zeal, acceptance, and success. With respectable talents, and unquestionable piety, he was remarkably attentive to pastoral duties. His urbanity and kindness greatly endeared him to the families of our people; and his generosity was only limited by his means. His prepa ration for heaven was habitual. He continued to the last in his Master's work; and was returning from an appointment in the country, when he was suddenly called to his eternal reward, January 22d, 1838.

11. WILLIAM HAYMAN. Under the first sermon which he heard among the Methodists, he received those powerful convictions of the truth which soon resulted in his conversion. He entered on the work of the ministry in the year 1809, and for twenty-eight years prosecuted his evangelical labours with great fidelity and zeal. As he lived in the daily enjoyment of perfect love, and in all his ministrations aimed at the salvation of souls, he was, according to his heart's desire, rendered eminently useful. He was amiable in his manners, affectionate and faithful in his friendships, and scrupulously exact in the discharge of his private and public duties. Having for five years continued his zealous exertions under the disadvantages of great debility, with the cheerfulness which distinguished him in perfect health, at the last Conference he reluctantly retired from his beloved employment. The enfeebled body was not long permitted to encumber the active and unwearied mind. On the 26th of January, 1838, he fell, it is supposed, in a fit of apoplexy; and without uttering a word, exchanged mortality for life, in the fifty-second year of

his age.

12. THOMAS THOMPSON, SEN., of the Ashton Circuit. He was truly converted to God when about eighteen years of age; and soon afterwards, from a conviction of duty, began to preach the Gospel to others. He commenced his itinerant labours in the year 1809, when about twenty-two years of age; and in the early part of his ministry he laboured zealously and successfully as a Home Missionary. While engaged in these labours, his health was seriously and permanently injured by sleeping in a damp bed, the consequences of which were such as to cause frequent suffering and debility during his subsequent years, and prematurely to close his ministerial labour and life. His attachment to the Wesleyan doctrines and discipline was ardent and abiding. His ministry was instructive, practical, and edifying: he was a faith

ful and kind colleague, an upright and constant friend. He laboured with general acceptance and usefulness nearly twenty-nine years. During his last illness his mind was kept in peace, being stayed upon the Lord. Some of his last expressions were, "I am waiting for my change, without desire of life, or fear of death." "I am an unworthy servant; but all my trust is in the merits of Jesus Christ." He died, trusting in the Lord, January 28th, 1838, aged fifty-one years.

13. WILLIAM SCHOLEFIELD; who was awakened, and brought to God, under the ministry of the late Rev. Wil liam Bramwell. After passing through the usual preparatory exercises, he was considered a suitable person for the regular ministry; on which he entered in the year 1803, and was zealous, laborious, and useful in the discharge of his ministerial work, until he finished his course, February 16th, 1838, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and the thirty-fifth of his ministry. During the severe affliction which terminated his life, he was deeply humbled before God, under a conviction of his unworthiness; but was supported by divine grace in a firm reliance on the atonement of Christ. In death he testified that God was with him, and that those consolations which on the confines of eternity are felt to be above all price, were graciously imparted to him.

14. JOHN PRIOR, aged thirty-five. In early life he was convinced of sin, and sought and found peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Believing that he was called to the work of the ministry, he entered upon its important duties in 1829. He was an humble, pious, and consistent follower of Christ, and sincerely attached to the doctrine and discipline of our body. For several years he had suffered considerably from debility. His death was sudden there is no doubt that his end was peace. He died April 7th, 1838.

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15. EDWARD JONES, 2d, a native of Corwen, Merionethshire; who was among the first-fruits of Wesleyan preaching in North Wales. He entered on the work of an Itinerant Preacher in the year 1804, and travelled ten years acceptably and usefully, when, on account of the state of his health, he was compelled to become a Supernumerary. His natural temper was quiet and tranquil. He was a man of very retired habits and unassuming manners. During his protracted affliction, he was often greatly depressed in mind; but, relying on the Saviour whom he had recommended to others, he finished his earthly

course in peace, April 15th, 1838, in the sixty-third year of his age.

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16. JOHN WHITE; 66 indeed, in whom there was no guile." He was remarkable for simplicity, integrity, and a meek and quiet spirit. As a Minister of the Gospel, he was diligent, faithful, and affectionate, and greatly beloved by those to whom he was the messenger of mercy. When increasing infirmities rendered him incapable of fulfilling the work of an Itinerant Preacher, he gladly laboured on a less extended scale, as a Supernumerary, with the affection and respect of the Preachers, Leaders, and people. For a few weeks previous to his death, his strength of body and mind was visibly declining; and his death was comparatively sudden, but most blessed and triumphant. He departed this life at Great-Horton, Yorkshire, on the 18th of April, 1838, in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

17. JOHN TUPMAN; who was converted to God in early life. He was a young man of great zeal, and promising abilities; and during the short course of his ministerial life, his labours were acceptable and useful. He was called into the itinerancy at the Conference of 1834, and died in great peace April 22d, 1838, aged thirty years.

18. JOHN WORDEN; who died at Brixham, on the 8th of May, 1838, aged fifty-three years, and in the twenty-eighth year of his itinerancy. At an early age he was brought under gracious impressions through the exhortations and prayers of his pious mother, who was a steady member of our society in the Camelford Circuit for more than sixty years. Having sought and obtained mercy through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, he soon began to preach to others, and was instrumental in the awakening and conversion of many souls. He laboured faithfully in the Lord's vineyard till compelled by affliction to desist. As a Preacher, he was instructive, experimental, and practical. He thought closely, bestowed much care on the preparation of his sermons, and in this department of ministerial duty acquired considerable facility and skill. modest and retiring in his habits; but, when occasion required, decided and vigorous in action. He was a man of strict integrity, conscientiously attentive both to the financial and the spiritual concerns of the Circuits in which he was stationed. His labours in the Ashburton Circuit, during the three years preceding his appointment to Brixham, were more than usually abundant and arduous. Of

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a hardy and vigorous constitution, he was rather prodigal of his strength, and undertook labours and journeys which gradually impaired his health, and in all probability shortened his days. During his protracted affliction he evinced great patience, and perfect submission to the divine will; and, though he had no rapture nor ecstasy, was preserved from everything like gloom or despondency. He had a calm confidence in God, his Father reconciled through Christ, and rejoiced in hope of eternal glory. Almost the last words he uttered were, "There remaineth a rest for the people of God."

19. JOHN H. RowE; who was brought to God in early life, and commenced his labours as an Itinerant Minister in the year 1807. He continued in the work until within a few weeks of his death. A short time before his departure he expressed his entire confidence in the atonement of Christ; and died in peace, on Wednesday, June 20th, 1838, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.

20. JOHN BACON. He was converted to God when about twenty years of age; and about eighteen months afterwards began to proclaim the mercy of God to perishing sinners. His habitual piety was unquestionable; and although he often had to contend against his proneness to unbelief, he generally manifested a cheerful seriousness. His preaching was clear and scriptural; in doctrine showing uncorruptness; and in spirit a ruling desire to do good, and to save souls. The application of his subjects was frequently powerful and affecting; and God honoured him in the faithful employment of his utmost ener gies in the work of the ministry, by the conversion of many souls, who will be his crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord. After spending about six years in the itinerant ministry, he was compelled to desist from the full work of a Travelling Preacher, and became a Supernumerary at Salford; but he still rendered every service in his power to the cause of God, and laboured beyond his strength in preaching, leading classes, &c. After preaching his last sermon, about a month before his death, he said emphatically, "I feel that my work is done." His last affliction was peculiarly painful; but his mind was kept in resignation and peace, trusting in the Lord. With the certain prospect of speedy dissolution, his mind was calm, and his faith unshaken. Some of his last expressions were, "I am a poor, unworthy sinner, but my trust is in Christ he is my all.' He died in great

peace, June 30th, 1838, aged thirty-four years.

21. ALEXANDER WEIR; who was a native of Ireland, but was removed in infancy to Scotland, where he was placed by his parents under a course of instruction designed to prepare him for the Romish Priesthood. Convinced, while yet young, of the dangerous errors and corruptions of Popery, he united himself to the Methodist society, of which he was a devoted, useful, and acceptable Minister for twenty-four years. In the year 1828, a disease in the throat, which greatly impeded his utterance, and ultimately deprived him of the power of articulation, compelled him to retire from our regular ministry, and to become a Supernumerary. When languishing in a state of speechless helplessness, his cheerful resignation manifested the saving efficacy of that Gospel which it had been his delight to publish, and the faithfulness of those divine promises on which he solemnly and implicitly relied. While he had strength to use the pen, he occasionally communicated his feelings by writing, and in this manner often expressed his confidence in God, and his love to the Saviour. Not many days before his liberation from all affliction and infirmity, his trembling hand traced, in barely legible characters, the words,

"I am happy in God; Christ is my refuge." These were his last expressed sentiments; but a heavenly smile appeared on his countenance, till he exchanged mortality for life, on Friday, the 13th of July, 1838, in the fifty-fifth year of his age.

II. In Ireland, four, viz.,

1. GEORGE STEPHENSON. In early youth he became wise unto salvation, and evinced such decided piety, and promise of usefulness, as warranted the Conference to engage him as a fellowlabourer in the itinerant ministry in 1793. He fulfilled the trust committed to him with diligence and fidelity for thirty-three years, in several of our most important Circuits; and even when oppressed by an impaired constitution and a confirmed asthma, he endeavoured as long as possible to continue his active services in the Gospel. In 1826 he was compelled by increasing infirmities to become Supernumerary, and settled in Bandon, where he devoted his remaining_strength to his beloved employment. Towards the close of life he was wholly confined to his house, and was a constant sufferer; but he submitted to the divine will, and joyfully awaited his final change,

which occurred rather suddenly on the 29th of September, 1837. On the preceding evening he prayed with his family; and when the final struggle approached he was found ready. His last effort to speak was to "gasp" the Saviour's name, and declare that he was "precious." He was an affectionate husband, an agreeable colleague, and a faithful and beloved Minister of Christ.

2. ARMSTRONG HALLIDAY. He was a native of Belfast, and was converted to God in early life. His mind, by the careful perusal of the sacred Scriptures, was stored with divine truth, the fruits of which appeared in his subsequent labours. When called to the work of the ministry, he entered upon it with extraordinary ardour and zeal, which continued and increased during the short period that he was permitted to pursue it. He lived in the exercise of much prayer and self-denial; he enjoyed the power of religion by the Holy Spirit's influence in his own heart; and his public ministrations were attended with the unction from above to the hearts of others. His discourses were arranged in a plain and scriptural style, and delivered with peculiar gravity and fervour; he possessed a mind of more than ordinary power and capacity, sanctified to the service of the sanctuary, which enabled him to understand clearly, and to unfold fully, the doctrines of Christianity as taught among us as a body. He was a very acceptable Preacher; and in the other duties of his office his behaviour was prudent, and his conversation spiritual; his profiting appeared unto all; he was much esteemed and beloved by all who knew him. In the open air he often proclaimed the Gospel of Christ; for in his sphere of usefulness it may be truly said of him, "In labours more abundant." But in the midst of these labours it pleased the great Head of the church to take him to his reward after a very short illness, from the commencement of which he anticipated his removal. His mind was peculiarly happy in the dying hour: "This sickness," he said, "is unto death; but it will be a glorious death unto me." In holy triumph over the last enemy, he passed to the rest above. It was a violent fever which terminated his mortal career with only a short interval he retained the use of his faculties, and waited calmly his dismissal. He died April 24th, 1838, in the twenty-sixth year of his age, and the fourth of his itinerancy. When borne to the house appointed for all living, his

remains were followed by a great multitude, who had listened to his discourses with profit, and who deplored his early removal; but "for him to live was Christ, to die was gain." "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."

3. CHARLES MAYNE. At a very early period of life he was a subject of deep religious feeling; and though he la mented the undue influence exercised over him for an interval of years, by the prevailing irreligion of the times, he was, while yet a youth, brought to a saving acquaintance with God. Having received his good, principally through the instrumentality of the Methodist society, he became a member of it, and was cordially attached to all its doctrines, services, and discipline. In the commencement of his career he had to endure no slight degree of opposition from his friends, who, mistaking the nature and character of Methodism, conceived it to be irregular, irrational, and unscriptural. He continued, however, steadfast in the faith, not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, until, having proceeded according to our usages as an official character, he was appointed to a Circuit in the year 1796; from which time he travelled through various parts of the kingdom, enduring toils, privations, and hardships with uncomplaining submission and cheerful fortitude. He filled our highest and most important stations with great credit to himself and profit to the people of his charge. His sermons were plain, practical, and truly evangelical, delivered in an engaging style of address, remarkable at once for ease and animation. His great solicitude was to be where Providence would have him, and to show forth the praises of God in whatever station was allotted to him. Hum. ble and unassuming, courteous and benevolent, zealous and devout, in him was exemplified the wisdom that cometh from above, that is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. He retired from the itinerant work in the year 1835, but not from ministerial exercise; for having complied with the solicitations of the Dublin society to reside in Kingstown, he continued to perform, to the utmost of his strength, the Sabbath and weekday services of our chapel there, with very great effect, until prostrated by the illness which terminated his valuable life. He did not speak much on his deathbed; but the few words which he uttered were forcible, and highly satisfactory, expressive of his implicit reliance on the

merits of Christ, and enjoyment of that sanctification which prepares for glory. He died on the 4th of May, 1838, deeply and extensively regretted. He was

4. FRANCIS RUSSELL. brought to the knowledge of God by the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodists; and began to exercise himself in Dublin, where he resided for several years, in visiting the hospitals and workhouses, and in holding prayer-meetings in various parts of the city and neighbourhood. In these labours of mercy he was made an instrument of great spiritual good to many of the poor and afflicted; and, being appointed to the offices of Class-Leader and Local Preacher, he was successful in gathering many into the church of God. In the year 1794 he was called into the work of the public ministry, and appointed to the Athlone Circuit. From that period he continued to labour with diligence, fidelity, and success, till the year 1824, when he was reduced to extreme helplessness by an attack of paralysis, from which he never recovered. He then settled at Templemore, where, by the meekness of his spirit, his resignation to the divine will, and constant attendance on the ministry of the word, he exemplified the saving power of the Gospel which he had so long preached to others. He was a man of a strong understanding, considerable information, and genuine piety; a faithful and diligent Preacher of the word of God; his sermons proving that he studied his Bible with prayerful attention, and that the conversion of souls was his grand object. His knowledge of our discipline was extensive and accurate; and in the exercise of it, as Chairman of a District, and Superintendent of a Circuit, he manifested meekness of wisdom, and the unwavering decision of one well instructed in the divine law. He was beloved in all the Circuits where he laboured, and highly esteemed by his fathers and brethren in the ministry, who frequently appointed him to some of the most important stations in the Connexion, where his uniform piety, his zealous attention to the pastoral and ministerial duties, and success in bringing souls to God, rendered him both acceptable and useful. Although, for some years past, his weakness was so great as to render him unable, without the assistance of two persons, to attend the means of grace; yet, such was his love for the house of God, that his seat was seldom or never unoccupied. On Sunday, June 17th, 1838, he rose at six o'clock, was dressed and placed in his chair, where

calmly waiting the divine call, in the full assurance of eternal life, through Jesus Christ, he fell asleep, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.

III. In our Foreign Missions, eight have died, viz.,—

1. JAMES PATTERSON. He was brought to a saving knowledge of the truth at Lynn, in Norfolk, in 1830, and from that period felt an ardent desire to make known the blessings of salvation to the benighted Heathen. After la bouring as a Local Preacher in the Lynn and Great Queen-street Circuits for six years, he was appointed, by the Conference of 1836, as a Missionary to SierraLeone, where he arrived on the 10th of October following. On the 14th of May, 1837, he was seized with the epidemic which prevailed in that colony, and at the end of a week he sunk under the violence of the disorder. During his short illness, his mind was kept in perfect peace. When he had lost the power of speech, he was asked to raise his hand if he experienced a foretaste of future glory: immediately he lifted up his hands, and without a struggle or a groan fell asleep in Jesus, on the 21st of May, 1837, and in the twenty-fifth year of his age.

2. HENRY WILKINSON. A young man of excellent character, and much promise. He was appointed to the Mission at St. Mary's, on the Gambia, at the Conference of 1834. His wise and faithful management of that station, and the success which accompanied his evangelical labours among the people of his charge, fully equalled the high expectations which had been formed of him. His course of usefulness was interrupted by an attack of the epidemic which recently ravaged the western coast of Africa; and he was removed to an early and glorious reward, on the 24th of August, 1837, greatly lamented by his brethren in the ministry, and the congregations and societies which had pros pered under his care.

3. JAMES DARWIN JACKSON. He was a native of Grantham, in the county of Lincoln; born December 18th, 1809, and converted to God when about eighteen years of age. When about twentyfour years old he was powerfully convinced that it was his duty to offer himself for the Missionary work; and this he did in the year 1836. Having undergone the usual examinations at the Bedford District-Meeting, and before the Missionary Committee in London, he was appointed to Jamaica, and arrived at his destination on May 29th, 1836. After faithfully and successfully labour

ing in the Clarendon Circuit for above twelve months, he died in peace at James's-place, Clarendon, on the 3d of September, 1837.

4. WILLIAM ELLIS; who died in peace at Harbour-Grace, Newfoundland, September 21st, 1837, in the fifty-seventh year of his age, and in the thirty-first of his itinerancy. He was born in the north of Ireland, and was converted to God when about sixteen years old. He was appointed to Newfoundland about the year 1808. He twice narrowly escaped being drowned while visiting the different parts of his extensive field of labour; and the injury which he sustained while in the water affected his head so much, that close application to study was ever afterwards exceedingly painful. But though much afflicted, he continued his ministerial labours till within a few months of his decease. His natural abilities were good; and had not affliction, and somewhat desultory habits, induced by a very extended itinerancy, prevented their full developement, he might have attained to considerable eminence as a Minister of the Gospel. He laboured with great zeal, tenderness, affection, and success, in the cause of his Lord and Master; particularly during the first years of his ministry.

5. GEORGE O. WRIGLEY; who died at Cape-Coast Town, in Western Africa, on the 16th of November, 1837. He accepted an appointment to Cape-Coast at the Conference of 1836, and sailed on the 12th of August following. He entered on his work in that Mission with great zeal and judgment; and was instrumental in the conversion of many people to the knowledge of Christ. On the 6th of November, 1837, he was seized with the illness which proved fatal to him. He was graciously supported during his affliction; and he received the kindest attentions from the affectionate people to whom he had ministered with so much success. In death

as in life he reposed with unwavering confidence in the atonement of Christ, and rejoiced in hope of the glory of God. Since his death the fruits of his evangelical labours have appeared in a large accession to the society.

6. ABRAHAM COOPER, who died on Friday, June 8th, 1838, at the house of his brother-in-law, Mr. Ollis, Oldland Common, near Bristol, in the twentyninth year of his age. This devoted servant of Christ was appointed as a Missionary to the island of Tobago, in August, 1835. He remained in the West Indies two years and three months, during