I beg further to offer my own opinion, if it can be of any service. nicate, that the edition has been almost exhausted, and that I am about to reprint it in a larger type. About a thousand "You are aware that he was troubled copies of a new scripture catechism have with an affection of the head before he been printed and disposed of, and the left Java, which sometimes disqualified work reprinted on English paper. A him for labour: this he ascribed to the small edition of eight short sermons, united influence of fever and hard study. making forty pages, translated freely, During the former part of his residence and adapted to the state of the Malays, here, his avocations were more light and from the excellent little tract, No. 38, desultory, and he recovered his strength second series, of the Religious Tract So- and spirits; afterwards, when he came ciety, has been printed, and nearly all to be engaged in the work on orthography, distributed.—I am now about to revise and the new version of St. John, which and reprint a larger edition of it. A required more mental exercise, the morschool book, of one hundred and seventy bid tendency to the head returned with pages, called Selections from the Crown greater violence than ever, and he was of all Kings, a translation from an Ara- frequently obliged to resort to the means bic work, of a moral nature, in great re- requisite for preventing apoplexy.-He quest, is just completed. I have conti- was then directed by his medical attendnued to go out amongst the natives for ants to adopt a vegetable regimen, from conversation and the distribution of books which he found much benefit, as long as as usual, and have generally met with as he abstained from study; but this course much attention and success as could be appears to have induced such a state of expected. The circulation of books, as general debility, that an attack of fever well as the influence of the schools, evi- a few months ago almost carried him off. dently tends to increase the demand, From this, however, he was mercifully numbers being thus enabled to improve recovered, but his mental powers rethemselves in the art of reading, which mained in a state of great imbecility, and is seldom unaccompanied by a growing it became vain to hope he would be again thirst for knowledge. serviceable without a change. "So far all is encouraging. You will observe from what I have said respecting the school system and the general plan for translations, that our objects have been gradually increasing in magnitude and importance, and it is hoped would have eventually extended to every recess of the island. It is most distressing to me, in the midst of these, to have to advert to the necessity of brother Robinson's removal to Bengal. I inclose a letter from himself, which, I trust, will satisfy the Committee of the propriety of the step he has been obliged to take, and "This result, added to his experience at Batavia, afforded him sufficient evidence that he was not qualified for a life of mental application; and, from my own acquaintance with him, I am satisfied his conclusion was just. As this course of life is the only one in which he could be truly useful here, I have not hesitated to approve his proposal to remove to Bengal, where the climate and his knowledge of the language, will render him almost immediately useful in that particular line, which alone he is able to occupy with advantage." 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His grandfather, Mr. John Day, was a respectable woollen manufacturer at Milverton, in Somersetshire; and frequently engaged in ministerial services among the Baptist churches in that neighbourhood, till his death in 1763. His only son Robert, (the father of our late friend,) was converted early in life, and having joined the church at Wellington, and discovering gifts for the ministry, he was sent to Bristol, and pursued his studies there under the direction of the learned and venerable Bernard Foskett. In the year 1747, he was ordained pastor over the church at Wellington, where he continued, as a burning and shining light, beloved and revered by all, and eminently useful in the service of his Lord, for nearly forty-five years. He died, in the seventy-first year of his age, April 1, 1791.* * William Day, the subject of our present narrative, was the eldest son of this worthy minister. He was born at Wellington on the 24th of June, 1752, and from his childhood A further account of this excellent man, whose memory is yet precious throughout the district in which he resided, may be found in Rippon's Baptist Register, No. IV. p. 260, et seq. VOL. XVII, appeared to possess a very amiable spirit and temper. Early in life he gave satisfactory evidence of his conversion to God; even while a schoolboy, he was accustomed, with two or three of his youthful companions, to employ a part of their leisure time, while others were at play, in reading the word of God and prayer: and there are those still living who recollect, with much pleasure, the lively interest he took in devotional exercises and in pions conversation at that period. He was baptized, and admitted into church-fellowship, by his beloved father, in the year 1774, soon after which the providence of God removed him from the guides and companions of his youth to the busy and dangerous scenes of the metropolis. Here he was engaged in a very respectable warehouse in the haberdashery line, where he continued till his marriage, a period of about seven years. During the the house alluded to, he was emlatter part of his connexion with ployed in travelling on their account into various parts of Great Britain; and having a retentive memory, and a pleasing narrative talent, he was accustomed frequently, in after life, to enliven and instruct the social circle with facts and anecdotes relating to this stage of his history. On his marriage with Miss Margaret Briggs, a pious member of the Baptist church at Yarmouth, Mr. 2 K Day commenced business on his own account in Newgate-street, London, where, for between forty and fifty years, he pursued the even tenor of his way. His integrity and punctuality in his commercial concerns, united with the suavity of his disposition, gained him the confidence and esteem of many, and laid the foundation, under the Divine bless-> ing, of his temporal prosperity. Soon after his removal to London, he joined the church in Dean-street, then and long after under the pastoral care of the late Rev. William Button. In this society he honourably sustained the office of a deacon, and when, on account of his removal to Hammersmith, he transferred his connexion to the church in that village, under the care of the Rev. Thomas Uppadine, he served it usefully, in the same capacity, till the period of his lamented de cease. Although the life of Mr. Day was not diversified by striking changes, or remarkable events, and therefore furnishes but little for an historical memoir, there was much in his character which deserves to be recorded, to the honour of divine grace, and for the instruction of survivors. A few particulars, furnished for the most part by those who had the best opportunities of appreciating his worth, we may be permitted to subjoin. As a Christian, Mr. Day was distinguished for those excellences which make the individual respected and beloved, where he is most known. The influence of pure and undefiled religion may truly be said It pleased God to remove his beloved partner at an early period to a better world, leaving him with two children, one of whom only (a daughter) survives. In the year 1799 he was married to Miss Ann Kingdon, a member of the church at Wellington, who, by his death, is left a widow. to have been diffused over his whole character, and was no where displayed with greater harmony and consistency than at home; though its effect was such, in his intercourse with general society, as to secure the esteem of many who felt no attachment to the principles from which it emanated. Being naturally of a social disposition, he delighted in the company of Christians, and while none entered more easily into conversation on subjects of general interest, it was evident that topics of a spiritual and experimental nature were most congenial to his taste; and he felt disappointment and regret whenever a visit was paid, and such topics were not introduced. He took a deep interest in the progress of the gospel, both at home and abroad; but his extensive acquaintance with ministers of his own denomination rendered him most familiar with the state of religion in our own churches. Of these few men had more general knowledge than he. His early associations at Wellington had familiarized him with the labours and trials of ministers; he was, therefore, prepared to sympathize with those who are called to endure privations and hardships, for the cause of Christ. Hence, as soon as it was in his power, his house and his heart were opened to receive the servants of the Lord. Many who are now gone to their rest, and many on their way thither, have been refreshed by his hospitality. For more than forty years, his house in Newgate-street has been known by our ministering brethren to contain the "prophet's chamber," ever ready for their accommodation. From the beginning of the year to its close it was almost always occupied; in many cases by ministers with whom Mr. Day had no previous acquaintance whatever; and the good man would cheerfully |