has long been hard, and fo held down by Satan, that I could not look up, but hope I fhall not perish. Often did the plead with God to fpare her "a little longer," referring to that petition of David. Many other pasfages of Scripture were read to her out of the Pfalms, &c. to which the paid great attention. When removed into the country, the ftill expreffed great fears, mingled at times with hopes, and frequent thankfulness that he was not in hell. The air much revived her, but it was not the Lord's will that the fhould recover. Wearifome nights and forrowful days were appointed her. In excefs of heat and pain, from the diforder, one morning the much feared the pains of hell were begun; but I endeavoured to convince her it was only a temptation of the enemy. When her pangs were excrutiating, he would cry out, "Lord come and take me home !—O what shall I do, I cannot live!I long to fleep in the deft!-How long are the Lord's chariot wheels a-coming!" One morning I remarked to her, what a comfortable word was faid to the thief upon the cross, this day fhalt thou be with me in Paradife: the replied, with uplifted hands, “O that it might be my cafe this night, in the arms of Chrift, clothed with his righteoufnefs! then I fhall be safe.I hope the Lord will come and fave me; if he will but give me a quick difmiffion I fhall be thankful." I told her, the Lord would come in his own time and take her home. In the midst of agony beyond expreffion or defcription, her cry was always to the Lord. When I thought her diffolution not far off, on faying, "Good bye," her anfwer was, "Good bye, my dear brother; the Lord be with you, and keep you!" Her groans were piercing, and many; but the excellive pain had fomewhat abated, when my brother arrived from London, whom the much wifhed to fee. Juft before her voice failed, she called her nephew, a youth whom she had nourished up from his infant itate: he drew near the dying bed, took hold of her hand, and fhe could only exprefs with her looks what he meant to impart to him. When her eye-lids closed, and voice faultered, which was but a very little time before the expired, her quivering lips uttered an inward inarticulate sound, "Lord help me!"-then, after a figh, he fell asleep (I trust) in Jefus. Thus died one of the most affectionate filters, who was a confiftent and truly valuable character in life; and is now, I truft, triumphing over death in the world of glory; where it is my earnest prayer, that all who read this account may meet, to join the feraphic h in prafies, and enjoy the beatific vifion, where forrow, pain, and fin, are known no more for ever. J. J. N. B. It may be remarked, that the youth, her nephew, above mentioned, died the January following, of whole dying experience fome account will be given in a subsequent number. MR. Z. HORLICK, Who departed this life June 19, 1798, in his 92d year, was a ftriking exemplification of the wie man's oblervation (Prov. xvi. 31.) "The boary bead is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness." In the early part of life he had the happiness to fit under a minifter in the parish church of Painfwick, who did not content himlelf with the negligent difcharge of his functions. By various means he took care to cultivate the understanding, to roufe the confc.ence, and to enforce falvation by Chrift alone. A clafs A clafs of young men was formed, and Mr. Horlick was one of their number, who confecrated a very early part of Saturday evening to facred exercises, and regularly met in the chancel of the church for the purpose of reading and prayer; which they continued, under certain rules, for many years. Mr. Horlick's mind was particularly impreffed with the warning to flee from the wrath to come, and he expressed an earnest defire, that at his deceafe, it might be improved for the good of furvivors. In the repeated vifits I made him, in the last fortnight of his life, the only confinement he ever had, though it was with difficulty he could articulate any thing, he took pains particularly to remind me, that foon after the interment of his corps I must found the warning, from Mat. iii. 7. : When Mr. Whitefield came firft into this neighbourhood, with his peculiar energy to preach the Gofpel, Mr. Horlick was prepared to receive the truth at his mouth, and he usually attended on him when he vifited Gloucestershire. Early induftry was to Mr. Horlick equal to paternal property he faw in many the juftice of that proverb, "he becometh poor that dealeth with a flack hand;" but the antithefis was verified in himfelf," the hand of the diligent maketh rich." With an amiable partner, the counter-part of himself in piety, induftry, frugality, and liberality, with whom he formed a union very early in life, and by whom he had five children, he lived many years, the patron of the poor: they fhared largely in the bounty Providence conferred upon him. Suppofing his life would have clofed at the ordinary period, he difengaged himself from business, that he might indulge religious retirement; and very regular and punctual he was in all the means of grace. Though he did not perhaps fee the whole fyftem of truth, exactly in the fame light fome of us do, he had a comprehenfive view of what is moft effential. One effect of his knowledge was a deliverance from the fear of death. He often spoke of dying; and his manner of speaking upon that folemn fubject always had a pleafing effect upon me, but more especially when he firit took to his bed. Indeed, all through his illness his evidence was unclouded. In no one could the promise be more strictly verified than in him, "with long life will I fatisfy him, and fhew him my falvation." His life was under the the regulation of the precepts of the Gospel, and he often lamented that the Gospel was fo`reproached by the lives of many who make profeffion of it. Such was the exactness of his deportment, that when we had occafion to direct the attention of a stranger to him, we could with propriety fay, "Behold an Ifraelite indeed, in whom there is no guile." His general obfervation was, "It religion does not regulate the life and converfation, it has not renewed the heart."" By their fruits ye shall know them.' His only and final fickness, if it may be called a sickness, was as far from the fear of death as it was from the love of live; neither had any hold on him. From the firft of his feizure, the faculty of speech was much impaired, and it was with difficulty his moft intimate friends could undertand him. When therefore he wanted to communicate a fentiment, he ftudied the most direct method, particularly when his hopes and profpects were the fubject. He let us know glory was his profpect, that Jefus was his way to it, and that his hopes were founded in grace. No dying faint ever ftrove to exalt Jefus more, or to convince his friends that he renounced human merit, than he did. Many of the fentences which dropped from his dying lips were excited by reading felect feriptures, for the hearing of which he was quick, and to which, as he had not the leaft degree of delirium, he could always attend. The devotion of his heart kept him constantly ready for prayer, in which, though extremely weak, he was fervent. fervent. His care of the poor flourished to the laft; and as a memento for my final obligation, under the failure of fpeech, he endeavoured to articulate WRATH TO COME. I never attended him, without conceiving ĺ was witneffing the death of a holy patriarch; and, if I might ask for any fpecial indulgence, it should be, that the refidue of my life may be as uniform, and that my last end may be like his. C. W. DR. PERROTT. Dr. P. of Braintree, Effex, defcended from ancestors of no small eminence. He had enjoyed the advantage of a liberal education-practifed medicine for a confiderable number of years, with great reputation; and long fupported a character for fterling fenfe and genuine religion. For feveral years he had been prepoffeffed with the idea that he should die fuddenly; and for fome months, the words of the Lord to Hezekiah were much upon his mind, "Set thine house in order, for thou fhait die, and not live." The book of God was his daily companion. He took great delight in converfing on the doctrines of grace; and particularly, as they display the glories of the perfon and work of Jefus Chrift.-Jefus Chrift, to him, was the chiefelt among ten thoufand, and altogether lovely. His knowledge of the Scriptures was very confiderable, and his converfation exceedingly inftructive. He was a diligent attendant on public worship, and was ever willing to exert himself to the utmost of his ability, to fupport the cause of his beloved Mafter. And, although his afflictions were uncommonly great and complicated, fo that, at length, like poor Job, he was almost stripped of every earthly comfort, he was never heard to murmur. He would often fay, "The will of the Lord be done. Though he flay me, yet will I truft in him. He knows what is beft, and in his own time will deliver. Blessed be his name, there is a reft that remains for his people: he leads them by the right way; and though rough and thorny, it is a fafe way, because it is the way which he hath appointed." Agreeably to the advice of the excellent Apostle, he was not overcome of evil, but overcame evil with good. Though ever fo greatly injured by his enemies, he took pleasure in doing them acts of kindness-uniformly difcovered a tender concern for their best interests, and was earnest at the throne of grace that they might be convinced of the error of their ways; for, that they knew not what they did. He would often fay, "Thanks be to the Divine Being, we shall not be judged by man's judgment, but dur Saviour will be our judge." For feveral weeks previous to his departure, he was much employed in prayer and meditation, and expreffed an ardent defire for the return of Sabbaths. And though, at other feafons, his mind was much encumbered with the concerns of the world, he would frequently fay, "Bleffed be God, he keeps all these things from me when I go to his houfe." A few days before his feizure, he happened to be exceeding low; and being asked, what might be the cause of his dejection? he replied, with great warmth, Bleffed be the Lord, I am not low; but, I think, my time is at hand. The Lord prepare me for my great change, if it be his holy will, and grant me the witness of his Spirit that I am his! and then, to die will be gain indeed!” On the 30th of June laft, he appeared to be as healthy as he had been for a confiderable time. In the afternoon, while reading the fiftieth chapVOL. VII. Bb ter of Genefis, and the twenty-fixth of St. Matthew, he was affected to fo uncommon a degree, that he was obliged several times to defift. Being returned from a walk in the town, to vifit fome friends, and having taken a turn in his garden, he appeared as cheerful as ufual. About nine o'clock the fame evening, just as he had fat down to fupper, in a moment he was taken speechless, and deprived of the ufe of one fide; but enjoyed his reafon till about twelve that night. From this time he took no farther notice of any thing that paffed around him; and on the Tuesday following, July 3d, at about nine o'clock in the morning, he was removed to a world of confummate felicity. On the tenth of July, his remains were depofited in the filent tomb; at which time the Rev. Mr. Larwell delivered a fuitable difcourfe, from Rev. vii. 14. "Thefe are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb:" as did likewife the Rev. Mr. Pritchard, on the Sabbath following, from John xvii. 24. "Father, I will that they alfo whom thou haft given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory;" both by defire of the deceased. J. P. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. WE have the pleafure to announce, that the Annual Meeting of the Miffionary Society will commence on the ad Wednesday in May, and that the following Minifters are engaged to preach : The Rev. Mr. BRODBELT, Rector of Afton Sandford, and Perpetual Curate of Loudwater, Bucks. Mr. FINDLAY, of Paifley. Mr. MOODY, of Warwick. Mr. TOZER, of Taunton. The Places of Worship, and the arrangements of the Public Meetings, will be given in our next Number. The Misionary Journal will be delivered to the Subscribers on or before the first day of May. Extract of a Letter from Frankfort, dated Jan. 5, 1799. I HAVE received from feveral parts oblations for the very respectable. Directors of your Miffion to the Heathen.-1, By a gentleman here, charged with the affairs of feveral German Princes and Lords, and especially on account of two fuch perfons (who wish to be unknown), 156 Aorins, value in fterling, 111. 5s.-2d, From feveral members of the Society in this city for propagating true Piety and Chriftianity in Germany and Switzerland (the centrum of which is at Bafil), 141. 35.-For these sums I remit to you, inclosed, a first bill of exchange of 251. 8s. of my principals Meffrs. N- and P- G, wine merchants and bankers, at two months date, on E B, Efq. and Co. of your city. You will please to give me advice of its acceptation. The payment will not fail at due time, as Mers. G-will have fufficient funds there before then. But for the firft fum I beg a receipt, (if not with the above-faid advice, at least after the payment,) for the fatisfaction of the gentleman who who has paid me 156 florins, for to fhew that I have executed my trust. I refer to my letter to Dr. Burckhardt, concerning what I would fay yet more to your very refpectable Society, and the fincere wishes of divine bleffings on their future undertakings, being little in the practice of your language (as you'll fee by these few lines), nevertheless very able to un derftand it by reading, and remaining, with the fincereft devotion, very honourable Sir, Yours, &c. To the Rev. J. Eyre, Secretary to the Miffionary Society. JOHN JAMES WIERTZ. Clerk of Meffrs. N. and P. G. Collections and Subscriptions to the Missionary Society fince our laft. Contribution of the Friends of the Inftitution at Frankfort, by M. John James Wiertz, From the Society at Bafle, for propagating Chriftianity in From ditto, by Dr. Herzog and Mr. Steinkopf, Gosport, Rev. Mr. Bogue and Congregation, EAST INDIES. To the Editor of the Evangelical Magazine. L. s. d. 25 8 12 O 133 I 3 3 0 60 16 8693 SIR, HAVING received a letter the 8th of this month from my friend Mr. Fountain, a Miffionary of the Baptift Society in the East Indies, containing much pleafing intelligence, I have fent you an extract of the fame, not doubting but its contents will rejoice the hearts of the Lord's people of every denomination; especially as the cafe of Mr. and Mrs. Ashton, who were vifited by the Good Samaritan Society, was the means that ftirred up their minds to remember the Society, and contribute fo liberally to its fupport, which has proved alfo a fource of joy and rejoicing at home. Mrs. Ahton died a few months fince, rejoicing in Chrift, and the visitors have no doubt he died in the Lord.-Mr. Afhton, is now a living teftimony for God: fo that our brother's views and hopes are fully confirmed concerning them. He was a very useful visiting member of the Society when he engaged as a miffionary, and the cafe of Mr. Ashton was one of the last he vifited. This Society has been peculiarly fimiled on of late in many refpects. Our Lord has bleffed us with being the honoured inftruments of much usefulness the last year. We have reafon to praise the Lord on behalf of eight or nine fouls, we hope favingly called. A fpirit of love, unity, and zeal, seems to reft upon us; therefore, may our fouls, and all that is within us, blefs the name of the Lord, and say, Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thee, O Lord, be all the glory! Lamb's Conduit Street. Your conftant reader, J. WATKINS, Mudnabatty, 19th February 1798. DEAR BROTHER WATKINS, I HAVE just returned from Malda, where I have been on a visit to Mr. Udney. I spent fix Sabbaths there, and preached twice on each. The Magazines for 1796 having arrived, afforded us much pious pleasure. Bbz The |