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consistent and devoted member of the Methodist society. Her character was especially marked by strict integrity, and by firm unwavering attachment to the ministry and ordinances of Methodism. In her last illness her mind was divinely supported; and though suddenly called to her reward, her friends rejoice in the assurance that she is now with God. W. W. S.

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Dec. 6th.-At Wakefield, aged thirty-six years, Harriet, the beloved wife of Martin Wice. At the age of fifteen she was brought to a saving knowledge of God; and to the end of life she held fast the beginning of her confidence. Christian professor she was consistent; as a wife and a mother, faithful and affectionate; and in these, as well as in every other relation of life she adorned the doctrine of Christ. Her last affliction was long, and very severe; but "the joy of the Lord was her strength." She retained to the last the most perfect resignation to the divine will, and died in the full assurance of hope. T. H.

Dec. 7th.-At Laleston, in the Cardiff Circuit, aged thirty-six, Mary Ann, the wife of D. W. Davies, and daughter of Edward Powell, Esq., of Banlahan, in the county of Cork. She had been a member of the Wesleyan society six years. About a year ago, she was called to pass through deep family affliction, when four of her children were taken away by the small-pox. With Christian patience and resignation she submitted to the hand of God. On Wednesday,

the 6th, she was seized with apoplexy, and in She twenty-four hours afterwards was a corpse.

was an affectionate wife; and as a mother, she was most anxious for the salvation of her children. J. S.

Dec. 14th.-At Malton, Mr. W. Thurnham, aged sixty-five. For twenty years he had been a most exemplary and devout member of the Wesleyan society, and for seven years a muchesteemed Class-Leader. He was of a peaceable disposition, regular in his attendance on divine worship, a Christian indeed; and the general expression in the town, and in the society, is, "He was a good man." His illness was short and painful; but his mind was upborne by divine grace; and he resigned his spirit to God C. H. in the assured hope of eternal life.

Dec. 18th.-At Malton, Mrs. Rymer, aged seventy-seven. For fifteen years she had been a consistent member of the Wesleyan society. She was a woman of retired habits; yet her attendance on the public means of grace and class-meeting was regular. No weather, nor company, nor domestic engagements, were allowed by her to detain her from the ordinances of God. Her devotedness to him was sincere. She was a Her illness was gracious woman." endured with perfect resignation to the divine will; and she finished her course, saying, "I have hold of the promises;" "I am upon the H. C. right foundation."

POETRY.

MOSES'S SONG.

DEUTERONOMY XXXI.

HEAR, O ye heavens! and thou, O earth, attend:
Even as the rain my doctrine shall descend,

My speech as dew distil; as the small rain,
And as the showers upon the grassy plain.

Jehovah's name I will declare and bless ;
Acknowledge ye the greatness of his praise;
He is the Rock: perfect his works, his ways
Are righteousness;

A God of truth without iniquity,

And just and right is he.

Corrupting their own way,

Lo! they have gone astray;

Children of sin, they bear a stain abhorr'd;
Perverse, and do ye thus requite the Lord ?
Say, is he not thy Father, who hath bought,
O foolish and unwise! thy guilty race?
Hath he not made thee, and establish'd thee?
Remember thou the days of old, and trace
The generations that no longer be;
Ask of thy fathers, so shalt thou be taught;
Thy elders, they shall tell.

When to the nations the Most High the lands
Divided in the former age,

Bidding the sons of Adam separate,

He set their bounds, disposed their bands, And still their portion did await

His people Israel;

For Jacob is his chosen heritage.

He found him in a desert land,
In the waste howling wilderness;
He led him with a father's hand,

And kept and shelter'd from distress.
And as the eagle from her nest

Her young and helpless offspring brings,
And takes them from her place of rest,
And bears them on her own broad wings;
Him so the Lord alone did lead,

And by the blessing of his God,

On the high places of the earth he trod, Upon the increase of the fields to feed : Honey for him the very rock bestow'd, Oil from the flinty rock abundant flow'd: Butter of kine, and milk of sheep to eat, He gave him, and the richest of the wheat, And Bashan's flocks were his abundant food, And thou didst drink the ripe grape's purest blood.

But soon Jeshurun's heart

Wax'd fat; O recompence unmeet!
Another way his rebel feet

In his rebellion trod :
Stubborn and blind thou art!
In his abundance he forsook his God,
And taught his eyes

The Rock of his salvation to despise.

Thus they provoked the high and holy One,
And their abominations mock'd his throne;
To devils, not to God, they sacrificed,
To gods whom they knew not;

Gods, whom your fathers fear'd not, they adored;
The Rock that caused thy being long despised,
The God that form'd thee, the eternal Lord,

Thou hast forgot.

And when he had beheld it he abhorr'd:

Because his children wander'd thus astray,
He said, Lo! I will hide from them my face,
And I will watch their end; a froward race,
Unfaithful children still are they;

As they have moved with that which is not God
My jealousy,

And anger'd me with all their vanities,

So shall they feel my rod.

Them will I move to jealousy with those

Who are no people, those whom they despise : A fire is kindled in my wrath, which glows Even in the depths; the earth and her increase It shall consume, nor cease

'Till the foundations of the mountains flame. So will I heap mischiefs upon their race, My arrows shall destroy their name

Within their dwelling-place:

Hunger shall burn them, burning heat devour,
Bitter destruction waste them in that hour,

The wild beasts' teeth, the serpents' poison slay;

The sword without, and terror in their heart:
Thus shall it be-thus die

The young, the aged-thus the low, the high,
I said that I would scatter far away,
And make their very memory depart;
But for the fury of the enemy,

And lest their adversaries say, It is

Our hand alone, and not the Lord's, hath done all this.

O nation void of counsel still!

O were they wise to understand

The present hope, the future ill,
Their end, which is at hand!

How should one, then, a thousand chase! the might
Of two had put ten thousand into flight,

The foe with all his powers:

Except their Rock had sold them, and their Lord
Had quell'd their heart and sword.

Surely their rock is not as ours;
Such the confession of our foes

Of that which conquer'd them:

From Sodom's root their vine arose,
Gomorrah's canker in its stem,

A fruit accursed that none shall bless,

Whose grapes are gall, whose clusters bitterness.

The dragon's poison mingles in their wine;
Surely this doth remain

In my remembrance ever, not in vain ;
Vengeance and recompence are only mine;
Amid their pride,

In the due time, their foot, though sure, shall slide;

For their calamity comes swift and strong,

The things that shall o'ertake them haste along.

The Lord shall judge his people, he shall break
Their bonds, the mighty One;

He shall repent him for his servants' sake,
When he beholdeth that their power is gone.
Thus shall he say:

The gods in whom they trusted, where are they?
Which ate the fat of their rich sacrifice,
And drank the wine, let even them arise,
And help you in the hour of your dismay.

See now that I, even I, am he;

I kill, I make alive,

I wound, I heal, none shares with me
My high prerogative;

Out of my hand it is not given

To any to deliver;

For I lift up my hand to heaven,

And say, I live for ever!

If I should unto judgment rise,

And whet my glittering sword,

I will repay my enemies,

And all my foes reward:

Drunk with their blood mine arrows I will make,

My sword their flesh devour:

Rejoice, ye nations, for his people's sake;

He on his foes, that hour,

Shall render vengeance; merciful will he
Unto his land and to his people be.

LONDON:-Printed by James Nichols, 46, Hoxton-square.

H. W. J.

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