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honour of the Redeemer, and the salvation of the souls of meu; and he was chiefly instrumental in the erection of two handsome little chapels; one in .Collon, where he joined the Methodist Society, in 1799, and resided several years, and the other in the town where he finished his mortal course. The remembrance of his earnest addresses and powerful prayers, in those places, will be long cherished by his Classes and Christian friends. He was a man of spiritual conversation, and greatly delighted in the ordinances of God: with the Psalmist he could truly say, "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth." On the approach of his last illness, he appeared in his public religious exercises, as one who had entered into brighter views, and deeper communion with God: "as a dying man he spoke to dying men." About three weeks before he died, I was favoured with an hour's conversation with him. He entered into a minute detail of his acquaintance and intercourse with the Saviour, and his views of the eternal world. On these subjects he expressed himself in a strain of holy eloquence, surpassing any thing I had ever heard from any person in similar circumstances. To him death had changed its aspect, and he viewed it as the gate of endless life. His was an illness of five months' continuance; during which time he sustained many painful conflicts both of mind and body; yet, through the whole, he realized the truth of that comprehensive and unfailing promise, "My grace is sufficient for thee." Ás there was no other person residing in the town to conduct the public meetings, his Class met every Sabbath morning in his sick chamber; and, while he was able, he addressed them from the bed of death. As the closing scene drew near, he felt an overwhelming weakness, and called on his amiable and pious wife to give him up, and pray. Meekly resigned to the divine will, she bowed submissive to the painful dispensation, and commended him to God. He then asked his son to read the last ten verses of the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, to which he listened with marked attention; and at the conclusion, looking upward, he repeated, "Angels now are hovering round us;" when the power of articulation failed. He then closed his eyes, and, without any apparent agitation, or change of countenance, sunk into the arins of death. Many, besides his own family, mourn his absence; but their loss is his infinite gain, W. STEWART,

5. Died, at Hampstead, near London, on Wednesday, May 12th, Mrs. Elizabeth Green, wife of Mr. J. H. Green. She was a daughter of the late Rev. Charles Manning, whose name is connected with the early history of Methodisin; and was born Dec. 26, 1757. Her honoured parent was careful to instruct her in the principles of Christianity; but it was in consequence of attending the ministry of the Methodist Preachers, at the old Chapel in Weststreet, soon after her marriage, that she became experimentally acquainted with the power of the Gospel. She was most steadily attached to the doctrines aud discipline of Methodism, and ardently longed for its success; which she was privileged to see, even beyond her most sanguine expectations. Her attendance on the means of grace was exemplary, and led to many acts of self-denial. But whilst she sat at the Master's feet, like Mary; like Martha also, she was remarkable for diligent attention to the concerns of her family. She was active in receiving and doing good; and testified the excellence of her principles by the modest and unassuming, yet firm and decided tenour of her conduct. Her last illness, as it was attended with considerable pain and debility, had some influence in producing doubt and fear. She had strong views of the infinite purity of God, and of her own imperfections and unwor thiuess. Yet, she did not let go her hold of the Crucified; nor fail to recommend faith in him to her sorrowing friends, as the only means of justification and purity. "I am," said she, "a sinner before God; but Christ is the propitiation; and he died for me. I have no other plea but, Jesus died for me." She evinced a perfect resignation to the will of her heavenly Father; and before her departure, He graciously shone upon her soul with increasing brightness; so that she rejoiced in the full assurance of forgiveness, and the unclouded prospect of glory.

J. W. GREEN.,

RECENT DEATHS.

Nov. 9th, 1825.-At Kinoulton, in the MeltonMowbray Circuit, Mrs. Ann Street. She was brought to the knowledge of the truth in the seventeenth year of her age, and was a Member of the Methodist Society for fourteen years. She possessed great meekness and humility, manifested a firm confidence in God, and full resignation to his will. A short time before -r departure, she spoke much of the joys of heaven, of the happiness of being with Jesus, and was enraptured with the prospect. She said to her husband, "Jesus is precious; I shall soon be with him: help me to praise him," and in a few minutes afterwards she expired,

W. S.

HYMN FROM THE GERMAN:

TRANSLATED BY JOHN BOWRING, ESQ.

WHO leaves the' Almighty God to reign
Supreme, and trusts alone in God,
Him shall the Almighty One maintain ;
Though dark and dismal be his road,
Yet he may rest in peace, for he
Is shelter'd by the Deity.

How vain are sighs! how vain regret !
Complaint could ne'er subdue distress;
E'en though with grief our couch be wet,
We shall not therefore weep the less.
No! tears but add a gloom the more
To that which was so dark before.

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He comes unlook'd for; and whene'er
He comes, both peace and joy are there.
Then deem not, in thy gloomiest hour,
That God abandon's thee to woe:
Wilt thou mistrust His awful power,
Or wilt thou doubt His goodness? No!
Yet a few hours, and time shall prove
His changeless, countless, matchless,
love.

His rule is wondrous; at His will
This mighty universe, with all
Its beings, vibrates, or is still;
And kingdoms rise, and kingdoms fall:
He lifts the lowly, sinks the high,
In His uncounsell'd Majesty.

O then be calm, and tread serene,
With prayer and praise, life's varying
road;
"Tis gay with flowers; its paths are green,
And thou art guided by thy God:
Be calm; for at the worst, thy rest
Is near, and heaven will make thee
blest.

THE RAISING OF LAZARUS :

BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER.

THE sepulchre was gaping wide,
Its closing-stone was roll'd aside,
And shuddering crowds press'd r. und
to win

A sight of the foul scene within
The charnel-steam, too strong to hear
Ascended on the healthful air,

And groaning deep for him who slept,
E'en Christ stood at the grare, an
wept.

He wept but His was not the tear
Of human grief on human bier,
That gushes, trustless of to-morrow
In unassuaged excess of sorrow.
And yet he wept; though there he
stood,

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In power's unquestion'd plenitude,
While every sacred drop that fell
Was life to death, and death to hell!
But closer now, and closer grew
The press of the surrounding crew,
Who deem'd he came to mourn, not
save,

As he stoop'd o'er the dead man's grave,
Aud gazed with self-communing air
For a short space in silence there.
Nearer he stoop'd, and yet more near:
Hark! heard ye not, like trumpet clear,
His life-shout iu that mouldering ear?
Forth sent the tomb its bidden birth,
For He who called was God on earth!

Not faster answers to the flash
Of Heaven the illuminated ash,
Than, following that resistless word,
'The Dead sprang forth before his Lord,
B und hand and foot with funeral-
clothes;

In life, in breathing life, be rose,
And cast amid the astonish'd crowd,
From his freed limbs, the loosen'd
sbroud!

Health's crimson light o'erspread his
face,

His eye was fire, his step was grace;
No trace of what it was before
The metamorphos'd body wore;
But, like the first-form'd of mankind,
Ere his full heart might utterance find,"
Complete in sense, and limb, and mo-
tion,

Absorb'd he stood in rapt devotion,
While through each uncollapsing vein ́.
The rushing life-streams burst again..
All turn'd to Christ; but him, with eye
Serenely lifted to the sky,

Symbol nor sign of outward power,
Distinguish'd in that holy hour:
His hand yet on the marble rested,
Where late the revelling worm was
rife,

And awe-struck multitudes attested
The RESURRECTION and the LIFE!"

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Dec. 7th.-At Gaddeshy, in the Melton-Mowbray Circuit, Mr. William Briggs. He was brought to the enjoyment of God through hearing the Methodist Preachers, when he was about twenty years of age. He then became concerned for the happiness and salvation of his neighbours, opened his house for preaching, and as soon as a Class could be formed, became a member of the Society. He was strongly attached to the doctrines and rules of Methodism, diligent in the use of all the means of grace, and after walking circumspectly for forty-seven years, finished his course with joy, and entered W. S.

into rest.

Dec. 14th-At Lastingham, in the Pickering Circuit, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, in the seventyfifth year of her age. This excellent woman was admitted into the Methodist Society more than fifty years ago, and continued a steady and uniform member to her death. She retained a sense of her acceptance with God, through Jesus Christ, to the close of her life. A few hours before she died, she said, with uncommon eagerness, "Glory be to God! Glory be to God! There is my crown' He bought it for me with his own blood." R. W.

Dec. 21st.-At Westminster, Mr. John Chandler, in the thirty-fifth year of his age. He was a Local Preacher, a Class-Leader, and the Superintendent of a Sunday-School; a man of most exemplary piety, diligence, and usefulness. His end was peace. A further account of him may be expected. J. C.

Dec. 25th.-At St. Austell, Cornwall, Mary, wife of the Rev. Walter Lawry, late Wesleyan Missionary to New South Wales, and the Friendly Islands. She enjoyed a clear sense of the divine favour, and was distinguished by genuine piety and amiable manners. She died in peace, leaving an affectionate husband and three young children to lament their loss. A farther account of her may be expected. E. M.

Dec. 29th.-At Chester-le-street, near Durham, Mrs. Elizabeth Nunnington, who had been a member of the Methodist Society for about twenty years, eighteen of which she was a Class-Leader. She was fitted for her office by deep religious experience, and she was endeared to her Class by her assiduity, affection, and faithfn'ness. Her sympathy with the poor and affli ted, and her fervent prayers, offered up to God en their behalf, have given her a name better than precious ointment, and made the day of her death better than the day of her birth. After having endured a long and severe affliction with great patience, she fell asleep in the Lord, and ent red into rest. T. M.

Dec. 29th-At Garforth, in the Leeds Circuit, Deborah Watson, in the full triumph of faith. She was, in her humble sphere, the most excellent woman and the most exemplary wife ard mother I have ever known. From her youth up, her attachment to Methodism was unwavering, and when she came to the close of life, her -son-in-law writes, "Her confidence was strong a d unshaken, and her peace was without interruptions that it appeared, for the last eight or ten weeks of her life, that the enemy was not permitted even to tempt her. I was with her most of the day on which she died, and 1 can truly say, that I never witnessed such a denthbed scene in all my life. Although she was too anuch reduced to speak so as to be distinctly

heard, yet her countenance spoke the triumph of her faith, and her hands were often lifted up in token of victory. This was most especially the case an hour before her departure, while her husband was at prayer, and offering her up to the Lord, shortly after which she quietly fell asleep. May my last end be like hers." K. R.

Jan. 6th. At Killaloe, in Ireland, Mr. M'Cormack, after an illness of only five days. During that period he witnessed a good confession, and exhorted his friends to faith in the Saviour. The cause of Christ in the Killaloe Mission, has lost one of its best friends and liberal supporters. As a friend, Mr. M'Cormack was sympathetic and kind; as a master, he was much beloved; as a parent he was indulgent; as a busband he was equalled by few, and perhaps excelled by none. He was a steady Member of the Methodist Society, and loved its doctrine, discipline, and whole economy. His heart, his house, bis purse, were open to the Missionaries in that station. G. M.

Jan. 8th.-At Carmarthen, in the seventyeighth year of his age, the Rev. Joseph Cole, Methodist Minister. His last illness conmenced on Jan. 1st, in the evening of which he retired early to rest, and rose from his bed no more. During the greater part of his affliction he was in a sort of lethargy; yet his mind was kept ja a most tranquil and blessed frame; so that he appeared to be constantly engaged in prayer and praise. On Sunday, the 8th, about ten o'clock in the morning, he repeated the following verse," Happy soul, thy days are ended," &c.; and in the afternoon, about three, he said, with a clear strong voice, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." And in a few moments he fell asleep. J. M.

Jon. 8th.-At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Rev Thomas Wood, A. M., Methodist Minister, in the sixty-first year of his age, and the fortieth of his public labours. On the 8th of September last, which was soon after his arrival in this Cirenit, he was seized with paralysis, and for many days little hope was entertained of his recovery. Every attention was, however, paid to him by his medical advisers, and, by the blessing of God, his complaint assumed a more favourable aspect, so that there appeared a pleasing probability that his health would be restored, and that he would soon resume his labours. He was present at the last Quarterly Meeting of the Cirenit, and walked to the chapel to attend public worship on Christmas Day. But on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 3d, he had a second seizure, which was designed to termjnate his life. He lingered, apparently without pain, till the following Sunday, when he peacefully expired. During this interval he spoke much, but very indistinctly. The following sentences fel! from his dying lips: "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin! My children, take heed to the word of God, and it will preserve you. All is glory before me."

J, S

Jan, 8th.-At Manchester, Mr. Joseph Dutton, late of Liverpool, aged fifty-four years. During the former part of his life, he was favoured with much temporal prosperity, and was an active and generous member of the Methodist Society, but during the latter period of life, the Lord permitted him to be tried by the loss of his property. However, in his sufferings he departed hat from God, but was enab ed to preserve a mek and quiet spirit, believing that his trials were under divine direction. In his last alliction his mind was kept in peace. I called to see him, only two days prior to his death, when the body of his beloved daughter, Louisa, lay a corpse is the house; yet he did not murmur; but manifested a calm acquiescence in the

divine appointment, and strong confidence in his God. His daughter Louisa had, for about seven months, enjoyed a clear evidence of the pardoning love of God, and had become an active distribater of Religious Tracts, and a Collector for the Missions. She died at the age of twents, happy in God; so that within five days the father and daughter entered the heavenly rest. G. M.

Jan. 9th-At Exeter, the Rev. Caleb Sim mons, aged seventy. He was an Itinerant Preacher in the Methodist Connexion twentyeight years. His last appointment was to the Banwelt Circuit, in 1820 and 1821. The subsequent part of his life was spent chiefly at Starcross, in the Teignmouth Circuit, where he usually preached twice on the Lord's Day, and frequently twice a-week besides, till within two or three months of his decease. He removed from Starcross to Exeter, for the benent of his health, only two days before he died. His death was sudden, and no religious friend arrived in

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Jan. 10th.-At Draycott, in the Derby Circuit, Miss Ann Newton. She was brought to a knowledge of the truth under the ministry of the Rev. John Nelson, sen., when about thirty years of age. The soundness of her conversion was evinced by a consistent course of religious and moral conduct. Her attachment to the Redeemer, and his people, was sincere and ardent ; and at the close of a protracted and severe affliction, which she sustained with great Christian resignation and fortitude, her fears of approaching dissolution were happily dissipated; and, without any immediate intimation of her departure, she fell asleep in the Lord, in the sixty-third year of her age.

H.S. H.

POETRY.

THE SLAVE TRADE.

FRANCE, and Spain, and Portugal,
Weep ye, weep ye, each and all!
Still ye trade in blood and pain,
When the earth has curs'd the chain.
Long has righteous vengeance slum-
ber'd;

Yet has every sigh been number'd :
Not a Negro's dying prayer
Has been scatter'd on the air;
Not a fetter's clank, a groan,
But has risen before the THRONE!
Wrath shall be no more delay'd z
Blood for blood shall be repaid.
Ye shall see the heavens unroll,
Where a more than mortal scroll,

Character'd without, within, SHAME, and AGONY, and SIN, By the accusing spirit shown, Tells how deep ye are undone.

Every jewel in your crest, Golden realms of East and West, Shall at once be reft away, Till your might is gore and clay; And in one last funeral flame Sink dominion, hope and name. Hear the more than prophet-call, France, and Spain, and Portugal!

ORIGINAL HYMN:

BY THE REV, CHARLES WESLEY, A.M.
HOSEA ji. 14, 15.

Lift up your hearts to things above,
Ye partners in distress;
Allur'd, and brought by Jesu's love,
Into the wilderness.
With us expect again to hear

His comfortable voice,
And feel his great salvation near,

And evermore rejoice.

PULCI.

From hence. He shall our comforts raise, From hence our vineyards give;

And by his all-restoring grace

Our drooping souls revive.
He from the depth of misery
Shall lift his mourners up,
And, lo! he gives us now to see
An open door of hope.

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