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Collections made during a Tour through the Counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, by the Rev. J. Townsend, of London.

Royston, Congregation of Rev. Mr. Townes

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Collections made during a Tour in the West of England,
by the Rev. A. Waugh, of London.

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By Mistake, the Collection made by Dr. Cracknell and his riends, at Weymouth, which was in a former Number stated to be

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C We are sorry to be again under the necessity of omitting or postponing a great Number of Articles of Foreign and Home Intelligence, and several Pages of fl'ections and ionations to the Protestant Society for De fence of Religious Liberty, which will appear in the Society's Proceedings, now in the Press.

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EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE.

SEPTEMBER, 1811.

MEMOIR

OF

THE LATE REV. EBENEZER WHITE,

OF CHESTER.

EVERY attempt to develope the principles and illustrate the tendency of Christian truth, accords with the great design for which the ministerial office was instituted. In that institution we discover a wise and benevolent adaptation to the condition of mankind; and its duties, when rightly discharged, like the Scriptures themselves, are profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness.' Such also are the purposes which should be invariably regarded in the details of Christian biography. Its important ends are not answered by a mere recital of facts and dates. Character must be unfolded; its diversifying causes ascertained; the influence of religion, in its formation, accurately traced; and the immense advantages of that influence so exhibited, as to convince the judgment and impress the heart. Every believer who walks worthy of his high vocation,' is a living witness to the truth of the gospel: his life and death are practical confirmations of its divine authority and heavenly origin. Hence the value of those memorials which record the virtues of departed saints, and attest the excellency of that religion which gave them a good hope and everlasting consolation.' 'It is with sentiments peculiarly affecting to himself, that the writer of this account has undertaken the mournful task of transmitting a brief Memoir of one who was once his faithful friend and pastor. He looks back on the days that are gone, with mingled emotions of gratitude and sorrow; - gratitude for the blessings of social intercourse and Christian fellowship; and sorrow, that those blessings were so imperfectly improved, and that they are now no longer to be enjoyed! But, thanks be to God, we sorrow not as those without hope;' come to the spirits of just men made perfect;' and even here, are happily associated with the glorified above!

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The late Rev. Ebenezer White was the son of Stephen and Ann White. He was born in London, March 9, 1771; and

* It is preserved as a traditional record in the family, that some of the ancestors of Mr. White were amongst the first sufferers for Puritanis UM

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was baptized in the same month, by that eminent servant of God, the late Rev. Edward Hitchen, then pastor of the church assembling at White Row, Spital-fields. His parents, one of whom survives him, were pions and respectable; and im parted to him and to a numerous family, the invaluable advantages of religions education. His mother' (says an af fectionate and near relative of the deceased +) in pious and grateful remembrance of the Lord's helping hand in some dif ficulties, desired that he might be named Ebenezer; and his father, who has now been dead about nine years, mentioned that, from the birth of the child, he had a strong desire and presentiment, that he would be devoted to the service of the Lord in the sanctuary. It may be truly said of him, that, like Obadiah, he feared the Lord from his youth.' From his earliest years, he was of a grave, serious, and studious turn of mind; manifesting great tenderness of conscience and attention to divine things. At a very early age he used to take his younger sister into a retired apartment, and pray with her, and urge her to pray for herself. When he was only ten years of age, his father being often detained out late at night by business, he used to read a chapter with his mother and the other children; and on one of these occasions, when his mother proposed to him to read a prayer, he answered, with great simpacity, "Oh, mother, I don't pray with a book!" With a little persuasion, he was induced to engage in prayer; and from that time generally officiated as the chaplain of the little circle in his father's absence. Shortly after this, he formed a society of youths, about his own age, who used to meet on Sabbath evenings, in his father's house, for social prayer; and a refreshing season it often proved to many older and more experienced Christians, who occasionally entered the room, or listened at the door.' Evident and pleasing as were these intimations of early piety, it appears that he had no decided intention of entering on the work of the ministry till a more advanced period of his life. He was appren

ticed at the usual age, to Mr. R. Butler, a respectable hosier, in Gracechurch Street. In this situation he met with a kind friend in the late Rev. John Olding, of Deptford, who en

and Noyconformity; and that one of these having had an information laid against him, when the officers came to search his house, took refuge in an oven, over the mouth of which a spider almost immediately wove a large web. This circumstance induced the omcers to omit searching the oven, as they concluded that nobody could have been there fot months. By this singular event the good man escaped. A similar storf is related in some part of Havel's writings; and it is probable, refersta the same person. How just the observation of Dr. Paley, that in the works and ways of God, great and little are terms of no meaning!"

+ The passages marked by inverted cominas are selected froin an in tere dig feller, which the writer received from his brother, Mr. Walter White, C London.

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