of health, and professional duties, diminished the amount of active service which he could render in the church; but he was a member of the Missionary, Medical, and other Committees; and one of the Treasurers of the Normal Institution, Westminster. During the last two years he was deeply impressed with the conviction that his earthly career would soon terminate; and he made it his one business to prepare for death. Ile delighted in private prayer, and in reading the word of God. His last illness was long and painfully severe; but his mind was graciously sustained. During thirty-eight weeks of weari ness, twenty-seven of which he sat up night and day, he never murmured, but often felt his heart filled to overflowing with the love of God. He said he would rather die-if it was the will of God; but he felt it hard to part with his wife and children, and added that he should die happy if sure they would meet him in heaven. "The bitterness of death," he exclaimed, "is past with me. I do not wish to recover." Не frequently exulted in the cross of Christ, and repeated,

"O let me kiss Thy bleeding feet,

And bathe and wash them with my tears; The story of Thy love repeat

In every drooping sinner's ears!"*

The tempter never seemed permitted to disturb his peace, and he calmly waited his dismissal. Within a few days of his death, he said, "The Lord is releasing me very gently. I shall soon be free from all suffering. Glory! Glory!" The last day he was able to speak, he emphatically repeated the following lines:

"For this in faith we call,

For this we weep and pray;
O might the tabernacle fall,
O might we 'scape away!

Full of immortal hope,

We urge the restless strife,
And hasten to be swallow'd up
Of everlasting life."

T. A. R. Jan. 7th-At Thornhill, in the Dewsbury Circuit, Benjamin Parker, in his sixtieth year. He was of respectable descent. Admiral Sir Hyde Parker was his grandfather's brother. The family property of that branch to which Benjamin belonged having been diverted into another channel, he began the world in humble life, and never rose above it. He lived in a small thatched hut of the humblest description, and had the appearance of subsisting on extremely limited means; yet it was his pride and happiness not only to "owe no man anything," but also to assist the afflicted and the needy. For the relief of distress greater than his own, several shillings a week were sometimes contributed by this poor but upright man. His habitual order and punctuality appeared, with beautiful effect, in a regular attendance on the means of grace, and a systematic disposal and arrangement of all things which he had the power to control. After twenty

Jan. 14th.-At Walkeringham, in the Gainsborough Circuit, Mary Anne, wife of Mr. Robert Clark, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the seventeenth of her communion with the Wesleyan Methodists. In a record of her religious experi"What is there too hard for the ence she says: Almighty to accomplish? When I was about to sink under my load of guilt, the God of all mercy enabled me, even me, to behold my Saviour with an eye of faith; and I felt that He died for me." Again: "Whilst reading one of Mr. Wesley's sermons, I was enabled to believe for a full salvation. I ventured my whole soul on the blood of the covenant, and I was filled with the Spirit of God." Her life was in beautiful consistency with these records: it was pure and holy. She loved the means of grace, especially the class-meeting: and she was very diligent in collecting for the Missionary cause. Her end was awfully sudden: she was seized with apoplexy on the Thursday, and died the next day. Her last utterance was, "Thou dost save! I am saved!"

H. C.

Jan. 17th.-Frances Ostick, of Milton, but formerly of Laneham, Retford Circuit, in the eighty-fourth year of her age, having been a pious and consistent member of the Wesleyan Society above sixty years. She was seized with illness, rather suddenly, about two months before she was released from the earthly tabernacle. At that time she repeated the hymn, "Jesu, Lover of my soul,

Let me to Thy bosom fly," &c.

On the Sabbath but one before her departure she enjoyed great spiritual happiness, and expressed a strong faith in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. A few hours before she breathed her last, her daughter, Mrs. Hardy, being engaged in reading to her, she expressed a desire for prayer; and while her son-in-law prayed, she joined in the petitions very fervently. Shortly after, she died in the Lord. S. B.

Feb. 3d.-At Warrenpoint, in the Newry Circuit, in the sixtieth year of his age, the Rev. John Harrington, a man of gentle spirit, unassuming and truly humble. He came to this Circuit, last July, in a state of great debility, from which he never rallied. To a friend who affectionately inquired if he found Christ precious and present, he replied, "He never leaves me." To another, who said, "The Lord is your strength," he responded, "And the power of my might." Corfiding in the all-sufficient atonement, which, for thirty-three years, it had been his privilege with no ordinary ability to preach, he calmly "fell asleep." J. N.

of health, and professional duties, diminished the amount of active service which he could render in the church; but he was a member of the Missionary, Medical, and other Committees; and one of the Treasurers of the Normal Institution, Westminster. During the last two years he was deeply impressed with the conviction that his earthly career would soon terminate; and he made it his one business to prepare for death. He delighted in private prayer, and in reading the word of God. His last illness was long and painfully severe; but his mind was graciously sustained. During thirty-eight weeks of weariness, twenty-seven of which he sat up night and day, he never murmured, but often felt his heart filled to overflowing with the love of God. He said he would rather die-if it was the will of God; but he felt it hard to part with his wife and children, and added that he should die happy if sure they would meet him in heaven. "The bitterness of death," he exclaimed, "is past with me. I do not wish to recover." He frequently exulted in the cross of Christ, and repeated,

"O let me kiss Thy bleeding feet,

And bathe and wash them with my tears; The story of Thy love repeat

In every drooping sinner's ears!"

The tempter never seemed permitted to disturb his peace, and he calmly waited his dismissal. Within a few days of his death, he said, "The Lord is releasing me very gently. I shall soon be free from all suffering. Glory! Glory!" The last day he was able to speak, he emphatically repeated the following lines:

"For this in faith we call,

For this we weep and pray;
O might the tabernacle fall,
O might we 'scape away!

Full of immortal hope,

We urge the restless strife,
And hasten to be swallow'd up
Of everlasting life."

The

T. A. R. Jan. 7th-At Thornhill, in the Dewsbury Circuit, Benjamin Parker, in his sixtieth year. He was of respectable descent. Admiral Sir Hyde Parker was his grandfather's brother. family property of that branch to which Benjamin belonged having been diverted into another channel, he began the world in humble life, and never rose above it. He lived in a small thatched hut of the humblest description, and had the appearance of subsisting on extremely limited means; yet it was his pride and happiness not only to owe no man anything," but also to assist the afflicted and the needy. For the relief of distress greater than his own, several shillings a week were sometimes contributed by this poor but upright man. His habitual order and punctuality appeared, with beautiful effect, in a regular attendance on the means of grace, and a systematic disposal and arrangement of all things which he had the power to control. After twenty

years of consistent membership in the church, he endured a severe but short conflict with the last enemy, and died in the true faith, uttering with his latest breathings the sentiment of the Apostle: "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." S. A.

Jan. 14th.-At Walkeringham, in the Gainsborough Circuit, Mary Anne, wife of Mr. Robert Clark, in the fiftieth year of her age, and the seventeenth of her communion with the Wesleyan Methodists. In a record of her religious experience she says: "What is there too hard for the Almighty to accomplish? When I was about to sink under my load of guilt, the God of all mercy enabled me, even me, to behold my Saviour with an eye of faith; and I felt that He died for me." Again: "Whilst reading one of Mr. Wesley's sermons, I was enabled to believe for a full salvation. I ventured my whole soul on the blood of the covenant, and I was filled with the Spirit of God." Her life was in beautiful consistency with these records: it was pure and holy. She loved the means of grace, especially the class-meeting: and she was very diligent in collecting for the Missionary cause. Her end was awfully sudden : she was seized with apoplexy on the Thursday, and died the next day. Her last utterance was, "Thou dost save! I am saved!"

H. C.

Jan. 17th.-Frances Ostick, of Milton, but formerly of Laneham, Retford Circuit, in the eighty-fourth year of her age, having been a pious and consistent member of the Wesleyan Society above sixty years. She was seized with illness, rather suddenly, about two months before she was released from the earthly tabernacle. At that time she repeated the hymn, "Jesu, Lover of my soul,

Let me to Thy bosom fly," &c.

On the Sabbath but one before her departure she enjoyed great spiritual happiness, and expressed a strong faith in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. A few hours before she breathed her last, her daughter, Mrs. Hardy, being engaged in reading to her, she expressed a desire for prayer; and while her son-in-law prayed, she joined in the petitions very fervently. Shortly after, she died in the Lord. S. B.

Feb. 3d.-At Warrenpoint, in the Newry Circuit, in the sixtieth year of his age, the Rev. John Harrington, a man of gentle spirit, unassuming and truly humble. He came to this Circuit, last July, in a state of great debility, from which he never rallied. To a friend who affectionately inquired if he found Christ precious and present, he replied, "He never leaves me." To another, who said, "The Lord is your strength," he responded, "And the power of my might." Confiding in the all-sufficient atonement, which, for thirty-three years, it had been his privilege with no ordinary ability to preach, he calmly "fell asleep." J. N.