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his old friends, on Sunday, July 7, 1816, in the 1853, offered New Park Street Chapel, Southsixty-fifth year of his age.

wark, but so great was his popularity that within two years it had to be enlarged; and while this was in progress they worshipped in Exeter Hall and the Surrey Music Hall. At length the Baptist Tabernacle in Newington Butts was built for him and his ever-increasing congregation, which was opened in 1861. The membership of the Metropolitan Tabernacle now numbers over five thousand. Mr Spurgeon is an indefatigable worker, and takes a hearty interest in the Pastors' College and the Stockwell OrphanBesides other channels of publication, there is a weekly issue of his sermons, which, begun January 7, 1855, has continued till the present time, and has a very large circulation. He is editor of a magazine called Sword and Trowel. Of his separate publications, his "Commentary on the Psalms," "Daily Read"Feathers for Arrows," and "John Ploughman's Talk," are the most important.

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SMITH, SYDNEY, was born in 1771, at the village of Woodford, in Essex. He was educated at Winchester, was elected a scholar of New College, Oxford, in 1780, and a fellow in 1790. After some Continental travel, he obtained the curacy of Nether-Avon, near Amesbury, Wiltshire, which he held for two years, and afterwards became travelling tutor to the son of a country gentleman. He intended going to Weimar with his pupil, but the German war altered his plans, and he came to Edinburgh. In Edinburgh he became acquainted with the set who founded the Edinburgh Review. The first number was published in October 1802. In 1804 he went to London, and in 1806 Lord Erskine gave him the rectory of Foston-leClay, in Yorkshire. In 1828 Lord Lyndhurstings," presented him to a stall in Bristol Cathedral, and in a year or two afterwards he left Foston for the rectory of Combe-Florey, in Somersetshire. In 1831 he was appointed one of the canons residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral by Earl Grey. He died in London, February 21, 1845.

SOUTH, ROBERT, was born in London in 1633. He attended Westminster School, and in 1658 he took orders, and attracted so much attention that he was chosen public orator of the university, and afterwards became chaplain to the Earl of Clarendon, prebendary of Westminster, canon of Christ Church, and rector of Islip, in Oxfordshire. He declined the bishopric of Rochester and the deanery of Westminster. While at the university, he was of unsettled opinions, but after the Restoration he became a steady supporter of the High Church. He died in 1716, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, close by his old master, Dr Busby.

SPURGEON, CHARLES HADDON, one of the most popular of living preachers, was born at Kelvedon, Essex, June 19, 1834. His father was John Spurgeon, second son of the Rev. James Spurgeon, who was pastor of a small Independent church at Colchester. His mother was the youngest sister of Charles Parker Jarvis, of Colchester, and a woman of remarkable piety. His earlier years were spent with his grandfather at Stambourne, in Essex. He was educated at Colchester, and, while at school, displayed a passionate fondness for reading; became usher in a school at Newmarket. He joined a congregation presided over by the late Robert Hall, Cambridge; and soon afterwards he appeared as a village preacher and tract distributor at Faversham, near Cambridge. His audiences knew him by the title of the "boy preacher." He was first called to a Baptist congregation at Waterbeach, when but seventeen years of age; and crowds went to hear him. He was next, in

STANLEY, THE REV. ARTHUR PENHRYN, D.D., was born about 1815, and educated under Dr Arnold at Rugby, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He distinguished himself at college, obtaining a scholarship, the Newdigate prize for an English poem, a first-class in classics in 1837, the Latin essay prize in 1839, and the English essay and theological prizes in 1840. In 1851 he became Canon of Westminster; from 1858 to 1864 he filled the posts of Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, Canon of Christ Church, and chaplain to the Bishop of London. In 1864 he became Dean of Westminster. He is author of the well-known "Life of Dr Arnold of Rugby" (1844), and many other works of importance. He received the degree of LL.D. in 1871. He was elected one of the select preachers at Oxford in 1872, and installed Lord Rector of St Andrews University in 1875. Of an address to the students of St Andrews a small portion is quoted in the present work.

STERNE, LAURENCE, was born at Clonmel, in Ireland, in 1713. He was sent to school at Halifax, and to Jesus College, Cambridge. His uncle obtained for him the living of Sutton, and a prebendal stall at York. In 1759 he was presented to the living of Coxwold. The publication of the first portion of "Tristram Shandy" in 1759, and the remaining parts during an interval of six years, rendered him suddenly famous. He visited London, mixed in good society, and spent more than two years in France and Italy. The result of his Continental travels was the publication of the "Sentimental Journey" in 1768, in which year he died. His sermons, preached after his reputation as a humorist had gone abroad, have been censured, as too easy-going, and accommodating to the follies and fashions of the time.

STRAFFORD, THOMAS WENTWORTH, EARL OF, the famous minister of Charles I., was born at London in 1593. He was educated at Cambridge, and in 1611 was knighted, and travelled on the Continent. He entered Parliament as member for Yorkshire in 1614, and represented that county in several parliaments. In 1628 he sided with the king, and was created Baron Wentworth, then viscount, Lord President of the Council of the North, and a Privy Councillor in 1629. He was made Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1633. The despotic nature of his government is supposed to have led to the rebellion of 1641. He helped, however, to encourage the introduction of the growth of flax, and the establishment of linen manufactures. He was created Earl of Strafford in 1639, receiving the title of LordLieutenant of Ireland. On taking his seat in the House of Lords in November 1640, he was impeached for high treason. His trial caused the greatest excitement all over the country; the whole House of Commons was present, along with commissioners from Scotland and Ireland, eighty peers as judges, and with the king and queen as lookers-on. Unaided against thirteen accusers, he argued th charges which they brought forward for seventeen days. The impeachment was at one time likely to fail, when, the king at last giving his assent to the attainder, he was beheaded on Tower Hill, May 12, 1641.

SWIFT, DR JONATHAN, Dean of St Patrick's, was born at Dublin in 1667. He attended

school at Kilkenny, and next went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he applied himself particularly to the study of history and poetry, to the neglect of other branches of learning. Losing his uncle in 1688, and his thoughts being directed to the Church, he came to England and waited upon Sir William Temple, through whose influence, and that of Lord Berkeley, he obtained the livings of Laracor and Rathbiggan, to the former of which he went to reside. In 1701 he took his doctor's degree, and began publishing his political pamphlets, the most celebrated of which are the "Tale of a Tub," and the "Battle of the Books." While in London he was a chief contributor to the Examiner. As a writer and speaker the works of Swift are among the best specimens we possess of a thorough English style. Sinking into absolute idiocy, Swift died in 1745, aged seventy-seven, after bequeathing the greater part of his fortune to an hospital for lunatics.

TAYLOR, JEREMY, was born at Cambridge, where his father was a barber, August 15, 1613. At thirteen he entered Caius College, took the degree of B. A. in 1631, was chosen fellow of his college, and at twenty-one he was ordained. On removing to London, Archbishop Laud assisted him in obtaining a fellowship at All Souls Col

lege, Oxford. Bishop Juxon appointed him to the living of Uppingham in 1637. During the Commonwealth he fared badly, as he was attached to the cause and fortunes of Charles I. He was made Bishop of Down and Connor at the Restoration, and in his office laboured unceasingly, until his death at Lisburne in 1667. His best known works are his "Manual of Devotion," "Holy Living and Dying," and his "Sermons." His sermons display great learning, fine fancy, and a powerful imagination.

THOMSON, DR ANDREW, one of the most famous divines and debaters in the Scotch Church, was born at Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, in 1779. He was ordained minister of Sprouston, in the Presbytery of Kelso, in 1802, and removed to the East Church, Perth, in 1808. In 1810 he was presented to the New Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, and in 1814 he was translated to St George's Church, in that city. It was in public debates, and in the annual meetings of the General Assembly of the Church, where the full force of his eloquence, and where the zeal and ardour of his nature, were best exemplified. He took an active public part in the question of the abolition of slavery in our colonies. His work was very suddenly brought to a close while in the prime of life. He dropped down dead suddenly at his own door, in 1831.

THURLOW, EDWARD, LORD, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was born in Suffolk in 1732. He was educated at Canterbury School and Cambridge University. In 1754 he was called to the bar. He represented Tamworth in Parliament in 1768, was appointed SolicitorGeneral in 1770, and in the following year Attorney-General. He supported Lord North's policy, and became very popular with George III. He was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1778; with one short period excepted, held office till 1792, when Pitt's hostility compelled him to resign. He died at Brighton in 1806.

TILLOTSON, JOHN, was born at Sowerby, Yorkshire, in October 1630. He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge. At the Restoration he became chaplain to Charles II., and was presented to a prebend of Canterbury. In 1672 he was advanced to the deanery of Canterbury, and obtained a prebend in St Paul's. After the Revolution he was appointed clerk of the closet, under William III., and raised to the see of Canterbury in 1691. He died in 1694. The copyright of his "Sermons," which produced £2500, was all the provision he left for his widow, who was a niece of Oliver Cromwell. His sermons were at one time very popular, and ranked as examples of the most finished oratory.

WALPOLE, SIR ROBERT, EARL OF ORFORD, Prime Minister of England, was born at Hough

ton, in Norfolk, in 1676. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. In 1701 he appeared in Parliament, as member for Castle Rising, and in 1702 he represented Lynn. He was appointed Secretary of War in 1708, and Treasurer of the Navy in 1709. When the Whig ministry was dissolved he was committed to the Tower on a charge of corruption and breach of trust. On the accession of George I., he was made Paymaster of the Forces, and afterwards Prime Minister. He resigned in 1717, but again ac cepted office as Paymaster of the Forces in 1720. He was again created Premier on the retirement of Lord Sunderland, and continued in office for about twenty years. He resigned in 1742, and was created Earl of Orford. He died in 1745.

WESLEY, JOHN, was born at Epworth in 1703. While at Oxford University in 1730, along with his brother and some other students, they formed themselves into a religious society, and for this they were called Methodists. Wesley visited Georgia, in America, in 1735, with a view of converting the Indians; and after a stay of two years, returned to England, and for a short time joined with Whitefield as an itinerant preacher; but differing on the doctrine of election, they separated. The churches closed their doors against him, but spacious meeting-houses were built for him in London, Bristol, and other towns. He travelled many times over England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, preaching and organising churches. He published many volumes, consisting of hymns, sermons, 'political tracts, and controversial treatises. Wesley died March 2, 1791, in the eighty-ninth year of his age.

WHITFIELD, OR WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, was the son of an innkeeper at Gloucester, and born in 1714. While at Pembroke College, Oxford, he became associated with the Wesleys, and on being ordained, soon became a popular preacher. He interested himself in the American settlement of Georgia, which he visited in 1738, and on his return to England he assisted in procuring subscriptions for an orphan-house in the settlement. On his return to London, his preaching became so popular that no house could contain the assembled multitudes, and so he adopted the plan of preaching in the open air. He again visited America in 1739, where he addressed large audiences, returning in 1741. A difference with Wesley on the doctrine of election led to a separation, without, however, destroying any friendly feeling. In 1748 he was chosen chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon. He made preaching tours in various parts of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; and on again visiting America, died at Newbury Port, in New England, September 30, 1770. "Whitefield," says one, "was the prince of English

preachers. Many have surpassed him as sermonmakers, but none have approached him as a pulpit orator. Many have outshone him in the clearness of their logic, the grandeur of their conceptions, and the sparkling beauty of single sentences, but in the power of darting the Gospel direct into the conscience, he eclipsed them all. With an open, beaming countenance, and a frank and easy port, he combined a voice of rich compass, and to these advantages he added a most expressive and eloquent action. Improved by conscientious practice, and instinct with his earnest nature, this elocution was the acted sermon, and by its pantomimic portrait enabled the eye to anticipate each rapid utterance, and helped the memory to treasure up the palpable ideas."

WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM, was born at Hull in 1759, and completed his education at Cambridge. He entered Parliament as member for his native town in his twenty-fifth year. His way of living was at first in keeping with the fashionable world around him, but when travelling with Dean Milner on the Continent, he became seriously impressed with the truths of Christianity. Henceforth his former gaieties were abandoned, and the whole powers of his nature were for twenty years directed towards the abolition of the slave trade. This was finally decreed by the British legislature in 1807. He died, aged seventy-three, in 1833. His "Practical View of the prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians" was extremely popular, and was published to counteract the infidel notion prevalent in society at the period of the French Revolution.

WILKES, JOHN, was born in London in 1727. He received a good education, and, after travelling on the Continent for some time, he married a lady of fortune, and became a colonel in the Buckinghamshire Militia. In 1761, when elected M.P. for Aylesbury, on account of a libel which he printed in the North Briton, a warrant was issued for his apprehension, and he was committed to the Tower. When on trial he was dismissed by Chief - Justice Pratt, who decided that general warrants were illegal. He, however, incurred another prosecution, on account of the publication of an obscene poem, entitled an "Essay on Women." On his nonappearance to receive judgment he was outlawed, when he went to France, where he resided till 1768, in which year he was elected for Middlesex. Instead, however, of taking his seat, he was committed to King's Bench Prison. His committal gave rise to serious riots in St George's Fields. A large subscription was raised to pay his debts. In 1774 he was elected Mayor of London, and in the same year he entered Parliament as member for Middlesex without opposition. He died in 1797.

INDEX.

AFRICA, progress of exploration in, 300.
America, on conciliation with-Burke, 197.
--, right of taxing, discussed-Lord Chatham,
139.

American taxation-Burke, 174.

Army, motion for reducing the-Pulteney, 116.
ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, 103-106.

BARROW, ISAAC, 90-92.
BAXTER, RICHARD, 87-89.
BEACONSFIELD, LORD, 427-445.

Begum charge, on summing up evidence-Sheri-
dan, 262.

Bishop, office of the most diligent-Latimer,
13.

BELHAVEN, LORD, 98, 103.

BLAIR, HUGH, 160-164.

Bonaparte, fall of Canning, 321.

Books, the friendship of-Maurice, 410.
BRIGHT, JOHN, 470-487.

Bristol election-Burke, 222-240.
British foreign policy-Palmerston, 352.
BROUGHAM, LORD, 332-343.

Buckingham, impeachment of--Eliot, 45.
Burgesses, the, of London-Latimer, 11.
Burials Bill, the-Bright, 480.
BURKE, EDMUND, 169-240.
Burke, Edmund-Maurice, 418.

CANNING, GEORGE, 321-328.
Capernaum-Doddridge, 123.
Card, the, to play-Latimer, 16.
CARLYLE, THOMAS, 364-374.
Carlyle on Cromwell, 51.

on Edward Irving, 355.

CHALMERS, THOMAS, 346-352,
CHATHAM, LORD, 136-148.

CHESTERFIELD, LORD, 117-123.

City, the, its sins and sorrows-Guthrie, 386.

COBBETT, WILLIAM, 314-316.

COBDEN, RICHARD, 394-402.

Colonial slavery-O'Connell, 331.
Copyright-Macaulay, 383.

Corry, invective against Mr-Grattan, 257.

Crimean war, the-Bright, 470.

CROMWELL, OLIVER, 51-64.

CURRAN, JOHN PHILPOT, 254-256.

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Dissolution of Parliament-Derby, 381.

DODDRIDGE, PHILIP, 123-127.

DONNE, JOHN, 35-42.

Education-J. A. Froude, 511.

Elect, the, certainty and perpetuity of faith in --
Hooker, 30.

Elect, the-Donne, 41.
ELIOT, SIR JOHN, 44-49.
Emmett-Lord Plunket, 317.
ERSKINE, LORD, 259-262.

Examples how far to be followed-Fuller, 64.
Exhortations to candidates for the degree of
M.A.-Leighton, 84.

Fortune, man at the mercy of-South, 97
Fox, C. J., character of Mackintosh, 319.
FOX, CHARLES JAMES, 241-254.

-, Mackintosh on, 319.

France, rupture of negotiations with--Pitt, 305.
French invasion, the threatened-Robert Hall,
313.

Friendships, human and divine-South, 96.
FROUDE, JAMES ANTHONY, 511-521.
FULLER, THOMAS, 64-69.

Gin Act-Lord Chesterfield, 117.
GLADSTONE, W. E., 445-470.

God's goodness to man-Irving, 361.
God's vineyard-J. Hall, 42.
Good, the doing of-Tillotson, 93.
Goodness-Barrow, 90.
GOUGH, J. B., 509-511.
Grace, free-Wesley, 127.
GRATTAN, HENRY, 256-258.
GREY, EARL, 316, 317.

GUTHRIE, THOMAS, 386-394.

HALL, JOSEPH, 42-44.

HALL, ROBERT, 307-314.

HAMILTON, JOHN (Lord Belhaven), 98-103.
Heaven-Donne, 35.

on earth-Kingsley, 522.
emblems of Irving, 362.

HOOKER, RICHARD, 30-35.

Household, serving God in the Irving, 355.
Husband's power, a-Taylor, 75, 76.

Hull, speech to the electors of-Wilberforce,
306.

Impeachment of Strafford, 49.

Inaugural discourse--Brougham, 332.
Industry, incitement to-Barrow, 91.
Infidelity-Thomson, 345.

Ireland, the state of-Sheil, 376.

Irish Church, the-Disraeli, 427.

-Gladstone, 445.

Irish Disturbances Bill-O'Connell, 331.
Irish parliamentary reform-Curran, 254.

Divine grace and holy obedience-Leighton, 80. Irish rights, on moving a declaration of Grattan,

256.
IRVING, EDWARD, 355-363.

JEWELL, DR JOHN, 26-30.

King, motion for a removal of the-Walpole, 109. Russia, war with-Cobden, 396.

KINGSLEY, CHARLES, 522-524.

Knowledge, the pursuit of-Disraeli, 433.
Knowledge, advantages to lower classes-Hall,

307.

KNOX, JOHN, 18-26.

LATIMER, HUGH, 9-17.

Law Reform-Brougham, 341.
LEIGHTON, ROBERT, 80-86.

London, iniquity of-Latimer, 11.

Lords, speech before the House of-Atterbury,

103.

LYNDHURST, LORD, 329, 330.
LYTTON, LORD, 402-409.

MACAULAY, LORD, 383-385.

MACKINTOSH, SIR JAMES, 318-320.

MACLEOD, NORMAN, 497-500.

Man, creation of-Irving, 362.

Man, the dignity of-Tillotson, 92.
MANSFIELD, LORD, 133-136.

Marriage Ring, the-Jeremy Taylor, 70.
Mass, the Bishop Jewell, 26.

Match, an ill, well broken off-Fuller, 67.
MAURICE, F. D., 410-427.

Mind, knowledge and liberality of-Irving, 363.
Missions to India-Macleod, 497.
Mourning, house of-Sterne, 149.

MURRAY, WILLIAM (Lord Mansfield), 133-136.
Music in church-Atterbury, 105.

Nation, state of the-Eliot, 48.

Now or never-Baxter, 88.

O'CONNELL, DANIEL, 331, 332.

PALMERSTON, LORD, 352, 353.

Russian and Turkish treaties-Sheil, 376.
Russian armament, the-Fox, 241.

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Students of Edinburgh, address to the Carlyle,
364.

SWIFT, JONATHAN, 107-109.

Sympathy of Christ-Robertson, 504.

Sympathy for man-Chalmers, 346.

Tamworth, speech at-Peel, 353.

Parliament, speech on dissolving-Cromwell, 63. Taxation, American-Burke, 174.

Parliamentary reform, 326, 342.
PEEL, SIR ROBERT, 353-355.

Peace and war-Bright, 482.

Peers, a bill to deprive, of privileges-Mansfield,

134.

Peltier, defence of Jean-Mackintosh, 318.
PITT, WILLIAM (Lord Chatham), 136-148.

reply to Walpole, 138.
WILLIAM, 292-306.

Ploughers, the-Latimer, 9.

PLUNKET, LORD, 317, 318.

Policy, the right, of Britain-Canning, 327.
Prayer, on-Knox, 18; Barrow, 91.
Preaching-Gladstone, 466.

Prelates, unpreaching-Latimer, 12.
Press and pulpit-Irving, 362.

Property of husband and wife-Taylor, 74.
PULTENEY, WILLIAM, 116, 117.

TAYLOR, JEREMY, 70-80.

Temperance, the cause of-Gongh, 509.
Theology, hopes of-Stanley, 503.
THOMSON, DR ANDREW, 343-345.
THURLOW, LORD, 240.

TILLOTSON, JOHN, 92-96.

Time, the flight of-Chalmers, 351.
Trinity, doctrine of Swift, 107.

Turks, the great, to discomfort and thrust down
-Latimer, 17.

Union between England and Scotland-Lord
Belhaven, 98.

Virgins, the wise and foolish-Whitefield, 152

WALPOLE, SIR ROBERT, 109-115.
WENTWORTH, THOMAS, 49-51.
WESLEY, JOHN, 127-133.

Reform Bill, the Russell, 375; on moving the WHITEFIELD, GEORGE, 152-159.

second reading of-Earl Grey, 316.

Reform and reformers-Cobbett, 314.

Rejoicing, right-Baxter, 87.

Representation of the people-Wilkes, 165.

Ring, the marriage-Taylor, 70.
ROBERTSON, F. W., 504-509.

RUSSELL, LORD JOHN, 375.

Russia and Turkey-Gladstone, 469.

WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM, 306, 307.
WILKES, JOHN, 165-169.

Williams, Thomas, speech on-Lord Erskine,
259.

Women, education of-Kingsley, 523.
Wordsworth-Robertson, 507.
World, another-Irving, 363.
World, fashions of-Hall, 43.

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