RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The Slave Trade has now continued 303 years, viz. from 1503 to the present. It appears, on a moderate computation, in that period, that the number of slaves imported from Africa by the different powers of Europe, amounts to 573 millions! We hope that we may congratulate the Friends of Justice and Humanity on a more pleasing prospect than has ever before appeared, of the speedy Some abolition of the Slave Trade. weeks ago an act of parliament was List of Lectures, &c. in and near London, for July. 1. Tu. M. Broad Street, Mr. Burder. 2. Wed. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the Nation, at Mess. Towle and Barber's, 3. Th. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Burder. -Christian Candour. 6. LORD'S DAY MORN. at Seven, Ca- 7. Mon. Ev. Missionary Prayer-Meet- 10. Th. M. Monthly Meeting (Indep.) 13. LORD'S DAY MORN. at Seven, Ca momile St. Mr. Ball.-Ey. Broad 15. Tu. M. Broad Str. Mr. Burder. Nation, at Mr. Winter's. New Ct. 20. LORD'S DAY MORN. at Seven, Mr. Gaffee; Chapel St. Mr. Buck; 22. Tu. M. Broad St. Mr. Barber. 24. Th. M. Monthly Meeting (Bapt.) 25. The Instructions to be derived from the Sins and Sufferings of the Israelites. Frid. Ev. (at Seven) Lecture to Young Persons, at Mr. Townsend's, Rotherhithe, Mr. Stollery to preach. 27. LORD'S DAY MORN. at Seven, 29. Tu. M. Broad St. Mr. Clayton. 31. Th. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Town- MINISTERS SUPPLYING AT Spa Fields, Mr. Jones, of Llangan. Hoxton, Mr. Cracknell, of Weymouth. EPIGRAM, Written by Mr. M- -, a well-known Portrait Painter, after having iudefoż tigably exerted himself in producing a Likeness of his departed Friend, ABRAHAM BOOTH. Titus i. 7-9. HERE baffled toil has struggled long in vain To fix the lines which mark'd his honor'd form, Of real life, of character and grace. A Pastor must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men; sober, just, holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convince the gainsayers. If portrait-likeness can thy bosom sooth, Behold it breathes, it lives, -tis Abraham Booth! ON PHILIPPIANS I. 23. WE journey here below, As thro' a vale of tears; And often are oppress'd With many doubts and fears: We have not olt a faith assur'd ;"Tis better to be with the Lord! His glories now we see But darkly thro' a glass; In Heav'n we shall behold Without a veil his face! There shall he be by us ador'd;— "Tis better to be with the Lord! 'Tis true, we're semetimes blest With sweet refreshing peace; But then our sins arise, Which make this pleasure cease : Nothing will constant peace afford ;— 'Tis better to be with the Lord! Our very dearest friends, Whom we most highly prize, In this vain world are oft The spring whence sorrows rise: Some hidden blast destroys our gourd; 'Tis better to be with the Lord! How subject are we here To sickness and to pain! From these effects of sin! Our views are here confin'd, Our knowledge is but small; Faith will be lost in sight, And all our souls be love: Nor from that bright abode With Him we here have lov'd! Printed by G. AULD, Greville Street, London. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. AUGUST, 1806. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. ABRAHAM BOOTH. (Concluded from our last.) It was observed in our last, that when the subject of this memoir was drawing very near to the close of life, it did not appear that he thought the moment of his departure so near at hand as his family apprehended it to be. We now add, that when his friend Mr. Gutteridge, at parting with him on the Lord's Day afternoon, said to him, "The Lord be with you; and if I do not see you again, I trust we shall meet in the better world!" he replied, I expect to see you again in this.' Nor did he express any thing to the contrary, when two of his dear children, with their husbands, Mr Robinson and Mr. Granger, were with him on the Lord's Day evening, and took their leave of him, after one of them had engaged in family prayer with him. He was put to bed about nine in the evening, and lay down, not to rise any more! On the next day he was mostly deprived of his speech; it is thought, not of his reason: but just at nine o'clock, Mr. Gray and Mr. Granger, his sons-in-law, thinking that they did not hear him breathe, went to the bedside, and saw him lay himself quite back; when, in a moment, he gently expired, without even a struggle or sigh. This was on Monday, January 27, 1806. He was in the seventy-second year of his age, and had been pastor of the church in Goodman's Fields nearly thirty-seven years. Thus terminated the mortal career of this apostolic servant of the Lord; of whom it may fairly be said, in honour of the grace of God, that, viewed in all his characters in his family, in his church, and in the world; in his learning, his influence, and his piety, he was truly eminent. Great are the changes which have taken place in the world, within a few months; and much has been said of our loss of talent in the senate, and of valour in the navy; but of what talents are his mourning people and the whole church of Christ bereaved by his death! He was not, indeed, a statesman, nor a warrior; but he was- what will appear to be of infinitely greater consequence at the day of judgment-he was an XIV. Xx |