THE Annual Meeting of this Society will, with divine permission, be held in London, on Wednesday, Thursday. and Friday, the 8th, 9th, and 10th Days of May. The Arrangement of the Services is as follows:

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SURRY CHAPEL, Wednesday Morning, May 8. The Rev. EDWARD PARSONS, of Leeds, to preach.

TABERNACLE, Wednesday Evening. The Rev. JOSEPH JEFFERSON, of Basingstoke, to preach.

SILVER STREET CHAPEL, Thursday Morning. The Members of the Society will meet to hear the Report of the Directors, and transact the general Business of the Institution.

TOTTENHAM COURT CHAPEL, Thursday Evening. The Rev. James STEVEN, A. M. Minister of Kilwinning, in Scotland, to preach.

ST. BRIDE'S CHURCH, Fleet Street, Friday Morning. The Rev. JOHN WILCOX, A. M. Minister of Ely Chapel, Lecturer of St. George's, Southwark, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Earl of Kingston, to preach.

Friday Afternoon, at Four o'clock, the Members of the Society are to meet for Business at the School-Room of Sion Chapel.

SION CHAPEL. On Friday Evening the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered to those Members and Friends of the Society who are Stated Communicants with a Christian Church (of whatever form) who produce Tickets, signed by their respective Ministers. It is hoped that no person will be offended by the strict regard which, to prevent confusion, or the admission of improper persons, must be paid to this Regulation.

Ministers resident in town, will be pleased to send to Mr. WILLIAMS, Stationers' Court, for Tickets, on the preceding Thursday, Friday, or Saturday Morning. Ministers from the country may obtain them on Monday Afternoon, at No. 9, Old Swan Stairs; or on Wednesday Morning, before the service, at Surry Chapel.

We are desired to say, That the Front Seats in the Galleries at each of the Chapels, being reserved for the Ministers, other persons are requested not to occupy them.

The Morning Services to begin at Half past Ten, and the Evening Services at Six o'clock. A Collection, for the benefit of the Institution, will be made at each of the Places.

An enlarged Collection of Hymns for Missionary Occasions, price 6d. may be had in Stationers' Court, or at the doors of the Chapels.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.-May 1. o'clock, the Annual Meeting of this Society will be mason's Tavern, as mentioned in our last.

This day, at Eleven held at the Free

LONDON FEMALE PENITENTIARY. - The Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday, the 7th of May, 1811, at the New London Tavern, Cheapside. -The First Annual Meeting of the LADIES (Subscribers to the London Female Penitentiary) will also be held on Tuesday, the 7th of May, 1811, at the Paul's Head Tavern, Cateaton Street. Both Meetings at Twelve o'Clock, precisely.

Society for promoting the Observance of the Lord's Day, and for the Suppression of Public Lewdness. The Annual Meeting of this Society will be held, by divine permission, on Tuesday, the 7th instant, at the New London Tavern, Cheapside, at Six o'clock in the Evening.

RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY. - The Anniversary Sermon, for the benefit of this Society, will be preached on Sunday Afternoon, the 5th of May, iustant, at the Church of St. James, Clerkenwell, by the Rev. Legh Richmond, M. A. Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire. Service to begin at Half past Three o'Clock. The ANNUAL MEETING of this Society

will be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on Thurs day, the 9th of May, at Seven o`Clock in the Morning.

HIBERNIAN SOCIETY. The Annual Meeting of this Society will be held on Friday, May 10, at the New London Tavern, Cheapside, at Seven o'Clock in the Morning.

BAPTIST ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION, at Stepney, near London. - On March the 25th, we are informed, the Rev. W. Newman removed from Bromley to Stepney, to take the charge of the Pupils of this Institution. Three Young Men have been received as probationers. The Members of this denomination have now another powerful appeal to their liberality; and an appeal we trust, that cannot be made in vain. Donations and Subscriptions are received by Joseph Gutteridge, Esq. Treasurer. Donations of scarce and valuable books, and the applications of candidates (post paid) are received by the Rev. W. Newman, President. The Annual Meeting of this Society will be held (Providence permitting) on Thursday, the 16th of May; when the Rev. Robert Hall, of Leicester, is expected to preach at the Meeting-house in Prescott Street, Goodman's Fields.

Auxiliary Association in aid of the

Funds of the London Female Penitentiary with respect to the Prompt Reception of suitable Objects.

EXPERIENCE has not only placed beyond dispute the advantages which arise from a measure which particularly distinguishes the London Female Penitentiary, that of granting prompt reception to those unhappy females who implore admission; but the benefits resulting from it so far exceed the most sanguine expectations, that it has been judged expedient to form an AUXILIARY ASSOCIATION, with a view to enable the Penitentiary to earry into more complete effect than its present limited resources admit, that humane and judicious measure of affording to the seduced and unfortunate female, who is solicitous to forsake the paths of Vice, an immediate and secure refuge from the dangers and the miseries of her unhappy condition.

Further information respecting this Auxiliary Society, may be had of Mr. J. Bevans, at Mr. West's, Billiter Lanc; and Mr. Deveys, 8, Shoe Lane.

A BENEVOLENT SOCIETY has lately been established for Visiting and Relieving cases of great Distress, chiefly among the numerous Poor of Spital Fields, and its vicinity. The special claims of that part of the metropolis on the charity of the benevolent are generally known and admitted. Many of the poor in that quarter are at once

ignorant, industrious, and wretched. Not a few of them are retired sufferers, struggling hard, in sorrow and silence, against the diff culties which oppress them. To seek out such objects, and to relieve them, is the design of this Society.

The money contributed will be distributed under the superintend ence of the Rev. J. Pratt, Minister of Sir G. Wheeler's Chapel in spital Square. Subscriptions, we are informed, are received by him, by the Treasurer, John Kincaid, Esq. Spital Square; and by Mr. Cooper. 8, Queen Street, Cheapside; and Mr. Bickersteth, 3, Hatton Court. Threadneedle Street.

The Rev. Mr. Wilcox and his congregation have set a most be coming example to all true Chris tians, in the recent institution of a Society, termed The Ely Chapel Humane Society, for visiting and relieving the Sick and Poor. The chief object of which is, not to relieve the sturdy mendicants, who too generally are hackneyed in all the arts of fraud and deception; but to seek out and personally visit those immured in damp and gloomy cellars, or pining in a miserablegarret; and whilst administering to their wants, to distribute Religious Tracts, and impart religious instruc tion to them. The Address and Plan of their Proceedings may be had at the Vestry, Ely Chapel; and Subscriptions received by the Rev. Mr. Wilcox.

[Our Poetical Department is unavoidably deferred; as also the Missionary Collections, and many Articles of Intelligence.]

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EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE.

JUNE, 1811.

MEMOIR

OF

THE LATE REV. WILLIAM EVANS,

OF FORD, NEAR KINGSBRIDGE, DEVON.

HUMAN life is described by a variety of metaphors; but there is not one more familiar, or one more interesting and impressive than that of a journey. It calls to our recollection a point from whence we set out,- a variety of scenes opening and closing on the traveller, a thousand incidents awakening attention: at one time exciting our surprize, our admiration, and our joy; at another, we meet with occurrences which rouze all the painful apprehensions, and excite the tenderest feelings of our heart. We are also, by this metaphor, obliged to look forward to that moment when our journey will terminate. From this the inind shrinks; and we tremble to anticipate that period when we must quit all the scenes of life, bid a long, long adieu to our old companions and friends, and enter into a world unknown and eternal! While contemplating this subject, we fancy we behold two travellers, setting out together. From a variety of circumstances needless to relate, these persons possessed feelings very congenial: they had formed the same habits, were embarked in the saine pursuits, and had the same objects in view: their hearts were united by the dearest, noblest ties of friendship; yes, divine friendship,' which the subject of this Memoir once thus described: Divine friendship is the bliss of minds, - it is the nexus mundi,it is celestial gravitation; it draws souls to souls, souls to angels, and souls a angels to God.'These travellers move on together, beging their weary steps by mutual endearments; and, in elevating conversation, excited by the incidents continually presenting themselves,- by the most arduous and momentous engagements into which they had entered; and frequently by the animating descripDd

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