After chimney, throwing ftones and dirt down it. As she went to the meeting they pelted her with ftones, calling her a hypocrite, with other names, and fent the children to fhout after her. This fhe endured with patience. One day the common crier gave notice through the town, that fome particular minifter would preach at the Methodist meeting in the evening: At that time fhe happened to be out of her houfe on fome bufinefs; and thefe malicious creatures, fuppofing fhe would go to the preaching, took the opportunity, in her abfence, of pouring water under the door of her habitation, till it was a confiderable depth in water. She returned foon after, and found it in that fituation. getting the water out, fhe went to inform a female acquaintance what had happened; and, on her return, found her houfe in the fame ftate as before. By the advice of her friend, fhe then went to feek another lodging; and, having found one, inftead of going to the meeting, fhe immediately got affiftance, and removed her goods the fame evening. She found reafon to repent of this hafty step:In the very fame yard, into which the had now removed, a number of bad women lived, and the perfon with whom fhe lodged received thefe unfortunate creatures into her houfe. Their perfecutions and infults could not be borne. -One of them, in particular, threatened her life, if the went to the meeting again. She was enabled, however, to break through all oppofition, and to attend the means of grace as ufual, confident that God would not fuffer them to hurt her. At length, the young man who vifited her in her diftrefs, procured her a lodging with one of his ferious friends. Now fhe feemed almoft in heaven; fhe could now go in and out, none daring to make her afraid-could meditate in peace on the gracious dealings of God with her foul, and receive the vifits of her Christian friends without molestation. About three months after her converfion fhe was admitted into the Methodist fociety, in which the continued while fhe lived, attending the means of grace among them, and with the independents occafionally, as long as the was able. She feemed to grow daily in an affecting difcovery of the evil of fin, and of her own vilenefs; and was often quite overwhelmed with a fenfe of the goodness of God, both with refpect to her temporal and fpiritual concerns. The kindness of her friends, which increased with her wants, was often acknowledged by her with the warmeft emotions of gratitude to God. She was frequently enabled to rejoice in the Lord with exceeding joy, though la bouring under the most dreadful pain, being literally full of wounds, the fad fruits of her former conduct. Sometimes her distracting torture tempted her to murmur, which occafioned great diftrefs, as the knew that her fufferings were the juft confequences of her fins, and that the deferved eternal mifery. She occafionally experienced great conflicts with Satan; but the Lord graciouíly interpofed, and brought her off more than conqueror. Several months before her death fhe was grievously afflicted, but, in general, very comfortable. On the Saturday preceding her diffolution, a friend called to fee her, and enquired after the state of her mind: She faid fhe was happy in God; longed to depart; and could fcarcely contain herself, fhe was fo filled with love to her bleffed Lord for his unbounded goodness to her. On the Monday, the perfon with whom the lodged said the was very comfortable in her mind; her fpirit foared beyond the fear of death; but, through extreme weakness, the could not speak much: And on the Tuefday, Nov. 20, 1798, he departed, we truft, to fing the praifes of that miraculous grace which fnatched her as a brand from the burning. From the foregoing narrative we fee, how fovereign, how powerful, and how fanctifying are the operations of divine grace! and what encouragement we have to pray, that it may interpofe for the converfion of the most abandoned cha racters! MANCUNIENSIS. REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD. (MISS KING, of Warley, aged Eight Years.) DEATH, which has given birth to fo many fears, and of sin. fo many forrows, is the natural and penal confequence "The wages of fin is death." It is often a perpetual terror to the mind: and many there are who "feel a thoufand deaths in fearing one ;" who are "all their lifetime fubject to bondage through the fear of death." This formidable enemy to human nature deftroys, and often at an unexpected moment, the blooming hopes of the fond parent! To-day the lovely offspring fmiles and is carreffed, to-morrow it fighs and is no more! How tranfient are all our earthly bleflings! Let us not fet our hearts upon them, but upon him who gave them, upon him who can restore them at pleasure. Death, in its harbingers, pining fickness and pale disease, agitates the mind and tries the heart. Oh, what fears! what hopes! every returning crisis calls up foreboding fears, and every alleviation brings back returning hopes. Say, ye affectionate parents, whofe lovely babes now lie fleeping in the dust, is it not thus? Death, whenever it enters our habitations, is doubtless one of the most folemn and striking warnings which we can have. Its natural language is like that of the holy prophet to King Hezekiah: "Thus faith the Lord, fet thine house "in order, for thou fhalt die and not live.' He that is not totally infenfible to his best interests; he who is not wholly regardless of eternity; in fhort, "he that hath an ear to "hear-let him hear !" Parents, who have difcharged their duty to their lovely offspring, have, upon their departure out of this world, no after thoughts to rack and torture their minds: When they have instructed them early in the knowledge of God's holy word, led them to his houfe of prayer, and, in the family, have prayed with them and for them: when they have exhibited before their infant eyes, a thousand times over, in their pious converfation, a bleeding Saviour, and have explained the wonders of his love.-This, profeffor, is acting the confiftent part, and glorifying God in the family.When parents have dedicated their children to God in their infancy, they should begin their instruction, in relation to the best things, as early as poffible. They may die, they may die soon. Teach them that they are finful polluted creatures; that they need a Saviour; that Jefus is an all-fufficient Saviour-and that out of the mouths of babes and fucklings he can perfect praife. The knowledge of Jefus Chrift, and faith in him, is the only cure for the fear of death. The bleeding crofs heals every wound, and cures every diforder that can be named. How glorious will be the final meeting of believing parents with their infant offspring in the regions of immortality, in the prefence of the Lord Jefus! All heaven will echo with the praises of the Son of God. Warley. "Attending angels clap their wings, T. H. To the Editor of the Evangelical Magazina. DEAR SIR, If the following remarkable and gracious interpofitions of Divine Providence in the moment of danger, may claim a place in the Evangelical Magazine, I can vouch for their authenticity; being an eye witnefs to the one, and having had the other related to me by an officer prefent, on whofe veracity I can depend. I am, dear Sir, Rochester. Your's affectionately, NAUTICUS. 'N December 1796, when the Bombay Castle, a feventy the Tagus, on the 26th and 27th of that month, while fhe was full of officers and men, to the amount of 800 or upwards, employed in endeavouring to get her off, it came on to blow an exceffive hard gale of wind, which foon raised a tremendous fea, making a fair breach over her; so that the most serious apprehenfions were entertained for the hands on board. The Admiral ordered all the boats and launches in the fleet to attend night and day, but there was no poffibility of getting near her: one or two boats that attempted it, were inftantly overfet in the furf, and their crews with difficulty picked up by the others. The night of the 27th was a dreadful one, the gale having encreased with renewed fury, fo that we hardly expected the unhappy fufferers would hold it out till morning; but by a very wonderful and gracious difplay of Divine Providence, at dawn of day on the 28th, suddenly the wind lulled, and the fea fell for about the fpace of two hours, when the officers in the boats and launchhovering about in the river, instantly seized the favoura ble moment, pushed along fide, and, by uncommon activity, refcued from the jaws of deftruction, the whole of the crew, without lofing a man.What is very remarkable, the laft boat had just put off from the wreck, when the wind and fea refumed their former violence, and totally baffled, for feveral days, all further attempts to fave any thing out of her. The fame evening, one of her officers who fat next to es VOL. II. Pp me at fupper, while we were talking of the wonderful deliverance, faid with an emphafis, which I think I never shall forget, "Infidels may deny a Divine Providence on fhore, but I'll defy them to do it at fea, where so many striking facts conftantly occur, to give them the lie."-They that go down to the fea in fhips, indeed fee the Lord's wonders in the deep. In that heavy ftorm, when the Courageux was unhappily loft, on the Barbary Coaft, and fo many of her crew perifhed, the Gibraltar was drove the fame dreadful night from her anchors, and in endeavouring to fetch out of the Bay into the Gut, ftruck, and ftuck faft upon a funken rock, where they expected fpeedy deftruction, there not being a gleam of hope that one foul could be faved; the rock laying at fome distance from the fhore, and the fea running mountains high. After ufing every effort in vain to get her off, they determined on cutting away the mafts; the axes were collected for that purpose, and juft as they had begun on the firft shroud, a heavy fea ftruck the fhip on the broadfide, with fuch amazing violence, that it fnapped off the rock on which the hung, and carrying the piece in her bottom, the darted off before the wind like an arrow, and got fafe into the Straits, the rock ftill remaining in her bottom for fome months, till fhe arrived in England. REASON AND RELIGION TRIUMPHING OVER SINFUL ANGER; OR THE SOLILOQUY OF AN INJURED CHRISTIAN. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. HOW PAUL. WOW weak is human nature! How prone are we to think of ourfelves more highly than we ought to think! It is not long fince I was congratulating myself on the progrefs I fuppofed I had made in the Chriftian virtues of patience, forbearance and forgivenefs. But alas! what little command had I over my angry paffions laft night, when I was reflecting on the injurious treatment I have received from one, who, by the obligations of common gra |