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sons lost all their property, and she was at once reduced to a state of complete dependence on her friends. Actuated by the most generous motives, deserving of record and imitation, the respected minister and society in Cross-street, London, annually, for some years, remitted to her a large proportion of their sacramental offerings, together with the additional private subscriptions of several benevolent friends, until her youngest son cheerfully took upon himself nearly the whole, and for a long time the entire, expense of her support; and with the concurrence of his dear partner, she went to reside in his house, where she remained till her decease. For the assistance thus afforded, she always expressed her heartfelt thankfulness to the Lord and to her friends. It is delightful to know, that as she bore her grievous sorrows, privations, and trials with becoming resignation to the Divine will, so there is every reason to believe that they were all overruled, in the Lord's permissive economy, for the purification of her mind, and to the subjugation of her hereditary infirmities; enabling her to attain a state of humble, practical, childlike trust in the mercy of God. She was not, indeed, free from earthly strivings and failings,-who among the children of men are ?-but her greatest imperfection, and which, as age advanced, more distinctly appeared, was, probably, an unbounded attachment to her two sons, which at times blinded her to their defects, and not unfrequently to the excellencies of others. They, however, owe her, under the blessing of Providence, the deepest debt of gratitude for her maternal love and unintermitted care. In their education, from the first dawn of reason, she never failed to watch over their spiritual welfare, more than even their temporal well-being,-restraining, as far as in her power, the evil propensities, tempers, and habits of the natural minds in their earliest manifestation, daily inculcating the practical duties and principles of New Church Christianity, and deeming no labour or anxiety too great, so that she could see them growing up in wisdom and virtue, "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." From her earliest years to her latest days, she was accustomed to dedicate the afternoon of the Sabbath to reading the Scriptures and books of devotion, to retired meditation, and to the indispen

sable but too often neglected duties of self-examination; while, as long as she was able to walk, unless prevented by absolute necessity, she never omitted to attend the ordinances of public worship. Distinguished for her purity of mind and sincerity of heart, diligently performing all her relative duties without ostentation, and maintaining in all her worldly connexions the strictest integrity, she was deservedly beloved and respected by a large circle of estimable friends who had the privilege of knowing her worth. A few days previous to her decease, she was visited by her eldest son, which gave her great delight and satisfaction; and as, after a brief religious service, he pronounced upon her a parting blessing, feeling assured that they should meet no more in this world, she told him that she had not the slightest fear of death. No doubt clouded her faith, or harrassed her mind. Her heart had been long set on the imperishable realities of heaven, and was at rest: her treasures were above; and the fastapproaching hour of bodily dissolution was hailed by her as the joyful release from a long thraldom and a toilsome probation. She said, again and again, that her heavenly Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, had been more merciful to her every moment of her life than she deserved. She blessed his holy name that he had given her so many kind and sympathising friends,-that she was at peace with all men,-and fully resigned to his righteous will. Though her eyesight began to fail her some days before her decease, yet she retained her faculties of reason and speech to the very last. From her memory she could repeat a considerable portion of the Psalms and the Liturgy, which in this trying season administered greatly to her comfort. She departed in a tranquil state, like a child going to sleep. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." Her mortal remains were interred in the Cemetery at Derby, by the Rev. W. Mason, on the 11th Oct.; and on the Sunday evening following he delivered an admirable and impressive discourse suited to the occasion of her removal, in Babington-lane Chapel, to a crowded congregation, from the appropriate text

"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." Psalm xxxvii. 37. E. M.

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INDEX.

ESSAYS, &c. &c.

Address to Readers and Correspondents, Marriage of the Intellect and Affections,

1

Arguments against Atheism and Infide-

lity, 132, 185, 265, 307, 417, 462
Avowed Spirit of Catholicism, 141
Baptism a Covenant on the part of the
Parents, 388

"Behold I make all Things New!" 296
Bond of Brotherhood, 427

Care for the morrow, (A Sermon,) 121
Catholicism Avowed, Spirit of, 141
Church Music, 59, 105, 188
Connexion between Spiritual Wisdom
and Civil Refinements, 4
Concerning Operation," the Third
Essential of the Trinal Nature in
the Lord and Man, 161
Correspondence between a Roman Ca-

66

tholic and a Newchurchman, 257
Death of the Second Witness, 223
Desolate State of Christianity, the, 183
Diseases on, as having their seat in the
Fibres, 303

Diseases and their Causes, 345, 382
Election and Predestination, 51

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Mutual Forgiveness and Reconciliation,
11

On the Union of Philosophy and Reli-
gion, 41

Phases of Faith; the Two Newmans;
Revelation and Reason, 96
Prejudice, its Origin, its Use and
Abuse, 441

Progress of the New Church, 329
Researches in Respect to the Ancient
Word, 401

Sexuality of Nature; or, Nature in Uni-
versal Correspondence with Man,
173, 209, 249

Sexuality of Nature, the, as Exhibited
in Language, 447

Spheres, on the Doctrine of, 455
Swedenborg's Physiology and Psycho-
logy, 25

Swedenborg and the Jesuits, 139

Elisha and the Widow; or the Pot of Swedenborg and Calvin, 179

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Spiritual Reflections for Every Day in
the Year; with Morning and Evening
Prayers. By the late Rev. T. Goyder
and the Rev. D. G. Goyder, 390
Stories for my Young Friends. By T. S.
Arthur, 76

Testimony of Ancient Christianity to the
Spiritual Sense of God's Word. By
the Rev. J. H. Smithson, 232
The Gospel according to Luke, trans-
lated from the original Greek. By
the late Rev. J. Clowes, 231

What is Conscience? By the Rev. W.
Mason, 271

What is the Human Soul? By the Rev.
W. Mason, 150
Vindication, of the Doctrines and
Statements of Swedenborg against
the Perversions and Attacks of Dr.
Moehler and Professor Peronne.
By Dr. J. F. I. Tafel. Translated
from the German by the Rev. J. H.
Smithson, 346

MISCELLANEOUS.

A New View of Christianity, 115
Annual Meeting of the Missionary So-
ciety, 314

Appeal on behalf of Elmham, near Nor-
wich, 117

Back Numbers of the Magazine, 474
Church Reform, 436
Commencement of Worship, according
to the Doctrines of the New Church,
Oldham, 118

Common Version of the Bible, 118
Conference Magazine, 399, 438
Disposal of New Church Books-Exam-

ple for imitation, 78

Dr. Tafel's Reply to Dr. Moehler, 237
Educational Establishment, 475
Elmham, Norfolk, 194
Embsay, 38

Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Man-
chester Tract Society, 354
Forty-fifth General Conference, 352
Forty-third Report of the London Print-
ing Society, 434

French Exiles, 396

Lectures at Newcastle, 117

on the Resurrection, by Messrs.
Woodman and Anslie, 234
in Defence of Christianity, 472
Letter from a Catholic Priest, 193
Liverpool, 470

London Missionary and Tract Society,
114, 193, 200, 233

New Jerusalem Church Free
School Society, 280

Printing Society, 33, 239, 318
Manchester and Salford Missionary In-
stitution Mutual Instruction Meet-
ing, 76, 236, 359

Manchester and Salford Missionary So-
Society, 317

Manchester Free Library, 318
Tract Society, 34

Medal to the memory of Swedenborg, 276
Meeting of the Members and Friends of
the New Church at Oldham, 279
Ministers' and Widows' Pension Fund,
77, 280, 317, 474

Minor Works of Swedenborg, 199

Friendly Tea Meeting of the Churh Missionary Visit to Darlington, 234

in London, 473

General Conference, 200

Great Meeting in August last, 116
Handsome donation by the Rev. A. Clis-
sold, 198

Indications of the increase of the New

Church in America, 437
Infidelity Extirpated; or, Mirabeau's

System of Nature Analysed, 280
Inquiry respecting John ii. 4
Inscription found in the Catacombs at
Rome, 199

Intelligence from Dr. Tafel, 158

Edinburgh, 35

Liverpool, 440

Blackburn, 473

Lectures at Bolton, on the Life and Sci-
entific Writings of Swedenborg, 275

Mission at Islington, 357

Mr. Wilkinson's Work on the Human
Body, 199

M. Le Boys des Guays, 471
Negative Rationalism in Holland, 236
Neglected Apostolic Benediction, 359
New American Publications, 119
New Christian Church, Rose-place, Liver-
pool, 440

New Church Mission at Islington, 276,
315, 357, 471

New Church, South Australia, 355
New Publications, 38, 119, 159, 200,
474

dell, 238

by the Rev. E. D. Ren-

Nineveh Sculptures, 157
Norwich, 159

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