(during which, notwithstanding his illness in Dublin, he had delivered upwards of sixty sermons) 8871. 15s. 6d. had been obtained for the benefit of the society. This money he remitted to the directors, with the following note:

In presenting to the directors of the Missionary Society the following statement of the oblations which the churches he had the opportunity of visiting very willingly made for building the house of the Lord, Mr. Waugh craves permission, in this public manner, to convey the warm acknowledgments of his heart to all his dear brethren, for their kind reception of his visit, and their ready co-operation in promoting its important object. To the reverend the Synod of Ulster, and to the reverend the Associate Synod of Ireland, his obligations are great, for the liberal countenance, notwithstanding the pressure of the times, which they gave to his mission; and though he was prevented by indisposition from availing himself of the permission granted to him, he looks forward with assured hope to the period when the appeal will be made, and made with success, for the sympathy and succour of the numerous churches under their care, in behalf of the long, long-neglected sons of the strangers. The Christian hospitality of the friends and the ministers of religion in Dublin and its vicinity, the sacred warmth with which their minds welcomed and embraced the objects, the readiness manifested in forming the missionary committee, together with the liberality of the contributions in so short a space of time, all demand, and in the fullest

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measure have, the cordial gratitude which so much goodness must ever secure. He must be

permitted to add, that much of his personal comfort and success was, under God, owing to the brotherly kindness of the Rev. Robert Jack, of Manchester, whose very acceptable ministrations in Dublin, and prudent counsels, greatly contributed to the general result."

After continuing at home for little more than three weeks, he set out on a new mission, along with the Rev. Rowland Hill and the Rev. George Clayton, to form an auxiliary society at Bristol. In a letter addressed to the compiler of these papers, he gives the following account of the favourable result of this short excursion:-" Our journey to Bristol on the 6th instant was very successful as to the promotion of an auxiliary society, and the amount of the money collected was 9001. At Plymouth, the week following, our friends who went from Bristol, and tarried over the Sabbath, collected 2001. Bristol is singularly well privileged for evangelical ministers, both in the Establishment and among the Dissenters; and there are few places in England where the social tempers of the Christian character abound more. We found it so during the week we were there." A sermon which was preached by Dr. Waugh at the formation of the auxiliary society established at Bristol on this occasion, from Isaiah, liii. 10, has been characterised, by one who heard it, as "full of that flow of soul and those burning words' which rendered his ministry so interesting and blessed." This discourse," he

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adds, "was certainly a fine exhibition of evangelical truth, in which the sublime and beautiful were eminently displayed; and thus did it equally delight the learned and the illiterate, who had any spiritual discernment of the things which are excellent." The late Rev. Robert Hall, whose favourable opinion even may well be esteemed far beyond ordinary praise, speaking of this sermon, which he heard delivered, said, "That sermon was one of the most brilliant I ever listened to. I think I never heard a discourse containing so many brilliant and beautiful things." A friend remarking that its fame had reached him, and that it had been preached somewhere in Scotland, Mr. Hall replied, "I doubt not but that it has travelled in the greatness of its strength;" and afterwards characterised it "as distinguished not by continuity of thought, or by a chain of reasoning, but by exuberant imagery and splendid thought."

To the great work of evangelising the heathen the energies of his mind were incessantly devoted. Although he had many important avocations to occupy him at home, while his health was by no means in a confirmed state, we find him engaged in the subsequent summer in a new missionary tour. This will appear from the following letter addressed to the writer:

"Manchester, August 7, 1813.

"On my return last September from Ireland, I found one hundred and eighty-five families on my list, to be visited in the months of the year that then remained. The weather set in wet and cold in October; and, with all

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my efforts, it was not till the beginning of July that I could close the pastoral visitation of the preceding year. This, with the lengthened time of my absence — three months—and the still broken state of my health, with the opposition to the measure by my own family and relations, induced me to resist the solicitations of our friends in Ireland, and of the directors of the Missionary Society at home, to renew my visit to that country, earnestly desirous as I was to renew it. We have prevailed on Mr. Jack to go over, in company with Mr. Tracy, the corresponding secretary of the society. They set off for Cookstown, county of Tyrone, by Carlisle, and are expected to tarry four or five weeks in the country. We hope great good will be done by their ministrations. There is an auxiliary society already formed at Cookstown, of which Lord Caledon is patron, and our minister, Mr. Thomas Millar, secretary. They sent us 50l. some months ago.

"Unable to visit Ireland this season, I agreed to accompany Messrs. Bogue, Burder, and Thorpe of Bristol, to Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Hull, in order to form and organise auxiliary societies in aid of the parent institution. We left home on Monday. On Wednesday and Thursday the meetings were held at Liverpool, in the chapels of Dr. Stewart, Messrs. Charrier and Raffles, and in the Welsh chapel. The collections amounted to 2477., a large sum, when we consider the pressure of the times, and that this has been our first anniversary there.

"I have tarried here, in the absence of Mr. Jack, to administer the holy sacrament to-morrow, and propose on Monday to go forward to Leeds. I wish to return home from Leeds, as I could not bear the idea of advancing to within sixty or eighty miles of my relations and turning back, while I foresaw that I must tarry two or three weeks in Scotland, if I at all should touch its territories; and that I could not do this year. But I cherish the hope of spending two months with you all, next summer, when

I shall have a regular supply from the Synod. We look to be at Newcastle this day week, and shall return towards Hull on the Monday evening or Tuesday morning. I shall have supply from the London ministers, and in the evenings from Mr. Beattie, of Kincardine, for the two Sabbaths of my absence."

In 1814 he made a tour to Dorsetshire and Wiltshire, and another to Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Chester, and Manchester. Of these, however, we do not find among his papers any memoranda of particular interest.

About this period he was commissioned to present to the College Library of Edinburgh, on behalf of the Missionary Society, a copy of the Gospel of St. Luke, and afterwards the entire New Testament, translated into the Chinese language by the Rev. Dr. Morrison. This gentleman, whose eminent merits both as a missionary and an oriental scholar are now universally known, having, when residing in London, been a member of Dr. Waugh's congregation, and enjoyed a large share of his paternal superintendence, it may be easily imagined that his old pastor derived no ordinary satisfaction in being enabled to deposit in the literary treasury of his ancient alma mater these interesting offerings of Christian zeal and industry. The following letters on this subject will be perused with pleasure, addressed to Dr. Waugh by the venerable Principal of the University of Edinburgh, who has obtained great and wellmerited celebrity by his indefatigable zeal in establishing schools, and diffusing the knowledge of