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ELEGY,

In Lichfield Cathedral, on a Monument erected to the Memory of Lucy, Wife of Dr. William Grove, of Lichfield Close.

GRIEF, love, and gratitude devote this stone,

To her whose virtues bless'd a husband's life,
When late in duty's sphere she mildly shone
As friend, as sister, daughter, mother, wife.
In the bright morn of beauty, joy, and wealth,
Insidious Palsy near his victim drew;
Dash'd from her youthful hand the cup of health
And round her limbs his numbing fetters threw.
Year after year her Christian firmness strove
To check the rising sigh, the tear repress;
Soothe with soft smiles the fears of anxious love,
And Heaven's correcting hand in silence bless.
Thus tried her faith, and thus prepared her heart,
The awful call at length the' Almighty gave;
She heard,-resign'd to linger or depart;
Bow'd her meek head, and sunk into the grave.

ANTICIPATION OF HEAVEN.

BY THE REV. H. H. MILMAN.
HALLELUJAH! Praise to God!
Now our earthly path is trod;
Pass'd are all our cares and fears;
Now we quit this vale of tears.
Hallelujah! King of kings!

Now our spirits spread their wings
To the mansions of the bless'd,
To thine everlasting rest.

A STARLIGHT MEDITATION.
BY JOHN BOWRING, ESQ.
AMIDST the harmony of thousand stars
I see thy glory. O transporting dreams!
Beautiful Visions of that land of joy
Reveal'd by God, and clad in starry light!
Delightful moment! when the gates of heaven
Glitter resplendently upon my view.

In that soft light, so sweetly shining now,
Amidst those visions, through the shades of time,
Beneath those stars which so serenely smile,
My heart shall be devoted, Lord, to thee!

Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street.

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GNADENTHAL lies about one hundred and twenty English miles from Capetown, in a direction nearly due east. It is the principal Missionary settlement of the United Brethren in South Africa.

The Mission among the Hottentots was begun in 1737, by George Schmidt, a man of remarkable zeal and courage, who settled at this place, then known by the name of Bavians-Kloof. The Hottentots heard the Gospel with attention, and he soon collected a small Christian congregation. He taught the youth to read Dutch, and instructed the people in several useful arts. In 1744, leaving them to the care of a pious man, he went to Europe, with a view to represent the promising state of the Mission, and to return with assistants. But, to his inexpressible grief and disappointment, he was not permitted by the Dutch East India Company to resume his labours; some ignorant people having insinuated, that the propagation of Christianity among the Hottentots would injure the interests of the colony. From that time, to the year 1792, the Brethren did not cease to make application to the Dutch Government for leave to send Missionaries to the Cape; especially as they heard that the small Hottentot congregation had kept together for some time, in eager expectation of the return of their beloved teacher. M. Schmidt had left a Dutch New VOL. XIV.

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Testament with them, which they read together for their edification.

At length, in 1792, by the mercy of God, and the kind interference of friends in the Dutch Government, leave was given to send out three Missionaries; who, on their arrival, were willing, at the desire of the Governor, to go first to Bavians-Kloof, and there to commence their labours, on the same spot where M. Schmidt had resided. Instructions from the Government of Holland directed them to choose the place of their residence, wherever they might find it most convenient; but the circumstances of the colony at that time would not admit of it.

The English having made themselves masters of the colony in 1796, the Brethren were permitted to build a church; and by the favour which the British Government has uniformly shown to the Brethren's Missions, they now remain undisturbed and protected in their civil and religious liberty.

In 1792, when the three Missionaries, Henry Marsveld, Daniel Schwinn, and John Christian Kuehnel, came hither, they found an old woman, Helena, baptized by M. Schmidt, still alive; who delivered to them the Testament he had given her. But few vestiges of his dwelling remained. The place was a perfect wilderness. At present thirteen hundred Hottentots inhabit the village. The name Gnadenthal was given to it by the Dutch Governor Jansen.

In the year 1816, this interesting place was visited by the Rev. C. J. Latrobe; who gives the following delightful account of it. We spent the first afternoon after our arrival in walking through part of the settlement. Out of every house and hut, men, women, and children, came forth with friendly faces to meet us, and to testify their joy at our arrival. Having observed to some of the inhabitants who live near the church, that the place before their houses was not kept in good order, and Brother Bonatz adding, that I was De Heer, of whom he had told them, that he would come from Europe to see them, and expected to find cleanliness and order established through the whole village, they fell to work, and in half an hour removed all the rubbish and ashes lying about their houses; promising that I should never see such dis

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