for the Success of the GOSPEL at Home and Abroad, to be held in BRISTOL for the Year 1808. List of Lectures, &c. in and near London, for January. 3. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str. Mr. Clayton; Peter Str. Mr. Pickett ; Palace Str. Mr. Duon 4. Mon. Ev. Missionary Prayer-Meeting, at Mr. Brooksbank's. 5. Tu. M. Broad Str. Mr. Goode, 6. Wed. M. Crown Ct. Mr. Dunn. Paul's Thorn in the Flesh. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the Nation, at Mr. Buck's. 7. Th. M. Mouthly Meeting (Indep.) at Mr. Wall's, Mr. Barber to preach. - The Obstacles to success in the Religious Education of Children. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Burder.-Reflections and Resolutions suited to the Commencement of the Year. 10. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str. Mr. Ev. At Mr. Palmer's, Hackney, Mr. 13. Wed. M. Crown Crt. Mr. Upton.Perpetuity of the Name of Christ. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the Nation, at Swallow Street. 14. Th. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Ford. A grateful Review of Past Mercies. 15. Fri. Ey. Sermon to Young People, by Mr. Wall, at Collier's Rents. 17. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str Mr. Gaffee; Orange Str. Mr. Burder Palace Str. Mr. Cloutt. 19. Tu. M. Broad Str. Mr. Goode. 20. Wed. M. Crown C. Mr. J.Thomas. Sympathy of Christ. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the Nation, at Mr. J. Thomas's. 21 Th. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. J. Clayton. The Uses to be made of the Divine Law, 24. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str. Mr. Dore; Peter Str. Mr. Pharez. 26. Tu. M. Broad Str. Mr. Ford. 27. Wed. M. Crown Crt. Mr. Greig.Encouragements to Prayer. 28. Th. M. Fetter Lane, Mr. Hughes.Views of Guilt contrasted with Views of Mercy. 51. LORD'S DAY Ev. Peter Str. Dr. Rippon; Palace Str. Mr. Winter. MINISTERS SU PLYING AT Surry Chapel, Mr. R. Hill. Hoxton, Mr. Hudson, West Bromwich *This List is nécessarily imperfect, the Annual Lists of several Lectures not having come to hand in time. POETRY. NEW YEAR'S ODE. REFLECTION. It is high time to awake out of sleep. TIME, who admits of no delay, While mortals heed it not: Forgetting and forgot. Time swept the ages past along, His destin'd space to fill; Yet man, whose days are short and few, Time is to sinful mortals giv'n But, ever to the future blind, Time as it flies just record hears As if they were his own. The earth, and sea, and sky; Yet man beholds his fellows fall, And lives as if he knew they all, Except himself, should die! Time yet our final close refrains, And still a little space remains To mourn our follies past: With holy zeal and humble fear, May we begin another year As if it were our last! Thy judgments around us have spread, And shaken dominions and thrones; The earth has been strew'd with the dead; The air hast been rent with their groans.. Destruction, and tumult, and war, The voice of thy warnings spake loud, Unhumbled, we fasted and pray'd, Still, still from the head to the foot, Its poison Hypocrisy sheds; Great Being of beings supreme, ANTICIPATION. We know that all things work together for good to them thut love God. ROM. viii. 23. OMNISCIENT God! the rising year In ages past our fathers found In Thee a home secure; And still thou dost thy flock surround, Which fearful change portend, Time bears us down with rapid tide, To sink beneath its wave; But all for whom the Saviour dy'd, Shall live beyond the grave. The angel soon his trump shall blow, And mould'ring dust restore; Then sin, and fear, and death, and woe, And time shall be no more! ALIQUIS. ON PSALM LXXX. FROM Egypt thou hast brought a Vine, Transplanted by thy care divine, To Canaan's fertile land; For her thy mighty pow'r made room, While Heathen hosts in vain presume Thy purpose to withstand. The nations didst thou, Lord, eject, -- The promis'd land to fill: Her boughs, like goodly cedars rise, O'er all the realins they run. Ah! why is now her hedge broke down? This Vine, this Plant of high renown, Why is she now laid waste? Her boughs the woodland boar makes bare, Each savage beast presumes to tear, Return, we pray thee, God of hosts! This torn, this bleeding Branch of thine, And vindicate thy name! Visit the vineyard thou didst plant; Once more thy kind protection grant, And all this woe redress: "Tis burnt with fire, 'tis all cut down, Alas! they perish at thy frown; But thou again canst bless! One scion see, one blessed shoot, On Him be pleas'd thine hand to lay; With Him, by faith, made one. So shall we not go back from thee; ➡ And thou the praise shalt have! ש כ THE ORPHAN'S PRAYER. O Thou, the helpless orphan's hope, To whom alone mine eyes look up In each distressing day! Father (for that's the sweetest name That e'er these lips were taught to frame) Instruct this heart to pray! Low in the dust my parents lie, And no attentive car is nigh But Thine, to mark my woe; No hand to wipe away my tears, No gentle voice to hush my fears, Remains to me below. To Heav'n my earthly friends are gone, And thither are my comforts flown, But I continue here! Be then my Pattern,-then my Guide! If I am spar'd throughout the span Of each successive stage! Father, thy will be done! Printed by G. AULD, Greville Street, London. W. B. C. |