391, 431, 463. Ashworth, Mr. E., to Miss M. Thistlethwaite Arboussett, Mrs. Baines, Right Hon. M. T. 30, 71, 110, 151, 191, 232, 270, 310, 350, Bennet, Mr. John Brown. Miss A. S. Edmonds, Rev. T. C. Firth, Henry Fletcher, Rev. Dr. PAGE. 352 192 272 192 72 392 ... ... 72 Bakewell, Mr. C., to Miss M. Bradderwick Brown, Mr. C. D., to Miss Ann Fox Cash, Mr. H., to Miss M. Trivett.. Cox, Mr. T., to Miss E. Spencer... Durose, Mr. S., to Miss E. Smedley Elliott, Mr. J., to Miss E. Knight Freer, Mr. W., to Miss M. Slack... Frow, Mr. D., to Miss A. Stapleton Gray, Mr. J. H., to Miss A. Turner Grantham, Mr. G., to Miss S. Twell Green, Mr. R. E., to Miss E. Collier Gregory, Mr. R., to Miss M. E. Pollard ... Harrison, Mr. E., to Miss S. J. Horsepool, Mr. J, to Miss M. Holliwell Jarman, Mr. J., to Mrs. Chamberlain Lees, Mr. P. H..to Miss E. Prideaux Livesley, Mr. Thomas, to Miss P. Dellamore Middleditch, Rev. C. J., to Miss M. Peek Gamble, Mrs. 232 ... Guthrie, Mr. John 312 ... 32 Hall, Mrs., (relict of Rev. Robert Hall) 392 Hall, Mr. John Vine 272 392 352 Horsman, Mr. E. 312 Hughes, Mary. ... 352 Hutchinson, Mr. J. W. Lyon, Mrs. 32 72 232 Sortain, Rev. J. Newman, Mrs. E. 432 312 72 Smith, Mr. John 152 272 Smith, Mrs. Ann 272 112 Shackleton, Midgeley 72 Stevenson, Mrs., (of Derby) 32 Stutterd, Mr. John 112 192 Sutcliffe, Grace 192 Sutcliffe, Mr. Thomas 72 Toone, Mr. George, Senr. 192 392 Town, Mr. Joseph 352 Underwood, Mr. and Mrs. 232 312 392 Yates, Rev. Thomas, Senr. 272 THE GENERAL BAPTIST MAGAZINE. JANUARY 1860. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. JOSEPH WALLIS. THE memoir of the late Rev. Joseph | Wallis, by whose death our Academy was, more than two years ago, deprived of its beloved and venerable Tutor, has been long due to our readers and the public. Circumstances, however, which could not be foreseen, and over which those most anxious to do justice to his memory had no control, have hitherto delayed its production. Not the least important of these was the want of a writer who, by equality of standing and personal friendship, was qualified for the task. For, since his removal, death has added other trophies to his dominion, from our already thinned and impoverished ranks; and there is now scarcely one veteran left to us, who, from close and long companionship, is authorized to answer the appeal of general curiosity, and to pay the longowing tribute to his merits. Nor is this defect now supplied; and the author of these lines would not have ventured upon any attempt to produce even such a faulty memorial as he knows the following imperfect sketch must be, had he not received the kind and able assistance of one highly qualified and nearly connected with the venerable departed in the execution of bis design. The Rev. Joseph Wallis was born at Loughborough, August 29, 1796. His parents were Unitarians. His father especially adhered closely to the tenets of that body, and it was ouly in the latter years of her life that his mother followed the example of her children in the profession of a more VOL. I., NEW SERIES, No. 1. orthodox and sanctifying faith.' Their moral character and social position were highly respectable. Of their individual peculiarities it is not in the power of the writer to furnish more information than is contained in the following quo tation from the excellent authority to which allusion has been already made: have the vaguest possible recollection of my grandfather. At the time I saw him he was a blind old man, whom cannot dissociate in idea from the violincello, which seemed to be always between his knees. He was, I believe, a skilful player on that instrument; but I am sorry to say that the musical talent of the family was quite absorbed by my uncle John. Not a particle of it descended to my fa her or his children. I always had a wholesome dread of my grandfather and of his fiddle-bow, the final cause of which seemed to me not wholly musical; and if it be true, as [ think it is, that children are good judges of natural disposition, he must have been a somewhat austere man. But I have always heard of him as a man of much intelligence, of great conversational powers, and the strictest integrity. In these respects his children closely resembled him. His harshness, if th s were really more than a child's fancy, not one of them inherited. My grandmother was the most loving and gentle of women.' They were blessed with a large family. The subject of our memoir was one of eight children; and it may be truly added that, on other • General Baptist Magazine, 1856, p 331 accounts besides their number, they were a remarkable family. It must be seldom indeed that three men like the late Messrs. Joseph, John, and Thomas Wallis are found in one family. With characteristic varieties of genius and temperament, which impressed a strong individuality upon each, they yet resembled each other by their superiority in intellect above the average of men, and for power of discriminating thought; and for true affectionateness of heart they probably stood side by side. Every one of the brothers and sisters in their time stood at the head of "the school to which they belonged. We have the happiness to know that some of the female members of the family, in after life, met with congenial partners, the eldest being united in marriage with the late Mr. John Chapman, of London. Mr. Wallis was educated at the Grammar School, Loughborough, where he became the foremost pupil, and attracted the interest and approbation of the master, the Rev. T. Stevenson, strongly. He often afterwards spoke gratefully of his assiduous attention to him in giving him evening lessons, and urging him to accept a valuable scholarship attached to the foundation, which would have enabled him to pass through his University course at Jesus College, Cambridge. But that would have involved conformity to the established church; and though his theological views must have been then unformed, he never in his life felt the slightest attraction towards the Church of England. His early religious history is given so touchingly by one who had the best opportunity of knowing it, that we must quote his own words. I have several times heard my father relate the circumstances under which the first religious impressions were made upon his mind. He was standing at the door of his father's house on Sunday morn ing, opposite to the chapel in Woodgate, when his attention was drawn to the congregation assembling there, and he felt impelled to cross over and see what was going on. They were just beginning to sing the hymn, 'Another six days work is done.' The peacefulness and devout bearing of the congregation harmonizing so well with the opening hymn arrested his attention even more than any words of the preacher.' It is not known whether be immediately attached himself to the congregation at Wood-gate. He used often to speak of his early excursions into the villages round Loughborough with the Wesleyans, and of their mioistry as being very useful to him, especially that of Dr. Newton. 'There are also among his papers a good many sermons in a youthful hand, whose theology is of a very neutral tint, which be used to read at the request of Mr. Paget, in the Unitarian Chapel, about this time. These sermons do not appear to have been his own composition. This may indicate that he still hovered for a time in uncertainty between the different religious communities with which he was brought into contact. It was not long, however, before he finally settled down in the Connexion, with which he remained in hearty co-operation till the day of his death.' The superiority of his talents, which had attracted notice from persons not definitely associated with him in religious opinion, was soon observed by the Christian brethren with whom he united. His efforts in the villages were continued and encouraged; and as they met with cordial acceptance, the idea of preparing himself for permanent devotion to the ministry gradually arose in his mind to a solemn conviction of duty, strengthened, as it was, by the opinions of his most esteemed friends. For this work he considered time and means for the acquisition of learning, and the culture of the faculties, indispensable. He, therefore, naturally desired the advantages of a college education, but as he was excluded by his non-conformity from Oxford and Cambridge, he turned his thoughts to Scotland. 'It was partly through the assistance of the friends at Loughborough that he was enabled to prosecute his studies at the University of Glasgow, where he remained for two sessions.' Here we have every reason to believe he profited as largely as the antecedents of his career had promised, and his frequent testimony in after life, was that his pleasure was equal to his profit. Of all the professors whose lectures he attended there, he spoke most enthusiastically of |