THE JOURNAL OF THE LATE REV. GEORGE MILWARD, FORMERLY A STUDENT IN THE CHURCH MISSIONARY CONNECTED WITH A SHORT NOTICE OF HIS LIFE. BY HENRY HIGGINSON, A.M. CHAPLAIN TO THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, AND MINISTER "Thou didst well that it was in thine heart."-1 Kings viii. 18. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 1836. Any profit that may arise from the sale of this Publication, will be given to the Fund for the disabled Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society. LONDON: IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND. BOL INTRODUCTION. THE deep tone of piety which pervades the following Journal, has induced a friend of the Author to superintend its publication, interspersed with such facts and observations as may further illustrate the character of the deceased writer, and form a memoir of his short but holy life. Whilst the ensuing pages will naturally be perused with interest by those who were acquainted with the late Mr. Milward, they may, with the Divine blessing, prove more generally useful, suggesting various topics for self-examination, and impressing upon the youthful mind the importance of that duty so emphatically en joined by the Psalmist-" Commune with thine own heart." It has likewise occurred to the Editor, that the Diary which he has prefaced may be read with advantage by some who have begun to experience that conflict in the soul to which they were strangers in an unrenewed state, since they will, when contemplating the Christian in his hours of retirement, observe, that "the same afflictions" by which they are themselves exercised, have been" accomplished" in one who walked most closely with his God. Such comparison will encourage the harassed and dejected children of God to pursue their course with faith and hope; if occasionally constrained by the pressure of temptation, to exclaim, "O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death," yet patiently to wait at the throne of grace till they can joyfully reply-" I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.” |