sumed the treasurership with all its responsibilities. I might speak of his interest in Sunday Schools and Ragged Schools and the Poplar Hospital. But space allows me only to refer to the East London Congregational Association. Of this institution, he was, to a great extent, the stay and strength. His pecuniary gifts to it were large, but his personal attention to its affairs, his sympathy and counsels, were more precious still.

In Mr. Scrutton's character there were combined in proportions rarely met with, the simplicity of a child and the strength of a man. His loving spirit and loving deeds drew to him the hearts of all who knew him. There was something in his very manner of well-doing which now throws a halo around his memory. The last public prayer in which he united on earth was in the hymn which concluded the service of Lord's day, August 18th; and the Rev. R. Robinson, who ministered that evening, happening to turn to the place where he stood, was struck with the look of concentrated thought with which he was gazing on his hymn-book, while his lips were singing

"Yet one prayer more!-and be it one

In which both earth and heaven accord;
Fulfil Thy promise to Thy Son,

Let all that breathe call Jesus Lord."

This was a divinely-chosen Amen to a life, which, while it was a life of active secular business, was pervaded with a supreme ambition to forward the glorious day when all that breathe shall call Jesus Lord. On the afternoon of the next day, after less than one minute's suffering from an affection of the heart, of whose existence he had been aware for some time, Mr. Scrutton fell in death on the floor of his own drawing-room. Rather, "he was translated that he should not see death." The Churches of the Congregational order, in the East of London, were deeply moved by the intelligence which speedily flashed through them, for they had long regarded him as their common friend. May the Head of the Church raise up many such who shall "live not unto themselves, but unto Him."

WILLIAM LEAVERS, ESQ., SURBITON.

DIED suddenly, at Weymouth, on the 6th of August last, William Leavers, of Surbiton. The deceased gentleman was for many years well known as an active supporter of the London Missionary Society, British Missions, and, indeed, of nearly all Congregational Religious and Benevolent Societies. He served them, as he was able, on Boards and Committees, and was, to the last, a prompt and generous subscriber to their funds. Of his early history nothing is known to the writer of this obituary save that he was a native of Colchester, and removed, when quite a young man, to London. He became a member of the Congregational Church in Jewin Street, in the Sunday School of which he was, for many years, teacher and superintendent, and where he was chosen to the office of deacon, an office that he held here and elsewhere, with but slight intermission, to the time of his death His pastor, Mr. Wood, found in him an attached and faithful friend. He remained a firm supporter of this Church till Mr. Wood's retirement, when, although he was then only making, and had by no means made, a fortune, Mr. Leavers gave £50 a year towards his support, and, at his death, placed his remains in his own tomb at Abney Park.

The Church meeting at Union Chapel, Islington, next proved his faithful services. A fellow-deacon speaks of this as the period when "his energy, zeal, and usefulness were most abundantly displayed," as this was the "most vigorous portion of his long and useful life.” "The memory of our friend will be long

fragrant at Union, where he was for some years one of the most efficient deacons, very active, and zealous, and liberal, as was his nature, in all that concerned the welfare of the Church, in the comfort of the pastor, and his brethren in office. With the members of the Church he was very popular, and was a most acceptable visitor among them." Compelled in 1851, by failing health, to leave London, he received from his pastor and fellow-deacons a letter of heartiest and most affectionate recognition of his services, and wishes for his future welfare. Going to Surbiton, and finding in that growing suburb no Congregational place of worship, he induced the Rev. R. H. Smith to begin religious services in the place, promising to help in the erection of a Church. Though now considerably advanced in years he did not shrink from the responsibilities which he saw becoming more and more serious as this new work advanced. His promise of £100 towards the building expenses was increased to £500, and this subsequently became a gift of £1,000. In 1860 he cancelled a mortgage deed for £500, being the balance owing to him on the structure. He was strongly attached to the small but substantial Church he had taken so large a share in raising; yet he did not allow his love for it to stand in the way of a larger enterprise. In 1865, when plainly a much larger Church was needed in Surbiton, he pressed on the building of it, contributing, with Mrs. Leavers, a sum of £1,000 for the purpose. His gifts were always munificent and self-denying; yet these are but a small part of his claim on grateful memory. He was a devoted and well-loved deacon, bringing wisdom, courage, and great warmth of heart to his work in the Church. Those who have been his pastors commemorate his personal loyalty to them as sincere, thorough, and unswerving; and his friendship was the valued privilege of young and old in Church and congregation. The Rev. R. H. Smith makes special mention of the integrity of his character. "He seemed to me to have done at some former period of his life what is now going out of fashion-he had dedicated himself and what he had to God." And the present minister at Surbiton speaks of his "settled and unalterable conviction that to serve Christ was well and could not but be best," as giving him an influence, one of the most gracious and hearty I have known or ever expect to know."

Though a conscientious and thorough Congregationalist, Mr. Leavers's sympathies were by no means confined to Congregationalism. He was one of the founders of the "Fatherless Asylum," and a warm friend of it to his last hour. He took a deep interest in the agitation for the repeal of the Corn Laws; and often, in his old age, his eye would flash and his countenance grow bright as he recounted some of the incidents of that stirring time. Both in Islington and at Surbiton he wore his Nonconforming principles openly. Resisting the seductions of Evangelicalism in the one place, and the social influences of the other, he espoused the cause of the Liberation Society, and remained true to it amid much obloquy.

To the last he preserved the joyousness and freshness of a child. He left home for Weymouth to invigorate his failing powers, and death found him cheerful and buoyant as ever. His last act was one in kind and playful remembrance of an absent friend. He was stricken down by apoplexy, and, in less than two hours, William Leavers was gone. His death was pleasant as his life had been. He was spared what, to his sensitive organization, would have been the pain of a lingering sickness. He went at once from the earthly life, which Christ had long made to him a happy sphere of service, to the fuller service and bliss of life in heaven.

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The Saints' Happiness, together with the
several steps leading thereunto. Delivered
in divers Lectures on the Beatitudes.
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS, late Preacher of
the Gospel at Stepney and Cripplegate,
London. Edinburgh: James Nichol.
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS was held in great
repute in his day. His popular talents
raised him to the position of Lecturer to
two congregations, which were accounted
among the largest and wealthiest in
England in his day-that at Stepney
Parish Church, and at Cripplegate. In
the former he preached at seven o'clock
in the morning, and was hence called the
Morning Star of Stepney. Dying of con-
sumption at the age of forty-six, his
posthumous works were published with
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conformists, among whom were William
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The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks.
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THIS is the concluding volume of Brooks's Works, and contains "London's Lamentations on the late Fiery Dispensation," "The Glorious Day of the Saints' Appearance," "God's Delight in the Progress of the Upright," and other Treatises, with copious Indices.

Dæmonologia Sacra; or, a Treatise on Satan's Temptations. In Three Parts. By RICHARD GILPIN, M.D., Vicar of Greystoke, Cumberland; later of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Edited, with Memoir, by the Rev. A. B. GROSART. Edinburgh: James Nichol.

THIS work well deserves a place in the Puritan Library, and Mr. Grosart has, with his usual industry and perseverance, ferreted out all that is known of the Author.

Proceedings in reference to the Preservation of the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. Printed by order of the Corporation of London. London: Benjamin Pardon. THE nation, not the Nonconformist body alone, is deeply indebted to Mr. Charles Reed for his persevering and successful desecration efforts to preserve from

one of the most precious memorials of the struggles of the past. The volume before us contains official resolutions and other documents relating to the action of the Corporation in this matter, of which Mr.

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Clerical Testimony in favour of Total
Abstinence. Being a series of papers
reprinted from "The Church of England
Temperance Magazine." Edited by the
London:
Rev. THOS. ROOKE, M.A.
William Tweedie.

THIS volume contains the testimony of
eight-and-twenty clergymen of the Church
of England in favour of the practice of
total abstinence from intoxicating drinks.
Remarkable Facts: Illustrative and Con-
firmatory of different portions of Holy
Scripture. By the Rev. J. LEIFCHILD,
D.D., with a Preface by his Son. Lon-
don: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.
THIS volume was originally printed in
1860, but its circulation was limited to a
circle of subscribers amongst the Author's
private friends. We read portions of the
work in its original form with great
interest, and are glad to see it now given
to the public. It is a book which cannot
fail, with the Divine blessing, to produce
fruit of the highest and holiest order.
Within a few hours of writing these
words, we find the following in a notice of
the same book in a morning paper:-
"He," (Dr. L.) was a man who was
thoroughly sound in the faith, at a time
when many of his ministerial brethren in
the Congregational body had grievously
departed from the simplicity of the truth
as it is in Jesus, and embraced the
pernicious errors of German Neology."
That Dr. Leifchild was sound in the
faith no one doubts. But that "many"
of his cotemporaries in the Congregational
ministry "embraced the errors of German
Neology," is not true, is so absolutely
untrue that the author of the statement
may be safely challenged to name even
one of Dr. Leifchild's ministerial brethren
who held the "pernicious errors of
German Neology."

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The Lady's Pocket-Book for 1868. London:
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