WHEN this child was about seven years of age, I was enabled to discover something in him of a pious cast: he would talk of Heaven and Hell, the good and the wicked, and said, That the former would always be praising the Lord. He seemed, even then, to have juster ideas of the way in which a sinner must be saved, than many who are of years of maturity; namely, That salvation was all of grace. When he heard people swearing in the streets, as he walked along, he would exclaim, "Oh, papa, how wicked it is to swear!" He was particularly attached to a little book,. called "Janeway's Token for Children ;" and read it several times. He was never ashamed of any one seeing him engaged in private prayer, tho' I am perfectly convinced it was not from ostentation, but in the simplicity of his heart. He would say grace at table with great reverence; and used frequently to declare, he should like to be a preacher of the gospel, that he might call poor sinners to the Lord." Though his desire was not literally granted, may this account of him be productive of the conversion of some, as the Lord can work by such simple means as these! Once I reproved him (when he was about eight years old) for not bringing home the text and something of the sermon: he complained of a bad memory. I told him he should pray to the Lord for a good one; it was his duty to do so.

He soon obeyed; and was overheard by his cousin, saying, repeatedly, "Lord Jesus, give me a good memory!"

He had been with the family to Margate last summer, where his delight in religion made him rise so early as to attend a prayer-meeting on the Lord's Day, at seven o'clock; and he returned to London, in the autumn, apparently in perfect health; but was soon seized with indisposition at school. The disorder which terminated his mortal existence, was that of water on the brain; the foundation of which, it is apprehended, was unhappily laid by repeated convulsion-fits when he was an infant; and, notwithstanding he had the best of advice, it was of no avail, as this malady seems to baffle all human skill, and generally proves fatal.

In November last, when he came home, he was a little irritable from the pain of his disorder. I chided him, and told him that impatience was no proof of his being a religious boy, desiring him to pray to the Lord for patience. Soon afterwards there was a great change in his tem per; and I have no doubt of his having prayed to the Giver of every good gift for the grace of patience.

Drs. Reynolds and Burges attended him; whose very great attention to him, in the exertion of their united skill, deserves public as well as private commendation, although their efforts proved ineffectual. He said to the physician who first attended him, "Dr. Burges, I want the Great Physician." To the people around him, in his illness, he would say, "Be good, and you will go to the Lord, where I am going."

A few days before his death, he told his mamina that he was a savearer. She replied, that she never heard him swear. "Oh no," said he, "it is all within !” had a great impression upon his mind of the sinfulness of his nature, and was apprehensive that the Lord

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would not accept him. He was told that his acceptance did not depend upon his goodness; but upon the mercy of God, thro' Christ Jesus. He was soon after more composed, and said he had seen the Lord (meaning, no doubt, with the eye of faith) and that he should be at rest with him; adding, "That he took little children in his arms and blessed them, and he will take me:" "His flesh is meat indeed, and his blood is drink indeed." The world was very wicked (he said) and he would not stay in it for ten thousand such worlds!"He had been in great pain; but, a few days before his death, he said, The Lord would not suffer him to be in pain; which was, comparatively, the case; and there was some little hope of his recovery ;but a slight convulsion-fit, on the 17th of December, took him off, and he was launched into a boundless ocean of bliss, to enjoy the happiness of the redeemed.

From this short narration of the child's experience, the truth of which I and many others can bear the most solemn declarations to, it is evident that God does not leave himself without witnesses of the reality of true religion, and the ef.fects of grace upon the heart, even among little children; from whose moutlis, agreeably to his word, he perfects praise, that he may still the enemy and the avenger; for if they will not believe the experience of men, from a false supposition that the whole may be a delusion or hypocrisy, yet, the genuine effusions of a child, who was incapa. ble of deception, particularly under the circumstances of his case, must stop the mouths of gainsayers, unless determined to contradict.

That this communication of facts may be abundantly blessed to the rising generation, is the fervent and sincere desire of yours, &c.

MRS. AND MISS TEWXBURY.

MRS. Tewxbury died at East Lulworth, near Wareham, Dorset, Jan. 19, 1803, aged 73; and Miss Tewxbury, her only child, died at the same place, April 2, 1803, aged

- 34. Two funeral sermons were preached at the village on the oc casion, by the Rev. B. Cracknell, of Weymouth. Before Mrs. Tewxbury's departure, she expressed an ardent wish that her daughter might "soon follow her; and now, we hope, both have entered into that rest that remains for the people of God. While they remained in this mortal state, they were active supporters of a gospel-ministry; and principally through their exertions evangelical ministers have been encou raged to preach at Lulworth. May the inhabitants of that village still enjoy the divine light of the glorious gospel!

These female disciples of Christ not only laboured with ministers of the gospel in life, but the same disposition influenced them to devise means that should protract their usefulness when removed beyond the present sphere of action; they therefore consecrated part of their property to promote the glory of Christ. Two hundred pounds are left to the congregation of Protestant Dissenters under the pastoral care of the Rev. J. Banister, at Wareham; and one hundred pounds to the London Missionary Society. "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live, therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. Happy is the people who are in such a case, whose God is the Lord." B. C.

ANTHONY WARD.

THE subject of this brief memoir was a young gentleman, of amiable manners, and, in regard to religion and usefulness, highly promising. His mind was early impressed with the importance of serious things. He sought the Lord; and the blessings of salvation were revealed to his heart. The eyes of many were fixed on him; and the affections of many centered in him. But the Lord called him away.

Early in December last he went to Bristol, for the benefit of his health, but returned in January, in a state of increased debility. He

then assured me, that the promises of God in general, and Isa. xliii. 2. in particular, had been his constant support. His resignation to the Divine Will, was a prominent feature in his general deportment. In regard to the affliction, which terminated his valuable life, he said to me, "We shall see that it is all right; that he hath led us in a right way." In one or two intervals his evidences were beclouded, and a painful gloom pervaded his mind. But the divine goodness did not suffer these dark and trying seasons to contiuue long. From some portion of the divine word, light sprung up, and the clouds were dispersed. It is certain that Mr. Ward was indulged with living strength in dying moments. Observing his dear friends weeping around his bed, he gently reproved their weakness, and said, "they should rather rejoice, that another redeemed soul would be safely landed. When a young friend called to see him (to whom he had been long attached) he shook him by the hand with inexpressible tenderness, and said, "I am going to my rest-I now find the value of religion-I find the preciousness of the promises-I shall soon be at Fest. Sweet Jesus! if this be dying, it is nothing. He hath promised never to leave me he will support me-I shall soon have done-I am going fast to my rest.' Being asked if he wanted any thing? he replied, “Nothing but Jesus-I long to be at rest-the Lord is with me." He was desirous that a few minutes should be spent in prayer, in which he appeared to join very fervently. To his young friend he said, "You must strive against flesh and blood; I have had many struggles; and you may depend upon it, that whatsoever you give up this way, will be made up to you in another world." About forty minutes before he breathed his last, he stretched out his hand, and, with an expressive smile, he said, "The crown of glory, which he hath promised me !" These were the last words which could be dis

tinctly heard. Thus departed a highly valuable young member of

ON Monday, March 28, after our Number for April was gone to press, died, aged forty-nine, the Rev. JOHN EYRE, of Hackney, much esteemed, and universally lamented. He had been confined about six weeks; but the immediate cause of his decease appeared to be a secretion of water on his brain. He was interred in his chapel at Homerton; and a sermon preached on the occasion by the Rev. Rowland Hill. His funeral was respectfully attended by the Directors of the Missionary Society in London, and many other Ministers and friends. But, as we propose to give a Memoir of Mr. Eyre in our next Number, we defer the other interesting particulars.

On Saturday morning, April 16, died, aged forty-five years, the Rev. ROBERT CALDWALL, Minister of Silver Street Chapel, and formerly in the connexion of Lady Huntingdon. His death was occasioned by a complication of disorders, which, after long and painful sufferings, brought him to the grave. He was buried on the 23d, in Bunhill-fields, by the Rev. J. A. Knight; and his death improved by a funeral - sermon, at his chapel, by the Rev. Mr. Jones, of Islington, on the succeeding Sabbath.

On the 13th of last January, died the Rev. DAVID BRADBERRY, aged sixty-seven, late Minister of the Gospel at Kennington, and sometime since at Manchester. He was

also buried at Bunhill-fields; when the Rev. Mr Humphries, of Southwark, spoke over his grave; and, on the following Sabbath, Mr. Simpson, of Hoxton, preached his funeral sermon.

The Use of Sacred History, &c.

[Concluded from our last.]

UNDER the thirteeneth section, on Substitution and Atone ment, Dr. Jamieson observes, "Before the coming of Christ to take away sin by the sacrifice of himself, there were especially three different ways in which atonement was made: - By the punishment of the guilty person, by the payment of a price, or by the substitution of the innocent for the guilty.

"But the principal mode of mak ing atonement was, by the substitution and punishment of the innocent instead of the guilty; or, to express it in one word, by sacrifice. This kind of expiation being the most common amongst the Israelites, and containing the most striking figure of the true, it demands our particular attention.

I. The doctrine of Substitution was well known to the church from the earliest period. As "Abel offered by faith," while we know that his offering was "of the firstlings of his flock" we may safely infer that the worship of God by sacrifice was of divine appointment. Now, every sacrifice necessarily implied the idea of substitution. We cannot suppose that the true worshippers of God were so stupid as to imagine that the offering of brutes could in itself be acceptable to him. They knew, that "if he were hungry, he would not tell them; because the world is his, and all the fulness thereof: that he would not eat the flesh of bulls, nor drink the blood of goats." Did they offer by faith? Then they must have respected, not merely the divine institution, but its design. That God, who required sacrifice, would undoubtedly inform them, that what they inflicted on the innocent victims, which they presented to him, was only what themselves deserved.

"When the people transgressed, by worshipping the golden calf,

Moses, the typical mediator, whe was innocent in this matter, under a deep sense of the necessity both of satisfaction and of substitution, proposed himself as a victim of dis vine vengeance, instead of the guilty congregation. Yet now," he said, "if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not," if there be no other mode of reconciliation, "blot me, I pray thee, out of the book which thou hast written." But a better mediator was necessary.

"As true worshippers could not apprehend that God took pleasure in sacrifice for its own sake, they must have known that no victim they offered could have any merit; that there was no proportion be tween the sacrifice of a beast and the sin of a man. They could not indeed "offer by faith," without looking forward to a better substitute. Without the exercise of faith in the surety ship of the Messiah, their services could not have been accepted. When it is said of Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and Sarah, that they "all died in faith, "we learn what this grace principally respected. They had not, as to the substance, "received the promises;" but they "saw them afar off, and embraced them." It was Christ as a surety, whom, in the promises, they saw afar off." All their sacrifices bore a direct relation to his "one offering." For, in the first promise, he was expressly revealed as a suffering Saviour: hence, when addressing the Father concerning that will, by which we are sanctified, through offering of his own body, he says, "At the head of the book it is writ, ten of me, I delight to do thy will."

After tracing this subject under eight other particulars, the author concludes the section, by remarking, -"From the history of the atonement, it is clear that God will not pardon sin without a satisfaction to his justice. From the beginning he would not be worshipped with out blood, that he might demons