ready to aid the cause of God. Her last affliction was long and painful; but she bore it with perfect resignation. In her affliction she could testify, Christ is precious." "His blood has cleansed me from all sin." "I have a good hope of being with Christ for ever and ever." "Christ is my all in all." Thus she passed away from earth to heaven-from the toil and labour of time to the rest and reward of eternity-in the forty-seventh year of her age. J. W. June 2d. At Toynton, St. Peter's, in the Spilsby Circuit, aged seventy-one years, Mr. J. Lammiman. He was a Methodist fifty years, and the Leader of a class twenty-five years. His whole religious course was marked by consistency, fidelity, zeal, and entire devotedness to God. In all the relations of life, as parent, master, and man of business, his conduct was exemplary. His last illness was short, and his suffering great; but patience had her perfect work. Having put his house in order, he calmly fell asleep in Jesus. He died full of hope. J. W. June 6th. At the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Wilson, of Ragnall, in the Retford Circuit, Mrs. Proctor, in the eightieth year of her age. She was an old disciple,-having been converted to God, in a season of affliction, about half a century ago. For forty years past she has been known to be steadily growing in grace. She was a diligent reader of God's word, repairing to its pages for guidance in perplexity, and for succour in seasons of trial and conflict. She sought, with much prayer for and with her children, to train them up in the right way; and she had the happiness of seeing them all converted in their youth. In connexion with her late husband, she was honoured to introduce Wesleyan Methodism into Collingham, in the Newark Circuit, in spite of much persecution and many difficulties; and for a long series of years her house in that place was a home for all the Preachers. Having borne the burden and heat of the day, she still acknowledged herself to be an unprofitable servant, and trusted in Christ alone for salvation. She died, as she had lived, in great peace. J. A. June 17th.-At Golden-Grove, in Demerara, in her sixtieth year, Anna, wife of the Rev. William Fidler, Chairman and General Superintendent of the St. Vincent's and Demerara District. Her end was eminently calm and happy. For about four weeks she was laid aside from meeting her classes and attending public worship. But she found a Bethel in her sick chamber, and at the throne of grace. She was sweetly resigned, and happy in the will of God. Among her last precious words were these, expressive of her love to the Missionary cause: "I am not sorry that I have to die in the foreign field." She was of the highest order of Christians, living in the enjoyment of rich privileges by faith in the atoning blood of Christ ;-one of the best of wives and mothers, and a zealous, faithful, and successful Class-Leader. Three months ago she appeared to be in perfect health; but she has ceased to toil and suffer, and has entered into rest and glory. She was an example of the blessedness of earnest Christianity from her sixteenth year to her sixtieth; about twenty-four of those years being spent in the West India Mission, and ten in the Home-work. W. F. June 17th.-Sarah, relict of Mr. Benjamin Butterworth, of Holmfirth. Associated with Methodism from a period comparatively early in its history, she became a member of Society at the age of twenty, and continued in this fellowship as long as she lived. For half a century past her house was especially the home of Methodist Preachers. Mrs. Butterworth was "a mother in Israel;" and "her children," and children's children, "arise up, and call her blessed." She sunk gradually, and died in the true faith of the Gospel. Her end was eminently peaceful. She fell asleep in the Lord in the seventy-eighth year of her age. July 5th.-At Todmorden, Mr. James Weatherill, in his seventy-fifth year. He was awakened to a sense of his sinfulness and danger under the ministry of the Rev. Isaac Muff; and, having joined the Methodists, he continued a faithful and exemplary member nearly fifty-six years. Life to him was often a sea of storms; but he had embarked with Christ, and in his greatest trials be was wont to say, "Sailing with Christ, I can never sink. I know, with Him I am safe." He was strongly attached to the people of his choice; and while some men's hearts failed them through fear, in trying times, he never wavered. He was never heard to speak a disrespectful word of any one. He was scrupulously careful of the reputation of Ministers, and loved them for their work's sake. His love of peace was proverbial, and he meddled not with them that were given to change. For some time past it was evident that he was fast ripening for the harvest. He waited for the coming of Christ, and was found ready. The last time he was at his class, he said, with much feeling, "I am determined to weather the storm, and make sure work for eternity." That day week, while at his work of masonry, he was suddenly buried in the ruins of a building. Before he could he extricated, angels had done their office, his spirit was with God, the aged pilgrim had reached his home, and the weary was at rest. W. B. S. LONDON PRINTED BY JAMES NICHOLS, HOXTON-SQUARE. WESLEYAN-METHODIST MAGAZINE. OCTOBER, 1859. CAREY, MARSHMAN, AND WARD. SERAMPORE became the lighthouse of the East, while British authorities in Calcutta willingly sat in darkness, and were distinguished from the heathen around them chiefly by a disregard of all sacred ordinances. It was for Lord Wellesley, on assuming the government, to institute a new order of things. He considered religion the safeguard of social order, and was unfashionable enough to appear regularly in his seat at church. He even issued a proclamation against various modes of Sabbath-breaking, among which Sunday newspapers were included. A day of general thanksgiving commemorated the success of the British arms in Mysore; and, from that time, the high mightinesses of the capital deigned to acknowledge that religion was a very proper thing! The Serampore people were at the same hour offering the incense of praise in their lowly room. When they purchased a house, they devoted the chief apartment to public worship. That became, in fact, the Mission-chapel, and echoed with psalms more than half a century. A side-building was fitted up as a printing-office, and a plot of ground in the rear was made over to Carey for a botanical garden. These arrangements complete, the sum of £200 remained to meet the requirements of six families for six months. The first care was given to the first work,-that of translating and printing the oracles of God. Already, that is, in the year 1800, the entire Bible had been rendered in Bengalee, save two books of the Old Testament; and now it was resolved to print. Not that other things were neglected: witness preaching, church-organizing, the establishment of boarding-schools, (which contributed largely to the sustenance of the Mission,) and instruction of the humbler classes in the vernacular. Financial pressure was especially heavy on the chief engagement; but an appeal to the British public in Calcutta, made at an auspicious hour, brought fifteen hundred rupees. Ere the year closed, Fukeer came before the church at Serampore, gave an account of himself which was deemed highly encouraging, and offered to make an open profession of Christianity. Seven years of toil had slowly passed; and here was the first native that came so far in the road of discipleship. He was hailed with indescribable emotion. "We all stood up," writes Mr. Ward, "and sang, with new 3 к VOL. V.-FIFTH SERIES. feelings, Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.' Each brother shook Fukeer by the hand. The rest your imagination must supply." But the beautiful blossom was scattered. The sequel reminds us of one who said, "Lord, I will follow Thee; but let me first go bid them farewell which are at home at my house;"—and throws a strong, oriental light on the Master's answer: No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (Luke ix. 61, 62.) The terms in which the story of poor Fukeer closes are startlingly indicative of his prototype. He had been accepted as a candidate for baptism, and he "now proposed to return to Beerbhoom, to take leave of his friends, before he was separated from them for ever." One of the Christian brotherhood, dreading the risk he ran, determined to accompany him to the district. On reaching the factory, Fukeer begged permission to go to the house of a friend, promising to return in three days. He never came back, nor were any tidings again heard of him. Krishnu Pall takes rank, therefore, as the first of native converts. When he came for baptism, the Missionaries demanded simply "a profession of dependence on Christ, and submission to Him in all things." That joyous occasion was strangely shadowed; Mr. Thomas became frantic with delight; and, at the very time when the procession moved solemnly toward the river-side, he and Mrs. Carey were filling the air with their howlings. The Governor of Serampore was present, and melted to tears, at the baptismal ceremony; and there, too, were motley groups of Portuguese, Hindus, and Mohammedans. The spectacle was most impressive. That very afternoon, (a date worthy of more than rubric honours in the calendar, Sunday, December 28th, 1800,) the Lord's Supper was first administered in Bengalee. No marvel that the enemy raged, and the vernacular school was broken up. A few weeks later, the chronicler has another great event to mark. Nine months' unceasing activity had achieved its end; and Mr. Carey, exulting, received from the press the last sheet of the Bengalee New Testament. "As soon as the first copy was bound, it was placed on the communion-table in the chapel, and a meeting was held of the whole of the Mission-family, and the newly-baptized Heathen, to acknowledge their gratitude to God for the completion of this important work." The light was yet but glimmering on the magnificent future; and the leader of the laborious band was ready to say, with Simeon of old, "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace."... It was no common step gained in advance, when Carey was chosen Teacher of Bengalee in the College of Fort-William. There, for the first time, this study was enforced on candidates for the Indian service. Civil, criminal, and fiscal courts had hitherto conducted their business in Persian,-the language introduced by the Moslem conquerors of the land. Lord Wellesley saw how important to those who presided over those courts, and directed their ever-growing influence, was a knowledge of the vernacular. And let it be set |