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fortnight's provisions from his shopkeeper. This offer he gladly accepted. On returning home, he had not walked very far before he felt much exhausted, and he said to his wife he thought he would rest a little. When he had sat down, and was looking around him, he saw a piece of rag lying near where he sat, which he turned over with his stick, and then took it up into his hand. On opening it, he found to his surprise it contained a handsome sum of money. This he always regarded as a providential occurrence. When he became so old as not to be able to provide for himself he was tempted to be anxious about the future. He resolved, however, to commit himself to the care of his heavenly Father, who had assured him that his bread should be given him and his water should be sure. At one time his faith was brought to the test. He was informed that his parochial relief would be stopped if he did not go into the house. This was very painful to his feelings, but he took it to the Lord in prayer; and after praying about it for some time, it was impressed upon his mind to state his case to Mr. R., who kindly interposed, and succeeded in obtaining for him his allowance as usual, in addition to which he settled two shillings per week on him as long as he lived. now considered himself as rich as a king. Many a prayer he offered for his kind benefactor, and with tears of joy he gave thanks unto God, who had thus disposed him to help him. He often said by this arrangement he was freed from all care about the body, and used to observe, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." He had great sympathy with the poor members of the class, and used to tell them he well understood their case by experience; and to encourage them to put their trust in the Lord, he often related some instances of his goodness to himself, and begged of them to cast their burden on their Lord, for he would sustain them.

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He was a man of strong faith, and used much prayer. He had an untiring love to the cause of God, and during his life he witnessed many mighty outpour ings of the Holy Spirit, and the salvation of many precious souls. He used to speak of those occurrences with glowing delight: he well knew what it was to travail in birth for the conversion of sinners. His leader, Mr. Wooliscroft, in a great measure attributes to his believing prayers the interesting improvement which has taken place in his class. He spent many hours in the exercise of

faithful prayer for its prosperity, and he rejoiced greatly in the progress he witnessed both in its numbers and piety. His deep anxiety for the spirituality of the Church in general was unceasing; and when he heard of any souls being saved he rejoiced with unspeakable joy. A short time before his death God made him the means of the conversion of an ungodly neighbour. This man was afflicted, and was a stranger to religion. Friend Bradbury became very much affected while thinking on the dangerous situation of his soul, so much so that he was constrained to visit him, and faithfully and affectionately warn him of his danger, and kindly entreat him to take refuge in the atonement of Christ. He then engaged in earnest prayer that God might think upon him and help him. The man listened to him with attention, saw his sinful condition, felt his guilt, sought for mercy, believed in Christ, found salvation, and died happy in God. When relating this circumstance to his leader, with flowing tears he praised the Lord, who had condescended to use a poor old man like himself in the salvation of another soul.

During his last illness he was wonderfully blessed of the Lord; and as death and eternity stood right before him, his soul became riper for heaven. Our friends who visited him had many opportunities of witnessing the sustaining power of divine grace. God gave him a complete victory over death, and he calmly awaited the last conflict, and when it arrived he found his feet fixed on the rock of ages. He spent the most of his time in prayer and praise, and his little cottage was so filled with the divine presence that the Lord's children who visited him were constrained to say, "Master, it is good for us to be here." The last prayer he offered for his relatives and for the Church of Christ was a most solemn season. Oh, how he pleaded that God would save his kindred, and abundantly pour out his Spirit upon his Church! He said, "Lord, thou knowest I have loved thy Church; do bless thy Church!" When his leader went to see him for the last time, he perceived that his end was near; and he said to him, "Well, George, the end is come; how do you feel?" He said, "I am trusting in Christ; I have none else to trust to." And as he grasped Mr. W.'s hand he said, "My friend, all is well." His leader said, "Farewell, George, I shall meet you no more until we meet on the shores of immortality." He said, "Farewell! farewell!" These were nearly

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MRS. PHOEBE BAILEY. OUR late sister, Mrs. Phoebe Bailey, was born at Wrentham, in the county of Suffolk, April 10, 1823. Her parents were both pious and members of the Independent Church in that place. Being themselves devoted to God, and alive to parental responsibility, they were careful to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. No doubt their pious instructions were the means of producing salutary impressions on the mind of our sister. She attended the Sabbath-school belonging to the Independent Church at Wrentham, and while a scholar there frequently obtained prizes for good conduct and proficiency in learning. As a proof that she was not a stranger to the fear of God, it may be stated, that when she discovered in herself anything contrary to the instructions which she had received, she felt very unhappy, and could not rest until she had sought by prayer forgiveness at the hands of God.

As she grew up the good impressions made on her mind did not become effaced, as is the case with the religious impressions of too many, so that their goodness is like the morning cloud, and as the early dew, it passeth away. Though deeply impressed with the importance of religion, and with the necessity of earnestly seeking for the enjoyment of it, our sister did not become a member of any Church until the year 1846, when, through the kind invitations of the late Rev. Richard Holland, she joined his class, and was one of the first members who united with the Methodist New Connexion after the re-opening of the cause in Yarmouth. From that period till her death she remained a steady and consistent member. As to the manner in which she was brought to God, it may be observed that nothing extraordinary marked her conversion. Her mind seems to have been gradually opened to the reception of divine truth; yet the change wrought in her, though not accompanied with anything striking, was not the less real. Its genuineness was proved by an upright walk and a godly conversation.

On the 23rd of December, 1850, our sister entered into the marriage-state with our esteemed brother Mr. Robert Bailey, but this happy union was of very short duration. Early in spring our sister showed symptoms of consumption. On

her return one Sabbath morning from the chapel, to which her strong attachment had led her, though her partner had expressed a wish that she should not venture thither at that time, she vomited a large quantity of blood. At this alarming symptom speedy steps were taken to obtain the best medical aid, and all that medicine could do was rendered, but the insidious disease still progressed, nor could its progress be stayed. During this affliction our sister felt her need of the grace of God to sustain her, and of the comforts of religion to cheer her, nor was she without this divine support and consolation. She was particularly concerned respecting her spiritual state. When spoken to by her husband on the subject of the witness of the Spirit, she frankly acknowledged that she did not enjoy that witness as it was her privilege to do; but through faith in the Saviour she was soon enabled to rejoice in the liberty wherewith Christ makes his people free. She had always a high regard for the Book of God, and often said, that, when a Sabbath scholar, her best and happiest seasons were when her teachers gave an exposition of some portion of Scripture.

In the relation of her religious experience she was careful not to assume that which did not belong to her, remembering that God searches the heart and tries the reins of the children of men. As might be supposed, she indulged the hope of being restored to health, and wished, in submission to the divine will, to be so restored that she might minister to the comfort of her partner and be useful in other ways; but the disease continued to make progress, and she became convinced that it would terminate in death; but feeling her interest in Christ, the sting of death was extracted, and she could say, "The will of God be done."

Some time after this the enemy of souls was permitted to make a powerful attack on her faith, and she was tempted to believe that the happiness she felt was false; but by opening her mind to her Christian friends, and by faith and prayer, the enemy was defeated, the cloud was dispersed, and Christ and his gracious promises became more precious than ever. Feeling persuaded that she would soon have to leave this world, she stated on one occasion that she had given up all but her husband, and him she was at length enabled, through divine grace, to resign. In reference to the closing scene Mr. Bailey says, "The night before she died, she wished me to keep her upright by means of pillows that she might speak

to me of her happiness and safety. She praised the Lord most fervently, and then tried to soothe my sorrowing heart by referring to the happiness which we should enjoy when we should meet in heaven to be for ever with the Lord. She seemed to long for her departure that she might be with Christ, and meet again her pious father who brought her up in the fear of the Lord. On Tuesday night, September 16, at twelve o'clock, having requested me to call her sister who was in an adjoining room, she immediately ruptured a blood-vessel, and all that she was then able to say was, 'Lord, help me, I have done!' meaning that she had finished her course." She departed this life, September 16, 1851, in the twentyninth year of her age. The writer frequently visited her and found her happy in the Lord. Her end was peace. Her death was improved to a large and attentive congregation. May the solemn visitation be sanctified to the good of all surviving friends and of the whole Church! Amen. T. RIDGE.

Great Yarmouth, Oct. 18.

MRS. JENNINGS OF TRURO. ABOUT seventeen years ago, during a severe affliction, the mind of Mrs. Jennings was prepared by serious and prayerful meditation for the reception of divine truth. On her recovery she went to the house of God, where she was enlightened and saved. She immediately joined the Wesleyan Society. Shortly afterwards circumstances transpired which called attention to the peculiar Church government of that denomination, when she and others withdrew from it, and, uniting, formed our first society in Cornwall.

Through life she was the subject of repeated, painful and protracted afflic tions, to which she submitted with uniform patience, resignation and cheerfulness. Frequently she supposed herself about to enter eternity, and then had "a good hope through grace," and desired "to depart and be with Christ, which is far better."

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JOHN SHAW died at Burslem on the 9th of October, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. Our late brother was brought into the enjoyment of religion on the first day of a new year. For some time previously he had been labouring under serious impressions; and being invited to meet in class, he readily accepted the invitation, and seemed prepared to make any sacrifice that he might win Christ. On the 31st of December, 1848, he attended the watch-night service, and the word preached made a powerful impression on his mind. He went home in great distress, and began to cry to God in earnest prayer for mercy, and continued to do so until his sorrow was turned into joy. As soon as he experienced the blessings of religion in his own heart, he began to recommend it to others, and was soon the honoured instrument in the conversion of his beloved wife and two of his fellow-workmen, all of whom are steady members of our Church at the present time. From the above date brother Shaw became a member of our Church; and by his consistent deportment, his genuine piety, his attachment to our cause, and his liberality in supporting it to the best of his ability, gained the esteem and affection of our friends and of all who knew him. In the summer of the present year his health began to decline; and finding there was no probability of his recovery, he resigned himself into the hands of God, and rejoiced that he had not the favour of God to seek on a dying bed. He bore his affliction with much patience, and looked at death as a "conquered foe." A day or two before his death he called his dear wife, and inquired of her whether she had anything of importance to communicate to him, and she said, "No." "Then," he replied, "we are at peace, and I have nothing to do now but die." Some time after he called her to him again, and said, "Lend me your wings." But being overcome with the expression, she replied as well as she was able, "My dear, I have no wings; but the Saviour

will provide." Shortly after this he fell asleep in Jesus. "Let me die the death

of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." T. G.

Burslem, Nov. 17th, 1851.

DIED at Burslem on the 9th of July, 1851, Mary, the wife of Mr. T. Capper, in the fifty-fourth year of her age. Sister Capper was a scholar in the Sabbath-school when our cause was in its infancy in this town. She was brought to a saving knowledge of the truth in early life, and up to the time of her marriage was a teacher in the school, and a member of the Church. Her union with Mr. Capper, who was a teacher and a member at the same time, tended to perpetuate her union with the people of God; and they have both been persons of unblemished character, steady and consistent members of our community, for upwards of forty years. They have stood by our cause, and supported it in all its adverse and prosperous circumstances, and only about a month before our late sister was called home to her reward, she had the pleasure of knowing that, by a resolution of the last Conference, Burslem was declared to be the head of a Circuit. For several years she was afflicted with confirmed asthma; it was, therefore, with great difficulty that she attended the means of grace for some time before her death. She was much attached to the Sabbath-schools, and made a great effort to attend the evening service of the last school anniversary on the first Sabbath in May, but it was the last time she was permitted to worship with the people of God in the temple below. The school-anniversary was a joyful day to her, and she hailed

its approach with pleasure and delight. When I have conversed with her on spiritual things, she has frequently re ferred with peculiar satisfaction to the pleasure she had taken in the Sabbathschools, and to the great support which religion had been to her, in all the troubles and afflictions of life. She never murmured, but seemed to look forward with joyful anticipations to the time when she would be released from the burden of the flesh, and enter upon that state where sickness and sorrow never can come. Like one of old, as she had lived so she seemed to die, "waiting for the salvation of the Lord." T. G. Burslem, Nov. 17th, 1851.

MRS. SCHOFIELD OF CORNBROOK HULME, MANCHESTER.

OUR departed friend was savingly converted to God about nineteen years ago, and immediately became a member of our Church in Manchester, and continued so to the time of her death. Her disposition was retiring, her spirit amiable, her deportment consistent and her piety sincere. In the welfare of the Church she ever manifested a deep interest, and was specially useful in connexion with the Ladies' Sewing Association, efficiently discharging the duties of treasurer for the last nine years.

Her last affliction was short and severe, yet her mind was sustained by the grace of God. To her family and immediate attendants she expressed a firm trust in Christ and a calm resignation to the divine will, and died in peace through believing, October 27th, 1851, aged fortyeight years.

MONTHLY RECORD.

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DEATH OF THE KING OF HANOVER.— Just when going to press, intelligence arrived of the death of the King of Hanover.

KOSSUTH'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.-Since our last number the towns of Southampton, London, Manchester and Birmingham have been thrown into a state of rapturous excitement by the visit of this illustrious and eloquent patriot. He has delivered numerous addresses in the English language with a degree of freedom and eloquence that is truly astonishing. He sailed for America on the 20th, followed by the warmest affections and wishes of Englishmen.

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