His mother found strength to move her band now. She stroked his head with a trembling touch, which he seemed to feel as long as he lived. She could not say much more. She told him she had no fear for any of them. They would be taken care of. She advised him not to waken the little ones, who were sound asleep on the other side of her, and begged him to lie down himself till daylight, and try to sleep, when she should be gone. This was the last thing she said. The candle was very low; but before it went out she was gone. Joel had always done what his mother wished; but he could not obey her in the last thing she had said. He lighted another candle when the first went out, and sat thinking till the grey dawn began to show through the window. When he called his neighbours, they were astonished at his quietness. He had taken up the children, and dressed them, and made the room tidy, and lighted the fire, before he told anybody what had happened. And when he opened the door his little sister was in his arms. She was two years old, and could walk, of course; but she liked being in Joel's arms. Poor He Willy was the most confounded. stood with his pinafore at his mouth, staring at the bed, and wondering that his mother lay so still. If the neighbours were astonished at Joel that morning, they might be more so at some things they saw afterward; but they were not. Everything seemed done so naturally; and the boy evidently considered what he had to do so much a matter of course, that less sensation was excited than about many smaller things. After the funeral was over, Joel tied up all his mother's clothes. He carried the bundle on one arm, and his sister on the other. He would not have liked to take money for what he had seen his mother wear; but he changed them away for new and strong clothes for the child. He did not seem to want any help. He went to the factory the next morning as usual, after washing and dressing the children, and getting a breakfast of bread and milk with them. There was no fire; and he put every knife, and other dangerous thing, on a high shelf, and gave them some trifles to play with, and promised to come and play with them at dinner-time. And he did play. He played heartily with the little one, and as if he enjoyed it, every day at the noon hour. Many a merry laugh the neighbours heard from the room when the three children were together; and the laugh was often Joel's. How he learned to manage, and especially to cook, nobody knew; and he could himself have told little more than he wanted to see how people did it, and looked accordingly at every opportunity. He certainly fed the children well, and himself too. He knew that everything depended on his strength being kept up. His sister sat on his knee to be fed until she could feed herself. He was sorry to give it up; but he said she must learn to behave. So he smoothed her hair, and washed her face, before dinner, and showed her how to fold her hands while he said grace. He took as much pains to train her to good manners at table, as if he had been a governess, teaching a little baby. While she remained a "baby," he slept in the middle of the bed, between the two, that she might have room, and not be disturbed; and when she ceased to be a baby, he silently made new arrangements. He denied himself a hat, which be much wanted, in order to buy a considerable quantity of coarse dark calico, which, with his own hands, he made into a curtain, and slung up across a part of the room; thus shutting off about a third part of it. Here he contrived to make up a little bed for his sister; and he was not satisfied till she had a basin, and jug, and a piece of soap of her own. Here nobody but himself was to intrude upon her without leave; and, indeed, he always made her understand that he came only to take care of her. It was not only that William was not to see her undressed. A neighbour or two now and then lifted the latch without knocking. One of these one day heard something from behind the curtain, which made her call her husband silently to listen, and they always afterward treated Joel as if he were a man, and one whom they looked up to. He was teaching the child her little prayer. The earnest, sweet, devout tones of the boy, and the innocent, cheerful imitation of the little one, were beautiful to hear, the listeners said. Though so well taken care of, she was not to be pampered; there would have Very early, been no kindness in that. indeed, she was taught, in a merry sort of way, to put things in their places, and to sweep the floor, and to wash up the crockery. She was a handy little thing, well trained, and docile. One reward that Joel had for his management was, that she was early fit to go to chapel. This was a great point; as he, choosing to send Willy regularly, could not go till he could take the little girl with him. She was never known to be restless; and Joel was quite proud of her. Willy was not neglected for the little girl's sake. In those days, children went earlier to the factory, and worked longer than they do now; and by the time the sister was five years old, Willy became a factory boy, and his pay put the little girl to school. When she, at seven, went to the factory too, Joel's life was altogether an easier one. He always had maintained them all, from the day of his mother's death. The times must have been good,→→ work constant, and wages steady,-or he could not have done it. Now, when all three were earning, he put his sister to a sewing school for two evenings in the week, and the Saturday afternoons; and he and Willy attended an evening school, as they found they could afford it. He always escorted the little girl wherever she had to go,-into the factory, and home again,-to the school door, and home again,-and to the Sunday school; yet he was himself remarkably punctual at work and at worship. He was a humble, earnest, docile pupil himself at the Sunday school, quite unconscious that he was more advanced than other boys in the sublime science and practice of duty. He felt that everybody was very kind to him; but he was unaware that others felt it an honour to be kind to him. I linger on these years, when he was a fine growing lad, in a state of high content. I linger, unwilling to proceed. But the end must come, and it is soon told. He was sixteen, I think, when he was asked to become a teacher in the Sunday school. He tried, and made a capital teacher, and he won the hearts of the children while trying to open their minds. By this he became more widely known than before. One day in the next year a tremendous clatter and crash was heard in the factory where Joel worked. A dead silence succeeded, and then several called out that it was only an iron bar that had fallen down. This was true; but the iron bar had fallen on Joel's head, and he was taken up dead! Such a funeral as his is rarely seen. There is something that strikes on all hearts in the spectacle of a soldier's funeral, -the drum, the march of comrades, and the belt and cap laid on the coffin. But there was something more solemn and more moving than all such observances, in the funeral of this young soldier, who had so bravely filled his place in the conflict of life. There was the tread of comrades here, for the longest street was filled from end to end. For relicts, there were his brother and sister; and for a solemn dirge, the uncontrollable groans of a heart-stricken multitude.-Harriet Martineau. Miscellaneous. PAUL IN TEARS.-Whatever there may be now,-in the days of Paul, at least, there were men who turned the grace of God into licentiousness, and who ranked among the privileges of the gospel an immunity for sin. And it is striking to observe the effect of this corruption on the mind of the apostle, that he who braved all the terrors of persecuting violence, that he who stood undismayed before kings and governors, and could lift his intrepid testimony in the hearing of an enraged multitude,that he who, when bound by a chain between two soldiers, still sustained an invincible constancy of spirit, and could live in fearlessness, and triumph, with the dark imagery of an approaching execution in his eye, that he who counted not his life dear unto him, and whose manly breast bore him up amidst all the threats of human tyranny and the grim apparatus of martyrdom,that this man, so firm and undaunted, wept like a child when he heard of those disciples that turned the pardon of the cross into an encouragement for doing evil. The fiercest hostilities of the gospel's open enemies he could brave, but when he heard of the foul dishonour done to the name of his Master by the moral worthlessness of those who were the gospel's professing friends, this he could not bear, all that firmness which so upheld him unfaltering and unappalled in the battles of the faith, forsook him then; and this noblest of champions on the field of conflict and of controversy, when he heard of the profligacy of his own converts, was fairly overcome by the tidings, and gave way to all the softness of womanhood. When every other argument then fails for keeping you on the path of integrity and holiness, oh, think of the argument of Paul in tears! It may be truly termed a picturesque argument, nor are we aware of more impres sive testimony in the whole compass of Scripture, to the indispensable need of virtue and moral goodness in a believer,than is to be found in that passage where Paul says of these unworthy professors of the faith, "For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ."-Chalmers. "ADD TO YOUR FAITH VIRTUR."-When the apostle bids us add to this faith, his intent is, not that faith is properly an isolated principle, divisible from virtue, or from charity, afterwards enumerated. Where the last are utterly absent, faith is unreal. The addition meant is not the mechanical superposition of one on the other, as the miser adds coin to coin, each. distinct from the other, and every one perfect and complete apart; or as the architect adds stone to stone in his edifice, each new block having no necessary affinity with the other, as one voice or performer in the trained choir requires the aid and addition of others: but, as the seed cast into the good soil, and drinking gladly the dew, and rain, and airs of heaven, adds to itself the root, and to the root adds the stem, and to the stem superadds the branches; and then, naturally and by necessary growth, these branches are crowned with the twig, and the leaflet, and the blossom, and the fullformed fruit; and then each part in that living choir, from the lowest root that buries itself below the sod, to the topmost leaf that quivers in the sunbeam, bears its share in the symmetrical life of the tree. Religious life is, thus considered, the out-growth from faith implanted in the soul. True progress is but the natural efflorescence, the budding and blossoming THE MONTH. of a living belief of God's truth, as manifest in the various fruits of the Spirit, in benevolence towards God, in usefulness on earth, and meetness for heaven.-Dr. W. R. Williams, of New York. RASH JUDGING.-Beware of forming a hasty judgment concerning the fortune of others. There are many secrets in the situation of a person which few but God are acquainted with. Some years since I told a gentleman, "Sir, I am afraid you are covetous." He asked me, "What is the reason of your fears ?" I answered, “A year ago, when I made a collection for the expense of repairing a foundry, you subscribed five guineas. At the subscription made this year, you subscribed only half a guinea." He made no reply, but after a time asked, "Pray, Sir, answer me a question. Why do you live upon potatoes?" (I did so between three and four years.) I replied, "It has much conduced to my health." He answered, "I believe it has. But did you not do it likewise to save money ?" I said I did; for what I saved from my own meat would feed another that else might have none. "But, Sir," said he, "if this be your motive, you may save much more. I know a man that goes to market at the beginning of every week; he there buys a pennyworth of parsnips, which be boils in a large quantity of water. parsnips serve him for food, and the water for drink, the ensuing week; so his meat and his drink together cost him only a penny a week. This he constantly did, though he had then two hundred pounds a year, to pay the debts he had contracted before he knew God!" And this was he whom I had set down for a covetous man.Southey's Life of Wesley. Entelligence. The great event of the past month is the death of Field Marshal Lord Raglan. The old man, who had stood in so many battles, and had so often defied the musket and the sword, has been obliged, at last, to lie down before a power more terrible than theirs. As all our readers know, he has died of dysentery; and his body has just arrived in England, where it is to find a restingplace and a grave. General Simpson has taken his place; and the war under his direction slowly proceeds,-the position of affairs becoming daily more favourable to the allies, but still indicating a lengthened struggle, in which neither party seems willing or prepared to yield. The fierceness of the war appears for the present, however, to have transferred itself from the Crimea to the English House of Commons, where the ministry have had to contend, again and again, with a vigorous and obstinate opposition. The only result of the opposition thus far, has been the retirement of Lord John Russell,-under The circumstances, we are sorry to say, by no means favourable to his political character. It appears that Lord John was favourable to the acceptance of certain proposals for peace, made at the close of the Vienna Conferences and that, in his capacity of plenipotentiary to those conferences, he declared his approval of the terms, and promised to use his influence at home in favour of their acceptance. The terms were, however, refused by the government; and Lord John, instead of announcing his opinion to the country, by which means he would doubtless have materially strengthened the party in favour of peace, immediately made a warlike speech, which led to the conclusion that he acquiesced in the policy of the Cabinet! This inconsistency was discovered on the publication of certainD papers by Count Buol, and it caused a movement in the House which led to the precipitate retirement of Lord John from his post, as the only means of saving the ministry. Since then, the governinent have had to contend against the motion of Mr. Roebuck, which condemned the government on account of the mismanagement and neglect detailed in the late Sebastopol Report; and also against a formidable opposition to the proposed Turkish Guarantee. It is now considered probable that they will get through to the end of the session, and that they will dissolve Parliament during the recess. Several other matters in Parliament have attracted considerable attention. In the House of Lords, the Religious Worship Bill-a bill, the chief object of which was to render religious services in private houses legal-was opposed by all the Bishops, and by their willing agent, Lord Derby: though, it having been persisted in by Lord Shaftesbury, it is, we believe, now likely to pass. The Maynooth Question-so very inconvenient to the ministry-has been got rid of by an adjournment for three months. The Church Rate Bill, too, though it had passed the second reading, has been shuffled out by the despicable manoeuvre of speaking against time, and continuing the debate until the rules of the House compelled an adjournment. But a Bill like this, having passed a second reading, cannot be long before it becomes law. In case of a dissolution, it will be our own fault if it do not become law before the close of 1856! Hyde Park has been the field of war during the month, as well as the Crimea and the House of Commons. This time the war has been between the Police and Aristocracy, and the People; and the People have gained the day. Not that we can congratulate them on their victory. Lord Robert Grosvenor's Sunday Bill was, we are convinced, misunderstood: on social grounds, though not on religious, it might fairly have been carried: and Lord Robert would have done better if he had made his measure better understood, instead of cowardly withdrawing it. as soon as the mob threatened to break his windows,or his head. Truly, we fear the Hyde Park riots arose from intense dislike to religion, and religious restraints. We rejoice, therefore, at the efforts which are being made to carry the gospel to the poor, by preaching in the open air; though even here, in the case of Mr. Newman Hall's noble effort, the ever active police interfered, and again declared war. Thanks to Lord Shaftesbury, this interference proved unavailing. May these efforts be largely increased, and may the time come when the people, at present so ignorant and benighted, shall "learn truth and righteous ness.' NEW BAPTIST CHAPEL, COMMERCIAL STREET, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON. The foundation-stone of this chapel, which is now occupied by the congregation under the pastorate of the Rev. C. Stovel, was laid last November, by Sir Morton Peto, Baronet, and on July the 11th the new chapel was opened. The building reflects the highest credit on the architect, Mr. Earle. It will seat one thousand people, and the whole cost is about £10,000,-only £2,000 of which remains to be liquidated. The opening service began at eleven o'clock, when a larger congregation assembled than was anticipated, as rain was falling in torrents. The Rev. Spencer Murch read the twenty-fourth Psalm, and implored the Divine presence and blessing. A hymn, announced by Mr. Stovel, was then sung. The Rev. Dr. Hoby read the sixty-eighth Psalm, and engaged in prayer, after which the Rev. J. Saul, of Battersea, announced the second hymn. This sung, the Rev. W. Landels, of the Baptist Chapel, Regents Park, ascended the pulpit, and read his text from the epistle of Jude, the third verse. He descanted with much beauty on "the common salvation." After the collection the congregation again united in praising God. The Rev. Mr. Brown, of Laughton, Essex, concluded the service by prayer. The friends then partook of a cold collation in the new school-rooms. In the afternoon a business meeting was held in the chapel at three o'clock. Sir Morton Peto presided, and, after a speech in every way worthy of himself, called upon Mr. Stovel, who, in a long but deeply interesting address, presented the financial statement of the committee, and gave a graphic history of the church, whose future terrestrial home had by the morning's service been set apart for divine worship. The Rev. W. Brock then briefly addressed the meeting, as also did Alderman Wire, Dr. Hoby, &c. In the evening the Rev. J. Spence, A. M., minister of Poultry Chapel, preached from 1 Cor. iv. 20, a very admirable discourse, irrefragably proving Christianity to be a religion of power. BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE. The proceedings connected with the examination of the students of the Bristol Baptist College were brought to a close on Wednesday, June 27th, when the annual address to the students was delivered in Broadmead Chapel, by the Rev. T. Horton, of Devonport, and an essay was read by Mr. Humphreys, one of the senior students, on Some of the Forms of Modern Infidelity." The annual meeting was held in the vestry of Broadmead Chapel, on the Wednesday morning: James Livett, Esq., occupied the chair. The business was commenced with prayer by the Rev. Andrew Fuller, after which, the report of the proceedings of the year was read, and a statement of the studies during the session made by the two tutors, the Rev. T. S. Crisp and the Rev. F. W. Gotch. The details were of a satisfactory and gratifying character, and the reports of the examiners spoke in highly commendatory terms of the general efficiency of the institution, and of the advanced position of the students in their various departments of study. The report of the treasurer, R. Leonard, Esq, was then read, from which it appeared that the annual subscriptions and donations amounted to £1,427. 14s. 9d.; the expenditure, to £1,741 8s. 5d.; and that there re mained a balance against the institution of £313 13s. 8d. Suitable addresses were delivered by the Revs. T. Horton, F. Bosworth, N. Haycroft, H. Clark, T. S. Crisp, E. Probert, R. Morris, W. Cross, and T. Nicholson, and by J. Sheppard and S. Leonard, Esqrs. LANGHAM, RUTLAND. The chapel recently erected in this place, as a village station of the Baptist church at Oakham, was opened for divine worship on Thursday, June 21st, and following days. Three sermons were preached by the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, M.A., on Thursday and Friday; the Rev. J. Jenkinson preached on Sunday afternoon, and the Rev. J. T. Brown, of Northampton, in the evening. Prayer was offered on Thursday by the Revs. J. Green, T. Gammidge, T. Lomas, and B. W. Noel, M.A. A public meeting (over which Richard Harris, Esq., Mayor of Leicester, presided) was held on Thursday evening, and was addressed by the chairman, and also by the Rev. T. Lomas, of Leicester, the Rev. J. N. Robjohns (Independent), of Wymondham, the Rev. R. Broomfield (Wesleyan), of Oakham, and others. A second public meeting was held on Friday evening, at which addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. Jenkinson (chairman), the Rev. J. Salisbury, the Rev. T. M. Thorpe, the Rev. J. T. Brown, and Messrs. Islip and Haynes. A bazaar in aid of the building fund was open on Thursday and Friday, and public tea provided en both those days. The services were held in a large tent erected near the chapel. They were all numerously attended, and deeply interesting, To the credit of the voluntary principle, the total receipts exceeded £145, in addition to nearly £150 previously contributed. TRINITY ROAD CHAPEL, HALIFAX. The first anniversary of the opening of this place of worship was held in the first week of July. Sermons were preached by the Rev. W. Brock, of London, and the Rev. W. Walters, minister of the chapel and Messrs. Chown of Bradford, Hanson of Mins Bridge, Goodman of Steep Lane, Newnes of Warley, Whitewood, Ingham, Buzacot, and Illingworth of Halifax, took part in the other engagements of the occasion. The collections amounted to upwards of £85, which sum is to be appropriated to the liquidation of the chapel debt. ABINGDON. The Rev. R. H. Marten, having received an earnest invitation to transfer his ministry to the new chapel recently erected in the Lee High-road, Blackheath, London, has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church in Abingdon. Mr. Marten's late charge have accepted his resignation, cordially expressing the regret they feel in losing his valuable services, but desiring to acquiesce in the leadings of Divine providence which have directed their highly esteemed pastor to a new sphere of ministerial usefulness. He commenced his ministry at Lee on the econd Sabbath in July. REDRUTH. The Rev. John Evans, pastor of the Baptist church in this town, has been compelled to resign his pastorate through ill health. Obituary. THE REV. EUSTACE CAREY. With the deepest regret we announce the sudden death of the excellent and devoted Eustace Carey, at his residence, Eascott Place, Camden Town, Thursday, July 19th, aged sixty-four years. In his usual health and with his wonted cheerfulness he preached on the preceding Sabbath for the Rev. W. Upton, at St. Albans; on Wednesday was present at the laying of the foundation-stone of the new chapel, Mare Street, Hackney; and on the morning of the day of his death, it was his intention to be at the usual service at Bloomsbury Chapel, but was hindered by the weather. About twelve o'clock, Mrs. Carey, on entering his room, was alarmed to find him in his chair, with an apoplectic seizure upon him. He was still conscious, but articulated with difficulty. He complained that he had pain in his head. Medical aid was quickly obtained, but without avail. In half-an-hour he was quite unconscious, and by half-past two he was no more. A much-attached medical friend in the country was telegraphed, but ere he arrived his spirit had fled, "And proved how bright Bursting at once upon the sight." The long career of our departed brother, at first in the missionary field in India, and for more than thirty years subsequently as the home-advocate of that hallowed enterprise, is well known. Scarcely a town, village, or hamlet in this country is there, where missions are linked with the Baptist body, but can bear testimony to his intelligent, amiable, courteous, and cheerful piety. The confident of all, the umpire of many, he was always the minister of goodwill, the harbinger of peace. THE REV. JOHN KINGSFORD. Died on the 15th of June, at Midwayplace, Lower-road, Deptford, the Rev. John Kingsford, in the 85th year of his age: for nearly thirty years the beloved and devoted pastor of the Baptist church meeting in Midway-place, and for upwards of sixtyseven years a faithful and laborious preacher of the Gospel. He was interred in the Nunhead cemetery, Peckham, on the 23rd of June, Messrs. Aldis, R. R. Finch, Muscatt, Pulling, and Rose, taking part in the service. On the following Lord's day funeral sermons were preached in Midwayplace chapel, by the Revs. Joshua Russell and J. Pulling. "The memory of the just is blessed." |