place more than in Montreal, where his name and his memory are greatly revered. 1 As a slight extension of the notice in Mr. Lang's case, I might state, that his parents removed to England, when he was very young; and that they settled in Preston, in Lancashire. They were both Methodists, and were successful in their endeavours to train up their child in the same way, and to lead him in the same path. As a Sabbath-school scholar, he was distinguished above all his juvenile contemporaries, for propriety of conduct, and proficiency in learning; and when at a very early age, he was promoted to be a Sabbath-school teacher. A consciousness of his responsibility was evidenced by the manner in which he performed his duty. During the subsistence of the first union between the British and Canadian Conferences, the subject of these remarks laboured under the direction of the latter body, and was greatly esteemed throughout Western Canada. He advanced the interests of Methodism, in that part of the Province, in many ways; but especially while he filled the office of book-steward in Toronto, and while he presided over the Bay of Quinte District. Mr. Bamford was universally known and beloved through all the Lower Provinces. It is stated in the official record of his death, that he had been in the army for fourteen years; and in connection with that fact, I would merely observe that he belonged to the 29th foot-that he served in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798-that his regiment formed a part of "the Walcheren Expedition"— that he was present at the siege of "Bergen-opZoom"-and that he was wounded there. This corps afterwards acquired great distinction during the Peninsular war, and was for some time a part of the fifth, or fighting division. It also formed a portion of the force engaged in the Punjaub, and in other parts of India, and suffered severely in the battle of Aliwal. Mr. Bamford was born in Nottinghamshire, England-was first awakened to a sense of his lost condition as a sinner, under the preaching of the celebrated Samuel Bradburn, and was brought to the enjoyment of the pardoning mercy of God in Kilkenny, Ireland. The 29th, and one of the militia regiments constituted, at that period, the garrison of Kilkenny; and the zeal and love which afterwards formed such prominent features of his ministerial character, manifested themselves in his endeavours to bring his fellow-soldiers to a knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins. His laudable efforts were opposed in various ways; derision, contempt, persecution, tried their influence, but in vain. Zeal for the glory of God, and love for the souls of men, enabled him to endure, to persevere, and to conquer. And in the barracks-under all the disadvantages of military restriction, and when the kingdom was agitated by sedition and rebellion, the Almighty owned and blest his labours; so that even then he gathered the first fruits of the abundant harvest he reaped in subsequent years, and in other portions of the vineyard. This chapter, so far, has been written on the very confines of the grave-at the entrance of the valley of the shadow of death. While I have been engaged upon it, I have been meditating among tombs, and writing epitaphs-walking through a remote lane or alley of the great city of the dead, startled at the sound of my own footsteps, and overcome by the force and character of my own recollections. But thanks be to the Lord, a beam of heavenly light, emanating from the throne of God and the Lamb, irradiates, yea, dispels this darkness; the voice of Jesus proclaiming himself to be "the Resurrection and the Life," animates this solemn stillness; and "a thousand oracles divine" assure us that this corruption shall put on incorruption-that this mortal shall put on immortality-that death shall be swallowed up in victory-and that all who die in Jesus, shall reign with him in glory ever lasting. "Let sickness blast, and death devour, CHAPTER XV. LANGUAGES IN THE ROMISH LITURGY-REMARKS ON THE ISTERS' HOUSES-REMARKS ON THE WESLEYAN MIS- THE Church of Rome endeavours to justify the use of the dead languages in her ritual, by alleging that they were used in the triple inscription upon the cross: "And a superscription also was written over him, in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, this is the king of the Jews."-Luke xxiii. 38. How far this is a plea for so strange a practice we leave the reader to decide. At the time of our Lord's death they were living languages, and spoken throughout the whole Roman empire; now they are dead languages, not understood by one thousandth part of the Romish laity; and many of the clergy themselves know but very little of Greek, and still less of Hebrew. When the writer was a young man there was no Professor of Hebrew in Maynooth, and there were two other Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Colleges in Ireland, namely, Car |