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at the divine footstool. We shall produce no confusion-our Father can fully comprehend the meaning of every thankful expression, though blended in its ascent with millions from other persous and languages! How perfect is God!

It is my earnest and devout endeavour to preach Christ, and to keep self behind. I think I would suffer any thing rather than not preach him, who, I hope, is more lovely every way to my soul than all besides. I feel I am a poor sinner, a weak Christian, labouring under the intolerable weight of a body of singroaning as I creep towards heaven. But, my brother, I cannot help weeping now for joy, that I feel also the omnipotent Jesus supports me! I have no moral strength-but my poor soul, with all its sin, weakness, and meanness, is cast on Jesus; and I feel too, that hell, with all its horrors, ought to be my portion, for being destitute of the most perfect love to him for one moment!

You will be happy to hear my congregation continues to increase. We are in a fair way to do well-I think it a mercy. I preach twice on the Sabbath-in the interval I teach some young men to read and sing; on Thursdays, in the evening, I preach also. Last Lord's-day evening improved the death of Mr. Adams place far too small for the congregation. I am willing to bear all things for the gospel's sake.

A later communication from Mr. Kitching, contains the mournful intelligence of the death of that excellent female Missionary, Mrs. Godden. This letter will appear in our next Number.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

come a herald of salvation, and through him the Word of Life will be sounded forth in all the regions round about. The Brethren have placed him under my care for instruction, and he is now studying books on divinity, writing English exercises, translating catechisms into the Tamul language. I have given him your sermons to translate, some of which he has preached to native Christians, and heathen, in their own tongue. I thought it prudent that he should do this at first, it being a means of storing his mind with Divine truth. It will also teach him the method observed in the composition of sermons. I trust God will keep him faithful; his conduct, since under my care, has been consist. ent; his disposition humble, and his concern for his countrymen such as affords satisfactory proof of his conversion to God, and his desire to honour Christ. Pray for him, I beseech you, that he may continue an ornament to the cause of our blessed Redeemer.

Since my arrival at Madras, I have had two public disputations with Brahmins, who actually requested an investigation into the Christian religion, when I undertook to prove the infinite superiority of the Christian scheme of salvation to any other, and the absurdity of idol worship, even upon rational principles, and the guilt attached to all who adhere to it. My house, on the first evening, was mins, and others of different castes, benumerously attended with both Brah

sides a number of the descendents of Europeans. On the second, it was crowded to excess, and my verandas, the natives. After making a number of both back and front, were occupied by inquiries with a view to ascertain the natural and moral tendency of their religion, and then to institute a comparison between it and the Christian, we were detained. The question I proposed ap

Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Corne-peared too intricate for the Brahmin's

lius Traveller, dated

Madras, May 12, 1819. THE Heathen are inquiring, becoming serious, and some are converted; one is united in Church-membership with us, and continues steadfast, notwithstanding the fierce persecution he has had to experience. I hope, ere long, he will be

solution; and being unable to give satisfaction, on being urged repeatedly to do so, he was severely animadverted upon by the numerous friends he had called together, and has since been the object of sport and derision of the greater part of his countrymen who were present on the occasion.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE obliging communication from J. B. St. Neot's, is duly received.

The thanks of the Committee are presented to Mrs. Moore, Heath-place, Hackneyroad, for Eight Volumes Evangelical, and One Volume Gospel Magazine; and to Mrs. Flight, St. Mary Axe, for a number of School Books, &c. for the use of the Mission in India.

London: Printed by J. BARFIELD, 91, Wardour-street, Solo.

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Engraved for the Baptist Magazine. & Pablished by W. Whittemore, Paternoster Row, March 1820.

THE

Baptist Magazine.

MARCH, 1820.

His late Majesty George the Third."

"GEORGE is the name, that glorious star;
Ye saw his glories beaming far;
Saw in the East your joys arise,
When Anna sunk in western skies,

Streaking the heavens with crimson gloom,
Emblems of tyranny and Rome,
Portending blood and night to come.
Twas George diffus'd a vital ray,
And gave the dying nations day."t

DR. WATTS.

THE anticipations of our admirable Poet, respecting the blessings which would accrue to these nations from the defeat of the measures which were pursued during the last four years of Queen Anne, measures which portended tyranny and blood,have been fully realized in the secure enjoyment of civil and religious liberty under the illustrious reign of each successive Sovereign of the House of Brunswick; but in neither of the former reigns, in so marked and distinguished a manner as during that of our late august and lamented Monarch.

Feeling, as we do, that, as Protestant Dissenters, we are principally indebted for the continuance and enlargement of our religious privileges, to the justice and affection of the late King, we should be inexcusably criminal were we not to seize the present mournful opportunity of recording the gratitude we feel for his protracted reign, and the reverence we cherish for his memory. We do not use the language of unmerited eulogy when we say, that our late lamented Monarch exemplified the divine maxim of government;" He that ruleth over men, must be just, ruling in the fear of God;"‡ and also the truth of the observation, that "the memory of the JUST," and especially of just Monarchs, " is blessed." §

The Plate which accompanies this Memoir, is designed to represent the princely benignity of the late Monarch in patronizing the scriptural education of poor children.

It is a singular but well attested fact, that the act for the succession of the House of Brunswick to the Throne of Great Britain, in the reign of William III. was carried by a majority of one vote only. Joseph Paice, Esq. M. P. for Lyme, in Dorsetshire, gave the casting vote. On this providential circumstance depended the expulsion of the Stuarts, popery, and tyranny; and the introduction of the House of Hanover, Protestantism, and Liberty. The medal given to Mr. Paice, in the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne, in commemoration of this event, is now in the possession of his great grandson, Frederick Gibson, Esq. of the London Docks. 2 Sam. xxiii. 3.

VOL. XII.

§ Prov. x. 7.

"Throne him on high upon a shining seat,

Lust and profaneness dying at his feet,

While round his head the laurel and the olive meet.

At his right hand pile up the English laws

In sacred volumes; thence the Monarch draws
His wise and just commands-

Rise, ye old sages of the British Isle,

On the fair tablet cast a reverend smile,

And bless the piece; these statutes are your own,
That sway the cottage, and direct the throne;
People and Prince are one in GEORGE's name,

Their joys, their dangers, and their laws the same."

His late Majesty was the first son of Frederick Prince of Wales, and his consort the Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He was born on the 24th of May, 1738, which, by the alteration of the style in 1752, became the 4th of June. His royal father died in the year 1753, when the late King was about thirteen years of age. It is probable, therefore, that his example produced some influence upon the mind of the young Prince, as he is said to have been a friend both to morality and serious religion.*

It was happy for our late Monarch, that his early education was intrusted to the excellent Dr. Ascough, afterwards Dean of Bristol. In a letter written by him to Dr. Doddridge, dated Feb. 10, 1744-5, when his royal pupil was under six years of age, Doctor A. says, "Good Sir, I am obliged to you for the congratulations for the honour his Royal Highness has lately done me in trusting me with the education of his children. I am truly sensible of the difficulties, as well as the advantages of the station I am placed in. ** I thank God, I have one great encouragement to quicken me in my duty, which is, the good disposition of the children intrusted to me as an instance of it, I must tell you, that Prince George (to his honour and my shame) had learned several pages in your little book of verses, without any directions from me."

It appears too that the Princess Dowager, the King's mother, was an excellent person, and much concerned that the Prince should be well instructed, and that his morals should be preserved uncontaminated by the licentiousness of the age. In conversation, Oct. 15, 1752, with Lord Doddington, who made some inquiries respecting the education and disposition of Prince George, she replied, that "I knew him almost as well as she did; that he was very honest; that she did not believe the Prince took very particularly to any about him, except Prince Edward his brother; and she was very glad of it,-for the young people of quality were so ill educated, and so very vicious, that they frightened her. I told her," adds the Baron, "I thought it a great hap piness that he showed no disposition to any great excesses, and begged to know what were his affections and passions." She

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Lady Charlotte E. being once asked by the Prince of Wales (the late King's father) where Lady Huntingdon was, who had then recently turned her back upon the world? her Ladyship tartly replied, with a sneer, "I suppose praying with her beggars." The Prince shook his head, and thus sharply and seriously reproved her, Lady Charlotte, when I am dying, 1 think, I shall be glad to seize the skirt of Lady Huntingdon to lift me up with her to heaven." Haweis's Church History.

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