and deep impression upon her mind. he never, never will! Jesus loves This was especially the case under poor Sarah. I long to be with him a sermon delivered by Dr. Stead--to be found one of his lambs" (alman a few weeks before her illness, from John, xxi. 15, “Feed my lambs." On her return from the house of God she expressed it as her great concern and her humble hope to be found among the lambs of Christ's flock, and with them to share in his constant and kind attention. When her illness commenced and became threatening, she expressed no wish to get better. Being asked how she felt in her mind, after much deliberation she replied with tears-" I fear I am not right; but I beg of the Lord to give me a new heart." And that text of scripture gave her great encouragement"Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." On hearing it repeated she once added, And him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out.' I long to go to Jesus, and to be with him." Those words, also, were frequently repeated by her-"Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not." 66 6 She was visited during the whole of her illness by the pious aged member of the church above-mentioned, whom she constantly requested to pray with her; and, upon her departure, would repeat the request, saying, to use her own language, "Matty, pray for me." . As ber illness increased, it became still more manifest that her whole desire was to go to Jesus; but she often expressed a desire to he more fully assured that Jesus loved her. On that text being repeated "I love them that love me," she exclaimed-"I believe that Jesus Christ loves poor Sarah. I long to go to Jesus. If I had a thousand tongues, they should all be employed in praising him." At another time she repeated with much energy those lines "Jesus, my God, I know his name; 66 Inding to the sermon above-mentioned). She continued to discover a strong attachment to the house of God, often repeating the words of David, "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness," adding frequently, or in a king's palace." Her mind was much occupied with the thoughts of heaven and the hope of going thither, as was evident from many expressions that dropped from her. After drinking a little water she said, "I shall soon drink of that water that springeth up unto everlasting life." Being asked if her eyes were dim, she smiled, and said in reply-"I shall soon "See the Canaan that I love With unbeclouded eyes." She often spoke of the sufferings of her dear Jesus, as she delighted to call him, admiring the love he manifested, and expressing her surprise at the evil treatment he endured. She was patient under her pain, which at times was very se vere. On her mother's telling her that she was pained to see her suffer so much, she replied, "You know, mother, that whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth:" and added, "Those are they that come out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. I shall never be weary when I get to heaven;" repeating that verse of Dr. Watts "There on a green and flowery mount, Being told that the next Saturday adding, with much animation, "No, me." In the course of her illness, cation, and was always moral and sober; and though subject to the common follies of youth, was kept from any gross acts of immorality. When a divine change was wrought in him, it was more imperceptible than in cases attended with great distress and horror which some experience. This occasioned at times some painful doubts respecting the reality of his religion. He was baptized January 12, 1781. It is so long time since, that I cannot remember the particulars of the experience he delivered before the church, but he was not subject to great distress or depression of mind on a religious account, nor favoured with those assurances and elevations of mind which some of the children of God express; but was in general in an even steady state of mind, relying on the free_sovereign grace of God, through the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ. she wished her eldest brother to | expected, received a religious educome to her bed-side, and entreated him to read his Bible, and to pray to God that he might be one of his dear children, and to look, as she expressed it, what an afflicted state she was brought into. She uniformly discovered a very strong attachment to good people: and, as a striking proof of this, she, in the early part of her illness, made it her request, that if she should not recover, her money which she had in her possession should be given to Christ's poor, and would not be satisfied until she had obtained a promise in the affirmative. It is scarcely necessary to say, that her request was punctually complied with. A few days previous to her death she was seized with a delirium, which not only interrupted the exercise of reason, but nearly took away her speech. But even then, at intervals, made it evident to her mother, that notwithstanding the severity of her sufferings, her mind was tranquil and happy. Many other expressions were uttered by her during her illness, but the above are selected as a specimen, as they may be useful to such as shall peruse this account; and in addition to the many others equally satisfactory, they furnish evidence to her bereaved parents, that though torn from their embrace, and removed in early life, she is removed to a better world; and though they have followed her cold remains to the grave with weeping eyes and aching hearts, yet they have this consolation, that according to the tenor of those words uttered by our gracious Redeemer over the corpse of the daughter of Jairus, which words were improved on occasion of her death" The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth." As to his religious sentiments, they were what is commonly called Calvinistic; and as a speculative man, he was in some things rather particular, but was a strenuous advocate for free inquiry, and exercised great candour and liberality towards those who differed from him, and was a firm friend to civil and religious liberty. He was a rare instance of filling up the various relations of life as a son, husband, father, brother, and friend, being affectionate, tender, kind, and faithful. As a neighbour, he conducted himself in such a manner as to engage general respect and esteem from people of all descriptions; was always ready to exercise kindness to all; and to the poor in particular, who looked up to him as their friend to settle their differences, and to assist them in various ways, which he was always ready and exerted himself to do; and those high in life treated MR. JOSEPH DUNTON was born him with marked respect. As a at Bedford, November 1, 1755, of man of business, the strictest ho-› pious parents, and descended from nesty and integrity marked his chapious ancestors: his venerable fa- racter; which, together with his ther was about sixty years a mem-uniform good nature and pleasant ber of the church at Southill in this temper, procured him that portion county. Mr. Dunton, as might be of esteem he so well deserved. MR. DUNTON. His capacity and information were certainly above the common standard. I am aware that much of the foregoing might be the fruits of the gifts of Nature, but in him they were, I trust, sanctified by the grace of God. the night of Lord's-day, Oct. 12, 1817, aged sixty-two. M. M. MRS. M. A. COULTART. Thus my valued and much respected friend lived beloved, and died lamented, as was manifest by the abundant sorrow that was expressed at his funeral, by those who He passed through a long and testified that he was the most use painful affliction of the dropsy: dur-ful individual they had ever known ing which he used to say, "I feel in that neighbourhood. myself a poor, guilty, miserable Bedford. sinner, and depend wholly on Christ for salvation;" with those expressions "God be merciful to me a sinner"-"Save, Lord, or I perish." Thus he lived, and thus he died: and during his long and heavy affliction he was remarkably calm and composed, not a murmur escaped his lips, but was cheerfully resigned to the sovereign will of God to the last. To which I may add, “Mark the upright, for the end of that man is peace." It is remarkable, that he often expressed his dread of dying, and his heavenly Father was pleased to prevent all his fears, for he died while asleep, without a groan or struggle, late in THIS holy, humble, and devoted follower of the Redeemer, the wife of the Rev. James Coultart, Baptist missionary in the West Indies, finished her mortal course on the 8th of October, 1817, in the island of Jamaica, whither she had accompanied her husband but a few months before for the express purpose of making known among the heathen the "unsearchable riches of Christ."-Some further particulars may be expected in our next. Review. Correspondence between a Mother and her Daughter at School. By Mrs. Taylor, Author of " Maternal Solicitude," &c.; and Jane Taylor, Author of "Display," &c. Second Edition. Taylor and Hessey, Fleet-street. Price 5s. advancing the useful information, the religious improvement, and the intellectual gratification of the rising race. This is the day of their merciful visitation; the harvest of their opportunities. If, then, in circumstances so favourable for the acquisition of knowledge, they remain ignorant of almost every thing which is worth knowing, there will be nothing to alleviate their comfortless situation in old age, when they will find themselves destitute of those sources of rational enjoy THERE is a subordinate sense, though by no means an unimportant one, in which it may be said to the young people of this highly-favoured isle, Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear, what has not been seen or heard in any other country, nor witnessed atment, any former time, even in this happy land. We refer to the unprecedented exertions which are made, and the innumerable, and still-increasing, facilities which are adopted, for VOL. X and mental satisfaction, which, by diligently attending to those means of instruction which they possessed in early life, they might have secured. How pitiable ! How deplorable to beg in winter! K And, in a situation so humiliating | she enjoys, might easily be accountand wretched, how cutting will be the reflection, that this poverty is the result of not working in harvest. But, alas! how much more intolerable will be the condition of those, who, in another world, in a state of utter destitution, and remediless ruin, will have to say, in reference to their religious opportunities, and the means of salvation, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved!" ed for. The superiority of her talents, and the fascinations of her style, connected with evangelical sentiments, and a constant choice of interesting subjects, and the sweet combination of all these in her exertions to increase the improvement, and heighten the felicity of her readers, by perpetually directing their minds to the contemplation of the most important topics, the tendency of which is to correct their mistakes, to expand their faculties, and purify their affections; these things are quite sufficient to account for, to secure, and to increase that share of merited esteem into which she has long These remarks are designed to impress our young, friends with a just apprehension of the magnitude of their privileges, and their consequent proportionable responsibility; and by no means to insinuate, that Miss Taylor is only capable of writ-been rising. ing for young people; though that were no small attainment, particularly when rendered agreeable and entertaining to the better informed part of juvenile readers. On the contrary, we conceive that those elderly persons who cannot obtain considerable advantage from her publications, must be either very wise, or immensely stupid; we will not pretend to determine which, but we entreat them to examine. Before they condemn a writer, in a manner which has become contemptibly common-place, as being 'pretty and flowery,' with a long et cetera, equally senseless and disgusting, because applied without discrimination to whatever they dislike, or do not understand; let them seriously inquire where the fault really lies; whether that want of interest and importance, of which they complain, ought to be attributed to the incfficiency of the agent, or the insensibility of the subject. | Miss Taylor is in possession of toe great a portion of well-earned fame, and enjoys too large a share of the sanction and patronage of the religious public, to be much concerned about the opinion of reviewers. Her eminent qualifications for writing, and the peculiar beauty, and singular usefulness of the productions of her pen, are very extensively known, and, we believe, entirely undisputed. And it must be admitted, that the admirers and purchasers of the works of Mrs. and the Misses Taylor, do as much credit to their own discernment and taste, as they confer honour upon their fair and favourite authoresses. We cannot refrain observing by the way, that the popularity which they enjoy, brings to our recollection a remark made by a very accurate observer of men and things—the late Rev. Richard Cecil, minister of St. John's Chapel :-"Let us do the world justice. It has seldom found a conBut though it is allowed, that siderate, accommodating, and genMiss Taylor's writings are neither tle, but withal, earnest, heavenly, intended nor calculated exclusively and enlightened teacher. When it for the young; it must be acknow- has found such, truth has received a ledged, that, while she is deservedly very general attention." Here the rising in the estimation of the reli- principle is illustrated and confirmgious public at large, this is particu-ed, though in a different, but not larly the case with the juvenile less appropriate, application. branches of our families; and more particularly still with our daughters, including also our sisters, our wives, and our mothers. Were it neces sary, both the general, and the more specific kind of popularity which But we must address ourselves more particularly to our present task, which is to give some account of the book before us; a task, however, which, though very agreeable, is by no means easy; for, how cau a reviewer multiply remarks? or what | developing the springs of action, and frequently shows them to be bad, or at least defective, in many pursuits and engagements in which young people, and old people too, are very apt to congratulate themselves on the purity of their motives. We acknowledge, that she has often can he find to say, with the conviction in full force upon his mind, that, in reference to the work under consideration, in general, and almost without an exception, reproof would be unjust; correction, superfluous; advice, impertinent; and commendation unnecessary. What all ad-detected us, where we had not bemire, needs neither improvement nor eulogium. Perhaps it might be sufficient to say, that the present volume is not inferior to any of its predecessors. Indeed, we know not whether this would not be rather too much; for we almost suspect it is not quite equal to Miss Taylor's previous publication" Display: a Tale." On this beautiful piece, we do not recollect having given our opinion as reviewers; but it is a favourite book in our juvenile libraries, and we have repeatedly read it to our young people and our wives with great delight. We are inclined, upon the whole, to consider this as the master-piece of the family. Perhaps the composition of the Correspondence is not quite so polished; but then, of course, it is softer and warmer and if the thinking is not equally pointed, it is more natural, and not less useful. But, without minutely weighing the comparative merit of the present volume, we may observe, that it abounds with original, striking, and acute remarks on many very common topics. Miss Taylor very justly observes, that "it is of great consequence | that we learn to distinguish between the trifling and the real in every thing." She seems constantly alive to a remark made by a great genius, Robinson of Cambridge, which he stated with his own peculiar simplicity and point, when he said, "If we would ascertain what is right, we must distinguish what is from what ought to be." The great object always in hand, and ever upon her heart, is to show the immense value and indispensible importance of informing the mind, training it to habits of thinking, regulating the temper, and forming the character of young people to intellectual and moral excellence. She excels in fore suspected ourselves. In this respect her talents are peculiarly striking, and, for her years, we think, perfectly unparalleled ; resulting, we presume, from the vigilance and severity of her self-examination, and the consequent and commensurate extent of her self-knowledge; for we seldom suspect another of that to which we have never felt inclined ourselves. The composition of this volume is very correct, and equally chaste. She has most completely acquired the art of concealing the pains which have been bestowed upon it. Every page has been most severely chastised, though no marks of violence or displeasure appear to a common observer. We apprehend no person can form a' just estimate of the la bour which such writing incurs, except those who are determined to write as well, and who know from experience that it is not to be done at the first dash. We have perceived scarcely half a dozen obscure or awkwardly constructed sentences in the whole book. She seems to act most determinedly on Lord Chesterfield's principle, that "Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well." No author, we imagine, should allow himself to say paragraph, or this sentence, is not so good as it might have been; but it will do.' Even if he were able to say, and to say with justice, 'It is better now than most other people can do,' that were nothing to the purpose. Any mental apology of this kind would increase the very fault which it were intended to extenuate-indolence, and render the habit still more inveterate. Whatever is not as good as the author could make it, is not so good as it ought to be. He who writes for the press, and who expects the pecu niary remuneration and the patronage of the public, insults those This |