42 0 0 312 2 Warkworth-Rev. A. Blair-Collection.. Rev. Mr. Sample......... Rev. J. Lockhart Public Meeting ... ... 3 14 8 56 8 11 19 9 40 0 0 10 8 0 327 5 4 5 600 366 18 2 5 0 11 0 0 15 0 143 17 2 Collection after Sermon by Rev. A. Reid Collected by Miss Crook.... Mr. S. Hill Collections.... Less Expenses.... 0 5 0 10 0 0 41 6 11 3 0 0 600 10 5 0 The thanks of the Directors are respectfully presented to the following: To P. A. J., Mr. J. Roworth To Mrs. Palmer, E. C., and M., for Frocks, &c., for Schools in Africa. and a Friend by Mr. G. Hodson, for Books, and Six Volumes of the Evangelical Magazine. To Members c the Society of Friends, and the Sunday School Children at Sunderland, per Mr. Thackray, for Three Boxes C Sundries for Mission Stations. Printed by Joho Hdon and Co., 2', Ivy Lan-. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. FOR FEBRUARY, 1833. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. WILLIAM BISHOP, OF GLOUCESTER. MR. BISHOP was born at Sheerness, in Kent, in the year 1766. His father, Mr. Henry Bishop, was deacon of the Independent church at that place, under the pastoral care of Mr. Shrubsole, who has left an honourable testimony to his religious character and worth in the first volume of the Evangelical Magazine. Although favoured with a religious education, he lived "according to the course of this world," till about the nineteenth year of his age, when it pleased God to arrest him in his career of sin and folly, partly by the writings of Bunyan, and still more by his being providentially preserved from a watery grave, when in company with some of his associates. This event made a deep impression on his mind, and, it appears, was the great means, in the hand of God, of inducing those serious considerations which finally issued in a thorough change of heart. Mr. Bishop was at that time engaged at Sheerness in a situation under government, but his views were subsequently directed to the VOL. XI. ministry; and, with the advice and recommendation of his pastor, Mr. Shrubsole, he was admitted a student at the academy then at MileEnd, under the care of Dr. Addington. Having continued at Mile-End for the usual time, Providence directed his steps to Wells, in Somersetshire, where he continued about four years. It was during his residence there that he received, through the late excellent Cornelius Winter, of Painswick, an invitation to occupy the pulpit in the Southgate meeting, Gloucester, the church in that place being then without a pastor, in consequence of the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Ashburn, who had been its minister about twenty years. Mr. Bishop's services proving acceptable at Gloucester, he received a call from the church, which he finally accepted in the year 1794. The church was at that time in a very low condition, consisting of only about fifteen members, and some of them abstaining from communion. F |