commons, and found means to lay the whole kingdom under contribution! These preachers must have been wonderfully obscure to do all this!

Dr. Hinde had seen both George II, and George III;-was a great admirer of Lord Chatham, the premier of his day. He was devoted to his king and country, until the commencement of the American revolution; and then, with the distinguished patriot, Patrick Henry, took an active part in the American cause,-the VOL. I.-April, 1830.

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METHODIST MAGAZINE,

VOL. XII, No. 2.

AND

Quarterly Review.

APRIL, 1830. NEW SERIES-VOL. I, No. 2.

For the Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review.

RECOLLECTIONS OF DOCTOR THOMAS HINDE,

Who departed this life at Newport, Campbell county, Ky., Sept. 28, 1828, in the ninety-second year of his age.

THE writer of this sketch of recollections has been importuned to write the life of his father, the late Dr. Thomas Hinde. But having formerly furnished a short account of his experience, which was published in the Methodist Magazine, under the head of Short Sketches of Revivals of Religion in the Western Country,' it was thought that any further notice of this pious and godly man was not now necessary. Upon reflection, however, it was conceived that while subjects are fresh upon the mind, it would be well to gather up some fragments' of past recollections, which may be read with some degree of interest, and be profitable to the pious.

[Dr. Hinde was a surgeon in the army of the English general Wolfe.] Among his contemporaries at Quebec, Louisburg, &c, was the celebrated Dr. Meikle, who wrote 'Solitude Sweetened.' We have heard through the medium of orator Phillips's famous speech, of the far famed Widow Wilkins!' Her husband was one of the surgeons. Dr. Smollet was there. The very order of Christian people (the Methodists) whom Dr. Hinde, after his singular conversion, had claimed and joined as the most primitive in Christianity,-Dr. Smollet in his day (the days of the ignorance of these people) denounced, in his History of England, as fanatics! Many thousands,' says that doctor, 'in the lower ranks of life were infected with this species of enthusiasm, [religion I suppose, or what was then called Methodism,] by the unwearied endeavours of a few obscure preachers;-such as Whitefield and the two WESLEYS, who propagated their doctrine to the most remote corners of the British dominions, and found means to lay the whole kingdom under contribution!' These preachers must have been wonderfully obscure to do all this!

Dr. Hinde had seen both George II, and George III;-was a great admirer of Lord Chatham, the premier of his day. He was devoted to his king and country, until the commencement of the American revolution; and then, with the distinguished patriot, Patrick Henry, took an active part in the American cause,-the VOL. I.-April, 1830. 11