to the ability we possess, and the opportunities that may be granted to us. Let us recollect that, though our opportunities and resources may not be equal to hers, we all have some, and that God requires of us, not according to what he has not, but according to what he has given us; and when we shall be called to give up the account of our stewardship, may we hear our Master say, Well done! thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' Amen."

For about a year previous to Mrs. Glover's decease, she was confined to her sick chamber. She died at seven o'clock, a.m., on Wednesday, November 2, 1853, in the 87th year of her age. On the Tuesday following, her remains were deposited in the same vault with those of her brother and sister, in Ebenezer chapel yard. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. R. A. Vaughan, her pastor, assisted by the Rev. J. A. James and the Rev. T. R. Barker. The three Professors, the Revs. F. Watts, T. R. Barker, H. Rogers, and Mr. Thomas Beilby, followed as mourners, in accordance with Mrs. Glover's request. On the following Sabbath morning, the Rev. R. A. Vaughan preached her funeral sermon, from Matthew v. 7, Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." Mr. Vaughan also inserted an obituary in the Evangelical Magazine, which appeared in January, 1854.

Extract from the Annual Report of Spring Hill College, presented to the meeting of subscribers held in Carr's Lane Lecture Room, June 27th, 1854:-"Your Committee must pause a moment to pay a tribute of deserved respect to the memory of the last founder of the College-Mrs. Sarah Glover, who departed to her rest in November last, full of years and of honours; and if not of riches' also, solely because she had voluntarily stripped herself of them, in numberless acts of munificent beneficence, of which your College was the principal object. She died at the advanced age of 86, having survived her sister, Miss Mansfield six, and her brother, Mr. George Mansfield, sixteen years. Her last illness was long and trying, and many sorrows and disappointments clouded her closing years; but neither sickness nor sorrow ever disturbed the

serenity of her Christian hope, or abated that cheerfulness which, though in part the effect of a natural buoyancy of mind, was still more the fruit of Christian sentiment. She always spoke with satisfaction of having been permitted during her lifetime to make that surrender of her property to the cause of God, which too many reserve till the hour when they can no longer enjoy it, and rejoiced in the actual first-fruits of her benevolence, as well as in the anticipation of the richer harvest which it would yield when she should be no more."

MISS ELIZABETH MANSFIELD.

MISS ELIZABETH MANSFIELD was born at Derby, November 3rd, 1772. She was very humble and retiring in her habits, and rarely referred to or spoke of herself. It appears, from a series of private memoranda, of which nothing was known till after her decease, that she was impressed in very early life with a sense of sin. She writes, "From a child I had a desire to hear the word of God, and was very much affected under it. I humbly trust the God of all grace was beginning that work which he will finish in eternity." *** "In the spring of 1795, I went to reside in Leicestershire, where I heard the Methodist and General Baptists, whose preaching frequently caused great distress, and my mind never had much peace until a friend lent me Mr. Mason's 'Christian Communicant.' My views now became clearer and stronger, and on my return to Derby I was admitted a member of the church militant, to be prepared for the church triumphant." Miss Mansfield's decease took place, after a very short illness, on the 30th May, 1847, in her 76th year.

The following reference to the event appears in the report read to the annual meeting of the subscribers to Spring Hill College, on Tuesday, June 22, 1847, from the pen of the author of the "Eclipse of Faith :" "We have to pay another tribute to departed worth. This same year, which has been so sadly memorable by the death of two of your students, has also wit

nessed the removal, though full of years and of honours,' of one of your venerable founders-Miss Elizabeth Mansfield. It is not always that the friends, even of benevolent institutions, can look back with unalloyed regret on the memory of those who have originated them; too often all the munificence of the founders is required to make us forget their faults or infirmities; and too often it has been exerted in the superstitious hope of atoning for them. It is far otherwise here. The Christian excellence of Miss Elizabeth Mansfield was an equable, consistent and uniform excellence; and widely as she will be known, and long as she will be remembered by your whole denomination, for the munificent generosity with which, in common with her sister and brother, she made such sacrifices for the cause of religion, she will be remembered for her private worth, with equally sincere respect, by that more limited circle who enjoyed a personal acquaintance with her. Though, like many others who have been the means of turning many to righteousness,' she will be held in everlasting remembrance,' no one ever lived less covetous of the applause of the world, or more earnestly desired to practise the great Master's lesson, of not letting the left hand know what the right hand doeth. Indeed, her preeminent characteristics were simplicity, humility, gentleness, meekness, and patience; and while all these virtues adorned her long and useful life, they shone forth with brighter lustre in the many severe trials of her last years. Her friends know that it was to her and her sister an unspeakable satisfaction to see, even in this life, so many fruits of their Christian beneficence."

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM,

"DEUM TIMETO: REGINAM HONORATO: VIRTUTEM COLITO: DISCIPLINIS BONIS: OFERAM DATO."

PATRON,-Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
VISITER, The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of the Diocese.
PRINCIPAL, The Right Hon. the Earl of Lichfield.

VICE PRINCIPAL,-The Hon. and Rev. Grantham M. Yorke, M.A. WARDEN,-The Rev. J. T. Law, M.A., Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield. TREASURER,—Thomas Upfill, Esq.

DEAN OF THE FACULTY,-William Sands Cox, F.R.S.

HON. SEC. TO THE PROFESSORS,-Dr. Wade.

MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO.

The Principal.

The Vice-Principal.

The Treasurer.

The Dean of the Faculty.

The Warden.

COUNCIL.

The High Bailiff of Birmingham.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire.

MEMBERS

The Right Hon. the Earl of Warwick.
The Right Hon. the Earl Howe.
The Right Hon. Lord Redesdale.
The Right Hon. Lord John Scott.

W. Dickins, Esq., Chairman of Quarter
Sessions.

Mr. Edward Armfield.
Mr. Edward T. Cox.
Mr. Samuel Haines.
Thomas Bagnall, Esq.
Mr. Charles Ratcliff.
Baron Webster, Esq.

The High Sheriff of Warwickshire.

The Dean of Worcester.

The Archdeacon of Coventry.

The Mayor of Birmingham.

The Rector of the Parish of St. Martin.
The Rector of the Parish of St. Philip.
Senior Physician of Queen's Hospital.
Senior Surgeon of Queen's Hospital.
ELECTED.

Frederick I. Welch, Esq.

Professors T. P. Heslop, M.D., and G.
B. Knowles, elected by the Professors.
Messrs. Clement Ingleby and T. S.
James-by the Law Society.

Messrs. J. R. Botham and S. Hemming

-by the Architectural Society. Messrs. J. E. Clift and G. E. M'Connel -by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Messrs. George Taylor and John Boucher-by the Hospital Board.