dength in their own attempts to explain and apply the texts on which they are founded. The cautious introduction, into particular parts of their discourses, of ideas thus derived from other sources, will enrich and enliven their pulpit-addresses, which will yet be substantially and principally their own, both as to the method, the matter, and the expression. The Essay on the Composition of a Sermon, prefixed to the First volume, and the Letter on the Gospel as the proper subject of the Christian Ministry, which is the first article in the Second, contain many important observations. Several additional Volumes are announced; each of which, however, may be had separately. On the whole, while we differ from several sentiments which occur repeatedly in these Skeletons, (and which contain either the peculiarities of Calvinistic Doctrine, or those low views of the standard of christian attainment and experience, which we regret to find so often associated with the theology of that School, especially in modern times,) we have, nevertheless, been considerably gratified by the perusal of the work, and can cordially recommend it to those who feel themselves in need of such assistance as it professes to provide. The Pleasures of Home; with other Poems by R. PORTER. 2d Edition. 12mo. pp. 136. 4s.-The Poetry of this elegant volume is not first-rate, but it is respectable; and the sentiments are highly creditable to the head and heart of the Author, who is, we understand, a young man, and from whom, judging by this early specimen, productions of yet higher character may be reasonably anticipated. What JOHNSON said of WATTS is not inapplicable to MR. PORTER: "He is one of the few Poets with whom youth and ignorance may safely be pleased." In an age of prostituted talent, this is no slight praise. But the aged and the wise, as well as the young, may peruse these Poems with considerable pleasure. An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic Remains, especially of those found in the British Strata; intended to assist the Student in his Inquiries on the Nature of Fossils, and their Connexion with the Formation of the Earth: by JAMES PARKINSON. Illustrated by Plates. Post 8vo. 12s. Asaph, or the Hernhutters; being a Rhythmical Sketch of the principal Events and Institutions of the Church of the Unitas Fratrum, or Moravians; by one of its Members. 12mo. 3s. 6d. DR. DWIGHT'S System of Theology: 3d London Edition; 5 vols. 8vo. The Christian Indian of North America: a Narrative of Facts. 6d. 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PARKHURST's Greek Lexicon: a new and very superior Edition, carefully corrected. Royal 8vo. A Chart of the Rise and Progress of Christianity. 2s. 6d.; on Canvas, in a case 4s. 6d.; on Canvas and Rollers, 5s. 6d. -This Chart exhibits the surface of the eastern and western hemispheres, subdivided and coloured according to the religions of the inhabitants; and there is a statistical scale on PLAYFAIR'S principle of linear arithmetic, which shows the relative number of Greeks, Protestants, and Roman Catholics at different periods. To this are appended, Tables of the Population of the World, the number of Christians in different countries, and a letter-press account of the various Denominations into which the Christian world is divided. This last article is so loosely, if not inaccurately drawn up, that we do not think it adds much to the value of the Chart. The Author has copied too servilely from "Evans and Nightingale," whom he quotes as authorities!!! The whole, however, is cheap at the price for which it is sold, and may be found convenient to be hung up in the study or library, for occasional reference. A New Geographical, Historical, and Religious Chart, showing the principal Places in the World, the prevailing Religion, Form of Government, Degrees of Civi lization, Population, and Missionary Stations in each Country. By the REV. T. ᏟᏞᎪᏒᏦᎬ. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY, THE Annual Sermons were preached in Great Queen Street Chapel, and Sion Chapel; the first, by the REV. WILLIAM JAY, on Isai. lii. 13-15; the second, by the REV. MICAH THOMAS, on James v. 20. BENJAMIN SHAW, Esq., presided in the Meeting. The Resolutions were proposed and seconded by the REV. JOSEPH KINGHORN, and EDWARD PHILLIPS, ESQ., of Melksham; by W. WILBERFORCE, ESQ., M. P., and the REV. F. A. Cox; by JOSEPH Butterworth, Esq., M. P., and the REV. JABEZ BUNTING; by JOHN SHEPPARD, ESQ., of Frome, and the REV. JOHN BIRT; by the REV. JOHN SAFFERY, and the REV. JAMES UPTON; by the REV. JOSEPH TYSO, and the REV. REYNOLD HOGG; and by the REV. JOSEPH IVIMEY, and WILLIAM BURLS, Esq., of London. We are sorry to find that this very excellent Society, to which the whole christian world is deeply indebted, especially for the Eastern Translations of the Scriptures executed by its agents, is at present considerably involved in debt. Among many other interesting facts stated in the Report, we find the following; viz. "that the votaries of JugGUNNATH have already begun to shrink from the useless toil of dragging the unwieldy chariot of their huge mishapen idol; so that his faithful attendants are constrained to think of transporting this Lord of the World' to some other district, where the zeal of his worshippers is yet fervent." One of the Resolutions of the Mecting was as follows: "That the Meeting feels a very lively satisfaction in the existence of so many kindred institutions; is thankful for the christian harmony which prevails among them; and would pray, that those influences of the HOLY SPIRIT, which are necessary to render the labours of any successful, may be graciously and abundantly poured out upon the Friends, Conductors, and Missionaries of each, at home and abroad." METHODIST CHAPELS OPENED, &c. April 14, 1822.-The Chapel at Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, having been considerably enlarged and improved, was re-opened by the REV. R. NEWTON. The expense of the alterations amounts to £400; towards which £160 were raised by subscription, and £31 by the opening collection. June 20.-A new Chapel was opened at East-Moor, near Wakefield, by the REV. S. WOOLMER. Its dimensions are, twenty-eight feet by twenty. The cost of the erection is about £120, the whole of which was liberally subscribed by friends in Wakefield, and its vicinity. The neighbourhood is populous; many evince a strong desire to hear the word of GOD; and, a few months before the Chapel was erected, about twenty persons professed that they had lately been enabled to “believe unto righteous ness. July 8.-A neat Chapel, thirty feet square, was opened by the REV. J. BUNTING, at Worthing, in Sussex. The purchase of Premises, including a Building which is let for £7 per annum, and the erection of the Chapel, have cost nearly £500. The subscriptions of a few friends, with £40 collected at the opening, amount to nearly £200. Worthing contains a population of about 4000 people, and is much resorted to, in the summer, as a watering place. There is a small, but promising Society of Methodists, lately established. The Chapel is likely to be well attended by the inhabitants; and it is hoped that those of our religious friends who visit Worthing, in quest of health, during the season, will find it no small addition to their comfort. With a view to furnish to Worthing and to some other Towns and Villages of Sussex, a more adequate supply of the means of grace, the late Conference appointed an additional Preacher to the Brighton Circuit. May the good LORD send prosperity! July 16.-The first Wesleyan Chapel built in the town of Hastings, in Susser, which is a much-frequented place for sea-bathing, and contains 6000 inhabitants, was opened by the RɛV, J. BUNTING, who preached in the forenoon and afternoon. The REV. DR. COLLYER, of London, who happened to be in the Town, kindly undertook the evening service. All the services were well attended; and there is the prospect of a permanently large congregation, and of a flourishing society. The Chapel is forty-two feet by thirty-eight, and will hold nearly 400 people. The cost has been about £450, towards which £200 have been subscribed, and the sum of £40 was collected at the opening.Hastings, like Worthing, is a place to which, in connexion with the towns and villages in its vicinity, an additional Preacher has been recently appointed; and GOD has been pleased to crown with his blessing the measures adopted for the salvation of souls. Religious Societies, which contain 140 members, have already been formed. These infant establishments have a special claim on the prayers and active patronage of the friends of Methodism and of the Gospel. July 16.-The former Chapel at Barrow-upon-Soar, in Leicestershire, being found too small, a new one has been erected and opened. The REV. MESSRS. NEWTON, ISAAC, and STEAD, preached on the occasion. The Collections on the day of opening, and on the following Sabbath, amounted to £80, which, with the private Subscriptions, will defray nearly one half of the expense incurred. The Chapel is thirty-six feet by thirty, and cost £420. We are informed, that "during the last year this village has been graciously visited by a remarkable outpouring of the HOLY SPIRIT, and the Gospel has been preached with great success. The Society of about thirty members has received an accession of more than one hundred, of whose true conversion to God no doubt is entertained; and increasing prosperity is anticipated.' August 23.-The Chapel at Trowbridge, near Bradford, Wilts, having been greatly enlarged and improved, was re-opened by the REV. MESSRS. REECE, AVER, and HEATON. Sermons were preached on the following Sabbath by the REV. MESSRS. T. ROBERTS, SUTCLIFFE, and R. SMITH. The Collections amounted to £60, in addition to the previous Subscriptions of friends to the undertaking, who resolved that the enlargement should not entail any burden, either on the Circuit, or the Connexion at large. The prospects of attendance and success are highly encouraging. We learn with pleasure that "the Methodists in the Bradford (Wilts) Circuit, have of late been very active in circulating Religious Tracts in those parts of the neighbourhood which were most notorious for ignorance and vice, in holding Prayer-Meetings wherever there was an open door, and in teaching the rising generation to read the Scriptures, to attend Public Worship, and to know and serve GOD. Their labours have not been in vain; these useful Auxiliaries to the regular means of grace having tended greatly to the increase of the Congregations and Societies." September 5.-A Chapel, thirty-three feet by twenty-eight, in the clear, was opened at St. Nicholas in the Margate Circuit, by the REV. MESSRS. GILPIN and CALDER. The Society in this place having increased, during the last eighteen months, from thirty to seventy members, the former Chapel became too small. The present one has cost £500, towards which £200 was privately collected, and £44 were received at the opening. ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF A NEW SCHOOL-ROOM To the Editor of the Wesleyan-Methodist A NEAT and commodious Schoolroom, which has been recently added to the establishment at Kingswood, was publicly opened on Wednesday the 11th instant. We were favoured with the attendance of several respectable friends from Bristol and Bath, who thus added one more evidence to many, previously given, of their solicitude for the prosperity of an institution, which cannot be blessed with the prayers and support of Christians, without blessing a multitude in return. Should the following abstract of some of the addresses delivered on the occasion be perused by your readers with an interest proportionate in any degree to that which was excited in the hearers, you will have no cause to regret its insertion, which will oblige, THE SERVICES commenced with singing and prayer; after which the REV. H. MOORE addressed the persons assembled, to the following effect : : "It is of much importance to our religious undertakings, that we be careful to lay the right foundation. But the durability of our work depends as well on the quality of the materials we employ, as on the foundation which supports them. "Other foundation can no man lay, than that is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST." The Apostle distributes the builders on this foundation into two classes, according to the materials they use,-those who build wood, hay, stubble,' perishable things; and those who build gold, silver, precious stones,' things lasting and valuable. He applies the former terms, not to the works of 'those that are without,' but to those of real believers, workmen of God, whose superstructure does not correspond with their foundation; whose faith is genuine 1822. 3 T in its nature, but alloyed by a debasing mixture of what is unworthy of it; the principles of their actions being good, but not directed by sound scriptural knowledge. Of such he says, they shall be saved, yet so as by fire; mercifully rescued, in consideration of their faith, from the fire which shall try,' and burn their work. They shall be saved, but no vestige, no memorial of their labours shall survive. To the works of our venerable Father, the epithets gold, silver, precious stones' may, with hardly any exception, be applied. Of the works of WESLEY, none have been burned: he was a man whom the LORD delighted to honour:' every step he took appeared successful; every great measure he adopted permanently good: so that it was very properly remarked by an attentive observer, that the successors of MR. WESLEY found almost every thing done for them; little more being required in order to their continued success, than an adherence to the line which he had marked out. Kingswood School is one of his works which illustrates the truth of our assertion. More than seventy years since, he sowed the mustard-seed in the barren wilderness, and now it is become a widely-spreading tree. Today we rejoice in the prosperity of this Institution, and expect with confidence that it shall continue through many future years, and be increasingly blessed. "On the tablet erected in St. Paul's cathedral to the memory of that distinguished artist SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, who laid the plan, and lived to finish that edifice, is inscribed the following terse and appropriate sentence: Lector, si monumentum quæris, circumspice.' Reader, if you would see a monument of him, look about you.'-We need only look about us, to find many monuments of MR.WESLEY. Memorials of him meet our eye in every part of the kingdom: he may be seen every where, and will long continue to live in the permanency of his works. Kingswood presents many such monuments. Such was its state of moral desolation, and so dreary was the aspect of the country at the period when MR. WESLEY first visited it, that it is not surprising he should exclaim, when contemplating his newly-erected building, 'Behold, Paradise opened in the wild.' Should we not to-day ask, with grateful adoration, What shall we render unto the LORD for all his mercies?' We contemplate with gratitude his providential dealings. Let us not forget, that to appreciate them rightly, we must know him as GOD our SAVIOUR. The kingdoms of providence and grace are but one. JESUS is the executive of Deity. Till we have come to God as unworthy sinners, sensible that we deserve hell, and have received his salvation, we cannot judge properly of his providential procedure towards us. How do we, till then, account of his dispensations? We consider and dread him as a tyrant: when suffering his afflictive dispensations, we bite our chain, and accuse his conduct; and should affirm openly, did we dare to do so, that we could manage our own affairs much better than GoD does. We quarrel with persons and events, ignorant that we are ourselves the authors of our own misery. But when, by the reception of his saving grace, we have been taught the design of our sufferings, and have learned why he contended with us, then we exclaim, O LORD, our Governor, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!' Then we become the subjects of grateful love,—and what is religion but grateful love, originating in the love of Him, who, though he knew no sin,' yet himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree?' MR. MOORE concluded by recom mending Kingswood School to the support and prayers of the friends who were present; and then affectionately introduced to them the youths who had been selected to repeat the Latin and English addresses. Copies of these are subjoined. LATIN ORATION. Jure nobis gaudere liceat, patres atque amici, quòd felicitate usi multorum qui æquè pietate ac doctrinâ ornati sunt, in ædibus à REV. J. WESLEY conditis, literarum commoda adhuc percipere potuerimus. Nos, ordinem puerorum longum claudentes, illas ædes postremi occupavimus; propterque loci prioris angustias, hodiè in ampliorem sumus digressi. Nequaquam verò tàm domum deseruisse antiquam videmur, quàm in domûs ejusdem partem discessisse diversam. Sic enim existimari oportet hoc in quo nunc versamur ædificium: quod nempe, si non illius quem diximus viri optimi ipsis manibus extructum, certè sub auspiciis conditum esse judicetur; cui si desit corporis ejus præsentire honor, non ideo putandum est animo minorem attulisse voluptatem. Hodiè in memoriam vobis, patres atque amici, et nobis ipsis revocare volumus, quòd ubi nunc inter arva nitentia arridet hæc Schola Christiana, patrum oculis conspicienda subjecta sunt loca aspera ac inculta, quæ tenebant homines feri et agrestes; sibi ipsis inimici, aliis crudeles et formidolosi, nullâ re nisi formâ à belluis distantes. Hâc in regione, ubi pulcherrimè eluxit gloria Evangelii, sedem locavit vir ille gravissimus Scholæ Regiosylvensis ;quæ pariter præteriti memoriam conservaret, et spem futuri prætenderet; indicioque foret quam maximè de rectâ juventutis institutione pendeat in posteros prolatio beneficiorum, quæ cuique sæculo fuerint donata. Hic igitur, patres atque amici, nihil est quòd discipulorum menti conditoris virtutum non sæpissime renovare debeat memoriam. Nullus est locus ubi imago ejus oculis non occurrat: Adeo ut quæ maximè valeant ad ingenia excitanda, et bonos mores confirmandos, ea omnia nobis se ultrò offerre videantur. An socordiæ succumbere velimus? Ventus omnis, qui arborum illarum folia deturbat, ad aures nostras nomen affert Viri, qui quotannis itinera confecit ardua, laboresque pertulit maximos; quem à proposito dimovere possent, non æstatis calores, non hyemis frigora, non multitudinis iræ.-Nonne etiam ad DEUM piè colendum argumentis undique facilè collectis penè cogimur? Omnia, scilicet, quæ videmus; illa domus, illi hortuli, illi agri, non solùm monumenta, sed quasi munera sunt auctoris nostri pietatis. Religionis sumus alumni; eique genus, disciplinam, bona nostra, et spem omnem referimus accepta. Scholam Regiosylvensem hôc ædificio hodiè auctam esse, magnoperè lætamur. Quale sit videtis, facilèque judicare potestis, quantum eis debeamus, quorum operâ extructum est. Singulis annis sequentibus, indicia exhiberi plurima, eos qui hoc condiderunt, et Dei gloriæ, et usui Ecclesiæ Reipublicæque optimè consuluisse, ardenter exoptamus. Quò hoc tam optabile contingat, beneficiis quæ jampridem dedistis, et eis quæ mox daturi estis, petimus ut preces addatis. Ab hoc die, dicere liceat, "Magnus ab integros@cloruin nascitur ordo." In hanc scholam, noster DEUS oculos, noctes diesque, defigere velit. Ab hac mala arceat omnia. Neminem ex hac imparatum vis subita mortis corripiat. Ut omnia vota uno concludamus, et eis qui doceant, et eis qui doceantur, SPIRITUM Suum SANCTUM impertiatur DEUS Optimus Maximus, quo in felicitatem perpetuam certè ducantur. ENGLISH ADDRESS. A persuasion of our inadequacy to give suitable expression to the sentiments, which this day cannot but excite, compels us to commence our Address to you, respected Fathers and Friends, by bespeaking your indulgence. We stand on a spot surrounded with memorials of the venerable Founder of Methodism. His name appears inscribed on the leaves of every tree we see, and is uttered in the murmurs of every breeze that strikes our ear. We are permitted, on a day less interesting than that only on which Kingswood was first opened, to present ourselves before individuals who revere the memory of WESLEY, and perpetuate his excellencies. For a Kingswood Scholar, in circumstances such as these, to be required to act as representative of his school-fellows, and not to feel himself unequal to his duty, is not possible; and were it possible, would be alike discreditable to his judgment and his character. The kindness of our friends, among whom it would be uopardonable not to mention with particular gratitude our very worthy Governor, has provided us with this neat and convenient Schoolroom; a substitute for one, which, owing partly to the incommodiousness of its form, and partly to the increase of our numbers, has for some time ceased to be suitable. Though not raised under the immediate direction of him who built the former edifice, we think it has a fair claim to be considered a part of MR. WESLEY'S School. It is to be appropriated to the same use with its predecessor, the tuition of the sons of your Ministers; in subserviency to the same objects,-the glory of GoD, and the benefit of society. By a renewal of those services which hallowed the day when our Seminary was first consecrated to GOD, the successors of our venerable Father desire to bring this newly-erected building under the shadow of that wing which has so long covered the original Institution. have solicited the sanction of your presence and approbation : add to these your intercessions with the God of our Fathers, and we shall be justified in considering the present a day of cheering promise, the harbinger of future prosperity and happiness. We While indulging such expectations with respect to the future, it would be ungrateful to forget, that our hopes are encouraged by a retrospect of the past. On this day, respected Fathers and Friends, it more particularly becomes us to remember, that the Seminary in which we are educated was reared by its Founder, as well to commemorate mercies received, as to perpetuate the enjoyment of them to future ages. And, if it would not be deemed presumptuous in us to express an opinion on the subject, we would say, that our venerable Father evinced both his piety and his wisdom, in selecting Kingswood for the spot in which such a Seminary should be erected. It might not, indeed, be recommended by beauty of scenery: it could not boast of variegated landscapes, |
