.... Providence of God, essay on,... COL. 1087 294, 391, 488, 584, 679, 872 ... 484 387 RAINS, heavy,... Sermons, answer to query on, ..... ... 966 ......... Seville, 439, 650......Sherbet, ...... Shetland Islands, &c. account of,. ............ .. 483 582 198 342 386 Sims, Dr. memoir of, 393....Skating,.. 870 Smoke of lamps,..... Smoking, wholesale, 486...Snake, Society in provincial towns, Somnolency, .... 614 866 HOPE and disappointment, INFIDEL and the bishop, the,. 925 147 Seal of man immortal, the, Sound, experiment on,..... Southey's" Peninsular War," Speech, loss and return of, 870 LIFE, 1026; brevity of, 60; shortness of, 347 restored by galvanism, &c. ... 1163 ... Streets, widening, 964....Swimming,.. 677 966 -on Dr. A. Clarke's advice to young preachers,.... to Miss during absence, 641 "MAN that is a worm," ..... 639 1125 .... 257 448 Maria's grave, 448 966 Melancholy, address to,.. 253 104 102 ...... Time and simple duration, on,........ .... 324 Tongataboo, sketch of,. Treasures in the deep,. — the lapse of, a fragment, Truths, the mind susceptible of,. Vandalism, 481...Vesuvius, eruption of, 389 WARD, Rev. W. memoir of,. Weather, the, 387....Weed's-bane, 256 Welsh, college, 289; residing in England, 695 VANITY of earthly pursuits and pleasures, 825 Thoughts, heartfelt, 450....Time,..... 149 291 WANDERER, the, 924, 1025... War, on, 735 West's picture of the deluge, ..... COL. 447 | MARTHA, Memorial of,. ZILLA, to, Reviews. .... 640 Martyrs, the, a Poem,.. ..... Matter not Eternal, 82 ABEL, a Mystery, ... Account of United States of America,... 259 ..... ....... 1056 Analecta, or Pocket Anecdotes,.... .... .... ..... ........ 670 86 Unbelief, 844 ....... 278 SACRED Fugitives, in prose and verse, ..472 1046 1. Rev. A. Clarke, 11. Christie's Terrestrial Globe, AMONG the numerous divines that appeared during the last century, it will be difficult to find one whose name has been more celebrated than that of the late Rev. JOHN WESLEY. While alive, his fame was spread throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; it extended to the United States of America, to Nova Scotia, to the islands of the West Indies, and was not unknown on the shores of Africa, and the continent of Europe. His death, instead of furnishing his reputation with a grave, has tended to increase his honours, which the approbation of his friends, and the malignant aspersions of his enemies, strangely conspire to transmit with ansullied lustre to the remotest generations. | [1824. the feeble efforts which attempted to arrest its flight. The pilgrim of Bunyan is not more secure of immortality than the character of John Wesley; while the arrows of detraction, falling short of their intended victim, only serve to mark the greatness of its elevation. The life of this extraordinary man has been written in one large octavo volume, by the Rev. Henry Moore and Dr. Coke, and also in two volumes, by the Rev. John Whitehead. These lives are acknowledged by the Methodist body, together with an interesting volume of the Wesley Family that has just appeared, by the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke. In addition to these, his life has been sketched by the Rev. John Hampson, who had been Mr. Wesley's friend; in a Portraiture of Methodism by Joseph Nightingale, which has already been succeeded by professions of sincere repentance; and latterly, by Mr. Robert Southey, the poet laureate, in two octavo volumes, written to be sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. The public and conspicuous character which he sustained, through a long, an assiduous, and eventful life, exposed him to the rigid scrutiny of From biographical details which his cotemporaries, and to the posthu-have thus been extended, it is a work mous calumnies of those, who, not of no small difficulty to select such content with analyzing his actions, materials as shall compress the eshave endeavoured to depreciate his sential parts of Mr. Wesley's history motives, and defile his ashes in the into a narrow compass, without either repositories of death. Like Job, it omitting such branches as are neceswas his lot to be persecuted while sary to furnish a fair estimate of his living, and to be traduced when dead; character, or introducing facts and but his name is written in characters incidents which have only a remote which enmity cannot misinterpret, connexion with his life. The portrait and which neither the artifices of so- of a giant cannot easily be drawn in phistry, nor the filth of malevolence, miniature. can ever efface. The hornets which buzzed around him during his mortal career, have long since sunk into repose, and oblivion has spread her mantle over their angry hums, and nearly blotted the names of their puny weapons from the records of time, while the great object of their ineffectual vengeance still shines forth in its native beauty, rendered_more illustrious by No. 62.-VOL. VI. Mr. John Wesley was born at Epworth, in Lincolnshire, on the 17th of June, 1703; of which parish, his father, a worthy clergyman of the church of England, then held the living. On his arrival at Epworth, he found the inhabitants profligate in their manners, and addicted to vices which had long triumphed without any restraint. Being unable to bear the faithful preaching of their new pastor, they H |