POETRY. ON THE BOOK OF JOB. A FRAGMENT. PURE Friendship once had mingled all their hearts; He smiles, and crowns him there, and tells aloud His title to the skies: he sees him there, Unveil'd, whom wond'ring Heav'n and Earth once saw And bore himself, in that eventful day, Unnumber'd deaths! Mysterious love divine! lle dy'd to conquer Death: conquering he rase, And claim his rans m'd sons. Wond'ring he sees, His dear Redeemer's love! Thus faith: to those B. B. L. THE CHRISTIAN'S MEDITATIONS during his Summer's Excursion. LET the worldling, amus'd with his toys, Endeavour to feed upon wind; I covet the rational joys Which charm the contemplative mind! The features of Nature in view, Present a significant face; And ever remind me anew Of the God of creation and grace. A pure intellectual delight May be gather'd from fields and from woods, While a prospect engages the sight, Interspers'd with meandering floods. In the mountains that lift up their brow, To dare the æthereal fire; In the valleys which humbly below In the meadows that wave with the corn, Or are graz'd by the herds and the flocks; + In the hedge- rows, which flow'rets adorn; In the sea-waves and caverny rocks; In the birds, those blithe tenants of air, Or the fish that inhabit the main; In the lions which couch in their lair, And the deer that bound over the plain; Thro' the thunders, and lightnings, and storms, Thro' the sun-shine and clouds tipt Thro' creation in each of its forms, - Yes! 'tis He who created them ail, By the word of omnipotent pow'r; And sustaineth the great and the small During every fugitive hour! It is he who, in infinite love, Did pity the ruin of man; Who teaches in mystical sound, And bury'd in error and death! Trinted by G. AULD, Greville Street, London. 1 THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1806. ་་། MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. THOMAS PASCO. MR. THOMAS PASCO was, in his early years, together with his pious mother, a constant hearer of the late Dr. Gifford, under whose ministry he received those serious impressions which extended their influence through the whole of his life. At the usual age, he passed through a regular course of educa tion in surgery and medicine; and competent judges have always spoken highly of his professional attainments. In the year 1777, he removed from London to Oxford, where he settled as a Chemist and Druggist, and soon obtained, by his integrity and obliging attentions in business, that high degree of confidence and respect which he ever afterwards preserved. In the city which now became his place of residence, the interest of serious godliness, and especially among the Protestant Dissenters, had sunk into a very low state; and Mr. Pasco was evidently directed thither by Providence, as the mean of cherishing and reviving it. In 1780 he became a member, and soon after, a deacon, of a Baptist Society at Oxford; in both which characters he was highly honourable and useful for a period of twenty-six years. He often declared that he considered the few services which he was enabled to render to the cause of Christ, as by far the most important end of his existence; yet he had a just view of the importance of general character, as necessary to sustain with effect that of a professor of serious piety. In bis habitual conduct, Mr. P. combined great integrity with singular wisdom; and a steady avowal of religion with Courtesy and gentleness of manners. His professional knowledge introduced him to the acquaintance of many characters of great respectability; and his general knowledge of the interests of society, united with an accurate judgment and indefatigable activity, rendered him a friend whose aid was eagerly coveted 3 Q XIV, |