and Acworth, Steadman and Shoveller, the Independent chapel was again were moved and seconded by brethren Clarke granted for the occasion,) Redruth, Webb (Methodist) and Griffin, Dore and Chacewater, and Penzance: eight Lane. ruth. by Mr. Griffin, at Falmouth, Flush- The visit of Dr. Steadman and Mr. Grifing, Truro, Redruth, St. Day, and fin excited great interest. The former, at Helston and two by Mr. Coombs the solicitation of the Baptist Missionary of Bristol, at Helston and Red- Society, preached throughout the county in company with Mr. Saffery, in 1796, and again, in company with Mr. Franklin, in The annual meeting of the County Auxili- 1797; the latter was for several years prior ary Society was held at Helston, on the 24th to his removal to London, the pastor of the July, in connection with that of the branch church at Falmouth. The missionary labours Association there established. The Chair of the one, and the stated ministry of the was obligingly occupied by Joseph Hawkey, other, were remembered with pleasure by Esq. After the business of the Helston many, who rejoiced in the opportunity of Association had been attended to, the Secre- seeing and hearing again those from whom tary read the seventh Report, which an- they had formerly derived much profit and nounced an increase in the receipts of the delight. All the services of this AnniverSociety during the last year, the formation sary have been well attended-the annual of a Sunday School Missionary Association meetings crowded. The collections have in connection with the Truro branch, and exceeded those of the former year, and a the union of the second Baptist church at most lively interest has prevailed in favour Penzance with the Association which has of the great work in which the Society is long existed in that town. The resolutions engaged. E. C. Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, from July 20 to August 20, 1827, not including individual Subscriptions. ........ 55 19 8 8 Birmingham Auxiliary Society, by Mr. Thomas King, viz.- Cannon-street, Collections, Subscrip, and Donations.. 207 15 Bond-street, Do. Newhall-street, Do. 69606 128 12 4 Previously acknowledged, and sundry Expences.... 234 17 0 Sherborne, Subscriptions, by B. Chandler, Esq. 576 14 0 5 5 0 Buckingham, Young Ladies at Mrs. Hinton's Seminary, by Rev. J. Hinton, Penny Week Society at Naseby, by Mr. John Burdett Collection, after Sermons preached by Rev. E. Carey.... 20 0121300 3121832 2 20 000 0 6 0 0 33 -7 6 Oxford Hemel Hempsted, Missionary Association, by Mr. Howard.. Lincoln, collected by Miss Wright and other Friends Lawley Bank........ Shrewsbury, Collection, by Messrs. Carey and Statham ..... 3 8 6 614 10 12 19 15 17 0 300 20 0 15 10 Bradford, Wilts. Subscriptions and Collections, by Rev. J. Rodway •••••• Haddington (North Britain), Sundries, by Mr. W. Hunter 16 16 0 Clapham, Society in aid of Missions, by Rev. G. Browne 20 .... 20 0 5 0 0 Mrs. Holmes, Hill Top, Warrington, by Rev. M. Fisher.... Collections, &c. in Suffolk, by the Rev. Messrs. Birt, Elven, and Cowell. Treasurers of Auxiliary Societies, and other Friends who may have money in hand for the Society, are earnestly requested to remit the same without delay, as the Treasurer is at this time in advance. Just published, the Annual Report of the Baptist Missionary Society for 1827, with an Appendix, List of Contributions, &c. To be had at the Baptist Mission House, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London. Price to Non-Subscribers, One Shilling. Littlewood and Green, Printers, 15, Old Bailey. BAPTIST MAGAZINE. OCTOBER, 1827. MEMOIR OF WILLIAM HOPE, Esq. LATE OF LIVERPOOL. the highly respected individual whose portraiture we are about to THE assurance that "the righteous exhibit to our readers. Animated shall be had in everlasting remem- with the same spirit, he shone no brance," must be regarded as one less in the sphere in which he amongst the many encouragements moved; and the religious instituexhibited in the Bible, to a life of tions of the town in which he spent uniform obedience to the divine a long life of usefulness, were not will; and it may with equal pro-less indebted to him for the active priety be regarded as an admonition to surviving friends, to preserve such memorials of the faith and love of departed believers, as may encourage others to follow them as they followed Christ. zeal and universal Christian charity, which marked his proceedings, than were the kindred institutions in the metropolis to the beneficial influence and valuable labours of these excellent men. It has pleased God recently to Mr. William Hope, late of Liverwithdraw from the church-mili- pool, was born at Manchester in tant many individuals of active June 1751. His father had rebenevolence, whose history is iden- sided there many years, and cartified with that of some of our most ried on an extensive and very reuseful religious institutions. When spectable business as a master such men as Leigh Richmond or builder. Of five sons, the deRobert Steven perish, it can scarce- ceased was the youngest the ly now be said that no man layeth younger of two daughters was the it to heart: devoted as their lives late Mrs. Martha Hope, who died were to the service of their Re- rather more than two years since, deemer, and honoured as the in- and who had long maintained an struments of extensive usefulness, honourable and consistent characa fear is likely to be entertained, ter as a member of Byrom Street even by those whose faith in the Church, and as an active but very promises of God is unshaken, that unassuming labourer in support of the loss of such men cannot easily many benevolent undertakings. be replaced; forgetting that God will never permit his work to be at a stand, and that instruments for carrying it on must be at the command of Him who hath "all power both in heaven and in earth." Engaged like them, (though the range of his benevolence was necessarily more circumscribed,) in active endeavours to enlarge the kingdom of our Redeemer, was Having completed his apprenticeship to a respectable manufacturer in Manchester, who gave pleasing testimony to the fidelity and value of his services, he re moved to Liverpool to assist ar elder brother, who was engaged in business. as a woollen draper. At this time his religious views were undecided. His father had for many years attended the ministry of a predecessor of the late H H Dr. Barnes: but the sentiments advocated by that minister, and till nearly the close of his life by Dr. B., not being congenial with Mr. Hope's views of the divinity of our Saviour, and the efficacy of his atoning sacrifice, he sought by an attendance at various places of worship, both within and out of the pale of the established Church, for preaching more accordant with his notions of Scriptural truth. His wishes were not fully gratified, till he became a hearer of the late Mr. S. Medley, in whom he found not only an acceptable preacher, but a valuable counsellor and friend. Praise shall employ my uobler powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures" so impressed his mind with a sense of the importance of consecrating every talent God had given him to the service most acceptable to its divine Author, that he deliberately determined from that time, never again to engage in singing any other songs than the songs of Zion, nor to seek the society of any but those with whom he might hope to join in the praise of his Redeemer through a glorious immortality. These resolutions, though adoptIt was during his occasional at- ed in the heyday of youth, when tendance at various places of wor- the character is generally unformship, which afforded him the op-ed, and susceptible of impression portunity of witnessing a very ge- from every passing incident, often neral neglect of the Sabbath, and yielding to the slightest temptaits fatal influence on the charac- tion, and seldom proof against the ters and conduct of many of his more powerful, were however reacquaintances, that he solemnly ligiously adhered to ever after; resolved, that wherever he might and he often spoke of them with ultimately determine his choice of gratitude, being convinced that he a gospel ministry, he would never was prompted to adopt them by allow in himself or those whom the Spirit of God, and that they providence might afterwards place had greatly contributed to his preunder his influence and controul, servation from the evils which are the desecration of that sacred day. in the world, and to his temporal Possessing, in connexion with an as well as his eternal welfare. agreeable person and address, great cheerfulness of spirits, a good voice, and considerable skill in music, his company was at this time very much courted; and this circumstance, had not God been pleased to make him sensible of its dangerous tendency, might have proved a fatal snare to the interests of his soul. His conscientious jealousy of himself, however, often led him to fear he was complying too much with the fashions of the world; and the singing in public worship of those beautiful lines in Dr. Watts' 140th psalm "I'll praise my Maker with my breath, And when my voice is lost in death, He soon became attached to Mr. Medley's ministry; and he found that profit from a constant attendance upon it, which he had in vain looked for elsewhere. Here he formed a friendship with many excellent families; out of one of them he selected a wife, who happily answered to the wise man's description, "a virtuous woman, whose price is far above rubies." United for forty-eight years, their connexion was holy and happy; walking together as fellow-heirs of the grace of life, they mutually aided each other in every good word and work, and their becoming examples gave a dignity to the |