David's Lament for Saul and Jonathan,.
Death of an infidel Philosopher,

Desk to the Pulpit,
Disappointment,
EASTER,.

Elegy on the Death of a Bat,
Epitaphs from the Greek,

Evening Star, 294-Meditation,.

Primrose,.

FAITHFUL Friend, to a,..

Forget me Not, and the Rejoinder,

Fountains Abbey,.

Fragment,.

GOOD Friday,.

Gormire Lake, Yorkshire,

....

.....

....

Heroic Virtue, bright Example of,.... 173

Hill of Ambition,...

1136

....

...

Hope, 275, 1052-the Nursing of,
JESUS walking on the Sea,

66

I know that my Redeemer liveth,"
(Job xix.)
Indian Boy, an American Poem,.
Inquiry,
LAMENT on the Death of Mr. Scott,
Life,

1049
1130
171

.....

562

1136

367
1131
463

1049

.......

Lines on the Slave Trade,
on the Head of Christ,
to Two Young Ladies,
written in Affliction,.
to a Widow and Daughter, ... 1050
of Sympathy, 1046-to a Lady,..
to Melancholy, 851—to M— M—,
to the Mignonette,
Lost Spirit, from the Poem of the,
Lovers, the Two,.....
MISER, Character of a,
Epitaph on a, ....
Missionary Anticipations,
Missionary's Tomb,
Moon, to the,.
My Native Land,

...

74

Mystery Explained, or Similes on Time,
NEGRO'S Petition, 276-Anticipation,. 367
New-Year's Day,.

75

OVERTHROW of Antichrist, (Rev. xix.
&c.)
PALESTINE,

464
848

574

Papal Excommunication,..
Persian Iris, on seeing one fade,
Philosophy of Angels, 461-of Man,

1051

655

Playful Kitten,.....
1048
Prayer,
... 286, 664, 943
REFLECTIONS at the Setting Sun,
674

........

273

366 Sonnets,(Gloom,Sorrow, Mutability,)561,662
365 Song to Jessey,
Spring,

673

172

...

959

559, 660, 755
Stanzas to a Lamb, 462-by G. Y. H. 845
to a Young Lady,

564

944

387

Storm,

656

662

Sun, Ode to the,.

658

994

754

177

271

.....

Sunrise in May, 560-and Sunset,
TEMPLE of the Muses, an Ode,
Triumphant Entry of a Saint into Heaven, 1048
Twenty-third Psalm,

367

363

949

948
1131
924

993

Grave, by the Village Poet,.
"HAVING a desire to depart," (Phil. i.) 1051,

1131

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....

...

...........

.........

....

....

......

COL.

564

Reflections on Death,
564 Resignation and Hope,.
Retrospection,

874

850

176

1049
752

756

1135

368

750

175
274

756
277

927

87

186

677

752

1046
1136
277

659

Rings and Satellites of Saturn,
SATIRE,

Saturday Evening,

Saviour's Nativity, Hymn on the,
Scawton Wood, a Sonnet,

Scene in Arcadia,

Scottish Chief to the Mansion of his
Ancestors,

Sketch,.

Smiles of Deity,..

COL.

751

369

849

948

293

56

74

949

966

...

563

76

170

90

ADVICE to Apprentices, by H. G. Wat-
kins,
to Cottagers, by J. Thornton,. 580
Amulet, or Christian and Literary Re-
membrancer,.........
BABYLON and Infidelity foredoomed, by
E. Irving,....

1052

.....

853
1146

757
1137

764

.....

Benevolence, by J. W. White,....
Boyne Water, by the O'Hara Family,
CABINET Lawyer, &c. ....
Catechism of Anatomy for Youth,
Catholic Faith, &c. by H. S. Boyd, Esq. 954
Christian Psalmist, by J. Montgomery,. 662
Chronology of Ancient History, by Mrs.
Sherwood,
Commentary on the Book of Psalms, by
Horne,
Cook and Housewife's Manual, by Mrs.
Dods,

666

....

664

578
388

Cottage Comforts, by Mrs. Hewlett,
DARTMOOR, a Poem, by N. Carrington, 477
Death-bed Scenes,

391
763

77

852
1047

478

77

944

557

.....

Deism Refuted, by T. H. Horne,.
Dictionary of Mechanical Science, the
Arts, &c. by Dr. Jamieson,.. 1139
Difficulties of Infidelity, by G. F. Fa-
ber,
278, 377

PLATES IN VOL. VIII.

Emperial Magazine;

OR, COMPENDIUM OF

RELIGIOUS, MORAL, & PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDge.

JAN.]

THE

MEMOIR OF THE REV. JAMES KIDD, D.D. &c. (With a Portrait.)

"THE TORCH OF LITERATURE ILLUMINATES THE PATHS OF WISDOM."

AMONG the public characters which
present themselves to the notice of the
biographer, the pious divine occupies
the foremost rank. To him, the events,
the incidents, and the revolutions which
the world calls magnificent and glori-harvest of all their toil.
ous, are only objects of inferior con-
sideration. He views them as fluctu-
ating in their nature, limited in their
extent, and transitory in their dura-
tion. He therefore mounts above their
influence, penetrates futurity, mixes
with spiritual agents, and holds com-
munion with God.

In his boundless excursions of thought, he ranges through the empires of intellect and morals, explores the latent motive in its dark recess, traces its influence in the production of overt action, and, connecting effects with their proximate and distant causes, learns to estimate the importance of those consequences, which, in all their greatness, can only be perceived by the light that beams from revelation on the realities of eternity.

[1826. resting fields of knowledge, many individuals have acquired much honourable distinction in the Christian church; and, embalmed in the writings with which they have enriched the world, their names will descend to posterity with undiminished lustre. Many others are still pursuing the same glorious career, and in due time they will reap the

Illuminated by the inspired volume, he passes the bridge which it throws across the gulf of death; and, leaving the mutations of time, expatiates in the regions of immortality. From perceiving simple existence, he proceeds to inquire into its mode, and finds it connected with everlasting happiness or misery. In his development of moral principle, he discovers a path by which he ascends to the divine perfections, and, combining earth and heaven together, be beholds man in an immediate connexion with the justice and mercy of God.

Awed into reverence at the discoveries he has made, he learns also, from the inspired volume, how God is accessible to man; and it is the business of his life to direct sinners to the throne of mercy, through the Saviour whom the scripture reveals. Traversing these ample and inte85.-VOL. VIII,

But among the divines of the present day, few have been more indefatigable in their researches, or have prosecuted their inquiries with a greater degree of spirit and acuteness, than the subject of this memoir, of whom we now proceed to give some brief account.

The REV. JAMES KIDD was born near Loughbrickland in the county of Down, Ireland, on the 6th day of Nov., 1764. His parents were of humble situation in life, yet highly respectable in their station. Soon after Mr. Kidd's birth, he had the misfortune to lose his father;-and his mother, who was left with three sons, of whom he was the youngest, removed to her native place, Broughshane, in the county of Antrim. Here he received the first rudiments of his education, from the careful attention of his mother, and of an uncle who was considerably better informed than most country farmers at that period.

From the first leaf of the Shorter Chatechism, agreed upon by the assembly of divines at Westminster, and appointed by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, he was taught the alphabet; and after spelling and reading each question in rotation, he committed the whole to memory. Thus was he grounded, in the early years of childhood, in the doctrines of that church of which he was destined to become so distinguished a member. His memory, too, was cultivated by exercise, at a period when that faculty is rarely called into action; and to this circumstance may be mainly attributed those wonderfully retentive powers which supply at will, to his

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