June 30.-The Rev. WILLARD KIMBALL, in Abington, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Sharp.

June 30.-The Rev. CALVIN LINCOLN, Jr. over the First Congregational Church and Society in Fitchburg, Mass.

July 7.-Mr. NELSON GRAY, was admitted to the Holy Order of Deacons, in

St. Peter's Church, Baltimore, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Kemp. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Henshaw.

July 13.--The Rev. SAMUEL VAN VECHTEN, was ordained and installed Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Bloomingburgh, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. James B. Ten Eyck, of Berea,

FOREIGN.

SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid dated the 24th May, mention the existence of serious disturbances in that capital, occasioned by a scarcity of bread. It was found necessary to place military guards before the doors of the bakers' shops to protect them from pillage, and their owners from rough treatment or massacre, by the crowds of people which surrounded them. A proclamation was issued in which every argument was used to induce the people to refrain from excesses; informing them, that the Magistrates were taking all necessary measures to put an end to the scarcity which was only fictitious, produced by circumstances which every body knew.

Ferdinand, says a London paper, has issued what is called an Amnesty-decree; but in reality it is no other than a proscription list of the most atrocious and sweeping kind. There is scarcely a man in Spain who can read or write, who can be considered exempt from persecution, if the amnesty-decree is carried into execu tion, so comprehensive are its exceptions. In them, a designing friar, or a hungry lawyer can find a charge against every man who has held any rank in society during the constitutional regime, of whom they may wish to rid themselves. The king of Spain's amnesty decree, therefore, instead of reconciling him with his people, or drawing back a single exile now in a foreign land, widens the breach still more, and most assuredly will drive the most valuable portion of the population out of the country. Not less than 7000 passports are said to have been delivered in Madrid, from the 1st of January to the 1st of May.

PORTUGAL.-The late insurrection in Lisbon speedily subsided without producing any important results. The Infant Don Miguel, after writing a letter professing his fidelity to the king, sailed for England in a British frigate.

EGYPT.-Letters from Cairo give the following particulars of the late explosion. -The fire broke out at two o'clock, P.

M. of the 21st March, in the old citadel in the barrack adjoining the arsenal, where cartridges are made. The flames spread rapidly in various directions, especially towards the powder magazine. At halfpast three some chests of powder blew up, at five there was a terrible explosion, which laid all the surrounding buildings in ruins; and just as it struck ten at night, a third explosion spread the desolation further. On the following morning the fire seemed to abate, when consternation was spread on its being known that the great magazine, containing 25,000 cantars of powder, was in danger, and the entire destruction of Cairo was apprehended. The undaunted efforts of the troops, however, succeeded in checking, and at length in subduing the flames. At the very beginning of the conflagration, the people fled in countless multitudes out of the city, one bad consequence of which was, that it baffled all the measures of precaution that had been adopted. From the Romely Gates eastward to the old citadel, nothing is to be seen but remains of walls, shattered beams, waggons, and gun-carriages. Out of the new gate the ruins begin at the distance of 50 paces and over a vast space there are seen among the ruins 4000 burnt or lacerated horses, mules and camels.A fine park of artillery, which stood in Joseph's Hall, and in the Amphitheatre at the west end of the city, is destroyed, except twenty-six pieces. The whole arsenal, too, is annihilated, except a magazine of tools, some chests of muskets, and the machine for boring cannon. Of the little park of field artillery which stood in the Romely square, only fifteen six pounders are saved. The new citadel, in which are the mint, the Hall for the Divan, and several government offices suffered but little. The two powder magazines, in two towers surrounded with ditches, were untouched it is calculated that fifty millions of Turkish piastres will not suffice to replace the citadel and the arsenal in their former state. The letters do not contain even a conjecture respecting the origin of the fire.

CENTRAL AMERICA.--Don Antonio Jose Canas, Envoy Extraordinary from this new republic has lately arrived in this country. The United Provinces of the Centre of America, (which by the basis of the Constitution as agreed upon, will be called the Federate States of the centre of America,) are at present composed of the Provinces of Nicaragua, Honduras, San Salvador, Costarica, Guatimala, and Queseltenango. At present three citizens are at the head of the govenment, without any particular title, although in turn they preside monthly, and the presiding one is called, for the time being, President. There is a representation of deputies from each Province, which forms a Provisional Congress. The

basis of the Constitution is very similar to that of the United States, with the exception of an established religion, which is the Roman Catholic, any other pub. lic mode of worship being prohibited. They will have a President, Senate and House of Representatives, elected in the same manner as ours, and for the same length of time; and the principles of the Constitution are as purely Republican, in every thing, excepting religion, as those of the United States. Slavery is not to be permitted, and every one arriving in the Territory of the Republic becomes free. The standing army is reduced to 1500, and those stationed at the different ports and garrisons. The armed militia amounts to over 80,000 effective men.

For the Christian Spectator.

MEMOIR OF JULIA CHURCHILL.

The biography of the humble and devoted disciple of Christ has a strong and happy influence on the human heart. It is a light shining before men by which they also are led to glorify their father in heaven. This consideration may justify the following exhibition of character in one whose piety and suffering placed her in a condition well adapted to impress the heart with the value of Christian submission and consolation.

Julia Churchill, daughter of Solomon and Lucretia Churchill, was born in Newington, Wethersfield, May 25, 1792. The first permanent religious impression on her mind, was occasionad by a sermon on these words, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." "God was pleased that this sermon should sink deep into my heart.

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about four months after this I felt the weight of my sins, saw that I had been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath, by transgressing all God's com mandments, that I had turned a deaf ear to his calls, and was fit only for destruction. I was tempted to keep my feelings secret, but could not. My heart was ready to break, and I thought it would have been good for me if I had never been born. I was astonishingly ignorant of the way to Christ; I 'bad such heart-risings against God as made me tremble; I could not bear to be in the hands of God. These words. came into my mind, "If I make my bed in hell thou art there."

"Thus I continued in my distres, from day to day, growing more and more sinful, and looking to every thing but Christ to save me from eternal misery. One night in my retirement, this inquiry struck my

mind. Am I not striving against God? Can I merit salvation by thus doing? I cannot. I will therefore submit to God. I will throw myself upon his mercy in Jesus Christ. This gave me consolation. I saw unutterably the love, the holiness, the preciousness of the Saviour. I rejoiced in the mercy of a holy and righteous God. I could prostrate myself at the feet of Jesus and say, Here, Lord, I am-take me just as I am. I give myself to thee, to be thine forever-do with me as seemeth good to thee. Now I saw the depravity of my heart in such a light as I never did before. All things were new. The works of God praised him. The Bible was my precious book; prayer was delightful. I loved the people of God; I loved my enemies, and I earnestly desired to have my brother and sisters and all around me embrace Christ.

"It now appeared a duty to profess my faith in Christ: still I felt myself unworthy to be placed among the people of God. I deferred it for sometime, but at last under a sense of the greatness of the duty and the privilege, I devoted myself to the Lord in a public profession of religion. Search me O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The Sabbath was to her a precious day, and public worship a high entertainment. When prevented by sickness she said, "I am distressed to be deprived of the public ordinances. How I long to enjoy the blessed privilege of communing with the people of God. If it is so distressing to be detained from the house and ordinances of God once, what would it be, to be forever banished from the presence of God,never to have communion with him, and with his Son Jesus Christ."

Patience was the grace which shone pre-eminent. Two years and a half she was a continual sufferer. Her disease, as distressing as it was uncommon, was borne with sweet submission. Her physician judged that it was occasioned by a callous or ossified stomach. The lower orifice was so nearly closed, as almost entirely to refuse a passage to her food; in consequence of which her stomach violently rejected within a few minutes, whatever it had received; and this was repeated, fifteen, or twenty, and sometimes even more than thirty times in a day, during two years and a bal Several times her friends were called for the purpose of seeing her die, one of which occasions, the most alarming, was about six months before her departue, when she lost all power of noticing her friends or her minister. Having revived, she passed this last period of her life in an uncommon religious enjoyment. She informed her pastor, that her mind had never before been so elevated above the world, that her sense of the preciousness of Christ was inexpressible, that her view of her own unworthiness before God was greatly increased, that her faith in the glories of heaven was stronger, that heaven was especially desirable to her as a place of entire freedom from sin, and of beholding the glory of Christ, and that she enjoyed unutterable comfort in yielding herself into the divine hands. A few days before her death her whole system became so irritable, that the dropping of a small weight on the floor, or the crowing of the cock without, or the passing of a carriage in the street, would throw her instantly into a universal tremor and spasm-of which any one of a hundred instances seemed sufficient to take her life. At the last, though her sickness had been so long, and her feebleness had become extreme, yet her soul did not quit its tenement without agonizing struggles. trust that the stroke of death was to her the last pang. She died Sept. 16, 1822.

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Her writings are extensive, many parts of which I should be pleased to transcribe, but my limits forbid. The following extracts will give a specimen of her affectionate and patient simplicity.

"October 20, 1821. My sickness has been a great mercy, in leading me to see more of the depravity of my heart. Though it is not sickness of itself that hath done it; yet I think it has been the means in the hand of God, of causing me to see more clearly that I am full of wounds and bruises, and putrifying sores, from the sole of the foot even unto the head-to see that my heart is totally averse to God and holiness; and yet how faint is my concep tion of the evil of my heart, in comparison with what it really is. I think likewise that my sicknes has proved a great

mercy, in leading me to view the preciousness of Christ. What can I do? I can make no atonement for the least of my sins-in myself I am lost and undone-but 1 am led to this precious declaration. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

"Wednesday, November 28, 1821. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord. But how shall I sing. My voice has failed, through weakness of lungs. Eleven years I engaged in this delightful part of the worship of God; but now I am denied the privilege of going to his house, and of tuning my voice. How then shall I sing of the mercies of the Lord? By lifting up my heart to God in grateful adorations-by praising him in my heart-by loving him with my heart-by placing my affections on him-by repenting of my sins-by glorifying him in every circumstance in life.

Sabbath, January 13, 1822. O Lord, look with pity upon me, and grant me thy presence this day. I cannot worship thee in the assembly of thy people. May I worship thee in spirit and in truth, on my bed of sickness. O Lord, be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort. I long for more conformity to thee. When shall I be beyond the reach of sin. O heaven, sweet heaven, where there is no sin-where perfect love and friendship reign-shall I ever reach thy blissful shores, and never, never sin again. O happy thought,-of being delivered from sin, my worst enemy-my worst disease-my greatest burden.

"Wednesday, Feb. 6. Devoted a little box for the Lord's treasury-may all my visitors be disposed to cast in a mite. Three persons contributed this day. O bless it, dear Lord, in due time, to the spread of thy gospel." This box she kept by her bed side to the day of her death; and was cheered by the sums it gathered for the promotion of the cause she so devoutly loved.

The following address to her Father, Brother, and Sisters, was found after her decease.

"First, to my Father.-My dear parent, I am low, and, probably shall leave you soon, and your gray hairs denote that you are fast ripening for the grave. I wish to leave a few words for you to read, when my body is mouldering in dust, and my soul is in eternity. Death is the effect of sin-let your greatest mourning therefore be for sin-not merely because it brings death, but because it dishonours God, and wounds the dear Saviour. May you have an interest in the precious blood of Christ which was shed for poor sinners. May you be reconciled to God, in a humble, holy, and cheerful submission to his will. May Jesus be your Saviour, your righteous

ness, your strength, your hope, your eternal all. May the Holy Spirit sanctify you, and abide in you while you live, and not leave you in death. O my father, may the one thing needful be supreme in your mind. Strive to make your calling and election sure. All things are ready, come unto the marriage. Accept salvation as a free gift; for you have nothing to pay. Christ has dearly purchased it with his own blood, and his atonement is sufficient. O my father, can you not trust in Jesus as the surety? Can you not confide in that God in whom you live, and move, and have your being? May you find comfort in God. May Christ be formed in you the hope of glory. May you find a peaceful death-a happy deliverance from sin-a joyful entrance into the holy city, through the merits of Christ-there may I meet you, my dearly beloved earthly parent.

Adieu for time

J. C.

To my Brother: My dear brother, while I now write, you are in a distant land. While you read, remember that the hand which wrote this is cold and stiff in death, and the soul which indited it is in eternity. Mourn not for your sister, she is gone to a just God. Mourn that you are so little conformed to God. Strive against sin-depending on the strength of Christ, until you gain a complete victory. You have professed love to Christ-honour his religion, daily visit him in your closet, and keep yourself unspotted from the world. Live near to God. Examine your heart by his word-pray for the Holy Spirit. Overcome pride: humility is a shining grace: it well becomes such poor depraved creatures as we are. Watch over your heart; for it is a deceitful thing, and will betray you, before you are aware. Be afraid of offending God; for, is it not more dreadful to offend God than to be lost forever? Love the glorious cause, and let it be your study, to be instrumental in building up the peaceable kingdom of the Redeemer on earth. Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. Consider that all you possess is the Lord's, and you must give an account

how you use it. Pity the poor and afflicted. Pray without ceasing. Seek for godly repentance. Work faithfully in the Lord's vineyard; but depend not on your works, for the blood of Christ alone can cleanse you. Through his merits, I hope to meet you in the holy city, and ascribe all honour to the sacred one in three, forever and ever, Amen. Farewell till we meet in eternity. J. C. To my Sisters:

My dear sisters, perhaps I shall not be able to speak to you in my dying moments, and I therefore write a few words for you to read when my body is cold in death. When you come around this body and behold it lifeless, stiff, and cold with death, think of the evil of sin. Think of your own mortality, and prepare to follow me. Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. O may you feel the great importance of spending your precious time in preparing for eternity. O eternity! your sister now knows something about it; soon you will will know something about it too. O let not the world take your minds off from eternity, and cheat your souls to everlasting death.-When you visit my grave, may you learn a lesson of wisdom, and return with solemn and profitable reflections on the wages of sin and death. From gazing on my grave, turn your eyes round the yard, and see what sin has done. Where are the souls that once inhabited these mouldering bodies? Some, it is likely, are weeping and wailing in eternal torments; others are clothed in eternal beauty, perfect in holiness and happiness. O my sisters, do not be stupid about these most important concerns. Give your earnest attention to the welfare of the soul, and the glory of God. Do not forget what Jesus has done for the redemption of the soul. Do not rest on any thing short of the blood of Christ, for salvation. You know that the scriptures say, there is no other name given whereby we can be saved. You know that in ourselves we are undone by sin. The holy word of God tells you where the remedy is-Repent, and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved. J. C.