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tell you that there is in it true pleasure, world-a spirit of pious liberality and delightful emotions of love and joy, and the Christian charity.

most solid and permanent satisfaction. I The very animated speech of Mr. Dixon, urge you to support this Society this day, which we are obliged most reluctantly to on the high principle of religious enjoyment. curtail, was seconded, most appropriately, I can tell you that it costs me a great deal by the Rev. James Smith of Ilford, who to address an audience such as this-to ad-remarked at the close that he wished for dress persons who are most of them stran-deeds as well as words, on which the chairgers to me, in a strange place, and standing man, after a few observations on the neceson this platform, where I never stood before, sity of enlarged contributions, announced and therefore if it were not for the principle his intention to give £200, and presented, of holy satisfaction arising from this work, at the same time, 1001. from bis son, Mr. I should be in danger of retiring from my Joseph Gurney, and 100%. from a young duty, to find ease in seclusion. But I feel a friend. This was followed by the worthy hallowed, a grateful pleasure in this engage-Treasurer of the Society, who subscribed ment; and when I throw my eyes on this 3001. (engaging to procure 2001. more) subject, and gaze on its beauty and loveli- with 501. from Mrs. Wilson, and 50%. from ness, I lose my perturbation, and find delight John Deacon, Esq. A great number of in advocating a cause which I feel to be the liberal contributions were then handed to greatest that can occupy the attention of the the platform from different parts of the world. Would it not impart to us pleasure chapel, and a variety of observations were to see God universally acknowledged; to made by different ministers and others, eusce Jesus Christ, and him crucified, an ob-gaged in announcing their own intentions, ject of love to the whole human race? And or reading the notes forwarded for that would it not afford us high satisfaction also, purpose. The remaining resolutions were to see the Bible adopted as the standard of moved and seconded by the Rev. Messrs. truth amongst all people, and kindreds, and Eustace Carey, Swan of Birmingham, Dr. nations, and to see the ministers of Christ Cox, Messrs. Groser, Ivimey, and Dyer. publishing its important communications After contributions in various forms had through the whole world? This would be, been announced, amounting to about Three indeed, a delightful sight; and it is this Thousand Pounds, the meeting united in which we are attempting to realize, it is this singing the usual doxology, and separated scene which we have begun to bring before about four o'clock, highly delighted, not you. We want to proclaim the Gospel to only with the extraordinary proofs of Chrisevery creature, and to set up the standard of tian munificence they had witnessed, but truth in every land. We say, in the Bible with the chastened and sober spirit of grateare laws for every nation, announcements of ful piety by which it appeared to be accommercy and love adapted to every condition panied.

N. B. The Editor has been com

of man, and prospects of glory, honour, and immortality, calculated to cheer the heart, and animate the hopes of every wanderer in this vale of gloom and sorrow. Nor do we stand in doubt as to the general and success-pelled, if he would publish any ful propagation of its truths. We confi- account this month, to do it in dently expect the day to arrive, when its

light and truth shall be universally enjoyed, what he feels to be a very meagre and its hallowing influence be every where form. He refers his readers for manifest. You may say what you like about fuller details to the World Newsthe march of intellect, and as to the school

master being abroad, but I say there is paper, the able reporters of which something more cheering, more pleasing, journal have kindly furnished mamore delightful, extending itself in the terials for the preceding columns.

Printed by Littlewood and Co. Old Bailey.

BAPTIST MAGAZINE.

MEMOIR OF

AUGUST, 1829.

THE LATE MR. JOHN tertained for the son of his friend.
SATCHELL.
After leaving school, he applied
himself very assiduously to his
father's business of a worsted and
silk manufacturer; notwithstand-
ing which, his habits of improving
every moment of time, and his in-
defatigable ardour in the pursuit
of knowledge, enabled him to find
opportunities for reading and study;
and for acquiring a varied and ex-
tensive knowledge of almost every
subject, connected with literature
and science.

THE subject of the following me-
moir was born at Kettering, in
Northamptonshire, on the 4th of
June, 1757. His parents, though
not originally in affluent circum-
stances, were enabled by their
success in business to move in a
respectable sphere: They were
both pious. His father, in 1758,
became a member of the Baptist
church in Kettering, under the
pastoral care of the Rev. John
Browne; but in 1761, owing to a But while engaged in the pursuit of
difference in sentiment on some human learning, divine knowledge
religious points, he seceded with was not forgotten. He joined his
others of the members, and esta-father's church when about twenty-
blished another church in the town, one years of age; and from that
over which he was chosen pastor. period to the time of his death,
There were other children besides maintained a firm and undeviating
Mr. Satchell, but he alone survived course in the religious profession
the period of infancy. In very
he had made.
early life he discovered that fond- At the close of the year 1795,
ness for literary pursuits, which Mr. Satchell and his father resolv-
afterwards so much distinguished ed to re-unite themselves to the
him. He did not enjoy the advan-original Baptist church, which was
tage of a good education, but sup- then under the pastoral care of the
plied the want of it by his assidui- late Rev. Andrew Fuller; whose
ty in study when he left school; religious views they found to har-
in which he received much assist- monize with their own; and early
ance from the kind instructions of in the following year they were
the Rev. Abraham Maddock (an admitted members of this Christian
evangelical clergyman, for some society.
time curate of Kettering); be-
tween whom and the father of the
deceased, existed a most intimate
friendship until Mr. Maddock's
death in 1785. The kindness thus
manifested to Mr. Satchell, excited
in his mind feelings of the highest
respect and veneration for Mr.
Maddock, who, in return, gave fre-
quent proofs of the regard he eu-
VOL. IV. 3d Series.

Mr. Satchell's father did not survive this event quite two years. On the 9th of December, 1797, after a few days' illness, of a complaint with which he had been long afflicted, and which was attended with very excruciating pain, he calmly resigned his breath into the hands of his Maker, being then in the 65th year of his age.

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By the death of his mother, | siding in London; whither he acwhich took place on the 3d of cordingly went, on the 9th of DeMarch, 1799, Mr. Satchell being cember, 1817, being the twenleft without any domestic society, tieth anniversary of his father's was desirous of finding a suit- death. able companion for life; and was married on the 17th of February, 1800, to Miss Sarah Burditt, of Woodford, a village near Thrapston, who survives to lament the loss of a most kind and affectionate husband.

On his arrival in London, Mr. Satchell attended the ministry of the Rev. J. Ivimey; and shortly afterwards, joined the church in Eagle-street, under Mr. Ivimey's care. He continued to attend at that place until his death; nine months previously to which he was chosen one of the deacons of the church.

In the year 1806, Mr. S. was induced, by the advice of several judicious friends, to publish a work of fiction, having a religious tend- In the year 1819, Mr. Satchell ency, entitled "Thornton Abbey." became the Editor of this MagaIt was written and nearly finished zine, under the direction of a comby his father, and altered and com-mittee of ministers, and retained pleted by himself. The publica- that capacity till the close of the tion of this work was approved of year 1823; during which period by Mr. Fuller, who wrote a recom- he contributed many articles to its mendatory preface to it. A second edition was soon called for, and a new one has recently been published.

In the same year, Mr. Satchell was chosen a deacon of Mr. Fuller's church, and continued in that office until he left Kettering. For the last two years of this period, the church was under the pastoral care of the late Rev. John Keen Hall, Mr. Fuller's successor.* Mr. Satchell enjoyed for many years the most intimate friendship with Mr. Fuller, who entrusted to him the perusal of several of his works in manuscript, and availed himself of his corrections.

Mr. Satchell having retired from business in the year 1807, was desirous of residing in London, but felt a reluctance to leave his native place, especially during Mr. Fuller's lifetime; but the latter impediment being removed by Mr. Fuller's death in 1815, Mr. Satchell began seriously to contemplate re

* Mr. Hall died on the 18th of April in the present year, as announced in our May Number, page 208.

pages. Mr. Satchell was likewise engaged, in 1821, in preparing for the press a new edition of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with notes written by the Rev. Mr. Ivimey. In doing this he took great pains, by collating the various editions of the work, to correct the numerous blunders which had from time to time crept into its pages, and also, by expunging and softening down certain indelicacies in expression, to render the work more suited to the refinement of the present day. Subsequently, Mr. Satchell spent much of his time in revising manuscript works, which were submitted to him for correction by several of his friends. During the two years that preceded his death, he had been engaged in preparing for the press a new edition of Lavoisne's Genealogical, Historical, Chronological, and Geographical Atlas. This edition, which is the fourth of that work, has received numerous corrections, and has been enlarged by the addition of five new maps; so that it now contains seventy-three maps. A work of

this magnitude necessarily occupied a considerable portion of Mr. Satchell's time; and it was not without great satisfaction that he completed it, which he did on the very day he died.

minutes only elapsed, when he slipped from his chair-his knife and fork falling from his handsand expired! Upon being raised, his countenance assumed a deathlike paleness, and his arms fell lifeless by his side. Surgical aid was instantly obtained, but it was in vain. The vital spark had fled, and the disembodied spirit had winged its happy flight to the mansions prepared for its everlasting habitation.

Since Mr. Satchell's residence in London, he enjoyed excellent health, and although a decline in his bodily powers was at times visible, yet his family little expected that they were so soon to lose him, still less that his death would be so sudden; for his ab- Whether the deceased had any stemious mode of life, and his previous expectation that death constitutional habit rendered such was so near, it is difficult to say. an event extremely improbable. At the commencement of his indisBut death often comes at a time position, he intimated to Mrs. and in a form the least expected! Satchell his belief that he should Early in February last, and for a not get better; adding, "that he week previously to his death, Mr. thought his illness was a summons Satchell had been confined to his from eternity." And shortly afterhouse by rheumatism in the chest, wards, he said to one of his daugharising from cold; and was under ters, "Behold, I stand at the door the care of his medical attendant. and knock;" without adding any Though this illness immediately thing further to explain his meanpreceded, it is believed to have ing. There was something strikbeen unconnected with, his death. ing in these observations, and they Indeed, he seemed to be gradually regaining his health, and was engaged during part of the last three days of his life in writing a preface to the Atlas. This he completed the night before his death; but on the following morning, February the 14th, he proposed making an alteration in it; and rose rather earlier than on the previous days, to mention the subject to his eldest son. This was the last conversation that passed between them. In the course of the morning he sent the preface to the printer, accompanied by a note, in which he expressed his great satisfaction at having quite finished the work. Shortly afterwards, whilst at dinner, referring to the Atlas, he said, "How glad I am I have got through that work; I thought it never would have been finished." These were the last words he uttered. A few

might possibly be occasioned by a presentiment of his approaching dissolution. At the same time they may be attributed to a nervous dejection, which he was subject to even in slight indisposition. Be that as it may, it is confidently believed that death to him, though sudden, was not unwelcome. The great business of his life had been a preparation for death; and he has been known to contemplate with great composure the possibility of its being sudden.

But it is necessary that we should take a more detailed review of Mr. Satchell's character, both as a man and as a Christian; and in doing this, occasional extracts will be made from a diary which he com

* Rev. iii. 20. From this text a very appropriate funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Ivimey.

menced nearly fifty years since, for a thousand worlds. At other

and continued to the day of his death.

times, however, his prospects of future glory were bright and unclouded; and he was enabled to look forward with composure, and even joyful expectation, to the period when he should bid adieu to time and all its interests.

As a scholar, his attainments were of no mean character. In an accurate knowledge of the Latin language, he was, it is believed, excelled by few. He was very familiar with the French, and had His humility was very great; it a tolerable acquaintance with the was observable in his daily interHebrew, Greek, and Italian lan- course with mankind, but more guages. He possessed an accu- especially in his approaches to the rate and very extensive knowledge divine throne. His sense of the of history, in its various branches, importance of this virtue is appaand a general acquaintance with rent from the following prayer, natural and moral philosophy. His which is extracted from his diary, mind was strong, and plentifully and was written in his 29th year. stored with the fruits of a long- Heavenly Father, I feel sencontinued and well-directed study. sible that humility is the true road His ardour in the pursuit of know- to happiness; not humility in the ledge was unwearied; and in all external deportment, although that that he undertook, whether of a is becoming and necessary, but a literary kind or not, he acted up to humbleness in disposition, which the full meaning of the Scripture is the root and foundation of the precept, "Whatsoever thy hand other. With exterior humility only, findeth to do, do it with thy might." if contumely or any other injury is He inculcated, both by precept and example, the importance of a due improvement of time. Rising early, generally between five and six, and often earlier, he was rarely seen unemployed during any part of the day, with the exception of a quarter of an hour's repose after dinner.

As a Christian, he was remarkable for his humility and integrity. He had a deep sense of the heinous nature of sin in general, and of his own sins in particular; accompanied by a solid, though not always untrembling hope of pardon,through the atonement of the Saviour. A short time previously to his death, when under great dejection of mind, he was heard to say, that though, owing to his sinfulness and unworthiness, his hope of pardon was so feeble, that he almost feared whether he should be finally happy, yet that he would not part with the little hope which he did possess,

offered to me; if others excel me (as thousands do); or if my pride in any respect be wounded; however I may externally appear before men, my mind will be afflicted. But internal humility will prepare me for enduring whatsoever thou shalt impose upon me, and will teach me that I am less than the least of all thy mercies; for I have no right to expect any thing from thee but deserved punishment. If thou shalt distinguish me by thy favour from others of my species, it ought to excite my gratitude; but if I am the object of thy special favour, that is the only thing necessary. O, merciful Father, give me humility of heart I beseech thee, in the name of thy beloved Son!"

Part of the diary is written in Latin.

In translating this and the following ex

tracts, it has been endeavoured to preserve

the strict meaning of the passage, though at the expence of elegance of diction.

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