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The special feature of this Edition, in addition to its extreme cheapness, is the New Translation of Proper Names in the Old and New Testaments by a competent scholar. The new renderings of the proper names are not contained in any other Edition of Cruden. This portion of the book is therefore strictly copyright. THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE. THOMAS WOOLDRIDGE. UR beloved brother died somewhat suddenly on Saturday, March 21st. He was full of quiet assurance in his last hours, and the eternal future was "clear to him in Christ." The night before he died he had a hard struggle with sinking nature, but his faith in God did not waver for a single moment. Br. Jeffrey says it was delightful to witness the comfort and strength our Heavenly Father imparted to him. In his death the Church of Christ our own section of it in particular — has lost a true friend, a zealous worker, and an original and successful preacher. He did not enter on the regular work of the ministry until he was thirty years of age, but he was able, owing to his naturally strong constitution, to complete forty years of active service, cheerfully enduring, for much of that time, fatigues and hardships to which most men would have succumbed. He was superannuated in 1877. Notwithstanding his early educational deficiencies, his great mental powers were swiftly detected; and his impetuous energy of character, when once controlled by the grace and Spirit of God, made him instantly a mighty power for good. His bold conceptions of revealed truth would have been impossible except he had had a firm grasp of it, and these conceptions his brilliant imagination enabled him to present to his hearers always with telling and oft-times with overwhelming effect. He spoke, he thought, he lived in parable and poesy. His gifts as a preacher we shall not now attempt to analyse and describe, but his place is somewhere in that "company" of which Christmas Evans is the acknowledged chief. As an orator it was not necessary for him to tread the earth-only to touch it occasionally-as God had provided him with wings to soar aloft. He reached a lofty altitude at the Missionary Meeting of the Portsmouth Conference of 1866. His speech was a marvel of ingenuity and power. He argued that, as Christ was betrayed for silver, the world would be conquered, won back, redeemed in a secondary sense, by silver also; or, to speak without figure, that the Gospel would universally triumph when it was supported not only by the large contributions of a few, but also by the small gifts of the many; for the smallest gift might represent, equally with the largest, an ocean-fulness of sympathy and love. Such gifts, as the visible expression of the power of Christ in the Church, would, when indefinitely multiplied, subdue all opposition to our Saviour-King. Most truly does Eugene Bersier characterise the poor widow who cast two mites into the treasury as the sublime pauper, who drew from her poverty "the most magnificent treasure that has ever glorified and enriched the Church." I have heard Mr. Wooldridge speak with equal profit and delight on less important occasions. Memorably so once at a Missionary Meeting in the little old chapel at Penryn, when he spoke with a statesman's breadth of view, much rhetorical force, and a seraphic fervour of soul that melted the whole audience into practical sympathy with the Missionary work of the Church. He may almost be regarded as the founder of the South Devon (now the Kingsbridge) Mission, for when he was sent there to labour in 1839 there were only ten members, and half of that number either removed or "fainted in the way" the first year; but when he left in 1842 the membership was nearly as large as it is to-day. This is not the only desert which, by the Lord's blessing on his diligent cultivation, has been made "to bud and blossom as the rose." One of his great efforts was to build Redruth Chapel. And though its erection has not as yet answered the expectations that he and others entertained, when I recall the way in which he was providentially led, step by step, in that work, and the gracious, all but overwhelming influences that prevailed at the opening services, I can come to no other conclusion than that there is in the register of heaven some terrible record of unfaithfulness that has yet to be brought to light, or that, after a long season of trial, the Lord has a wonderful blessing in store for His people there. On my reaching Redruth the Saturday night to take a part in the opening services the following day, Mr. Wooldridge told me how at one period during the building he had been in "great and sore trouble." A friend who had promised a loan of £200 informed him only a few days before that sum became due that he would be unable to fulfil his promise. Mr. Wooldridge was afraid that the Connexion would be discredited, as a large number of letters he wrote, and many personal appeals he made to friends for help, were alike in vain. The evening of the day on which the payment had to be made arrived. Mr. Wooldridge said to his |