Dear, brave Mary! what moved her not know, until the morning, that lie to such perseverance and ingenuity? had returned, about four o'clock, as It was a warm heart; she was tho- | soon as the tide had sufficiently ebbed. roughly in earnest. So let us be as Great was her joy on awakening! earnest, ingenious, and persevering |

“Shall we whose souls are lighted to save perishing souls from ever

With wisdom from on high, lasting death, by“ doing all we can

Shall we to men benighted, to light the lamp of God's Holy Word The lamp of life deny ? in every dark place where sin and Salvation ! Oh salvation ! idolatry rule.”

The joyful sound proclaim,

Till earth's remotest nation, It was light about Mary now in the

Has learned Messiah's name. room, and it was light in her heart. She had performed a noble action, “O may the precious Gospel and it brought its own reward. Her

Be publish'd all abroad,

Till the benighted heathen, heart was comforted, and, after saying

Shall know and serve the Lord. her prayers, she lay down upon the

Till o'er the wide creation, bed. She was soon fast asleep, and The rays of truth shall shine. you may be sure the holy angels And nations now in darkness, watched over her. She did not hear Arise to light divine.” her father enter the room, and did

- From the Moravian.

Intelligence.

NOTES OF THE MONTH.

POLITICAL. The Church-rate Abolition Bill has passed the House of Commons, and is now committed to the tender mercies of the House of Lords. What will be its fate there it is impossible yet to say. The second reading is at present fixed to come on within a day or two of the publication of this month's magazine: but should the second reading be postponed, we would respectfully impress on all our readers the importance of petitioning in favour of the bill, and doing their best to ensure a large amount of support from all parts of the country. There is no knowing what the Lords might be induced to do, by a strong declaration of public opinion on this question. Even if the Lords shonld reject the bill, we shall not be discouraged. It is something to have got a bill for the total abolition of Church-rates read three times in the House of Commons !

The dispute with Naples about the Cagliari is at last settled. The Neapolitan Government has, on the demand of England, granted an indemnity of three thousand pounds to the injured engineers Watt and Park ; and it has also yielded up the Cagliari and her Sardinian crew to be dealt with by the English Government. All parties must confess that Lord Malmesbury has concluded this scanda. lous business in a way most creditable to the Government. It is only shameful that it was not settled long before. • Another dispute has arisen with Ame. rica,- one, however, which we trust will

be speedly settled, if it be not indeed already disposed of. The dispute has arisen about the conduct of English cruisers towards American slave-ships on the coast of Cuba. What a source of annoyance and shame to America is the continuance of the accursed slave system!

The Queen has been to Birmingham during the past month. She had a most enthusiastic reception of course. Thougla in the most radical town in England. thousands upon thousands assembled to greet her. What a lesson might be learnt by foreign despots from the popularity of the constitutional Queen of England!

ECCLESIASTICAL.. A most interesting meeting was held at the Mission-house, at the beginning of the month, to consider the position of the Mission of India. It consisted chiefly of ministers and representatives of the metropolitan churches, and was largely at. tended, and most interesting. The result was a resolution to raise a special fund of five thousand pounds, and to attempt to add the same sum to the annual income of the Society. We trust this effort will be successful. The second Lord's-day in July was fixed upon as a day for special sermons on the subject and special prayer. May the Spirit of grace be poured out from on high, and may the churches learn their high responsibility and privilege in ihis matter!

In connection with the same subject, a ver interesting meeting was held in Regent's Park Chapel, on the 22nd ult., to bid farewell to the brethren Williams, Denham, and James Smith, who are just | chapel. The Rev. S. G. Green, classical returning to their posts in India. The tutor of Horton College, occupied the meeting was most affecting. All the breth chair. Appropriate addresses were deren are lionoured and beloved, and the Jivered by the chairman, the Rev. J. visit of them to this country will be long Barker, the Rev. C. Bailhache, the Rev. remembered by the churches. May the S. Merrill, the Rev. J. Smith, and the winds and the waves have charge con Rev. H. S. Brown. The announcement cerning them; and may their lives be by the chairman that the debt had been long spared for effective labour in the entirely liquidated, was received with cause to which they have given them loud cheering. The £500 was obtained selves!

from the following sources :-- Collections The General Baptist section of the body on Sunday, €40; on Tuesday, £13: on have held their annual meetings during Wednesday, 20; and contributions the past month in London. The meetings &c., £427. were on the whole well attended, and the brethren were enabled to report a good

BRISTOL.-VALEDICTORY SERVICE. amount of success in the various depart. On Tuesday evening, June 15th, a very ments of Christian usefulness.

interesting designation and valedictory We are glad to announce the arrival in service was held in King-street Chapel, Australia of our friend the Rev. Isaac Bristol, in connection with the approachNew. He was most cordially received. Our ing departure of the Rey. Thomas Lea brethren appear to be enlarging their and his wife for Jamaica. Mr. Lea (who boundaries, and strengthening their posi is the nephew of William Knibb by his tion in this interesting colony. They ask, twin sister) has but recently left the Baphowever, for more English sympathy, | tist College, Bristol ; having received a and aid.-Ought they not to have it?

very earnest invitation from the church at Stewart's Town, Jamaica, which

numerous friends have gladly and liberally BRAMLEY, NEAR LEEDS.

enabled him at once to accept. The ser-The congregation attending the Bap vice was commenced by singing, after tist chapel at Bramley have just held a which the Rev. T. S. Crisp delivered a series of public services, in celebration of very appropriate and touching address, the opening, fifty years ago, of the first partaking of the nature of a “charge," chapel at Bramley, in connection with whilst giving expression to kindly feeling the Baptist denomination, and with the and farewell wishes. Prayer having been special object of liquidating a debt of then offered by the Rev. H. E. Starmer, £500 remaining on the new chapel. The of Worcester, another very excellent and old chapel was fitted up as school-rooms suitable address was given by the Rev. at the opening of the present one. The F. W. Gotch, M.A., at the close of whicit latter is a chaste and elegant structure, a very solemn and most affectionate apand will accommodate from 700 to 800 peal to the Almighty on behalf of Mr. persons. The cost of the building was and Mrs. Lea, for protection, guidance, about £2,500, £500 of which was re wisdom, and success, was offered by the quired to be raised prior to the holding Rev. Henry Clark, M.A. Mr. Lea himof the jubilee. The various services were self, then, in an impressive manner, renumerously attended, and the result of sponded to the kind sympathies and the jubilee highly successful, for at the wishes of his friends, expressed his simple closing service, it was announced tbat the reliance upon his Saviour, and bade all a collections and promised subscriptions sorrowful, because, perhaps, a last “farehad amounted to the sum required. The well.” The Rev. F. Bosworth, M.A., services commenced on Sunday morning, minister of the chapel, and Mr. Lea's June 13, with a prayer meeting, conducted pastor, offered up the concluding prayer. by the Rev. W.Colcroft. On the same day | It was, indeed, a very impressive serthree sermons were preached-those in vice. the morning and evening by the Rev. D. Griffiths, of Accrington; and that in the

EPSOM. afternoon by the Rev. Henry Dowson, of

The Grand Stand at Ensom presented Brauford. A prayer-meeting was held on a peculiarly novel appearance on Friday, the Monday evening, conducted by the June 11, on the occasion of the Rev. C. Rev. J. Compston, the pastor of the Bap. H. Spurgeon preaching two sermons. tist congregation at Bramley. On Tues there, in aid of the Protestant Evangelia day evening a sermon was preached by cal Temporary Church at Epsom (the the Rey. J. P. Chown, of Bradford; and Rev. Mr. Elliott's). Shortly after noon on the Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. numbers of vehicles of every imaginable Hugh Stowell Brown, of Liverpool, I description were to be seen traversing preached the concluding sermon of the the various roads leading to the Downs, jubilee. After the sermon, a tea meet. | The service was held in the large saloon ing took place in the school-room. About of the Grand Stand, which was crowded. 500 persons partook of an excellent re | as well as the balcony outside. Shortly past. After tea, a public meeting, which after three o'clock the reverend geutlewas numerously attended, was held in the man ascended the temporary platform,

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Obituary.

which had been erected on one side of the Millard, G. Orme, C. J. Morgan, and J. saloon, at the back of which the “Union | H. Rogers. The day was splendid, the Jack" was suspended. The text selected collections good, and many blessings were for the afternoon discourse was the words received. in 1 Cor. ix. 24–“ Know ye not that they

MINISTERIAL CHANGES. which run in a race, run all; but one re The Rev. Alexander Maclaren, B.A., ceiveth the prize ; so run that ye may ob of Southampton, has accepted a cordial tain.” In the evening a still greater and unanimous invitation of the church crowd assembled in and around the same meeting in Union Chapel, Oxford-road, place, when Mr. Spurgeon preached a Manchester, to become their pastor, and second discourse, from Isaiah lv. l enters upon this new sphere of labour on “ Yea, come buy wine and milk without the first Lord's day in July.-Mr. Pbirip money and without price.” At the close Gast, of the Baptist College, Bristol, of each service handsome collections were having accepted the very cordial and made in aid of the fund for which the unanimous invitation of the Baptist services were held.

church, Appledore, Devon, entered upon DUBLIN-STREET CHAPEL, EDINBURGH.

his labours on Lord's day, May 30th.

Mr. E. H. Davies, of Bristol College, bas This elegant and comfortable building

accepted the pastorate of the church was opened for public worship on Friday,

meeting in Broad-street, Ross, and has June 11th. The Rev. William Brock

commenced bis labours amidst the hopes preached on the occasion. Along with

and prayers of many attached Christian ihe congregation, which formerly as

friends. - Mr.J. Palmer, late of Hounslow, sembled in Elder-street, under the pas

has received and accepted a unanimous toral care of the Rev. Jonathan Watson,

invitation to the pastorate of the Baptist were several ministers and members of other evangelical denominations. On

church, Romney-street, Westminster. the following Sabbath, Mr. Watson conducted the services in the forenoon, the Rev. Dr. William Alexander in the after

THE REV. J. WILLIAMS. noon, and Mr. Brock in the evening. At all these services the chapel was well filled.

Died, on Tuesday, April 2011, in his

67th year, the Rev. John Williams, for In the forenoon, Mr. Watson took oc

nearly thirty-seven years the faithful casion to state that the church was founded

pastor of the Baptist Church, East Derehalf a century ago, under the ministry of

ham, Norfolk. Blest with pions parents, he the late venerable Dr. William Innes, on

gave early proof of conversion to God, and the principle of open communion-re

joined the Independent Church at Camceiving into its fellowship professing

bridge; under the sanction of that church Christians of any evangelical depomina

he went to Gosport, and studied for the tion, whether Baptists or not, who hold

Christian ministry. In 1821 he becaine the great fundamental doctrines of Chris

pastor of the Independent Church, Wal. tianity, and whose conduct corresponds

ton, Norfolk. Whilst here, a diligent, with iheir profession. The collections on the above occasions amounted to up

protracted, and prayerful examination of

the word of God, led him to embrace wards of £105.

Baptist views; he accordingly resigned MIDHURST, SURREY.

his pastorate, was baptized at Norwich, On Wednesday, May 26th, the anniver and accepted the pastoral office over the sary of the Baptist chapel in the above Baptist Church, East Dereham, in Japlace was heid. In the afternoon, the 1 nuary, 1822, where he continued to the Rev. J. H. Millard, B.A., of London, close of his valuable life. His illness was preached. After the tea, which was given of short duration, but all was perfect by the ladies, a public meeting was held. peace. He leaves behind a widow and Thomas Pewtress, Esq., who has taken a nine children, several of whom it was his deep interest in this cause from its com privilege to baptize and receive into the mencement, occupied the chair, and de church, and we trust the others are also livered an effective address. The Rev. walking in the ways of Zion. He was J. Eyres, the pastor, gave a short account buried near to the chapel in which he of the Lord's dealings with the cause had so long preached; the brethren, S. during the past year. The chapel has B. Gooch, C. T. Keen, J. T. Wigner, and undergone a thorough repair. The num G. Williams, (Independent), conducting ber of children in the Sabbath school has the service. On Sunday, May 2, the Rev. greatly increased. Special meetings for J. T.Wigner preached in the afternoon in a revival of religion have been beld for the chapel, from Matt. XXV. 21, and in many months past. A purse of money the evening in the spacious Coin has been given to the pastor's wife, as an Exchange, from 1 Thess. iv. 13. The expression of sympathy in the time of crowds who attended, and the deep feel domestic affliction. Many souls have ing with which they listened, proved the been converted, and a deep religious feel sincere respect in which our deceased ing has been produced in the church and brother was held while living, and the congregation. The meeting was ad regard with which his memory was dressed by the Revs. R. Gould, J. H. | cherished when removed home.

“Built upon the foundatlon of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being

the chief corner-stone."-Eph. ii. 20.

AUGUST, 1858.

THE FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST.

BY THE REV. J. P. BARNETT. Ar the bidding of these words we look upon Jesus Christ at the close of his mission to our world ; calmly surveying that mission; seeing all its incidents, labours, sufferings, influences-all its past, present, and future results-at one comprehensive glance ; looking upon it with complacency as a thing that was done, and to which nothing more required to be added ; and in the sublime and ineffable enjoyment of that consciousness, bowing his head, and submitting himself to the final touch of death. He was now upon the cross. His enemies had wreaked upon him their hottest vengeance. Spirits from hell had inflicted upon him their cruellest torments. He had evinced the tenderness of his love to the very last, by promising salvation to the penitent thief, and by praying for the forgiveness of his murderers. There was now nothing more to be done. “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished ! and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.”.

1. The testimony of Jesus to the truth was finished. When his ministry first commenced, he was recognised by Nicodemus as 56 a teacher sent from God ;” and the ground of that recognition was supplied by the miracles by which his discourses had been substantiated" for no man can do the miracles which thou doest except God be with him." As the declarer of truth, he went on his way to the very end-never deserted by temptation—never silenced by hostility. And “never man spake like this man.” “In him dwelt all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge !” and he came to lay those treasures at the feet of men. What treasures they are! Disclosures of the fatherhood of God ! Disclosures of that love which desires not the death of any sinner, but that all should return unto God and live! Disclosures of a mercy which is not confined to Jew, but with equal promptitude, and with equal gladness, embraces the Gentile of every race! Disclosures of a redemption to be wrought out by himself, which shall one day fill the earth! Disclosures of a heaven in which he and the Father will one day receive all his followers, and in which they shall be blessed for ever! Disclosures, too, of a hell for the stubborn unbeliever and the fool-hardy impenitent, where they will reap the fruits of their sin ! Disclosures, all made in simplicity, in frank

TOL. I. -NEW SERIES.

ness, in wisdom, in love, in gentleness, in fidelity, in defiance of prejudice, in unostentatious contempt of the bitterest and most relentless opposition ! Disclosures, the glory of which shall never fade, which have given a character to all the ensuing history of the world, and which shall give an increasingly emphatic character to that history to the end of time! Disclosures, the rejection of which by those to whom they were first made, entitles them to the horrible distinction of being the most corrupt, ungrateful, and blind of all who have enjoyed super-eminent privileges, and abused them ! Such was the ministry of Christ. And now that ministry had closed. The voice of the Great Teacher was silent. It is only the Sufferer that now speaks. He says, “It is finished,"_bows his head, and gives up the ghost.

2. The sufferings of Jesus were finished. We have just said it is the Sufferer who now speaks. In truth, however, this is scarcely so. Christ does not now speak even as a sufferer, but as one who had triumphed over suffering. True, he had yet to die ; but the bitterness of death was past. The actuality of death awaited him, because it was in that-experienced to the full-that the price of our redemption was to be found. But he now resigned himself to death without the most momentary repugnance. Its terrors were gone. Its agony was exhausted. He said, “It is finished !"_bowed his head, and died! Great had been the sufferings of this stupendous Being through the whole of his career. If we wish to gain some glimpse of what it was which most of all made him "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," we must look deeper than the outward violence of which he was made the victim. The persecucution was terrible, but that was not his heaviest trial. The poverty was complete, extending to utter homelessness, but that was not his heaviest trial. There were pangs of soul for him every day, which bodily pangs, however acute, could only very slightly aggravate. It was the everlasting presence of evil-it was the universality of corruption it was the prevalence of woe-it was the melancholy failure of humanity-it was the burden of the world's crimesit was the tremendous severities of the world's retribution, these were the chief and collected ingredients of that cup of grief which he had to drink, and which he did drink to its very dregs. We sometimes talk of agony ; but what do we know of it? The fact that Jesus has suffered so much for us has moderated our sufferings. We suffer reformatively-seldom punitively. We know but little of that dread revulsion from evil which essentially belonged to Christ, because we have evil in ourselves ; it is part and parcel of our nature born with us and therefore something to which we are reconciled, except as the grace of God shall make it hateful to us. But it was not so with Christ. There was nothing in his nature --nothing in his thoughts, feelings, or purposes-nothing anywhere, which could reconcile him to evil even in the most moderate degree. It was revulsion-antagonism--warfare with him continually. And yet he was in the midst of it, and could not, with such a mission as his, escape it. He had to assume it, and to suffer for it. And he did that! “Never was grief like his." But now it was over. There