truth; for he hopes thus to secure his victims. It is only when the truth of God in its entirety enters and abides in the heart of a man, when it has produced a change in the life, that he rages and is violent. Reader, if it ever be so with you, you will understand the expressions and appreciate the promises in such Scriptures as these, viz:-"When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him" (Isa. lix. 19). "Kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation" (1 Pet. i. 5). They shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand" (John x. 28). And in all cases, remember that "Satan trembles, when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees." You ask me, how is he to be resisted? I reply, not by your own power; by nature you are as feeble and helpless as a child; but "in the faith," "by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left," with "the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;" above or over all, taking "the shield of faith." When Satan beholds a warrior thus clad, he flees! (See Eph. vi. 13-18; and Jas. iv. 7). Child of God, stand up, then, in the might of your glorious and resistless Head! If you can only stammer out, "Lord, undertake for me!" and you know who and what the Lord is, you must be conqueror through Him who loves you! THE INDWELLING OF THE SPIRIT. To the Editor of the Gospel Magazine. DEAR BROTHER IN THE LORD,did not, for your readers' sake, regret your decision, that my letter should terminate the controversy between T. B. L. and myself. As the defendant, it was my undoubted right to close, and I am therefore somewhat surprised that you should, contrary to your expressed determination, have admitted another letter from my opponent, particularly a letter of such a character. Had T. B. L. contented himself with expressing the inconclusiveness of my arguments to his own mind, I should not have objected; nor would his bare assertion, that the subject of the blessed Spirit's personal presence in the mystical body of Christ, and in each of His members in particular, is one of infinite importance," have troubled me much. But his letter contains a charge of practical dishonesty-a charge of garbling my quotations; this I solemnly and indignantly deny, and I rely on your candour, I will not say friendship, to give this denial the same publicity you have given to the charge. Believe me, dear brother, Liverpool. W. MAUDE. I commend to T. B. L. the prayerful study of 1 Pet. iv. 8. [From what we know of "T. B. L.," we feel assured he would not intentionally lay such charges as those alluded to against so old and valued a correspondent as W. MAUDE. By the same post "T. B. L." sent the letter which was inserted, he forwarded one for W. M., desiring us to peruse it. Absence from home delayed the letter in question, and prevented our reading it. Upon its receipt, we are sure W. M." will see that "T. B. L." entertains the highest opinion of his principles, and the kindest feeling towards him. We need not say, beloved, differ and agree to differ upon minor details, but still we know you are in the strictest sense "brethren," and will love as such, "not falling out by the way;" and if there has been any oversight, or apparent indifference or favourit ism on our part, pardon what has been purely unintentional, for we love you both equally, in the Lord.-ED.] PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD IS THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS. Pharasaic pride on the one hand, or the gaunt figure of despair on the other. Christ was his hope, his song, his confidence, his all. The beautiful lines of Watts upon the Christian's course, were truly applicable to him, as he neared the mansions of glory. "And when he comes nearer to finish his race, in grace; His end (as is often the case with ON Friday afternoon, April the 15th, I was able, with the sword of the Spirit, after a painful affliction of asthma, to do battle against the evils of a corborne with Christian fortitude for seven rupt nature, whether attacked by years, sweetly fell asleep in Jesus, in full assurance of a glorious resurrection unto eternal life, Mr. William Batterson, of Wood House Lodge, Histon, near Cambridge, at the advanced age of 79. He was a lover of divine truth as couched in the sacred oracles, and briefly summed up by an inspired apostle in Rom. viii. 29, 30, "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might Like a bright-setting sun, he looks richer be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, And sweetly foretells, at the end of his days, them He also called; and whom He Of rising in brighter array." called, them He also justified; and His conversations were solid and rewhom He justified, them He also glori- freshing. He spake as one who had fied." Thus there is a precious golden handled and tasted the precious truths chain, which no contingencies of time upon which he loved to dilate, and which can ever sunder or break, between the were the sheet-anchor of his soul. foreknowledge of a sinner, in the purposes of Jehovah, and the glorification of that sinner in the regions of everlast-persons of his disease) was somewhat ing day; and having this precious truth engrafted into his soul by God the Eternal Spirit, the dear departed was sweetly enabled to bear up under the difficulties and trials of the way, and daily feeling the law in the members warring against the law in the mind. A covenant, "ordered in all things, and sure," was the source of his hope, his solace, and his joy, amid the painful vicissitudes through which he had to travel to his Father's house above. As far as worldly matters went, our dear brother was favoured above many of the family of heaven, having but little to try his faith in these matters, and in consequence did not forget the beautiful injunction of the apostle, "To do good and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." As the fruit of the grace communicated, and not as a merit of the creature, was this injunction heeded. With his feet thus firmly fixed upon the Rock of eternal ages, he sudden; he continued to sit up some God sets the Christian at work, and meets him in it.-Gurnall. J. F. Obituary. (Concluded from Page 212.) SHE one day expressed a wish that her us; at other times she always said, father and mother would sing a hymn; | clothe me, &c. they complied, though reluctantly, fearing it would be too great an excitement for her, and sang the first verse of KENT'S 95th hymn, viz. "Beneath the sacred throne of God, I saw a river rise; Two or three days before her decease, she expressed a wish to take leave of all her friends, remarking that it would be the last opportunity she would have of doing so. She then kissed her father, mother, and nine brothers and sisters, same words to each of them in succession, viz. :-" Good bye, I hope I shall meet you in hands on their cheeks, and gently strokheaven;" at the same time placing her The whole of this ing their faces. and pardoning repeating the blood, Descending from the skies." "Go When they had finished this verse, they stopped, but she eagerly said, on;" so they went through the whole hymn, with which she appeared much delighted. In allusion to the coldness of her body, from which she suffered considerably, she said, "Ah! my poor cold feet: I soon shall have done with them." smiles on me." On another occasion she said to her mother, "I know my Jesus, but Mary Magdalene didn't, for she supposed Him to be the gardener." Seeing her father cry, she said to him, "Don't cry, father; what do you cry for?" adding "He will all our wants supply; He will wipe each weeping eye: Clothe us with His heavenly dress, His imputed righteousness." This verse she often repeated, but only now, when she addressed her father, did she use the plural pronoun solemn scene passed without the slightest emotion on her part; indeed, from the commencement of her illness she was never seen to shed a tear. The following conversation passed between her and her father, on the subject of her burial : C. Where shall I be buried, father? F. Where would you like to be buried, my dear? C. I think I should like to lie near my grandfather and grandmother Fagg. F. Well, my dear, you shall then. C. Shall I have a head-stone? F. Yes, my dear. C. What shall you have put on it? who died on such a day. F. To the memory of Caroline Fagg, C. That will do ; that's enough. When her departure was rapidly approaching, and her strength was sunk so low as for her voice to be scarcely audible, she whispered in the ear of a fort me." Another heard her say, friend, "Thy rod and thy staff they com"O my Saviour." three o'clock in the morning (she having On Wednesday, February the 4th, at spent a restless night, and required to be frequently turned in the bed), her disembodied spirit quitted its clay tenement for its " mansion in the skies," absent from the body, to be for ever with the Lord. A few minutes previous to this event, she said, "Now, mother, turn me;" which being done, she said, "That will do, mother;" and never spoke more, | period of her mortal existence, they had but soon after drew her last breath, without a struggle or a groan. دو It was observed at the beginning of the memoir, that this glorified saint had, some time previous to her illness, been in the practice of secret prayer. This was discovered by her saying to her father, in reference to an illness that he had had about two years before," When | you were ill, father, I prayed most earnestly to God for your recovery." And to her eldest sister, who was an invalid, and with whom she usually slept, "You don't know, Ann, how often I have knelt down by your bonnet-box, and prayed to God for you." The subject of her frequent and earnest petitions for herself appear to have been, that the Lord would pardon her sins, and then take her to Himself. She told her friends, that only the Saturday evening before she was taken ill she had spent an hour or two praying to her heavenly Father to take her out of this sinful world. She also remarked, “I used to say for my prayers," (probably meaning the last thing before she went to sleep) "If I die before I wake, I hope the Lord my soul will take." This statement contains but a mere sample of the language of this dear little girl, as she lay on her death-bed; for her parents and other friends, who were constantly with her, state, that if the whole of her sayings of this description had been preserved, they would fill a considerable sized volume. She talked incessantly, and when her friends (fearful of the consequences) checked her, she would say, "Oh, do let me talk; I have nothing else to do but to lie and praise my God." The passages of Scripture and verses of hymns which she repeated, were not only numerous, but singularly appropriate to her case: in short, she discovered a mind so richly stored with valuable knowledge, as (to use her father's own emphatic words) put them all to the blush; yet, until this late *The expressions of the child have been given throughout as nearly as possible in her own words. no idea of her possessing such information, and even whence she obtained some to ascertain. When she did not address of her poetry they have not been able herself to any person, or explain the occasion of what she uttered, she continued in the same heavenly strain, and, with her eyes directed upwards, would be continually repeating portions of Scripture and hymns, or ejaculatory expressions, of which the following will form a specimen : In His dear name you'll find." "Wisdom is far better than riches, she leadeth in the right path; Oh, forsake her not! If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.'" The whole of KENT'S 121st hymn, the first verse of which is as follows"In realms of everlasting rest, There lay a saint in Abraham's breast; Released from sin and all its woe, To dwell where joys eternal flow." "Oh! that strait and narrow path." ""Tis the voice of my beloved, His dear face methinks I see." "Oh! those beautiful angels, I can hear them singing, 'Glory to God on high.' And now, reader, I know not what impression the perusal of this narrative may have produced on your mind, but I feel desirous, before I close, to direct your attention to the sovereignty of divine grace, as exemplified in this child's history. It was altogether a supernatural work, of which she was the subject; the hand of man had evidently nothing to do with it. We find her at an early period of her illness, without having had her attention drawn to the subject by any around her, deeply impressed with the sense of her state as a sinner. Mark the first open display of this, in her simple, affecting, and anxious address to her mother. "I think," said she, "I never shall get better; I hope I shall go to heaven. Do you think I am safe, mother? Lord be merciful to me a | and joy in the Holy Ghost" (Rom. xiv: sinner, and clothe my naked soul." 17). "And this is life eternal, that they Then in the course of the succeeding might know thee the only true God, and night, we are told that she frequently repeated the two first verses of Kent's 240th hymn, from which we may gather that she was led, under a feeling sense of her sinnership, to the mercy of God, and also to view His ability to save "A sinner, Lord, as vile and poor, As ever came to thee." By the following morning, the transition from darkness to light, from bondage to liberty, had been effected on her soul; and thus, literally was fulfilled that portion of God's word, "For He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." Her language, then, and thenceforward, "Oh! I am so happy! I never was so happy before: you all love me, but God loves me much more than you was, do." 'Light, like a flood, bursts o'er my soul, As Jesus seems to say, I've blotted thy transgressions out, I've washed thy sins away." If any ask how this great change was effected, or what evidence was afforded of its having been accomplished, her own words give an answer that I am sure will come home to the heart of every one who knows anything of a similar work on their own souls. He (God) said she, "takes the heart of "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace, God never beholds His children but in the person of Christ; and when they are enabled by the eye of faith to behold themselves as God beholds them, then, and then only, have they peace with God, and joy in the Holy Ghost (1 Cor. i. 30; Col. ii. 10; Rom. x. 4, c. iii. 22; Eph. v. 27; Isaiah xxxii. 17). Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent " (John xvii. 3). "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son" (Col. i. 13). Spiritual knowledge is the result of spiritual influence; and the work of God the Holy Ghost is to convince of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment; so that without this teaching there can be no right knowledge, either of self or of God. This is clearly proved by the apostle Paul, in the commencement of the first epistle to the Corinthians. To bring the soul from a state of darkness to light; from nature to grace; from bondage to liberty; from a state of doubt and fear to assurance and con fidence, is altogether beyond the power of man to effect, and is entirely a supernatural work. And all this was, in the most satisfactory way possible, accomplished in the experience of this dear child; so that we are constrained to acknowledge the finger of God in it, and to say, What hath God wrought ?" "Not unto us, O Lord! not unto us, but unto thy name, give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake." As if to show us what His power and grace can effect, the Almighty is pleased, now and then, to hold up unto the view of the Church such a wonderful display thereof as this to which our attention has been called. And I sincerely wish that the readers of this memoir ny have their minds elevated to the c templation of Him, "who worketh l in all." I do feel a confidence arise in my mind, that such an illustrious testimony to the truth as it is in Jesus-such a display of the sovereignty of divine grace, as is exemplified in the case of this child, will not be " as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again;" but that it will prove like "bread cast upon the waters, which shall he found after many days." Ainen, Amen. "In hope of life eternal giv'n, Behold a pardon'd sinner dies; |