London as an able defender of evangelical truth, when Arianism threatened the dissenting churches of the metropolis with a deadly pestilence. In the wife of his choice the departed was blessed with a helpmeet for him; for Mrs. Bogue was a woman of cultivated mind, elegant manners, benevolent spirit, and eminent religion.

Soon after Mr. Bogue's marriage, George Welch, Esq. a Banker of London, looking round upon the dark places of our land, wisely determined to plant in them seminaries for the ministry; that by the labours of the students the surrounding country might be cultivated, and provision might be made for a suitable supply, when death should render the churches vacant. One of these small academies he established at Gosport, under the care of Mr. Bogue, whom he esteemed as worthy to direct the studies and form the manners of the rising ministry.-The course of study was comprised within three years.-The first class of students consisted of four, and Mr. Bogue being the sole tutor, instructed them in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and his manner of lecturing on theology and other branches was highly creditable to his knowledge, and wisdom, and zeal.

While the first set of students were pursuing their studies, the active mind and benevolent spirit of Dr. Bogue were called into most vigorous exercise. For the French revolution excited universal attention, and roused the finest spirits of the age to meditate new schemes of improvement, and to indulge more exalted hopes of the advancement of the world in knowledge, liberty, and happiness. In proportion to the benevolent ardour with which he entered into these views, our friend was slow to abandon them even when the course of events in France, and the tide of opinion at home, turned directly opposite to the course which at first

things seemed to take. Mr. Bogue, however, never formed any political connexion with the liberals of his day, but contented himself with looking on as a Christian philanthropist.

The excitement given to the human mind at this time led to many subsequent improvements in the world. In the case of our deceased friend, there is reason to conclude that his powerful mind, being directed to foreign objects, was induced to muse over the more practicable and certain method of benefiting mankind by the universal diffusion of the gospel. Of this the writer of these lines is sure, that when some great reverses in the political world had disappointed the philanthropist, Mr. Bogue comforted himself and his friends by saying, "Well, we see that the only way of benefiting mankind is by making them Christians."

When, on a visit at the Tabernacle at Bristol, our friend met with other ministers like minded, he formed, with them, the outline of the Missionary Society, which was afterwards more formally organised in London. He preached one of the sermons at the first public meeting, and undertook to answer the objections, having chosen for his text, "Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, the time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways."--Haggai i. 2-5.

From this time, he devoted himself most ardently to the cause of missions. Night and day he meditated and laboured to excite the attention and call forth the contributions of the Christian church that the gospel might be preached to the whole heathen world. When his views were not acted upon he went steadily for

The judge replied, "Certainly; Certainly; if they keep to their proper business-religion, and do not interfere with political affairs." Our friend, now deceased, consented to this condition, observing, that a missionary's business was simply religion, and that he had nothing to do with the politics of any country to which he went.

The congregation at Gosport had been divided in consequence of the dissatisfaction of many of its members with the services of Mr. Watson, who afterwards shewed that he was not satisfied with his own profession. Those who separated had invited Mr. English, afterwards Pastor at Wooburn, Bucks, who was ministering to them when Mr. Bogue came to Gosport, and soon gained his esteem. Mr. English therefore called his flock together, and informed them, that as a pastor was now chosen to the church to which they originally belonged, in whom they might all unite, the cause of their separation ceased to exist; and Mr. English deemed it his duty to resign the pastoral charge over them. At the same time, Mr. Bogue advised his flock to write a kind letter, inviting their former brethren to return. They accepted the invitation; and this terminated their separation, in a manner most honourable to all the parties concerned. Christians, and especially Ministers, see here how blessed are the peace-makers, for "they shall be called the sons of God."

The parents of Dr. Bogue received great delight from hearing of his excellence and usefulness as a minister of Christ. When the father of our friend died, in 1786, he continued the same dutiful son to his mother; for, while she lived, he made regular visits to his native place, and preached much to her edification. She died in 1805, full of hope and joy. There is but one brother now surviving, and his lady informs me, that

our departed friend was a most affectionate brother. He had one dependant sister, to whose support he contributed largely, and also gave a small annuity to an old servant who lived with her at her death.

Far from considering, as some foolishly do, a superior education as an exemption from the necessity of subsequent study, he applied himself most indefatigably to reading and composition. His lamp went not out by night. While yet unmarried and before the labours of the tutor were added to those of the pastor, he laid up those stores which future duties would require, but future avocations would forbid to accumulate. reading was greatly in the line of foreign divinity and biblical literature, in which his library was particularly rich.

His

While a young man, he travelled on the continent of Europe for the improvement of his mind. Having acquired a command of the French tongue, he visited the capital of France, and in his future life he often shewed the profitable use he had made of that opportunity of studying mankind. From France he went into Holland, and visited the most remarkable places in that country, which had been the asylum of religious liberty and the seat of sacred science.

On his return he devoted all his acquisitions to the promotion of religion in our native land. The meeting house at Gosport was small, inconvenient, and in a disagreeable. part of the town; but the zeal and influence of our departed friend roused the congregation to erect in a very desirable spot a respectable building, sixty feet by fifty, with three galleries, which was at that time the best dissenting-place in the county, and it is believed that the whole expence was defrayed by those who were to worship in it.

In the year 1788, Mr. Bogue was married to Miss Charlotte Uffington, whose father was well known in

London as an able defender of evangelical truth, when Arianism threatened the dissenting churches of the metropolis with a deadly pestilence. In the wife of his choice the departed was blessed with a helpmeet for him; for Mrs. Bogue was a woman of cultivated mind, elegant manners, benevolent spirit, and eminent religion.

Soon after Mr. Bogue's marriage, George Welch, Esq. a Banker of London, looking round upon the dark places of our land, wisely determined to plant in them seminaries for the ministry; that by the labours of the students the surrounding country might be cultivated, and provision might be made for a suitable supply, when death should render the churches vacant. One of these small academies he established at Gosport, under the care of Mr. Bogue, whom he esteemed as worthy to direct the studies and form the manners of the rising ministry.The course of study was comprised within three years.-The first class of students consisted of four, and Mr. Bogue being the sole tutor, instructed them in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and his manner of lecturing on theology and other branches was highly creditable to his knowledge, and wisdom, and zeal.

While the first set of students were pursuing their studies, the active mind and benevolent spirit of Dr. Bogue were called into most vigorous exercise. For the French revolution excited universal attention, and roused the finest spirits of the age to meditate new schemes of improvement, and to indulge more exalted hopes of the advancement of the world in knowledge, liberty, and happiness. In proportion to the benevolent ardour with which he entered into these views, our friend was slow to abandon them even when the course of events in France, and the tide of opinion at home, turned directly opposite to the course which at first

things seemed to take. Mr. Bogue, however, never formed any political connexion with the liberals of his day, but contented himself with looking on as a Christian philanthropist.

The excitement given to the human mind at this time led to many subsequent improvements in the world. In the case of our deceased friend, there is reason to conclude that his powerful mind, being directed to foreign objects, was induced to muse over the more practicable and certain method of benefiting mankind by the universal diffusion of the gospel. Of this the writer of these lines is sure, that when some great reverses in the political world had disappointed the philanthropist, Mr. Bogue comforted himself and his friends by saying, "Well, we see that the only way of benefiting mankind is by making them Christians.”

When, on a visit at the Tabernacle at Bristol, our friend met with other ministers like minded, he formed, with them, the outline of the Missionary Society, which was afterwards more formally organised in London. He preached one of the sermons at the first public meeting, and undertook to answer the objections, having chosen for his text, "Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, the time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built. Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways."-Haggai i. 2-5.

From this time, he devoted himself most ardently to the cause of missions. Night and day he meditated and laboured to excite the attention and call forth the contributions of the Christian church that the gospel might be preached to the whole heathen world. When his views were not acted upon he went steadily for

effect of time and events.

After a second body of missionaries had been sent out to the South Seas, the Missionary Society turned its attention to a college for the instruction of its labourers among the heathen. To whom then could the Directors be expected to look as a Tutor, but to him who had contributed so materially to the formation of the Society, and who was already so well known as an able teacher for the perfecting of holy men for the work of the ministry. To him, therefore, the To him, therefore, the Missionary Seminary was entrusted. His freedom from all petty conceits, his grandeur of mind, and philanthropy of heart, his attachment to essential truths, and his forbearance on minor points, all served to prove that he was exactly the man to whom a union of different communions should entrust the instruction of its missionaries to the heathen world.

Many journies he took on the business of this Society, and in the year 1816 he went with his friend, the Rev. James Bennett, to the kingdom of the Netherlands, in the service of the same body. His presence every where inspired veneration and esteem, and his counsels and ministry gave a profitable direction to the public mind. The miles he travelled, and the sums he collected for this grand and holy cause, it would not be easy to specify.

"During the latter period of his life, he was severely tried by domestic affliction, and was thus placed in a situation, which afforded him an opportunity of uniting the milder beauty of the passive graces, with the bold energy of the active virtues. About eleven years ago, he was deprived by death of one of his sons, who sunk to the tomb at the age of twentytwo: about the same time, his eldest daughter, having married a respectable minister, crossed the Atlantic, and settled in America. Three years since, the destroyer of our family circles, entered his habitation a second time, and laid another of his sons in the grave. This venerable minister, then nearly seventy-three years of age, equally removed from unmanly stoicism and unchristian sorrow, preached a funeral sermon for his own

Of

ported and hallowed, by all the saint. these two interesting young men, a touching memoir was drawn up by one of the surviving brothers, which together with the funeral sermon just alluded to, was printed for private circulation. Mr. David Bogue, the author of this beautiful piece of biography, was then the classical tutor in the academy over which his revered father presided, of which office he discharged the duties with singular ability, and will ever be remembered with delight and gratitude, by those who enjoyed his instruction. About a year and half ago, Mrs. Bogue, whose constitution never recovered the shock it received by the death of her sons, followed them to the sepulchre, and left her bereaved husband to prove by experience, that there is a woe for mortals, far more bitter than the loss of children. David, who had devoted his fine to be a bright ornament of the English bar, talents to the legal profession, and bid fair

was destined to be the next victim. Alas! he too, like a lovely flower, broken on its stem, just when putting forth its full blown beauty and its richest fragrance, was smitten by the rude hand of death, and fell with all his youthful honours, on the ashes of his mother and his brothers. But how did the father bear this four-fold bereavement? Like one that recognised in every stroke the appointment of a God, who, however seemingly severe in his dealings, or really mysterious in his schemes, is always wise, and just, and good: like one who knew that his

own approaching dissolution, would soon restore to him those dear friends, torn from him by the ruthless hand of the last enemy.' His unmarried daughter, still remained, like a ministering angel, to comfort him in his old age, to be the companion of his home, and a light in his dreary habitation."--- See James's Discourse.

He was now about to verify the declaration of David, "Why should I mourn for them that are gone, they shall not return to me, but I shall go to them." His ministry was strongly marked with the spirit of a man on the threshold of heaven. He delivered several discourses on the employments of the blessed. On the transfiguration of Christ he descanted like one who was already in view of Jesus on the mount, clothed with glory. He was about to close the Session of the Mission College, and to travel for the Missionary Society. The last sabbath he preached in his own pulpit was remarkable. He

discoursed on the apostolic benediction-" The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all, Amen." He read the farewell sermon of Paul, in the 20th of Acts, and pronounced with great emphasis the words, "Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, ye shall see my face no more." One of his hearers has since told the writer of this article, “I then said to myself, he will preach in that pulpit no more." In his journey into Warwickshire, the following week, he was cheered by the previous arrival of his daughter, Mrs. Parker, from America, after an absence of nine years. She was now able to supply the place of her honoured parent near the sick bed of the other daughter, who still lies deeply afflicted. Our good friend pursued his missionary tour without serious inconvenience, though subject to that complaint of which he died; and on his return to London he expressed to a friend, whom he had requested to meet him at the house of his son, how much satisfaction his interviews with churches and ministers of Christ had afforded.

On his return to Gosport, his place of worship, which had been shut up for enlargement and repairs, was not ready to receive him, and he offici. ated in the vestry. The last sabbath was occupied, in the morning, by preaching for his valued friend, the Rev. John Griffin, of Portsea, when he preached a funeral sermon for the son-in-law of that excellent minister, on the text chosen for him, "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan withia ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."

Rom. viii. 23.

In the afternoon, at his own place, he discoursed of "Enoch who walked with God," and in the evening, on the remaining words, "and he was not, for God took him."

He set out on Tuesday, October 18, 1825, for Brighton, to attend the anniversary of the Sussex Auxiliary Missionary Meeting.

"He arrived about dinner-time, and in the evening offered up the prayer before the sermon, which was preached by the Rev. George Clayton, at the Rev. Mr. Goulty's he became very ill after reaching Mr. Goulchapel. Dr. Bogue was then in pain, and ty's house. Medical advice was immediately obtained from Mr. Fletcher, a surgeon, (Mrs. G.'s brother,) who resided with the family. But the case soon becoming very serious, the assistance of another surgeon, au elderly gentleman of eminence in the town, was called in. The most prompt and suitable means were employed during the night, The patient sufferer continued under the painful pressure of his disorder (ischuria), until Sunday noon, when it was hoped that he had been effectually relieved. These hopes, however, proved delusive; for in the afternoon of the same

but with little success.

day he became evidently worse, and the expectation of protracting so valuable a life gradually vanished. In the forenoon of the next day, the painful duty devolved upon his eldest daughter to intimate to him the opinion which the medical gentlemen entertained of his case.

He received the information with his accustomed composure, and only said, "Well, my dear, the will of the Lord be done!"' He then desired that the 32nd Psalm should be read to him; after which, directing the door to be closed, he offered up a fervent and affectionate prayer on behalf each of them by name to God, with petitions of his beloved family; distinctly commending adapted to the case of each.

"During his painful illness he did not speak much, but what he did say was much to the purpose. 'I know,' said he, 'in whom I have believed,' &c. And, like many

other dying Christians, rejoiced to reflect

that he had become interested in the bless

ings of the gospel before the arrival of sickness and death. He took also peculiar encouragement from that promise, of which Mr. Goulty reminded him, 'I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.'-'O,' said he, 'that promise is of the highest character.' His heart continued to the last fully alive to

the great cause of missions, and he spake more than once to the Senior Secretary of

the Society, and to others who visited him, of the progress and prospects of the Mission

ary Society; he took peculiar pleasure in observing the talents and zeal displayed by young ministers in the cause. In a letter to the Secretary a few weeks before, he says, "We remember the difficulties and discouragements we met with in the early days of the Society; but how pleasing it is now to find the cause almost universally encouraged,