Contributions in aid of the Society will be thankfully received by Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bart., Treasurer, and Rev. Joseph John Freeman, Home Secretary, at the Mission House, Blomfield-street, Finsbury, London; by Mr. W. F. Watson, 52, Princes-street, Edinburgh; J. Risk, Esq., Cochran-street, Glasgow; and by Rev. John Hands, Society House, 32, Lower Abbey-street, Dublin. Post-Office Orders should be in favour of Rev. Ebenezer Prout, and payable at the General Post-Office.

LONDON: LUKE JAMES HANSARD, PRINTER, NEAR LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

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EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE

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MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

FOR MARCH, 1849.

BRIEF NOTICE OF THE LATE REV. GEORGE YOUNG, D.D.

Of Whitby, Or the parentage, the birth, and the early life of Dr. Young, we say nothing, save that from his childhood he enjoyed the advantages of religious instruction, and of virtuous and pious example. But the circumstances attending his first choice of religion, his first deliberate surrender of his mind and life to God, are worthy of record. He himself, when on his deathbed, related these circumstances to one of his nephews:-It was on a sabbath, in the month of May, the very day (but two hours) fifty-four years, on which he died. He had returned from the village sanctuary, to the retired dwelling where his parents resided. He had sat down, not far from the house, under an eldertree, and was reading Boston's Fourfold State of Man,'-a book ever afterwards peculiarly precious to him, and which, when making up the libraries for seamen, he often put in, with the hope and prayer, that as it had proved useful to him, it might prove useful to some of them. Some months previous to this, his mind had been deeply affected by the death of a sister, young in years, but wonderfully strong in faith, and mature in Christian experience. But in that hour, earnestly meditating on Divine truth, and especially on the great subject of personal religion, his perceptions became more clear, his convictions more

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deep, his desires more intense; and firmly persuaded of the infinite grace of God through Christ, he then, for the first time, deliberately made his election, and humbly and sincerely yielded up his soul to God, and resolved, so long as he lived, to live to God: governed not by selfish and interested motives, but by a sense of duty, and by the force of lovelove to God and to man. Fifty-four years nearly have passed since that hour,' he said to his nephew, 'the house is taken down, and all is long since changed: but it is yet fresh to me,—the eldertree, the fields, and the whole scene, can never be effaced from my memory.'

Having passed, with high honour, four years at the University of Edinburgh, in literary and philosophical studies, and afterwards five sessions in the study of theology, under the late Rev. Professor Lawson, of Selkirk, Dr. Young was ordained, in January, 1806, as Pastor of Cliff-lane Chapel, Whitby. For fortytwo years he sustained this sacred relation; and till his last illness he was never laid aside by indisposition, except for one solitary sabbath.

His life, whether in connection with his pastoral duties, or in connection with his other pursuits and engagements, was characterised by nothing, perhaps, so much as by laboriousness. His labours

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