and pleasure when, she was assured, she would enter the joy of her Lord. Having adjusted with the greatest distinctness and recollection her worldly business, remembering with a mother's

affection her surviving children, she united fervently in prayer with her pastor and medical attendant, and two hours after "sweetly fell asleep in Jesus."

POETRY.

[From the Boston Recorder.]
LINES

Addressed to the Rev. Charles White, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Oswego, New York, on his call to the Presidency of Wabash College, Indiana.

BY N. P. WILLIS.

"Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more." LEAVE us not, man of prayer! Like Paul hast thou "Served God with all humility of mind;"

Dwelling among us, and "with many tears,"

"From house to house," "by night and day not ceasing,"

Hast pleaded thy blest errand. Leave us not!-

Leave us not now! The Sabbath bell, so long

Linked with thy voice-the prelude to thy prayer—
The call to us from Heaven to come with thee
Into the House of God, and, from thy lips,
Hear what had fallen upon thy heart-will sound
Lonely and mournfully when thou art gone!
Our prayers are in thy words-our hope in Christ
Warm'd on thy lips-ou
-our darkling thoughts of God
Followed thy loved call upward—and so knit
Is all our worship with those outspread hands,
And the imploring voice, which, well we knew,
Sank in the ear of Jesus-that, with thee,
The angel's ladder seems removed from sight,
And we astray in darkness!

Leave us not!

Leave not the dead! They have lain calmly down—
Thy comfort in their ears-believing well
That when thine own more holy work was done,
Thou would'st lie down beside them, and be near
When the last trump shall summon, to fold up
Thy flock affrighted, and, with that same voice
Whose whisper'd promises could sweeten death,
Take up once more the interrupted strain,
And wait Christ's coming, saying,
"Here am I,
And those whom thou hast given me!" Leave not
The old, who, 'mid the gathering shadows, cling

To their accustomed staff, and know not how

To lose thee, and so near the darkest hour!
Leave not the penitent, whose soul may be
Deaf to the strange voice, but awake to thine :
Leave not the mourner thou hast soothed-the heart
Turns to its comforter again! Leave not
The child thou hast baptized!-—another's care
May not keep bright upon the mother's heart
The covenant seal-the infant's ear has caught

Words it has strangely pondered from thy lips,
And the remember'd tone may find again,
And quicken for the harvest, the first seed
Sown for eternity!-leave not the child!
Yet, if thou wilt-if, "bound in spirit," thou
Must go, and we shall see thy face no more,-
"The will of God be done!" We do not say
Remember us-thou wilt-in love and prayer!
And thou wilt be remember'd-by the dead,

When the last trump awakes them-by the old,
When, of the "silver cord" whose strength thou knowest,
The last thread fails-by the bereaved and stricken,
When the dark cloud, wherein thou found'st a spot
Broke by the light of mercy, lowers again-

By the sad mother, pleading for her child,
In murmurs difficult, since thou art gone-
By all thou leavest, when the Sabbath bell
Brings us together, and the closing hymn
Hushes our hearts to prayer, and thy loved voice,
That all our wants had grown to, (only thus,
"Twould seem, articulate to God,) falls not
Upon our listening ears-remember'd thus-
Remember'd well-in all our holiest hours-
Will be the faithful shepherd we have lost!
And ever with one prayer, for which our love
Will find the pleading words,-that in the light
Of Heav'n we may behold his face once more!

PSALM XLIX.

WITH musings sad my spirit teems,
My harp is strung to saddest themes;
O mortal, hear its notes complain,
Nor shun a dark but faithful strain.
Whose simple length tho' short, shall
span

The mournful history of man.

How oft, with dreams of pomp elate,
The rich upbuilds his haughty state,
With eager fondness counts his gains,
And proudly names his wide domains;
While, left to poverty and scorn,
The just in humble silence mourn!
Yet envy not the pomp, ye just,
That towers upon a base of dust:
For O, when death decreed shall come
To shake the proud man's lofty dome,
Will proffered gold avail to save?
Or ransoms bribe the yawning grave?
Lo stretched before his anguished eyes,
A child, a wife, a brother lies:
How vain his stores, his cares how vain,
The fleeting spirit to retain;

The form he clasps resigns its breath,
And fills his blank embrace with death.
Again it strikes;-a second blow;-
The man of pride himself is low;
Shall wealth, shall state attend the dead?

"Tis only to his clay-cold bed.
Caressed by cronds, by hundreds known,
He fills the narrow house alone.
The funeral pomp, superb and slow,
The gorgeous pageantry of woe,
The praise that fills the historic roll,
Can these assist the parted soul?
Or will remembered grandeur cheer
The shivering louely traveller?
And when that breathless wasting clay
Again shall feel the life-blood play;
When in the cell where dark it lies,
A morn of piercing light shall rise;
O whither then shall guilt retire,
Or how avoid the eyes of fire?

O man with heaven's own honours
bright,

And fall'st thou thus thon child of light?
And still shall heirs on heirs anew
The melancholy jest pursue?
And born the offspring of the sky
In folly live, in darkness die?
But I on thee depend, O Lord,
My hope, iny help, and high reward:
Thy word illumes my feeble eyes,
Thy Spirit all my strength supplies;
In sickness thou my aid shalt be,
And death but gives me all to thee.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN

WESLEYAN

METHODIST MAGAZINE,

FOR JUNE, 1842.

BIOGRAPHY.

MEMOIR OF THE REV. DUNCAN M'COLL, Late of Saint Stephen's, Charlotte County, New Brunswick. (Continued from page 109.)

FRIDAY, 19th January, 1821.-I find it difficult to realize the truth of God's word, "In the world ye shall have tribulation." O how natural it is for me to look for peace here; some place of rest. But I find that after one storm is over, another is brewing, and thus it must be, as long as we are connected with this world. Heaven is the place de

signed for our rest. We may with propriety say, arise ye and depart, for this is not your rest; for it is polluted. Feeling dead to the world and alive to God through Christ, these storms blow over, and help us on our heavenly journey; so then in Him we have peace, and no where else. This is hard to nature, but sweet to the spirit. I try to enforce the truth of this doctrine on my friends; but I fear that there are but few who can relish it: it is hard to raise the human mind to God; we think we can serve God and Mammon. But thou, O man of God, look up and hold fast that which thou hast received; let no man take thy crown.

Some men of reading, hearing me offer my views of the kingdom of Heaven, the kingdom of God, and of Christ, they were desirous that I should commit to writing the sum of what I then said, viz.: When God created the world, all things revered him: there was no disorder in creation. The Sons of God shouted for joy under the lawful government of Jehovah. But things did not continue so always. Rebellion took place, which still does and will continue till the restoraVOL. II. First Series. JUNE 1842.

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tion of all things by Christ. God has delegated to the Man Christ Jesus, the restoration of order in creation, and when this work is finished, Christ will deliver up the kingdom to the Father, and God will be all in all. It is the progress of God's government in the hands of Christ, that is called in scripture the kingdom of Heaven, of God, and of Christ. The power of God works on men's minds, and makes them his willing subjects. This power worketh within men. Three things are to be considered as implied: (1) The power of the Heavenly King; (2) the subject of his grace, and (3) the place or situation of the glorified. The gospel preached is the channel through which God brings about the restoration of his government. We are to pray for the coming of this kingdom. It cometh not with observation, for it is within us. The professors of it are compared to wise and foolish virgins. Matt. xxv. 1. It is compared to seed, to leaven, to a net, &c. In the end Christ will raise the dead, and call all men and angels to his bar; his obedient subjects he will lodge in that place which was prepared from the foundation of the world; the disobedient, both of men and angels, will be convinced of the justice of their sentence. All power of resistance will be taken from them; silence will be imposed upon them; only self-accusation, wailing and gnashing of teeth will be their portion. God is clear and righteous even in their own judgment. And thus they will continue as a warning to free agents to all eternity. God will then reign as he did in the beginning, without opposition. God hasten the thing and the time, when all things will be thus subdued in the hands of Jesus Christ. Wherever the term, the kingdom of God, &c. is used in Scripture, it implies something relative to God's government in its happy progress to maturity, in the hands of Jesus Christ. The grace of God which establishes his kingdom is given to men as He seeth fit. As to the measure of grace given by God it is his own gift; man has forfeited all claim to God's favour by sin: whatever favour he gives him is for the sake of Christ; consequently man has no hand in the measure of grace which he receiveth more than what he has in his own natural stature of body; yet man may stop his own natural stature by abuse of himself, and so he may his spiritual stature by the abuse of grace. Nevertheless, let no man think that he can merit grace at the hands of God, even by the use of grace, for every fresh measure of it is a fresh measure of God's unmerited mercy for the sake of Jesus. Yet works done in faith are rewarded for the sake of Jesus. We see then, that God's government is restored by his own power in the hands of Christ; yet men and angels may resist it to the day of judgment; but all will be then sub

dued, and God will reign without opposition both in heaven and in hell. Such are the doctrines which I have been holding forth to the people, in the way of explaining the kingdom of Heaven, of God, and of Christ. And such are my views of the sovereign power of God's grace, and of the measure of it given to men. In the end God will give to every man according as his works have been, whe

ther obedient or disobedient.

I have made a point to examine the Word of God for myself, and never to embrace any thing from other men; making the Scriptures my only book, my creed, and catechism. Being no party man, I have no interest in supporting any other man's opinions. I wish to serve God his Word and Spirit have led me into the path of life, and hitherto kept me therein. Not but what I value the works of faith ful men who have gone on this road before me, and have been assisted by them as instruments.

Sunday, 4th February, our congregations were full at the new chapel. In the evening the mission-house could not contain the people. My object was to convince my hearers this evening of the need of experimental religion, saying, notwithstanding all that our blessed Lord has done for us, we cannot go to heaven with a sinful mind ; we must be united to Jesus by regeneration, true faith and love, producing obedience. In Him personally the godhead and the manhood were united. We therefore must be united to Him, or we cannot be to God; there is no other mediator between God and man. Where fore he saith, Abide in me, and I in you; for as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me. (John xv. 14.) In the course of the week, I felt very close exercises of mind. I fully believe that the Lord is able and willing not only to forgive me my sins, but also to cleanse me from all unrighteousness. I feel much need of it; I know it to be the gift of God, and I feel a longing after it. The language of my

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soul is, Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me. I find since last Sunday, that my afternoon observations on the book of Revelations, (v. 9.) " And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation," caused some considerable talk. The sum of what I said was no more than this, viz. : It appears to me, first, that when man fell into a state of sin, he fell into a state of ignorance of the full wickedness of sin, and of the true holiness of God, and of the vast distance at which sin places him from