POETRY. MATERNAL FEARS SUPPRESSED BY CHRISTIAN HOPE. WHILE Softly slumb'ring on its mother's breast, The little babe enjoys its tranquil rest; But why such anxious thoughts?. Cast all thy care G. R. ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A BROTHER. Ir great endowments of a virtuous mind, Sickness approach'd, with all its gloomy train, No human pow'r his drooping life could save, To those bright realms where sighs are heard no more, To celebrate the great Redeemer's praise! E DA -WS. THE CHILD'S EVENING HYMN. THE sun, that lately fill'd the skies With all his sparkling rays, Now hides his glories from our eyes, And night comes on apace. And now to Him who made the sun, And taught him when to rise; Who show'd him in what course to run Across the glowing skies; Who gave this gentler moon to cheer The still and gloomy night: Like a large pearl 'mid diamonds clear She looks, and sheds her light!. To Him, O let my willing tongue Send up the grateful strain; His name just learnt, his name I love; And feeds my tender frame: He sends the blood thro' all my veins : I live and move in Him! Now grant, my Maker, from this hour, Oh let me know thy will! THE LOADSTONE AND THE ARK. AMIDST the world's affairs And wild perplexing cares, J. B. That toss and agitate the human soul, Or like to Noah's dove, Nor find a peaceful spot on which t'alight, My wings are hov'ring round, And to its safe recess I bend my flight, Jesus, the magnet is, Whose virtue draws above Earth's tall est domes! Jesus, the ark of rest For ev'ry soul opprest, And so my spirit shuts her weary plumes. ADJUTOR. ON ISAFAH LIV. 11. THOU, whose omnipotent word The winds and the waves can controul Thy merciful succour afford, Make haste to deliver my soul! How long on the turbulent deep My comfortless mind has been tost, I scarce above water can keep, And often expect to be lost! Yet, if in thy cov'nant of grace The whole of my hope is contain'd, Shall I not arrive at the place Thou hast for thy chosen ordain'd? Thy promise is pledg'0, and thy oath, To guide to the haven my soul: The ocean and hurricane both Shall surely obey thy controul! O safely conduct to that shore Where mansions eternal are found, This sea-faring life shall be o'er, And bulwarks my soul shall surround! Enclos'd in the city of God, How happy and blest shall I be! While Jesus shall make his abode Within the same dwelling with me! CALM is the air, serene the sky, But when the rushing storms descend, Now, Conscience reads, by fears distress'd, The tablet of the heart; And sees, with iron pen impress'd, But raging storms and vernal air This shall destroy, and those shall spare, Directed by his word! Then, mortal, let thy fears awake, CORNELIA Printed by G. AULD, Greville Street, London. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. OCTOBER, 1806. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. J. CROOM. METHODISM, from the reports made of it, and the place it has in the page of history, is so well known, that it would be in vain for its advocates to attempt the concealment of any thing belonging to it, were they so disposed. Such was the artlessness, simplicity, and integrity of those excellent men, on whose life and doctrine the epithet was first fixed; and so far were they from having any thing of the deceivableness of unrighteousness about them, that their rejoicing was this; the testimony of their conscience; that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, they had their conversation in the world. They came forth with no plan before them but that which they supposed would have been executed within the sphere of a parish, and by their own personal exertion. Had they foreseen the extent of the work which would have been assigned to them, and the help they should have required, being themselves devoted to letters, having formed a just estimate of literary endowments, and knowing their subservience to the work of the ministry, it is most probable that men of such qualifications would have been the men they would have sought and solicited to take part with them in their ministry. But such was the providential appointment they were under, that the extent of their work, at the first commencement of it, was concealed from them; and the help provided for it was brought to them accompanied with evidence that it was not for them to seck, but for the Lord to send. Several truly spiritual men were raised up, some of whom were versed in the studies of humanity, and other branches of literature; but being called to the work of evangelists, they were deemed, by a persecuting world, ignorant and unlearned mon. Such as were unlearned, undoubtedly connected with, and were countenanced by them, because they appeared approved of God by the signs which God did by them. 3 K XIV. |