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away from the Churches, the reproach of neglecting to support the ministry of the word. They will be unwilling to receive for nothing that which has cost their ministers much.

Finally, brethren, "be ye steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. RICHARD FURMAN, President.

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Mrs. HANNAH SAUNDERS.

The following account was drawn up by a friend, whose af fection for the deceased was unfeigned, and whose opportunities of conversing with her were very frequent.

Mrs. Hannah Saunders was born in London Aug. 1747. Her mother, being truly serious, endeavoured to bring up her children in the fear of God. Mrs. S. at an early age, attended with her mother on the ministry of that eminent servant of Christ, the late Rev. George Whitfield, under whose" discourses she often felt a deep sense of her lost state by nature, and her need of an interest in the Lord Jesus, the only Saviour of guilty creatures.

About the year 1763, being then sixteen years of age, she made a public profession of her faith in Christ, was baptized and received a member into the Church of Christ meeting in Eagle Street, then under the pastoral care of Dr. Gifford, where she continued a member till some time after her marriage with Mr. Saunders, when she was dismissed to the Church under the care of the Rev. J. Martin; then meeting in Grafton Street, Soho,

In a serious and constant attendance on all the ordinances of God's house, she was enabled by

divine grace to fill up her place in this Church. Her unwearied attention to the afflicted, and her tender, judicious, and persevering regard to the necessities of the poor. are well known, and in which she has seldom been equal. led. In attending to the relative duties of her character, many can testify that her chief aim was to promote the present happiness and eternal welfare of all around her, and by a steady uniform walk, for upwards of fifty years, to adorn the doctrine of God her Saviour in all things.

The memory of those that attended her during her last illness, supplies what remains to be stated, as to the many gracious expressions which fell from her lips in that period. From the time it pleased the Lord to lay his hand upon her, the state of her mind was tranquil, not being anxious as to the result of her affliction: she often said, "I am in good hands, let him do with me as seemeth him good." A sinner saved by grace; and, by the grace of God I am what I am, was her usual description of herself.

With one exception, it was never noticed that her mind, through her affliction, was distressed by temptations from the grand enemy of souls; on which occasion a friend observed, "I hope you are not in Bunyan's slough of despond?"

she replied," No; blessed be God,
I am not I shall yet praise him."
Asking her one morning, how she
found herself, she replied, "I am
very weak, so much so as to in-
capacitate me to look up to God; I
hope you all pray for me." On
being told she was never forgotten
at a throne of grace, she replied,
"Yes, I know you all do pray for
me, but it is a finished salvation,
there remains nothing for me to
do, I shall be complete in him, Oh
may I be found in him." A friend
calling to see her, in the course of
conversation, said, Do you not feel
the same need now as ever to come
to Christ as a guilty sinner? She
replied, "I am a poor sinner, yet
leaning on a sweet Saviour, I have
no other hope but in him."

After passing a restless night,
when asked in the morning how
she found herself, she replied, "but
poorly, yet I can rejoice in the
Lord, believing he is my God and
my Saviour."
Passing another
restless night, she said "I scarce-
ly know where I am, but it mat-
ters not, I shall be found in Him."
After very wearisome nights, she
would often say, they have been
good nights to me, I have enjoyed
much of the presence of my God."
Frequently when she appeared
dozing, with lifted hands she would
express earnest ejaculations for
support and patience. "Lord
have mercy upon me;" was her
continual prayer; at other times
she would exclaim, “ My Lord
and my God." One evening, not
knowing any person was near her,
with great vehemence she exclaim-
ed "No: he hath not forgotten to
be gracious." She added, "He
is a God full of compassion and
gracious, long-suffering and plen-
teous in mercy and truth, pardon-
ing iniquity, transgression and sin."
At another time, in reply to a friend
when asking how she was, she

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said, "Very poorly, but hanging on Christ, if I might use such an expression." Being asked if she wished to be raised in the bed, she exclaimed, "Dear Jesus raise me higher, Jesus is worthy to receive: honor and power divine." After an unexpected revival, she said, "I hoped it would not have been so, but that I should have been dismissed, if it had pleased God;" but added, this is cowardice, his righteous will be done," She often expressed great anxiety lest she should dishonor God by impatience, and begged that if, through the extreme pain she often felt, any restlessness was perceived, it might be excused.

The scriptures were a never failing source of enjoyment to her, and, while being read, she would often repeat, with peculiar emphasis, the close of verses she thought applicable to her situation; from which her confidence in God was apparent. Among the many pas-, sages which afforded her support, only the following can be recollected; "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory.-Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.--But my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus-Behold God is my. salvation, I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. He is also become my salvation-The Lord hath appeared of old unto me saying, yea I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee,

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God.-To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name

written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son."--she added, "and his daughter too, saith the Lord Almighty."

If any had occasion to be with her, who she thought lived in the neglect of prayer, she did not fail to exhort them to pray for themselves, and added, "You must die as well as myself." On the Lord's-day evening prior to her decease, when about to close the day by reading and prayer, she desired some other branches of the family might be called, on their entrance she said "Cannot we sing a hymn?" Being asked if she wished any particular one to be sung, she replied, I do not recollect any one in particular." A friend said, Jesus thy blood and righteousness; shall we sing that? She exclaimed “Oh yes!

Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed With joy shall I lift up my head," and, as far as her faltering voice would permit, joined in singing the whole of that hymn.

In the last interview she had with her dearest earthly friend, being the evening before her departure, she was somewhat revived, and conversed very freely with him being then asked if Christ were precious to her, she replied: "For these two last days the fever has been so bad that my enjoyments have not been as formerly," but added with emphasis, "I am feeling for him." She took her leave of her dear husband as usual by commending him to God, not supposing that this was to be her last interview with him in the present state, or that her dissolution was so nigh.

Shortly after, a change was perceived to have taken place, her medical friend was immediately applied to, who on seeing her,

pronounced her removal at hand. She was prevented by the nature of her complaint from speaking for a considerable time before her death

she gradually declined, and shortly after 12 o' clock on Saturday morning July 30, 1814, this saint of God fell asleep in Jesus. Surely, "blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." Amen, Amen.

Aug. 5. She was interred in a family grave, Bunhill Fields; her aged Pastor, for whom she indulged the most respectful and affectionate sentiments, was present, though his infirmities prevented his speaking. Mr. Keene delivered the address on the occasion, and the following Lord's-day Mr. Pritchard attempted an improvement of the providence, at Keppel Street, in a discourse from Psa. lxxvii. 26.

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MRS. NICHOLSON.

Mrs. Nicholson was the widow of the late Rev. T. Skinner, Baptist Minister at Newcastle upon Tyne. She was a native of Uffculm in Devonshire, where she was brought up by her parents in uniform attendance at the established Church. At a very early period of life she lost all relish for the vain amusements aud unsatisfying pleasures of this world, and discovered a mind strongly in clined to spirituality and devotion.

Being invited on a certain occasion, to go to a dissenting Chapel, she heard a Sermon from Mal. iii. 16. Then they that feared the Lord, &c. which made a more than ordinary impression on her mind. Her inquiry was, "Where are they that fear the Lord to be found? O that I were one of them! then should I be happy with them here, and be numbered amongst them in that day when God maketh up his Jewels." After various ex

ercises of mind for a considerable time, and repeated attendance on the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Lewis, she made a profession of her faith in Christ, was baptized by him and received into the church.

Soon after this she became acquainted with the late Rev. T. Skinner; to whom upon his leaving his studies under the late Dr. Evans of Bristol, and settlement at Clipstone, she was married, and with whom she lived as a faithful and most affectionate wife to the day of his death. After having resided several years at Clipstone they removed to Towcester, where they spent ten years. The memory of Mr. and Mrs. Skinner in these places is still held in the highest esteem, and many have cause to bless the providence of God in bringing them thither..

In 1793 they removed to Newcastle upon Tyne, where they resided but two years, when Mr. Skinner was called to "enter into the joy of his Lord." After nine years in widowhood, Mrs. S. was again married, to a Mr. Nicholson of Sunderland with whom she lived nine years in much comfort, and who still survives her.

Early in the summer of 1813 she was attacked with complaints of a very alarming nature, which, however, contrary to the expectations of her friends, nearly left her at the close of it. But in December following they returned again with increased violence. Then was the time that hope full of immortality triumphed over the weakness of human. nature: for, during her years of health and strength, death often appeared the king of terrors, and the grave affected her mind with gloom and dread; but "at eventide there was light." The nearer death approached her, the more evident she saw and felt her victory over it, through our Lord Jesus Christ. In a letter dated March 5, 1814,

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sbe wrote, "I have much to be thankful for to God that in this affliction his kindness has been so very great. His promises have been sweet and precious to my soul. Yes, my dear child, he is so good that I feel I can leave you in his faithful hands, and believe he will be your God and guide even unto death; when our hope, I trust, will be realized and we shall meet in a happier state." On the 22nd she again writes, "I trust I feel a love to God not mixed with any dread of death. I wish to resign myself into his merciful hands to do with me as seemeth good in his sight."

She was very remarkably supported by the recurrence of ap. propriate passages of Scripture to her mind; particularly Nahum i. 7. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, &c. and Colos. i. 20. And having made peace through the blood of his cross, &c. "The blood, (said she,) which cleanseth from all sin has ever been precious to my soul." The 305th of Rippon's Selection of Hymns,

"Jesus, lover of my soul,

Let me to thy bosom fly," &c. was repeated by her with devout feeling and enjoyment. Having taken to her room, she said, "This tabernacle must be dissolved; but O what a blessing! there is a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." She continued uuder her affliction till the 9th, during which Christ was the theme of her conversation and the joy of her soul. "I am going the way," said she "of all flesh; but I shall behold his face in righteousness-I shall be satisfied when I awake in his likeness."

The last words she was understood to say, were

Prepare me Lord for thy right hand,

Then come the joyful day;
Come death and some celestial band,
To bear my soul away."

R. P.

REVIEW.

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I beg leave to submit to you a few Remarks on a very extraordinary Review of my " History of the propagation of Christianity," in the Evangelical Magazine for the month of August I trust you will have the goodness to communicate them to the public through the medium of your Magazine.

Though the review from beginning to end is little else than a series of gross, and I fear I may add of wilful, misrepresentation, I shall confiue my remarks to some of the more prominent particulars. I need scarcely observe, that I fully expected that the doubts which I have more than once expressed in my History, of the perfect correctness of Dr. Buchanan's statements, would excite some surprize, and subject me, perhaps, to severe animadversion, from some of the friends of religion. Of the grounds of these doubts I shall here say nothing; if I shall afterwards feel myself under the necessity of stating them, I shall do it in as fair and candid a manner as I can. But I must not pass in silence the way in which one passage connected with that subject is stated by the Reviewer. " Comparing (says he)the report of Dr. Buchanan of the natives converted by the Danish mission (obtained on the spot) with the account which Dr. Carey had received," our author adds, that "if the latter (which states them at 40,000,) be below the truth, Dr. Bu

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chanan's (which reckons them twice as numerous) we are convinced, is still further beyond it." That Dr. Buchanan obtained his information on the spot, as the Reviewer has here stated, is not merely a gratuitous supposition: it is in direct contradiction to what I have mentioned in the very passage from which the quotation is taken. My words are these: "Most people, it is likely, will be disposed to prefer Dr. Buchanans' statement, not only, as it is the largest, but because they suppose he would obtain his information on the spot, and therefore it is proper to remark, that he gave this account before the period of his visit to the Coromandel coast.' Now that this statement is correct, will appear from comparing the period when Dr. Buchanan gave this account, and the time of his journey to the coast of Coromandel. Any person, by referring to his "Christian Researches" will find that it was in the autumn of 1806 that he performed that visit; but this account was given in the year 1805, as appears from his own words in the first edition of his "Memoir on the expediency of an Ecclesiastical establishment for India." Through the divine blessing," says he, on this mission, an incalculable sum of happiness has been dispersed in India. From its commencement in the year 1705 to the present year 1805, it is computed that 80,000 natives, of all castes, in one district alone, forsaking their idols and their vices, have been added to the christian church." What then, shall we think of the veracity of a writer, who says, that Dr. Buchanan obtained his information upon the spot? Of that, certainly, the Reviewer had no evidence: and indeed, he makes the assertion in direct contradiction to the evidence that was before his eyes. It is utterly inconceivable that this could escape his observation; for the above quotation, which I have made from my history lies, in the very midst of the sentences of which he has selected such parts as seemed to suit his pur

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