For Mrs. J. C. Williams. To Mr. E. M. Sawndey, Wycombe, for a box of apparel, &c. For Samoa. To Miss Nicoll, for some useful articles; to Mr. James Gregg, for a parcel of knives; to Mrs. Deacon, for a parcel of clothing. For Rev. J. Rodgerson, Borabora. To Mr. Wilson, Whitehaven, for a box of useful articles. For Rev. W. Howe, Tahiti. To C. Hindley, Esq., M.P., for a parcel of calicoes; to W. Morris, Esq., W. Armitage, Esq., and other friends connected with Hope Chapel, Manchester, for a parcel of useful articles; to the Ladies of Ebenezer Chapel, Darwen, for a box of useful articles; to Mrs. M'Kean and Friends, Elgin, for a box of useful articles, for the Natives; to Friends connected with Rev. G. B. Johnson's Congregation, Doncaster, for a box of useful articles; to the Sunday Scholars and Young People connected with Littlemoor Chapel, Glossop, for a box of calico, &c. For Tahiti. To the Juvenile Missionary Association connected with Castle Street Independent Chapel, Swansea, for a box of apparel; to Mr. R. Baynes, for a parcel of books. For Rev. J. Barff, Tahiti. To the Ladies' Working Society, Runcorn, for a case of apparel, &c. For Queen Pomare. To the Aberdeen Female Missionary Society for a box of useful articles; to Miss Sabine, Oswestry, for a Shetland wool dress; to Mrs. Rolfe, Westbury, for a coverlet. For Rarotonga. To Mrs. Godfrey, Turvey, for a box of apparel; to Rev. H. Madgin and Friends, Tiverton, for a box of apparel, &c.; to the Launceston Free Church Sabbath School, per Mr. J. Hutcheson, for a case of clothing; to Ladies' Working Association, Scarborough, for a box of useful articles. For Rev. C. Pitman. To Mrs. Ibbotson, Poyle, for a box of useful articles; to Mr. Foster, for a small bale of apparel; to Friends at King Street Chapel, Portsea, per Mr. Barnes, for two boxes of useful articles. For Makea Avania, Rarotonga. To Mr. Pearce, Dartmouth, for a silver fruit knife. For Rev. G. Gill, Mangaia. To Mr. Tozer, for a box of stationery, &c.; to the Juvenile Missionary Working Party, Tacket Street, 1pswich, for a quantity of useful articles; to the Jewin Street Juvenile Missionary Society, for a parcel of children's clothing; to Mr. T. Smith, jun., Poultry Chapel, for a box of school materials. For South Seas. To Friends connected with Rev. J. Fletcher's Congregation, Hanley, for a cask of earthenware; to Mrs. Barnjus, for a parcel of useful articles. For Mrs. Mault. To Newport Pagnel Ladies' Missionary Working Society, for a parcel of apparel, &c. For the Orphan Schools, Mirzapore. To Ladies' Missionary Working Society, in connexion with Rev. J. Flowers' Congregation, Beccles, for a case of useful articles. For Rev. J. Mullens' School, Calcutta. To Ladies connected with Rev. Dr. Alexander's Congregation, Edinburgh, for a case of useful articles. For Mrs. Dawson's School, Chicacole. To the Female Working Party, Surrey Chapel, for a box of useful articles. For Mrs. Porter's School, Vizagapatam. To G. Herbert, Esq., Nottingham, for a parcel of hardware. For the Medical Institution, Hong-Kong. To Dr. Ritchie, Glasgow, for a case of medical books, casts, plates, &c. For Mrs. Cleland's School, Hong-Kong. To Ladies of Union Chapel, Islington, for a box of useful articles. For South Africa. To Friends at Boxford Independent Chapel, for a parcel of apparel. For Rev. D. Livingston. To Mr. H. Drummond and Friends, Glasgow, for a case of apparel, &c. For Rev. R. Moffat's School. To Ladies at Black Rock, Brighton, per Mr. J. Rutter, for a box of useful articles; to Miss Morvey, for a parcel of pinafores. For Rev. W. Passmore. To Friends connected with Albion Chapel, Southampton. for a case of useful articles. For Rev. G. Barker. To Mrs. Barnes and Friends, Saffron Walden, for a case containing a globe, &c. For Rev. J. Read. To Friends at Halshaw Moor, per Rev. J. C. M Michael, for a case of apparel; to Friends in Forres, by Miss M. A. Gordon, for a box of useful articles. For Gasebonoe Moffat. To. J. M'Millan, Esq., Moffat, for a case of school materials, &c. To Mr. J. R. Jones; to the Miss Blunt, Cheltenham; to a Friend; to Mr. Allen; to Rev. S. A. Davies; to a Friend in Essex; to S. S. S.; to Mr. Leach; to a Member of Mr. Baker's Church, St. John's Wood; to Miss Diment; to Mr. J. Tite; to a Sincere Friend to Virtue and Religion; to Mr. Cheetham, Coventry, for volumes and numbers of the Evangelical Magazine, and other publications. MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTIONS. From the 18th September to the 16th October, 1847, inclusive. 1 Rev. R. Gillan, and Family 0 15 0 010 O 0.10 0 010 0 2 17 0 Edmonton, Mr. & Mrs. Dyke, for the College at Staines, Mr. Ashby, 2 yrs. Leeds Branch, per S. Hick, 20 00 Mr. A. Henderson 0 0 Belgrave Chapel Sunday School, per Miss HamilMr. J. Maclehose 220 Misses Ashby, for Native ton, for Mrs. Sugden's Mr. J. Duncan Girl, Caroline Ashby, 2 yrs. 6 00 School, Bangalore. 20 0 0 Mr. H. Brown... 40%. Sums under 10s. 81. 28. Wakefield District, per J. Monmouthshire. Walker, Esq. Monmouth, Rev. Messrs. Loader & Blow Newport, Tabernacle Sunday School, for a Native Girl at Bangalore, to be 17. 148. 6d. Glassford-street Young Men's Society, for the High School, Üpolu .......... Ladies in London, Glasgow, and Stranraer, for Mrs. Mills's Schools 330 29 11 9 19 5 7 35 0 0 Mrs. M'Douall, Logan.. 20 0 Lauder, United Presbyte 541. rian Congregation 200 18 0 600 called Mary Gillman.... 3 0 0 Legacy of late Mrs. Anne Ditto, Hope Chapel Sunday School, for Chinese Mission... Tredegar, Sharon Chapel Sunday School SCOTLAND. J. Leith, Sabbath School, at No. 98, Constitution- 1 13 0 1 0 0 Montrose, Mr. J. Strachan, Boyd's Class, for Native 45 0 0 Denny, United Presbyte Contributions in aid of the Society will be thankfully received by Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bart., Treasurer, and Rev. Joseph John Freeman, Home Secretary, at the Mission House, Blomfield-street, Finsbury, London: by G. Yule, Esq., Broughton Hall, Edinburgh; J. Risk, Esq., Cochran-street, Glasgow; and by Rev. Johra Hands, Society House, 32, Lower Abbey-street, Dublin. LONDON: LUKE JAMES HANSARD, PRINTER, NEAR LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE, AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. FOR DECEMBER, 1847. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. DAVID CHARLES, THE worthy subject of this memoir was born, Oct. 11, 1762, at Pantdwfwn, in the parish of St. Clear's, about ten miles from Carmarthen, where his father pursued the occupation of a farmer. He was the youngest of three brothers; of whom the second was the Rev. Thomas Charles, of Bala, so well known in the cause of religion, education, and philanthropy. The character of David, in his youth, appears from a few words of complaint on the part of his father, who is known to have said, "I do not know what to make of David, unless I bring him up a parson, as he is always in some corner looking over a book." David was, however, apprenticed, at an early age, to a flax-dresser and ropemaker, in Carmarthen. But this did not divert his attention from books. Among other achievements accomplished in his leisure hours, for the acquisition of mental improvement, he committed to memory the whole of Young's "Night Thoughts;" and so far was he, at the same time, from neglecting his business, that, at the expiration of his term of servitude, he became the superintendent and manager of his employer's concerns. He had, previous to this, become decidedly religious; and his consistent, amiable con VOL. XXV. duct was such as to gain him the esteem and affection of those who had it in their power to befriend him. Among those was his employer, now a widow, who had become religious during the time of his apprenticeship; and she placed the most unbounded confidence in him, although but eighteen years of age. Mr. Charles was first impressed with a sense of his danger as a sinner, by reading the Sermons of Ralph Erskine, particularly that on the great question, "What must I do to be saved?" which he never forgot. About the year 1780, he left Carmarthen for Bristol, where he remained three or four years. He there met with several pious young men, who, like himself, were pursuing their respective trades, and who, in their leisure hours, sought the improvement of their minds. He joined them in holding meetings for prayer and mutual edification; which practice seems to have continued during his stay in the city. It appears that several members of this fraternity afterwards became useful ministers of the gospel in different denominations, and in various parts of the country. Of these was the late Rev. William Warlow, of Milford, Pembrokeshire, who, in a letter, dated Nov. 21, 3 A |
