List of Lectures in and near London for November

3. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Street,

Mr. Collison; Hare Couri, Mr.
W. Smith; Palace Street, Mr.
Fryer; Orange Str. Mr. Thorp;
Chapel Street, Mr. Stollery;
Dean Street, Mr. Taylor; Crown
Court, Mr. Knight; Peter Str.
Soho, Mr. Jerment; Devonshire
Sq. Mr. Gray.

4. Mon. Ev. Missionary Prayer-Meet-
ing, at Mr. Buck's, Wilson Str.
Finsbury.

5. Tu. M. Broad Str. Mr. Humphrys. 3. Wed. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the Nation, Mr. Knight's Borough. fTh.M.Monthly Meeting (Indep.) at Mr. Humphrys's, Union Street, Borough, Mr. Goode to preach. - In what does Evangelical Humiliation consist? &c.

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Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr.Stollery.
Christian Zeal.

10. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Street,
Mr. Booth; Hare Court, Mr.
J. Thomas; Crown Court, Mr.
Webb; Dean Street, Mr. Shen-
stone; Orange Street, Mr. Town.
send; Chapel Str. Mr. Stollery;
Peter Street, Mr. Smith; De-
vonshire Sq. Mr. Gould.
11. Mon. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the
Nation, Surry Chapel.

12. Tu. M. Broatl Street, Mr. Barber.
13. Wed. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the
Nation, at Mr. Tim. Thomas's,
Devonshire Square.

14. Th. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Nicol.Prayer of the Penitent Thief.

17. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str. Mfa

19.

Townsend; Hare Cr. Mr. Stol
lery; Crown Crt. Mr. Collyer;
Chapel Street, Mr. Thorp;
Orange Str. Mr. Burder; Palace
Str. Mr. Ivimey; Dean Strees
Mr. Clayton; Peter Street, Mr
Brown; Devonshire Square, Dr.
Jenkins.

Tu. M. Broad Str. Dr. Fisher.
20. Wed. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the
Nation, at Mr. Waugh's, Well
Street, Oxford Street.
21, Th. M. Monthly Meeting (Rap.)
at Mr. Tim. Thomas's, Devon-
shire Sq. Dr. Rippon to preach.
Duties which Believers owe
to the Spirit.

24. LORD'S DAY Ev. Broad Str. Dr.
Rippon; Hare Crt. Mr. Berry;
Crown Court, Mr. Stollery;
Palace Str. Mr. Austin; Cha-
pel Str. Mr. Brooksbank; Deag
Street, Mr. Collyer; Peter Str
Mr. Rea; Devonshire Sq. Ma
J. Thomas.

26. Tu. M. Broad Street, Mr. Barber.
27. Wed. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the

Nation, Mr. Button's, Dean Str. 28. Th. Eu. Fetter Lane, Mr. Collison -The Restitution of all Things

MINISTERS SUPPLYING AT

The Tabernacle and Tottenham, M
Parsons, of Leeds.

Surry Chapel, Mr. Griffin, of Portsea,
Spa Fields, Mr. Charles, of Bala.
Sion, Mr. Brown.

Horton, Mr. Richards, of Stourbridge;
Mr. Slatterie, the foth and 17th.

POETRY.

A WARNING TO GREAT BRITAIN.

BRITAIN! my country! whence these dire alarms
Of angry nations rushing on to arms?

Why loudly thunders War's destructive roar

From Albion's coast to Gaul's extensive shore?
And why opposing thousands stretch the wing,
And death's war-whoop in strains tremendous sing?
Is Pride, that bane to peace, the awful source
Whence Euvy its vile mandates madly force?
Or doth fell Faction drive the hostile car,
And luge the nations into ruthless war?
Or both unite to swell the sable cloud,
Where woes on woes in myriads closely crowd
Till bursting devastation swiftly spreads,
And whirls destruction on ten thousand heads.

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And shall not Heav'n avenge? It must! it will!
Haste, then, thy measure to the brim to fill;
Fill up thy cup! then wrath divine shall fly,
Like vivid lightnings, through the flaming sky!
The gath'ring clouds cast now a solemn gloom,
Dark as the horrors of the silent tomb.

Where will it end? -- shall we escape the storm?
Vain hope without a grand, complete reform.

Shall God, unheedful, see his word despis'd,
His precepts scorn'd? (by saints how highly priz'd!)
Shall infidels reject his sacred code,

His statutes spurn, his holy truths explode?
Shall greedy Av'rice, with rapacious hand,

The poor oppress, and vex th' impov'rish'd band?
Shall worldly priests Time's vainest fashions ape,
Innocence bleed, and Violence escape?
Shall base adul'tries stain the titled name,
And fornicators glory in their shame?
Shall filthy drunkards, stagg'ring, reel at noon,
And midnight revels shame the setting moon?
Shall rage, in years, instruct our youth to swear,
And with unhallow'd breath pollute the air?
Shall fields and woods our broken Sabbaths mourn,
And fools that sacred day to riot turn?"

Shall fraud and falsehood, with ten thousand cheats,
Stalk all the day, and nightly range our streets?
Shall those black crimes, conjoin'd with thousands more,
Range, uncontroul'd, on Britain's favour'd shore?
If this thy hope, thy sure destruction's near,
And vengeance soon shall strike thy deafen'd ear.
The tempest bursts ! — and at the destin'd time,
The circling storm will reach our guilty clime!

One way, and only one, may yet be found
To ward the blow, and heal the desp'rate wound!
Would ye avert the dread impending rod,
Let Reformation spread her wings abroad:
Let ev'ry bosom heave the plaintive sigh;
With deep resentment from transgression fly.
Let conscious Guilt provoke the briny tear ;
Lie low in dust, and sable sackcloth wear:
Let humble cries besiege kind Mercy's throne;
And if thy crimes thou dost with sorrow own,
Thy God will see, will hear, each tear and groan.
If, humbly penitent, you thus reform,
His sov reign word shall quell the threat'ning storm;
The clouds shall scatter, and dispel the gloom,
And Peace again her native seat assume.

Thus Nineveh, of old, when humbled round,
A quick reprieve from threaten'd judgments found.
But if with harden'd necks you still rebel ;
And those loud warnings stubbornly repel,
The gath'ring tempest shall more frowning lour,
And Heav'ns just wrath in furious torrents pour.

Printed by G. AULD, Greville Street, London

W. T.

EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE.

DECEMBER, 1805.

MEMOIR

OF

THE LATE MR. JOHN WHITTENBURY,

OF MANCHESTER,

To praise the dead, whose lives have been unholy, is a very common and dangerous sin. How often are they, who have lived and died enemies to God, extolled as the virtuous and pious! Such false encomiums tend much to delude the ignorant; and they who pass them, act a more uncharitable part than even the lost spirits in Hell: for Dives would gladly have sent a messenger to warn his brethren. But to record the excellencies of eminent saints, whose deaths are precious in the sight of the Lord, is a duty. Their memory is blessed. To grace alone all their real worth was owing; and grace is honoured in recording their excellencies. Of this latter character was the subject of the following Memoir.

He was born in the year 1742, of pious parents, who brought him up in the "nurture and admonition of the Lord." In the sixteenth year of his age, soon after the death of his father, he came to London to be an apprentice. Although the religious principles in which he had been instructed, had not hitherto been effectual to his conversion, yet they proved very useful in restraining him from many sinful practices, and preserving him from the influence of error. This powerfully recommends the furnishing young minds with evangelical sentiments: for being taken to a place of worship where the gospel was not preached, he said, "This preaching is not such as I have been used to hear it will not suit me." He was advised by a friend to hear Mr. Hitchin, minister of White Row Meeting. Thither he went; and there the Lord met him in mercy. In one of his papers, containing an account of his conversion, he thus writes: "The place was crowded; and I was forced to stand upon the head of the gallery-stairs. I was first struck with Mr. Hitchin's portly appearance; then the thunder of his voice, the solemnity of his prayer, the liveliness of his de3 X

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