sensible, clear,
+and candid discourse on a subject always interesting, and peculiarly so
+at the present time. The author, when referring to 1 Tim. iii. 17, "Let
+the <i>elders</i> that rule well," &amp;c., remarks: "That the term <i>elder</i>
+comprehends the office of deacon, is manifest from this:" but we confess
+it is not manifest to us. We have great satisfaction, however, in
+copying the following sentence in reference to the deacons: "And they
+should be sufficient in number to render unnecessary the many expedients
+to which some churches have resorted, in the appointment of managers,
+stewards, and committees, which are as unscriptural as the high sounding
+titles which are given to the multiplied officers of the national
+church."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>James's Anxious Inquirer&mdash;Morison's Morning Meditations&mdash;Anecdotes (The
+Young)&mdash;Stephen Morell's Family Memorial&mdash;Case's Mount Pisgah.</i>&mdash;Of
+these it is sufficient recommendation to say that they are published or
+republished by 'The Religious Tract Society.'
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+OBITUARY.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+MR. SAMUEL WARMINGTON.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Samuel Warmington was the youngest of a numerous family. He had
+enjoyed many religious advantages from early childhood, and had grown up
+in the society of persons many of whom were distinguished for their
+prudence and piety. His early youth was strictly moral, and gave
+promising indications of future worth. He had much simplicity of
+purpose, with a remarkable freedom from those moral taints which many
+youths imbibe as they rise into manhood. He enjoyed no particular
+endowments of mind that might serve to distinguish or raise him above
+his fellows; but he possessed those more useful
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+                                                characteristics which
+attracted the respect and love of the circle by whom he was best known.
+Naturally of a retiring disposition, he avoided many worldly dangers and
+temptations, and acquired a salutary acquaintance with his own heart in
+private. In due time, God, in infinite mercy, though by a very gradual
+process, created him anew in Christ Jesus. This change was seen and felt
+by himself and others, not so much in the outward conduct, as by the
+flow of feeling and affection towards subjects of the highest
+importance. He united himself to the church under the pastoral care of
+the Rev. Dr. Newman, about three years since; and from that period has
+constantly maintained an exemplary Christian deportment, though
+circumstances over which he had no control prevented his fulfilling his
+duties as a church member as he could have wished.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He was soon subjected to the discipline of his heavenly Father, who
+correcteth every son whom he receiveth. A tender attachment he had
+formed for a very accomplished and pious young lady was reciprocated and
+mutually cherished, till it became interrupted by her illness and death.
+The excitement consequent on the commencement and ripening of this
+affection, under circumstances so mournful, gave the first development
+of incipient disease. His friends observed its effects with concern, but
+not with alarm. In the meantime his mind had been acquiring both
+fortitude and dignity. The warmest sympathies of his heart had been
+drawn forth on behalf of his fading, dying friend; but, at the same
+time, he had been brought so near to the realities of the eternal world
+as never to lose the impression afterwards. The beneficial effects this
+trial had upon his character was evident to all who observed him. He
+mingled again amidst the busy scenes of life with feelings of heartfelt
+gratitude for the grace and mercy which had been manifested towards his
+late friend, and with renewed devotion to the God who had mingled so
+large a share of parental love with the affliction he had appointed him
+to endure. He likewise mingled in scenes of family affliction with much
+sensibility and a matured judgment. He did his part, with other
+brothers, in solacing a mother's dying pillow by his prayers and by
+other filial attentions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And thus it was that he became gradually prepared for the dissolution of
+the earthly house of his <i>own</i> tabernacle. Symptoms of disease were
+renewed and accumulated, so as to awaken apprehension as to their issue.
+He retired from the avocations of business with graceful submission to
+the divine will, and zealously applied himself to means for the recovery
+of health. Testimonials of respect from his late employers, and his
+companions, frequently followed him into retirement, either at his
+father's house, or at some distant part of the country. The last journey
+he undertook was to Dover, where his stay was short and distressing. He
+returned home much worse, and with slight alternations of disease,
+slowly sunk beneath its influence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Under the paternal roof he enjoyed those soothing attentions his case
+required; and often mentioned, with touching emotion, his gratitude to
+God for giving him so kind a father, and such affectionate sisters, to
+alleviate his last affliction. One of these sisters, herself the subject
+of long affliction, was frequently detained with him from public
+worship, and on such seasons of sacred tranquillity, would read and
+converse with him. When too weak to bear either, he would lament his
+want of energy; but regarding it as a part of his affliction, desired to
+submit to it with acquiescence as the will of God. He would say, "I
+depend on the quiet, though powerful, teaching of the Holy Spirit; who
+will, himself, impress the truth on my mind." At other times he would
+say, "Read one of those sublime chapters at the conclusion of the
+Revelations, to draw my thoughts towards heaven." He was fond of the
+Pilgrim's Progress, and said of it, "In my weak state, it is the only
+book I can listen to with ease or profit, besides the Bible." When he
+spoke of the providence of God, it was always with evident satisfaction:
+he would say, "I am quite helpless, unable to do any thing for my own
+maintenance, or for the benefit of others; but I am so perfectly
+satisfied to cast all my care on the kindness and wisdom of God, that I
+do not desire to have a choice if I might. If my health be restored, I
+know he can direct my pursuits; and for the present, all is infinitely
+better than I could have arranged." On another occasion, he said to one
+of his sisters, "I should like to know Mr Beale's opinion (his medical
+attendant) of my disorder: if he thinks it will terminate fatally, I
+hope he will tell me: I am not alarmed at the thought of death." And
+shortly afterwards, added, "What a mercy it is that I have not <i>now</i> to
+seek the Saviour, nor go to him now for the <i>first</i> time: this is a
+season when I need the comfort and
+<!-- Page 103 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span>
+                                   support of religion." On the evening
+of the same day, he enjoyed great composure of mind; and when referring
+to his departure, he said, "He trusted, as a family, we should all meet
+again: the separation would not be for long." He frequently requested to
+hear the 23rd Psalm read, saying, "Though I can repeat it, I like to
+hear it." A few days after confinement to his own room, he said to one
+of his sisters, "I shall never go down into the parlour again; I feel I
+am sinking; I can hardly describe my sensations of weakness." It was
+replied, that should it be so, it would be gain to him. He was asked if
+he felt any distress in the prospect, as to the actual pain of dying. He
+said, "No, my thoughts go beyond that; I endeavour to keep them fixed on
+the bright side&mdash;the glory that shall follow." On another occasion he
+was assisted to walk to the window of his apartment, and, looking out
+upon the garden, he said, "Ah! there is the garden I used to enjoy, it
+looks very winterly now, and I shall never walk there again; but I am
+quite satisfied." When alluding to his departure, he said, "He hoped it
+might be like falling asleep. Oh! to fall asleep, and wake in the
+likeness of Jesus!" His bodily sufferings were often very severe;
+especially as he drew near his end. On one occasion, when suffering
+extreme agony, he asked, "If it was proper to pray for an object
+seemingly desirable to ourselves!" The answer implied, there was no
+restriction; that we might call upon God in the day of trouble, asking
+for any mercy in submission to his will. He rejoined, "Oh! yes; <i>in
+submission to the will of God</i>, I do desire a little relief from pain;
+but," he added, "can you remind me of a <i>scripture</i> example, where this
+has been done; for my mind seems so weak, I cannot think?" The words of
+the apostle Paul were referred to: "For <i>this thing</i> I besought the
+Lord," &amp;c. And also the words of Jesus himself: "If it be possible, let
+<i>this cup</i> pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done."
+He seemed earnestly to adopt this language, and became more composed.
+The same evening he requested his father to pray with him; and being
+asked what he most desired, he said, "That I may have patience, and bear
+this affliction to the glory of God." He appeared to spend much of his
+time in mental aspirations after spiritual support, and the presence of
+Jesus. His oft-repeated request to his pious attendants was, "Oh! pray
+for complete acquiescence, and for the presence of Jesus." On one
+occasion, appearing to be greatly depressed, it was said to him, "Though
+flesh and heart fail, God will be your strength and portion for ever:"
+he replied, "Yes, he will; that is a mercy." After a pause, he said, "I
+am anxious to have the presence of Jesus to the last:" and added, "Does
+not Bunyan describe Christian as leaving his garments of mortality
+behind him, when he passed through the river? How delightful that will
+be!" At another time, when his hand had been lanced and dressed, he
+said, "I long to lay my poor hand in the dust; I long to be at rest."
+After a minute, he added, "There is a rest purchased and ready for me;
+and I shall be put in possession in God's own time." He was exceedingly
+grateful to those who attended him and administered to his necessities;
+telling them, he wished they might have the same support he felt, when
+they should be placed in circumstances similar to his. On an occasion of
+bodily infirmity, he very feelingly said, "The righteousness of Christ
+will soon cover all our shame." He continued in a state of extreme
+debility and suffering for many days, waiting his departure in a
+condition of child-like dependance on the mercy and faithfulness of his
+heavenly Father, reconciled to him, a guilty sinner, through the
+atonement of his blessed Saviour. He longed to depart, and be with
+Jesus; and would sometimes ask if it was wrong to pray for this
+blessing, hoping he might not be impatient or presumptuous.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On his last sabbath on earth, his medical friend, having felt his pulse,
+said to him, "Well, Sir, I think you will soon be where there will be no
+more pain and suffering." He replied, "Not on account of anything of my
+own; it is purchased by the blood of Christ."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Soon after this, through weakness, his articulation became indistinct,
+and dissolution appeared hourly approaching. He lingered, however, till
+the following Thursday morning, under the influence of much bodily
+anguish, but having his mind calm&mdash;often apparently quite happy&mdash;as he
+passed along the dark valley. It seemed as though a beam of heaven's
+glory illuminated his path, to assure his soul of her coming bliss. He
+had bid adieu to his affectionate relatives once before, deeming himself
+in the last struggle; but again, on the last morning, the mourning
+family were assembled around his bed, witnesses of his bodily distress;
+and to receive, more by expressive looks than by words, his final adieu.
+He faintly said, "Pray for me; pray for the presence of Jesus."
+Afterwards,
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+            with more distinctness than he had spoken for several days,
+he added; "Oh, blessed Jesus! <i>once more</i>, I implore thy love." One of
+his sisters remarked, "You will soon <i>rest</i> in his love," quoting an
+appropriate promise; to which he rejoined, expressively, "That is no
+mere speculation." He said no more, but apparently listened to that
+verse, commencing&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Jesus, I love thy charming name," and in a few minutes closed his eyes
+on all terrestrial scenes. He died on the 18th of December, 1834, at his
+father's house, at Plaistow, Essex, aged twenty-seven years.
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+FOREIGN.
+</p>
+
+<p class ="center">
+CANADA.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine.</i><br />
+<span class="salut">Dear Sir</span>,<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I send you the two following letters, as they tend to throw some light
+on the religious state of Canada. The details of the first are chiefly
+statistical; and the extremely interesting communications in the other
+are illustrative of the important facts alluded to in the previous one.
+Your insertion of these in the Magazine as soon as possible, will much
+oblige yours sincerely,
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Domesticus.</span><br />
+<i>Hamsterley, Feb. 9th, 1835.</i>
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 20%;" />
+
+<p>
+<i>Montreal, 6th Nov. 1834.</i><br />
+<span class="salut">My dear Brother,</span>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The receipt of yours gave me great pleasure. I was happy to learn that
+you were so deeply interested in Canada. It does appear to me the duty
+of our denomination to do something for it; and I have no doubt that, if
+it were properly advocated, something would be done. I am deeply
+convinced that to do good in this world, it is necessary to keep one
+object chiefly in view. Now, my brother, suppose you keep Canada before
+you, and introduce it frequently to the notice of our brethren on your
+side of the water, much good might be done. I have written several
+letters, this fall, to different individuals, soliciting their
+attention, and have now sat down to answer some of your queries. My
+remarks particularly apply to Lower Canada.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+1. By the census in 1831, the population of Lower Canada was 511,000; of
+these, more than 100,000, were Catholics. There are, at present, two
+Catholic bishops in the province: the bishop of Quebec, who resides at
+Quebec; and the bishop of Telemesse, who resides at Montreal. The number
+of Catholic clergymen is about 150. The influence of these is very
+great, and I hesitate not to say, very pernicious, both in a temporal
+and spiritual point of view. Nothing has yet been done to evangelize
+this people. Here and there, indeed, I have met with a person brought to
+know the Lord, through reading the Scriptures. Be it observed, however,
+that few of them can read, and those that can are chiefly females. I am,
+happy, however, to state, that a missionary, Mr. Olivier, from the
+Canton de Vaud, has arrived, I hope good will result from his labours.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+2. The Episcopalians are, I suppose, the most numerous Protestant body
+at present in the Lower province. The two Canadas compose one diocese,
+under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Hon. and Right Rev. Charles
+Stewart, D. D., Lord Bishop of Quebec. The number of Episcopal clergy in
+the province is twenty-eight. With a few happy exceptions, I fear vital
+godliness is not a prevailing article in this body.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+3. Presbyterians, of the church of Scotland, by the census of 1831, were
+about 15,000. The number of ministers twelve: of these, six are in the
+cities of Quebec and Montreal. According to the report of this year,
+1834, they have increased to forty churches, and forty ministers. These
+are also said to be formed into five presbyteries. This, however,
+relates to both provinces. In regard to what may be termed the
+Dissenting Presbyterians, there are seven or eight churches, and five
+ministers in this province; and in the Upper, there is a synod of the
+secession: but the number of presbyteries in connexion with it, and the
+number of churches and ministers in connexion with each of these, I have
+not as yet been able to ascertain.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+4. In respect to the Congregationalists, they have seven or eight
+churches, and four ministers. I do not know precisely what they have in
+the Upper province; perhaps four or five more.
+<!-- Page 105 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+5. The Methodists, in both provinces have 14,000 in society, and sixty
+preachers. They also print a paper, called "The Christian Guardian."<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>
+</p>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p>
+<a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> This, I was told lately by Dr. Matheson, of Durham, is a
+most efficient instrument of usefulness in America. Our people should
+try to get one up.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+In fine, here, as to Protestants in general, in the Lower province, the
+greater part are not gathered into regularly organized congregations, no
+inconsiderable portion of them being scattered in the Catholic
+settlements. To sum up, there are in the province about sixty ministers
+to 100,000 people. You could easier, however, supply 500,000 in England
+than 100,000 here, owing to bad roads, and the scattered state of the
+people. I am sorry to add, that I fear only twenty out of the sixty are
+efficient men.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I now come to our own denomination. There is, however, much difficulty
+in collecting definite information concerning it. Seldom able to leave
+my own church, personal observation is defective, and most of the
+information I have is through report. I begin with what are called the
+Eastern Townships. This is a district of country lying on the south of
+the St. Lawrence, and bordering on the States. It is from 60 to 100
+miles east of Montreal; 30 of which are occupied in passing what is
+called the French Country. There are in it between 40 and 50,000
+inhabitants. The land is good, but the people in general are poor. Most
+of these have emigrated from the States, where the means of grace were
+enjoyed by them. They are still disposed to have the gospel preached. I
+am credibly informed that there are among them twenty or thirty little
+Baptist churches. They would be styled General Baptists in England; here
+they are denominated Free-will Baptists. They are ill supplied with
+wholesome teaching. They are also rather wild in their meetings, being
+more disposed to consult their own feelings than the word of God. Many
+of them, however, are decidedly good people. Were our General Baptist
+friends in England to send out a missionary or two into this district,
+they would confer, under God, a lasting benefit on this people. I wish
+very much the General Baptists at home would take the matter into deep
+and serious consideration. It presents a fine field, for labour. But, in
+addition to these, there are, perhaps, from fifteen to twenty churches
+of our own denomination. These are miserably supplied with preachers, as
+not above three or four of the churches have regular pastors; the others
+have only occasional supplies. An itinerant here is much needed, would
+be of great service, and could be maintained at small expense. Oh, my
+brother, if you can, by any means, get a good, humble, prudent man, send
+him into that field. I wish our denomination would take the subject into
+immediate consideration. I have visited some of these churches, and the
+people seemed exceedingly glad. Could an itinerant be supported for a
+year or two, he would then, it is likely, not need further support.
+There are some young persons of good natural abilities who, with a
+little training, would be of immense service. I have met with such young
+men, and longed to be able to point out a seminary to them, whither they
+might have gone for a season.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> I purpose, God willing, two months
+hence, to spend a week or two in this district, and shall transmit the
+result to you. Itinerants are much wanted in this country, on account of
+the scattered population, bad roads, &amp;c. I know one township in which
+there had not been preaching for seven years: a missionary paid them a
+visit, and the whole township turned out to hear. He visited them a year
+afterwards; but during the interval they had not heard a sermon. The
+main efforts have been made by a very pious and zealous young man of the
+name of Hayt, who has been very active in establishing Sunday-schools,
+and supplying families with copies of the Scriptures. Without
+missionaries, however, these schools will most assuredly languish and
+die.
+</p>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> Who, on the perusal of this, does not feel a desire to
+assist these young men to a seminary? And who that knows our brother
+Gilmore, but will be led to conclude that he is the man who is most
+likely to become their tutor? I intend immediately to write to him to
+inquire how much it would require there to educate six young men; and
+shall then, if spared, appeal to the public in their behalf.
+</div>
+
+<p>
+We shall now turn westward: and, proceeding up the Ottawa, on its
+northern banks, about forty-five miles from Montreal, there is a Baptist
+church of nearly thirty members: they speak Gallic, yet understand
+English; and have a high character as it regards moral conduct. They are
+without the regular ministrations of a pastor, but meet for mutual
+edification: they are, however, anxious to have regular preaching. About
+thirty miles from them, there is another Highland settlement. About two
+years ago, a Mr. Fraser, a Baptist minister, paid them a visit. It was
+the
+<!-- Page 106 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span>
+    first sermon preached there, as supposed, from the foundation of
+the world. The people themselves had not heard a sermon for the five
+years they had been settled there. About seventy-five miles from
+Montreal, in the same direction, is another Baptist church, of about
+forty members: they have a good chapel, an excellent pastor, and, at
+this very moment, God is visiting them with a most refreshing shower;
+many are awakened to concern, and numbers have found peace, and are
+rejoicing in God our Saviour. I have just been sent for to come and
+help, and set off to-morrow morning. Again, twenty-five miles onward, in
+the same direction, is a Baptist church of thirty members: they have a
+pastor. We have sent a missionary about twenty miles farther; he left my
+house yesterday morning: there are a few Baptist families where he has
+gone, but no church has been organized; they have requested him to
+labour among them. About forty miles farther, there is another little
+Baptist church, and after this, in that direction, they become rather
+plentiful; but they are then in the Upper province, and my information
+respecting them is but scanty. A Baptist minister, in the Newcastle
+district, writes me as follows, in consequence of some queries I had put
+to him: "In the Upper province there are four Baptist associations,
+about sixty churches, and forty ordained ministers. I am sorry to say we
+labour under great disadvantages. Our preachers are generally unlearned
+men, and destitute of useful books. There are many of them under the
+necessity of attending to secular employments to support themselves and
+families: this arises from our friends not feeling an inclination to
+fulfil the duty taught by Paul, 'Let him that is taught in the word
+communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.' I hope, however,
+that things will not long continue in this sad state. We have recently
+been endeavouring to form a convention, and appoint a minister in each
+of the associations to visit the churches, for the purpose of raising
+subscriptions to support itinerant preachers, and establish a printing
+press: how far the attempt will be attended with success is as yet
+uncertain." In addition to the statements of this gentleman, I may
+mention, that they had also a seminary in view: this, as yet, has not
+been carried into effect. As to academies, they are much wanted there,
+and might be established at a very small expense on the self-supporting
+principle. It is a little remarkable, that at the time you were writing
+your letter for the Magazine, three of us, brother ministers, were
+engaged in prayer and consultation on the very subject of academies on
+the labour system. We have written to several influential gentlemen on
+the subject, and purpose giving it a more serious investigation, and
+will remit the result to you and others. One of our brethren was anxious
+to proceed to England to lay the matter before the British public; but I
+thought it would be better to say something about it first through the
+Magazines. Urge it then, my dear brother, on the attention of the
+public; do not let it sleep. I am glad to find, from a letter in the
+September number of your Magazine, one hails yours of the preceding
+month. As a church, at Montreal, we have been much favoured of God
+during the present year: not less than forty have been added to the
+number. Mrs. G. joins in love to you and yours, hoping to hear from you
+soon.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+I remain yours in Christ,<br />
+<span class="smcap">John Gilmore.</span>
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+&#8258; <i>We are compelled to defer the second letter to our next
+number.</i>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 20%;" />
+
+<p class="center">
+THE DESPISER OF BAPTISM BAPTIZED.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. N. Paul, of
+Wilberforce Settlement, Upper Canada, to a friend in England:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="salut">"My dear Sir</span>,
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Amongst all the numerous tracts and publications that have been printed
+and circulated on the subject of Baptism, I think there is no one that
+is more calculated to lead the honest inquirer after truth to a correct
+and scriptural decision upon that subject, than Mr. Pengilly's
+'Scripture Guide to Baptism.' It has been universally approved and
+circulated by the Baptist churches in the United States of America, and
+I believe it has been the means of doing much good. A particular
+instance of this occurred under my own immediate observation, whilst
+pastor of a Baptist church in the city of Albany, state of New York.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"A young lady, who was a member of an Independent church, but who
+occasionally attended upon my ministry, was present with us one Sabbath
+morning when I administered the ordinance in question. I endeavoured in
+my address to adduce reasons for differing from my P&aelig;dobaptist brethren
+upon this subject, and to show that believers in Christ were the only
+proper subjects, and immersion the only scripture mode
+<!-- Page 107 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span>
+                                                       of baptism. The
+young lady, who had taken her station close beside the baptistry,
+instead of being convinced by my arguments, was excited to a high degree
+of irritation, and allowed her temper so far to prevail over her better
+feelings as, in retiring, to express her contempt of our practice in a
+very unbecoming and offensive manner.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Next day she called upon me in the same temper as when she left the
+chapel, and required to know, why I aimed to wound the feelings of those
+spectators who differed from myself upon the ordinance of baptism? I
+replied that I did not intend to wound the feelings of any one; I only
+aimed at the defence of the truth. After further conversation, I
+requested her candid perusal of the pamphlet above mentioned, with a
+copy of which I furnished her. She readily promised to comply with my
+request, and we parted. The result was, the ensuing month I again
+baptized twelve persons, <i>and this young lady was one of that number</i>!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Yes, Sir; by the blessing of God, accompanying the perusal of that
+pamphlet, she clearly saw the path that Jesus had opened before his
+disciples&mdash;the path in which the apostles and primitive Christians
+followed their Lord&mdash;the path in which she promptly resolved to walk,
+without reluctance, fear, or shame. 'I do not,' said she, 'leave my
+former connexion because they are not Christians, for as such I esteem
+and love them; but the pattern and authority of Christ is more to me
+than all the world. It is <span class="smcap">HIS</span> to lead and command, and it is <span class="smcap">MINE</span> to
+follow and obey.' Truth, indeed, is mighty, and will prevail.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"May all the faithful defenders of the truth as it is in Jesus, be thus
+abundantly owned and blessed of God, in every work of faith and labour
+of love; and to His name be all the glory!"
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 30%;" />
+
+<div class="section">
+DOMESTIC.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+BAPTIST BUILDING FUND.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At a special meeting of the Board of Baptist Ministers, held at Fen
+Court, Feb. 17th, to take into consideration a communication from the
+Committee of the above Institution,
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Rev. <span class="smcap">W. H. Murch</span> in the chair,
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was resolved:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+That the members who compose this Board, feeling the evils that attend
+the system of making personal application for liquidating the debts on
+country chapels, and the superior efficiency of the plan adopted in the
+Building Fund, resolve to sign no more cases, but to recommend them all
+in future to that Society.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+That, in compliance with the request of the Committee of the London
+Baptist Building Fund, the members of this Board do meet them at their
+Rooms, No. 5, Paternoster Row, on Friday evening, the 6th of March, at
+six o'clock precisely, to devise measures for increasing the efficiency
+of their fund, and rendering it still more extensively beneficial to the
+denomination.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">J. B. Shenston</span>, Secretary.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+DEPUTATION TO AMERICA.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On Thursday evening Feb. 19th, a very numerous and interesting meeting
+was held in New Park-street chapel, Southwark, for special prayer,
+preparatory to the departure of our brethren, the Rev. Dr. Cox and the
+Rev. J. Hoby, to represent the British Baptists in the Triennial
+Convention, at Richmond, Virginia, on the 27th of April next. The Rev.
+C. Room presided. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. E. Steane, <i>On
+the advantages arising from such a Deputation</i>; the Rev. C. Stovel, <i>On
+the spirit which should distinguish the present undertaking</i>; and the
+Rev. Dr. Cox, <i>On the manner in which the Deputation proposed to
+discharge their duties</i>. Prayers were offered by the Rev. Messrs. Dyer,
+Giles, Thomas, and Carey; and the hymns read by the Rev. Messrs. Davis,
+Overbury, Shenston, Rothery, Room, and Belcher. Our brethren will sail
+in the "Hibernia," from Liverpool, on the first of March.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+BAPTIST UNION.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We are requested by the Secretaries of the Baptist Union, to entreat our
+brethren in the country to forward, <i>during the present month</i>, their
+circular letters, and whatever other documents may assist in the
+preparation of the next Report, addresed to the Secretaries, at the
+Missionary rooms, 6, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 20%;" />
+
+<p class="section">
+NOTICE.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Rev. Christopher Wollacott, late of Westminster, has accepted the
+invitation of the church in Little Wild-street, to become their pastor.
+</p>
+
+<p class="section">
+RECENT DEATHS.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+REV. DR. MORRISON.
+</p>
+
+<div class="hindent">
+Extract from a letter written by his son to the Secretary of
+the London Missionary Society.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>Canton, August 17th, 1834.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"<span class="smcap">My dear Sir</span>,&mdash;How shall I tell
+<!-- Page 108 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span>
+                                                                you that my beloved father&mdash;that the
+father of the Chinese Mission&mdash;Dr. Morrison, is no more! Scarce can the
+announcement come to you more suddenly than the event did to me. My dear
+father had, indeed, been long unwell, and was greatly debilitated by
+disease; but we had not, within an hour of his peaceful end, much
+apprehension that he was likely to be so soon taken away from us. The
+pallid cheek and glazed eye, quickly succeeded by failure of speech,
+were the first intimations to us that he had heard his Saviour say,
+'This night shalt thou be with me in paradise.' At about ten at night,
+on the 1st of the present month,<a name="FNanchor_A_3" id="FNanchor_A_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_3" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> while yet in the hands of the
+physicians, who in vain endeavoured to restore warmth and pulsation, he
+gently breathed out his spirit, without a struggle or a groan. And oh!
+the recollection of the many preceding days, spent by him in pain and
+extreme weakness, compels me to rejoice, even amidst my utmost grief,
+that he has been released from sin and sorrow, has rested from his
+labours, and shall henceforth be for ever with the Lord. In a letter,
+written not long before his death, he spoke of his apprehension that his
+work was finished, expressing his gratitude to God for what he had been
+permitted to accomplish for the Redeemer's cause; adding, that he knew
+but of two surviving missionary seniors, Drs. Carey and Marshman. I have
+this morning learned, with great sorrow, that about the time he wrote
+that letter, the venerable Carey also was called home.
+</p>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<a name="Footnote_A_3" id="Footnote_A_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_3"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> <i>The First of August, 1834</i>, that memorable day in the
+annals of our country, when the sun neither set nor rose upon <span class="smcap">A SLAVE</span>
+throughout all her vast dominions.
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="center">
+JOHN BROADLEY WILSON, ESQ.<br />
+(<i>From the Patriot.</i>)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Died, on Monday evening, the 16th Feb., at his house on Clapham Common,
+aged 70, John Broadley Wilson, Esq. well known and universally esteemed
+as an eminently devout Christian, and most liberal supporter of the
+cause of the Christian religion in every section of the church. His
+illness was of very short duration; an attack of paralysis on Saturday,
+the 14th, the effects of which no medical skill was permitted to remove,
+being the appointed messenger to convey him into the presence of the
+Saviour he ardently loved, and in whose service it was his supreme
+delight to spend and be spent. Mr. Wilson was connected, more or less,
+with a great number of religious and charitable institutions; to the
+Religious Tract Society, and the Baptist Missionary Society, he stood in
+the relation of Treasurer, and each of these valuable Societies will
+have to mourn, not merely the loss of his munificent donations, but also
+of his judicious counsels and holy example. We trust some authentic
+account of this eminent philanthropist will be prepared, to edify the
+world which has sustained so great a loss by his removal; but we could
+not forbear inserting this hasty tribute of immediate respect to the
+memory of a man, whom to know was to love, venerate, and admire.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+REV. JOHN MASON.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At Exeter, on January 20th, after a protracted and painful illness of
+twelve months' duration, the Rev. John Mason, for 17 years the beloved
+and eminently devoted and useful pastor of the Baptist church in
+Bartholomew-yard, in that city. His removal is felt throughout Exeter as
+a public calamity. He died at the age of 45. We hope to be able to
+furnish our readers with a memoir of this excellent servant of Christ.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+MRS. ANN CARROLL.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Died on Thursday, Jan. 29th, in the 79th year of her age, at her
+residence, Baalzephon-street, Long-lane, Bermondsey, Mrs. Ann Carroll,
+after a protracted illness in which her exemplary piety and sterling
+faith proved the efficacy of those doctrines of which, during a long
+life, she had been the consistent and humble believer. Her remains were
+interred in the family vault of St. John's, Southwark: and it may,
+indeed, with truth be said, that in her the poor have lost a humane and
+benevolent friend; the Baptist denomination, a consistent member; and
+the various Christian charities of the metropolis, a worthy and generous
+benefactor.
+</p>
+
+<div class="section">
+NEW PUBLICATIONS.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>Just Published.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Bagster has now ready for delivery the <span class="smcap">Quarto Edition</span> of the
+<span class="smcap">Treasury Bible</span>, which is elegantly printed on a fine writing paper of a
+new manufacture, being prepared with lines in the fabric of the paper
+for manuscript notes and remarks.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Pocket edition was published in January.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>Preparing for Publication.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In a few days, Baptismal Immersion defended by Christians and Churches
+of all Denominations. In a letter to a P&aelig;dobaptist. Second Edition. By
+<span class="smcap">W. Newman, D.D.</span> Wightman, Paternoster-row. Price Threepence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<!-- Page 109 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span>
+</p>
+
+<h2><a name="IRISH_CHRONICLE" id="IRISH_CHRONICLE"></a>IRISH CHRONICLE.</h2>
+
+<p class="center">
+<b>MARCH, 1835.</b>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Committee would not be insensible to the many instances in which
+kind attention has been paid to their appeals under the pecuniary burden
+still resting upon the Society. Certainly, were it not for such
+benevolent assistance, the difficulties and discouragements connected
+with carrying on its operations, would be greatly increased. Yet the
+arrear of debt, amounting to nearly, or quite, a <i>thousand pounds</i>,
+cannot fail to excite a considerable measure of solicitude in the minds
+of those who are principally concerned in the management of its affairs;
+but it is recollected that the silver and the gold are the Lord's; and
+in the history of this Society, many indeed have been the opportunities
+afforded for gratefully acknowledging the remarkably seasonable relief
+which He has been pleased to send, and in this time of exigence, it is
+hoped He will again appear. The Rev. J. Allen returned to Ballina, after
+collecting for the Chapel, the latter end of January. He wishes to
+acknowledge the kindness he experienced during his tour, and hopes to
+present, next month, an account of the contributions he has received.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>To the Rev.</i> <span class="smcap">Jas. Allen</span>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I have been employed during the last quarter in this neighbourhood
+according to the ability that God hath given, in making known to my
+fellow-sinners the unsearchable riches of Christ, the ignorance of which
+is the cause of all the wickedness, delusion, and error, in this or any
+other country.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Oct. 5.</i>&mdash;Visited a family in Brook Street, where I read the
+twenty-first chapter of Job, and several other passages of Scripture, I
+made some remarks as I read, the people frequently lifting up their eyes
+when the name of Jesus was mentioned. Those people have a form of
+religion, but they are destitute of the power.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+12.&mdash;Visited an old woman in Bohunssup who is convinced of her sinful
+state by nature, and pointed out the Saviour to her as plainly as I
+could; I told her I feared she would prefer a priest to the Saviour in
+her last hours, and if so, she might as well deny him altogether, and in
+all his offices, as he alone is able to save from sin; and those who
+believe on him shall not come into condemnation. She declared she had no
+hope, no desire, to look to anything a priest could do for her. I prayed
+with this poor woman.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+19.&mdash;Visited a family this afternoon, named Whalin, where I read several
+portions of God's word, and endeavoured to explain as I read. I prayed
+with them also.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+26.&mdash;I had a conversation with an old Roman Catholic lady on the folly
+of those people who, she said, exposed their children to the fearful
+doom, should they die unbaptized, of being shut out from the light of
+heaven. I asked her if she did not read the New Testament. She said she
+did. I asked her where she found any thing there that would lead her to
+suppose or believe that those unbaptized children were thus exposed. I
+said: I find no command to sprinkle infants; but the contrary, seeing no
+persons were admitted to that ordinance but those who were able to make
+a profession of faith, and this no infant could do; nor do we read of
+any but adults being received into the church. I showed her, from the
+New Testament, the practice of the Apostles, and our Lord's commission
+to his Apostles. Then, why do Protestants baptize their infants? said
+she. Because, said I, instead of abiding by what is written they have
+thought proper to adopt the customs of those who teach the commandments
+of men for those of God. You mean to say, said she, that the Church of
+Rome do so? Certainly, I replied. Then she said she believed in the
+Saviour alone, and through faith in him she hoped to be forgiven. You
+are a Protestant then, said I. No; I detest your Calvinistic doctrines,
+and I know no name sufficiently odious to brand them with. You may call
+me any name you please, said I. She pledged her honour that she always
+thought me an honest man and a good Christian. I told her I was glad to
+hear her give another proof of her Protestant principles; seeing she was
+more charitable than to believe all Protestants must be damned. She
+said, no Catholics held such an opinion. I told her what the Council of
+Trent said on that subject. She would not believe what I told her. She
+said she did not believe that she received the body and blood
+spiritually in the Eucharist. I said she believed more. No, said she.
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+</p>
+
+<p>
+I must not lengthen this subject, as the whole of our argument would
+fill my sheet; nor would I have gone so far, were it not to show how
+little Roman Catholics know what they believe. After running over most
+of the absurdities of her religion, some things she denied, others she
+never heard of before. This woman got a good education, if any can be so
+while the Scriptures are left out. She is one of the strictest in this
+town for the last fifty years.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Nov. 2.</i>&mdash;Visited a family in Garden Street, named Timlin, where I read
+several portions of Scripture; but they would not hear of my praying
+with them; such is their fear of being spoken of.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+9.&mdash;I had several conversations with people this day, one with an old
+man, named Dowd, for whom I read many portions which I thought suited to
+his case, an old man on the verge of eternity, who never thought on
+those things.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+16.&mdash;Visited poor old F., with whom I read, conversed, and prayed. He is
+near his rest. He thanks God for having afflicted him; for before he was
+afflicted he went astray. I had a good opportunity to show some Roman
+Catholics, who were in the house, what the believer rests his hopes upon
+in the hour of trial. They listened with attention.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+23.&mdash;Visited a family in Ardnaree, named Gardner, where I read a chapter
+and prayed with the family: and I always make some remarks as I read,
+and propose questions, in order to arrest their attention.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+30.&mdash;Visited the Staff, where I found some children reading the
+Scriptures; I read with, and turned this little company into a class, by
+questioning them on what we read. I prayed with them, and promised to
+visit them again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>Dec. 14.</i>&mdash;Visited a family in Hill Street, named M<sup>c</sup>Nautly, where I
+attempted to read, but was interrupted by a woman who said she did not
+want any thing out of Protestant books. I reasoned with her for some
+time, when I referred to the Testament for the truth of what I said; and
+as she seemed pleased with what I said, I continued to read, and
+explained as I read, without any further interruption. So we parted good
+friends.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+21.&mdash;Conversed with a young man named Poots, who asked me my opinion of
+almost every article of the Popish doctrines. He said, he was satisfied
+with any thing written in the Scriptures, as he found very little
+difference between <i>ours</i>, as he called it, and <i>his</i> Testament. I need
+not enter into particulars, as this subject lasted more than two hours,
+without an angry feeling on either side. He at length exclaimed: There
+is so much mystery in our religion, and those things known only to the
+priests, that he did not know what to think; but, said he, if I could be
+properly convinced on the subject of transubstantiation and confession,
+I would not remain one day in the church of Rome.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+28.&mdash;Visited an old woman in Brook Street, named Brennan, who is
+confined to her bed. I read and conversed with her for about an hour: I
+prayed with her also.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Austin Brennan.</span><br />
+<i>Ballina, Jan. 3, 1835.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>To</i> Rev. <span class="smcap">J. Bates</span>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I am happy to inform you, that the work of the blessed Redeemer is
+prospering in this part of his vineyard, though the wicked one has his
+secret agents in this place, as well as every other place, resisting the
+work of Christ, and the gospel of the grace of God.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On the 20th of July I went to read to the house of one James
+M<sup>c</sup>Partlin, near the town of Drumahair. This poor man is ignorant and
+unlearned, although a great devotee in the Church of Rome. I read for
+this poor man and family several chapters in both English and Irish; and
+the poor man was astonished to hear the words of eternal life in his
+native language. He asked me several questions concerning the sacrifice
+of the mass, and purgatory, and other doctrines taught by his church. I
+asked him: "What sacrifice is the mass?" He answered, in the words of
+his catechism, "An unbloody sacrifice." I then read for him the ninth
+and tenth chapters of Hebrews, and showed him from the twenty-second
+verse of the ninth chapter, that without shedding of blood there is no
+remission, and consequently, as the mass was an unbloody sacrifice,
+there could be no remission in it. I again referred him and family to
+the ninth and tenth chapters of Hebrews, to show that when <i>He</i>, the
+<i>Lord</i>, by himself purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the
+Majesty on high; and that by one offering <i>He</i> hath perfected for ever
+all them that are sanctified. I read part of the Epistle to the
+Ephesians, and especially the 1st chap. 7th ver., "In whom we have
+redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins, according to
+the riches of his grace." I then read for him the 1st chapter of 1 John,
+to show them that it is the blood of Christ
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+                                            alone that cleanseth us
+from all sin. All the family seemed well satisfied to hear me read, and
+invited me to come and read for them as often as I could. I have often
+read for this family since, and I trust the Lord has made his word a
+blessing to them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On the 15th of August, I read in the house of James M^cHugh the 9th and
+10th chapters of John's Gospel; and poor M^cHugh was so delighted that
+he said he had no greater comfort in the world than to hear his children
+read the Testament. He said his daughter committed one hundred chapters
+at the Drumahair female school; and he prayed for the prosperity and
+long continuance of the Baptist Irish Society; "for," said he, "only for
+them my children would never get a word of learning." Oh, that the word
+of the Lord may run and be glorified! and may the boundaries of Christ's
+fold be still more extended, until the whole number of his elect be
+accomplished!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Few days pass but I read at some place. It is all the pleasure I have,
+to be conversing with my poor neighbours about their eternal happiness.
+I wish I could afford to spend all my time in this blessed employment;
+but I thank God I would rather be a door-keeper in the house of the
+Lord, than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There are many inquiring what they must do to be saved. We direct them
+to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and strive to point them to the
+Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Adam Johnson.</span><br />
+<i>Drumahair, September 26, 1834.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+To Rev. <span class="smcap">J. Bates</span>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Since my last, I have visited more than twenty different places, and
+some of them are about twenty miles asunder. This, together with my
+occasional visits in this neighbourhood, has afforded me very many
+interesting opportunities of directing sinners to the Saviour. In my
+visits to the Night Schools, I have been highly gratified in observing
+an increase of scriptural knowledge among those who attend. In J.
+Monaghan's Night School, I found many adult persons assembled together,
+some of them heads of families with their children, solely for the
+purpose of reading the Scriptures and inquiring after their meaning,
+some of these being Roman Catholics, asked me several very important
+questions, to all which I endeavoured to give scriptural answers, with
+which they were highly gratified and thankful, and wished that I might
+soon visit them again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+November 24th, visited the house of a poor tradesman in Balli Murray,
+read the 3rd of John, and pointed out the way of a sinner's acceptance
+with God. All who were in the house quitted their several employments,
+and drew around me. They all heard with eager attention, whilst I
+pointed out the dreadful nature of sin, showing that nothing but the
+blood of the Saviour cleanseth from it. One of them told me, that the
+priest teaches that there is a purgatory, and that those who are not
+guilty of mortal sins are cleansed from venial sins in purgatory. I told
+them that there are no sins venial in the sight of God, for that it is
+written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written
+in the book of the law to do them;" that the blood of Jesus Christ
+cleanseth believers from all sin, and that there is no other purgatory.
+On the 4th inst. read the word near Ballymote. A poor man, named Rooney,
+told me of a sermon which he had heard from the priest on the last
+Sabbath; the priest, he said, preached on the General Judgment, and so
+terrified him that he was almost in despair. He told his hearers that
+not only for every evil action men must give an account, but also for
+every idle thought; and oh, said he, if you had heard the Priest, you
+would be terrified. I asked him, did the Priest tell him what he must do
+to be saved? but he was totally ignorant of this. I then endeavoured to
+bring to the understanding of this poor man the gospel plan of
+salvation, which seemed to be the only thing calculated to give him
+comfort and peace of mind.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On the 8th visited Killoran; met with a young man, a Roman Catholic, who
+is a hired servant; he told me that he had been studying on the subject
+of baptism; that when a school-boy he got a Testament, which he had
+since kept very carefully; that in it he read that our Saviour was
+baptized in the river Jordan; that from this he was led to believe that
+immersion is the proper mode. I then read for him the account of the
+baptism of the eunuch by Philip, also of Lydia, and the jailor, &amp;c. He
+heard with eager attention, and said that he was fully persuaded that
+believers were the proper subjects for baptism, and that immersion was
+the primitive mode. On the 12th March, travelled in company with several
+people with a hearse going to a burial. I told them that it is appointed
+unto all men once to die, and after death the judgment; and that it is
+of the
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+       highest importance for us to be prepared for judgment. I was
+sorry to learn that they did not know the Saviour, nor their need of
+him. I made the best use I could of the short time I was with them. One
+of them said he was sorry I was leaving them, &amp;c.
+</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Robert Beaty.</span><br />
+<i>Carintavy, Dec. 14, 1834.</i>
+</p>
+
+
+<div class="section">
+CONTRIBUTIONS.
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+By Rev. <span class="smcap">J. Dyer.</span>
+</p>
+
+
+<table>
+      <tr>
+          <td>A Friend, Yorkshire</td>
+          <td class="money">5</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+      </tr>
+
+      <tr>
+          <td>Mr. Holleck, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher</td>
+          <td class="money">5</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+      </tr>
+
+      <tr>
+          <td>J. Chippendale, Esq., Uxbridge, by Rev. A. G. Fuller</td>
+          <td class="money">1</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+          <td>From profits of Youth's Magazine, per W. B. Gurney</td>
+          <td class="money">20</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+      </tr>
+
+      <tr>
+          <td>From one who has tasted that the Lord is gracious (per General Post)</td>
+          <td class="money">1</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+          <td class="money">0</td>
+      </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">
+Collected by Rev. <span class="smcap">S. Davis.</span>
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bristol</td>
+    <td class="money">41</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mrs. Holland</td>
+    <td class="money">50</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bath</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bradford, Wilts</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Trowbridge</td>
+    <td class="money">15</td>
+    <td class="money">19</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bratten</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Westbury</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Frome</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bridgwater</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Taunton</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">
+Collected by Mr. <span class="smcap">Lillycrop</span>, Exeter.
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Sir John Kennaway, Bart.</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>W. Rouse, Esq., Tor</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Rouse</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Rev. J. Mason</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Rev. E. H. Brewer</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Salter</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Lillycrop</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Booth</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Pates, collected by</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">16</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Upham</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Mason</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>J. C. Wilcocks, Esq.</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Lillycrop</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Glyde</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Tanner</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Nichols</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Vinicombe</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Jeffery</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Gregory</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Beal</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Cummin</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Wilson</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Lee</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Rowse</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Cole</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. S. Davis</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Goodridge</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Mills</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Higgs</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Furze</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Sunday-school, Bartholomew Chapel</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Miss Bury</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Ford</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Hooker</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Maynard</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mr. Wright</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Tanner</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Ellen Bridgeman</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">
+By the <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>.
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td>T. B., per Mr. W. Burls, jun.</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>D. P., per Mr. W. L. Smith</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Charles Davis, Wallingford</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Rev. E. West, Amersham Sub.</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Rev. W. Nicholls, Collingham, Don.</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Do.       do.         Sub.</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Mrs. Fernie, of Tottenham, and Friends, for Mary's Philanthropic School, Mount Shannon, Galway</td>
+    <td class="money">11</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p class="center">
+By the <span class="smcap">Secretary</span>.
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td>W. Burls, Esq., Edmonton</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>A. Bose&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ans. Sub.</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>From Mrs. Burls and Daughters,<br />
+      <span style="margin-left: 1em;">a valuable parcel for the poor children in the Society's Schools</span></td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Subscriptions received by S. Marshall, Esq., 181, High Holborn; Mr. P.
+Millard, Bishopsgate Street; Messrs. Burls, 56, Lothbury; Rev. G.
+Pritchard, 4, York Place, Pentonville, gratuitous Secretary; by Messrs.
+Ladbrokes and Co., Bankers, Bank Buildings; by Mr. H. D. Dickie, 13,
+Bank Street, and Rev. Mr. Innes, Frederick Street, Edinburgh; and P.
+Brown, Esq., Cardigan.
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">
+LONDON: J. MADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE-STREET, FINSBURY.
+<!-- Page 113 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span>
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="MISSIONARY_HERALD" id="MISSIONARY_HERALD"></a>MISSIONARY HERALD.</h2>
+
+<p class="center">
+CXCV. MARCH, 1835.
+</p>
+
+
+<p>
+Subscriptions and Donations in aid of this Society will be thankfully
+received at the Baptist Mission House, No. 6, Fen Court, Fenchurch
+Street, London: or by any of the Ministers and Friends whose names are
+inserted in the Cover of the Annual Report.
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>
+With feelings of deep sorrow we have to announce the decease
+of the excellent Treasurer of this Society, <span class="smcap">John Broadley
+Wilson</span>, Esq., which took place, after a very short illness, at
+his house on Clapham Common, Monday evening, the 16th instant.
+His disease was palsy, rendering respiration difficult, and
+considerably affecting the organs of speech, but leaving his
+mental faculties in full vigour to the last. He died,
+rejoicing in the Saviour, whom he had long loved, and whose
+example, through divine grace, he had been enabled so
+eminently to follow. Never, perhaps, was there an individual
+of whom it might more justly be said, <i>When the ear heard him,
+then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness
+to him: because he delivered the poor that cried, and the
+fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of
+him that was ready to perish came upon him; and he caused the
+widow's heart to sing for joy. He was eyes to the blind, and
+feet was he to the lame: he was a father to the poor, and the
+cause that he knew not he searched out.</i>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"<span class="smcap">And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed
+are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith
+the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their
+works do follow them.</span>"
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="section">
+JAMAICA.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A number of letters from our various stations in this island have
+reached us, containing information to the end of the year. We subjoin a
+few of the leading particulars.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Tinson refers, with great satisfaction, to the growing thirst for
+instruction among the negro population. He had been under the necessity
+of opening an evening school, principally for adults, whose progress was
+very rapid, and a large proportion of them had been reported able to
+read the New Testament. He expresses an earnest desire to establish a
+school at his country station at Yallahs, situate in a parish (St.
+David's) containing 7,000 apprentices, without a single school of any
+description. Twenty-three persons had been accepted for baptism at this
+station.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"The brethren from the London Missionary Society (writes Mr. T.) have
+arrived. They landed on Tuesday, the 23rd inst. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge
+suffered much from sea-sickness; in other respects they are all well.
+Mr. Woolridge brought a letter from Mr. Ellis, and one from yourself.
+They all took tea with us the evening after they landed, in company with
+brother and sister Gardner, and an interesting meeting it was. We sang,
+before we knelt together around our domestic altar, I believe with
+unfeigned
+<!-- Page 114 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span>
+          sincerity of heart, the hymn beginning,
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+  <div class="stanza">
+    <span class="i0">"Kindred of Christ, for his dear sake</span>
+    <span class="i0">A hearty welcome here receive;"</span>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+after which, brother Gardner presented to the kind and gracious Redeemer
+our united thanksgiving for their safe arrival, and solicited the Divine
+guidance in reference to their future steps. Brother Woolridge preached
+a most delightful sermon in our chapel yesterday morning, and I expect
+to be helped next Lord's-day by brother Hodge. They will probably
+continue in town a week or two, and then proceed on a tour of
+observation. Should one remain in Kingston there is plenty to do, and I
+see no cause in the world for contention between us."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Gardner has been tried by personal indisposition and by the loss of
+his eldest child, but has been enabled to resume his accustomed labours.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Clarke has furnished us with the following tabular account of the
+stations under his superintendance:
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td align="right">Members.</td>
+    <td align="right">Inquirers.</td>
+    <td align="right">Average Congreg.</td>
+    <td align="right">Sabb. Schs.</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Constant Spring</td>
+    <td align="right">450</td>
+    <td align="right">200</td>
+    <td align="right">6 to 700</td>
+    <td align="right">40</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Lucky Valley</td>
+    <td align="right">20</td>
+    <td align="right">63</td>
+    <td align="right">300</td>
+    <td align="right">35</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Retirement</td>
+    <td align="right">6</td>
+    <td align="right">30</td>
+    <td align="right">300</td>
+    <td align="right">40</td         >
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Fairfield</td>
+    <td align="right">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td align="right">86</td>
+    <td align="right">400</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Guy's Hill</td>
+    <td align="right">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td align="right">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td align="right">250</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>
+Of these stations, Retirement is in the parish of St. John's, Fairfield
+in St. Ann's, and the other three in St. Thomas-in-the-Vale. The scene
+of violent outrage mentioned in our January number occurred at Guy's
+Hill. Referring to that circumstance in a subsequent letter, Mr. C.
+observes: "The persecution some of my people suffered there is at an
+end. The hand of God appeared so plainly against them parties on the
+following morning, that one of them declared we had been praying against
+them. Their fear of us is such that their mistaken belief will prevent
+them, we think, from annoying us a second time."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Although the parish of St. Ann's has formerly presented greater
+obstacles than any other part of the island to the progress of gospel
+truth, Mr. Coultart is favoured with great encouragement in his efforts.
+He supplies St. Ann's Bay, Brown's Town, Ocho Rios, and the Pedroes, and
+at all these places has large and increasing congregations. In the three
+former, he is commencing to build places of worship in the room of those
+which were destroyed; and in the last, ground has been offered him for a
+similar purpose by parties who, a few weeks before, had shown the most
+violent hostility. More help is urgently needed in this, as well as in
+other parts of the island.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From Montego Bay Mr. Dendy writes, under date 30th December: "Our
+Missionary friends, Messrs. Vine and Alloway, of the London Society,
+arrived at Falmouth on the 24th instant, in pretty good health. On the
+25th brother Knibb baptized 69 persons, and held public services in the
+chapel; on the 26th a further addition was made by the baptism of 68
+candidates; and on sabbath-day, the 28th, there were between 700 and 800
+communicants sitting around the Lord's table. Mr. Vine preached in the
+morning for brother Knibb, and Mr. Alloway in the evening; the services
+of the day were peculiarly interesting."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+By the arrival of Mr. Burchell, Mr. Dexter will be left at liberty to
+visit Rio Bueno and Stewart's Town. For the present, however, some
+intermission seems needful both for him and for Mr. Dendy, as both have
+been labouring beyond their strength to supply the deficiencies
+occasioned by the absence of Mr. Abbott. This last named brother, having
+been released from confinement by the rising of the House of Assembly on
+the 20th of December, had returned to his family; and through the mercy
+of God his health, instead of being impaired, had been improved by his
+temporary secession from active engagements. Previously to his arrest he
+had enjoyed the pleasure of adding 59 members to the church at Montego
+Bay, who were baptized on the 1st of November.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Of the return of Mr. Burchell to the people of his charge after so long
+a separation, we must give our readers an account in his own words. His
+letter is dated December 23rd:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>
+I shall commence my present letter by giving you some account
+of my journey from Spanish Town, and my reception at this
+place.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We left Spanish Town on Wednesday the 19th November, and
+reached Brother
+<!-- Page 115 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span>
+                Coultart's the same evening, a distance of
+fifty miles; the following day we spent with our friends Mr.
+and Mrs. Coultart, from whom we received the most interesting
+and gratifying accounts of the progress of the Mission in the
+parish of St. Ann's. In the evening I preached at St. Ann's
+Bay, and although there were but a few hours' notice, still the
+principal part of the chapel house was full. It was to me
+unspeakably delightful to witness such an assembly in such a
+notorious place. Friday we proceeded on to Falmouth
+(thirty-four miles), which place we reached about two o'clock;
+in the evening I preached for brother Knibb to a very large
+congregation, the chapel was crowded, and one of the tents
+also, and many on the outside of the chapel-house. Saturday
+morning we left our old companions for the eventful town of
+Montego Bay; when we were three miles distant from the town, we
+had to pull up to shake hands with some who were come out to
+meet us; as we proceeded onwards, the numbers and frequency of
+the groups of friends increased. It was almost more than we
+could bear. The poor people looked at us as though they could
+scarcely believe their own eyes, and then they clasped their
+hands, blessed God, and burst into tears. When we entered the
+town, a crowd of recollections burst upon my mind as I looked
+upon the situation where the Blanche was anchored when I was
+first taken prisoner, &amp;c.; but my attention was soon aroused
+from reflection, for as we passed along the streets, many of
+the inhabitants came to their doors and windows, congratulating
+us as we passed by. As we proceeded more into the town, the
+doors and windows became crowded, and many were the kind
+congratulations of our former townsfriends; some expressed
+their feelings by their remarks, some waved their
+handkerchiefs, and others their hats; as we entered the centre
+of the town we were recognised by one who had been a very
+staunch friend in our difficulties, he took off his hat and
+greeted us most cordially; this excited the attention of the
+negroes in the market, and one of them recognising us,
+exclaimed, "Bless God, and him come for true. Massa Burchell,
+him come for true." Others now joined him and began clapping
+their hands, when the whole multitude, consisting of three or
+four thousand, waving their hands and hats, set up their
+shouts, and made the whole town resound with their thundering
+huzzas. I now endeavoured to press on to our house, but the
+negroes leaving their baskets and the market followed us. I
+drove hastily forward, fearing they would surround us and take
+out our horse, which I have since found they would have done.
+When we reached the house we were immediately surrounded; the
+yard and the street were crowded. One of the friends took the
+child and carried her into the house, for she was completely
+frightened. It was a long time before we could get out of the
+gig (which had been lent us for the journey) for every one was
+trying to shake our hand, or lay hold of us in some way. When
+we alighted from the gig, Mrs. B., who was nearly overcome, was
+carried in by the friends, and then the throng crowded upon me,
+some taking one hand, some the other, some threw themselves on
+the ground. Indeed, the whole scene which followed was such
+that I cannot describe. It would not be possible to do it
+justice. The market square was almost vacated, except the
+baskets of provisions, &amp;c., which were for sale; and yet many
+have since informed me, that when they returned to the market
+they found all as they had left it, nothing was lost.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The whole of Saturday, the 22nd, was spent in receiving the
+congratulations of the people, whose remarks were frequently
+affecting. Many threw themselves down at my feet, and wept
+aloud. Some looked at me, and then said: "Hi, massa, and it you
+for true! and you for we, massa Burchell! and me see you with
+me own eye! blessed God!" and then they burst into tears. After
+speaking to a party and shaking hands, I was compelled to
+request them to leave in order to give place to others. When
+one said: "No massa, me no go&mdash;me no able to believe yet&mdash;and
+is it massa Burchell for true?" Another one said: "Now massa,
+me know dat God him true&mdash;him hear for we prayer&mdash;but him take
+him own time&mdash;and him work him own way&mdash;but him do every ting
+quite good." Indeed, I could fill a sheet with their
+interesting sayings. One poor afflicted negress came down from
+the country (a distance of twenty miles) the next Saturday, the
+29th; and when she saw me, looking upon me, as the tears rolled
+down her face, she said: "Massa, me hear you come&mdash;and me
+<i>hungry</i> for see you&mdash;and me cry for see you&mdash;me take two day
+for walk for see you&mdash;and now me believe&mdash;God him too good&mdash;me
+now willing for die&mdash;for now me know me God him true."
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had no idea whatever of such a reception, I knew my friends,
+and knew they would be truly glad to see me, but I had not the
+most distant idea of such a manifestation of feeling. It was
+far beyond any description that I can give.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The following day, November 23, I again commenced my labours
+among my poor but dear people. There were at least
+<!-- Page 116 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span>
+                                                   4000
+persons present at the 10 o'clock service. I preached out of
+doors. On Sunday, November 30, the attendance was still
+greater. At our morning prayer-meeting at 6 o'clock in the
+morning there were <i>full</i> 2,700 present; and at 10 o'clock, not
+less than 5000; but you must not be misled by this statement of
+numbers, as there was a union of the churches of Montego Bay,
+Salter's Hill, and Gurney's Mount, &amp;c.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+We conclude our present article by an extract of a letter of somewhat
+less recent date from Mr. Hutchins. It relates to the station at Lucea,
+and was addressed to a friend of the writer, who has kindly furnished it
+for our pages.
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>
+A few sabbaths ago I had such a delightful day, that the
+recollection of it will, I have no doubt, be ever attended
+with feelings of peculiar pleasure. Early in the morning we
+proceeded to the place of baptizing from Lucea, where I
+baptized nine of my black brethren and sisters, nay nine of
+our black brethren and sisters in Christ. The place was two
+miles from the Bay. We arrived at break of day. It was not in
+the river Jordan, but in a beautiful winding river in a most
+retired situation. We were covered by the majestic and
+graceful boughs of the bamboo, which, for grandeur of
+appearance and loveliness of shade, excels every other tree in
+the island, and is beautiful beyond description.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The congregation consisted of about 300 persons, all getting as
+near as possible to the banks of the river, while we arranged
+the candidates close to the border of the stream.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The day now dawned upon us, and I felt as if compelled to
+commence by singing the verse:
+</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Sweet is the work, my God, my King,</span>
+<span class="i0">To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing;</span>
+<span class="i0">To show thy love by morning light,</span>
+<span class="i0">And talk of all thy truth at night."</span>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+And indeed, if one may speak for others, it was truly sweet. I
+then engaged in prayer, and delivered an address to the various
+classes present; and judging from appearances, we cannot but
+hope that at some future period good results will be brought to
+light.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Spirit of the Most High seemed to rest upon us. Persons
+whom I have seen trifling on other occasions, were overawed.
+Others, who were anticipating with pleasure the time when they
+shall have a name and a place among the people of God, were
+seen with the tear silently rolling dawn their cheeks. While
+others, with their hands clasped and pressed on their bosoms,
+with their eyes raised towards heaven, seemed to be fervently
+engaged in the interesting service, and to enjoy in their minds
+something of that feeling which is peculiar to the Christian,
+which the world can neither give nor take away. I then entered
+the stream and baptized them, singing two lines between each;
+after which I concluded, and thus ended one of the most
+interesting services I ever knew. We then repaired to Lucea,
+and commenced our morning prayer-meeting at seven instead of
+six o'clock; we had a good congregation. At half-past ten the
+next service was to commence. At ten I saw people going away to
+seek for sittings at the kirk, for not one could be found here.
+Our house is very commodious, being three stories high. The
+lower parts we use for the chapel, and in the top we reside.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The whole of the chapel was crowded to excess. People coming
+from all parts of the bay with a chair from any person they
+could make their friend, filled the landings. The stairs
+leading up the whole of the three stories (which are carried up
+outside the buildings in this country) were occupied, by four
+persons on each. And then the poor creatures went into our
+hall, and laid their ears on the floor to listen from beneath.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This is a congregation in Jamaica; and often we have them
+standing in the streets exposed to the rays of a vertical sun!
+Behind and before, on the right hand and on the left, we are
+surrounded, yea crowded, in every possible way.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The result is, that on the evenings of the sabbath we wear a
+completely emaciated appearance. Oh, say you, this is not
+right, you ought not to do so. I am fully aware that we ought
+not to do so, but the remedy is not with us. You may try, and
+try again, to overcome such feelings, but you cannot. I should
+pity that man who professed to have the welfare of souls at
+heart who would not be aroused by such overwhelming scenes as
+we have here. When persons have come from two to twenty or
+thirty miles to hear the word of eternal life, to disappoint
+more than can possibly be helped, is what I cannot, what I dare
+not, do. For as I value my own immortal soul, as I prize the
+joys of heaven and dread the miseries of hell, so in proportion
+I consider it my duty to let all, as far as in me lies, hear
+the truths of that gospel which is able through Christ to raise
+poor perishing creatures from the degradation of sin to a life
+of righteousness and holiness by faith
+<!-- Page 117 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span>
+                                       in him. Pardon me, my
+dear brother, pardon me for giving vent to the flowing tear
+while I am again considering that the remedy is not with us.
+Here is myself and there are my brethren with congregations
+which are enormous. We cannot refrain from shedding a tear
+again and again, because we are not able to do more for their
+thirsty souls. The remedy rests with friends at home.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I often think that I must as I am now doing fall, very soon
+fall, a sacrifice to the cause in which I have embarked.
+Through mercy I fear it not. I am happy, truly happy, in my
+work, and feel confident that should I be a martyr to the
+cause, I shall receive a martyr's reward.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<p class="section">
+BAHAMAS.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Since our last article respecting this station, we have received a
+variety of communications from our brethren Burton and Pearson. Up to
+the date of the last, the tenor of these letters was uniformly pleasing.
+They showed with what diligence our dear brethren were prosecuting the
+work of God, not only at Nassau, but at Eleuthera, Andros Island, and
+other places scattered through that extensive group of islands.
+Additions to the number of converts were made every month, and there was
+reason to hope that in a short time some of them would be found capable
+of taking an efficient part in the instruction of their countrymen. But
+the Society has more recently been called to the exercise of patient
+submission under the loss of one who, though but recently entered on the
+Missionary field, had afforded abundant evidence of holy devotedness to
+the cause of his Saviour. We refer to Mr. Pearson, whose lamented
+decease is reported by Mr. Burton under date of the 31st December. That
+letter will close this article: as an appropriate introduction to it, we
+insert extracts from the last written to the Secretary by Mr. Pearson
+himself. It was dated Nassau, December 1, 1834:
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>
+In the course of last September, I and my family were invited
+to St. Salvador, by Mr. John Armbrister. I rejoiced in so
+favourable an opportunity of communicating the glad tidings of
+salvation where they were so little known, and I felt grateful
+that on this occasion I could without aditional expense take
+my family with me, because our medical friend strongly
+recommended it, as the most likely means to renew my dear
+wife's health after her dangerous illness in August. We
+arrived at St. Salvador, Sabbath, Oct. 6th, were kindly
+welcomed, and soon surrounded by an interesting congregation
+of about 80 persons, to whom I preached twice on that day. On
+Monday and Tuesday I was fully engaged in the work of
+instruction among the children in the forenoon, and the adults
+in the evening. On Wednesday I was expected to preach upon two
+properties; but having preached to a few persons at one
+estate, I was afflicted with such a violent head-ache that it
+was with great difficulty I managed to ride to the house of
+our friend, where, finding myself the subject of fever, I was
+compelled at once to exchange the exercise of preaching, for
+the exercise of submission upon a bed of sickness, under
+indescribably agonizing and protracted pain, which entirely
+precluded rest by night or day: under these circumstances my
+second sabbath at St. Salvador was spent. My dear wife read
+the Scriptures to many who were gathered together, and also a
+few pages of Christian counsel which I had written for their
+benefit, and otherwise assisted them to worship God. On the
+following morning a conveyance offering to N. P., we availed
+ourselves of it, in order that I might obtain medical advice.
+We were glad to reach home on the following Thursday; but with
+change of scene, we experienced an increase of affliction. My
+dear wife, the child's wet nurse, and our servant boy, were
+immediately subjected to the fever; and unable as we were to
+provide for our disconsolate babe, it required the exercise of
+faith cheerfully to acquiesce in the divine disposal of our
+concerns. We <i>were troubled</i>, but <i>not distressed</i>; and our
+compassionate God, who knew how much we could bear, and
+delights to bind up the wounds which in mercy he inflicts,
+almost entirely independent of our agency, sent us, that very
+night, a suitable nurse for our child, who has since proved to
+us a blessing. My dear wife was speedily restored to her
+former state of convalescence, and after a week I was
+permitted to rise from my bed, much reduced in body, yet, I
+would hope, strengthened in my resolutions to love and serve
+the Saviour. My recovery was rapid, and on the 30th of October
+I again embarked with my family for St. Salvador. The health
+of all was much promoted by the passage, and when I landed,
+Monday, November 3, contrasting my bodily state with that
+under which I had left the island, I was filled with
+gratitude, my peace seemed like the beautiful canopy stretched
+over my head, unsullied with a cloud, and
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+                                          abundant as the
+waves of the sea. I was immediately put in possession of a
+house, unoccupied by its owner (Mr. Henry Armbrister), on an
+estate called "Freeman's Hall:" where, unmolested, I could
+hold meetings whenever I was able; I adored the goodness of
+God who thus disposed the planters to aid and encourage me in
+my work, and longed for their salvation as well as that of
+their dependents. During the first week I laboured to the
+utmost of my ability, teaching the children, preaching to all
+I could gather around me from evening to evening, and holding
+inquiry meetings whenever opportunity offered; but I seemed to
+labour in vain: my hearers were attentive, but their hearts
+were hardened. I did not merely tell them that there was a God
+who made and upheld them, who knew all their ways, and would
+bring them to judgment. I did not merely endeavour to expose
+the evil of fornication, drunkenness, lying, stealing, &amp;c. I
+told them of Him who died for sinners. The doctrines of the
+total depravity of the human heart, the necessity of an
+atonement, the efficacy of the blood of Christ, the loveliness
+and suitableness of Jesus as an all-sufficient Saviour, the
+exceeding sinfulness and awful consequences of rejecting him,
+justification by faith, and the reward of eternal life, as the
+<i>free gift</i> of God for the sake of his dear Son, were the
+themes which I most earnestly endeavoured to press home upon
+their consciences, but I could discover no evidences of
+relentings for sin, no meltings of heart at the recital of a
+Saviour's sufferings, no emotions of gratitude for a Saviour's
+love. Their hearts were inaccessible. Almost all were
+professed Baptists, but taught by a man who could not decipher
+a letter, who appeared wholly ignorant of the truth, and whose
+life was at variance with it. After many conversations with
+him, in which he seemed impervious to the light, I
+affectionately warned him to desist from preaching, lest he
+should entail the curse so solemnly denounced Gal. i. 8, 9.
+Meeting with little encouragement in this part of the island,
+on the first Friday after my arrival I rode to "Golden Grove,"
+seven miles distant, where I preached, and returned the same
+day. At this place I had an opportunity of addressing 100
+persons, and, deeming it an important field for labour, I
+again rode thither early on the following sabbath. Here I
+found some living sparks. An old man who had come over with
+his master at the American revolution, had been in the habit
+of reading his Bible to all who would hear him, which he could
+do tolerably well; he had taught them to sing many of Watts's
+Hymns; and was accustomed to read to them from a good book
+written by Guthrie, an old Scotch divine. Lydia, his
+daughter-in-law, at an inquiry meeting, answered the questions
+which were put to her very satisfactorily, and I thought her a
+suitable subject for baptism, when I found that her character
+was exemplary. The old man, I found, was overseer of the whole
+property, which was extensive, during his master's absence;
+and Lydia was intrusted with the care of the proprietor's
+house, and much valuable property. What a proof that God's
+servants are the best servants! At that time I regarded my
+health as established, I was animated in spirit, and among
+this people I laboured on the sabbath until the evening, when
+suddenly, whilst preaching, I was taken ill, and was obliged
+immediately to seek the open air, abruptly closing the service
+in which we were engaged. I soon discovered that I was once
+more under the influence of violent fever, and after a
+restless night, though treated with the utmost attention,
+agreeable to the instructions of the proprietor, H. Hunter,
+Esq., I made the best of my way to "Freeman's Hall," where I
+remained an invalid thirteen days. I had no medical aid; but
+the medicines I had with me, and Graham's popular work, proved
+invaluable. My stay at St. Salvador from this period was
+indeed a season of suffering; the fever was intermittent, but
+would come on again and again with chilliness, succeeded by
+ardent and continued heat, throbbing of the temple, continued
+restlessness, unquenchable thirst, a distressing oppression at
+the chest, difficulty in breathing, and nausea. My illness, I
+am convinced, was protracted by the stagnant water, gathered
+from among the bushes, which we were compelled to drink, and
+which was deeply impregnated with putrid vegetable matter:
+there was, indeed, a spring one mile distant; but of this we
+were not informed until the eve of our departure, although we
+daily complained of the water we were using. My affliction was
+greatly increased by finding that my dear wife's exertions on
+my behalf brought on a periodical fever, the paroxysms of
+which would remain with her six or eight hours. The vessel by
+which we were to return to N. P. sailed on Sunday, November
+23, much to my grief, as I was then a little recovering, and
+hoped to preach; and so indeed I did, in much weakness, on the
+sea beach, to thirty or forty persons, whilst waiting for the
+boat. Once more I exhorted them to repent and believe on the
+Saviour. We arrived here November 28, again improved in health
+by the passage, and yesterday I superintended and taught in
+the Sabbath-
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+            school two hours, and preached twice to our
+Nassau crowded congregations. In the evening I endeavoured to
+improve the death of our late esteemed brother Penney, who
+died of yellow fever, aged thirty-five years.<a name="FNanchor_A_4" id="FNanchor_A_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_4" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> And now you
+will not be surprised when I assure you that I can adopt the
+language of David, "Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am
+weak." Our best thanks are due to Henry Armbrister, Esq., who
+has allowed us to make four passages in his vessel
+gratuitously, provided us with house, horses, &amp;c., and
+afforded us every help in his power. How mysterious, that with
+such facilities coming from God, my lips should be sealed, and
+my repeated efforts for the good of these islanders apparently
+frustrated! But thus the great Sovereign shows that he has no
+need of me; and that if he ever employ me, he is conferring a
+great and undeserved favour. It is indeed to me a great
+affliction to be prevented from labouring for my Master. There
+is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of
+being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the
+society and to the church. I feel that I need affliction, and
+I hope in the midst of it ever to desire its improvement,
+rather than its removal. I am aware also, that my sufferings
+bear no comparison with those of Brainerd, Zeisberger, and
+many others, who in the midst of great tribulation cheerfully
+bore the cross and scorned the shame; but when month after
+month passes away, with nothing done for Christ, and no souls
+brought near to God by my instrumentality, I feel depressed in
+spirit. The Lord knows how much of self and pride there is in
+all this; may he pardon and purify me! I can give you no
+cheering accounts of usefulness, but I can most sincerely
+assure you, if I know myself, I only desire to live actively,
+faithfully, and perseveringly; to serve Christ with body,
+soul, and spirit. Oh, pray for me, that I may not live in
+vain, but that I may acquit myself as a good soldier until
+death remove me from the field.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p>
+<a name="Footnote_A_4" id="Footnote_A_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_4"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Our readers will rejoice to notice these kind references to
+other labourers in the vineyard, sent forth by a kindred society.
+Elsewhere Mr. P. mentions another Christian Missionary of the same body
+in terms which we gladly quote: "Here I would most particularly mention
+the zeal and kindness of Mr. Horne, Wesleyan Missionary, by whose
+efforts the little flock (at Turk's Island) I united in church
+fellowship have been kept in order. He has read to them our pastoral
+letters, and in their own words 'has taken great pains with them.'"
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+It is affecting to think that, in sixteen days after the expression of
+these devout sentiments, the departure of our dear brother took place.
+(We are constrained by want of room to defer Mr. Burton's letter till
+next month).
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="section">
+BELIZE.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A letter has reached us from this station announcing the safe arrival of
+Mr. Henderson, who writes as follows, under date of December 10th:&mdash;
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p>
+Through the gracious providence of our heavenly Father we all
+arrived safely here on Friday, Nov. 28th, being eight weeks
+from the day of our departure from London.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The passage, except when passing the Bay of Biscay a few days,
+and some squalls on our approach to the coast (which hindered
+us one day), was remarkably moderate, affording many pleasing
+testimonies to our minds that we had a compassionate God, and
+praying friends. The Divine goodness has been especially
+displayed toward us in regard to bodily health, which has
+continued, with the exception of a little sea-sickness, as well
+as when we left England; indeed, rather better.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We came to anchor off Belize early in the forenoon, when I made
+it my business to see Mr. Bourn first alone; afterwards
+returned for Mrs. Henderson and child in the afternoon. I found
+Mr. Bourn himself well, but fatigued on account of the
+indisposition of Mrs. B., who had been ill about a week
+previously. She is now recovered so as to attend to family
+matters, and we are living altogether as one family, as happy
+as they can make us. There is no vessel here at present by
+which Mr. and Mrs. B. can go to New York, but one is expected
+daily. For myself, I rather desire his stay a little time to
+have instructions relative to the state of the Mission. It is
+almost our daily employment to visit some of the members at
+their homes. We are preparing to-day for a journey by water
+southward to Stern Creek, where Mr. B. is in the habit of
+occasionally visiting; on our return we intend another journey
+about the same distance up the river.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Henderson then states that he had been making arrangements for the
+immediate establishment of an infant school, which Mrs. H. is well
+qualified to superintend, and of a boys' school for the children of the
+respectable inhabitants of the place. Three sabbath-schools had been
+previously established by Mr. Bourn.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<!-- Page 120 --><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span>
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society,
+from Jan. 20, 1835, to Feb. 20, 1835, not including individual
+subscriptions.</i>
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Graham's Town (South Africa) Auxiliary Society, by Mr. Kidwell, Secretary</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">138</td>
+    <td class="money">14</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>Wigan, by Mr. W. Park:</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;Collection, Lord Street Chapel</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;Teachers and children of Sabbath School</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Dunkeld Missionary Society, by Rev. John Black</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Loughton Missionary Association, by Rev. S. Brawn</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+    <td class="money">14</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Twickenham, collected by Mr. Scott</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">East Essex and Colchester Auxiliary, by Thomas Blyth, Esq.</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">53</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Buchan Bible Society, for circulating the Scriptures in India, by Mr. Boulton</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Bristol, Rev. F. Clowes and friends, for School  Books to be sent to the Rev. James Coultart</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Milton, (Northamptonshire), by Rev. W. Gray</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p class="center">
+LEGACY.
+</p>
+
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Further Residue under the will of the late Mr. Thomas King, of Birmingham, by Messrs. Fiddian and Mumford</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">9</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">
+DONATIONS.
+</p>
+
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">G. B.</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Two Friends, on perusing the Tract 'Amelia Gale,' by Mr. James Jones, <i>Manchester</i></td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friend in <i>Yorkshire</i>, by the Secretary</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Hollick, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>On Account of Jamaica School Rooms.</i>
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friends at <i>Peel</i> Meeting, by Mr. J. Barrett</td>
+    <td class="money">15</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+</table>
+
+<hr style="width: 35%;" />
+
+<p class="center">
+We readily comply with the wishes of our kind friends at Liverpool to
+insert the <i>particulars</i>, recently sent, of their Collection by Cards,
+for the Jamaica Chapels.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>Lime Street, Rev. J. Lister.</i>
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Hampton</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Elizabeth Wilson</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">11</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Misses Lang</td>
+    <td class="money">10 </td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Ellen Houghton</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Billings</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">15</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;Baistow</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Lister</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Lister, jun.</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friend</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friends at Grappend, by Miss Clare</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Carpenter</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss E. Carpenter</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Ball</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Rushton, jun.</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Godfrey</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">15</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Dobson, donation</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Cunningham</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Bayliss</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Maynard</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">John Minto</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Pearce</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">11</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Winstanley</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Misses Pryce</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">James Bolland</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">John Banks</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Major</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">15</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Edwards</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Fisher's Friends, by Mr. Travenn</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Lea</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Eglington</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">9</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Quick</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">William Jones</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. W. S. Tyrer</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Foxcroft</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">17</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp; Eccleston</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">John Edwards</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Page</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Henton</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Elizabeth Briggs</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">19</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Sarah Briggs</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Elizabeth Copeland</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Hampton</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friend, by Miss Lacy</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Ashcroft</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Samuel Cearnes</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Misses Dicker</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Sunderland</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friends</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">99</td>
+    <td class="money">17</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Friend</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">100</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Collected by Mrs. Sutlow for the Education of Negro Children</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="center">
+<i>Byram Street, Rev. S. Saunders.</i>
+</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. John Hodgkinson</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">14</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Allcot</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Misses Haughtons</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">14</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Cribbin</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">16</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss M. Smallshaw</td>
+    <td class="money">9</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Hindle</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Julia Hope</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">17</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss M. L. Hope</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Walthew</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">13</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Lewis</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">16</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Lewis</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">A Friend</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Pritchard</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Lyon</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Edwards</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">5</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Whitehead</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">16</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Evans and the Miss Baynes's</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Cowper</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Burkett</td>
+    <td class="money">11</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Saunders and Mr. W. Saunders</td>
+    <td class="money">10</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Morrison</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Emily and Mr. W. Jones</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">17</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. John Foster</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Harsnett</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mrs. Jackson</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Helena Meyer</td>
+    <td class="money">3</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss King</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">14</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss Dugard</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">12</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss F. Glover</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Edward Cowper</td>
+    <td class="money">9</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Miss M'Cullock</td>
+    <td class="money">1</td>
+    <td class="money">14</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Danson</td>
+    <td class="money">0 </td>
+    <td class="money">17</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Joseph King</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">6</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">110</td>
+    <td class="money">2</td>
+    <td class="money">8</td>
+  </tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">Mr. Underhill, jun., Edge Hill</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+    <td class="money">4</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+    <td class="money">---</td>
+  </tr>
+
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hindent">&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="money">114</td>
+    <td class="money">7</td>
+    <td class="money">0</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<p class="section">
+TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A very valuable package of Elementary School Books for Jamaica has been
+received, and forwarded to that island. The Committee feel greatly
+indebted to those kind 'Friends' at Birmingham by whom they were
+presented.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Similar acknowledgments are respectfully offered to the Rev. Thomas
+Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, and the worthy gentlemen
+associated with him, whose seasonable liberality has placed at the
+disposal of the Committee, 3000 copies of 'Selections from the Old
+Testament,' drawn up expressly for the emancipated negroes. The whole
+have been forwarded to various parts of the island.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joseph Fletcher, Esq. and T. B. Oldfield, Esq. have laid the Society
+under great obligations by permitting their vessels to convey, freight
+free, a large quantity of Bricks and other articles for rebuilding the
+Chapels in Jamaica.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Parcels of Magazines and other Books are gratefully acknowledged from
+Mrs. Gillman, Bank Buildings, and from Mrs. Bryant and other friends at
+Bath.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mr. Burchell (December 30) requests that we would make an apology on his
+behalf to those private friends who may have been expecting to hear from
+him. Continual occupation has hitherto prevented his writing, but he
+hopes soon to be able to do so.
+</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">
+J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.
+</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, March 1835
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+                              THE
+                        BAPTIST MAGAZINE.
+
+                          MARCH, 1835.
+
+
+      MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. BOSWELL BEDDOME, OF WEYMOUTH.
+
+The highly respected subject of this memoir was the youngest son of Mr.
+Boswell Brandon Beddome, who for many years filled the office of a
+deacon at Maze Pond; and grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Beddome, of
+Bourton-on-the-Water, whose sermons and hymns are still the admiration
+of the churches. The talents and amiability of Mr. Boswell Beddome began
+very early to develope themselves. He is described by his surviving
+relatives as having been a most interesting boy; his intelligence,
+generosity, vivacity, and principle, inducing them to conclude that he
+would prove no common character in after life. The testimony given to
+his spirit and deportment at this early period, by his maternal
+guardian, is worthy of record, as it points to a striking and lovely
+example of filial obedience: "_He_ never gave me a moment's uneasiness;
+whatever perplexity was sometimes occasioned by the rest, I had no
+trouble with him; affection and a sense of duty invariably induced his
+cheerful obedience; and if childish disputes arose between any of the
+other juvenile members of the family, Boswell was sure to be the
+peace-maker." He was educated at a school under the superintendence of
+the Rev. S. Palmer, of Hackney, where he was distinguished for the
+readiness and accuracy with which he accomplished the exercises of his
+class, and for that general activity of mind which afterwards became one
+of his leading characteristics.
+
+When he was about fourteen years of age, a situation which promised well
+for his secular interests offering itself at a highly respectable
+mercantile establishment at Dorchester, he was removed from school
+somewhat sooner than his friends had anticipated. His employers speedily
+became sensible of the worth of his talents and integrity, and as a
+reward for his services and a proof of their esteem, introduced him to a
+valuable business at Weymouth, which happened to be at their command,
+two years before the legal term of his connexion with them would have
+expired. This movement had the most important bearing on his spiritual
+interests; and had he not been generous almost to a fault, would, in a
+few years, have been the means of procuring him a retiring competency.
+
+The family, to the full companionship of which he was thus early
+introduced at Dorchester, was distinguished by its very zealous
+profession of Unitarianism. There he saw the system under its most
+specious and delusive aspect: the sabbath was observed with the
+strictest decorum; family worship maintained with invariable regularity;
+habits of private devotion were strongly encouraged; and opportunities
+frequently occurred of association with some of the most intelligent and
+influential members of the party. Under these circumstances, although
+matter of regret to the more judicious of his friends, it was none of
+surprise, that he espoused and became the ardent advocate of sentiments
+at total variance with those in which he had been previously trained.
+
+Under the preaching of Mr. Rowe, the first pastor of the Baptist church
+at Weymouth, and afterwards under that of Mr. Flint, its second
+minister, he was gradually restored to the presumed scriptural faith of
+his venerated ancestors. The exercises of his mind on this important
+subject were often deeply distressing and protracted. After his
+suspicions respecting the correctness of his opinions were awakened, he
+became a most diligent, anxious, and prayerful student of the word of
+God; determined, by divine assistance, to follow conviction wherever it
+might conduct him; and profess, at whatever cost, what should eventually
+appear to be the truth. Desirous of doing the will of God, after many
+painful mental conflicts he was permitted to know it; he made a public
+profession, by baptism, of his newly-adopted faith during the pastorship
+of Mr. Hawkins, now of Derby; and about four years afterwards was
+invested with the office of a deacon, during the ministry of Mr. Hoby,
+at present of Birmingham.
+
+That the sentiments of Mr. Beddome in after life, on some abstruse
+points, were not slightly modified by his previous notions, is not
+pretended; but that he decidedly embraced all that is fundamental in the
+Calvinistic system, no doubt is entertained by those who had the most
+ample means of obtaining an accurate knowledge of his creed. He
+contemplated himself as a depraved, guilty, perishing, and helpless
+creature; the grand doctrine of justification by grace, through faith in
+the propitiation of Christ, was his refuge and his solace; in the sense
+in which we should employ the words, he was "looking for the mercy of
+God unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
+
+  [This article--as will be remembered by those who heard
+  it--contains part of the funeral sermon preached for Mr. B. at
+  the Baptist chapel, Weymouth, by the minister of the place.
+  Hitherto the form of the discourse has not been adhered to;
+  through the remainder of the article that form will be preserved.]
+
+Psalm xxvi. 8, "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, &c."
+That our invaluable, but now, alas! departed, brother Beddome cherished
+for this house of God an attachment peculiarly strong, unwavering, and
+devoted, is a fact too generally and distinctly known by you to require
+announcement from me. Long before his religious sentiments underwent a
+decided alteration, he interested himself most seasonably in its
+welfare; and after his views of divine truth became, for the most part,
+consonant to those which are here professed, he was ever ready to engage
+in any practicable undertaking, and make any possible sacrifice, for its
+benefit. Simply to affirm that he manifested his attachment in an
+ordinary way, by the regularity of his attendance, by the spirituality
+of his worship, and by contributing the general amount of pecuniary aid,
+would be but a feeble statement of the truth: he threw his whole soul
+into every department to which his influence could extend; every thing
+connected with the cause engaged his attention, solicitude, and
+activity; the interest of the chapel was the first and the last object
+of his thoughts. His solicitude for the _spiritual prosperity_ of the
+church and congregation was not that of a deacon only, but a pastor; on
+this behalf he constantly wrestled with God in private; and you know,
+brethren, how solemnly, how earnestly, how affectionately, he pleaded
+for it in your meetings for social prayer. You know also his readiness,
+as opportunity allowed, to prove himself a friend, a brother, a father
+to you all. He was ever disposed to hear, to sympathize, to advise, to
+aid; and even for those who, mistaking his motives, sometimes appeared
+to think of him unkindly, he was prepared, in the exercise of a truly
+Christian spirit, to perform any act of generosity by which their
+well-being might be advanced. Over the interests of your Sabbath-school
+he watched with a tender solicitude. For many years he was its
+superintendent. During this period he prepared, with great diligence and
+judgment, a series of Scripture questions for the use of the teachers,
+several volumes of which are still in existence; and after his official
+duties as a deacon, and the attention required by his family, compelled
+him to relinquish the direct superintendence of the school, he still
+contrived to make himself acquainted with all its movements, and
+promote, by his wise suggestions and decisions, the efficiency of its
+operations. The poor and the afflicted connected with this sanctuary
+feel that in losing him they have lost a tender benefactor, who was not
+only willing to relieve them in proportion to his means, but who knew
+how to render assistance doubly grateful by the considerate delicacy
+with which it was bestowed. Many and fervent were the blessings which
+the sons and daughters of distress poured upon his head; and many and
+deep are the lamentations of the widow and fatherless now. By his
+removal the minister of this place has lost a counsellor eminent for his
+knowledge and prudence; a friend, truly generous and devoted, who was
+accustomed to assist him in many of his labours, to sympathize with him
+under all his trials, to anticipate, in a thousand ways, his wishes and
+his wants, and on every occasion of difficulty to consult his feelings,
+in a manner which proved him to possess an extensive acquaintance with
+human nature, and an amiability of disposition still more commendable.
+
+Although the cause of Christ in connexion with this sanctuary enjoyed
+the best affection and engaged the best energies of our departed
+brother, his walks of usefulness were not restricted to this
+circumscribed beat, but embraced a wider, a more ample range. He was, it
+is well known, the manager, the life, of almost every institution
+connected with the dissenting interest in this town and neighbourhood;
+and in various other societies, formed for civil, literary, and
+benevolent objects, he took an active part. Such were his knowledge,
+diligence, and prudence, that, in general, our committees had to do
+little more than hear his report of the past, and assent to his plans
+for the future. With the utmost modesty he made his suggestions; with
+the utmost courtesy he invited discussion; but his suggestions were, in
+general, too wise to be improved; and discussion, after he had evidently
+examined the subject in all its bearings, appeared completely useless.
+How far such careful anticipations may in general be really serviceable
+to those who are thus saved the trouble of thinking and acting, may be
+questionable; but, certainly, the mind which is sufficiently benevolent
+and energetic to perform the part of our late invaluable friend, is
+worthy of no ordinary share of admiration.
+
+The pecuniary affairs of this place of worship were entirely committed
+to his management, which has been long and deservedly held as
+invaluable. He regularly attended the committees of the Branch Bible
+Society, the Dispensary, The Young Men's Improvement Society, and other
+local institutions of a general nature, where the weight of his talents
+and character were always felt. He was the President of one of the
+Benefit societies, and the most valuable honorary member of another. To
+all this it must be added, that hundreds in this town and neighbourhood
+were accustomed to make him acquainted with their trials, and seek his
+prompt and valuable advice in difficulty. In general he wished to forego
+a very prominent part in politics; but in cases of emergency his
+opponents soon became sensible that he was in the field. During the
+contest on the Reform question, he displayed powers, both of writing and
+speaking, of a superior order; nor have his most decided political
+enemies been backward in expressing their high respect for his
+commanding talents and unbending integrity.
+
+But we have not yet reached the limits of Mr. Beddome's sphere of
+usefulness. You are aware that he engaged as an occasional preacher. For
+a considerable period he lectured on alternate Sabbath evenings at the
+neighbouring village of Wyke, where his labours were highly acceptable.
+I never had the gratification of hearing him on such occasions; but
+judging, as well from the testimony of some of his friends, as from his
+mental capabilities, his extensive acquaintance with the word of God,
+his clear conceptions and consequently lucid statements on other
+subjects, in connexion with his fervent piety and habitual solicitude
+for the salvation of souls, I should conjecture that his addresses were
+characterized by their perspicuity, their judiciousness, their deep
+seriousness, and their manifest tendency to usefulness. Respecting these
+and similar qualities, he was accustomed to express warm approbation
+whenever he witnessed their discovery by the stated ministers of truth;
+a class of men, for whom, on account of their sacred office, he
+cherished a deep respect. He magnified their office; obeying the
+apostolic injunction, he "esteemed them very highly, in love for their
+work's sake." In his conduct towards his own minister he was a model of
+excellence; the whole of that conduct being studiously regulated by the
+most Christian principle and benevolence.
+
+His inclination, especially during the last few years of his life, to be
+wholly devoted to the work of the ministry, was sometimes exceedingly
+strong. Had he been permitted to select his own employment, doubtless he
+would have chosen that of an ambassador of peace. But while he possessed
+many qualifications suited to the preacher and the pastor, and which
+would have secured him great respectability in the sacred profession,
+Providence had richly endowed him also with certain other qualities, and
+had placed him in a sphere of action, which enabled him to be useful in
+a great variety of ways, not quite within the province of the stated
+minister. As it was, for some time he was contemplated by many as a kind
+of second pastor to this church and congregation; and his minister ever
+found in him a brother who, in many respects, could labour as well as
+sympathize with him, in conducting the oversight of this people in the
+Lord. If, with the exception of Wyke, and one or two similarly-situated
+places, he did not preach publicly, he most literally taught "from house
+to house." He appeared to seize every favourable opportunity of speaking
+for religion: the inquiring found in him a wise and kind director; he
+was a faithful reprover of sin; and when consolation was requisite, none
+knew better how it should be administered.
+
+While home engaged the first, it did not engross all, the energies of
+our departed friend. Of the enviable power of producing charming
+epistles of friendship, with ease and rapidity, he possessed a
+remarkable share. This power he habitually made subservient to
+the interests of religion; considering a talent for epistolary
+correspondence as involving serious responsibility. Could his numerous
+letters of remonstrance, advice, and Christian sympathy be collected, I
+am persuaded they would constitute a volume of no ordinary interest and
+usefulness. As in common conversation he was accustomed to throw out
+useful hints to those around him; so in letters of business, he often
+took occasion to remind his friends that they were only probationers in
+a world "which passeth away," the inordinate love of which must ruin the
+soul inevitably and for ever.
+
+To his friends it has always been a mystery how he could discharge, with
+his proverbial correctness, the numerous and onerous duties which he
+imposed on himself; the management of his private concerns being always
+sufficient to engross the attention of any ordinary mind. His habits of
+extreme regularity doubtless afforded him great assistance; but had he
+not possessed an incessantly active and a master mind, no such habits
+could have enabled him to attempt one half of what he accomplished. As a
+man of business his motto was "dispatch;" and whatever he undertook for
+the interests of benevolence, he attempted with all his might,
+exemplifying that beautiful and comprehensive injunction of Scripture:
+"Be diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
+
+That a life so valuable should have been suddenly terminated, in the
+midst of usefulness, at the vigorous age of forty, is a providence, in
+many respects, deeply painful, and mysterious; especially when,
+surveying society at large, we behold the useless and the injurious
+permitted to prolong their earthly existence. There are, however, in
+this case, various modifying circumstances which demand observation and
+gratitude. If the days of our departed brother on earth were short, they
+were singularly _vigorous_ and useful. He had already acted his part
+both in civil and religious society: scarcely had the dew of his youth
+passed away when he performed many of the duties, and was invested with
+many of the honours, of age; and although the continuance of a judgment
+so mature, a disposition so benevolent, and habits of usefulness so
+self-denying and energetic, would have been an invaluable favour,
+comparing the amount of his speedily accomplished work, with what is
+ordinarily allotted to the servants of God, we ought not, perhaps, to be
+greatly surprised that he has been thus early admitted to his rest.
+
+Yet who was prepared for the severe, the complicated trial which we are
+now summoned to sustain? Who could have anticipated that the
+comparatively young, the vigorous, the active Beddome, would have been
+so speedily and so suddenly called to go the way of all the earth?
+Notwithstanding his occasional physical infirmities, we seemed to forget
+that he was mortal; so completely was he identified with our interests,
+so necessary did he appear to our welfare, that we never calculated that
+he could die! Even after his medical attendants had repeatedly announced
+the impossibility of his recovery, many of you could not surrender the
+hope, that God would yet spare him, for the sake of his family and the
+church. But, alas! the stroke has come suddenly and irresistibly. We
+have buried our brother; we have heard the lamentations of all classes
+at his death; we are now paying our last public token of respect to his
+universally admitted worth; and yet, his removal appears like a dream.
+
+This day three weeks he came for a few minutes in the morning to witness
+the ordinance of baptism, but was too much indisposed to render his
+usual assistance. We conjectured, during that and the three following
+days, that he was suffering from a severe cold; but on the Thursday it
+was manifest that a formidable disease had taken full possession of his
+frame. During the whole of Thursday night he was very delirious, and so
+continued, under the influence of the fever which preyed upon his
+vitals, with scarcely an intermission, until death released him from his
+sufferings on the following Thursday morning; when, at half-past one,
+his spirit departed to be with Christ. From the moment he was thought to
+be dangerously ill, he had no opportunity of making statements
+respecting his spiritual prospects. Such statements, however, were
+unnecessary to our sure and certain hope of his salvation. He had
+previously witnessed a good profession. His character had already been
+stamped for a happy immortality; and pleasing as might have been his
+dying testimony to the religion of the cross, it is not to be forgotten,
+that while he was called to forego the delight of giving, and we of
+receiving, such a testimony, he was spared the pang of separation from
+his beloved partner, and four interesting babes, for whose welfare he
+felt all the tender solicitude which the husband and the father could
+feel.
+
+During the former part of his illness, before it had assumed a dangerous
+aspect, I conversed with him respecting the importance of not leaving
+the concerns of religion to a moment when disease unfits the mind for
+reflection, and congratulated him on the fact of his having been
+enabled, through grace, to prepare in health for the solemnities of
+eternity. He devoutly acknowledged the mercy which, in this respect, he
+had received; but neither then, nor on the following day, when our
+respected independent brother, with whom he had long been on terms of
+closest intimacy, prayed with him, did he appear to have the conviction
+that his "sickness was unto death." About a week before this period,
+having occasion to consult him respecting some important business
+connected with the church, our conversation assumed a more than commonly
+serious tone. I was led to ask him several questions respecting his own
+experience in religion, and the motives by which he had been actuated in
+his singular devotedness to this particular interest; and such were his
+replies, and in so affecting a manner were they given, that I left him
+with the deepest conviction that he was eminently a man of God: and
+since his departure, I have considered the statements which he then made
+as an anticipatory dying testimony to the genuineness and vigour of his
+personal piety.
+
+There were public as well as private circumstances of a somewhat similar
+nature, which are now cherished in the memories of his friends. At the
+last monthly prayer-meeting at which he was permitted to attend, he
+manifested a most solemn and intense devotional spirit. When praying for
+the prosperity of the church, he was so greatly affected as to be
+scarcely able, for several minutes, to proceed, while sympathy made the
+exercise one of general weeping as well as of supplication. At the last
+Sunday-school Union prayer-meeting also, many of the teachers remarked
+at the time, how very earnestly he wrestled on their behalf; and since
+that period, they have very naturally dwelt much on the fact, that he
+concluded the engagement by giving out and setting the tune to the
+following expressive lines:--
+
+  "Come, Christian brethren! ere we part,
+  Join every voice and every heart," &c.
+
+Having laboured for us ardently and efficiently, instead of repining at
+his removal, let us, by divine assistance, be grateful that a still more
+speedy termination was not put to his probationary career; and rejoice
+in his blissful possession of the "recompence of reward;" our loss being
+his imperishable gain.
+
+
+              THE TRIUMPH OF PRINCIPLE OVER INTOLERANCE,
+     ILLUSTRATED IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. BERRIDGE, OF EVERTON
+
+               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+The following letter was written by the late Mr. Sutcliff of Olney, and
+not having been extensively circulated, may perhaps be acceptable to
+some of the readers of the Baptist Magazine.
+
+It was published under Mr. Sutcliff's signature in a small collection of
+Mr. Berridge's letters, which I have in my possession, under the title
+of "Cheerful Piety, or Religion without Gloom," in the year 1797. And
+if its insertion meets your approbation, I will give it in Mr.
+Sutcliff's own words.
+
+                                                      A CONSTANT READER.
+
+_Harley Place, Bow._
+
+About two years ago a friend of mine, wishing to enjoy an hour or two of
+Mr. Berridge's company, rode over to Everton for that purpose. He was
+introduced by a dissenting minister in the neighbourhood, with whom Mr.
+B. lived upon terms of friendship. When seated, my friend requested Mr.
+B. if agreeable, to favour them with a few outlines of his life. The
+venerable old man began, and related several things as narrated in the
+first number of the Evangelical Magazine. But as some are there
+unnoticed, I have selected the following, which I think will not be
+uninteresting.
+
+Soon after I began, said he, to preach the gospel of Christ at Everton,
+the church was filled from the villages around us, and the neighbouring
+clergy felt themselves hurt at their churches being deserted. The
+esquire of my parish, too, was much offended. He did not like to see so
+many strangers, and be so incommoded. Between them both, it was
+resolved, if possible, to turn me out of my living. For this purpose
+they complained of me to the bishop of the diocese, that I had preached
+out of my own parish. I was soon after sent for by the bishop. I did not
+much like my errand, but I went. When I arrived, the bishop accosted me
+in a very abrupt manner: "Well, Berridge, they tell me you go about
+preaching out of your own parish; did I institute you to the livings of
+A----y, or E----n, or P----n?" No, my lord, said I, neither do I
+claim any of these livings, the clergymen enjoy them undisturbed by me.
+"Well, but you go and preach there, which you have no right to do." It
+is true, my lord, I was one day at E----n, and there were a few poor
+people assembled together, and I admonished them to repent of their
+sins, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of their
+souls; and I remember seeing five or six clergymen that day, my lord,
+all out of their own parishes, upon E----n bowling-green. "Poh!" said
+his lordship, "I tell you, you have no right to preach out of your own
+parish; and if you do not desist from it, you will very likely be sent
+to Huntingdon." As to that, my lord, said I, I have no greater liking to
+Huntingdon gaol than other people; but I had rather go there with a good
+conscience, than live at my liberty without one. Here his lordship
+looked very hard at me, and very gravely assured me that I was beside
+myself, and that in a few months I should either be better or worse.
+Then, said I, my lord, you may make yourself quite happy in this
+business; for if I should be better, you suppose that I shall desist
+from this practice of my own accord; and if worse, you need not send me
+to Huntingdon gaol, as I shall be provided with an accommodation in
+Bedlam.
+
+His lordship now changed his mode of attack: instead of threatening, he
+began to entreat: "Berridge," said he, "you know I have been your
+friend, and I wish to be so still. I am continually teazed with the
+complaints of the clergymen around you; only assure me, that you will
+keep to your own parish; you may do as you please there. I have but
+little time to live; do not bring my grey hairs with sorrow to the
+grave." At this instant two gentlemen were announced, who desired to
+speak with his lordship. "Berridge," said he, "go to your inn, and come
+again at such an hour, and dine with me." I went, and, on entering a
+private room, fell immediately upon my knees. I could bear threatening,
+but knew not how to withstand entreaty, especially the entreaty of a
+respectable old man. At the appointed time I returned. At dinner I was
+treated with great respect. The two gentlemen also dined with us. I
+found they had been informed who I was, as they sometimes cast their
+eyes towards me in some such manner as one would glance at a monster.
+After dinner, his lordship took me into the garden. "Well, Berridge,"
+said he, "have you considered of my request?" I have, my lord, said I,
+and have been upon my knees concerning it. "Well, will you promise me
+that you will preach no more out of your own parish?" It would afford me
+great pleasure, said I, to comply with your lordship's request, if I
+could do it with a good conscience. I am satisfied the Lord has blessed
+my labours of this kind, and I dare not desist. "A good conscience!"
+said his lordship, "do you not know that it is contrary to the canons of
+the church?" There is one canon, my Lord, I replied, which saith, "Go,
+preach the gospel to every creature." "But why should you wish to
+interfere with the charge of other men? one man cannot preach the gospel
+to all men." If they would preach the gospel themselves, said I, there
+would be no need of my preaching it to their people; but as they do not,
+I cannot desist. His lordship then parted with me in some displeasure;
+and I returned home not knowing what would befall me, but thankful to
+God that I had preserved a conscience void of offence.
+
+I took no measures for my own preservation; but Divine Providence
+wrought for me in a way that I never expected. When I was at Clare Hall,
+I was particularly acquainted with a fellow of that college, and we were
+both upon terms of intimacy with Mr. Pitt, the late Lord Chatham, who
+was at one time also at the university. This fellow of Clare Hall, when
+I began to preach the gospel, became my enemy, and did me some injury in
+some ecclesiastical privileges which beforetime I had enjoyed. At
+length, however, when he heard I was likely to come into trouble, and to
+be turned out of my living at Everton, his heart relented. He began to
+think, it seems, within himself, "We shall ruin this poor fellow among
+us." This was just about the time that I was sent for by the bishop. Of
+his own accord he writes a letter to Mr. Pitt, saying nothing about my
+Methodism, but to this effect: "Our old friend Berridge has got a living
+in Bedfordshire, and I am informed he has an esquire in his parish that
+gives him a deal of trouble; has accused him to the bishop of the
+diocese; and, it is said, will turn him out of his living; I wish you
+would contrive to put a stop to these proceedings." Mr. Pitt was at that
+time a young man, and not choosing to apply to the bishop himself, spoke
+to a certain nobleman to whom the bishop was indebted for his promotion.
+This nobleman, within a few days, made it his business to see the
+bishop, who was then in London. "My lord," said he, "I am informed you
+have a very honest fellow, one Berridge, in your diocese, and that he
+has been ill treated by a litigious esquire who lives in his parish; he
+has accused him, I am told, to your lordship, and wishes to turn him out
+of his living; you would oblige me, my lord, if you would take no
+notice of that esquire, and not suffer the honest man to be interrupted
+in his living." The bishop was astonished, and could not imagine in what
+manner things could have thus got round: it would not do, however, to
+object; he was obliged to bow compliance; and so I continued ever after
+in my sphere of action.
+
+The squire, having waited on the bishop to know the result of the
+summons, had the mortification to learn that his purpose was defeated;
+on his return home, his partisans in this prosecution fled to know what
+was determined on, saying, "Well, have you got the old devil out?" He
+replied, "No, nor do I think the very devil himself can get him out."
+After this interesting narration was ended, which had alternately drawn
+smiles and tears from my friend and his companion, they requested him to
+pray with them one five minute's before they departed. "No," said the
+good old man to my friend, you shall pray with me. "Well, but if I
+begin, perhaps you will conclude." He consented: after my friend had
+ended, he, without rising from his knees, took up his petitions, and
+with such sweet solemnity, such holy familiarity with God, and such
+ardent love to Christ, poured out his soul, that the like was seldom
+seen. They parted, and my friend declares he thinks he shall never
+forget the savour of this interview to his dying day.
+
+                                                           J. SUTCLIFF.
+
+
+                       RELIGIOUS REVIVAL MEETINGS.
+
+                 _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+I have been surprised and pained by the appearance of the paper, headed
+"On Revivals in America," in the number of your Magazine for the present
+month. Though the paper is headed "Revivals in America," Mr. Clarke has
+not confined his remarks to American revivals; he has animadverted with
+considerable freedom on revival meetings in England. As I, and several of
+my brethren in this part of the country, have sanctioned these meetings,
+I trust you will in justice allow me a little space in your next number,
+for a few remarks on his very singular production.
+
+Mr. C. commences with some observations on revivals in America. On this
+subject, I think, he does not write very consistently. It is scarcely
+possible to give a more gloomy, disparaging description of the American
+revivals than that which he presents. He represents them as exerting a
+most pernicious influence on the churches, on the young, and on the
+enemies of religion, rendering "the character of Christians undignified
+and uninfluential," and reducing them to a state of "contempt and
+ridicule." He says, "The good that they are occasionally the means of
+effecting is secured at the expense of the dignity, influence, and
+subsequent enjoyment of the church; and at the expense, too, of much
+that is lovely and permanent in the character of pure religion." Now, if
+this account of American revival meetings be correct, they must be a
+very great evil, and ought to be entirely discountenanced by Christians.
+Yet Mr. C. says, "Revival meetings may do for America." "The system is
+their own, and is almost universally understood and recognized." He also
+says, "The correctness of the reports which have reached this country
+respecting their revivals, perhaps, ought not to be seriously
+questioned." But if the reports of American revivals which have reached
+this country be in general correct, I think the description of Mr. C.
+must be very defective in that important quality; for there is a very
+wide difference between his description and those reports. If we doubt
+the correctness of his description, he has himself supplied us with an
+apology; for he says, "Things are not always in reality what they appear
+to be to the persons who describe them. Besides, truth is seldom naked,
+and its dress frequently makes an erroneous impression."
+
+Mr. C. says, "It is not my intention to degrade our American brethren;
+indeed, I cannot." True. But I suppose they will not consider that he
+passes a very high compliment on them, by first describing their
+meetings as he has done, and then saying, "The system is their own, and
+is there almost universally understood and recognized." His remarks on
+the American revivals "are, no doubt well intended," but I believe it
+would be difficult for any one to say what good end they are calculated
+to answer.
+
+But I hasten to a consideration of the latter part of Mr. Clarke's
+paper, which contains some extraordinary strictures on "revival meetings
+in England." He admits that the revival meetings in England may be well
+intended, but says, "They appear to have originated in a wish to imitate
+the Americans." I trust they originated in a sincere desire to glorify
+God, and to promote the salvation of immortal souls. Mr. C. says,
+"Religion cannot be imported." Indeed! Was not religion imported into
+this country? Was it not imported into America? And has it not been
+imported into other countries by our Missionaries? "Revival meetings,"
+says Mr. C., "may do for America, but they will not do for England." How
+does he know they will not do for England? Has he ever made the attempt?
+Has he ever attended a revival meeting in England? If not, I think he
+ought to have been less hasty in his conclusion. But they will not do
+for England, "because the people here do not understand them, neither do
+they heartily approve them." I am not much surprised that people do not
+_heartily approve_ that which they do not _understand_. He says in
+America the meetings are "almost universally understood and recognized."
+Hence it appears where they _are_ understood they _are_ approved, and
+that they are _not_ approved only where they are _not_ understood. This
+surely cannot be a very powerful argument against such meetings. Another
+of Mr. C.'s reasons why these meetings will not do for England is, "Our
+country has long been inhabited, and distinguished for religious
+institutions." As to the length of time our country has been inhabited,
+that can have very little to do with the subject; and as to our being
+distinguished for religious institutions, I do not know that we have
+such a mighty advantage over the Americans. Some of our religious
+institutions, instead of diminishing, greatly increase our need of
+revival meetings. Mr. C. next attempts to draw from the Scriptures an
+argument against revival meetings. "Besides," says he, "it is said,
+'Six days shalt thou labour,' and necessity makes many in England keep
+this commandment." And I should think necessity makes many in America
+keep it too. I suppose he does not mean to say that this commandment
+forbids persons from attending public worship on the "six days" if their
+circumstances will allow them to do so. And if he do not mean this, for
+what purpose can it be referred to? Once more. He says, "The unconverted
+inhabitants of this country are far more likely to raise bitter
+persecutions where revivals are attempted, than to feel willing to
+engage in them." And suppose the wicked were to raise bitter
+persecutions, are they to deter the Christian from doing that which he
+believes is for the glory of God? Has not the Saviour said, "Blessed are
+ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you," &c.? But experience
+has proved to me that Mr. C.'s assertion is far from correct; several
+revival meetings have been held in Lincolnshire, each of which was
+attended by many unconverted persons, and at not one was there any
+persecution. "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall
+be slain in the streets." Prov. xxii. 13.
+
+Mr. C.'s feelings warm as he advances; and, if I be not greatly
+mistaken, they carry him very far beyond the bounds of Christian charity
+in the following sentences: he says, "But, perhaps, the secret is this;
+these meetings in England look like a burlesque; they appear like a body
+without a soul, or like an orator without originality. We cannot,
+therefore, expect people to be charmed and benefited by them; for the
+mind cannot be wrought upon by what is felt to be a farce, nor will God
+bless what is not perfectly sincere." Revival meetings in England, "not
+perfectly sincere!" but are "a farce!!" and "a burlesque!!!" Really, Mr.
+Editor, I think this is "set forth with a little too much sharpness of
+invective," and I fancy all your readers, except Mr. Clarke, will think
+the same.
+
+As we proceed we find Mr. C. attempting to describe "the views and
+feelings of our churches associated in the capacity of Revivalists." I
+will not do our churches the injustice to believe that they would talk
+such nonsense as that which he puts into their lips; the language is
+much more befitting infidels than Christians. I am quite sure the views
+and feelings of our churches in this country, respecting revival
+meetings, are as different as possible from what Mr. C. states, and I
+believe many of our members are in no small degree disgusted by what he
+is pleased to say on the subject. If there be no more truth in what he
+says of the American revivals, than there is in his descriptions of
+revival meetings in England, he had better never given his "opinion" on
+the subject.
+
+Mr. C. says, "I would advise an adherence to _ordinary services_; for
+these being evidently scriptural and reasonable," &c. It is a pity he
+does not tell us what _are_ the "ordinary services that are scriptural
+and reasonable." Our Lord "taught daily in the temple," Luke xix. 47.
+The first converts at Jerusalem "continued daily with one accord in the
+temple and breaking bread from house to house," Acts ii. 46. Paul told
+the elders of the church at Ephesus, "that by the space of three years
+he ceased not to warn every one night and day." Acts xx. 31. These are
+scriptural services, and I suppose they are reasonable too. As to
+"ordinary services," they differ in different churches; some having one,
+and others having three or four, on the Sabbath; some having no service,
+and others having several, during the "six days." It is frequently
+mentioned to the honour of Whitefield and Wesley, that they preached
+almost every day in the week. The services that were "ordinary" to these
+good men would be extraordinary to most of our churches and ministers.
+Mr. C.'s advice to the churches is virtually, "Continue to go on as you
+do; quicken not your pace; devise no liberal scheme different from what
+you have already in operation; if you hear of other churches doing a
+great deal of good, by employing different means from those which you
+employ, regard it not; 'no plan can prove serviceable that is learned
+only from hearsay.' Above all things, carefully avoid whatever is
+extraordinary in the service of God." Mr. C. would make an admirable
+reformer!
+
+A statement of a few facts will be the best reply to what Mr. C. says
+about revival meetings in England. In this part of the country, six
+revival meetings have been held within the last nine or ten months, at
+four of which I have been present. None of the evils of which he speaks
+occurred at any of these meetings; they were attended by ministers and
+members of different denominations of Christians, most of whom
+expressed, not merely their approbation of the services, but their
+gratitude to God for the great spiritual delight they experienced in
+attending them. I believe every church that has held one of these
+meetings feels anxious that it should be repeated. Since they were held,
+some have been added to our churches, who state that it was whilst
+attending them that they first felt the importance of religion. Last
+Sabbath, three were added to the church at Lincoln, to whom these
+meetings were greatly blessed; and I hope in a few weeks to baptize
+three others who can say the same. What are Mr. C.'s flippant remarks
+when weighed in the balance with these facts?
+
+                                                             JOHN CRAPS.
+
+_Lincoln, February, 5th, 1835._
+
+
+                            WIDOWS' FUND.
+
+               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+Observing in your Magazine for last month a notice of the annual sermon
+to the Society for the Relief of the Widows of Protestant Dissenting
+Ministers, as intended to be preached at Salters' Hall meeting-house,
+Cannon-street, on Wednesday the 1st of April next, will you allow a
+well-wisher to that institution to occupy a small part of your pages to
+state a few particulars respecting that highly-valuable institution, as
+I apprehend many of your readers are but little acquainted with its
+origin and design. The proposed anniversary is the 102nd, it having been
+established in the year 1733. It was founded on a broad and liberal
+scale; no theological basis was intended; but the necessitous widows of
+ministers of the denominations of Presbyterians, Independents, and
+Baptists, were to be the recipients of its bounty. For these classes of
+Protestant Dissenters it was their aim to provide; and as our ancestors
+truly imagined that union was strength, their combined efforts were
+exerted to form this society. It is, however, but justice to say that,
+in the first instance, the interests of the society were greatly
+promoted by the exertions of our Presbyterian friends. To Dr. Chandler,
+a minister of that denomination, it was indebted for its rise. It has,
+however, since that period, been liberally supported by the other
+denominations of Dissenters, and diffused its blessings for more than a
+century "to the fatherless and the widow." The annual sermon has been
+preached alternately by a minister of each denomination; it was formerly
+at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, where the writer of this has
+witnessed, with high satisfaction, a thronged assembly listening to the
+urgent and sympathizing strains of a Fuller, a Hall, a Toller, and
+various others of different denominations. In the present year it falls
+to the Baptists to provide a place and a preacher; and may it not be
+reasonably hoped that that denomination will give the meeting its
+countenance and support, when they are informed that they have near
+eighty widows in the English counties, who receive an annuity from its
+funds, from one to twelve pounds each; besides more than twenty widows
+in the principality of Wales, who receive from seven to nine pounds of
+annual allowance.
+
+How creditable, Mr. Editor, would it be to the dissenters to revive this
+cause, which of late has been drooping! And the writer of this would
+fain entertain a hope that, whilst exertions are making amongst the
+friends of religion for so many important objects, ancient institutions
+will not be overlooked and forgotten; but that a spirit of revival will
+appear to the cause of the "widow and fatherless."
+
+_Denmark Hill._                                           J. GUTTRIDGE.
+
+  *.* We understand that the whole amount of subscriptions to this
+  benevolent institution is under L120.
+
+
+                     THE REV. L. S. E.'s PUBLICATION.
+
+ (COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO A FRIEND, A MEMBER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.)
+
+_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+  DEAR SIR,
+
+As you were so kind as to favour me with the loan of a publication,
+entitled "_Letters to a Dissenting Minister, by L. S. E., containing
+Remarks on the Principles of the Sect_," &c., and to request my opinion
+of its merits and tendency, I have put down what occurred to me on the
+perusal of some parts of its contents: to have toiled through the whole
+of it, was a task to which my patience was by no means equal.
+
+The first impression produced on my mind was, the total absence of that
+charity and forbearance so often enjoined in the holy Scriptures.
+"_Judge not, that ye_ BE NOT JUDGED," was one of the precepts
+delivered, in his first sermon, by our divine Lord and Master; and in
+accordance with this direction, when his disciples, instigated by a
+mistaken regard for his cause, came to him complaining that they had met
+with some who followed not with them, and inquiring whether they should
+forbid them, his reply was, "Forbid them not, for he that is not against
+us is with us." The apostle Paul recommended the same line of conduct
+towards weak and mistaken brethren, and in the First Epistle to the
+Corinthians, which abounds with directions as to the conduct of
+professing Christians one towards another, he sums up the whole by a
+glowing description of _charity_, as superior to all other graces:
+"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; thinketh no evil; hopeth all
+things; endureth all things." To me it appears utterly impossible to
+reconcile these expressions with the arrogant pretensions and sweeping
+censures of this writer, not only with respect to the overt conduct, but
+the _motives_, of those who differ from him, charging them with a
+sin more heinous than drunkenness, and with being under the influence
+of the devil, because they cannot see alike with him respecting some
+of the circumstantials of Christianity, though they may agree as to
+the essentials.
+
+But the censorious language of the writer is not exhausted in the use of
+the most opprobrious epithets, and such as have hitherto been only
+appropriate to the vilest of characters; but it is diffused through the
+pages of his publication, by raking together and detailing anecdotes,
+with a view to degrade and vilify individuals, and the body of
+dissenters at large. That there are imperfections and inconsistencies to
+be found among the professors of religion, must be acknowledged; and has
+in every age been a source of lamentation to truly pious and devoted
+Christians; but how different their feelings from those of this
+clergyman, who endeavours to expose to ridicule the failings of others;
+who dwells upon them with a kind of malignant pleasure, and thus affords
+a handle to the common enemies of Christianity!
+
+As to many of the anecdotes contained in this publication, many are
+garbled and distorted, and some of them are, in many of their
+particulars, palpable falsehoods. The very quotations from the writings
+of his opponents--though it must be conceded that at this period of
+great excitement many unguarded expressions have been used by some
+individuals--are, some of them, so garbled and mangled as scarcely to
+bear any resemblance to the original, and calculated to convey a meaning
+very different from what was intended by the writer.
+
+Not to dwell any longer on these statements, which occupy a considerable
+portion of the book, in the chapters on _the Authority of the Church_,
+and _the Ordination of Christian Ministers_, much will be found so
+extravagant in its assumptions, as to throw the pretensions of the
+church of Rome into the shades (within whose pale, if he had any regard
+for consistency, he ought certainly to have been), and calculated to
+undermine and overthrow the grounds of the Protestant succession. They
+are indeed so full of absurdity as to amuse rather than offend, and
+exhibit in the clearest light the inability of L. S. E. to form a
+correct judgment, either as to matters of faith or practice. With all
+the consequence and arrogance which assumed infallibility can induce, he
+maintains that none ought to be teachers of religion but those who are
+_authorized_, or otherwise _specially inspired_ of God. According to his
+definition, an _authorized_ minister is one who has passed through the
+ordeal of episcopal ordination, and what constitutes that authority is,
+the _regular succession_ from the times of the apostles to the present
+period. In order to make this most important discovery of a regular
+succession, on which, in his estimation, so much depends, I have been
+employing myself for some time, in rummaging the different volumes of
+ecclesiastical history within my reach, and endeavouring to trace the
+succession, from the time of Peter downwards; and upwards from the time
+of the Reformation. In the former case, there is great confusion in the
+catalogue of bishops. Few of these are alike; some names of persons are
+given, who, there is reason to believe, never existed; there are many
+periods entirely without names; and it is well known, that for some time
+there were rival popes, each claiming exclusive authority. In tracing
+these tainted and impure currents, where shall we discover, either
+before or after the Saxon invasion, the perennial stream which will
+alone confer sanctity on the priestly office?
+
+In attempting to make discoveries in a retrograde movement, from the
+time of the Reformation, we find the names of Bonner, Gardiner, &c.;
+those immaculate characters, who, of course, transmitted this divine
+authority, and afterwards committed those to whom they had given it to
+the flames. In this lack of information on so momentous a subject, L. S.
+E.--_alias_ the Rev. Augustus Gathercole--will confer an invaluable
+benefit on the church to which he belongs, if he can produce, from his
+hidden stores, in the musty parchments which have been concealed for
+ages, the direct and unbroken line of succession, and append it to the
+next edition of his popular production. Of course the dissenters can
+have no pretensions to be _authorized_ teachers on these grounds; and
+not more so, as having _a special inspiration from God_ to become
+teachers, which is represented by this writer as the only other ground
+of a call to this office. It is true that some enthusiasts, with whom,
+as a body, they have no connexion, have laid claim to this high
+prerogative; but the avowed sentiment of the nonconformist body is, that
+the supernatural powers connected with a _special inspiration_ from God
+ceased with the first ages of Christianity. The Holy Spirit, in his
+ordinary and gracious operations, is promised to all good men, and
+especially to the ministers of the gospel, who, whether professing to be
+authorized teachers in the way before described or not, are insufficient
+in themselves for any good work, their sufficiency being of God, who
+alone can make them able ministers of the New Testament. Destitute of
+this, the hands of the bishop cannot confer any of the necessary
+qualifications.
+
+If none have any claim to the sacred office but those who have had
+episcopal ordination, or are specially inspired, not only the present
+race of teachers among different denominations, both Methodists and
+regular Dissenters, must be degraded to the rank of intruders, whatever
+success may have attended their labours; but the same will apply to the
+2,000 ministers of whom the world was not worthy, the brightest
+ornaments of the church to which the reverend gentleman belongs, who
+were expelled from their situations by the act of uniformity. Also the
+ministers of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, of which, as well as
+of the church of England, the king, by his representative, is the head,
+with many of the most eminent men who have flourished in these and
+foreign lands. Whatever excellences the universal suffrage of the wisest
+and best of men, both Churchmen and Dissenters, have attributed to the
+writings and public labours of an Owen, a Howe, a Charnock, a Watts, a
+Doddridge (the intimate friend of Archbishop Secker), a Henry, with a
+long train of others that might be enumerated, they must now retire into
+the shades, and pass into oblivion, because this infallible judge has
+made it out that they were not _authorized teachers_. Like their
+successors, they were incompetent to administer the ordinances aright;
+like them, to use his own language, they could not lay _claim to be
+considered as Christians. They were without the pale of the visible
+church of God. As schismatics, who forsook the church, they ought to
+have been the very first persons to whom the church should have refused
+her burial service; the principles of independency, which they in
+general maintained, being those of depraved human nature instilled into
+man, and fostered in him by his great enemy the devil, who was the first
+dissenter._
+
+Whatever inconveniences or evils may attend the choice of their own
+teachers by each respective congregation, the imposition of teachers is
+far from being free from the most serious objections, and especially
+when the patronage is in the hands of persons, as it often is,
+regardless of the spiritual welfare of the flock, who are left in a
+starving condition, and too often feel no interest either in the
+preacher or his doctrine.
+
+But I forbear, and shall leave it to a discerning public to determine
+whether the contents of this unique publication--a specimen of which is
+now given, can do any service to the church of which the Rev. A.
+Gathercole prides himself as being a member, or do any credit to the
+judgment of the reverend clergymen and the lordly bishop, who have
+condescended to give it their sanction.
+
+For myself (and I can without hesitation say the same of those with whom
+I am connected), I have no wish to see the downfal of the venerable
+fabric of the church, though in its patronage, often improperly used,
+and in some of its formularies, particularly the baptismal service and
+others connected with it, I think I see much that calls for alteration.
+Many of its ministers and members I respect, and wish to consider them
+as fellow-Christians. To this however, in the estimation of the Rev. A.
+Gathercole, I have no right to lay a claim, and must not therefore
+presume to subscribe myself by any other name than that with which he
+designates every Dissenter,--
+
+                                            A HEATHEN MAN AND A PUBLICAN.
+
+
+    ON THE PROPRIETY OF INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN DISSENTING CHAPELS.
+
+               _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+I trust your candour will permit me, through the medium of your
+excellent publication, shortly to reply to some remarks that were made,
+and I think rather hastily, in your last number, relative to the
+introduction of instrumental music in dissenting places of worship. Your
+correspondent, Mr. Wilkin, I am fearful, was not in the most composed
+frame of mind when he sat down to pen the communication alluded to. The
+sounds of the instrument which he states to have "greeted" him with its
+"hideous tones," must have been vibrating in his ears at the time, or he
+could not have expressed sentiments bearing so close an affity to
+those _discordant_ notes with which he professes to have been so much
+annoyed on his entering some Baptist chapel.
+
+For my own part, I should deem no act inconsistent with the worship of
+God, in its simplest and purest form, which has a tendency to create a
+unison of voices which must tend so materially to produce a unity of
+feeling in the minds of those engaged in one of the most sublime parts
+of a religious service. I would only advocate the introduction of
+instrumental music into dissenting chapels to assist the singing, not
+when it merely offers an opportunity for the display of professional
+skill. With regard to the parts of Scripture bearing upon the subject,
+there are no direct commands in the New Testament, either for or against
+the practice. We read in the Revelations of "the harpers harping with
+their harps before the throne of God," while, in the Old Testament, we
+also read of praising God on the high-sounding organ. Surely, if praise
+was offered to God in this form with acceptance formerly, why shall it
+not be so in the present day? Some of the Psalms have titles signifying
+the author who was to set them to music, while others indicate the
+instrument it was to be played upon; clearly denoting that the
+accompaniment of music, when directed to God with pious feeling and
+sincerity of purpose, cannot be unacceptable, and consequently not
+inconsistent with the worship of the Divine Being; so that, so far from
+its being a departure from Scripture, it appears to me to be an
+adherence to it. Your correspondent states that, if he is wrong, he is
+open to correction. I trust, also, he is open to conviction, and
+sincerely hope he will not let early prejudices bias his mind to that
+extent as to pervert his judgment, or gain the ascendancy of his nobler
+and better feelings.
+
+                                                                 MUSICUS.
+
+_London, Feb. 7, 1835._
+
+
+                                 POETRY.
+
+                           PLEADING FOR MERCY.
+
+  When at thy footstool, Lord, I bend,
+    And plead with Thee for mercy there,
+  Think of the sinner's dying Friend,
+    And for His sake receive my prayer.
+  O think not of my shame and guilt,
+    My thousand stains of deepest dye:
+  Think of the blood which Jesus spilt,
+    And let that blood my pardon buy.
+
+  Think, Lord, how I am still Thy own,
+    The trembling creature of Thy hand;
+  Think how my heart to sin is prone,
+    And what temptations round me stand.
+  O think how blind and weak am I;
+    How strong and wily are my foes:
+  They wrestled with Thy hosts on high,
+    And can a worm their might oppose?
+
+  O think upon Thy holy word,
+    And every plighted promise there;
+  How prayer should evermore be heard,
+    And how Thy glory is to spare.
+  O think not of my doubts and fears,
+    My strivings with Thy grace divine:
+  Think upon Jesus' woes and tears,
+    And let his merits stand for mine.
+
+  Thine eye, Thine ear--they are not dull;
+    Thine arm can never shortened be:
+  Behold me here!--my heart is full----
+    Behold! and spare, and succour me.
+  No claim, no merits, Lord, I plead:
+    I come a humbled, helpless slave:
+  But, ah! the more my guilty need,
+    The more Thy O glory Lord, to save.
+
+
+                                REVIEWS.
+
+_Revealed Characteristics of God: in a Series of Essays._ By G. BARROW
+    KIDD, Minister of Roe Street, Macclesfield.--Westley and Davis.
+
+
+Who Mr. Kidd is we know not, but we have read his eighteen essays with
+great satisfaction; and we shall be greatly surprised if they do not
+contribute to make him far more widely known than he has been. The
+subjects are as follow: "On the Divine nature--On the Eternity of God,
+in contrast with the Duration of Man--On the Act of Concealment, as
+containing the Divine Glory--On God, as the Dwelling-place of his
+People--On Ezekiel's Vision of the Divine Glory--On the Equality of all
+Periods in the Sight of God--On the Divinity [Deity] of Jesus Christ--On
+the Revealed Representation of Jesus Christ's two Natures--On the
+Incarnation of the Word of God--On the Design of the Death of Christ--On
+the Atonement of Jesus Christ--On God, as the Original of Man's Love to
+his Maker--On the Supremacy of Jesus Christ--On the Deity as in Jesus
+Christ, and in him alone--On the Deity as in Jesus Christ, and in all
+believers--On the Extent and Surrender of Jesus Christ's
+Administration--On the Blessedness of Jesus Christ--On the Worship of
+Heaven." All these subjects are, it is obvious, important, evangelical,
+and interesting, in a very high degree, to those who believe in a divine
+revelation.
+
+The _spirit_ of these essays is eminently devotional; every essay is
+full of Christ, and he is "all in all." The writer believes all the
+great articles of the gospel system, as they are commonly held by
+evangelical Christians. Nor does he make any affectation of novelty or
+paradox, though, probably while unconscious of it himself, he has given
+us many original and uncommon thoughts. There is no pompous announcement
+of something to be expected very new, and recondite, and far removed
+from the beaten track. A holy unction from above seems to have rested on
+the writer; and though he is very grave and serious throughout, the
+reader will find some lively and tender appeals to his conscience and to
+his heart, mixed with long trains of elevated sentiment, and chains of
+reasoning very close and compact.
+
+The _method_ is admirable for its simplicity. The _lucidus ordo_, which
+Horace prescribes, he has uniformly observed. Always anxious, first, to
+investigate the true sense of the scripture which he has selected for
+the foundation of his essay, some of his elucidations, without any
+display of critical apparatus, are singularly happy.
+
+As to _style_, we think his _forte_ is in strength and vigour. Some long
+sentences (with parenthesis after parenthesis) involving thought within
+thought, have reminded us of the essays of our celebrated friend John
+Foster. We have observed many passages of great sublimity and splendour;
+and there are many of great depth, in which he finds "fountains below
+fountains," to borrow his own words, when traversing the ocean of "the
+unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ."
+
+Where Mr. Kidd studied, or to what school he belongs, we have never
+heard; but he is evidently a profound, original, independent thinker,
+writing out of his own mind. He has taken the thoughts, he says, "out of
+the mine of revealed truth." At the same time, it is pleasant to observe
+that he every where discovers a deep reverence for scripture authority.
+He is penetrated too with a strong conviction of the limits of all
+created minds. With chastened feelings he delights to soar aloft. He
+spreads his wings, and pursues a well-sustained upward flight, gazing
+with a strong and steady eye on the Sun of righteousness, as the proper
+object of all human and all angelic contemplation.
+
+A few words from the "advertisement" may be acceptable to our readers.
+The author mentions "the fact, that no two persons in any world
+entertain precisely the same intellectual views; and that, consequently,
+every sincere contemplator of revealed beauty, whatever may be his
+capacity, has it in his power to make broader the reflected light of
+God's word; and that the utmost efforts of human beings on earth,
+however diversified, and however harmonious in their diversity, will be
+no more than an approximation to the revealed mind of God."
+
+The volume is neatly got up, and printed with remarkable care and
+accuracy. Our limits will permit only a few extracts.
+
+  "If nothing were forgotten, if a distinct impression were
+  retained of all the words which he had ever spoken; of all the
+  deeds which he had ever done; of all the thoughts which he had
+  ever entertained; of all the places in which he had ever been;
+  of all the persons whom he had at any time seen and conversed
+  with; of all the words which he had ever heard; of all the
+  pleasures which he had ever tasted and enjoyed; of every
+  remonstrance from conscience; of every warning or invitation
+  from God or man; and could he, moreover, have continually in
+  his view these things in the precise order in which they all
+  occurred; could he behold every cause and every effect; and
+  every thing which he had been invisibly operating so as to
+  prevent a manifest cause from producing the effect which might
+  have been looked for as the usual one; and every thing, on the
+  other hand, which had secretly assisted a cause apparently
+  inadequate to produce a greater effect than could have been
+  anticipated; how very different a thing from what it is would
+  be human life! Now, although this accurate remembrance from
+  vivid impressions of the past is not man's prerogative on
+  earth, yet it is easily conceivable that he might attain to
+  this in a purer and brighter world. It cannot, indeed, be
+  imagined that the angels do not remember every thing which has
+  occurred during the whole of their wakeful being." pp. 28, 29.
+
+In another place, when referring to the Messiah, he says,--
+
+  "He has, in one word, adapted himself to your circumstances.
+  It was in all the defective and sinful parts of your history
+  that he was likely to be the least capable of affording to you
+  succour or supply. It was in the pity that your misery
+  demanded; in the forbearance that your propensity to crime
+  required; in the minute example that your dulness called for;
+  in the suffering which was necessary for your deliverance;
+  that there was apparently the greatest occasion to the sinner
+  for apprehension and fear. But all these parts of the
+  condition of the human fallen, their Redeemer has met in a
+  manner which bespeaks wisdom the most amazing, benevolence
+  that defies adequate admiration. With the view that has been
+  given of Jesus Christ, in this essay, we cannot reasonably
+  allow ourselves to be subject to despondency; for finite,
+  little, imperfect, diminutive, frail, occupying so small a
+  portion of creation as we are, we cannot possibly despair of
+  being complete in Him, in whom dwells all the fulness of the
+  Godhead bodily. Oh, let us then unite ourselves to Him in the
+  bond of a covenant which can never be dissolved." p. 321.
+
+Towards the close of the 16th essay, he exclaims:
+
+  "Oh, what honour is accumulating in the world above! We inform
+  them of a morning which is not to be succeeded by night; of a
+  subjection which is more illustrious than all the victories
+  that the universe will have ever before beheld; of a finite
+  nature which is clothed with eternal and uncreated light; of
+  the very last of all the complicated actions belonging to the
+  redemption of the world; when Jesus Christ shall bring before
+  his Father the millions that He has saved from every species
+  and degree of crime and degradation, for the purpose of
+  introducing them to everlasting fellowship with Jehovah; and
+  when _He_ shall become subject, to whom perpetual supremacy
+  belongs, in order that He may show to saints and angels what
+  has been the greatness of His humiliation, and how unutterable
+  is the grandeur of God; since when He has risen from infancy
+  in Bethlehem on earth, to a degree of strength, of lustre, of
+  possession, and of renown, which all created capacity is
+  inadequate to comprehend, the next degree of glory above this,
+  is an act of voluntary subjection to his heavenly Father;
+  which the honours of the supreme throne, and the laws of
+  infinite existence, require." p. 365.
+
+
+  _Dissent not Schism. A Discourse delivered in the Poultry Chapel,
+        December 12th, 1834, at the Monthly Meeting, &c._
+             By T. BINNEY--Robinson, 25, Ludgate Hill.
+
+Very elaborate, acute, argumentative, instructive, and convincing.
+The term _schism_, Mr. B. tells us, is literal, figurative, or
+ecclesiastical; but query, is not the ecclesiastical figurative? If
+so, the division is only twofold. Dr. Campbell's Dissertations (art,
+heresy and schism) deserve to be consulted.
+
+Mr. B., when referring to the three great forms of church
+government--episcopacy, presbyterianism, and congregationalism, has
+surprised us a little, by saying:--
+
+  "There is something in the record in favour of all; but the
+  book is not the exclusive property of any. There is more,
+  perhaps, in support of each than the thorough-going advocates
+  of the others will admit. There is more of episcopacy than is
+  quite palatable to the presbyterian and the independent; there
+  is more of presbyterianism than the independent and the
+  episcopalian can easily digest; and there is more of
+  congregationalism than either the priest or the presbyter can
+  manage to get rid of." p. 69.
+
+Is this to be understood _cum grano salis_, or are we left to infer that
+the worthy author himself is not quite settled in his own mind as to the
+interpretation of the record?
+
+It might have been as well if Mr. B. had confined himself to Dissenters,
+_as such_; however, his animadversions on the Methodists and the
+strict-communion Baptists, pp. 81-83, will do them no harm.
+
+His castigation of the present bishop of London, in the "notes," is not
+more severe than just. The bishop will remember it as long as he lives.
+
+We must make room for the concluding paragraph:--
+
+  "Finally, let us all scrupulously attend to the nourishment
+  and exercise of the catholic principle. Let us impress upon
+  our minds the necessity of 'keeping the heart with all
+  diligence, for out of it' arise 'schisms' and 'strifes.' Let
+  us watch over ourselves, and guard against every circumstance
+  that may diminish candour, pervert the judgment, or poison the
+  affections. As Christians, let us war with what separates man
+  from God; as dissenters, with what separates Christian from
+  Christian. Let us seek the nearer approximation of church to
+  church, and the ultimate recognition and union of all. Let
+  each of us so enter into the spirit of our faith, and so feel
+  the propriety and understand the reasons of our ecclesiastical
+  position, as to be able to say with boldness and truth, 'I am
+  a Dissenter, because I am a Catholic; I am a separatist,
+  because I cannot be schismatical; I stand apart from some,
+  because I love all; I oppose establishments, because I am not
+  a sectarian; I think little of uniformity, because I long for
+  union; I care not about subordinate differences with my
+  brother, for CHRIST _has received him_, and so will _I_;
+  thus, cultivating the spirit of universal love, I am hastening, I
+  hope, that day when the world itself shall become the church,
+  and preparing, I trust, for that world in which the church
+  shall be ONE--one in faith, in feeling, and in worship; in a
+  higher sense than can be witnessed here. While here, however,
+  so far as the _spirit_ and _expression_ of affection is
+  concerned, I am longing to witness and realize some approach
+  to what I anticipate hereafter,--anticipate in that region
+  where, amid the lustre and the loveliness of heaven, the jars
+  and the jealousies of earth shall have passed away.' This,
+  brethren, _ought_ to be the feeling and the consciousness of
+  'all who profess and call themselves Christians.' It ought
+  pre-eminently to be ours. May God make it to be so, and to be
+  so universally, by pouring down upon his church the Spirit
+  from on high; and by diffusing and sustaining in every part of
+  it the strength of love, and the meekness of wisdom! Amen."
+
+
+_A Memoir of the Rev. James Upton, late of Church Street, Blackfriars;
+the Addresses delivered at the Interment, by the Rev. G. Pritchard and
+    the Rev. W. B. Collyer, D.D., with the Funeral Sermons by the
+     Rev. Dr. Newman and the Rev. J. Davis, the Present Pastor._
+
+In the November number of our last volume--which contains a brief
+memorial of this revered and beloved servant of Christ--it is intimated
+as "probable, that some account of our departed friend will appear in
+another form." This account is contained in the small volume now before
+us. It has been prepared by the members of his family, by those who are
+engaged in proclaiming the truths of that blessed gospel which was the
+theme of his ministry, and the solace of his dying hour. Hence the
+sorrows of the mourning relatives are alleviated by the most joyful
+anticipations, even while "with tears they cast this wreath of filial
+duty and affection on his tomb."
+
+We can, however, assure our readers that this tribute of natural esteem
+to the memory of a deceased parent--a feeling not always to be trusted
+in sketches of this description--has not produced in this instance an
+overcharged exhibition of his character. If filial affection has held
+the pencil, modesty and fidelity have guided its delineations. In a
+letter dated from St. Alban's, 1834, Mr. W. Upton thus writes:--
+
+  "I would just remark, that neither my dear brother nor myself,
+  I am sure, pretend to eulogize our father as a faultless man,
+  or a faultless minister. In him the effects of a depraved
+  nature were seen as well as in others, but in him also were
+  seen, to a far greater degree than in most, the counteracting
+  and restoring influences of the gospel and the grace of God.
+  We feel therefore bound to say--not indeed with any design to
+  attribute unmerited honour to him, much less with a view to
+  borrow splendour from his rays, but with a desire to glorify
+  God, to encourage others, and to excite a holy emulation--that
+  "he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith;"
+  while by his instrumentality "much people was added to the
+  Lord." p. 100.
+
+In accordance with this sentiment, the elder brother, the principal
+writer of the memoir, observes:
+
+  "Now the Head of the church has called him to his rest, it
+  would be improper not to make the attempt to 'glorify God in
+  him,' by gathering such facts respecting his early history and
+  subsequent course, as our slender materials for such a purpose
+  will furnish."
+
+The scantiness of the materials which the life of this excellent man has
+supplied to his biographer, though to his friends a matter of regret,
+will be none of surprise to those who knew him. Modesty and diffidence
+seem to have been the native elements of his character; and humility,
+inducing a deep sense of his own unworthiness, constituted a
+characteristic feature of his renewed nature. To our departed brother,
+SELF had no attractions. It was not the idol of his idolatry; it was not
+even an object of his complacency. It was therefore scarcely to be
+expected that he should contribute much to perpetuate the memory of one
+of whom he habitually entertained so lowly an estimate.
+
+It appears, indeed, that Mr. Upton did at one time entertain the idea of
+preparing "a short narrative of his own life," urged so to do by the
+affectionate request of a friend; but the purpose was afterwards
+abandoned, probably, in part at least, from the cause to which we have
+adverted. Humility is a beautiful garment; it is a lovely and attractive
+grace; but its tendency is to conceal from view the excellencies with
+which it is associated. Hence men who are remarkably humble will be but
+imperfectly known. These plants of righteousness, not less than others,
+"have their fruit unto holiness;" but they are like those of the
+vegetable kingdom, whose richest products are often concealed beneath
+the broad foliage with which they are invested.
+
+Mr. U. was, however, not only "a tree which the Lord had planted," but
+he was like those "planted by the rivers of waters," he was eminently
+fruitful. A brief history of his connexion with the church over which he
+so long and so honourably presided, is modestly given by himself, in a
+letter to his son, dated November 9th, 1826, to which we must refer our
+readers. It appears that from the date of 1791 to 1800, including a
+period of ten years, 293 persons were baptized and added to the church;
+and from 1800 to 1820, 350 more; and after all the changes produced by
+death and removals, the number of members at the time of his decease is
+stated to be probably above 400: on his first connexion with this pious
+people there were but 16 members, and from 50 to 60 hearers. He was
+pastor of the church more than forty-eight years, and entered into his
+rest in the seventy-fifth year of his age.
+
+The contributions to the volume of the respected friends whose names are
+given in the title-page, cannot fail to add to its value. While they
+have attempted to magnify the grace of God in him, and to improve the
+event for the benefit of survivors, their concurrent testimony in
+relation to the deceased seems to have been, "Behold an Israelite
+indeed, in whom was no guile."
+
+
+  _The Reciprocal Duties of Church Members. A Sermon before the London
+    Baptist Association._ By the REV. EDWARD STEANE. pp. 44.--London:
+    Thomas Ward and Co. 27, Paternoster Row.
+
+We have read this sermon with considerable satisfaction, both on its own
+account, and on that of the Association to which it is dedicated. An
+Association must do good which calls for such clear, faithful, and
+instructive expositions of Christian duty, as this sermon furnishes. Mr.
+S. founds his discourse on John xiii. 34; and, as we think, wisely
+selects as his chief topic of illustration, that mutual love which Jesus
+Christ enjoins upon all disciples, and out of which the reciprocal
+duties of Church members will naturally flow, as "so many practical
+demonstrations of their obedience to the law of love."
+
+The nature of the love which our Lord inculcates, as a new commandment,
+is first explained in the sermon before us; though we doubt whether the
+preacher has put all, or even the principal, reasons for its being so
+denominated. _New_, in the text as well as in several other
+passages--for instance, _new_ heavens and a _new_ earth--has always
+appeared to us to indicate especial excellence or paramount importance.
+This commandment is not, as Mr. S. very properly observes, merely a
+revival, a vindication, or fresh enforcement of the spirit of the
+original law.
+
+"It is new," he says, "in relation to the parties commended to its
+exercise, the peculiarity of its nature, and the motive by which it is
+enforced. Under the second of these particulars the remarks of the
+preacher are somewhat feeble. The discriminative differences of
+Christian love are not clearly and forcibly drawn. We are told that it
+is "a spiritual principle--a supernatural endowment,--a property
+acquired in the process of that change by which Christians are born from
+above." So is that love to our enemies which Christianity requires us to
+cherish.
+
+We learn, further, that Christian love is "something more than good
+will; it is not simple humanity; it is brotherly love; an affection
+having its seat, not in the sympathy of the feelings, but in the
+sincerity of the heart." The distinction between "sympathy of the
+feelings" and "sincerity of the heart" is not very obvious; but, passing
+this, mere friendship, apart from Christianity, might be described in
+the same terms. Mr. S. adds: Christian love is "stronger than death; if
+needs be, it will lead a Christian to that last act of a devoted and
+divine friendship, to lay down his life for the brethren." True: so also
+is the love, not Christian, to which the apostle adverts, Rom. v. 7; and
+that of which, now and then, the idea and the precept is given; nay, and
+the example too, as Mr. S. must have known, by those to whom
+Christianity utterly unknown.
+
+Mr. S. appears to us, at pp. 11, 12, to have somewhat too sweepingly
+intimated that an "exclusive principle in the constitution of our
+churches" is indicative of a deficiency of the principle inculcated in
+the text. He has gone out of his way for the observations introduced on
+this point; and, as nineteen twentieths of the Christian world have
+always been, and are now, thus exclusive, it is somewhat daring to
+insinuate such a charge. If we take a narrower view of this subject, and
+regard only what are called _strict_ Baptists, whom Mr. S. appears to
+have had in his eye, we should be unwilling to pronounce judgment on the
+amount of the Christian love of such men as Kiffin, of olden time;
+Fuller, Kinghorn, and a host of others, of more modern date.
+
+In the second division of the sermon before us, the occasions and modes
+of fulfilling the new commandment of our Lord are exhibited. If all that
+Mr. S. has remarked upon are not strictly modifications of that mutual
+complacency in which he appears to think Christian love consists, each
+is of such vast importance that it could be but ill spared. This
+commandment, we are told, will be obeyed by affording _each other
+mutual_ (redundant) countenance, in supporting the public means of
+grace; by embracing opportunities for social devotion and spiritual
+intercourse; by _mutual_ submission _to one another_, especially in
+cases where a difference of opinion exists; by treating offenders
+properly; by mutually sympathizing, interchanging kindly offices, and
+watching over one another in the spirit of meekness; and by a hearty
+co-operation with fellow-christians in whatever tends to promote the
+prosperity of the church, and the general interests of Christianity in
+the world. These topics are respectively remarked upon with considerable
+propriety; as are also the motives enforcing this new commandment. These
+are, Christ's love to us; our mutual love will afford one of the best
+evidences of personal piety; it will make known our character to the
+world; and it will exist for ever. We a little regret that Mr. S. has
+fallen into the common error of supposing faith and hope excluded from
+heaven. "Faith and hope," he says, "will expire; but love never dies."
+We need not say that Scripture furnishes no ground for such a
+representation; neither is such ground involved in the nature of faith
+and hope, or in the views the Bible opens to us of heaven. Under some of
+their present modifications faith and hope will indeed be unknown there;
+but as much may be said of love. Do not the spirits of the just made
+perfect now anticipate, with faith and hope, "the adoption; to wit, the
+redemption of the body?" And will not the glorified assembly around the
+throne of God be always anticipating large accessions to their
+knowledge, holiness, and joy?
+
+On the whole, however, notwithstanding these free remarks, we cordially
+recommend this sermon to our readers; and shall be glad, at any time, to
+meet with the author in a department of Christian instruction for which
+his habits and experience have so well qualified him.
+
+
+              BRIEF NOTICES OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.
+
+_The Soul's Independence of Death, and God's Sovereignty in Man's
+Removal. A Sermon occasioned by the Decease of Mr. E. Bliss, aged 22,
+delivered on Sunday, February 1st, at Shortwood, by Thomas Fox Newman.
+London, Holdsworth and Ball, 1835._--This is a valuable sermon;
+containing many striking reflections, conceived with vigour, and
+expressed with much force. The circumstances under which it was preached
+evidently exerted a powerful and solemn influence on the mind of the
+preacher, and he speaks throughout under a deep impression of the
+infinite importance of eternal things. The unexpected death of so
+estimable a young man as Mr. Bliss appears to have been, was calculated
+to excite the liveliest emotions of grief, although there was every
+thing in his character to allay anxiety respecting himself, and to give
+the assurance of his having entered, thus early, upon the joys of the
+blessed. It will afford us sincere pleasure if our brief notice shall
+aid the circulation of the sermon, and thus contribute to its
+usefulness.
+
+_A Discourse occasioned by the Decease of William Maynard, Esq.,
+preached at the Meeting-house, Union Street, Southwark, Nov. 23rd, 1834.
+By John Arundel. With the Address delivered at the Interment, Bunhill
+Fields. Westley and Davis; Jackson and Walford._--A very serious,
+suitable, evangelical discourse, which could not be heard without great
+interest, and will not be read, we trust, without profit.
+
+_The Parent's Book. A Series of Tales. By Rosa Edwena Gordon, Nos. 1 and
+2. Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row._--Very sensible, entertaining,
+elegant and pathetic; but where is the Saviour, whom every parent should
+place before the eyes of his children?
+
+_The Mother's Magazine. Reprinted from the American Edition, No. 18. J.
+Paul, Paternoster Row._
+
+_Illustrations of the Bible from Original Paintings, by Westall and
+Martin, with Descriptions by the Rev. Hobart Caunter, B. D. part 10.
+Churton, 26, Holles Street._--An admirable work for all our young
+readers.
+
+_Primitive Christianity, &c. By William Cave, D.D. Hatchard._--The
+introductory essay by Mr. Trollope is very respectable; but we lament to
+say, that in Dr. Cave's popular work, now reprinted under the especial
+patronage of her most gracious Majesty the Queen, there are many
+traditions, fables, and idle ceremonies of human invention, which
+"primitive Christianity," or the religion of the first Christians, was
+not encumbered with. But, alas! "in the first ages of the gospel," her
+fair form was corrupted and defiled.
+
+_The Devotional Psalter._ "There is not a page of the book of Psalms in
+which the pious reader will not find his Saviour, if he reads with a
+view of finding him." Bishop Horsley.--Oliphant and Sons, Edinburgh.
+
+_Bible Lives. By B. H. Draper, 2 Vols. Westley and Davis._--Mr. Draper's
+entertaining pen could not be better employed than in such a work as
+this, from which, we trust, hundreds and thousands of young persons will
+derive both pleasure and profit.
+
+_Common Scenes Improved by the Rev. James Smith, late of Ilford--Christ
+Precious--The Temper of Jesus, by Dr. Grosvenor--Gilbert's Last
+Birth-Day--Christ the only Foundation. Ward and Co._--All fit
+instruments for much usefulness.
+
+_The Condensed Commentary, &c. Ward and Co._--The commencement is
+promising. We hope to be able to notice this cheap and valuable work
+more at large in its progress.
+
+_Bruce on Sympathy, 2nd Edition._--This respectable book we recommended
+several years ago, and we heartily do so again.
+
+_The British and Foreign Temperance Advocate and Herald. For January.
+Price Threepence._
+
+_On the Punishment of Death. By John Pell. Hamilton and Co._--This
+letter to the Marquis of Northampton, dated from Yardley, Hastings, in
+December last, is very powerfully written on Evangelical principles; and
+deserves the most profound consideration on the part of our
+legislators--and indeed of all our countrymen. The object is to prove
+that the punishment of death is unlawful.
+
+_Three Tracts on Public, Secret, and Social Prayer. Jackson and
+Walford._--When the reader has heard that these tracts were written by
+Mr. Sheppard, of Frome, he will not want any recommendation.
+
+_Educational Magazine, No 1. Simpkin and Marshall._--If this work
+proceeds as it has commenced, it will throw a flood of light upon the
+darkness of our own beloved country and of others.
+
+_The Scriptural Constitution of Christian Churches. A Discourse
+delivered November 13th, 1834, at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Penman,
+A.M., to the Pastorship of the Congregational Church, Tunbridge, Kent.
+By Thomas James, Woolwich. Westley and Davis._--A very sensible, clear,
+and candid discourse on a subject always interesting, and peculiarly so
+at the present time. The author, when referring to 1 Tim. iii. 17, "Let
+the _elders_ that rule well," &c., remarks: "That the term _elder_
+comprehends the office of deacon, is manifest from this:" but we confess
+it is not manifest to us. We have great satisfaction, however, in
+copying the following sentence in reference to the deacons: "And they
+should be sufficient in number to render unnecessary the many expedients
+to which some churches have resorted, in the appointment of managers,
+stewards, and committees, which are as unscriptural as the high sounding
+titles which are given to the multiplied officers of the national
+church."
+
+_James's Anxious Inquirer--Morison's Morning Meditations--Anecdotes (The
+Young)--Stephen Morell's Family Memorial--Case's Mount Pisgah._--Of
+these it is sufficient recommendation to say that they are published or
+republished by 'The Religious Tract Society.'
+
+
+                                  OBITUARY.
+
+                          MR. SAMUEL WARMINGTON.
+
+Mr. Samuel Warmington was the youngest of a numerous family. He had
+enjoyed many religious advantages from early childhood, and had grown up
+in the society of persons many of whom were distinguished for their
+prudence and piety. His early youth was strictly moral, and gave
+promising indications of future worth. He had much simplicity of
+purpose, with a remarkable freedom from those moral taints which many
+youths imbibe as they rise into manhood. He enjoyed no particular
+endowments of mind that might serve to distinguish or raise him above
+his fellows; but he possessed those more useful characteristics which
+attracted the respect and love of the circle by whom he was best known.
+Naturally of a retiring disposition, he avoided many worldly dangers and
+temptations, and acquired a salutary acquaintance with his own heart in
+private. In due time, God, in infinite mercy, though by a very gradual
+process, created him anew in Christ Jesus. This change was seen and felt
+by himself and others, not so much in the outward conduct, as by the
+flow of feeling and affection towards subjects of the highest
+importance. He united himself to the church under the pastoral care of
+the Rev. Dr. Newman, about three years since; and from that period has
+constantly maintained an exemplary Christian deportment, though
+circumstances over which he had no control prevented his fulfilling his
+duties as a church member as he could have wished.
+
+He was soon subjected to the discipline of his heavenly Father, who
+correcteth every son whom he receiveth. A tender attachment he had
+formed for a very accomplished and pious young lady was reciprocated and
+mutually cherished, till it became interrupted by her illness and death.
+The excitement consequent on the commencement and ripening of this
+affection, under circumstances so mournful, gave the first development
+of incipient disease. His friends observed its effects with concern, but
+not with alarm. In the meantime his mind had been acquiring both
+fortitude and dignity. The warmest sympathies of his heart had been
+drawn forth on behalf of his fading, dying friend; but, at the same
+time, he had been brought so near to the realities of the eternal world
+as never to lose the impression afterwards. The beneficial effects this
+trial had upon his character was evident to all who observed him. He
+mingled again amidst the busy scenes of life with feelings of heartfelt
+gratitude for the grace and mercy which had been manifested towards his
+late friend, and with renewed devotion to the God who had mingled so
+large a share of parental love with the affliction he had appointed him
+to endure. He likewise mingled in scenes of family affliction with much
+sensibility and a matured judgment. He did his part, with other
+brothers, in solacing a mother's dying pillow by his prayers and by
+other filial attentions.
+
+And thus it was that he became gradually prepared for the dissolution of
+the earthly house of his _own_ tabernacle. Symptoms of disease were
+renewed and accumulated, so as to awaken apprehension as to their issue.
+He retired from the avocations of business with graceful submission to
+the divine will, and zealously applied himself to means for the recovery
+of health. Testimonials of respect from his late employers, and his
+companions, frequently followed him into retirement, either at his
+father's house, or at some distant part of the country. The last journey
+he undertook was to Dover, where his stay was short and distressing. He
+returned home much worse, and with slight alternations of disease,
+slowly sunk beneath its influence.
+
+Under the paternal roof he enjoyed those soothing attentions his case
+required; and often mentioned, with touching emotion, his gratitude to
+God for giving him so kind a father, and such affectionate sisters, to
+alleviate his last affliction. One of these sisters, herself the subject
+of long affliction, was frequently detained with him from public
+worship, and on such seasons of sacred tranquillity, would read and
+converse with him. When too weak to bear either, he would lament his
+want of energy; but regarding it as a part of his affliction, desired to
+submit to it with acquiescence as the will of God. He would say, "I
+depend on the quiet, though powerful, teaching of the Holy Spirit; who
+will, himself, impress the truth on my mind." At other times he would
+say, "Read one of those sublime chapters at the conclusion of the
+Revelations, to draw my thoughts towards heaven." He was fond of the
+Pilgrim's Progress, and said of it, "In my weak state, it is the only
+book I can listen to with ease or profit, besides the Bible." When he
+spoke of the providence of God, it was always with evident satisfaction:
+he would say, "I am quite helpless, unable to do any thing for my own
+maintenance, or for the benefit of others; but I am so perfectly
+satisfied to cast all my care on the kindness and wisdom of God, that I
+do not desire to have a choice if I might. If my health be restored, I
+know he can direct my pursuits; and for the present, all is infinitely
+better than I could have arranged." On another occasion, he said to one
+of his sisters, "I should like to know Mr Beale's opinion (his medical
+attendant) of my disorder: if he thinks it will terminate fatally, I
+hope he will tell me: I am not alarmed at the thought of death." And
+shortly afterwards, added, "What a mercy it is that I have not _now_ to
+seek the Saviour, nor go to him now for the _first_ time: this is a
+season when I need the comfort and support of religion." On the evening
+of the same day, he enjoyed great composure of mind; and when referring
+to his departure, he said, "He trusted, as a family, we should all meet
+again: the separation would not be for long." He frequently requested to
+hear the 23rd Psalm read, saying, "Though I can repeat it, I like to
+hear it." A few days after confinement to his own room, he said to one
+of his sisters, "I shall never go down into the parlour again; I feel I
+am sinking; I can hardly describe my sensations of weakness." It was
+replied, that should it be so, it would be gain to him. He was asked if
+he felt any distress in the prospect, as to the actual pain of dying. He
+said, "No, my thoughts go beyond that; I endeavour to keep them fixed on
+the bright side--the glory that shall follow." On another occasion he
+was assisted to walk to the window of his apartment, and, looking out
+upon the garden, he said, "Ah! there is the garden I used to enjoy, it
+looks very winterly now, and I shall never walk there again; but I am
+quite satisfied." When alluding to his departure, he said, "He hoped it
+might be like falling asleep. Oh! to fall asleep, and wake in the
+likeness of Jesus!" His bodily sufferings were often very severe;
+especially as he drew near his end. On one occasion, when suffering
+extreme agony, he asked, "If it was proper to pray for an object
+seemingly desirable to ourselves!" The answer implied, there was no
+restriction; that we might call upon God in the day of trouble, asking
+for any mercy in submission to his will. He rejoined, "Oh! yes; _in
+submission to the will of God_, I do desire a little relief from pain;
+but," he added, "can you remind me of a _scripture_ example, where this
+has been done; for my mind seems so weak, I cannot think?" The words of
+the apostle Paul were referred to: "For _this thing_ I besought the
+Lord," &c. And also the words of Jesus himself: "If it be possible, let
+_this cup_ pass from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done."
+He seemed earnestly to adopt this language, and became more composed.
+The same evening he requested his father to pray with him; and being
+asked what he most desired, he said, "That I may have patience, and bear
+this affliction to the glory of God." He appeared to spend much of his
+time in mental aspirations after spiritual support, and the presence of
+Jesus. His oft-repeated request to his pious attendants was, "Oh! pray
+for complete acquiescence, and for the presence of Jesus." On one
+occasion, appearing to be greatly depressed, it was said to him, "Though
+flesh and heart fail, God will be your strength and portion for ever:"
+he replied, "Yes, he will; that is a mercy." After a pause, he said, "I
+am anxious to have the presence of Jesus to the last:" and added, "Does
+not Bunyan describe Christian as leaving his garments of mortality
+behind him, when he passed through the river? How delightful that will
+be!" At another time, when his hand had been lanced and dressed, he
+said, "I long to lay my poor hand in the dust; I long to be at rest."
+After a minute, he added, "There is a rest purchased and ready for me;
+and I shall be put in possession in God's own time." He was exceedingly
+grateful to those who attended him and administered to his necessities;
+telling them, he wished they might have the same support he felt, when
+they should be placed in circumstances similar to his. On an occasion of
+bodily infirmity, he very feelingly said, "The righteousness of Christ
+will soon cover all our shame." He continued in a state of extreme
+debility and suffering for many days, waiting his departure in a
+condition of child-like dependance on the mercy and faithfulness of his
+heavenly Father, reconciled to him, a guilty sinner, through the
+atonement of his blessed Saviour. He longed to depart, and be with
+Jesus; and would sometimes ask if it was wrong to pray for this
+blessing, hoping he might not be impatient or presumptuous.
+
+On his last sabbath on earth, his medical friend, having felt his pulse,
+said to him, "Well, Sir, I think you will soon be where there will be no
+more pain and suffering." He replied, "Not on account of anything of my
+own; it is purchased by the blood of Christ."
+
+Soon after this, through weakness, his articulation became indistinct,
+and dissolution appeared hourly approaching. He lingered, however, till
+the following Thursday morning, under the influence of much bodily
+anguish, but having his mind calm--often apparently quite happy--as he
+passed along the dark valley. It seemed as though a beam of heaven's
+glory illuminated his path, to assure his soul of her coming bliss. He
+had bid adieu to his affectionate relatives once before, deeming himself
+in the last struggle; but again, on the last morning, the mourning
+family were assembled around his bed, witnesses of his bodily distress;
+and to receive, more by expressive looks than by words, his final adieu.
+He faintly said, "Pray for me; pray for the presence of Jesus."
+Afterwards, with more distinctness than he had spoken for several days,
+he added; "Oh, blessed Jesus! _once more_, I implore thy love." One of
+his sisters remarked, "You will soon _rest_ in his love," quoting an
+appropriate promise; to which he rejoined, expressively, "That is no
+mere speculation." He said no more, but apparently listened to that
+verse, commencing--
+
+"Jesus, I love thy charming name," and in a few minutes closed his eyes
+on all terrestrial scenes. He died on the 18th of December, 1834, at his
+father's house, at Plaistow, Essex, aged twenty-seven years.
+
+
+                          RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
+
+                                 FOREIGN.
+
+                                 CANADA.
+
+                _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._
+
+DEAR SIR,
+
+I send you the two following letters, as they tend to throw some light
+on the religious state of Canada. The details of the first are chiefly
+statistical; and the extremely interesting communications in the other
+are illustrative of the important facts alluded to in the previous one.
+Your insertion of these in the Magazine as soon as possible, will much
+oblige yours sincerely,                                    DOMESTICUS.
+
+_Hamsterley, Feb. 9th, 1835._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                           _Montreal, 6th Nov. 1834._
+
+MY DEAR BROTHER,
+
+The receipt of yours gave me great pleasure. I was happy to learn that
+you were so deeply interested in Canada. It does appear to me the duty
+of our denomination to do something for it; and I have no doubt that, if
+it were properly advocated, something would be done. I am deeply
+convinced that to do good in this world, it is necessary to keep one
+object chiefly in view. Now, my brother, suppose you keep Canada before
+you, and introduce it frequently to the notice of our brethren on your
+side of the water, much good might be done. I have written several
+letters, this fall, to different individuals, soliciting their
+attention, and have now sat down to answer some of your queries. My
+remarks particularly apply to Lower Canada.
+
+1. By the census in 1831, the population of Lower Canada was 511,000; of
+these, more than 100,000, were Catholics. There are, at present, two
+Catholic bishops in the province: the bishop of Quebec, who resides at
+Quebec; and the bishop of Telemesse, who resides at Montreal. The number
+of Catholic clergymen is about 150. The influence of these is very
+great, and I hesitate not to say, very pernicious, both in a temporal
+and spiritual point of view. Nothing has yet been done to evangelize
+this people. Here and there, indeed, I have met with a person brought to
+know the Lord, through reading the Scriptures. Be it observed, however,
+that few of them can read, and those that can are chiefly females. I am,
+happy, however, to state, that a missionary, Mr. Olivier, from the
+Canton de Vaud, has arrived, I hope good will result from his labours.
+
+2. The Episcopalians are, I suppose, the most numerous Protestant body
+at present in the Lower province. The two Canadas compose one diocese,
+under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Hon. and Right Rev. Charles
+Stewart, D. D., Lord Bishop of Quebec. The number of Episcopal clergy in
+the province is twenty-eight. With a few happy exceptions, I fear vital
+godliness is not a prevailing article in this body.
+
+3. Presbyterians, of the church of Scotland, by the census of 1831, were
+about 15,000. The number of ministers twelve: of these, six are in the
+cities of Quebec and Montreal. According to the report of this year,
+1834, they have increased to forty churches, and forty ministers. These
+are also said to be formed into five presbyteries. This, however,
+relates to both provinces. In regard to what may be termed the
+Dissenting Presbyterians, there are seven or eight churches, and five
+ministers in this province; and in the Upper, there is a synod of the
+secession: but the number of presbyteries in connexion with it, and the
+number of churches and ministers in connexion with each of these, I have
+not as yet been able to ascertain.
+
+4. In respect to the Congregationalists, they have seven or eight
+churches, and four ministers. I do not know precisely what they have in
+the Upper province; perhaps four or five more.
+
+5. The Methodists, in both provinces have 14,000 in society, and sixty
+preachers. They also print a paper, called "The Christian Guardian."[A]
+
+[Footnote A: This, I was told lately by Dr. Matheson, of Durham, is a
+most efficient instrument of usefulness in America. Our people should
+try to get one up.]
+
+In fine, here, as to Protestants in general, in the Lower province, the
+greater part are not gathered into regularly organized congregations, no
+inconsiderable portion of them being scattered in the Catholic
+settlements. To sum up, there are in the province about sixty ministers
+to 100,000 people. You could easier, however, supply 500,000 in England
+than 100,000 here, owing to bad roads, and the scattered state of the
+people. I am sorry to add, that I fear only twenty out of the sixty are
+efficient men.
+
+I now come to our own denomination. There is, however, much difficulty
+in collecting definite information concerning it. Seldom able to leave
+my own church, personal observation is defective, and most of the
+information I have is through report. I begin with what are called the
+Eastern Townships. This is a district of country lying on the south of
+the St. Lawrence, and bordering on the States. It is from 60 to 100
+miles east of Montreal; 30 of which are occupied in passing what is
+called the French Country. There are in it between 40 and 50,000
+inhabitants. The land is good, but the people in general are poor. Most
+of these have emigrated from the States, where the means of grace were
+enjoyed by them. They are still disposed to have the gospel preached. I
+am credibly informed that there are among them twenty or thirty little
+Baptist churches. They would be styled General Baptists in England; here
+they are denominated Free-will Baptists. They are ill supplied with
+wholesome teaching. They are also rather wild in their meetings, being
+more disposed to consult their own feelings than the word of God. Many
+of them, however, are decidedly good people. Were our General Baptist
+friends in England to send out a missionary or two into this district,
+they would confer, under God, a lasting benefit on this people. I wish
+very much the General Baptists at home would take the matter into deep
+and serious consideration. It presents a fine field, for labour. But, in
+addition to these, there are, perhaps, from fifteen to twenty churches
+of our own denomination. These are miserably supplied with preachers, as
+not above three or four of the churches have regular pastors; the others
+have only occasional supplies. An itinerant here is much needed, would
+be of great service, and could be maintained at small expense. Oh, my
+brother, if you can, by any means, get a good, humble, prudent man, send
+him into that field. I wish our denomination would take the subject into
+immediate consideration. I have visited some of these churches, and the
+people seemed exceedingly glad. Could an itinerant be supported for a
+year or two, he would then, it is likely, not need further support.
+There are some young persons of good natural abilities who, with a
+little training, would be of immense service. I have met with such young
+men, and longed to be able to point out a seminary to them, whither they
+might have gone for a season.[B] I purpose, God willing, two months
+hence, to spend a week or two in this district, and shall transmit the
+result to you. Itinerants are much wanted in this country, on account of
+the scattered population, bad roads, &c. I know one township in which
+there had not been preaching for seven years: a missionary paid them a
+visit, and the whole township turned out to hear. He visited them a year
+afterwards; but during the interval they had not heard a sermon. The
+main efforts have been made by a very pious and zealous young man of the
+name of Hayt, who has been very active in establishing Sunday-schools,
+and supplying families with copies of the Scriptures. Without
+missionaries, however, these schools will most assuredly languish and
+die.
+
+[Footnote B: Who, on the perusal of this, does not feel a desire to
+assist these young men to a seminary? And who that knows our brother
+Gilmore, but will be led to conclude that he is the man who is most
+likely to become their tutor? I intend immediately to write to him to
+inquire how much it would require there to educate six young men; and
+shall then, if spared, appeal to the public in their behalf.]
+
+We shall now turn westward: and, proceeding up the Ottawa, on its
+northern banks, about forty-five miles from Montreal, there is a Baptist
+church of nearly thirty members: they speak Gallic, yet understand
+English; and have a high character as it regards moral conduct. They are
+without the regular ministrations of a pastor, but meet for mutual
+edification: they are, however, anxious to have regular preaching. About
+thirty miles from them, there is another Highland settlement. About two
+years ago, a Mr. Fraser, a Baptist minister, paid them a visit. It was
+the first sermon preached there, as supposed, from the foundation of
+the world. The people themselves had not heard a sermon for the five
+years they had been settled there. About seventy-five miles from
+Montreal, in the same direction, is another Baptist church, of about
+forty members: they have a good chapel, an excellent pastor, and, at
+this very moment, God is visiting them with a most refreshing shower;
+many are awakened to concern, and numbers have found peace, and are
+rejoicing in God our Saviour. I have just been sent for to come and
+help, and set off to-morrow morning. Again, twenty-five miles onward, in
+the same direction, is a Baptist church of thirty members: they have a
+pastor. We have sent a missionary about twenty miles farther; he left my
+house yesterday morning: there are a few Baptist families where he has
+gone, but no church has been organized; they have requested him to
+labour among them. About forty miles farther, there is another little
+Baptist church, and after this, in that direction, they become rather
+plentiful; but they are then in the Upper province, and my information
+respecting them is but scanty. A Baptist minister, in the Newcastle
+district, writes me as follows, in consequence of some queries I had put
+to him: "In the Upper province there are four Baptist associations,
+about sixty churches, and forty ordained ministers. I am sorry to say we
+labour under great disadvantages. Our preachers are generally unlearned
+men, and destitute of useful books. There are many of them under the
+necessity of attending to secular employments to support themselves and
+families: this arises from our friends not feeling an inclination to
+fulfil the duty taught by Paul, 'Let him that is taught in the word
+communicate to him that teacheth in all good things.' I hope, however,
+that things will not long continue in this sad state. We have recently
+been endeavouring to form a convention, and appoint a minister in each
+of the associations to visit the churches, for the purpose of raising
+subscriptions to support itinerant preachers, and establish a printing
+press: how far the attempt will be attended with success is as yet
+uncertain." In addition to the statements of this gentleman, I may
+mention, that they had also a seminary in view: this, as yet, has not
+been carried into effect. As to academies, they are much wanted there,
+and might be established at a very small expense on the self-supporting
+principle. It is a little remarkable, that at the time you were writing
+your letter for the Magazine, three of us, brother ministers, were
+engaged in prayer and consultation on the very subject of academies on
+the labour system. We have written to several influential gentlemen on
+the subject, and purpose giving it a more serious investigation, and
+will remit the result to you and others. One of our brethren was anxious
+to proceed to England to lay the matter before the British public; but I
+thought it would be better to say something about it first through the
+Magazines. Urge it then, my dear brother, on the attention of the
+public; do not let it sleep. I am glad to find, from a letter in the
+September number of your Magazine, one hails yours of the preceding
+month. As a church, at Montreal, we have been much favoured of God
+during the present year: not less than forty have been added to the
+number. Mrs. G. joins in love to you and yours, hoping to hear from you
+soon.
+
+                                   I remain yours in Christ,
+                                                             JOHN GILMORE.
+
+*.* _We are compelled to defer the second letter to our next number._
+
+
+               THE DESPISER OF BAPTISM BAPTIZED.
+
+The following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. N. Paul, of
+Wilberforce Settlement, Upper Canada, to a friend in England:--
+
+"MY DEAR SIR,
+
+"Amongst all the numerous tracts and publications that have been printed
+and circulated on the subject of Baptism, I think there is no one that
+is more calculated to lead the honest inquirer after truth to a correct
+and scriptural decision upon that subject, than Mr. Pengilly's
+'Scripture Guide to Baptism.' It has been universally approved and
+circulated by the Baptist churches in the United States of America, and
+I believe it has been the means of doing much good. A particular
+instance of this occurred under my own immediate observation, whilst
+pastor of a Baptist church in the city of Albany, state of New York.
+
+"A young lady, who was a member of an Independent church, but who
+occasionally attended upon my ministry, was present with us one Sabbath
+morning when I administered the ordinance in question. I endeavoured in
+my address to adduce reasons for differing from my Paedobaptist brethren
+upon this subject, and to show that believers in Christ were the only
+proper subjects, and immersion the only scripture mode of baptism. The
+young lady, who had taken her station close beside the baptistry,
+instead of being convinced by my arguments, was excited to a high degree
+of irritation, and allowed her temper so far to prevail over her better
+feelings as, in retiring, to express her contempt of our practice in a
+very unbecoming and offensive manner.
+
+"Next day she called upon me in the same temper as when she left the
+chapel, and required to know, why I aimed to wound the feelings of those
+spectators who differed from myself upon the ordinance of baptism? I
+replied that I did not intend to wound the feelings of any one; I only
+aimed at the defence of the truth. After further conversation, I
+requested her candid perusal of the pamphlet above mentioned, with a
+copy of which I furnished her. She readily promised to comply with my
+request, and we parted. The result was, the ensuing month I again
+baptized twelve persons, _and this young lady was one of that number_!
+
+"Yes, Sir; by the blessing of God, accompanying the perusal of that
+pamphlet, she clearly saw the path that Jesus had opened before his
+disciples--the path in which the apostles and primitive Christians
+followed their Lord--the path in which she promptly resolved to walk,
+without reluctance, fear, or shame. 'I do not,' said she, 'leave my
+former connexion because they are not Christians, for as such I esteem
+and love them; but the pattern and authority of Christ is more to me
+than all the world. It is HIS to lead and command, and it is MINE to
+follow and obey.' Truth, indeed, is mighty, and will prevail.
+
+"May all the faithful defenders of the truth as it is in Jesus, be thus
+abundantly owned and blessed of God, in every work of faith and labour
+of love; and to His name be all the glory!"
+
+
+                               DOMESTIC.
+
+                       BAPTIST BUILDING FUND.
+
+At a special meeting of the Board of Baptist Ministers, held at Fen
+Court, Feb. 17th, to take into consideration a communication from the
+Committee of the above Institution,
+
+The Rev. W. H. MURCH in the chair,
+
+It was resolved:
+
+That the members who compose this Board, feeling the evils that attend
+the system of making personal application for liquidating the debts on
+country chapels, and the superior efficiency of the plan adopted in the
+Building Fund, resolve to sign no more cases, but to recommend them all
+in future to that Society.
+
+That, in compliance with the request of the Committee of the London
+Baptist Building Fund, the members of this Board do meet them at their
+Rooms, No. 5, Paternoster Row, on Friday evening, the 6th of March, at
+six o'clock precisely, to devise measures for increasing the efficiency
+of their fund, and rendering it still more extensively beneficial to the
+denomination.
+
+                                               J. B. SHENSTON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+                         DEPUTATION TO AMERICA.
+
+On Thursday evening Feb. 19th, a very numerous and interesting meeting
+was held in New Park-street chapel, Southwark, for special prayer,
+preparatory to the departure of our brethren, the Rev. Dr. Cox and the
+Rev. J. Hoby, to represent the British Baptists in the Triennial
+Convention, at Richmond, Virginia, on the 27th of April next. The Rev.
+C. Room presided. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. E. Steane, _On
+the advantages arising from such a Deputation_; the Rev. C. Stovel, _On
+the spirit which should distinguish the present undertaking_; and the
+Rev. Dr. Cox, _On the manner in which the Deputation proposed to
+discharge their duties_. Prayers were offered by the Rev. Messrs. Dyer,
+Giles, Thomas, and Carey; and the hymns read by the Rev. Messrs. Davis,
+Overbury, Shenston, Rothery, Room, and Belcher. Our brethren will sail
+in the "Hibernia," from Liverpool, on the first of March.
+
+
+                             BAPTIST UNION.
+
+We are requested by the Secretaries of the Baptist Union, to entreat our
+brethren in the country to forward, _during the present month_, their
+circular letters, and whatever other documents may assist in the
+preparation of the next Report, addresed to the Secretaries, at the
+Missionary rooms, 6, Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.
+
+
+                                NOTICE.
+
+The Rev. Christopher Wollacott, late of Westminster, has accepted the
+invitation of the church in Little Wild-street, to become their pastor.
+
+
+                            RECENT DEATHS.
+
+                          REV. DR. MORRISON.
+
+  Extract from a letter written by his son to the Secretary of the
+  London Missionary Society.
+
+                                           _Canton, August 17th, 1834._
+
+"MY DEAR SIR,--How shall I tell you that my beloved father--that the
+father of the Chinese Mission--Dr. Morrison, is no more! Scarce can the
+announcement come to you more suddenly than the event did to me. My dear
+father had, indeed, been long unwell, and was greatly debilitated by
+disease; but we had not, within an hour of his peaceful end, much
+apprehension that he was likely to be so soon taken away from us. The
+pallid cheek and glazed eye, quickly succeeded by failure of speech,
+were the first intimations to us that he had heard his Saviour say,
+'This night shalt thou be with me in paradise.' At about ten at night,
+on the 1st of the present month,[A] while yet in the hands of the
+physicians, who in vain endeavoured to restore warmth and pulsation, he
+gently breathed out his spirit, without a struggle or a groan. And oh!
+the recollection of the many preceding days, spent by him in pain and
+extreme weakness, compels me to rejoice, even amidst my utmost grief,
+that he has been released from sin and sorrow, has rested from his
+labours, and shall henceforth be for ever with the Lord. In a letter,
+written not long before his death, he spoke of his apprehension that his
+work was finished, expressing his gratitude to God for what he had been
+permitted to accomplish for the Redeemer's cause; adding, that he knew
+but of two surviving missionary seniors, Drs. Carey and Marshman. I have
+this morning learned, with great sorrow, that about the time he wrote
+that letter, the venerable Carey also was called home.
+
+[Footnote A: _The First of August, 1834_, that memorable day in the
+annals of our country, when the sun neither set nor rose upon A SLAVE
+throughout all her vast dominions.]
+
+
+                      JOHN BROADLEY WILSON, ESQ.
+                         (_From the Patriot._)
+
+Died, on Monday evening, the 16th Feb., at his house on Clapham Common,
+aged 70, John Broadley Wilson, Esq. well known and universally esteemed
+as an eminently devout Christian, and most liberal supporter of the
+cause of the Christian religion in every section of the church. His
+illness was of very short duration; an attack of paralysis on Saturday,
+the 14th, the effects of which no medical skill was permitted to remove,
+being the appointed messenger to convey him into the presence of the
+Saviour he ardently loved, and in whose service it was his supreme
+delight to spend and be spent. Mr. Wilson was connected, more or less,
+with a great number of religious and charitable institutions; to the
+Religious Tract Society, and the Baptist Missionary Society, he stood in
+the relation of Treasurer, and each of these valuable Societies will
+have to mourn, not merely the loss of his munificent donations, but also
+of his judicious counsels and holy example. We trust some authentic
+account of this eminent philanthropist will be prepared, to edify the
+world which has sustained so great a loss by his removal; but we could
+not forbear inserting this hasty tribute of immediate respect to the
+memory of a man, whom to know was to love, venerate, and admire.
+
+
+                             REV. JOHN MASON.
+
+At Exeter, on January 20th, after a protracted and painful illness of
+twelve months' duration, the Rev. John Mason, for 17 years the beloved
+and eminently devoted and useful pastor of the Baptist church in
+Bartholomew-yard, in that city. His removal is felt throughout Exeter as
+a public calamity. He died at the age of 45. We hope to be able to
+furnish our readers with a memoir of this excellent servant of Christ.
+
+
+                             MRS. ANN CARROLL.
+
+Died on Thursday, Jan. 29th, in the 79th year of her age, at her
+residence, Baalzephon-street, Long-lane, Bermondsey, Mrs. Ann Carroll,
+after a protracted illness in which her exemplary piety and sterling
+faith proved the efficacy of those doctrines of which, during a long
+life, she had been the consistent and humble believer. Her remains were
+interred in the family vault of St. John's, Southwark: and it may,
+indeed, with truth be said, that in her the poor have lost a humane and
+benevolent friend; the Baptist denomination, a consistent member; and
+the various Christian charities of the metropolis, a worthy and generous
+benefactor.
+
+
+                             NEW PUBLICATIONS.
+
+                             _Just Published._
+
+Mr. Bagster has now ready for delivery the QUARTO EDITION of the
+TREASURY BIBLE, which is elegantly printed on a fine writing paper of a
+new manufacture, being prepared with lines in the fabric of the paper
+for manuscript notes and remarks.
+
+The Pocket edition was published in January.
+
+                        _Preparing for Publication._
+
+In a few days, Baptismal Immersion defended by Christians and Churches
+of all Denominations. In a letter to a Paedobaptist. Second Edition. By
+W. NEWMAN, D.D. Wightman, Paternoster-row. Price Threepence.
+
+
+
+
+                              IRISH CHRONICLE.
+
+                                MARCH, 1835.
+
+
+The Committee would not be insensible to the many instances in which
+kind attention has been paid to their appeals under the pecuniary burden
+still resting upon the Society. Certainly, were it not for such
+benevolent assistance, the difficulties and discouragements connected
+with carrying on its operations, would be greatly increased. Yet the
+arrear of debt, amounting to nearly, or quite, a _thousand pounds_,
+cannot fail to excite a considerable measure of solicitude in the minds
+of those who are principally concerned in the management of its affairs;
+but it is recollected that the silver and the gold are the Lord's; and
+in the history of this Society, many indeed have been the opportunities
+afforded for gratefully acknowledging the remarkably seasonable relief
+which He has been pleased to send, and in this time of exigence, it is
+hoped He will again appear. The Rev. J. Allen returned to Ballina, after
+collecting for the Chapel, the latter end of January. He wishes to
+acknowledge the kindness he experienced during his tour, and hopes to
+present, next month, an account of the contributions he has received.
+
+
+                      _To the Rev._ JAS. ALLEN.
+
+I have been employed during the last quarter in this neighbourhood
+according to the ability that God hath given, in making known to my
+fellow-sinners the unsearchable riches of Christ, the ignorance of which
+is the cause of all the wickedness, delusion, and error, in this or any
+other country.
+
+_Oct. 5._--Visited a family in Brook Street, where I read the
+twenty-first chapter of Job, and several other passages of Scripture, I
+made some remarks as I read, the people frequently lifting up their eyes
+when the name of Jesus was mentioned. Those people have a form of
+religion, but they are destitute of the power.
+
+12.--Visited an old woman in Bohunssup who is convinced of her sinful
+state by nature, and pointed out the Saviour to her as plainly as I
+could; I told her I feared she would prefer a priest to the Saviour in
+her last hours, and if so, she might as well deny him altogether, and in
+all his offices, as he alone is able to save from sin; and those who
+believe on him shall not come into condemnation. She declared she had no
+hope, no desire, to look to anything a priest could do for her. I prayed
+with this poor woman.
+
+19.--Visited a family this afternoon, named Whalin, where I read several
+portions of God's word, and endeavoured to explain as I read. I prayed
+with them also.
+
+26.--I had a conversation with an old Roman Catholic lady on the folly
+of those people who, she said, exposed their children to the fearful
+doom, should they die unbaptized, of being shut out from the light of
+heaven. I asked her if she did not read the New Testament. She said she
+did. I asked her where she found any thing there that would lead her to
+suppose or believe that those unbaptized children were thus exposed. I
+said: I find no command to sprinkle infants; but the contrary, seeing no
+persons were admitted to that ordinance but those who were able to make
+a profession of faith, and this no infant could do; nor do we read of
+any but adults being received into the church. I showed her, from the
+New Testament, the practice of the Apostles, and our Lord's commission
+to his Apostles. Then, why do Protestants baptize their infants? said
+she. Because, said I, instead of abiding by what is written they have
+thought proper to adopt the customs of those who teach the commandments
+of men for those of God. You mean to say, said she, that the Church of
+Rome do so? Certainly, I replied. Then she said she believed in the
+Saviour alone, and through faith in him she hoped to be forgiven. You
+are a Protestant then, said I. No; I detest your Calvinistic doctrines,
+and I know no name sufficiently odious to brand them with. You may call
+me any name you please, said I. She pledged her honour that she always
+thought me an honest man and a good Christian. I told her I was glad to
+hear her give another proof of her Protestant principles; seeing she was
+more charitable than to believe all Protestants must be damned. She
+said, no Catholics held such an opinion. I told her what the Council of
+Trent said on that subject. She would not believe what I told her. She
+said she did not believe that she received the body and blood
+spiritually in the Eucharist. I said she believed more. No, said she.
+
+I must not lengthen this subject, as the whole of our argument would
+fill my sheet; nor would I have gone so far, were it not to show how
+little Roman Catholics know what they believe. After running over most
+of the absurdities of her religion, some things she denied, others she
+never heard of before. This woman got a good education, if any can be so
+while the Scriptures are left out. She is one of the strictest in this
+town for the last fifty years.
+
+_Nov. 2._--Visited a family in Garden Street, named Timlin, where I read
+several portions of Scripture; but they would not hear of my praying
+with them; such is their fear of being spoken of.
+
+9.--I had several conversations with people this day, one with an old
+man, named Dowd, for whom I read many portions which I thought suited to
+his case, an old man on the verge of eternity, who never thought on
+those things.
+
+16.--Visited poor old F., with whom I read, conversed, and prayed. He is
+near his rest. He thanks God for having afflicted him; for before he was
+afflicted he went astray. I had a good opportunity to show some Roman
+Catholics, who were in the house, what the believer rests his hopes upon
+in the hour of trial. They listened with attention.
+
+23.--Visited a family in Ardnaree, named Gardner, where I read a chapter
+and prayed with the family: and I always make some remarks as I read,
+and propose questions, in order to arrest their attention.
+
+30.--Visited the Staff, where I found some children reading the
+Scriptures; I read with, and turned this little company into a class, by
+questioning them on what we read. I prayed with them, and promised to
+visit them again.
+
+_Dec. 14._--Visited a family in Hill Street, named McNautly, where I
+attempted to read, but was interrupted by a woman who said she did not
+want any thing out of Protestant books. I reasoned with her for some
+time, when I referred to the Testament for the truth of what I said; and
+as she seemed pleased with what I said, I continued to read, and
+explained as I read, without any further interruption. So we parted good
+friends.
+
+21.--Conversed with a young man named Poots, who asked me my opinion of
+almost every article of the Popish doctrines. He said, he was satisfied
+with any thing written in the Scriptures, as he found very little
+difference between _ours_, as he called it, and _his_ Testament. I need
+not enter into particulars, as this subject lasted more than two hours,
+without an angry feeling on either side. He at length exclaimed: There
+is so much mystery in our religion, and those things known only to the
+priests, that he did not know what to think; but, said he, if I could be
+properly convinced on the subject of transubstantiation and confession,
+I would not remain one day in the church of Rome.
+
+28.--Visited an old woman in Brook Street, named Brennan, who is
+confined to her bed. I read and conversed with her for about an hour: I
+prayed with her also.
+
+                                                        AUSTIN BRENNAN.
+
+_Ballina, Jan. 3, 1835._
+
+                         _To_ Rev. J. BATES.
+
+I am happy to inform you, that the work of the blessed Redeemer is
+prospering in this part of his vineyard, though the wicked one has his
+secret agents in this place, as well as every other place, resisting the
+work of Christ, and the gospel of the grace of God.
+
+On the 20th of July I went to read to the house of one James McPartlin,
+near the town of Drumahair. This poor man is ignorant and unlearned,
+although a great devotee in the Church of Rome. I read for this poor man
+and family several chapters in both English and Irish; and the poor man
+was astonished to hear the words of eternal life in his native language.
+He asked me several questions concerning the sacrifice of the mass, and
+purgatory, and other doctrines taught by his church. I asked him: "What
+sacrifice is the mass?" He answered, in the words of his catechism, "An
+unbloody sacrifice." I then read for him the ninth and tenth chapters of
+Hebrews, and showed him from the twenty-second verse of the ninth
+chapter, that without shedding of blood there is no remission, and
+consequently, as the mass was an unbloody sacrifice, there could be no
+remission in it. I again referred him and family to the ninth and tenth
+chapters of Hebrews, to show that when _He_, the _Lord_, by himself
+purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
+and that by one offering _He_ hath perfected for ever all them that are
+sanctified. I read part of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and especially
+the 1st chap. 7th ver., "In whom we have redemption through his blood,
+even the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace." I
+then read for him the 1st chapter of 1 John, to show them that it is the
+blood of Christ alone that cleanseth us from all sin. All the family
+seemed well satisfied to hear me read, and invited me to come and read
+for them as often as I could. I have often read for this family since,
+and I trust the Lord has made his word a blessing to them.
+
+On the 15th of August, I read in the house of James McHugh the 9th and
+10th chapters of John's Gospel; and poor McHugh was so delighted that he
+said he had no greater comfort in the world than to hear his children
+read the Testament. He said his daughter committed one hundred chapters
+at the Drumahair female school; and he prayed for the prosperity and
+long continuance of the Baptist Irish Society; "for," said he, "only for
+them my children would never get a word of learning." Oh, that the word
+of the Lord may run and be glorified! and may the boundaries of Christ's
+fold be still more extended, until the whole number of his elect be
+accomplished!
+
+Few days pass but I read at some place. It is all the pleasure I have,
+to be conversing with my poor neighbours about their eternal happiness.
+I wish I could afford to spend all my time in this blessed employment;
+but I thank God I would rather be a door-keeper in the house of the
+Lord, than to dwell in the tents of the wicked.
+
+There are many inquiring what they must do to be saved. We direct them
+to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and strive to point them to the
+Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.
+
+                                                         ADAM JOHNSON.
+
+_Drumahair, September 26, 1834._
+
+                         To Rev. J. BATES.
+
+Since my last, I have visited more than twenty different places, and
+some of them are about twenty miles asunder. This, together with my
+occasional visits in this neighbourhood, has afforded me very many
+interesting opportunities of directing sinners to the Saviour. In my
+visits to the Night Schools, I have been highly gratified in observing
+an increase of scriptural knowledge among those who attend. In J.
+Monaghan's Night School, I found many adult persons assembled together,
+some of them heads of families with their children, solely for the
+purpose of reading the Scriptures and inquiring after their meaning,
+some of these being Roman Catholics, asked me several very important
+questions, to all which I endeavoured to give scriptural answers, with
+which they were highly gratified and thankful, and wished that I might
+soon visit them again.
+
+November 24th, visited the house of a poor tradesman in Balli Murray,
+read the 3rd of John, and pointed out the way of a sinner's acceptance
+with God. All who were in the house quitted their several employments,
+and drew around me. They all heard with eager attention, whilst I
+pointed out the dreadful nature of sin, showing that nothing but the
+blood of the Saviour cleanseth from it. One of them told me, that the
+priest teaches that there is a purgatory, and that those who are not
+guilty of mortal sins are cleansed from venial sins in purgatory. I told
+them that there are no sins venial in the sight of God, for that it is
+written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written
+in the book of the law to do them;" that the blood of Jesus Christ
+cleanseth believers from all sin, and that there is no other purgatory.
+On the 4th inst. read the word near Ballymote. A poor man, named Rooney,
+told me of a sermon which he had heard from the priest on the last
+Sabbath; the priest, he said, preached on the General Judgment, and so
+terrified him that he was almost in despair. He told his hearers that
+not only for every evil action men must give an account, but also for
+every idle thought; and oh, said he, if you had heard the Priest, you
+would be terrified. I asked him, did the Priest tell him what he must do
+to be saved? but he was totally ignorant of this. I then endeavoured to
+bring to the understanding of this poor man the gospel plan of
+salvation, which seemed to be the only thing calculated to give him
+comfort and peace of mind.
+
+On the 8th visited Killoran; met with a young man, a Roman Catholic, who
+is a hired servant; he told me that he had been studying on the subject
+of baptism; that when a school-boy he got a Testament, which he had
+since kept very carefully; that in it he read that our Saviour was
+baptized in the river Jordan; that from this he was led to believe that
+immersion is the proper mode. I then read for him the account of the
+baptism of the eunuch by Philip, also of Lydia, and the jailor, &c. He
+heard with eager attention, and said that he was fully persuaded that
+believers were the proper subjects for baptism, and that immersion was
+the primitive mode. On the 12th March, travelled in company with several
+people with a hearse going to a burial. I told them that it is appointed
+unto all men once to die, and after death the judgment; and that it is
+of the highest importance for us to be prepared for judgment. I was
+sorry to learn that they did not know the Saviour, nor their need of
+him. I made the best use I could of the short time I was with them. One
+of them said he was sorry I was leaving them, &c.
+
+                                                           ROBERT BEATY.
+_Carintavy, Dec. 14, 1834._
+
+
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+
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+Rev. J. Mason                                                 0 10  0
+Rev. E. H. Brewer                                             0 10  0
+Miss Salter                                                   0 10  0
+Mr. Lillycrop                                                 0 10  0
+Miss Booth                                                    0  8  0
+Miss Pates, collected by                                      0 16  6
+Mr. Upham                                                     0  5  0
+Mrs. Mason                                                    0  5  0
+J. C. Wilcocks, Esq.                                          0  5  0
+Mrs. Lillycrop                                                0  5  0
+Mrs. Glyde                                                    0  5  0
+Mr. Tanner                                                    0  5  0
+Mr. Nichols                                                   0  5  0
+Mr. Vinicombe                                                 0  5  0
+Mr. Jeffery                                                   0  5  0
+Mrs. Gregory                                                  0  5  0
+Miss Beal                                                     0  5  0
+Mrs. Cummin                                                   0  5  0
+Mr. Wilson                                                    0  5  0
+Miss Lee                                                      0  5  0
+Mr. Rowse                                                     0  5  0
+Miss Cole                                                     0  5  0
+Mr. S. Davis                                                  0  5  0
+Mr. Goodridge                                                 0  5  0
+Mr. Mills                                                     0  5  0
+Mrs. Higgs                                                    0  5  0
+Mrs. Furze                                                    0  5  0
+Sunday-school, Bartholomew Chapel                             0  5  2
+Miss Bury                                                     0  4  0
+Mrs. Ford                                                     0  4  0
+Mr. Hooker                                                    0  2  6
+Mrs. Maynard                                                  0  2  6
+Mr. Wright                                                    0  2  6
+Mrs. Tanner                                                   0  2  6
+Ellen Bridgeman                                               0  2  6
+
+By the TREASURER.
+
+T. B., per Mr. W. Burls, jun.                                 2  0  0
+D. P., per Mr. W. L. Smith                                    0 10  0
+Charles Davis, Wallingford                                    1  0  0
+Rev. E. West, Amersham Sub.                                   2  2  0
+Rev. W. Nicholls, Collingham, Don.                            4  0  0
+Do.       do.         Sub.                                    1  0  0
+Mrs. Fernie, of Tottenham, and Friends, for Mary's
+  Philanthropic  School, Mount Shannon, Galway               11  0  0
+
+By the SECRETARY.
+
+W. Burls, Esq., Edmonton                                      5  0  0
+A. Bose        Ans. Sub.                                      2  0  0
+From Mrs. Burls and Daughters,
+  a valuable parcel for the poor children in the Society's Schools
+
+Subscriptions received by S. Marshall, Esq., 181, High Holborn; Mr. P.
+Millard, Bishopsgate Street; Messrs. Burls, 56, Lothbury; Rev. G.
+Pritchard, 4, York Place, Pentonville, gratuitous Secretary; by Messrs.
+Ladbrokes and Co., Bankers, Bank Buildings; by Mr. H. D. Dickie, 13,
+Bank Street, and Rev. Mr. Innes, Frederick Street, Edinburgh; and P.
+Brown, Esq., Cardigan.
+
+        LONDON: J. MADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE-STREET, FINSBURY.
+
+
+
+
+                            MISSIONARY HERALD.
+                            CXCV. MARCH, 1835.
+
+
+Subscriptions and Donations in aid of this Society will be thankfully
+received at the Baptist Mission House, No. 6, Fen Court, Fenchurch
+Street, London: or by any of the Ministers and Friends whose names are
+inserted in the Cover of the Annual Report.
+
+  With feelings of deep sorrow we have to announce the decease
+  of the excellent Treasurer of this Society, JOHN BROADLEY
+  WILSON, Esq., which took place, after a very short illness, at
+  his house on Clapham Common, Monday evening, the 16th instant.
+  His disease was palsy, rendering respiration difficult, and
+  considerably affecting the organs of speech, but leaving his
+  mental faculties in full vigour to the last. He died,
+  rejoicing in the Saviour, whom he had long loved, and whose
+  example, through divine grace, he had been enabled so
+  eminently to follow. Never, perhaps, was there an individual
+  of whom it might more justly be said, _When the ear heard him,
+  then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him, it gave witness
+  to him: because he delivered the poor that cried, and the
+  fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of
+  him that was ready to perish came upon him; and he caused the
+  widow's heart to sing for joy. He was eyes to the blind, and
+  feet was he to the lame: he was a father to the poor, and the
+  cause that he knew not he searched out._
+
+  "AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING UNTO ME, WRITE, BLESSED
+  ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD FROM HENCEFORTH: YEA, SAITH
+  THE SPIRIT, THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS; AND THEIR
+  WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM."
+
+
+                                 JAMAICA.
+
+A number of letters from our various stations in this island have
+reached us, containing information to the end of the year. We subjoin a
+few of the leading particulars.
+
+Mr. Tinson refers, with great satisfaction, to the growing thirst for
+instruction among the negro population. He had been under the necessity
+of opening an evening school, principally for adults, whose progress was
+very rapid, and a large proportion of them had been reported able to
+read the New Testament. He expresses an earnest desire to establish a
+school at his country station at Yallahs, situate in a parish (St.
+David's) containing 7,000 apprentices, without a single school of any
+description. Twenty-three persons had been accepted for baptism at this
+station.
+
+"The brethren from the London Missionary Society (writes Mr. T.) have
+arrived. They landed on Tuesday, the 23rd inst. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge
+suffered much from sea-sickness; in other respects they are all well.
+Mr. Woolridge brought a letter from Mr. Ellis, and one from yourself.
+They all took tea with us the evening after they landed, in company with
+brother and sister Gardner, and an interesting meeting it was. We sang,
+before we knelt together around our domestic altar, I believe with
+unfeigned sincerity of heart, the hymn beginning,
+
+  "Kindred of Christ, for his dear sake
+  A hearty welcome here receive;"
+
+after which, brother Gardner presented to the kind and gracious Redeemer
+our united thanksgiving for their safe arrival, and solicited the Divine
+guidance in reference to their future steps. Brother Woolridge preached
+a most delightful sermon in our chapel yesterday morning, and I expect
+to be helped next Lord's-day by brother Hodge. They will probably
+continue in town a week or two, and then proceed on a tour of
+observation. Should one remain in Kingston there is plenty to do, and I
+see no cause in the world for contention between us."
+
+Mr. Gardner has been tried by personal indisposition and by the loss of
+his eldest child, but has been enabled to resume his accustomed labours.
+
+Mr. Clarke has furnished us with the following tabular account of the
+stations under his superintendance:
+
+                Members.  Inquirers.  Average  Sabb.
+                                      Congreg. Schs.
+
+Constant Spring   450        200     6 to 700    40
+Lucky Valley       20         63          300    35
+Retirement          6         30          300    40
+Fairfield                     86          400
+Guy's Hill                                250
+
+Of these stations, Retirement is in the parish of St. John's, Fairfield
+in St. Ann's, and the other three in St. Thomas-in-the-Vale. The scene
+of violent outrage mentioned in our January number occurred at Guy's
+Hill. Referring to that circumstance in a subsequent letter, Mr. C.
+observes: "The persecution some of my people suffered there is at an
+end. The hand of God appeared so plainly against them parties on the
+following morning, that one of them declared we had been praying against
+them. Their fear of us is such that their mistaken belief will prevent
+them, we think, from annoying us a second time."
+
+Although the parish of St. Ann's has formerly presented greater
+obstacles than any other part of the island to the progress of gospel
+truth, Mr. Coultart is favoured with great encouragement in his efforts.
+He supplies St. Ann's Bay, Brown's Town, Ocho Rios, and the Pedroes, and
+at all these places has large and increasing congregations. In the three
+former, he is commencing to build places of worship in the room of those
+which were destroyed; and in the last, ground has been offered him for a
+similar purpose by parties who, a few weeks before, had shown the most
+violent hostility. More help is urgently needed in this, as well as in
+other parts of the island.
+
+From Montego Bay Mr. Dendy writes, under date 30th December: "Our
+Missionary friends, Messrs. Vine and Alloway, of the London Society,
+arrived at Falmouth on the 24th instant, in pretty good health. On the
+25th brother Knibb baptized 69 persons, and held public services in the
+chapel; on the 26th a further addition was made by the baptism of 68
+candidates; and on sabbath-day, the 28th, there were between 700 and 800
+communicants sitting around the Lord's table. Mr. Vine preached in the
+morning for brother Knibb, and Mr. Alloway in the evening; the services
+of the day were peculiarly interesting."
+
+By the arrival of Mr. Burchell, Mr. Dexter will be left at liberty to
+visit Rio Bueno and Stewart's Town. For the present, however, some
+intermission seems needful both for him and for Mr. Dendy, as both have
+been labouring beyond their strength to supply the deficiencies
+occasioned by the absence of Mr. Abbott. This last named brother, having
+been released from confinement by the rising of the House of Assembly on
+the 20th of December, had returned to his family; and through the mercy
+of God his health, instead of being impaired, had been improved by his
+temporary secession from active engagements. Previously to his arrest he
+had enjoyed the pleasure of adding 59 members to the church at Montego
+Bay, who were baptized on the 1st of November.
+
+Of the return of Mr. Burchell to the people of his charge after so long
+a separation, we must give our readers an account in his own words. His
+letter is dated December 23rd:--
+
+  I shall commence my present letter by giving you some account
+  of my journey from Spanish Town, and my reception at this
+  place.
+
+  We left Spanish Town on Wednesday the 19th November, and
+  reached Brother Coultart's the same evening, a distance of
+  fifty miles; the following day we spent with our friends Mr.
+  and Mrs. Coultart, from whom we received the most interesting
+  and gratifying accounts of the progress of the Mission in the
+  parish of St. Ann's. In the evening I preached at St. Ann's
+  Bay, and although there were but a few hours' notice, still the
+  principal part of the chapel house was full. It was to me
+  unspeakably delightful to witness such an assembly in such a
+  notorious place. Friday we proceeded on to Falmouth
+  (thirty-four miles), which place we reached about two o'clock;
+  in the evening I preached for brother Knibb to a very large
+  congregation, the chapel was crowded, and one of the tents
+  also, and many on the outside of the chapel-house. Saturday
+  morning we left our old companions for the eventful town of
+  Montego Bay; when we were three miles distant from the town, we
+  had to pull up to shake hands with some who were come out to
+  meet us; as we proceeded onwards, the numbers and frequency of
+  the groups of friends increased. It was almost more than we
+  could bear. The poor people looked at us as though they could
+  scarcely believe their own eyes, and then they clasped their
+  hands, blessed God, and burst into tears. When we entered the
+  town, a crowd of recollections burst upon my mind as I looked
+  upon the situation where the Blanche was anchored when I was
+  first taken prisoner, &c.; but my attention was soon aroused
+  from reflection, for as we passed along the streets, many of
+  the inhabitants came to their doors and windows, congratulating
+  us as we passed by. As we proceeded more into the town, the
+  doors and windows became crowded, and many were the kind
+  congratulations of our former townsfriends; some expressed
+  their feelings by their remarks, some waved their
+  handkerchiefs, and others their hats; as we entered the centre
+  of the town we were recognised by one who had been a very
+  staunch friend in our difficulties, he took off his hat and
+  greeted us most cordially; this excited the attention of the
+  negroes in the market, and one of them recognising us,
+  exclaimed, "Bless God, and him come for true. Massa Burchell,
+  him come for true." Others now joined him and began clapping
+  their hands, when the whole multitude, consisting of three or
+  four thousand, waving their hands and hats, set up their
+  shouts, and made the whole town resound with their thundering
+  huzzas. I now endeavoured to press on to our house, but the
+  negroes leaving their baskets and the market followed us. I
+  drove hastily forward, fearing they would surround us and take
+  out our horse, which I have since found they would have done.
+  When we reached the house we were immediately surrounded; the
+  yard and the street were crowded. One of the friends took the
+  child and carried her into the house, for she was completely
+  frightened. It was a long time before we could get out of the
+  gig (which had been lent us for the journey) for every one was
+  trying to shake our hand, or lay hold of us in some way. When
+  we alighted from the gig, Mrs. B., who was nearly overcome, was
+  carried in by the friends, and then the throng crowded upon me,
+  some taking one hand, some the other, some threw themselves on
+  the ground. Indeed, the whole scene which followed was such
+  that I cannot describe. It would not be possible to do it
+  justice. The market square was almost vacated, except the
+  baskets of provisions, &c., which were for sale; and yet many
+  have since informed me, that when they returned to the market
+  they found all as they had left it, nothing was lost.
+
+  The whole of Saturday, the 22nd, was spent in receiving the
+  congratulations of the people, whose remarks were frequently
+  affecting. Many threw themselves down at my feet, and wept
+  aloud. Some looked at me, and then said: "Hi, massa, and it you
+  for true! and you for we, massa Burchell! and me see you with
+  me own eye! blessed God!" and then they burst into tears. After
+  speaking to a party and shaking hands, I was compelled to
+  request them to leave in order to give place to others. When
+  one said: "No massa, me no go--me no able to believe yet--and
+  is it massa Burchell for true?" Another one said: "Now massa,
+  me know dat God him true--him hear for we prayer--but him take
+  him own time--and him work him own way--but him do every ting
+  quite good." Indeed, I could fill a sheet with their
+  interesting sayings. One poor afflicted negress came down from
+  the country (a distance of twenty miles) the next Saturday, the
+  29th; and when she saw me, looking upon me, as the tears rolled
+  down her face, she said: "Massa, me hear you come--and me
+  _hungry_ for see you--and me cry for see you--me take two day
+  for walk for see you--and now me believe--God him too good--me
+  now willing for die--for now me know me God him true."
+
+  I had no idea whatever of such a reception, I knew my friends,
+  and knew they would be truly glad to see me, but I had not the
+  most distant idea of such a manifestation of feeling. It was
+  far beyond any description that I can give.
+
+  The following day, November 23, I again commenced my labours
+  among my poor but dear people. There were at least 4000
+  persons present at the 10 o'clock service. I preached out of
+  doors. On Sunday, November 30, the attendance was still
+  greater. At our morning prayer-meeting at 6 o'clock in the
+  morning there were _full_ 2,700 present; and at 10 o'clock, not
+  less than 5000; but you must not be misled by this statement of
+  numbers, as there was a union of the churches of Montego Bay,
+  Salter's Hill, and Gurney's Mount, &c.
+
+We conclude our present article by an extract of a letter of somewhat
+less recent date from Mr. Hutchins. It relates to the station at Lucea,
+and was addressed to a friend of the writer, who has kindly furnished it
+for our pages.
+
+  A few sabbaths ago I had such a delightful day, that the
+  recollection of it will, I have no doubt, be ever attended
+  with feelings of peculiar pleasure. Early in the morning we
+  proceeded to the place of baptizing from Lucea, where I
+  baptized nine of my black brethren and sisters, nay nine of
+  our black brethren and sisters in Christ. The place was two
+  miles from the Bay. We arrived at break of day. It was not in
+  the river Jordan, but in a beautiful winding river in a most
+  retired situation. We were covered by the majestic and
+  graceful boughs of the bamboo, which, for grandeur of
+  appearance and loveliness of shade, excels every other tree in
+  the island, and is beautiful beyond description.
+
+  The congregation consisted of about 300 persons, all getting as
+  near as possible to the banks of the river, while we arranged
+  the candidates close to the border of the stream.
+
+  The day now dawned upon us, and I felt as if compelled to
+  commence by singing the verse:
+
+    "Sweet is the work, my God, my King,
+    To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing;
+    To show thy love by morning light,
+    And talk of all thy truth at night."
+
+  And indeed, if one may speak for others, it was truly sweet. I
+  then engaged in prayer, and delivered an address to the various
+  classes present; and judging from appearances, we cannot but
+  hope that at some future period good results will be brought to
+  light.
+
+  The Spirit of the Most High seemed to rest upon us. Persons
+  whom I have seen trifling on other occasions, were overawed.
+  Others, who were anticipating with pleasure the time when they
+  shall have a name and a place among the people of God, were
+  seen with the tear silently rolling dawn their cheeks. While
+  others, with their hands clasped and pressed on their bosoms,
+  with their eyes raised towards heaven, seemed to be fervently
+  engaged in the interesting service, and to enjoy in their minds
+  something of that feeling which is peculiar to the Christian,
+  which the world can neither give nor take away. I then entered
+  the stream and baptized them, singing two lines between each;
+  after which I concluded, and thus ended one of the most
+  interesting services I ever knew. We then repaired to Lucea,
+  and commenced our morning prayer-meeting at seven instead of
+  six o'clock; we had a good congregation. At half-past ten the
+  next service was to commence. At ten I saw people going away to
+  seek for sittings at the kirk, for not one could be found here.
+  Our house is very commodious, being three stories high. The
+  lower parts we use for the chapel, and in the top we reside.
+
+  The whole of the chapel was crowded to excess. People coming
+  from all parts of the bay with a chair from any person they
+  could make their friend, filled the landings. The stairs
+  leading up the whole of the three stories (which are carried up
+  outside the buildings in this country) were occupied, by four
+  persons on each. And then the poor creatures went into our
+  hall, and laid their ears on the floor to listen from beneath.
+
+  This is a congregation in Jamaica; and often we have them
+  standing in the streets exposed to the rays of a vertical sun!
+  Behind and before, on the right hand and on the left, we are
+  surrounded, yea crowded, in every possible way.
+
+  The result is, that on the evenings of the sabbath we wear a
+  completely emaciated appearance. Oh, say you, this is not
+  right, you ought not to do so. I am fully aware that we ought
+  not to do so, but the remedy is not with us. You may try, and
+  try again, to overcome such feelings, but you cannot. I should
+  pity that man who professed to have the welfare of souls at
+  heart who would not be aroused by such overwhelming scenes as
+  we have here. When persons have come from two to twenty or
+  thirty miles to hear the word of eternal life, to disappoint
+  more than can possibly be helped, is what I cannot, what I dare
+  not, do. For as I value my own immortal soul, as I prize the
+  joys of heaven and dread the miseries of hell, so in proportion
+  I consider it my duty to let all, as far as in me lies, hear
+  the truths of that gospel which is able through Christ to raise
+  poor perishing creatures from the degradation of sin to a life
+  of righteousness and holiness by faith in him. Pardon me, my
+  dear brother, pardon me for giving vent to the flowing tear
+  while I am again considering that the remedy is not with us.
+  Here is myself and there are my brethren with congregations
+  which are enormous. We cannot refrain from shedding a tear
+  again and again, because we are not able to do more for their
+  thirsty souls. The remedy rests with friends at home.
+
+  I often think that I must as I am now doing fall, very soon
+  fall, a sacrifice to the cause in which I have embarked.
+  Through mercy I fear it not. I am happy, truly happy, in my
+  work, and feel confident that should I be a martyr to the
+  cause, I shall receive a martyr's reward.
+
+
+                              BAHAMAS.
+
+Since our last article respecting this station, we have received a
+variety of communications from our brethren Burton and Pearson. Up to
+the date of the last, the tenor of these letters was uniformly pleasing.
+They showed with what diligence our dear brethren were prosecuting the
+work of God, not only at Nassau, but at Eleuthera, Andros Island, and
+other places scattered through that extensive group of islands.
+Additions to the number of converts were made every month, and there was
+reason to hope that in a short time some of them would be found capable
+of taking an efficient part in the instruction of their countrymen. But
+the Society has more recently been called to the exercise of patient
+submission under the loss of one who, though but recently entered on the
+Missionary field, had afforded abundant evidence of holy devotedness to
+the cause of his Saviour. We refer to Mr. Pearson, whose lamented
+decease is reported by Mr. Burton under date of the 31st December. That
+letter will close this article: as an appropriate introduction to it, we
+insert extracts from the last written to the Secretary by Mr. Pearson
+himself. It was dated Nassau, December 1, 1834:
+
+  In the course of last September, I and my family were invited
+  to St. Salvador, by Mr. John Armbrister. I rejoiced in so
+  favourable an opportunity of communicating the glad tidings of
+  salvation where they were so little known, and I felt grateful
+  that on this occasion I could without aditional expense take
+  my family with me, because our medical friend strongly
+  recommended it, as the most likely means to renew my dear
+  wife's health after her dangerous illness in August. We
+  arrived at St. Salvador, Sabbath, Oct. 6th, were kindly
+  welcomed, and soon surrounded by an interesting congregation
+  of about 80 persons, to whom I preached twice on that day. On
+  Monday and Tuesday I was fully engaged in the work of
+  instruction among the children in the forenoon, and the adults
+  in the evening. On Wednesday I was expected to preach upon two
+  properties; but having preached to a few persons at one
+  estate, I was afflicted with such a violent head-ache that it
+  was with great difficulty I managed to ride to the house of
+  our friend, where, finding myself the subject of fever, I was
+  compelled at once to exchange the exercise of preaching, for
+  the exercise of submission upon a bed of sickness, under
+  indescribably agonizing and protracted pain, which entirely
+  precluded rest by night or day: under these circumstances my
+  second sabbath at St. Salvador was spent. My dear wife read
+  the Scriptures to many who were gathered together, and also a
+  few pages of Christian counsel which I had written for their
+  benefit, and otherwise assisted them to worship God. On the
+  following morning a conveyance offering to N. P., we availed
+  ourselves of it, in order that I might obtain medical advice.
+  We were glad to reach home on the following Thursday; but with
+  change of scene, we experienced an increase of affliction. My
+  dear wife, the child's wet nurse, and our servant boy, were
+  immediately subjected to the fever; and unable as we were to
+  provide for our disconsolate babe, it required the exercise of
+  faith cheerfully to acquiesce in the divine disposal of our
+  concerns. We _were troubled_, but _not distressed_; and our
+  compassionate God, who knew how much we could bear, and
+  delights to bind up the wounds which in mercy he inflicts,
+  almost entirely independent of our agency, sent us, that very
+  night, a suitable nurse for our child, who has since proved to
+  us a blessing. My dear wife was speedily restored to her
+  former state of convalescence, and after a week I was
+  permitted to rise from my bed, much reduced in body, yet, I
+  would hope, strengthened in my resolutions to love and serve
+  the Saviour. My recovery was rapid, and on the 30th of October
+  I again embarked with my family for St. Salvador. The health
+  of all was much promoted by the passage, and when I landed,
+  Monday, November 3, contrasting my bodily state with that
+  under which I had left the island, I was filled with
+  gratitude, my peace seemed like the beautiful canopy stretched
+  over my head, unsullied with a cloud, and abundant as the
+  waves of the sea. I was immediately put in possession of a
+  house, unoccupied by its owner (Mr. Henry Armbrister), on an
+  estate called "Freeman's Hall:" where, unmolested, I could
+  hold meetings whenever I was able; I adored the goodness of
+  God who thus disposed the planters to aid and encourage me in
+  my work, and longed for their salvation as well as that of
+  their dependents. During the first week I laboured to the
+  utmost of my ability, teaching the children, preaching to all
+  I could gather around me from evening to evening, and holding
+  inquiry meetings whenever opportunity offered; but I seemed to
+  labour in vain: my hearers were attentive, but their hearts
+  were hardened. I did not merely tell them that there was a God
+  who made and upheld them, who knew all their ways, and would
+  bring them to judgment. I did not merely endeavour to expose
+  the evil of fornication, drunkenness, lying, stealing, &c. I
+  told them of Him who died for sinners. The doctrines of the
+  total depravity of the human heart, the necessity of an
+  atonement, the efficacy of the blood of Christ, the loveliness
+  and suitableness of Jesus as an all-sufficient Saviour, the
+  exceeding sinfulness and awful consequences of rejecting him,
+  justification by faith, and the reward of eternal life, as the
+  _free gift_ of God for the sake of his dear Son, were the
+  themes which I most earnestly endeavoured to press home upon
+  their consciences, but I could discover no evidences of
+  relentings for sin, no meltings of heart at the recital of a
+  Saviour's sufferings, no emotions of gratitude for a Saviour's
+  love. Their hearts were inaccessible. Almost all were
+  professed Baptists, but taught by a man who could not decipher
+  a letter, who appeared wholly ignorant of the truth, and whose
+  life was at variance with it. After many conversations with
+  him, in which he seemed impervious to the light, I
+  affectionately warned him to desist from preaching, lest he
+  should entail the curse so solemnly denounced Gal. i. 8, 9.
+  Meeting with little encouragement in this part of the island,
+  on the first Friday after my arrival I rode to "Golden Grove,"
+  seven miles distant, where I preached, and returned the same
+  day. At this place I had an opportunity of addressing 100
+  persons, and, deeming it an important field for labour, I
+  again rode thither early on the following sabbath. Here I
+  found some living sparks. An old man who had come over with
+  his master at the American revolution, had been in the habit
+  of reading his Bible to all who would hear him, which he could
+  do tolerably well; he had taught them to sing many of Watts's
+  Hymns; and was accustomed to read to them from a good book
+  written by Guthrie, an old Scotch divine. Lydia, his
+  daughter-in-law, at an inquiry meeting, answered the questions
+  which were put to her very satisfactorily, and I thought her a
+  suitable subject for baptism, when I found that her character
+  was exemplary. The old man, I found, was overseer of the whole
+  property, which was extensive, during his master's absence;
+  and Lydia was intrusted with the care of the proprietor's
+  house, and much valuable property. What a proof that God's
+  servants are the best servants! At that time I regarded my
+  health as established, I was animated in spirit, and among
+  this people I laboured on the sabbath until the evening, when
+  suddenly, whilst preaching, I was taken ill, and was obliged
+  immediately to seek the open air, abruptly closing the service
+  in which we were engaged. I soon discovered that I was once
+  more under the influence of violent fever, and after a
+  restless night, though treated with the utmost attention,
+  agreeable to the instructions of the proprietor, H. Hunter,
+  Esq., I made the best of my way to "Freeman's Hall," where I
+  remained an invalid thirteen days. I had no medical aid; but
+  the medicines I had with me, and Graham's popular work, proved
+  invaluable. My stay at St. Salvador from this period was
+  indeed a season of suffering; the fever was intermittent, but
+  would come on again and again with chilliness, succeeded by
+  ardent and continued heat, throbbing of the temple, continued
+  restlessness, unquenchable thirst, a distressing oppression at
+  the chest, difficulty in breathing, and nausea. My illness, I
+  am convinced, was protracted by the stagnant water, gathered
+  from among the bushes, which we were compelled to drink, and
+  which was deeply impregnated with putrid vegetable matter:
+  there was, indeed, a spring one mile distant; but of this we
+  were not informed until the eve of our departure, although we
+  daily complained of the water we were using. My affliction was
+  greatly increased by finding that my dear wife's exertions on
+  my behalf brought on a periodical fever, the paroxysms of
+  which would remain with her six or eight hours. The vessel by
+  which we were to return to N. P. sailed on Sunday, November
+  23, much to my grief, as I was then a little recovering, and
+  hoped to preach; and so indeed I did, in much weakness, on the
+  sea beach, to thirty or forty persons, whilst waiting for the
+  boat. Once more I exhorted them to repent and believe on the
+  Saviour. We arrived here November 28, again improved in health
+  by the passage, and yesterday I superintended and taught in
+  the Sabbath-school two hours, and preached twice to our
+  Nassau crowded congregations. In the evening I endeavoured to
+  improve the death of our late esteemed brother Penney, who
+  died of yellow fever, aged thirty-five years.[A] And now you
+  will not be surprised when I assure you that I can adopt the
+  language of David, "Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am
+  weak." Our best thanks are due to Henry Armbrister, Esq., who
+  has allowed us to make four passages in his vessel
+  gratuitously, provided us with house, horses, &c., and
+  afforded us every help in his power. How mysterious, that with
+  such facilities coming from God, my lips should be sealed, and
+  my repeated efforts for the good of these islanders apparently
+  frustrated! But thus the great Sovereign shows that he has no
+  need of me; and that if he ever employ me, he is conferring a
+  great and undeserved favour. It is indeed to me a great
+  affliction to be prevented from labouring for my Master. There
+  is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of
+  being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the
+  society and to the church. I feel that I need affliction, and
+  I hope in the midst of it ever to desire its improvement,
+  rather than its removal. I am aware also, that my sufferings
+  bear no comparison with those of Brainerd, Zeisberger, and
+  many others, who in the midst of great tribulation cheerfully
+  bore the cross and scorned the shame; but when month after
+  month passes away, with nothing done for Christ, and no souls
+  brought near to God by my instrumentality, I feel depressed in
+  spirit. The Lord knows how much of self and pride there is in
+  all this; may he pardon and purify me! I can give you no
+  cheering accounts of usefulness, but I can most sincerely
+  assure you, if I know myself, I only desire to live actively,
+  faithfully, and perseveringly; to serve Christ with body,
+  soul, and spirit. Oh, pray for me, that I may not live in
+  vain, but that I may acquit myself as a good soldier until
+  death remove me from the field.
+
+[Footnote A: Our readers will rejoice to notice these kind references to
+other labourers in the vineyard, sent forth by a kindred society.
+Elsewhere Mr. P. mentions another Christian Missionary of the same body
+in terms which we gladly quote: "Here I would most particularly mention
+the zeal and kindness of Mr. Horne, Wesleyan Missionary, by whose
+efforts the little flock (at Turk's Island) I united in church
+fellowship have been kept in order. He has read to them our pastoral
+letters, and in their own words 'has taken great pains with them.'"]
+
+It is affecting to think that, in sixteen days after the expression of
+these devout sentiments, the departure of our dear brother took place.
+(We are constrained by want of room to defer Mr. Burton's letter till
+next month).
+
+
+                              BELIZE.
+
+A letter has reached us from this station announcing the safe arrival of
+Mr. Henderson, who writes as follows, under date of December 10th:--
+
+  Through the gracious providence of our heavenly Father we all
+  arrived safely here on Friday, Nov. 28th, being eight weeks
+  from the day of our departure from London.
+
+  The passage, except when passing the Bay of Biscay a few days,
+  and some squalls on our approach to the coast (which hindered
+  us one day), was remarkably moderate, affording many pleasing
+  testimonies to our minds that we had a compassionate God, and
+  praying friends. The Divine goodness has been especially
+  displayed toward us in regard to bodily health, which has
+  continued, with the exception of a little sea-sickness, as well
+  as when we left England; indeed, rather better.
+
+  We came to anchor off Belize early in the forenoon, when I made
+  it my business to see Mr. Bourn first alone; afterwards
+  returned for Mrs. Henderson and child in the afternoon. I found
+  Mr. Bourn himself well, but fatigued on account of the
+  indisposition of Mrs. B., who had been ill about a week
+  previously. She is now recovered so as to attend to family
+  matters, and we are living altogether as one family, as happy
+  as they can make us. There is no vessel here at present by
+  which Mr. and Mrs. B. can go to New York, but one is expected
+  daily. For myself, I rather desire his stay a little time to
+  have instructions relative to the state of the Mission. It is
+  almost our daily employment to visit some of the members at
+  their homes. We are preparing to-day for a journey by water
+  southward to Stern Creek, where Mr. B. is in the habit of
+  occasionally visiting; on our return we intend another journey
+  about the same distance up the river.
+
+Mr. Henderson then states that he had been making arrangements for the
+immediate establishment of an infant school, which Mrs. H. is well
+qualified to superintend, and of a boys' school for the children of the
+respectable inhabitants of the place. Three sabbath-schools had been
+previously established by Mr. Bourn.
+
+_Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society,
+from Jan. 20, 1835, to Feb. 20, 1835, not including individual
+subscriptions._
+
+
+Graham's Town (South Africa) Auxiliary Society,
+  by Mr. Kidwell, Secretary                                 138 14  1
+
+Wigan, by Mr. W. Park:
+  Collection, Lord Street Chapel                   8 13  7
+  Teachers and children of Sabbath School          3 12  3
+                                                  --------   12  5 10
+Dunkeld Missionary Society, by Rev. John Black                5  0  0
+
+Loughton Missionary Association, by Rev. S. Brawn             6 14  2
+
+Twickenham, collected by Mr. Scott                            1  5  0
+
+East Essex and Colchester Auxiliary, by Thomas Blyth, Esq.   53  8  8
+
+Buchan Bible Society, for circulating the
+  Scriptures in India, by Mr. Boulton                         5 10  0
+
+Bristol, Rev. F. Clowes and friends, for School Books
+  to be sent to the Rev. James Coultart                       2  0  0
+
+Milton, (Northamptonshire), by Rev. W. Gray                   2  0  0
+
+
+                               LEGACY.
+
+Further Residue under the will of the late
+  Mr. Thomas King, of Birmingham,
+  by Messrs. Fiddian and Mumford                             13  9  6
+
+
+                             DONATIONS.
+
+  G. B.                                                        1  1  0
+
+  Two Friends, on perusing the Tract 'Amelia Gale,'
+  by Mr. James Jones, _Manchester_                             2  4  0
+
+  Friend in _Yorkshire_, by the Secretary                     10  0  0
+
+  Mr. Hollick, by Rev. Dr. Fletcher                            5  0  0
+
+                 _On Account of Jamaica School Rooms._
+
+  Friends at _Peel_ Meeting, by Mr. J. Barrett                15 12  0
+
+  We readily comply with the wishes of our kind friends at Liverpool to
+  insert the _particulars_, recently sent, of their Collection by Cards,
+  for the Jamaica Chapels.
+
+             _Lime Street, Rev. J. Lister._
+
+  Mrs. Hampton                                2  0  0
+  Miss Sarah Bell                             0  6  6
+  Elizabeth Wilson                            2 11  0
+  Misses Lang                                10 10  0
+  Ellen Houghton                              7  0  0
+  Mrs. Billings                               1 15  0
+    Baistow                                   1 13  6
+  Mrs. Lister                                 1  0  0
+  Mrs. Lister, jun.                           1  0  0
+  Friend                                      1  0  0
+  Friends at Grappend, by Miss Clare          4  0  6
+  Miss Carpenter                              1 13  6
+  Miss E. Carpenter                           1 12  0
+  Mr. Ball                                    1 10  0
+  Mr. Rushton, jun.                           2  7  8
+  Mrs. Godfrey                                2 15  0
+  Mr. Dobson, donation                        5  0  0
+  Miss Cunningham                             2 10  6
+  Miss Bayliss                                3  0  0
+  Mr. Maynard                                 1  0  0
+  John Minto                                  1  0  4
+  Miss Pearce                                 0 11  0
+  Miss Winstanley                             1  0  6
+  Misses Pryce                                7 10  0
+  James Bolland                               0 10  0
+  John Banks                                  0  5  0
+  Mrs. Major                                  0 15  0
+  Miss Edwards                                1  4  0
+  Mr. Fisher's Friends, by Mr. Travenn        2  4  6
+  Miss Lea                                    2  0  2
+  Miss Eglington                              1  9  6
+  Miss Quick                                  1  0  8
+  William Jones                               0  8  6
+  Mr. W. S. Tyrer                             1  5  0
+  Miss Foxcroft                               0 17  0
+    Eccleston                                 0  5  0
+  John Edwards                                0 10  6
+  Mrs. Page                                   3 10  0
+  Mrs. Henton                                 5  1  0
+  Elizabeth Briggs                            0 19  0
+  Sarah Briggs                                0  7  0
+  Elizabeth Copeland                          0  1  2
+  Mr. Hampton                                 0  7  6
+  Friend, by Miss Lacy                        0 10  0
+  Miss Ashcroft                               5  0  0
+  Samuel Cearnes                              1 10  0
+  Misses Dicker                               2  4  0
+  Mr. Sunderland                              1 13  0
+  Friends                                     1  7  2
+                                           -----------
+                                             99 17  0
+  Friend                                      0  3  0
+                                           -----------
+                                            100  0  0
+                                           -----------
+
+  Collected by Mrs. Sutlow
+    for the Education of Negro Children       1  3  0
+
+          _Byram Street, Rev. S. Saunders._
+
+  Mr. John Hodgkinson                         0 14 10
+  Mrs. Allcot                                 1  1 10
+  Misses Haughtons                           12 14  6
+  Miss Cribbin                                2 16  0
+  Miss M. Smallshaw                           9  5  0
+  Mrs. Hindle                                 3  6  6
+  Miss Julia Hope                             0 17  0
+  Miss M. L. Hope                             0 13  6
+  Miss Walthew                                2 13  6
+  Mrs. Lewis                                  0 16  0
+  Mr. Lewis                                   0  7  6
+  A Friend                                    0  1  0
+  Miss Pritchard                             12  8  0
+  Miss Lyon                                   4 10  0
+  Miss Edwards                                3  5  0
+  Mr. Whitehead                               0 16  0
+  Mr. Evans and the Miss Baynes's             4 10  6
+  Mr. Cowper                                  1  0  0
+  Mrs. Burkett                               11  0  0
+  Miss Saunders and Mr. W. Saunders          10  0  0
+  Mr. Morrison                                2  6  0
+  Miss Emily and Mr. W. Jones                 2 17  0
+  Mrs. John Foster                            1  0  0
+  Miss Harsnett                               1  3  0
+  Mrs. Jackson                                2  0  0
+  Miss Helena Meyer                           3  6  0
+  Miss King                                   1 14  0
+  Miss Dugard                                 0 12  6
+  Miss F. Glover                              1  2  6
+  Mr. Edward Cowper                           9  0  0
+  Miss M'Cullock                              1 14  6
+  Mr. Danson                                  0 17  6
+  Mr. Joseph King                             0  7  6
+                                           -----------
+                                            110  2  8
+
+  Mr. Underhill, jun., Edge Hill              4  4  4
+                                           -----------
+                                            114  7  0
+
+
+                             TO CORRESPONDENTS.
+
+A very valuable package of Elementary School Books for Jamaica has been
+received, and forwarded to that island. The Committee feel greatly
+indebted to those kind 'Friends' at Birmingham by whom they were
+presented.
+
+Similar acknowledgments are respectfully offered to the Rev. Thomas
+Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, and the worthy gentlemen
+associated with him, whose seasonable liberality has placed at the
+disposal of the Committee, 3000 copies of 'Selections from the Old
+Testament,' drawn up expressly for the emancipated negroes. The whole
+have been forwarded to various parts of the island.
+
+Joseph Fletcher, Esq. and T. B. Oldfield, Esq. have laid the Society
+under great obligations by permitting their vessels to convey, freight
+free, a large quantity of Bricks and other articles for rebuilding the
+Chapels in Jamaica.
+
+Parcels of Magazines and other Books are gratefully acknowledged from
+Mrs. Gillman, Bank Buildings, and from Mrs. Bryant and other friends at
+Bath.
+
+Mr. Burchell (December 30) requests that we would make an apology on his
+behalf to those private friends who may have been expecting to hear from
+him. Continual occupation has hitherto prevented his writing, but he
+hopes soon to be able to do so.
+
+
+             J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.
+
+
+
+
+
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