SPECIAL MEETING ON BEHALF OF THE CHINESE MISSION. THE Committee of the Bristol Auxiliary have promptly made arrangements for a meeting, in aid of the efforts now in progress for strengthening and extending the Society's Missions, to be holden in the city of Bristol, on Thursday evening, February 9, at which the Rev. A. Tidman, Foreign Secretary, and the Rev. A. F. Lacroix, from Calcutta, will attend, as a Deputation from the Parent Society. ARRIVAL OF MRS. LESSEL FROM INDIA. Ir is with peculiar thankfulness we announce the safe arrival, from Liverpool, of Mrs. Lessel and her family, after experiencing a most merciful and extraordinary deliverance from shipwreck, off the coast of Cornwall, during that fearful and destructive storm which occurred in the course of last month. Mrs. Lessel was returning to her native country for the benefit of her health, in the Jessie Logan, bound for Liverpool, and had nearly reached the termination of her voyage in safety, when this disastrous and terrific visitation occurred. Intelligence speedily reached London, that the Jessie Logan had been cast away at Boscastle, near Launceston, after being abandoned by the crew and passengers, of whose escape it seemed impossible, from the tremendous violence of the storm, to entertain the slightest hope. So entire was the conviction that our friend and sister, Mrs. Lessel, with her children and attendants, had perished in common with their fellow-voyagers, that the Directors felt it their duty to communicate the melancholy tidings to the friends of Mrs. L. in Scotland, and to present, at the same time, those expressions of Christian condolence which an occasion so sorrowful demanded. Scarcely, however, had they performed this painful task, when, to their unspeakable relief and joy, accounts were received from Ireland that the passengers and crew of the Jessie Logan had, with the exception of one man, been all saved. When the vessel was nearly full of water, and expected every moment to sink, they were most providentially delivered from their awful situation by the ship Lynx, bound from the Mediterranean to the port of Cork, whither they were taken. Mrs. Lessel left Cork with her family by the earliest suitable conveyance, and on the 22nd ult., reached the port of Liverpool. She has since proceeded to Scotland, and the Directors cannot but offer their heartfelt congratulations to herself and her friends on the gracious and timely interposition by which she and her children were rescued from the awful calamity to which they had so nearly fallen victims. The Directors also gladly take this opportunity of acknowledging the kindness which Mrs. Lessel received under her distressing circumstances from friends of the Society and others both at Cork and Liverpool. Contributions in aid of the Society will be thankfully received by Thomas Wilson, Esq., Treasurer, and Rev. John Arundel, Home Secretary, at the Mission House, Blomfield-street, Finsbury, London; by G, Yule, Esq., Broughton Hall, Edinburgh; J. Risk, Esq., Cochran-street, Glasgow; and at 7, Lower Abbeystreet, Dublin. Tyler & Reed, Printers, 5, Bolt-court, London. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE, AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. FOR MARCH, 1843. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. N. M. HARRY, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH ASSEMBLING IN NEW BROAD-STREET MEETING-HOUSE. We are happy to be able to lay before our readers the very interesting account of the late Rev. N. M. Harry, given by the Rev. Caleb Morris, to the bereaved flock of the deceased, in a funeral discourse, distinguished by all those qualities of mind and heart which so eminently characterize the efforts of our esteemed friend and brother. We beg, however, distinctly to state, that the whole sermon is now before the public, and that, irrespective of the charitable design of applying the profits arising from its sale to the benefit of Mr. Harry's widow and orphan children, it is eminently deserving of a wide circulation, as a composition rich in all those appeals which tend to meliorate the heart, and to make Christians more fit for the better country beyond the grave. The Rev. N. M. Harry was a native of South Wales, and was born in the parish of Lampeter, Pembrokeshire. In early life he became the subject of Divine grace; and in a few years after entered upon a course of study preparatory to the Christian ministry, at VOL. XXI. Newport Pagnel, under the judicious care of the Rev. J. P. Bull. After the termination of his academic course, he became pastor successively of the Congregational churches at Banbury and New Broad-street. In the latter sphere he terminated his brief, but useful career, having died, after a short illness, October 22nd, 1842. His funeral took place on the 31st of the same month, at the cemetery, Abney Park, when Dr. Morison, Dr. Smith, and Messrs. Clayton, Berry, and Binney, officiated in the house, in the chapel, and at the grave. After some very just remarks upon the formation of Mr. Harry's intellectual character, Mr. Morris proceeds in the following manner : It was active, observant, and singu larly accumulative. It presented a rich and useful combination of native and substantial virtues. Entirely free from any natural or acquired deformity, it possessed a symmetry, agility of action, and effectiveness, rarely to be found. It was certainly endowed with elements of greatness; and these were becoming, every successive year, more K operative and discernible. The growth of his intellectual faculties during the latter years of his life was uncommonly rapid, and was equalled only by the increase of his usefulness as a pastor, and his popularity as a preacher. How delightful to think that his soul has already ascended to a sphere where its advancement will be lasting and illimitable! I need not tell you, that the mind at whose natural character we have just glanced was a holy mind. And that, after all, is the chief glory. Through grace, it was freely and fully dedicated to God. God's will was the law that presided over all its affections and actions; God's love was its sanctuary of repose; and God's words its habitual study and delight. Of his consecration to God, the departed gave a very interesting account on the day of his ordination; from which, in his own handwriting, I extract this statement : "On Oct. 19, 1817, a day ever to be remembered by me, according to the custom of our churches in the Principality, I professed my faith in Christ by publicly uniting myself with the church under the pastoral care of the Rev. J. Lloyd. Since then, I have been subject to various feelings-have had many occasions to mourn over the corruptions of my heart. But though my religious experience has often been of a painful character, yet I feel thankful that it has not been so always. Whatever has been the state of my mind, I have never felt one single desire to return back to the world. I feel it a source of ineffable pleasure to spend and be spent in the service of the Saviour, who died to save my wretched soul. And although I have never been the subject of any rapturous feelings, I have long felt, and do now feel, determined to die at the foot of the cross. In reviewing my life, I have much reason to say 'Oh to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm constrain'd to be!'" Our friend made the Bible the guide of his mind and life. His knowledge of it was at once accurate and pro found. With its letter, as well as its spirit, he was fully conversant. It is well known that my friend possessed a singularly capacious and retentive memory. That memory was filled with the truths of the Bible. The entire contents of the Holy Writings seemed to have been, in their natural order and form, indelibly written on its broad tablets. To any particular passage he could instantly point. Its location as to book, chapter, and verse its exact phraseology-its parallels in sound and sentiment-its various connexions, all these he would give with a readiness that often excited my astonishment and admiration. Nor was his knowledge of the Scriptures merely verbal-far from it. The substitution of a technical acquaintance with the dead signs and symbols of the Bible, and of a mechanical recollection of its phrases, for a clear perception of its living realities, was a thing which he always condemned in others, and of which he himself was never guilty. With the evidences and discoveries of Revelation he was thoroughly acquainted. Its doctrinal and ethical truths he delighted to investigate. Its biographical histories he had made of late his special study. As a proof of this, need I remind you of the course of lectures on "Scriptural Characters," which he was delivering? That course God hath broken. Of dogmatical and polemical theology he was lately less fond than he had been; and I am not ignorant of the cause. Being fully aware that implicit faith in systems, and addictedness to controversy, had done immense mischief in the world, by cramping the energy, prostrating the independence, quenching the charities, and destroying the visible union of Christians, he seemed determined to put in practice what all Protestants profess-to make the Bible the only standard of his theology, and the only rule of his religion. Never did he, notwithstanding, affect to despise books of divinity, nor presume to transfer the infallibility of the Bible to his own interpretations of |