up by every "lover of Methodism as it is." Let a signal like the Centenary "signal for closer action" be hoisted, and the friends of Methodism would not only, like Nelson, be blind to the signal for "retreat," but would take up the signal for "closer action," and Methodism would again go forth "fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners." Why, Sirs, at the call of the Conference, they would signalise the year one of the second half of the nineteenth century, by a contribution of £100,000, to relieve and strengthen the various funds and interests of Methodism. We are sure your Missionaries would willingly make sacrifices to contribute their mite toward this object. This Circuit much needs the appointment of a fourth Missionary, so earnestly solicited by the late District-Meeting. We have now the prospect of two Romish chapels in the neighbourhood, with Priests to each; an additional Curate is appointed by the Anglican Church; and a new Anglican church is projected in the neighbourhood, and will be an aggression on ground already occupied by your Missionaries. If, therefore, we do not secure the labours of another Missionary, it will be impossible to maintain our ground. The Anglican Bishop, when in St. Vincent's recently, publicly lamented that there were only some seven or eight Anglican churches, and seven or eight Clergy, provided for a population of thirty thousand: he had not the candour to recognise the fact, that one half of the thirty thousand were Wesleyans, and already provided for. No: he wants Anglican churches and Anglican Clergy provided for the whole thirty thousand, and the Wesleyans to pay one half the taxes to support them; and then their money, paid in the shape of taxes, would be employed as an aggression on Methodism. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. BONAVISTA, NEWFOUNDLAND. We have a hope that our new chapel will soon be finished. Mrs. Nightingale went to St. John's last October, and succeeded in collecting for it £10 from benevolent persons, which have been laid out in boards and nails. The means of grace, both public and private, have been well attended by many of our people; and not a few of them have proved the truth of God's word, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." Our congregations on Sabbath evenings are augmented by persons who profess to belong to the Established Church; and we have reason to believe that some of them find it beneficial. But there is cause of sorrow. Persons not a few are in a state of poverty, owing to the failing of the cod-fishery, and the losing of potatoes by the disease so well known in the United Kingdom. Some of our people are still prevented from attending the preached word and their classes for the want of clothing. We have, I regret to say, reason to fear that several have not improved in piety since poverty became their portion. In last September and October we were visited with two strong gales, which are said to have done damage to the amount of some thousand pounds: more than two-thirds of the fishing-boats were driven from their anchorage to the shore, where twenty-one were totally wrecked, and others greatly injured. All the fishing-stages, with the exception of four, came down; and all the fish, oil, and salt that were in them, together with most of the utensils of the stages, were lost. Fences not a few were levelled by the gales: ours did not altogether escape. The fish on the flats, in large and small piles, was considerably scattered, and rain in abundance came down upon it. The first gale took place in the night, which was very dark, and which will be long remembered by those who rose from their beds to secure their property, but with little success. the general opinion, that there never was such a wreck or loss of property, in one year, in Bonavista before. May every afflicting dispensation of Divine Providence be truly sanctified to all the people of this neighbourhood !—Rev. A. Nightingale, Bonavista, January 6th, 1851. It is ST. VINCENT'S. -For some time after the District-Meeting we were favoured with the assistance of Mr. Clegg, recently from England; but last week he left us for Barbadoes, so that now we are a Preacher short in this Circuit, and we have little or no local aid on which we can fall back. Unless we are speedily reinforced, the interests of Methodism must suffer. Our chapels are now generally well attended. Even with four Travelling Preachers we have frequently on the Sabbath to preach three times, meet several classes for tickets, and ride from twelve to twenty miles. The labour continues, with an interval of about an hour, from six in the morning till eight or nine at night. Thus, it is not possible that the labours of those stationed in the Circuit can be augmented to any useful extent. We e trust that you will at once regard the suggestion of the District-Meeting, and "send us help." Could that be secured, we are persuaded that as a Circuit we shall yet do well. Financially we shall hold on our way; and we expect the shower of spiritual blessings will shortly be sent to confirm the inheritance of our God. Rev. J. S. Ellison, Barrowallie, May 10th, 1851. LISIEUX. Our new chapel at Lisieux was opened for Divine worship on Sunday, August 3d. We had a prayermeeting at seven o'clock in the morning. I preached at ten, from 2 Chron. vi. 40 -42; and one of the Pastors of the Reformed Church at Caen in the evening, from, "Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?" The chapel is a very pretty little Gothic chapel, with two of the windows-that over the door, and that over the pulpit-of stained glass, and does great credit to the taste of our good brother de Boinville. It will have cost about £350, the whole of which will have been raised by M. de Boinville and his friends, chiefly in England. The chapel was thronged at both the services, and much interest was manifested. One person, indeed, manifested his interest in a way which, to say the least, was singular. He cried out, at the end of the concluding service, Vive Henri Huit, Roi de l'Angleterre ! "Long live Henry the Eighth, King of England!" The Clergyman, who was in the pulpit, as well as most of those who heard him, took this for the saying of an enemy, and told him that we were protected, and that he exposed himself to punishment by his conduct. We learned, almost immediately after, that a gendarme, who was present, had taken him into custody. M. de Boinville went immediately to request his liberation, which was granted; and we learned that the poor man had intended to express his approbation of the doctrine he had heard during the day. He had believed that, which the Priests universally assert, Henry VIII. was the founder of our religion in England; and he wished to show his approbation of what had been done by the King of England !—Rev. Dr. Cook, Paris, August 5th, 1851. WE are glad to be able to announce the safe arrival of Miss Hornabrook and Miss Burwell at Jamaica, on the 2d of September. Intelligence has been received within the last few days from Feejee, of a very interesting and important character. The dates are as follows: From Mr. Moore, Nandy, April 1st, 1851; Mr. Williams, Vanua-levu, February 21st; Mr. Calvert, Vewa, March 29th; Mr. Lyth, Lakemba, March 11th. Next month we hope to be able to lay copious extracts from them before our readers: meanwhile it must suffice to state, that they detail the circumstances of great perplexity and peril in which these beloved brethren have been placed; particularly in the island of Vanua-levu, the second in extent of the Feejee group. War had broken out there; which, the brethren believed, was designed to exterminate the religion of Christ. Some valuable Christian lives had been sacrificed; and hope and fear, as to the probable event of the struggle, alternated in the minds of the brethren. But their faith and courage were mercifully sustained, and the lives of all are preserved. We commend them and their work to the most earnest supplications of all the friends of Missions, that their lives may be preserved, their health continued, their labours prospered, and their savage enemies overruled and converted. THE amount of contributions and remittances announced on the Cover of the Notices this month is £1,513. 2s. 6d. LONDON-PRINTED BY JAMES NICHOLS, HOXTON-SQUARE. WESLEYAN-METHODIST MAGAZINE. DECEMBER, 1851. are. BIOGRAPHY. MEMOIR OF MISS MARIANNE FAWCETT, OF SHEFFIELD: BY THE REV. ROBERT JACKSON. (Concluded from page 1050.) It will have been observed that the experience of the writer of these glowing passages was remarkably clear. She was not distressed with doubts respecting her acceptance in the Beloved, as too many She knew whom she had believed, and was persuaded that He was able to keep that which she had committed unto Him against that day." Much of this was owing to the depth of her repentance. The broken law had been applied to her conscience in all its terror. She had "eaten ashes like bread, and mingled her drink with weeping." She was prepared for the Lord, and trusted in Christ with her whole heart. The change which followed was decided. It was from darkness to light, from bondage to liberty, from a legal to an evangelical state. The Divine witness was given, "strong, and permanent, and clear." This witness is essential to our growth in grace. If we are uncertain as to our acceptance with God, and yet in a good degree alive to its importance, we shall ever be "laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works," and shall never go on to perfection." While destitute of the knowledge of salvation by the remission of our sins, we shall never "forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before." Hence many serious persons, who have not been taught to look for the witness of the Spirit as the common privilege of the people of God, after having made a profession of religion for years, are still upon the threshold, inquiring, "Am I a child of God, or am I not?" Miss Fawcett had her seasons of temptation, of spiritual conflict, of struggling with the remains of the carnal mind; but she appears never to have lost her evidence of the paternal love of God. That evidence was on some occasions more clear and satisfactory than on others; but it was there, flowing from a continued faith in Christ. Hence her experience was a constant pressing on "toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Confidence in Christ made all the means of grace profitable. "With joy she drew water out of the wells of salvation." In the following extracts her Christian life is seen to have been one of enjoyment, but of conflict also:4 K VOL. VII.-FOURTH SERIES. |