August 5th.-At Wavertree, Liverpool, Mary, the beloved wife of the Rev. Samuel Allen, Wesleyan minister, in the seventieth year of her age. Her education and her courtesy, deep devotion to God and to every department of His cause amongst the people of her choice, rendered her a great blessing in her sphere both at home and in foreign lands. An early union with the Methodists was never regretted and never disgraced. She "walked with God" in the morning, noon, and evening of life. Next to the Holy Scriptures, religious biography was her chief study, although her reading embraced a wide range of subjects. Punctual attendance at the house of God with her children about her, and other duties of active piety, marked the days of her health and vigour; and years of affliction were cheered by the attentions of filial piety and Christian friendship in no common degres. As death approached, great searchings of heart and strong evidences of humility were blended with joyous confidence in her Redeemer. Again and again she uttered with emotion the words, "O God, our help in ages past!" and "God is love." Calling for prayer and praise, she fell into a tranquil sleep, and died surrounded by her family, as her husband strove to enunciate, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me." S. A. August 18th.-At Cleobury, near Kidderminster, Mary Napper, sister of the late Rev. T. O. Keysell. She was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, in November, 1815. At the early age of five years, she became, as she believed, a subject of converting grace. For days and weeks the outflow of holy feeling was remarkable in the case of one so young. After a time the enemy of souls succeeded in robbing this "babe in Christ," and almost babe in years, of the evidence of her acceptance with God, and further succeeded, by artful tempta tion, in inducing complete silence on her part on the subject of her spiritual loss. At the age of twenty she joined the Wesleyan-Methodist Society at Kidderminster, and soon after succeeded in getting her brother Thomas, then a careless young man, to a religious meeting. Her sisterly solicitude issued in his conversion, and she had the great happiness of seeing the brother for whom she thus cared become a most devoted and successful minister of the Gospel. Notwithstanding the sincerity and Christian consistency of Miss Keysell, after her union with the people of God, and notwithstanding that she sustained a constant correspondence with so earnest a minister as her own brother Thomas, yet it was not until the year 1856 that she re-obtained an assurance of her acceptance with God through Christ. Her feelings during the long period referred to were thus described by herself: After "Even when I had not a clear sense of pardon, I had a great fear of offending God, and an overwhelming view of the greatness and majesty of the Supreme Being, which made me feel I was less thau nothing in His sight. But I had also an abiding hope that I should be saved and get to heaven." After she obtained "a knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins," her sky was bright and unclouded, and her confidence in her Saviour continued unshaken to the end of life. the removal of Mrs. Napper to Cleobury, she continued her membership in her old class at Kidderminster. Her leader there, with whom she met for thirty years, thus speaks of her:-"I well remember the pleasure I used to feel in listening to her Christian experience, which was clear and satisfactory. I remember her also as a steady and earnest Sunday-school teacher. She was not a selfish, sentimental Christian, but an earnest, working one." A few weeks before her death her leader visited her, and found her with "strong faith, settled peace, and a good hope of future glory." On the following Thursday she obtained unusually rich blessings, and learned afterwards that at the very hour when she felt so happy, they were praying for her at the class-meeting. Her language during her long affliction was frequently, "I am on the Rock; all is right; the devil has not been permitted to harass me once on that point; I have never had a doubt all through my afflic tion!" Her desire to depart and be with Christ at times was strong. At last she was released from the tabernacle of clay. She was not, for God took her. E. K. INDEX. GENERAL INDEX. Advancement in Christian knowledge, the Coke, Dr., referred to, 526, 637, 638 ARMY AND NAVY WORK, OUR. Aldershot: The Wimbledon column; Conscience clause in royal naval schools, Dover, 178, 273, 561 Dublin garrison, 563 Extracts from letters of officers, Malta, 369, 563, 657, 1042, 1137 Portsmouth garrison, 561 Prayer encouraged in the royal navy, Augustine's "City of God," 1072 Beal, Rev. William, short account of, 699, Bible, the English: some reasons for a Biblical archeology, progress of, 792 Callaway, Rev. John, notice of, 606, 67. Cennick, Rev. John, Lotice of, 236 China. See Williamson's Journeys, and Christian ethics: Truth, 528 of, in reference to the Shetland Mission, VOL. XVII.-FIFTH SERIES. DIVINITY. Faith and sight, (Hebrews xi. 1,) 1065 "Father, forgive them :" a Good Friday meditation, (Luke xxiii. 34,) 294 The greatness and glory of the Chris- The talents, (Matthew xxv. 14-30,) The two issues of the Gospel, (2 Co- "Yea, hath God said?" (Genesis iii. See under GLANCE AT Dorner's History of Protestant Theology, The Meath election-The Franco- The opening of Parliament: the The Judicial Committee of Privy The state of Paris-The parliament- The Parisian commune-' " France: Communism and the In- The conflict between capital and The Alt-Catholics and the Papacy- Ireland: the educational demands of HOME-MISSIONARY CORRESPOND- Home-Missions and the Conference of Hyde: Denton, 466 Juvenile Home and Foreign Missionary Liverpool: Pitt-street, $55 Saddleworth, 181 St. Alban's: Watford, 371 The Annual Wesleyan Home-Mission Whitchurch: Ellesmere, 276, 659 Windsor: Chertsey, 53 Zetland Islands: Lerwick, 467- Hora Biblica. No. CV. Ezekiel's mis- India, a corner of: Travancore and its Ireland. See Protestant Episcopal Italy. See under GLANCE AT PUBLIC Haggerston and York-A contrast, Lackington, Mr. James, notice of, 603 465 LITERARY NOTICES. A Life's Labours in South Africa: the Aids to Daily Meditation, 1123 Barnes's "Evidences of Christianity in Bishop's "Human Power in the Divine Bruce's "Training of the Twelve," 928 8:2 Calvert and Williams's "Missionary Labours among the Cannibals, with of Mind, Morals, and Religion," 848 Doren's "Suggestive Commentary on Foster's "New Cyclopædia of Illustra- Frame's "Original Sin: an Essay on Gledstone's Life and Travels of LITERARY NOTICES, continued. Gregory's "Thorough Business Man: Hall's "Pilgrim Songs in Cloud and Hefele's" History of Christian Councils, 66 Seven Hislop's "Two Babylons," 850 Ingham's" Christian Baptism: its sub- Jobson's "Official Charge to Young Johnstone's (James) "Signs of the Memorials of his Life, Character, and Kennedy's "Four Lectures on the 929 Keshub Chunder Sen, Lectures and Kinloch's (Lord) "Readings in Holy Langley's "Life on the Waves; or, Lubbock's "Origin of Civilization, Lyth's "What shall we Read? or, The Maclaren's "Pattern of Service," 744 Macpherson's "Life and Labours of Macready's (Catherine) "Devotional Man's "Life Problems answered in Medd's "Practical Steps towards Home Missionary Anecdotes, 68 Moister's "History of Wesleyan Mis- Oosterzee's "Theology of the New Tes- Osborn's "The Holy Spirit: His Work Parker's "Ad Clerum: Advice Anthropology of the Bible, 354 Rigg's "Relations of John Wesley and Smeaton's Doctrine of the Atone- Stanford's "Power in Weakness," 68 Threescore and Ten: A Memorial of the late Albert Barnes, 1125 Turner's "The Promise of the Father: Thoughts on the Mission of the Holy "Poetical Works," Vol. X., 252- Williams's "Life of the Rev. Joseph Wylie's "Impending Crisis of the Luther, Dr. Martin, his relation to the Manchester and its Conferences, 636 Melancthon, Philip, and the Reformation, Memorials of a missionary's wife: with MISSIONARY SOCIETY, WESLEYAN, Africa, Western: Gambia, 176-Sierra Anniversary of the Society. Anenal Meeting: abstract of the Report, China: Wuchang, 364-Hackow, 366 India: Mysore, 174-Calcutta, 751 Notices," 174, 269 Polynesia: Fiji, 1133 Rome, 176 West Indies: Jamaica, 27-Hon- Receipts of the principal Foreign Ms- Modern scepticism, 109) Napoleon III. See The fall of the second 305 Olivers, Rev. Thomas, referred to, 31S Pilmoor, Rev. Joseph, notice of, 419 Have faith in God," by John Caspar "Jesus wept," by William Leighton, 462 |