and soon promoted, until he became a confidential servant in the establishment. We mention these facts as striking instances of piety in youth, and of that strength and firmness of mind, which all who knew our departed friend will admit were his chief characteristics. If obituary notices are of any use, it must be to those who read them; and these facts we strongly impress upon the minds of our young friends, in order to shew them that piety in youth, especially that piety (the only true piety) which is attended with selfdenial and firmness to principle, and which considers that charity, or the love of the neighbour, is the principal object of all genuine religion, is not only the great safeguard of all virtue and happiness for eternity, but the only sure path to secure confidence and regard, and consequent prosperity and happiness in this life. Mr. Dearden, in his early life, connected study with piety; and the Word of God was the principal object of his meditation. In order to secure time for reading and study, he adopted for many years the plan of the Rev. J. Wesley, and allowed himself only six hours sleep out of the twenty-four; and thus before business commenced in the morning he had already devoted considerable time to devotion and study. In this manner he soon prepared himself, and became a useful and energetic speaker in religious meetings among the Methodists, and for more than twenty years he was one of the most active, energetic, and acceptable local preachers in that denomination of Christians. About twenty-six years ago, Mr. D. became acquainted with the Rev. James Bradley, who at that time was the minister of the New Church Society at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After a short acquaintance with Mr. Bradley, Mr. D. expressed a desire to a mutual friend to know the religious principles of Mr. Bradley, having no doubt observed, in conversation with that gentleman, certain new ideas on religious subjects, which struck him as clear, scriptural, and edifying. Upon which, their mutual friend presented Mr. D. with a volume of Lectures, recently published by Mr. Bradley.* On reading these lectures, Mr. Dearden became convinced of the truths and doctrines of the New Church. No sooner were his convictions of their truth established, than he began to make them known to others, and to recommend to his numerous acquaintance and friends * See a review of these lectures in this perio

dical for 1822, p. 121.

the precious treasure he had discovered. With his studious and energetic mind, he was thoroughly conversant with all the dogmas of the prevailing orthodoxy, and accompanied by a most original and emphatic power of eloquence, he could present the most vivid contrast between the doctrines of the New Jerusalem and the dogmas of the old theology. So great was his power in this respect, as to be at times very impressive to all around him, and to convey to them the conviction which he felt himself of the great superiority of the doctrines of the New Church over those of the old. Mr. Dearden, thus convinced of the doctrines of the New Church, could not continue to preach under the garb of Methodism, and he consequently retired from the ministry, and devoted himself to the promotion, as far as in him lay, of the cause of the new dispensation. He was a most diligent reader of the writings of Swedenborg; and the "Arcana Cœlestia," during his long illness, was an unfailing source of edification, of consolation, and of spiritual strength in passing through the valley of the shadow of death. And the sole reason why he thus experienced so much edification in perusing that work, was because it was the medium of opening the eternal truths of the Word of God in so luminous and convincing a manner, as to be at once most edifying and consoling to his mind. For Mr. Bradley, through whose lectures, as we have seen, he was introduced to a knowledge of the New Church doctrines, he always entertained the highest regard. He had been successful in business; and the liberality which, as we have seen, he had in his youth considered to be essentially connected with genuine piety, he employed with increased affection to the support of all the institutions of the New Church, to which he was a liberal contributor.

During the last few years of his life, he, together with his liberal friend, Mr. Edwin Moorhouse, of Ashton-under-Lyne, had the satisfaction of seeing a society established in that populous town, and a commodious place of worship opened, through their joint liberality, for the worship of the Lord according to the doctrines of the New Church. This place of worship, being within two miles of his residence, Mr. D. continued to attend as long as his health permitted. His long and painful illness he bore with great patience and resignation. To him "death was the continuation of life;" and he

spoke of putting off the body as of putting
off an old garment which had served its
purpose during his state of probation here.
The prospect of rising immediately after
the death of his natural body in a spiritual
body of never-dying substance, suited to
the spiritual world, was to him delightful;
and from the sufferings which he had
occasionally to endure in his illness, full
of strength, consolation, and hope.

Our departed friend, during his last
days, was especially desirous of seeing the
church in Waterloo-road, London, restored
to the public worship of the Lord; and as
he had the chief interest in that property,
he jointly with the late Rev. Thos. Goyder
(a memoir of whom we record in our pre-
sent number) possessing the title-deeds,
it was his sincere wish that some arrange-

ment might be made by which an object
so desirable could be accomplished. But
now that these two worthy men have
departed, we see not, for the present, how
the ardent wish entertained by both can
be realized. But the Lord will provide !
and in Him we must trust. The occasion
of Mr. Dearden's death was improved on
the Sunday after his funeral at the church
in Peter-street, Manchester, in a discourse
by the Rev. J. H. Smithson; and on a sub-
sequent Sunday at Ashton, by the Rev. D.
Howarth. On both these occasions, espe-
cially at Ashton, his numerous friends and
acquaintances attended, who manifested
much interest both in the truths they
heard and in the pious memorial of the
departed.
J. H.S.

Address to the Members of the Sunday
School Union, 241

Address on a late Work on the Philo-
sophy of Religion, by Mr. Morell,
420, 464

Animal Kingdom of Swedenborg, 344
Are we True to Ourselves? 145

Are All Things created out of Nothing?
288

Characteristics of Goethe, 328

Christian Remembrancer-Reviewers Re-
viewed, 471

Genius, 349

Idleness and Usefulness, 136
Interior Joy, &c., the Cause of, 188
Inquiry concerning Jeremiah xxxiii. 16,
306

Jottings from Old Church Authors, 41
Labour, Unprofitable, 441
Love and Justice in God, and the Nature
of Prayer, 331

Man the ultimate of Order on which
Heaven Rests, 187
Martha and Mary, 409

Colour of the Blood, on the, 249
Conjunction of Man with Heaven-its
Signs, 134

Concerning Merit in Good Works, 135
Conferences or Conventions, the Uses of,
389

Correspondences, the Dependence of Lan-

guage upon, 121, 172, 213, 266, 295,
335, 371, 457

Divine Judgments, the Nature of the, 129
Education, on Female, 52

Education, remarks on Sunday School
and Home, 103
Emblems, 22, 56, 93
Following the Lord in the Regeneration,

210

Free-will, or the Free Choice of Moral
Good and Evil, 361, 427
German Philosophy and Lutheran Theo-
logy, 201

the Means by which those Changes
are effected-An Address, 1
Mental History, Outlines of my, 89, 137,
183, 223, 261

Minister and People, 161

Moral Culture, Materials for, 50, 180
Nature of Instinct and the Philosophy of