sufferings, and resignation to the will of God, in the prospect of dissolution, were very conspicuous. At the beginning of his disease, before it became very alarming, he expressed an earnest desire, should he recover, to devote his future life to the service of his Redeemer. One day he spoke with much animation to his minister respecting the conduct of a young man, who, like himself, was a teacher in a sunday school; but, who had been more than commonly active in doing good, and he was delighted with his Christian zeal, fortitude, and hope. "He is sickly," said he," as well as myself, and tells me in his visits to my bedside, that it is probable, he shall, like me, be cut down in the morning of his days; but he speaks of death with a holy smile on his face." Two days before his death, he expressed his gratitude to God for being placed under the institution. The day before his decease, he said to his mother, "Do not cry for me when I am dead, for I am going to a better place." His expiring breath was whispered out in prayers for others, whom he loved; and his last words were, "Lord Jesus, take!" He then resigned this life on the 3rd of March, 1818.

The following is a copy of a paper found by his master after his death; it is a private meditation, written by himself, about twelve months before.

"I, Henry Abrahams, who was once a Jew boy, but now, by the blessings of God, am come to know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ; ought not to forget to pray to him earnestly for grace, for he has even said Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.' And I know that I am a sinner; but by praying to him, he may give me grace to find his holy ways, and bring me from

darkness into his marvellous light. Therefore it is my duty to pray to him always, when I go to bed, and when I rise up; for in my repose, the Lord may take me out of this world, and then a poor helpless sinner as I should have been, I might have been cast into the lake that is never quenched, and there remain for ever. O that the Lord may put it into my heart, not to forget to pray to him in my young days! While I am young, I may, by bad company, be led into the vanities of this wicked world, and there remain till I die. Do thou, Lord, keep me from those worldly actions, and by seeking thee, I shall never seek them.

Oct. 23, 1816.

HENRY ABRAHAMS."

He was, on the 8th of March, interred in the church yard of St. Botolph Bishopsgate; and on the following Sunday, the Rev. C. J. Hawtrey, A. M., preached his funeral sermon at the Episcopal Jews' Chapel, Bethnal Green, to an overflowing congregation. J. BURGESS.

The crea

7. And the Lord Godformed man. tion of man is not mentioned here again as if there were any præ-Adamites spoken of in chap. 1, and another original of the Jewish nation in this place. For then Moses could not

have said chap. 2, 3, that God rested, &c.; nor could Eve have been the mother of all living, nor God have made of one blood all nations.

In the Sacred Writings the true series of history is not always observed, and this verse should have been in the first chapter, the formation of man being there related as the sixth day's work. Edward on the Style of the Holy Scriptures, p. 106.

11. The name of the first is Pison. It can never be known where these rivers were, because the great confluence of waters and breaking open of the deep altered the course of rivers, or quite obliterated them.-Nichols's Conf. with a Theist, v. 1. p. 216.

16. Of every tree of the garden. The tree of life not excepted, which implies a promise of immortality, that tree being either a Sacrament, or a natural means of it.-Bull's Works, vol. 3. p. 1069.

17. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It was so called, I suppose, not because it had a virtue to confer any such knowledge, but because the devil pretended it had; it received its name from that unfortunate deception; and though it be so called before the fall, yet that is by way of anticipation. As for chap. 3. v. 2, I look upon that to be no other than a bitter irony to upbraid man with his foolish disobedience and disappointment. Nichols's Conf. with a Theist, v. 1, p. 113. The day thou eatest, &c. The dominion of death commenced the day he transgressed; but the execution was delayed eight or nine hundred years, as we find Gen. 5. 5.-Woodward's Nat. Hist. of the Earth, p. 101. Thou shalt surely die. This implies a promise that he should not have died, if he had not eaten.-ibid.

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A deep sleep. This was done, not only as

an expedient for the performance of the operation without pain, but also as an e'xsas to prepare him for receiving the divine oracle, which he (God) uttered upon his awakening.—Bishop Bull's Works, vol. 3, p. 1184. One of his ribs. Not but that other matter might go to her composition, but this being the seminal matter, no mention is made of it, as animals and plants are positively said to come from the seed, though they are not made of that only.-Jenkin's Reasonab. of Christianity, vol. 2, p. 203.

23. This is now bone of my bone. He could not know this, but by the inspiration of the Spirit.-Bull's Works, vol. 3, p. 1069.

REMARKS ON AN ARTICLE IN THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR DECEMBER,

Enforcing the Violation of the Sabbath!!! MR. EDITOR,

The NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE is a work that professes much loyalty, and I have always understood loyalty and religion to be inseparable; but I have been surprised at perusing an article in its pages, which, though it aims to make a kind of clumsy amende honorable at its close, by saying something in favour of religion, absolutely strikes at its very foundation, by endeavouring to ridicule the solemnity of our Sabbath days. The article is called a Sabbath in London.' The writer professes to have lived seven years on the Continent, and on his return, this is one of his first friendly communications to his own country. Sauntering about the metropolis to find his old friends, and disappointed in his pursuit, he says—

I was sick at heart myself, and as I strolled

some time longer in the noon-tide stillness of the squares and streets, a solemnity of feeling stole insensibly across my mind. There was something powerfully impressive in the contrast exhibited by this Sunday solitude in the midst of the most populous city of Europe, with the bustling holiday enjoyment of continental towns. When I thought of the Corso of Rome, the Prado of Madrid, and the Boulevards of Paris, I could not help moralizing and philosophizing awhile. The novelty of the actual scene before me, struck forcibly on my senses, and its policy gave ample employment for reflection. Some hours pondering on the question, resolved themselves to a decision, and I thought myself then, and I think even so now, tolerably fitted to come to a fair judgment; for I had the seven years' force of prime-of-life observation on the one hand, and the whole strength of three times that period of early impression on the other, all kept in balance by the temperate and unbiassed desire for determining with truth. I think, then, decidedly, that THE SUNDAY RECREATIONS of the Continent are, after all, to be preferred to the Sabbath solemnity of England. That the permission to be gay on one day in the week, is more likely to raise the mind, in cheerfulness, to Heaven, than the command to be dull. That the evils consequent in dancing are light in comparison with those which attend on drunkenness; and that polity, piety, manners, and morals, stand, every one, a better chance of being served in the ball room than in the gin shop. I do not, however, while advocating universal enjoyment, object to occasional humiliations; and I think an occasional day of denial and gloom, might produce on the multitude, an effect such as I myself then experienced,