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MISSIONARY PRAYER MEETINGS, 1817.

WEST.

Jan. 6 Fetter Lane

EAST.

NORTH

Zion Chapel
Feb. 3 Swallow St. Rose Lane
Mar. 3 New Court Pell St. Ch.
Apr. 7 Shep. Market Church St.
May 5 Wild Street Holywell Mt.
June 1 Leather Lane Gravel Lane
July 7 Wells Street
Aug. 4 Eagle Street
Sept. 1Oxendon St.
Oct. 6 Silver Street
Nov. 3 Adelphi
Dec. 1 Orange St.

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SpaField sCh Surry Chapel Hare Court
Hoxton Ch. KenningtonC Staining Lane
Union Chap. Union Street Jewin Street
Camden T. C. Back Street

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Broad Street
Grub Street

Albion Chap.

Islington, L.S. Camberwell
Hampstead C Stockwell
Stepney
Holloway C. Peckham
Beth. Gr. M. Kentish T. C. Jamaica Row Barbican
Gibraltar Ch. Highgate C. London Road Salters' Hall
QueenSt. Rat. Tonbridge C. Collier's Rnts Miles's Lane
New Road Islington C. Surry Chapel Founders' H.

Ebenezer Ch. PaddingtonC Union street Queen Street

A COURSE of LECTURES to be delivered monthly by the Ministers of Islington and Holloway, at their respective Places of Worship, from January to December, 1817.

TIME.

PLACE.

PREACHER.

SUBJECT.

Tues. Jan. 7 Islington Ch. Mr. Yockney Improvement of Time.

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Wed. Feb. 5 Holloway

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Poetry.

NEW YEAR'S DAY.

There are, O Sun, who most delight to gaze
Upon thee, when thou sink'st into thy grave;
Who joy to view thee, when thy trembling rays
Are vainly struggling with the dark blue wave.
They know this life a weary pilgrimage,
Bow'd down beneath affliction's heavy load,
And plea'sd arrive at each successive stage,
Which mark's their progress on the dreary road,
That leads them to their rest, the bosom of their God.

They, on this solemn day, will contemplate
The old year's funeral :---walk on the shore,
And trace upon the sand the new year's date,
Which when the advancing tide shall cover o'er,
They'll smile to think, that so eternity
Shall swallow up their idle fleeting years,
That soon within that inexhausted sea,

Shall be for ever lost their griefs, and tears,

And all their anxious cares, vain hopes, and boding fears.

Or they will wander in the leafless grove,

Where the lone red-breast pours the dirge of time;
But as, in melancholy wrapt, they rove,

Hark! the loud bells awake a merry chime:

But not for them: the sound of revelry,

Breaks on their ears, with a discordant jar,

And back they start, as travellers fearfully,

When sudden from the forest breaks, nor far

From their own track, they hear the tiger's yell of war.

Nor deem that man a weak enthusiast,
Who loves to consecrate this holy day,
To lonely musing on the season past:
Interrogate him why, and he will say,
"Ye madly joyous crew, so wildly gay,
"Go dance upon the sepulchre of time,
"In wanton frolick pass your hours away,

"And drink the pleasures of your short-lived prime :--""Tis mine to think on death, and feel a joy sublime."

T. B. L.

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THE

NEW EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE,

AND

Theological Review.

FEBRUARY, 1817.

MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. DAN TAYLOR.

time, in which we cannot trace the pen of Mr. Dan Taylor, and in which it has not been usefully employed, either in the way of defending the truth, or of eliciting it from the pen of others. But he has served his generation by the will of God, and is now numbered with his fathers. It is gratifying to us to learn, that a copious memoir of him is intended for publication by his own family and friends, drawn from the most authentic sources: and as we had much rather assist than retard the progress of such an undertaking, we shall cautiously avoid doing any thing more, on the present occasion, than exhibit a concise abstract of his personal history. Should we be spared until the projected volume comes regularly before us, it shall then be our aim to supply the deficiencies of the following narrative.

WHEN a Christian minister, who has long sustained a respectable station in the republic of letters, and taken the lead in conducting the affairs of the denomination to which he belonged, is removed from the scene of his labours and numbered with the dead; it is natural to us to look up to his friends for a circumstantial account of his Life and Writings, and to complain of something worse than negligence if no pains are taken to gratify the public curiosity in this respect, and to perpetuate the memorial of his character and his virtues. Such a case, in one respect, is that before us. The late Mr. Dan Taylor, for nearly half a century, stood at the head of the denomination of General Baptists. His writings and his preaching made him well known to the religious world, and we believe we may, without fear of contradiction, venture to add, that as far as he MR. DAN TAYLOR was born was known he was respected. in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Robinson, Booth, Austin and a in the year 1738. Though, in point hundred other ministers who might of intellect, not of the first order be mentioned, though differing of our species, he was blessed from him in some particulars, were by the Creator with a capacity for always ready to acknowledge his receiving instruction, and gave merit, thought themselves honour-early intimation that he possessed ed by his acquaintance, and were a thirst for knowledge. To good never backward to award the meed natural parts, were united in him, due to his talents as a writer. an intrepidity of mind, and a There have been few controversies constitutional ardour not to be reamong professing Christians in our pressed by ordinary difficulties.

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