stated. For a fortnight afterwards, Joseph she said, "My dear Joseph, she seemed much better in health how is it that you came now?" than she had been for some time When she was informed that the before, and appeared particularly news of her being so very unwell thankful for being enabled to attend had brought him, she replied, “Oh to those ordinances, upon which her my dear Joseph, you are often unheart had been fixed in holy desire well yourself; but you received a for many years. But relapsing into | Bible from the Sunday school, did a state of great weakness, she be you not? I hope you read that blessgan to think that her present afflic-ed book often, for it is able to make tion was unto death, and contem- you wise to salvation. In that book plated its approach with a trembling you will learn your duty to God, heart. Referring to her afflictions, and your fellow-creatures. Search she said, "I should not mind, if I in it as for hid treasure." The were sure of having a happy en- Sabbath school, in which she was trance to a better life, but I fear! so valuable a teacher, was often O that I knew that I were going to much upon her mind. To a dear be happy! But it is a dark pas- friend and fellow-teacher who waitsage." The darkness which came ed upon her with unwearied kindover her mind was only a passing ness night and day, and whose cloud. Enjoying the cheering in- kind attentions ceased only with fluence of hope, and the manifesta- her exhausted strength and spirits, tions of the love of Christ, she felt and then were repeated as often as affectionately concerned for all her these were recruited; to this kind dear relatives, and for all who visit- and constant friend she said, ed her. Entertaining the delightful | “ Should my life be spared, I hope hope that she should soon be bless- I shall not be so backward to coned with the presence of God in hea- verse with the children as I have ven, she asked the deeply interest-been, but endeavour to show them ing and solemn question, of her mother, and of those who were present, "Shall I meet you there? mother, shall I meet you there? O! shall I, mother?" To each of her brothers and sisters she recommend ́ed the Bible, as being able to guide them through life, to comfort them in affliction, and to support them in death. To her youngest sister she said, "Betsy, be a better girl, do what you can for your father and mother. Do not be stubborn, but strive to learn all you can, and mind religion while you are young, that it may support you in affliction, and preserve you from the snares of the world." To her minister she proposed the deeply affecting ques-lightful to witness her steady confition, referring to an interview in heaven, “O Sir, shall I see you there?" She manifested a great deal of anxiety lest she should be deceiving herself; but composed herself by hoping in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ. On Thursday, the 1st of August, she became so much worse, that her friends thought it proper to send for her brothers, who resided at some distance from her. To her brother VOL. XV. their dangerous state by nature and practice, and lead them to that Saviour who is now precious to me." She wished the children of her class to be reminded of the last solemn conversation she had with them, when she hoped that they would all meet her at the right hand of God. She left some solemn charges to be given to the teachers, that they would be constant and diligent, not turned aside by difficulties, nor cast down by discouragements, but always abounding in this interesting work of the Lord. On Sabbath - evening, she thought, and so did all her friends, that she was dying. It was de 66 dence in the mercy of God, through 2 Y Review. A Mother's Portrait: sketched soon after her Decease, for the Study of her Children, by their surviving Parent. London: Knight and Lacey, 12mo. pp. 150, with a Frontispiece, 4s. 6d. We almost envy the bereaved husband, whose nerves permitted him in such circumstances of sorrow, to draw the lineaments of a beloved wife's character for the permanent gratification and instruction of her surviving children; but, as if aware that the engagement required singular fortitude and composure, the writer commences by saying, "I know an excellent but rather eccentric man, who sent every attendant from the easy chair in which his lovely and beloved partner had just breathed her last, while he calmly sketched the portrait of her corpse, in the upright posture in which the spirit had left it. A stranger to his character would have attributed this to a want of proper feeling, and would perhaps have deemed it an outrage upon the feelings of those who observed it: but his reputation for tenderness, as a husband and a father, as a master and a friend, was established upon evidence too firm and good, for even this singular proceeding to shake." picture, as a faithful copy of the original; which will, we hope, lead them to imitate those dispositions in her, which were "so lovely," and of such "good report." Sermons on important Points of Faith and Duty: By the Rev. R. P. Buddicom, M.A. F.A.S. Minister of St. George's Everton. 2 Vols. 12mo. pp. 365. 408. 10s. WE Congratulate that congregation which is blessed with the labours of so evangelical and pious a clergyman as the author of these sermons. Such Discourses, we should think, must have been productive of the happiest effects. were not In a brief and modest Preface, the reader is informed, that these miscellaneous sermons composed with a view to the press, but during a long and severe afflic tion, some of the author's stated hearers expressed a wish to see in print some of those addresses which they had heard from the pulpit. The hours of retirement, when in a convalescent state, afforded the requisite leisure; and still, principally with a view to benefit his own con gregation, the flock over which Providence had made him an overseer, We recollect hearing Mr. Jay re- and to which the volumes are dedimark, a few years since, that somecated, they appeared. Each volume persons were so stoical, they seemed as if they had been mixed up with Jaudanum. The anecdote just mentioned, had he been acquainted with the circumstances, would have furnished an apt illustration of the truth of his observation. The writer of this little work is not chargeable with any apparent want of affection towards his deceased wife, while his love to his children is strongly marked by giving them a delineation of their mother's excellencies. As a family piece, the work is excellent: and even the AUTO-BIOGRAPHY it contains will, in this view, increase its interest. The surviving friends too of the deceased, will donbtless enCourage the strong features of the contains twenty-one sermons. If we do not assign them a placo among the most eloquent compositions for the pulpit, we readily admit that in most of them there is abundant evidence, not only of good sense and sterling piety, but of a mind well stored with useful knowledge, and a heart enriched with christian experience. The earnestness and affection of the pious pas tor are apparent in many close appeals to the consciences of his hearers and readers; but a critie would be apt to say, there is often too striking an evidence that the original notes for the pulpit have not undergone quite so rigid a revision as is generally demanded for the press. 66 We cannot recommend these volumes as containing many good models for the plan and construction of sermons by which young preachers may be assisted; but among the great bulk of readers, who pay much less attention to such considerations, we hope they will have a very extensive circulation. Mr. Buddicom is a clergyman whose attachment to the "national Liturgy," from the introductory sentence to the apostolic benediction with which it concludes," none of his readers need doubt. We are by no means disposed to dispute, that the Divine Presence is eminently enjoyed by many pious christians while using the Liturgy; but certain we are, from the character and circumstances of the parties, it is often used when this is not the case in the sense intended in the Tenth Sermon of the Second Volume. We are not very partial to " Inductions drawn from the purity of our Liturgy," and representations of the "truth, as it is in Jesus, and as it is embodied in the Liturgy, Articles, and Homilies," which we often hear and read, so expressed as to place that excellent, but human and imperfect, composition, almost upon a level with the divine and inspired book-but we are Dissenters, and what is worse, Baptists. Short and plain Discourses for_the Use of Families. By the Rev. Thomas Knowles, B. A. Rector of South Somercotes, and lute Curate of Humberstone, in the County of Lincoln. 3 Vols. pp. 911. THE christian pastor who, having faithfully and affectionately fulfilled his public duties, industriously applies himself to impress and perpetuate his instructions, by presenting them to his hearers in a more permanent form, that they may live in their remembrance and become em bodied in their practice, is eminently the friend of their personal piety, and the patron of their relative influence and happiness. We are always happy to meet evangelical clergymen in this depart ment of pious exertion; and, indeed, they have one inducement (and a most affecting one it is) peculiarly their own, to urge them onward in this benevolent course: for when, by preferment or otherwise, those translations occur which, in the establishment, are necessarily so frequent, the pious and vigilant servant of Jesus Christ has but too much reason for distressing apprehension, that an unconverted successor may be imposed upon his destitute flock, leaving them no alternative between departure from their fold and abandonment of their principles, he cannot but be anxious to rear a monument, whose inscriptions may remind those who formerly listened to his communications with so much delight of departed days of sweet instruction, and supply, at least, some fragments of those counsels and consolations which, in their present worse than deserted condition, they look for elsewhere in vain. These plain discourses, fifty-four in number, embracing subjects of the highest importance, are evidently effusions of the heart-they pretend not to ornament or refinement, but they possess the more substantial recommendations of piety and good sense; and, upon the whole, we think are well calculated to promote christian know ledge and a holy life. ornaments, though he insists upon it that he will not wear any, even though they were manufactured of silver or gold! His tone of feeling reminds us of Esop's fable, in which the thin starved wolf cried "Liberty, liberty, for me!" and ran back to the forest, as soon as he discovered the mark in the neck of the sleek city dog, from his being, according to his own confession, "tied up at night." There will always, however, be found persons too indolent to think, or too credulous to inquire after the evidences of truth, who will be quite willing to let other persons, especially if they are in authority and power, think for them. We feel persuaded that there are many persons, too, among Protestant Dissenters, who have never given the subject their serious consideration, and who are not aware how much their comfort, and edification, and usefulness, are promoted, by the recognition of those principles by the state, to procure which cost our forefathers the loss of property, of liberty, and of life. The publication of this "Introductory Discourse" is well timed, and we shall feel gratified if our cordial recommendation of the pamphlet should induce our intelligent youth in the Dissenting community" to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" the reasonings it contains. counted for by those who are ac quainted with the history of his early days, or who connect the delicate susceptibility of his feelings with the scene of his present anxieties and labours. The eye affects the heart. The enterprise of a Missionary, although in one view of it the most noble and inspiring that ever engaged the energies of man, is in another the most gloomy and depressing. O the abominations of the heathen! The filthy practices, the bloody rites, the cruel superstitions which abound, where darkness hath covered the earth, and gross darkness the people, and to which millions of our fellow-men tenaciously adhere, in opposition to the pleadings of nature and the voice of truth, are indeed a melancholy spectacle to a thoughtful and benevolent mind, and one that can scarcely fail to impart an air of sadness to the reflections and feelings of the pious Missionary, surrounded as he is by these affecting proofs of the degeneracy and degradation of human nature. In a land of strangers, strangers not only to himself, but to his God, and the God of his fathers, his desires will often ascend to the only source of his confidence and conso lation, and with an ardour and intenseness in which others can but partially participate. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Have respect unto the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. That our author is no stranger to the personal sorrows, or the pious An Elegy to the Memory of the late Rev. Henry Martin; and other resources of one in the circumPoems. By John Lawson. Emstances to which we have alluded, bellished with a correct Portrait, is manifest from and an elegant Vignette. Price 2s.stanzas, in which pathetic strain the following Westley. the dying Missionary is represented as breathing out his departing spirit into the hands of his Redeemer. It was once remarked by the excellent Fuller, that were he called upon to give a definition of Poetry, he should define it "the language of feeling." If this definition of Poetry be accepted, the well-known author of the present little work is clearly entitled to the appellation of a poet. Sensibility is the distinguishing character of Mr. Lawson's muse; and if it incline most to the pensive and the sorrowful, it will be easily ac "O thou blest Comforter, my peace, my God, I seek the shadiest glen, and press Silent recede, thou fleeting world-adieu ! Bewilder now no more, for heaven Little did the poet suspect, when he penned the following descriptive stanzas on Martin, that it was so soon to be realized in one still more intimately connected with himself in missionary labours. Of Ward, too, it may now be said, "There rests a child of genius, early fallen; A hero, for he smil'd at death, Of the minor poems which follow the Elegy, our limits will only afford space for a single specimen; which is less to be regretted, as it is presumed most of our readers will possess themselves of the whole. Those of them at least who have a taste to relish such beauties, will hardly forego a pleasure which may be enjoyed at a charge so moderate. PILGRIM OF NIGHT. "The moon walking in brightness." Job xxxi. 26. WATCH thou the lone pilgrim of night, Throughout her magnificent range! Watch thou the pure glory which sleeps in her paths, And hallows each beautiful change. With solemn gaze, through the deep blue Of the star-spangl'd wildering sphere, O watch her white countenance, pensively shine, Nor refuse the lone pilgrim a tear! Watch thou the pale sojourner there To glory tempestuous arise. | The clouds as they stretch in long lines, And calm o'er the majesty reigns. And she smiles in each beautiful change. She walketh in brightness above, There is light or in weal or in woe." Whatever be the point of elevation critics may assign to our author's muse, in the graduated scale of poetic merit, none will deny the moral purity of his verse, or its devofrom misanthropy and spleen; which tional tendency. His poetry is free is more than can be said of some of the most celebrated productions of He gratifies our taste, without polluting our imagination; and delightfully expatiates amidst the works of his Creator, without insulting his Majesty, or seeking to deface his moral image. He nobly consecrates his genius to the Being from whom he received it. the modern muse. so clear a title to affection's praise; "Sense, fancy, wit, suffice not all to raise His highest honours to the heart belong, His virtues form the magic of his song." History of Adult Schools; to which are added, the First Report, Rules, &e. of the Gainsbro' Adult Union Society. 1822. Hull. THIS pamphlet is all alive, and we need not hesitate to affirm it is one of the most stirring, stinging, stimulating things that ever issued from the British press. The laurel of honour belongs, it is said, to the late Rev. Mr. Charles of Bala, as the first founder of Adult schools. In England, the system appears to have been introduced by Mr. William Smith, who was a doorkeeper of a Methodist chapel in Bristol. Much praise is also justly bestowed on Dr. Pole, a physician in the Society of Friends, who has published a history of Adult schools. Repeated and respectful notice is taken also of Mr. Freeman of Brom |