solemnly he commended his father and mother to the care of his heavenly Father. Comfort yourselves, dear friends," said he, with tears of joy; "my brother Benjamin is in heaven, my dear mother is travelling there, and I am just about entering. My brother and I will meet you at the gates; then, dear father, you will have a son for each hand. Glory! glory!" Here he paused; the weary wheels of life nearly stood still. After slightly recovering, he said

DIED, on the 20th of May, Nancy Whittle, in the seventy-seventh year of her age, an old disciple, having been a member of the church in Nottingham fifty-five years; for the last eight or nine years of that period her affliction, with few exceptions, was such as to prevent her from attending the means of grace. It was deemed, however, as only right that her church membership should be continued to the period of her decease, which took place in the Lambly Hospital!

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Our sister, at the age of about twenty-' one years, became a member in the late Mr. Barlow's class until such time as be gave it up, and afterwards she attended the class that was led by Wm. Garton as long as it. In early life he could continue r sister gave her heart to God, and continued faithful in his service. She manifested holy zeal by attending regularly to the varions means which are used to promote spirituality and increase of grace. In addition to hearing the word of God, our sister was accustomed to attend a service, which now, it is to be feared, is on the decline. Miss Ingham (for such was then her name) had the pris vilege of her father's house to holds a band meeting in it on Sabbath morning at six o'clock. The little band, consisting of only three e Miss Lucy persons were Miss Ingham, the Joynes, and Miss Harrington, of Rad

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ford. At seven o'clock they retired to join others at a prayer meeting in Hockley Chapel, which service closed about eight o'clock.

Reference has been made to the sufferings which Mrs. Whittle had to bear; but, great as were her afflictions, she considered them as nothing compared with the sufferings of her Redeemer, and d was fully assured that they would work out for her " a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. She derived comfort from searching the Scriptures and our hymns; the first verses of two of them, which were favourites, may be mentioned: 7 gals 2 wilge ton bit

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Where saints immortal reign Infinite day excludes the night, jo And pleasures banish pain." Our sister in her latter days was several times visited by the writer of this ae count. There were seasons when the feebleness of her mind was manifested in her discourse. But at one of the visits especially I learnt from her con versation that her prospects and hope of heaven were founded on the rock Christ Jesus, placing her faith on the atoning blood of the Redeemer.

The readers of the following statement will not perhaps blame the writer when they are informed that he will only for a few moments, diverge from Mrs, Whittle to her amiable and pious fa father, Mr. Ingham, who died May 22, 1830, in his eighty-first year. He was well known by the writer of this narrative; but known more so by his father W.), as he and Mr. Ingham worshipped together in Hockley Chapel as soon as it was erected in the year 1783; and for many years they sustained the office of society stewards. Both of them have now for a long time reached that better sanctuary, “the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and the innumerable company of angelscoitopib 1999 bra An old disciple now closes the present narration, by stating that he hopes to join the innumerable company men.

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The Tongue of Fire, or the True Power of Christianity. By Wm. Arthur, A.M., London: Hamil ton and Adams, and John Mason. Pp. 362.

MR. Arthur, like many other good men, laments the worldliness of the church, and the want of power and unction in the ministry. He regards the primitive church as presenting the normal standard of vital and experimental Christianity. The simplicity, the prayerfulness, the vivid consciousness of the Divine favour, the high spirituality, the entire consecration of the life to God, and the Divine power which gave to the gospel its signal triumphs over the hearts of men, he justly regards as characteristics of that Christianity which it is the privilege and the duty of the church to exemplify in every

age.

"The Tongue of Fire," or the burning, melting, subduing power which rendered human speech so effectual in both minister and people on the day of Pentecost, he maintains as a requisite equally necessary and equally attainable in the present age as in apostolic times; that its presence would constitute our strength and glory, while its absence or its faint glimmering is the cause of our weakness and inefficiency. Hence the design of this work is to raise the church, and especially the ministry, to a more elevated position; to realize that plenitude of Divine power which the Holy Spirit alone can impart. To this end facts and examples, promises and precepts, are adduced; telling arguments and picturesque illustrations are employed, and truth is poured forth with a rich

ness, a beauty, and a force which cannot but interest, delight, and profit the reader. Mr. Arthur has rendered important service to the church by this seasonable and excellent publication. He has written with a pen of fire, and produced a work which is decidedly the most judicious and intellectual, the most earnest and heart-searching call to a revived state of religion, that we have known from any contemporary voice. We fervently wish for it a widely extended circulation.

Sermons by the late Dr. Newton, with a Sketch of his Character, and an Account of his Death. A memorial volume. London: Partridge and Co., Paternoster Row, 1856. Sermons on Special and Ordinary Occasions. By the late Rev. R. Newton, D.D.; edited, with a preface, by the Rev. James H. Rigg. Published with the sanction and under the supervision of the family. London: Alexander Heylin. Ir is rather a singular coincidence that two distinct publishers should, at the same moment, each issue a volume of sermons by the same author, and each volume contain the same discourses, with the exception of two. This identity applies substantially to the matter as well as to the theme of each discourse. Yet neither volume is printed from manuscript copy left by the author, for such did not exist at the period when the eloquent preacher was summoned to his reward, but from the reports furnished by short-hand writers; but such are the skill and fidelity displayed in the discourses, that in each

volume the matter of the one corresponds almost word for word with the other. Here and there, indeed, the discourse in one volume is a little more copious than in the other, but the substance and the phraseology present a remarkable identity.

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A lengthy description or a complete analysis of these discourses is not necessary from our pen, as they have already been before the public for a number of years. It may be sufficient to say they are rich in evangelical sentiment, moulded by a vigorous understanding, and expressed in the forcible language of simple and fervent eloquence. The reader will find in these discourses the sound divine united with the genuine orator; luminous exposition of sacred truth, combined with the cheerful announcement of Christian privilege, and the earnest enforcement of religious duty. In doctrine, in pathos, and earnestness Newton was a fine specimen of the first race of Methodist preachers, and in ready effective oratory he would have been an ornament of the pulpit and the forum in any age of the world. We have no sympathy with those who depreciate Dr. Newton. He was a thorough man, a thorough Christian, an earnest labourer, a sound divine, and a genuine orator. Among modern preachers we look in vain to find many who are his equals, and not a few of his detractors fall far below him in intellectual stature, as well as in moral worth. We are glad to see these volumes, and hope the fact of their being issued by two publishers will only accelerate and extend their circulation.

The Life of a Vagrant; or, The Testimony of an Outcast to the Truth and Power of the Gospel. Written by himself. To which is added, The Bank of Providence, by the same author. Edited by the Rev. John Waddington, author of "The Life and Times of John Penry, the Martyr."

THE celebrated Robert Hall has remarked:

"The moral history of a beggar, which faithfully revealed the interior movements of his mind, and laid open the secret causes which contributed to form and determine his character, might enlarge and enlighten the views of a philosopher." In the present work we have this realized in actual life. It is presented in a history which is " no fiction." We know Josiah Basset, the author, and are personally acquainted with the facts of his singular history. It was while leading the life of a vagrant, and, indeed, while incarcerated in prison, that the light of Divine truth shone upon him, and the power of the Spirit effected that gracious change which he has since uniformly manifested, by a truly religious and useful life.

The Bank of Providence illustrates some of the author's trials and deliverances since his conversion. The volume develops the vagrant-an ignorant, miserable outcast-transformed into the Christian; and is an instructive as well as an interesting monument of the life and power of the blessed gospel.

The Sabbath School Expositor. Notes, critical, explanatory, practical, on the Holy Bible. By John Campbell, D.D. London: Snow. Glasgow: W. R. McPheen.

WE have before us only the first number of the above work. The Christian world owes a large debt of gratitude to the author for his extensive and useful literary labours. We are glad to meet him in his present capacity as an expositor of the sacred text. The notes are exceedingly brief. There is no waste of words. The author's thoughts are condensed, as by hydraulic pressure, into the smallest possible space, but they are pregnant with meaning and highly suggestive; being adapted, not to cram the indolent, but to assist and stimulate the inquirer; not to supersede, but to promote the careful perusal of the sacred word. Looking at the quantity as well as the quality of the work, it is marvellously cheap-sixteen closely printed pages,