2 10 0 Miss Evans's Missionary-box....... Mr. Christie's do. West Parish Church, St. Andrew's, Free Ch. Gaelic Free Church, Ser- Missionary-boxes- West Blackhull-st.Cha pel, Meeting about 0 John M'Cunn ......... G. Dalgleish..... J. Jessamine W. Martin H. T. Patten H. Birkmyre A. Shannon ............ Sums under 10s....... Collections 0 10 6 0.10 0 100 0 10 0 0 10 0 366 108 3 6 17 7 0 Leith, Cong. Church, Rev. G. D. Cullen Sabbath-sch. Children, for Native Girl......... 296 Local Sabbath-sch. per Mr. T. Sturrock, for Collected by Mr. T.Stur- 116 0 3 18 0 Tahiti and India, Rev. Subscriptions T. and J. Hamlin W. Macfie..................................... 600 For Mrs. Calderwood's Mrs. Swan............ on behalf of S. Africa, Miss G. Cullen......... nerancy in Bengal, 500 5th year, Mr. Cullen 20 00 116 6 6 J. Hunter............... Tyler and Reed, Printers, Bolt-court, Londen. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE, AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. FOR MARCH, 1847. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY, ESQ. [THE following outline is abridged from the Rev. John Alexander's very interesting account of the late Mr. Gurney, which appeared in the Norfolk News. We regret exceedingly that our limits will not admit of our giving the whole article, which is admirably drawn up. EDITOR.] For nearly two centuries, the house of Gurney has possessed such an influence in this city, that none of its members could have passed away entirely unfelt and unnoticed. Joseph John Gurney, the third son of John and Catherine Gurney, the sister of Priscilla Wakefield, was born in Earlham-hall, on the 2nd of August, 1788. A person of the same name, one of his ancestors, and a member of the Society of Friends, appears from the record of "The Sufferings of the People called Quakers," to have been a prisoner, with several others, in Norwich gaol, in the year 1683, for refusing to take an oath; and it is a remarkable fact that the Waller Bacon, of Earlham, who committed him, was at that time resident in the very hall which the descendants of the persecuted prisoner now occupy. The father of our lamented friend was a man of peculiarly active mind and habits; public spirited and benevolent; and his house at Earlham, to which he removed from Brammerton, VOL. XXV. in 1786, was the scene of almost unexampled hospitality. During the early years of this interesting family, true religion had not the controlling and sanctifying power over their minds which it had subsequently. They had not yet perceived the "vanity," nor experienced the "vexations" of the world; their path was sunshine, and their atmosphere perfume; and their literary tastes, their elegant accomplishments, and the rich hospitality of "the good man of the house," rendered Earlham-hall the attractive centre, in the midst of an extensive circle, to which gentry and nobility repaired, and where the late Duke of Gloucester was a welcome and delighted visitor. When the education of our lamented friend ceased to be conducted at home, it was intrusted to the Rev. J. H. Browne, a clergyman in Hingham, about twelve miles from Earlham; and it was subsequently matured at Oxford, where he had an excellent private tutor, in the Rev. John Rogers, a man of great and varied learning, and where he attended the lectures of the professors, and enjoyed many of the valuable privileges of the University, without becoming a member of it, and without subscribing to the Thirty-nine Articles. Attached, even in early life, to biblical studies, he had K |