undertake for me."—"I feel much inclined towards resigning-glad to think that the time is coming. In a few days or weeks, I shall see, I trust, where the path of duty lies."

"Moral maxims of the Malabars, from a native work. Go not where you have no invitation— reside not where there is no temple-never regard your enemy as a friend-second not a new custom -travel not by a solitary route." "-" O, my Father, provide for me, uphold me! Perhaps the year of Jubilee is come; the year of the Lord's release. I have been long chained to a wheel; the chain will be broken!"

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May 23, 1826. Shocked with the undertaker's

Mr. Burnside is dead. Well, he has gone to keep Sabbath where there is no dispute about the first day or the seventh."

"Set a watch, O Lord!'-worship-businesscompany."

"Write out, if life and health be spared, a volume of sermons and tracts-woman, as she appears in the Holy Scriptures; a translation of the Psalms; Proverbs; reminiscences of Abraham Booth, with a review of his publications."

"Death, gain and loss, honour and dishonour, liberty and imprisonment, termination and commencement."-"Buried Mrs. T.'s child-Death, like a merciless mower, cuts away; never lifts up his scythe to spare the opening flowers."

Jan. 1, 1827. There are some parts of the He

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"Examined old letters. I must be packing up, that I may be ready." My soul is humbled within me, in calling to remembrance former days. 0, Lord, revive me!"

"This day, Feb. 2, 1827, forty years ago, I went to live with Mr. Ryland. Oh, that I could be thankful to Him that has led me and fed me these forty years in the wilderness."

"Last night a letter from the Secretary to Stepney, in reply to my letter, read last Tuesday, (Jan. 16,) relinquishing my claim to the annuity voted at the annual meeting."

"This day I spent at home, and enjoyed rest, peace, and comfort, more than for many weeks past; read and wrote a good deal. Bless the Lord, O my soul !"

"Brother Hutchings, of Unicorn-yard, sunk down in the pulpit, last Lord's day (25th Feb. 1827), struck with palsy, in the first prayer. O Lord! prepare me for thy will. I always regarded him with affection. I remember his ordination."-He died the following Wednesday.

"I spoke at the grave of brother Hutchings-I stood on a tombstone-many hundreds of people; his grave was near that of Dr. Gill. Dr. Rippon told me, as we walked, he had copied with his own right hand, 38,000 names, &c. &c. (He said) When I think of the grace of God, how can any sinner be

lost? when I think of the justice of God, how can any one be saved?

"I find that I could make a large volume of theological miscellanies; and another of sermons; besides a body of divinity, in thirty-nine articles; letters on strict communion. But when shall I get time to write them out?"

CHAPTER VIIL

DEATH OF THE REV. S. YOUNG THE ADDRESS AT HIS FUNERAL -DR.

NEWMAN REMOVES ΤΟ BOW - HIS

LETTER TO REV. MR. WAYLAND HIS "RYLANDIANA"

HE IS VISITED WITH PARALYSIS HIS DEATH.

HUMAN nature is too imbecile to endure even the prospect of suffering without shrinking. "If it be possible," said the immaculate Saviour, "let this cup pass from me." Yet what can be more obvious than that a state of trial is essential to participation in those benefits which, in connexion with humble reliance on divine interposition, sustain the oppressed and illustrate the power and faithfulness of God? A mind somewhat familiarized to this mysterious economy, however tremblingly it may anticipate the approaching storm, and, during its first rude attack, regard itself as destined to be overwhelmed by its relentless rage, is speedily led to "remember the years of the right hand of the Most High," and, while apparently detached and isolated from human shelter and sympathy, its efforts to obtain repose and security, where alone they can be found, are strengthened and multiplied, till, at length, even amidst the fiercest fury of the tempest, alarming

apprehensions are exchanged for sacred composure, if not holy exultation.

When Dr. Newman resolved on resigning his official connexion with the Stepney Institution, the conflict was in progress; but, in anticipation of its result, with that characteristic amiableness by which he was uniformly distinguished, he said, "I shall now return with increased ardour to the pastoral engagements, into which I entered many years ago with a poor but affectionate people. It is in my heart to live and die with them." At this trying period it certainly was not the least of his consolations, to possess the fullest conviction, that in retiring from services to which, however he might be attached, he could continue no longer to perform with comfort, that he should soon be enabled again to engage more fully in those pursuits which had the largest share in his affections, and in his renewed and increased attention to which he was hailed with the most cordial greetings. The day of release arrived, and to those pastoral duties he returned, and with that comparatively poor but affectionate people he continued to live till death effected the separation.

It has been seen that, upon his retiring, the Rev. Solomon Young, who, for some years, had been the highly esteemed classical tutor of the Institution, was chosen to succeed to the theological department, in which, however, his course was short indeed, and far from tranquil. His election was