On account of the uncommon press of matter, we are under the painful necessity of deferring a great part of the List of Contributions till next month. For the Education of Native Females in India Misses S. C. and H. Ball, Mevagissey, Cornwall Mrs. Eade.-For Female Schools in India! 220 15 0 0 ... 210 0 ........ 10 0 0 Donations in aid of the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca. Penzance Juvenile Missionary Society; per Rev. J. Foxell Miss Neave; per ditto.-Annual ......... 1 0 0 Donations for the Chapel and Mission House, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. H. Montague, Esq.; per Mr. J. Nisbet ....... 0 10 0 THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. DECEMBER 1823. MEMOIR OF MRS. SARAH WESLEY, (Who died Dec. 28, 1822, aged 96, Relict of the Rev. Charles Wesley, M. A.) WRITTEN BY MISS WESLEY. MRS. [FROM THE METHODIST MAGAZINE ] CHARLES WESLEY was the daughter of the late Marmaduke Gwynne, Esq. of Breconshire, South Wales. From her childhood she evinced a deep sense of religion; and received the Lord's Supper when she was only fourteen years old. Mr. Gwynne was an upright, pious man, strenuously attached to the Church of England. He was eminently kind to his tenantry, be neficent to the poor, and exemplary in all the relations of life. He retained a chaplain in his house, who daily read the morning and evening service in it; the church being distant, and only open on Sundays. When Mr. Howel Harris began his itinerant preaching in South Wales, (which was some years before the Mr. Wesleys visited that part of the country,) Mr. Gwynne was alarmed at reports of an innovation in the church; and imagining that this Howel Harris might hold the tenets ascribed to the Inaependent Dissenters under Oliver Cromwell's reign, and be an incendiary in church and state, he, being a magistrate, determined to put an end to these portentous irregula rities. For this purpose he sallied out one day; but said to his lady on going, "I will hear the man VOL I. myself, before I commit him." Accordingly he made one of the congregation, with the Riot Act in his pocket. The sermon was so truly evangelical, so calculated to arouse the careless, to alarm the wicked and to encourage the penitent, and the preacher's manner was so zealous and affectionate, that Mr. G. thought he resembled one of the apostles. He was so convinced of the purity of his doctrines, and of the benevolence of his motive, that at the end of the discourse he went up to Howel Harris; shook him by the hand; told him how much he had been misled by slanderous reports; avowed his intention of committing him, had they been true; asked his pardon; and, to the amazement of the assembly, entreated him to accompany himi back to Garth to supper. Mrs. Gwynne, his lady, was a worthy woman, endowed with a superior understanding, and distinguished by her love of the poor, whom she supplied regularly with food, clothing and medicine; but she had the strong prejudices of birth and fortune. She was one of six heiresses, each of whom had 30,000l. for their portion, and had married into suitable families of high descent and splendour. She 2 Y |