Make others to see Christ in you, moving, doing, speaking, and thinking your actions will speak of him, if he be in you.

Go where you will, your soul will find no rest but in Christ's bosom ; inquire for him, come to him, and rest you on Christ the Son of God; I sought him, and I found in him all I can wish or want.

Lose not sight of Christ in this cloudy and dark day; learn not from the world to serve Christ, but ask himself the way! the world is a false copy, and a deceitful guide to follow.

All come not home at night who suppose they have set their faces heaven-ward: it is a woful thing to die, and miss heaven; how many a mere professor's candle is blown out, and never lighted again. Many, now, take Christ by guess; therefore, I say, be sure you take Christ himself; his sweet working in the soul will not lie, it will soon tell whether it be Christ indeed whom you have met with.

The day of the Lord is at hand, when all men shall appear as they are: there shall be no borrowed colours in that day; men borrow the lustre of Christianity, but how many counterfeit masks will be burned in the day of God.

I wish our thoughts were, more frequently than they are, upon our better country! heaven casteth a sweet perfume afar off to those who have spiritual senses.

Go on in the strength of the Lord, and put Christ's love to the trial, and put upon it burdens, and then it will appear love indeed; we employ not his love, and therefore we know it not.

More I can neither wish, nor pray, nor desire for you, than Christ, singled and chosen out from all things, even though wearing a crown of thorns. I am sure the saints are at best but strangers to the weight and worth of the incomparable excellence of Christ. We know not half of what we love, when we love Christ.

I would not have believed that there is so much in Jesus as there is. It is little to see him in a book; but to draw nigh to Christ is another thing.

That Christ and a sinner should be one, and share heaven between them, is the wonder of salvation; what more could love do?

Rutherford's Letters.

BIOGRAPHY.

MR. THOMAS HEYES, OF WHISTON.

THE subject of this short memoir was born in the township of Whiston, Lancashire, in the year of our Lord 1788; and was a coal miner. In his youthful days, and until his twenty-ninth year, he lived in the practice of drunkenness and its associate vices.

One day, while he was engaged at his ordinary work, he was singing one of his favourite songs, and he believed that a voice addressed him in the following words, "Leave off singing those vain songs!" Thomas was fully convinced the voice was from God; threw his pick out of his hands, and fell upon his knees, intreating God to have mercy on his soul. He drank deeply of the bitter cup for a month and two days. However, one evening, as he was going to Prescot, he thought he heard the same voice that addressed him in the pit, saying, "Thy sins, which were many, are all forgiven thee." Up to this period he had not regularly attended any place of worship, but had occasionally gone to the Established Church. Now, feeling joy from the assurance he had that his sins were forgiven, he went to make known his

happy change to the minister of the church; but, to his surprise, he not only found the minister destitute of this blessing himself, but living in the belief that such a state of Christian experience was not attainable in this life. This proved a sore disappointment to his soul. He had thought the minister was acquainted with his real state, and would, therefore, afford him sympathy and instruction; but Mr. Heyes had to seek elsewhere for that which he in vain expected to find in the clergyman on whom he called. Notwithstanding the very great prejudices then cherished against the Methodists, Mr. Heyes was persuaded to attend their preaching. He soon found that they understood his case-his prejudice was removed, and he united himself with them in church-fellowship, and continued a consistent member of their Society for the space of six years.

During this time he became concerned for the salvation of sinners, and frequently warned them to flee from the wrath to come. When he became united with the people of God he could not read, but he resolved to learn, and in a very short time he was able to read with fluency. Being convinced that man was not made for himself, that it was his duty to promote God's honour, and seek the salvation of souls, he began to preach that Gospel from which he had derived so much good. The open air and private houses, were the chief places of his ministerial labours; and they were abundantly blessed of God. Many are now alive who claim him as their spiritual father, and others are in heaven, who, before they escaped from earth, bore similar testimony to his being, under God, the cause of their conversion.

He was one morning invited to preach for the Independant Methodists, which invitation he accepted. This gave great offence to the rulers of those with whom he was associated in church communion. They summoned him to a Leaders' meeting, to give an account of his conduct; and prohibited him from again preaching for any other people but their own Society. This conduct, on the part of his former friends, was to him intolerable. He therefore renounced fellowship with the Conference Methodists, and united himself with the Independent Methodists, among whom he preached with acceptance and effect for thirteen years. He travelled many hundreds of miles, sometimes, and not unfrequently, twenty-three and twenty-four miles on the Sabbath, to preach, and followed his labour in the pit during the week.

In the year 1836, he sustained a severe injury in the pit, which prevented him from travelling to preach as he had been wont to do. Principle and convenience now led him to join the Wesleyan Methodist Association, of which body he continued to be a member and local preacher until he was called to his reward.

His piety was exemplary in the world and at home. In his own habitation, as the parent and priest of his own household, he maintained family devotion, and required the members of his family to read the Holy Scriptures. In his preaching and conversation the Scriptures seemed to be entirely at his command.

During the last eighteen months of his life, he was very much afflicted in body. He had the advice of many eminent physicians, but they could not arrest the decay of his constitution; and he gradually sank to the end of his days. In the latter part of 1847 he preached his last sermon, taking for his text, 1 Peter iv. 18. His sermons were generally warm and affecting, but this was characterised by greater warmth and feeling than any that the people had before heard from him; his whole soul was thrown into his discourse, and he travailed for the salvation of his hearers. He had a presentiment that he should no more appear before them, and this gave increased earnestness and fervour to his appeal. From the 14th of February, 1848, he was confined to his bed.

His mind was serene, and, with resignation to the will of God, he waited the call of his Lord. On the 20th, Sunday, in the evening, while the family was at chapel, he said he saw Satan pass through his bed-room, but he was not suffered to tarry, but in passing he blasphemed the name of God. Mr. Heyes said, "I was perfectly composed, God was with me, and I was able to smile at his rage." On the day following, one of his brethren visited him, and entered very fully into conversation with him. Mr. Heyes talked of God's goodness to him through life, of his conversion, his call to preach the Gospel, the first sermon he preached, the many glorious seasons he had from time to time realized with God's people; and then from the past, he directed his attention to the not distant future, when he should be united with "the church of the first-born written in heaven;" and in the prospect of that union, his soul was overwhelmed with delight. About this time he expressed a desire to preach a sermon on that beautiful passage of Paul's, "I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart to be with Christ, which is far better." These words he uttered with strong emphasis, as if coming from a soul full of desire to be emancipated from its clay tenement, and to be with its Lord. On Tuesday, when his son John entered the room, he said, in his usual mode of address, “Thou must not leave me now until the struggle is over, which will not be long, and I have many things to say to thee."

He then gave directions concerning the family, and his funeral; and particularly requested his son to attend to his desires in these things. After this, finding himself loosed from earthly ties, he said, "Now I long to be at home! I long to be at home! I feel that my soul is nearing the country! I am swallowed up in Christ!" On Wednesday evening he called his children around his bed, to take his farewell of them, and with much pathos and deep affection, earnestly exhorted them to be in good earnest about their soul's salvation. The scene, the effect of that parting, is not to be described. It was the farewell of a beloved parent, a parent endeared to them by, not only the common ties of nature, but by the still more endearing remembrance of his ever having displayed the utmost solicitude for their eternal well-being; the farewell of him who had made their home a domestic sanctuary; of him, by whom they had heard themselves individually and collectively committed unto the Lord, and in the agony of whose prayer they, times without number, felt their own souls brought into a state of fervent sympathy with the sentiment uttered, and the feelings expressed.

They were now called to say to him, "farewell." In the course of his address to his family, he said, "You may perhaps look for something extraordinary when I leave the world. It may not be so, the Lord does not always take old generals out of the field triumphantly; and besides, consider, I am very weak in body, a man worn down by strong pain. But if the Lord Jesus come down before I leave the world, I will let you know. I am expecting him to do so about one o'clock on Thursday morning." This he said in the evening of the night previous to that in which his happy spirit took leave of its earthly tabernacle. Before he died, during the night, he heard a voice, saying, "Sanctify him, sanctify him." To which he replied, "Thy will be done." After the voice, there appeared unto him two persons beautifully apparelled, so beautiful that he could not describe them. And they whispered, but what passed between them he did not know. During the whole of Thursday his soul was full of the love of God, and in the afternoon, he said, "I see the heavenly country. It is nearer, it is nearer. Come, my Lord! come, my Lord!" Then he fainted, and lay for some time as if dying. After a little he revived, and began to shout "Glory! glory! glory!" as long as his strength would permit, and said to his son, and son-in-law, who were by him, "Shout, for the Lord is come down! The Lord is come down! this is a taste of the fruit of the heavenly

country." Being exhausted with shouting he fell asleep, and slept three hours, and then revived for above an hour and a half, during which time his breath was praise to God, and his last dying whisper, though very indistinctly heard, was a whisper of praise. Thus may it be said of him, as of an apostle of old, "he fought a good fight, he finished his course," and is now possessing the "crown of righteousness" that will never fade away, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." His death was improved by Mr. David Rowland to an overflowing congregation. He was beloved in life, and in death is lamented by many; but he is now at rest. He died 24th February, 1848.

J. F.

DEATHS FROM CHOLERA AT CLITHEROE.

THE following are brief accounts of nine persons who were in connection with our Church at Clitheroe, and who died of cholera in less than a fortnight, in the latter part of last August.

JOHN BRIGGS.

JOHN BRIGGS was born at Church, near Accrington. Being of a delicate constitution, it was with the greatest care and attention on the part of his parents, that he was reared. At an early age he attended, with his parents the Methodist chapel and Sunday-school. He soon after this began to manifest an earnest desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus, and discovering the depravity of his heart and his need of a Saviour, he sought the Lord carefully with tears-nor did he rest till the Lord spoke peace to his soul. By the advice of a friend, he then directed his attention to the acquirement of religious knowledge; and for this purpose he wrote short essays on the principal doctrines of the Sacred Scriptures, which he submitted to his leader for examination and discussion. Being anxious to lay a good foundation, he would receive no doctrine as true, until, upon a careful examination, he found it to be in accordance with the Word of God. Having his mind well stored with Scriptural truth, and his heart renewed by Divine grace, he generally expressed himself in his class as having strong confidence in the promises, and in the providence of God. Events afterwards proved how well his confidence was placed, and that the object of his faith was able to sustain him in the hour of need. Our brother did not pass through life without trials. He had a delicate constitution, and it was only with the strictest attention to precautionary means that he was able to perform the duties of life. He had a rising family wholly dependent upon his exertions for their support, and had only slender means to meet their growing wants.

He was very wishful to see the world improved, and in order to this, he was always ready to give his countenance and support to every measure which was likely to accomplish so desirable an end. He was a great lover of Sunday-schools, and laboured both in season and out of season, sometimes as an officer, and sometimes as a teacher; being willing to be placed in any situation so as to be useful. Above all he had an earnest desire for the prosperity of the Church of God; and particularly for the prosperity of the Wesleyan Association, of which he was a member from its commencement, and to which he was attached on principle. He gave evidence of his sincerity, by his willingness to do anything that lay in his power to promote its welfare. When the cholera made its appearance in Clitheroe, he had a presentiment that if it should visit him he could not survive it. Few men judged of their own strength with more philosophical accuracy than he did.

But he was prepared for the attack. On being asked the state of his mind when seized with this awful epidemic, he said it was peaceful, although he had a severe struggle in giving up his family; but he said, the Lord had helped him through. He, therefore, waited patiently in anticipation of that rest which remains for the people of God. To the very last he manifested all that Christian resignation, which says, "not my will, O God, but thy will be done." He died in the Lord, and now rests from his labours.

RICHARD WOOD.

RICHARD WOOD was born in Clitheroe, in the year 1822. From his infancy he was trained in the Sabbath-school; an institution which he much respected, and to which he always felt much indebted. For two years he went a distance of five miles, once a fortnight, to superintend a Sabbathschool. Since his conversion, he manifested that he had been with Jesus.. It may be truly said of him, that he was "diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." The precepts of the Gospel were continually developed in his character. Whatever other greatness he might have or have not, he had moral religious greatness, which is the highest kind of greatness; humility, patience, self-denial, love, faith, hope, and Christian uprightness, were his chief characteristics. He listened to the tales of suffering humanity, and spread his sympathies over all classes of being. These qualities formed a part of his spiritual moral being; he, therefore, took them with him to glory. His sickness was very short. He died of the malignant Asiatic cholera. Advice from four of the medical men in the town was given-but, alas! the disease proved fatal. One of the doctors told him he must prepare for death. He replied, that he was quite resigned. He thought, notwithstanding, that he should yet recover. The disease rapidly progressed a state of collapse took place; his sight left him, and almost his speech and hearing. One of his brothers prayed with him, and afterwards asked him about his prospects. He then summoned all the strength he had, and waving his arm, exclaimed, "I can conquer! I can conquer!" But he was too weak to complete the sentence, "through the blood of the Lamb." He died almost immediately. And though his body is now deposited in the dark and silent tomb, his happy spirit has taken its flight to encircle the throne of God, and to enjoy all that purity, knowledge, splendour, and happiness, for which it was originally designed by its great Creator.

JOHN SCOTT.

JOHN SCOTT was born and brought up in Clitheroe. When young he became addicted to the very worst practices, and indulged in them through the greater part of his life. About five years ago, he determined to reform his conduct. The first step he took was signing the temperance pledge; but this was only like cutting off the branches, while the roots remained untouched. He soon discovered that however good "Teetotalism" was in itself, it was not regeneration; nor was it, of itself, sufficient to save him. He, therefore, sought by penitence and faith the Divine favour. Then, he became a member of our Society; but he did not continue long before he again fell into sin. Twelve months ago he was reclaimed from his wanderings; since then he has often expressed his regret for his former follies, and rejoiced in his restoration. When the cholera broke out in Clitheroe, he took a very active part in relieving the wants of the afflicted, and in administering to them the balm of comfort and hope. As a Christian man he was eminently fitted for this work. He devoted one whole week to this purpose; and during that time all his energies, both of body and mind, were given to the cause of suffering humanity. "The blessing of him that was