applies in its most awful sense. It was impossible to calculate the amount of spiritual injury which the individual, as well as the cause of the blessed Redeemer, hereby sustained.

A few years rolled on, when one of the offending party sickened. He was now particularly cautioned by his medical attendant to avoid all excitement and excess but the 'Court Leet' again drew near-he loved it was very popular at the meeting. He ventured to risk his remaining strength on forbidden ground: he took his full part in the proceedings of that last fatal day; and in that very room where he had ensnared the poor unsuspecting youth, and on the same occasion too, and also by drinking wine, he quickened the incipient disease in his constitution, which thenceforward rapidly progressed, and soon ended in death; his affairs also, like the poor youth's, became greatly embarrassed, and his splendid career went out in great darkness.

The other (his ungodly colleague in this transaction) survived two or three years longer. But at another feast-hated, unceremonious death rudely paid him an unexpected visit, in the following way. Whilst in the act of drinking wine, suddenly his taste became vitiated he cursed the waiter for bringing him such nauseous wine. In order somewhat to appease his wrath, another bottle was furnished; this also he equally cursed, although the waiter and the company alike bore testimony to its superior quality. "Then," said he, "I suppose that my cursed throat is out of order." He had however a few days more granted: that was all. When his mortal remains were being conveyed to the place where they were so soon to see corruption, it so happened that the mournful procession passed a certain ale-house, where a number of the lower class were purposely assembled to witness it; on its announcement there was a simultaneous burst of bacchanalian joy manifested, at the thought of their iron-hearted parochial enemy being for ever removed; and they actually called for

more liquor, in order, as they said, to celebrate the glad event. "His cursed body,” said they, “is gone to the grave-his soul to

"There are no acts of pardon past,
In the cold grave to which we haste;
But darkness, death, and long despair,
Reign in eternal silence there."

"Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."MATT. vii. 14

"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”—Rev. xx. 12.

"O holy and most merciful Saviour deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour, for any pains of death to fall from thee."BURIAL SERVICE.”

"November 28th, 1836. I was this day appointed to the office of Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Warminster District, under the new Registration Act. An objection having been stated from an influential quarter, that I was not eligible to the office, because I was what was called a dissenting minister; and therefore I should use that influence to proselyte persons to my persuasion.' [N.B.-I humbly hope that my persuasion, as it is called, is pure christianity, if not, I must be in an awful state indeed.] Finding that the said objection was likely to have weight if made at the time of election, I anticipated it, by previously writing the following letter to the chairman who was expected then to preside :—

'Sir,-After your suggestions made to me this

morning, I referred to the register of baptisms kept at our chapel, and the result is, that, after possessing parochial influence, as assistant overseer of the poor of this parish for eighteen years, over two thousand individuals; and ministerial influence over five hundred; after distributing, as secretary to the Warminster bible association, sixteen hundred copies of the scriptures among the poor of this parish; circulating ten thousand tracts; administering medical electricity for years, gratis, to hundreds; furnishing hogsheads of wine to the poor in their sickness; assisting yearly in the distribution of the Christmas gifts; and addressing them at the chapel two thousand five hundred times; I have only baptized twelve children. So, it appears, that my zeal for proselytism has not

been fervent.'

This letter carried full conviction with it. When the influential character alluded to raised the said objection, it was met by this letter, and I had all the votes of the meeting excepting two (namely himself and his tenant): there were twenty-five voters. When I subsequently thanked the said chairman, for the valuable support which he had so kindly given me on this occasion, he told me that he had previously communicated the contents of my letter to the vicar (Rev. W. D.) who said that he believed they were true. New vows, Thy vows, are upon me, O Lord! So I find that serving Thy poor, in the gospel of Thy Son, has not at all injured me in temporal concerns yet: be it understood, that I am obliged to accept any lawful pecuniary help offered, because of the great demand continually made on me in this way, to carry on His blessed work at the Common."

"December 28th, 1836. Tea-meetings as usual, with the same solid pleasure and profit. But, notwithstanding this season of the year is generally expected to associate therewith great joy and gladness -death-cruel, inexorable, interposing death, has been again blasting sensual enjoyments and causing some families to 'go softly.'

'Green as a bay-tree, ever green,
With its new foliage on,

The gay, the thoughtless, I have seen;

I passed, and they were gone.'

'O Lord, how soon is the fig-tree which Thou cursedst withered away.' And what am I? A poor pensioner on Thy daily bounty; nothing else! So teach me to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wisdom.""

"Dec. 28th, 1836. We have had sadly to mourn this season, on account of the immense injury done to the cause of God by the almost universal ungodly feasting. Christmas Day came this year on the Sabbath, and the attendance on Divine worship was most disgraceful, not half the usual number were there; even the Sunday-school children greatly partook of the unhallowed joy. Drunkenness and gluttony prevailing everywhere, giving birth to mournful calculations; distressing the ministers—. strengthening infidelity-creating plenty of new work for repentance. Depend upon it, it will be a long while before the lost spiritual ground will be recovered and the iniquity purged. Ŏ soul-destroying, Goddishonoring conduct, thus treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgments of God.”

MEDICAL ELECTRICITY.

CASE 57. Aged fifteen.-Deafness for half a year; broken chilblains; weak eyes-could see but little on one of them. Chilblains cured, sparks twice; sight and hearing benefited.

58. Aged twenty-five. -Scorbutic eruption all over her face for the last seven years. Sparks a fortnight; perfectly cured.

59. Aged sixty-four.-Rheumatism, could not raise her arm to her head. Sparks twice; perfectly cured.

60. Aged fourteen.-Wen in her neck for a considerable time. Sparks; great benefit.

61. Aged thirty.-Swollen knee for a month, could not walk, occasioned by a violent bruise-it resisted all medical applications. Ten applications of sparks chiefly; perfectly cured.

CHAPTER XVII.

INFLUENZA AND TYPHUS-FEVER LET LOOSE MOST GRIEVOUSLY ON THE WHOLE KINGDOM; MISSIONARY AND OTHER MEETINGS; NEW GALLERY ERECTED IN THE CHAPEL; FUNERAL SERMONS; AND OTHER INFORMATION.

"JANUARY 18th, 1837. An angry God has taken up the above insult so grossly offered to His truth, to His ministers, to His holy day and people, and is beginning terribly to avenge the just quarrel of His covenant. Truly our God is now a consuming fire. The influenza and typhus-fever are let loose on the guilty nation: thousands are already 'turning their faces to the wall,' or are made to go softly.' In this town the influenza is rapidly advancing; almost every house has sickness in it. Every Sabbath I am compelled by the signs of the times to lift up my voice as a trumpet, and to shew the people their sins. I can scarcely think of preaching any consolation; the wrath of God is so clearly revealed and so fearfully working."

"January 30th, 1837. The last week has been a week of most awful visitation throughout the kingdom. Guilty England has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Truly it is now found a fearful thing indeed to fall into the hands of the living God. The late Christmas Sabbath-breaking and soul-destroying bacchanalian feasting has been quickly turned into grievous mourning and lamentation. What the people then profanely swallowed down, God most high in His righteous wrath, has made them truly to