called my expenses; and it y my peremptorily forbidding laining that there was no ocit, that they were prevented g so. Mr. Prowse was kind private, to renew his expresankfulness for my opportune his assurance that at any fuwhen his ships might be in the renewal of my attention sengers would be a personal n passing through the crowded y boat, every hand seemed ut for a parting pressing, and e boat passed under her stern -led throng gave their farewell -epeated cheers. The clock as I took my seat in a cab to my residence. It was a ent Saturday night, whatever ught of it as a preparation for 3 work on the following day."

HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

covered us with muddy water from ditch; they pelted us with eggs stones, threw baskets of dust over and fired their guns so close to us our faces were black with the pow But, in nothing terrified, we remai praying. I think I never saw or fel great a power of God as was there. the midst of the confused multitude saw a man labouring above meas earnest to fill the buckets to throw u us. I asked him, 'What harm do do? Why are you so furious aga us? We only come to tell you t Christ loved you, and died for y He stepped back a little for room, threw a bucket of water in my fa When I had recovered myself, I sa 'My dear man, if God should so p his wrath upon you, what would beco of you? Yet I tell you that Christ lo you!' He threw away the bucket, fall his trembling hands, and looked p as death. He then shook hands w me, and parted from me, I believe un strong convictions."

è most popular and most useay-preachers connected with esley and Whitefield was Mr. he author of two well-known eginning with, "Jesus thy righteousness," and "Jesus heaven is gone," and the ho in Ireland preaching from lating to the birth of Christ, find the babe wrapped in clothes," gave occasion for the Swaddlers" in that counparents were Quakers, who nprisoned in Reading gaol for on, and for their conscientious to what they deemed to be This persecution reduced respectability to want, so were forced to make shoe-"lewd fellows of the baser sort" wer son for their support. employed to interrupt the services; th squire of the parish led them on; an scenes too disgraceful to be describe

Thus, says the Rev. J. Glanville, w these apostolic men made as the filth the earth, and the offscouring of things! In almost every place th were insulted and opposed, and oft failed in obtaining that protection fr the law to which they were entitled. Swindon, where a wealthy Baptist ge tleman has recently built a beauti meeting-house, Mr. Cennick and 1 friend, the Rev. Howell Harris, we burnt in effigy; but this was harmle when compared with what they endur at some other times. At Upton, ne Bristol, the preachers were violent opposed in their work; a pack of hound were turned into the congregation

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FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF REV. W.

JOHN NEWTON.-Of this eminent | peculiar smile, clergyman Mr. J. says: "In the family good woman, w worship, after reading a chapter, he his word, and a would add a few remarks on some verse standing_my_u or sentence, very brief, but weighty and that my Lord J striking, and affording a sentiment for all my sins and the day. Whoever was present, he home to himself always prayed himself. The prayer never hear the was never long, but remarkably suitable told me of a co and simple. After the service and the his minister, 'Y breakfast, he withdrew to his study with forefathers; nov any of his male friends who could remain Abraham, Isaa for awhile, and there, with his pipe (the sir, who is the only pipe I ever liked, except Robert in the family w Hall's) he would converse in a manner iii. 1-9, the last the most easy, and free, and varied, and long suffering t delightful, and edifying. There was that any shoul nothing about him dull, or gloomy, or should come to puritanical, according to the common his exposition meaning of the term. As he had much suppose, are a h good nature, so he had much pleasantry, to pick.' He w and frequently emitted sparks of lively company requi wit, or rather, humour. Yet-they never This person, a 1 affected the reputation or comfort of as too high, aft any one, but were perfectly innocent breakfast, rathe and harmless. Sometimes he had the Mr. Newton, ar strangest freaks of drollery. Thus, one replied, "Why, day, by a strong sneeze, he shook off a calling myself fly which had perched on his gnomon, in religion. B and immediately said, 'Now, if this fly the question ?' keeps a diary, he'll write, 'To-day, a 'sometimes whe terrible earthquake!" At another time, times when I he when I asked him how he slept, he a Calvinist, and instantly replied, 'I'm like a beef-steak are not.' 'Wh -once turned, and I'm done.' 'Some 'I am more of a people,' said he, 'believe much better else; but I us than they reason. I once heard a good writings and my old woman arguing in favour of eter- sugar,'-taking nal salvation. 'Sir,' said she, 'I am into his tea-cup sure, if God had not chosen me be- 'I do not give i fore I was born, he would never have mixed and dilu chosen me after.' At another time he ther instance of mentioned facetiously, and with his and liberality.

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side; families and neighbours have been
the blessed subjects, but those friends
remained strangers to the hopes of the
gospel. Two years this autumn the
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and her husband and three of their
children, my aged father and mother,
with two of the sons of my eldest brother,
have all been made the gracious partici-
pants of redeeming love in Christ. O
what a desirable aud mighty change,
the work of divine power! Nine per-
sons taken out of three families and
grafted into the true and living Vine.
Others, we hope, may yet be grafted in.
How glorious the occasion, when on
Oct. 11, those aged and goodly parents
of more than three score and fifteen
years, who had nurtured and protected
in infancy and youth, and regarded with
peculiar interest in riper years, a son,
and also during the twenty-three years
his unworthy ministry, were by him bap-
tized into the names of the Holy Three;
buried in the symbolical waters of this
beautiful gospel rite. Such a scene is
rarely witnessed. Such privilege, bles-
sed, soul cheering, grateful, is seldom
enjoyed. Behold a son leading vene-
rable, grey headed parents of seventy-
five annuals, and a ruddy grandson of
sixteen into the limpid waters of chris-
tian baptism, and there burying them
with their divine Master and Lord.
The day was beautiful, the assembly
deeply solemn. Many a silent tear was
witnessed among that of interested
group
spectators of this unfrequent and happy
event. That mother, though feeble in
bodily health, was strong and courageous
to obey the blessed Saviour. Only a
few years ago, aud we never expected to
realise such a day as this we now record.
What hath God wrought! It is mar-united with him

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SHEFFIELD, E ing of Lord's-da addressed the ca "And this will In the evening, "See, here is w me to be bapti males and five fe the Sacred Three levan for several of this duty of b at our last bapti ber of an Inde have been bapti her peculiar ci an intelligent G of our deacons, h of earnest pray has been for sev