christian experience with the confidence and meekness of one who had the divino testimony that she was a sinner saved by grace. The firm hold which religious principles had taken of her affections, prevented her from feeling any thing like pleasure in worldly discourse, except when her personal and family circumstances rendered it necessary. But when religious topics were introduced, her soul immediately ascended into its proper region, and her freedom and liveliness of conversation entirely removed that idea of excessive reserve, which, on other subjects, appeared to form a prominent feature of her character. The work of grace in the heart, and the advancement of the REDEEMER'S kingdom in the world, were subjects on which she spoke with manifest delight. Having been brought into a state of union with GOD, her love to his Minis--ters and people was not in word only, but in deed. It was her constant endeavour to regulate her conduct, before both GOD and man, by the two following injunctions of Scripture:-"Study to be quiet, and to do your own business; "and, "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the LORD." The effects of combining these injunctions were happily conspicuous. "Looking well to the ways of her own household," her person and house were a pattern of neatness and cleanliness; and her heart was preserved from evil surmising, and her tongue from evil speaking: In the midst of her various domestic concerns, she was able to sing,-" My hands are but engaged below; my heart is still with Thee." Thus did this Mother in Israel glorify GoD with the body and soul which she felt and acknowledged to be his. She was the subject of protracted bodily weakness, accompanied with extreme nervous debility; but she had learned to bow to the Divine Will with holy resignation; and, when passing through the deepest waters, could say, "It is the LORD, let him do what seemeth him good." During her last illness, the only thing which she appeared to lament was, the loss of the public ordinances of religion, which she highly esteemed, and which for many years she had regularly attended whenever her health would permit. But this privation was in a great measure supplied by those records of truth and grace, which were her constant companion, and which she continued to read with delight and profit as long as she was able, From the promises of Scripture, especially those of the New Testament, she derived great consolation. Her firm confidence in GOD, and lively faith in CHRIST, pro

duced an abiding peace, and a blissful hope: and though she sometimes expressed herself as occasionally feeling a fear, lest she should fail in the hour of trial, this fear was only a momentary result of the suggestions of that spiritual enemy, whom, by the power of JESUS, she has now vanquished for ever. During the latter part of her illness, her answers to every question relative to the state of her soul, and her prospects of eternity, were of the most satisfactory kind. She died in peace; and, being found as a ripe shock of corn, was safely gathered into the garner of heaven, in the seventyfirst year of her age, for forty-four of which she had been a steady and consistent member of the Methodist Society. Hanley. EDWARD SUMNER.

3. Died, at Sowerby, near Halifax, Jan. 8, 1824, MRS. N. CROSSLEY, aged seventy-six. In early life, she was remarkable for her love of prayer. Not only did she enter into her closet, that she might pray to her heavenly FATHER; but on going to, and returning from school, was accustomed to stop in a wood, through which the path lay, to engage in that holy exercise. To these seasons she frequently recurred as having been peculiarly times of refreshing from the presence of the LORD." As her parents attended upon the ministry of the REV. W. GRIMSHAW, (the late pious and laborious Vicar of Haworth,) their daughter accompanied them; and under his faithful and affectionate preaching her mind was gradually enlightened, so that when she arrived at years of maturity, she became a decided Christian. From the period of her conversion to GOD, which was sound and scriptural, she never looked back, but steadily walked in the ways of righteousness unto the end. She joined the Methodist Society about fifty years ago, and adorned her profession to the close of life. Those who were best acquainted with her, most highly esteemed her; and acknowledged her piety, in its genuine fruits of gratitude to GoD, patience in affliction, and resignation to the Divine Will under various and severe trials, which she was called to endure. Her experience was scriptural,-her piety sincere and fervent, her communion with GOD deep and constant, and her love to CHRIST, to his cause, and to his people, genuine and ardent. During the whole of her religious course, she realized the truth of the declaration, "Great peace have they which love thy law: and no. thing shall offend them." Her prospects of eternal happiness were clear and

Not a cloud doth arise To darken the skies,

Or hide, for a moment, my LORD from mine eyes."

When growing infirmities prevented her attendance upon public worship, she employed herself in reading the Scriptures; and her memory was so fully furnished with their sacred truths, that her sleepless nights were rendered seasons of profitable meditation upon GOD and divine things, so that she frequently spent nearly the whole of the night in holy converse with her SAVIOUR, and blissful anticipations of heaven. She expressed, in the most glowing language, her thankfulness to God for his great and numerous mercies, rejoiced in an uninterrupted sense of his presence and approbation; and anticipated with earnest desire, but with perfect resignation, the period when she should be "absent from the body, and present with the LORD." On the last evening of her mortal pilgrimage, when the hand of death was upon her, she frequently exclaimed, "Happy! happy! CHRIST is precious!" In this blessed state she quietly breathed out her soul into the hands of her REDEEMER.

4. Died Jan. 19th, JAMES HARRIS, aged thirty-eight. He and another person were working in a coal-pit, at Jefferston, in Pembrokeshire, when some of the pieces of timber, that supported the works, gave way; a quantity of earth, stones, &c., came in, and they were immediately buried under it. His companion, as appears from the state in which he was found, must have died instantly; JAMES HARRIS lived three hours and a half, but expired before he could be extricated; another fellow-labourer was taken out much hurt, but, through GoD's mercy, is now in a hopeful way of recovery. The subject of this article became a Methodist about three years ago. He was convinced of sin before he joined the Society; and mourned under the burden of guilt and sin for some time. He earnestly sought salvation through CHRIST, till it pleased the LORD to speak peace to his troubled soul, and to give him the SPIRIT of adoption. He retain ed the liberty wherewith he had thus been made free, and walked in the clear light of God's countenance. Thoughts of death and eternity became very familiar to him. "Prepare me for sudden death," was a petition seldom omitted by him in his public addresses to the throne of grace. He was a man of much prayer. The night before his

pray heartily to GOD to-night." In the morning he parted with her and his six children, and saw them no more. While under the earth, a murmuring word never escaped his lips; though, from the broken and bruised state of his body, his pain must have been excruciating One hand was stretched out, and some friends took hold of it, which rendered the scene truly affecting. His last words were, "I am going now!"-This calamity bears a near resemblance to one that happened at the same place in 1822, of which an account is given in the Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, for August of that year. Several persons have lately been removed into eternity by si milar accidents, from this part of the country. May the multitudes whose lot it is to earn their bread in the bowels of the earth, learn from such circumstances that important lesson, "Be ye also ready."

Pembroke Dock.

J. LOWTHIANI

5. Died, January 24th, at High Wy combe, MRS. REBECCA HENNINGHAM, the wife of MR. RICHARD HENNINGHAM Forty years ago MRS. H. became the subject of divine impressions, while listening to the supplications of some pious people, under the window of a house in which prayer-meetings were then regu larly held. It pleased the LORD, on that occasion, to awaken her from the sleep of sin; she saw herself to be a transgressor of his holy law; and from that moment she resolved to become a Christian. For this object, she renounced her companions in sin and folly, and made choice of those, for her future associates, who excelled in virtue. Con vinced that religious fellowship would contribute much towards her spiritual prosperity, she, without delay, applied for admission on trial into the Methodist Society, and was in due time received as a member. From that period she was remarked for her zealous attention to all the means of grace enjoyed among us. While diligent in business, she was fervent in spirit, serving the LORD; knowing that MARTHA'S · hands and MARY'S heart must be united in order to make the complete Christian. As a parent, she was careful to bring up her son in the nurture and admonition of the LORD. She conscientiously took him with her to the house of prayer: and it was likewise her custom fre quently to take him into her private room, where, upon her bended knees, she read a portion of God's holy word, and then poured out her soul in ardent supplications on his behalf. These pious 2 S

revealed himself to her spirit, and gave her that assurance of his favour which filled her with peace and joy, and continued with her through all her subsequent pilgrimage. About the twenty-fifth year of her age, she was married to MR. GEORGE GOULD; and amidst the cares of a numerous family, and much bodily affliction, she was an ornament to her christian profession. Humility, meekness, gentleness, and all that rich cluster of the graces of the SPIRIT, which Sr. PAUL enumerates in his Epistle to the Galatians, were habitually evinced in her walk and conversation, and afforded ample proof that the principle of religion was in her a divine reality. In all her relations in life, as a daughter, sister, wife, parent, mistress, and a member of the Church of CHRIST, she adorned the doctrine of GOD her SAVIOUR in all things. The word of the LORD was very precious to her soul; her house was consecrated by the preaching of the Itinerant Ministers once a fortnight, and of the Local Preachers every other LORD's Day; and she esteemed those servants of GoD very highly for their work's sake. On the Sunday next but one previous to her death, in much bodily weakness she came down stairs; and, though unable to attend in the preaching-room, she had the door opened, and at the close of the service said to the Preacher, " I heard all your sermon, and have been much comforted by it; JESUS is precious to my soul; I am not afraid to die." On Christmas-Day she was alarmingly ill, and thought herself dying; when her soul was filled with holy triumph, and joyful anticipation of a speedy admission into the presence of her LORD. Her death, like her life, was peaceful and serene. Calmly committing her husband and children into the hands of GOD, she breathed her last prayer," O for an easy passage;" and so fell asleep in JESUS, in the fortyfirst year of her age. Barnstaple.

RECENT DEATHS.

J. AVERY.

rather than the Circuit should remain destitute, MR. GILCRIEST again engaged in the work, and regularly attended his places, although frequently unable to preach, until, by extreme debility, he was forced to return home, where, after a month's confinement, he quietly departed in the LORD. He was a man of unquestionable piety, and uniform steadiness of character; possessed respectable talents for the Christian Ministry; and was affectionately attached to his work, and to his brethren. During his illness he possessed his soul in patience; often expressing his confidence in GoD as his father and portion, through the merits of CHRIST his SAVIOUR.-W. S."

April 17th.-At Kingston, Jamaica, in the third week after his arrival there, the REV. HENRY ALLEN. For the particulars of his death, we refer our readers to a letter from the REV. R. YOUNG, in page 491 of this Number.

April 23d.-At Athlone, in Ireland, in his seventy-fifth year, the REV. CHARLES GRAHAM, one of our oldest, most laborious, and

most successful Irish Missionaries, According to a desire which he had expressed during his illness, his remains were conveyed to Dublin; and on Monday the 26th, previous to interment, were brought into the WesleyanChapel, Abbey-Street, when a funeral-sermon was preached by the REV. WILLIAM STEWART, to a deeply affected audience.The following epitome of his character and labours was supplied, on that occasion, by his old and intimate friend, the REV. WILLIAM FERGUSON.

"In the year 1790, MR. GRAHAM was appointed by the Irish Conference to act as a

Missionary among the then peculiarly dark

and benighted inhabitants of the county of Kerry: this appointment was made by the express desire of MR. WESLEY, by whom MR. G. was personally known and approved. The event fully justified the wisdom of the choice, and the design. MR. GRAHAM was generally well received by the Protestant population; and although he had much opposition to encounter from the Catholics, yet many of them attended his ministry, and found it to be the power of GoD to their salvation." He spent one year in this Mission, preaching frequently in Fairs, Markets, and the most public places. Many were awakened from the sleep of sin; and several small classes of serious persons were formed by him, which, 'having obtained help of GOD, continue to this day?

"At the Conference in 1791, the county of Kerry was united to the Limerick Circuit, to which MR. G. was then appointed; and in the

course of his regular Itinerancy had the happiness of seeing the precious seed, which he had been instrumental in sowing during the preceding year, take root, and spring up in fruits of righteousness, to the glory of God. In 1792, he was stationed in the Enniskillen Circuit, where, during the two succeeding years, he laboured with great faithfulness, and considerable success. The following years he laboured in the Birr, Mountrath, and Longford Circuits, until, at the Conference of 1799, (the year after the late unhappy rebellion in Ireland,) he was again appointed to the arduous work of a Missionary, in order to preach the Gospel in the native tongue to his benighted countrymen,-a service for which he was eminently qualified, both by his ardent zeal for Gon, and the salvation of souls, and the commanding sweetness and Buency with which he spoke the Irish language: his pronunciation of it afforded more general satisfaction than that of any other Irish speaker I have ever known. His morals were unblameably correct; his piety was sincere and fervent; and his talents, as a preacher, truly respectable. In labours he was more abundant, and the blessed effects thereof, although partially seen, will not be fully known until the great day of the LORD. I have often seen hundreds, yea, thousands, hang upon his lips, still as night, listening to his pointed and powerful appeals to their consciences, with every ap. pearance of the deepest interest, whilst the tears streaming from their eyes gave ground of hope that they were not hearing the word of life in vain. My acquaintance with MR. GRAHAM Commenced in 1793; and during a period of thirty-one years, I have invariably found him the same pious, laborious, ardent, and faithful Minister of the Gospel of our LORD JESUS CHRIST."

The following account of the last sickness and death of MR. GRAHAM, was furnished by his only son, who bears his father's name, and was with him at different intervals dur ing the closing scene

"It would far exceed my feeble powers of description, to give an adequate idea of the happiness, resignation, and divine confidence, possessed by my dear and lamented father, during his long and painful illness. From the beginning of his sickness, he had considered that it would be unto death, and there. fore discovered some uneasiness, until, by his little domestic arrangements, his mind was discharged from all worldly concerns. After that, his tranquillity was uninterrupted; and he expressed to the Preachers, and other religious friends who occasionally visited him, his full confidence that the Gop and SAVIOUR whom he had so long known and loved would never leave nor forsake him. He never dis

covered a doubt, or even a temptation, on the subject of his acceptance with God through JESUS CHRIST. His constant business was prayer; and he continued to pray with his family, sometimes lying in bed, sometimes sitting up. Of him it might frequently be said, as of the ancient patriarch, that he lite rally 'worshipped leaning on the top of his staff.'

He had made it matter of prayer that GoD, before he removed him to his eternal rest, would be pleased so to reveal himself and the invisible world to him, that he might have some just idea of the ineffable glory of that heavenly kingdom, into which, he felt persuaded, he was about to enter. And it appeared that Gop, in infinite condescension, answered this prayer of his dying servant; for, on the night previous to his dissolution, he had such a discovery of the eternal world made to his mind, as caused his prayer to be turned into the most rapturous praise.. Glory, glory be to GoD, Glory, glory be to God!'-were his continued expressions. In the course of that night, three times he lifted up his hands, and repeated the words, Amen, amen, amen! The immediate references of these devont ejaculations we could not ascertain, as his articulation about this time became indistinet; and at intervals he appeared to be totally abstracted from the world, and from all earthly concerns, nobler objects having engrossed his whole attention. About half an hour before he expired, he said to MRS. GRAHAM, I am going to depart.' He perceived that she did not understand his meaning, and again said, I am going to depart.' She then perfectly understood him, but he still appeared uncertain whether she did or not; and, a few minutes after, said, “LIVY, my dear, I am going to sleep,' and in a few moments he literally fell asleep in JESUS, without a sigh or groan, or the least distor tion of a muscle of his countenance. He had the use of all his faculties to the latest hour of his life; and his sight, hearing, and understanding were as perfect as in the time of his health. For these, and all the mercies he enjoyed, he was abundant in thanksgiving to his gracious Master."

June 8th-At Warrington, the REV. JONATHAN CROWTHER, The following extract of a letter, received from the Rev. DR. TOWNLEY, dated June 15th, contains some particulars, which will be read with interest by MR. CROWTHER'S numerous friends:-" Last Tuesday morning, our esteemed friend and hrother, MR. JONATHAN CROWTHER, Sweetly fell asleep in Jesus, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. The paralytic affection which he had experienced obliging him to relinquish all his active labours, he