are not beyond the power of grace, nor without the bounds of the promises.

20th. I rode to Daniel's-Town to preach at eight o'clock in the morning. Several expressed their desire to be united with us in church-fellowship: to whom I answered, that I would come over to preach on Thursday evening, and wished them to meet me an hour before service, that I might converse with them. I returned to Anna Regina, where I preached to large congregations, morning and night. I visited the Sabbath-school in the afternoon, addressed the children, and closed the school. Our schools, both Sabbath and day, are promising. Mrs. Shrewsbury took a few adult females in the afternoon, to read to them, and instruct them in the things of God. "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters.

21st. This evening I met the class. The three persons who came last Monday evening returned this evening, expressing their determination to cast in their lot with us. They had read the rules, and would endeavour, by God's grace, to keep them. We had a profitable meeting. May the little one become a thousand! How encouraging are the promises of God! I often think of Isaiah lv., a most magnificent chapter, containing glorious promises for the church of God.

23d. The Coolies are at present busy with their festival. They parade the roads about the estate for three or four days, with miniature temples, made of bamboos, and of different sizes and shapes, each one containing an idol, which they have for some time been

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busy constructing. This is the last day of their ceremonies; and so, according to their custom, having finished, they have buried their idols in some secret spot, and have broken up the temples, and thrown them into the water. spoke to some of those who understood English, respecting the folly of their proceedings, and pointed out to them that what they worshipped could not be God, for it could not walk nor move, and, consequently, could not help them; that they had made it themselves, and were obliged to carry it about,-it had no life in it. One of them assured me that it was beneficial to pray to it, and offer it sugar, &c.; for if he was sick, and prayed to it, he got better. pointed out to him the effect of imagination. He was not convinced; which shows that, however proper it may be to talk to and reason with them, all our hope of benefiting these poor deluded

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people is in the power and energy of the Spirit of God.

Another referred me to the practice of the Romish Church, which had its images, &c., and remarked that they were Englishmen; to which I replied, that the fact of their being Englishmen did not make them good, nor their actions right, and that the worship of images was contrary to the book of God. What a responsibility attaches to the word "Englishman ! How the Hea

then world looks to us for an example! Can anything more clearly demonstrate that Romanism is but refined Heathenism, than the seizure of the practice of the Church of Rome, by a Heathen man, to defend his own idolatry? I asked some if they could read. They said they could not read English, but that, if they had the Bible in their own language, they would read it. Who could tell the result? If the British and Foreign Bible Society had any Bibles or Testaments in their language, and would send me a few, I think I could distribute them to advantage; and there is no doubt but that good would follow. There are over four hundred Coolies on this estate alone; and all the estates along this coast are supplied with them. -Rev. J. S. Shrewsbury, Anna Regina, June 30th, 1858.

WE Commend the following communication of the Rev. Joseph Waterhouse to the practical consideration of our friends. The Committee would rejoice to supply the wants of Fiji; but it rests with the religious public to say whether the pecuniary means shall be placed at their disposal.

Letter of the Rev. Joseph Waterhouse, dated Hobart-Town, June 8th, 1858.

WHAT deeply-distressing news is this from Fiji! The Rev. John Crawford, who had come to our aid so recently, has been taken to his eternal reward! He offered himself for Fiji at the time of the Rev. Robert Young's visit to Australia, but was not appointed to the islands until the Conference of 1857. When he sighted the land of his choice, he was so affected that he burst into tears. During our

District-Meeting, he evinced a spirit essentially Missionary, and received with cheerfulness an appointment to a station involved in all the horrors of savage warfare. In his letter addressed to you, he says, "I feel, for the first time since I entered the work, that I am at home." He promptly applied himself to the acquisition of the language, the instruction of the natives, and the repairing of the Circuit-boat. In the midst of his maiden labours, he was seized with dysentery, which carried him off within six weeks. He triumphed over the last enemy, death; and his early grave says to his former companions," Pity poor Fiji." The Rev. William Wilson, who saw more of him than anyone else in the District, says, "He would no doubt have been a valuable Missionary.... What to my mind hastened his death, was the amount of manual labour he did." Fiji could ill spare one who loved her so ardently; but we bow in submission to Him who doeth all things well.

This bereavement greatly augments the lamentable deficiency in our ranks, which will be increased yet further, it is to be feared, by removals. Mr. Malvern is compelled, by the state of his health, to prepare for embarkation by the "John Wesley." My beloved friend, Mr. Moore, is suffering acutely from lumbago; and Mrs. Moore is again attacked with the complaint which it was hoped had been cured by her visit to Australia. Last December Mr. Moore was seized with dysentery when on a Missionary voyage, and feared that he would not see home again. But God spared him. O, what a need of prayer! Brethren, pray for your Missionaries. You seldom know of their trials and sufferings.

In the death of Mr. Crawford you have a dearly-purchased illustration of the result likely to accrue from the inefficiency of the present supply of Missionaries. This zealous man appears to have needed the controlling guidance of a parental Superintendent; but the paucity of our numbers compelled us to send him to a solitary station. Totally inexperienced in our very peculiar work, ignorant of the language, unfamiliar with native customs and usages, and unclimatized, he was necessarily stationed without anyone to direct his zeal, that it might be "according to knowledge." And who is to blame for this? The Lord, who has created the demand? Nay, but the church, that furnishes so scanty a supply! Are there no young men in all Australasia who will come to the help of the Lord against the mighty? Others will fall unless aid is

rendered. Not to send Missionaries, is not only to refuse co-operation with Divine Providence, but, in respect of your Missionaries, it is suicidal economy. "There is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."

The Rev. James S. H. Royce wants to see "a real, ocular, tangible demonstration" of our love to Fiji. Referring to the abundance of our labours, he says, "I begin to feel that I am older for it ;" and this when he has not been twenty months in the District! Again, continues he, "I know this, that if one brother has to do three years of labour in one, they may expect some of us to break down shortly.

The Rev. William Wilson says, “Will our church not do more to stop the arteries of the poor Fijians, out of which their life's blood is gushing with such fatal force?...... Fiji was never so poor in Missionaries as now, when the work is overwhelming. Your return will be a joyous event, although it appears almost unkind to hint at it so soon."

The Rev. John Malvern writes, "We hope you will get more men for Fiji."

Allow me, Rev. and dear Sir, once more, in the name of all my brethren, to entreat you to secure a reinforcement of men. Our request possesses not the charm of novelty. So long ago as the District-Meeting of 1841, (the late Rev. John Waterhouse in the chair,) it was recorded as follows:-" Before we can consider ourselves as having fairly commenced operations in this group, we must have eighteen Missionaries. .... We must have this number at least; and, in addition to these, we shall need a great number of Native Teachers, as the Circuits will be so large that the Missionary will be able only to exercise a general oversight." Again, in 1844, the Directors of the parent Society say, "At least THIRTEEN additional Missionaries are required to place the Mission in a state of tolerable efficiency, and secure the advantages which have been acquired at such great sacrifices of health and comfort on the part of the Missionaries who have been there employed, and at such considerable expenditure of the Society's funds.' (Vide Annual Report.) At that period there were five Missionaries in the field, exercising spiritual oversight amongst 985 members, and 4,530 attendants on public worship. At the present time there are only eight Missionaries, inclusive of Mr. Malvern, who is about to leave, and Mr. Langham, who has probably not yet arrived in Fiji; yet are there upwards of 7,000 members, nearly 2,000 on trial for

himself fully to the Christian ministry, and made known his mind to the writer, who advised him to encourage the thought, and to study hard to qualify himself for the foreign work, in which he had a longing desire to be engaged. He kept up a correspondence with the Rev. George Piercy, of China, who also encouraged him to offer himself for the Mission service.

And, if he could have been set free from his business-engagement, he would have been presented to the District-Meeting in 1854. But his soul was kept in peace. He writes in his journal, April 10th, 1854, "I have had many severe temptations lately, particularly to pride; but the Lord has mercifully delivered me. I feel very grateful for His goodness in this respect; for, while He blesses my soul, and increases my holiness, and answers my prayers, and makes me happy and useful, He also keeps me humble. This is what I want. I am given up to the service of my God, body and soul, and am determined to be the Lord's. He takes possession of me, and sanctifies me to His own glory."

But we must follow this young disciple to the chamber of sickness and death. At the age of nineteen there was little or no indication of that fell, insidious disease, pulmonary consumption; but it was undermining his constitution. Toward the close of his apprenticeship, his friends observed the hectic flush on his cheek, and learned from the tones of his voice that disease was preying upon his very life. "Perhaps," said he, "the Lord is about to cut me down as a cumberer of the ground. He may do it very justly. I feel the Lord is preparing me for something in the future, either for death, or for something in life: perhaps it is the former. Father, not my will, but Thine, be done.'" During a long affliction the work of grace was deepened in his soul. He was ripening for heaven. He frequently records in his journal, "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me from all sin." As a fruit of this, he loved the Lord his God with all his heart, and soul, and mind, and strength. He watched his heart with great vigilance, and weighed his motives in the balances of the sanctuary. It was his deep solicitude that he might be found with his lamp trimmed and his light burning. He had a lingering wish to live, but it was that he might publish the Gospel to the Heathen, especially in one vast region. "I have often thought," said he, "I could die happy if I could only land in China !"

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for a season appeared more favourable, and allowed a glimmering hope that he might recover. He preached a few times, but always felt the effects for several days. It was as the flickering of the lamp before it finally goes out. "I have been kept," he says, "by the mighty power of Divine grace. I am happy, very happy. I think I never felt so fully God to be all and in all, and never had so little dependence on the creature as now. I can say, in regard to everything, 'Father, not my will, but Thine, be done.' The Lord fills my cup with the tokens of His lovingkindness. Lord, increase my gratitude to Thee." To a friend, who was weeping by his bedside, he said, "Do not weep so: we have abundant cause to rejoice." And, seeing his mother borne down with sorrow, he strove to comfort her with most apposite words; adding, "Life is only a stormit will soon be over." Again: "I am so happy in prospect of eternity: I shall soon be with Christ. I love the dear friends I am leaving behind; but I have no desire to live. You will soon have done, and we shall meet in glory. 0, how happy we shall be!" A few hours before he died, he said, "Mother, I think I am dying: I cannot breathe. But I am going to heaven-Glory!" On the 22d of January, 1857, in the twenty-third year of his age, his happy spirit entered into eternal rest. His "sun is gone down while it was yet day."

THEOPHILUS PUGH.

DIED, January 26th, 1857, at 45, Hamilton-Terrace, St. John's Wood, in the Sixth London Circuit, PETER TINDALL, JUN., Esq., in his thirtythird year. In 1846 he connected himself with the Peckham Wesleyan Sundayschool, where he laboured for some years, first as a Teacher, and then as Secretary. A few months after he entered the school, his habitual thoughtfulness ripened into deep and abiding religious conviction. The first indication he gave of his high resolve was characteristic: He met in the street a plain, poor man, and asked to be allowed to join his class. The Leader pointed out to him other classes in which, under the guidance of more educated men, Mr. Tindall might receive a higher order of spiritual teaching. But he was not to be moved from his purpose, and at once he began to meet with the man of his choice. Few weeks passed before his mourning was turned into gladness. At the class-meeting he gave a clear statement of his experience of pardoning mercy. He had looked to Jesus, and in

His atonement he saw a reason why he might be saved. His faith gradually rose to the level, and opened to the compass, of this cardinal truth: from his heart he "received the atonement," and he was filled with peace.

The reality and completeness of the change thus wrought were accredited by the general tenor of his after-experience, and by his manner of life. In extensive mercantile engagements, Mr. Tindall was distinguished by sound judgment, unbending uprightness, and incorruptible integrity. Where conscience was concerned, he did not know what compromise meant; and his success is another proof that in commercial pursuits the highest principle is the soundest policy.

Mr. Tindall was slow to speak of his religious attainments; but his words, though few, were weighty, and of a rare fulness of meaning. Before he met his Leader or Pastor in the class room, he was wont to revolve in his own mind the phenomena of his spiritual experience, and try it under each aspect by the inspired standard. Then, in a few brief sentences, he gave an analysis of his religious state. He was not insensible to the dangers incident to worldly prosperity; and, for some years before his death, the life which he lived shaped itself into a continuous struggle against the evil influences which grow out of such circumstances. Not only did he pass unhurt through the ordeal, but there gathered about his path an increasing purity and brightness; and his daily triumph, as well as his final one, gloriously demonstrated that "all things' -commercial success included_" work together for good to them that love God."

Early in 1856, in consequence of excessive physical debility, Mr. Tindall withdrew from the cares of business, and at Brighton, and afterwards at Filey, sought strength and healing. In September he returned to St. John's Wood, much enfeebled, and in a state of affecting prostration. Of his religious feelings and hopes he now spoke more frequently, and entered with great minuteness into his experience of the favour of God and the indwelling of the Holy Ghost. The habitual posture of his heart was that of trust in the one atonement, and his general feeling was that of "quietness and assurance." It was not without a struggle, and much prayer, that he was brought thankfully to subordinate his will to a higher. To him it seemed mysterious, and it was painful, to be smitten down in the prime of manhood, and to leave to orphanage and widowhood

a wife and four little ones. But grace triumphed. Referring to this trial the day before his death, he said, "The conflict is over: I have done with doubt and anxiety; and I intend just to rest in God's love and wisdom from day to day." This was in the afternoon of the Lord's

day. Mr. Tindall was then, and had been for a few days, somewhat better; and his physician hoped that he would partially regain strength, and continue with us for a time. But early on Monday morning unfavourable symptoms appeared. Still, no immediate danger was apprehended. About five in the evening he wished to have the Bible read, and for more than an hour he listened with marked delight to several chapters from the Gospels and Epistles. Mrs. Tindall had just finished reading Romans viii., when the Doctor was announced. Shocked at the change which one day had wrought in the appearance of his friend and patient, he at once directed that Mr. Tindall should be taken to bed; and in little more than three hours he was numbered with "them which sleep in Jesus." When advertised of the certain nearness of death, he received the intelligence with the calmness of one who had nothing to do but to die. He spoke of the presence and the love of Christ; and almost the last words which he strove to utter were, "I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me." There was not a feeling that bordered upon doubt or misgiving; but, through those solemn and testing three hours, the uniform state of his mind would be most accurately set forth in the language to which he had just listened: "I am persuaded that neither death nor life...shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." And thus, as he had lived, so he died, "in quietness and in confidence."

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Mr. Tindall was an intelligent Wesleyan Methodist; and, so long as health allowed, he was uniformly present at the appointed hour in the class-room. He was gifted with a "liberal soul." him few applied in vain for pecuniary help; and yet he delighted most in unostentatious and spontaneous deeds of kindness. He understood and acted upon our Lord's admonition," Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness." From the evangelical doctrine of stewardship he inferred his own duty. Some time before his deathreferring to his property-he said, " It is all His;" and by this principle his life had been moulded. He did not forget the claims of Foreign Missions and Con