dians according to promise; and sung, conversed, and prayed with them. I now gave such advice as I thought would act as a check upon those in this Bay who wish to keep the poor Esquimaux in their present state of mental, spiritual, and temporal wretchedness, that they may the more easily and successfully impose upon them. It ought not to be concealed, that such are to be found. But to the honour of England, they do not come from thence. During my stay the poor Indians have often been prevented from coming to get instruction. One company were denied the use of a boat, though they wanted it only for the purpose of attending divine service; but rather than be de prived of instruction they hired one. Others came without the knowledge and against the orders of those who would have hindered them, and efforts have been made to make those poor creatures suspect our motives in coming among them. Such conduct as this should be proclaimed from the housetop. On my leaving this morning, the poor Indians came, and in the most affectionate manner bade me farewell. Others were on a small island, and as soon as they saw me in my boat they pushed off their flat, and came to shake hands with me on the water.

27th. We left Cullingham's Tickle, for the purpose of being at Tub-Island the ensuing Sabbath. We had not, however, gone far before we took the wind a-head, and were under the necessity of bearing away for Mullen's Cove. I was gladly received by Captain Squires, who conducts the fishing establishment in that place belonging to Messrs. Codner and Tracey of Newfoundland.

28th.-I visited the Tickle again today, for the purpose of holding prayers. I had a small but mixed congregation. It amounted in number to thirty-two. Here were thirteen heathens; eight who had pagan mothers and European fathers, professors of Christianity; one Baptist; two Catholics; four Episcopalians, and four Methodists. I returned on Sunday evening to Mullen's Cove, to wait the first opportunity for leaving the Bay.

30th. We sailed to-day for TubIsland. The wind was fair, the wea ther fine, and the tide favourable, so that we were not long on our voyage. On the way we put into Cuff-Harbour: Mr. Langley, seeing me on my passage, had kindly provided a dinner. Here I baptized a child, belonging to two halfIndians, and then proceeded to TubIsland. Mr. Craze was glad to see me,

and, during my stay, treated me in a manner which has left a strong im pression of esteem on my mind towards him. The weather was now fine, so that curing the fish engaged the whole of the time. As I could not perform divine service publicly during the week, I determined to spend a Sabbath here.

September 4th.-To-day was the Sabbath. I performed divine service twice in Tub-Harbour. Mr. Langley, and the greater part of the Cuff Harbour people with him, attended the service. I felt much comfort in addressing them from Psalm xcvi. 8, in the morning; and in the evening from, "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, begins ning at Jerusalem." In the morning my congregation amounted to about fifty, and in the evening to sixty. They were very attentive.

Having made such extracts from my journal as I deem in any measure relevant to the purpose of my visit, it may be perhaps necessary that I should say something relative to the propriety of establishing a Mission in EsquimauxBay, in a more direct and regular form. I am persuaded that should a Missionary be sent, the Esquimaux population there will increase. Those with out the Bayof Sandwich will be induced to settle in Esquimaux-Bay on that account. One family, the first I fell in with at Batteau, has already gone there. Some will doubtless be inclined to come from the northward. A Missionary establishment will be an attraction. By the presence and influence of the Missionary, murders will become of rare occurrence; and by enforcing habits of cleanliness and industry, deaths will be less frequent from starvation and disease. But the Missionary's labours will not be confined to the Esquimaux, though these are his principal object. In the Bay of Esquimaux there are of settlers and fishers, during the summer season, probably 200, and almost all of these may receive at least occasional visits from the Missionary. During the summer season the Missionary may profitably share his labours with the visitors, settlers, and Indians of Sandwich-Bay, who, taken together, will amount to at least 500.

At Handy-Harbour, Pack's Harbour, Dumpling Harbour, and PartridgeHarbour, a congregation of from sixty to eighty may be raised on the Sabbathday; and on such days as may be un favourable for fishing, all the Protestants present will be able to attend. To this Bay no less than fourteen families, belonging to our congregation at Bri

gus, go to prosecute the fishery, and by whom a visit from the Missionary would be gratefully received. This would be the means of removing in some measure what we have long had eccasion to deplore,-the want of reli gious ordinances during the summer, among a considerable portion of the people of our charge.

Of the poor Esquimaux it may indeed be said, that they are without God, and without any hope in the world, even of his existence they have no determinate notion. Those of them who have mingled with the Indians who had visited Hopedale, have some vague idea of the Divine Being, but of any correct notion of his nature and attributes they are totally destitute. Of an evil being they have some idea, and this, to say the best of it, is very crude.

Finding that they were in the habit of leaving their implements of labour at the graves of the deceased, I endeavoured to ascertain the reason why this was done, thinking that, like many other tribes of Indians, they designed them to be of use in some separate state. But as far as I could understand them, they think that the deceased will appear again in this world, and pursue their old occupations. But I found it very difficult to discover their meaning. Thus much I clearly understood, that they suppose the dead to be constantly flying about in the air. They have no forms of religion whatever. Murder has been very frequent among them, and even to the present often takes place. They believe, that for an Indian to kill an Indian is no crime; but for an Indian to kill a European is not right. I fell in with one man who had killed three females; and you cannot persuade him that in so doing he has acted wrong. But he will, in all probability, find fulfilled in his own experience the truth of that scripture, With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again;" one of the Indians having determined to take his life before the winter be over. He thinks that, by so doing, he will be acting right; nor can he, in his present state of darkness, be convinced of the contrary. To other vices, the Esquimaux add an excessive love of ardent spirits. Such is their fondness for this injurious superfluity of life, that it stands foremost on their list of wants. Buy from one of these unfortunate beings any article, and ask what he wishes in pay. ment, and he will say rum. Their game, clothing, implements of labour, labour itself, any thing, and every thing dis

posable, that they possess, they will barter for rum; nor do they even consider the comparative value of what they sell with what they take. A quart of rum frequently purchases twenty times its value. Conjugal affection among the Esquimaux does not, in my opinion, operate very powerfully under the most favourable circumstances; but I was much pleased, in several instances, to witness the strongest marks of maternal affection and solicitude in the conduct of some of the Esquimaux mothers towards their children. In fact, I never saw in civilized life stronger indicatious of attachment. But I cannot say so much on the behalf of Esquimaux fathers.

Strong as is their inclination to covet what they see, they are honest almost to a proverb. I am persuaded one might leave any thing within their reach without any reason to fear for its safety, and in this respect they are just the reverse of the mountaineers, who will take all they can. But their honesty is no barrier to their taking the advantage, if they can, in making a bargain, though the traffickers are too subtle in general to give them any opportunity of succeeding. They are very hospitable, but one must be satisfied to take the will for the deed, as no taste but an uncommonly vitiated one could relish an Esquimaux delicacy. Yet among themselves one can most distinctly discover the principle. Should one family be more successful than the rest in hunting or fishing, all others are as welcome as themselves to a part. Nor can their benevolence towards each other be exhausted while the seal, the porpoise, or whatever they may have, be it little or much, can furnish them with the means of showing it. Hence, in all their excursions, they take no food. Should they kill any thing, they gladly share it with the first they fall in with; should they catch nothing, they dispense with ceremony, and live on the bounty of their neighbours.

Some of them, to avail themselves of being present at our public services, came twenty, and even thirty miles; and at our family services the poor Indians always manifested a desire to be there, which much pleased me. When present they are remarkably attentive. Their faces naturally wear a serious aspect; but in the presence of any one they revere, this is more especially the case. Their countenances seem to be the index of thoughtfulness, mingled with some anxiety. They are very fond of singing, and the females have good voices,-low, but very soft

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1. DIED, May 16th, 1825, at Pembroke, in South Wales, Jane Phelps, aged seventy-nine. She was the widow of the late Mr. William Phelps, of Warren, near Pembroke, who also died some years ago, at a still more advanced age, in the full maturity of the Christian character, and in the hopes and joys of the Gospel. Of this excellent and venerable man of God, it may he allowed here to state a few particulars. Though the family descended from the Flemings, who settled in that county in the reign of Henry I., and are known to have lineally occupied the same farm for upwards of three centuries, it does not appear that they had ever heard the truths of Christianity announced in any truly evangelical form and spirit, till the late Rev. Thomas Taylor began his public ministry, in connexion with Mr. Wesley, about sixty years ago. Mr. Phelps, then a young man, took his horse, and went to hear this itinerant stranger preach in the open air at Pembroke. The Lord inclined his heart to receive the truth as it is in Jesus; he immediately invited Mr. Taylor to his own home: and ever after, for more than fifty years, the Methodist Preachers were welcomed to preach and lodge, according to their regular appointments, in the same antique dwelling, and that in a most kind and hospitable manner. His whole character was peculiarly marked by Christian simplicity, integrity, and piety. The descriptive testimony given by our Lord to an amiable disciple, might be employed in the present instance, not as applied indiscriminately, but as strictly appropriate: "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." The tenor of his conduct, could we here exhibit it in detail, would, we have no doubt, sufficiently and instructively confirm the application. His latter end was answerable to the sterling and long tried excellence of his life; and the savour of his name and virtue will long be sweet in the remembrance of those who knew him. His pious relict, when but young in years, had been powerfully convinced of her sinful condition, and truly converted to God by the ministry of the late Rev. Mr. Keighley, for whom she cherished, ever after, the purest esteem and afection. Her life was in perfect unison with that of her venerable husband. Her Christian experience was somewhat different from his, as strongly marked by a constant and

unshrinking confidence in God, and by all those qualities and enjoyments which usually belong to a vigorous and decided character; while he possessed a mildness of temper approaching to timidity; a tenderness of conscience, a meekness and gentleness, which bespoke the man of peace; but which he sometimes suffered to prevent his full attainment of spiritual life and joy. Yet these several kinds of experience were mutually serviceable to one another; as, in particular, they were mutually corrective of each other; and as, while they exhibited some striking and delightful contrasts, like the varying colours of the same rainbow,-intrinsically beautiful,-but peculiarly interesting as blended and harmonized. They lived together in Christian wedlock for more than half a century. Their large family they laboured to educate in the fear of God; and not in vain, as they had the happiness to see most of their offspring converted to God, and two of their daughters married to travelling Preach

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One of these daughters, the late Mrs. Kirkpatrick, died at Macclesfield, Nov. 10th, 1822, in the spirit of true Christian resignation and confidence, and has now rejoined both her parents in the presence of the Saviour, to enjoy, together with them, it is hoped, "some peculiar and immortal friendship." Mrs. Phelps was remarkable for her constant and delighted perusal of the sacred Scriptures. By this practice, in particular, she had strengthened to an eminent maturity the great principle of the divine life in her soul, and certain special graces of her Christian character, on which the brevity of this notice will not allow me to enlarge. Her last illness was only of three days' continuance. The scene was solemn, but to her it was unutterably happy : her hope was full of immortality. By peace and joy through believing, she was elevated much above her sufferings, and cagerly anticipated the eternal blessedness which was prepared for her, and that in proportion to the nearness of its approach.

DAVID M'NICOLL.

2. Died, May 23d, at Cale-Green, near Stockport, in the 77th year of her age, Mrs. Sarah Mayer, widow of the late Mr. Matthew Mayer, of whom an account is given in the Methodist Magazine for January, 1816. She was born at Bristol, in the year 1748, and had

been a Member of the Methodist Society about sixty years. She was well known to the venerable Mr. Wesley, and had the pleasure and honour, many times, of entertaining that great and justly-celebrated man of God in her own house. On those occasions she was as attentive to his bodily wants as Martha, and to her own spiritual wants as Mary. She was also well known to many of the first Methodist Preachers, and at her house they always found a hearty welcome, as the servants of her Lord. Most of these men of God are long since gone to their eternal reward; so that she had nearly out-lived all her earliest Christian friends. She was active and zealous, and as long as her health and strength continued, it was her delight to attend the sanctuary of the Lord upon every occasion; and, thanks be to God, she seldom waited upon him in vain. She experienced the fulfilment of that promise, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength :" and when she could no longer attend the house of prayer, she was found, especially on the Lord's day, employed in reading his holy word, or other religious books, and in pouring out her soul in prayer. She often spake of the blessed seasons she enjoyed, when no eye saw her but that of God. While she was "diligent in business," she was also ever fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." She was also a lover of those who love the Lord Jesus Christ, and ever delighted in doing good to all such as needed her advice or pecuniary assistance. By the grace of God, she continued faithful unto death; believing, and loving, and serving her Lord with much patience and humility; and her end was peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Much more might have been said concerning the experience and character of this excellent woman, were it not for the charge which she gave to her surviving friends, and the destruction of her papers, which she burnt before her death. The following sketch appeared in a public journal, in which her decease was announced: "For more than half a century she lived in Stockport, an ornament to her Christian profession. Endued by nature with a strong and vigorous mind, which had been cultivated by a liberal education, and enlarged by extensive reading, her general information rendered her company and her correspondence both entertaining and highly valuable. In early life her heart was imbued with religious principles, and her character formed on the Christian model: and,

adding great urbanity of manners to an ardent and unaffected piety, she strove to make all about her good and happy. By her death, not only her immediate friends and relatives, but her poor neighbours, to whom she was a constant benefactress, have sustained an irreparable loss. Of her it might truly be said, that kindness, meekness, and comfort, were on her tongue; and if there was any virtue, or if there was any praise, she thought on those things." JOHN MIDDLETON.

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3. Died at Braithwell, May the 25th, in the twenty-ninth year of her age, Miss Ann Hawke, of Blyth, in the Retford Circuit. From a child she had the fear of God before her eyes; and in very early life, her mind was deeply affected with divine things. The Spirit of God convinced her of the depravity and corruption of her nature, and of the abso lute necessity of being renewed in righteousness and true holiness. This blessing she diligently sought, in all the appointed means of grace; associating herself with those who fear God, and excel in virtue. They took her by the band, and instructed her more fully in the nature of the Gospel of Christ. These instructions, added to the pious and affectionate counsel of her parents, led her to give her whole heart to God and while engaged in prayer, in her father's house, the Lord in mercy revealed his Son in her heart; clearly attesting, by his Holy Spirit, that she was his adopted child, and an heir of eternal life and she never afterwards lost the blessed sense of her acceptance in the Beloved. United to Christ, she gave herself to the Church for his sake, and became active and useful in her native village. She was always ready to engage in every work that had for its object the glory of God, and the good of mankind. It was when she was about seventeen years of age that she joined the Methodist So-. ciety; and her union with them accomplished every spiritual end to which the economy of Methodism is so eminently conducive. She "grew in grace, and ardently pressed towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." In the year 1820, Miss H. removed to Blyth, where she opened a school for young ladies, in which the Lord greatly blessed her labours, At this time she wrote as follows: "I feel comfortable in my new situation, and, through the blessing of Providence, have a prospect of success. May the Lord make me useful to the charge committed to me, and may I watch over