you and yours. Salvation is from the Lord, and we will ascribe all the glory to him. He is worthy. I never was so much taken up with the Divine perfections as at the present time. To dwell in God is our place while on earth; and this is perpetuated by acts of faith. Faith realizes the glory: for though we cannot see, yet we see all things in believing, make all that he is our own, and feel all the happy effects on the mind. Thus faith changes us more and more, we are taken up in the fullest union,

hid with Christ in God,' ready, and always waiting to leave this body, 'that we may be clothed upon with our house in heaven.' Glorious company! Glorious place! I long, I wait for his coming. Come, Lord Jesus! come

quickly! Amen.

"We live in Manchester, in which place we have about six hundred members belonging to Salford circuit. I have seen numbers saved since I came. Many have received full salvation, and live in clear liberty. Many are in distress in temporal things. Wages are exceedingly low, so that numbers have little more than half meat. It is said that things will mend; for this I pray, because the sympathy is sometimes too great for flesh and blood. Father, thy will be done!' 'Yet, if possible, let this cup pass from us.' My wife has had her health much better lately, and for this we will praise the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul ! My brother Turnell, there is a dark cloud hangs over the connection, as it respects temporal

matters.

Collections are becoming so numerous, Methodists are engaged in so many new things, that it requires great and too great exertion to accomplish our own money matters. We are all upon the rack, and religion is now too much swallowed up in other concerns. I tremble for Zion. Can we return to our simplicity? Is it possible?

"I am your very affectionate brother,

"WM. BRAMWELL."

LETTER LXXVII.

To his Son.

"Manchester, July 2, 1818.

"MY DEAR JOHN,-Believe me, I am more concerned than ever for your eternal welfare; for I have lately been much impressed with these words, 'I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.' I long to say, 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.' The heavenly world is more than ever in my view. O the change, the glorious change which must then take place! I feel a considerable degree of asthma, and although I labor to keep it from public view, yet I have found it sometimes very difficult.

"Your affectionate father,

"WM. BRAMWELL."

LETTER LXXVIII.

To Mrs. Reay.

"Manchester, July 16, 1818.

"MY DEAR SISTER,-Your frequent indisposition may have appeared mysterious, both to you and to your dear husband, as many of God's works do to us in our present state of existence; and yet we may with the utmost confidence pronounce his doings in infinite wisdom. It will be to your utmost satisfaction to continue in this view and feeling of his proceedings. I more than ever wonder at his working; but can follow every wheel with a shout of Glory!' Well might the morning stars sing together, and all the sons of God shout for joy! He has done all things well. Your salvation from indwelling evil, I hope, is complete, your receiving the witness of the all-cleansing blood, your being made perfect in love, your dwelling in God and God in you. Then there is no torment, no dread of death, eternity, judgment, &c. This view makes all calm, and fills the soul with divine consolation. It is heaven, already heaven ! Happy, happy spirit! thy guilt is removed and the soul is filled with God. Every thing within, without, around, above, beneath, increases the smile. What is pain? All is God, and God is all.

"I should be exceedingly glad to see you before your flight; for it may be suddenly.

Your poor flesh can only bear a little, very little; but I suppose you have no objection. Well, the will of God be done! Remember where you are going. I cannot think of it without desire, without joy. O the numbers that are waiting for us! Will not the next meeting swallow up all sorrow of parting? Yea, for ever, for ever. Look up, you will shortly be crowned with immortality, with eternal life. Yet I am confident that we cannot detach any place from God's presence, from the whole. If so, his glory is here, at Carville, the same as in heaven. And we may live in that glory here. Faith brings it in, and increases it even so much that we feel changed into it more and more. I now live in this glory more than ever, and am waiting to meet you, to receive my glorious body, that we may see face to face what we all now are only able to see by faith. The change will astonish us, will astonish all the saints in glory. We ought to do nothing in this world, but as a help to this glory; and if we esteem any thing, merely to serve the body, to the injury of the soul, we thereby prove that we prefer the body to the soul. The Lord be with you in affliction, in health, (if permitted,) in life and in death. Amen, and Amen!

"I am your affectionate friend and brother, "WM. BRAMWELL."

CHAPTER XV.

Mr. Bramwell's arrival at Leeds-His attendance on the business of conference-His conversation, preaching, and the circumstances of his death-His funeral.

THE writer of this memoir is indebted to a friend for the following account of Mr. Bramwell's short residence in Leeds, a subject, the recollection of which will long excite the most powerful sympathies in the minds of those who were concerned in the affecting closing scene:

"Mr. Bramwell's last journey commenced on the 28th day of July, in the year 1818. On the morning of that day, he took a place in the Manchester coach, and proceeded to the house of his affectionate friend, Mr. Sigston, of QueenSquare, Leeds, his usual place of abode whenever his duty called him to sojourn in that town, or to pass through it. His host and hostess possessed views and feelings congenial to his own, being warm admirers of his piety, and imitators of that zeal and devotedness for which he was greatly distinguished. In their society he always appeared to be at home; and those happy, edifying interviews which many religious friends enjoyed with him in Mr. Sigston's house, will never be erased from their recollection.

"It was on the evening of the same day, that he arrived at this favorite abode. He came there for the purpose of attending on his duties in conference, which was held that year at Leeds. The series of letters presented to the reader, will have evinced the solicitude which,