Honiton and Feniton..... 10 7 Per Rev. J. Dean........... 32 9 Tiverton ...... 14 Dorsetshire. 23 Isle of Wight. 0 0 Ashford 31 0 0 Staines.... Totteridge and Whetstone 29 8 8 Willesden, per Mr. Du- 1 9 3 J. B..... Monmouthshire. 750 2 2 0 2 10 0 Auxiliary Society........... 77 17 3 Pontypool......... 500 53 0 0 2 7 4 Canterbury.................... 51 5 Deal....... 8 Dovor.... 6 Faversham Norfolk. Auxiliary Society....300 0 0 0 Ashley and Willbarston... 4 2 0 23 13 Maidstone..................... 51 17 14 0 Beaminster............................................... 9 2 4 Marden....... Poole.... 0 0 Gravesend... 22 1 7 Nottingham: 9 Ramsgate..................... 67 18 5 For Chinese Mission, per Shaftesbury .....................12 10 0 Woolwich........................ 61 Miss Dunn .... Mere...... 28 0 0 Less exps., 81. 11s. 4d... 48 6 9 Blackheath, Legacy of the Sherborne. Rutlandshire. late J. T. Holmes, Esq. 30 0 0 Uppingham. 59 9 7 5 0 Shropshire. 39 0 3 Bridgnorth.. 45 18 2 0 Ellesmere................................ 50 1 2 South Shields. 12 11 6 10 0 Newport............ 18 60 5 Oswestry.. ...............101 17 0 Essex. Margate. 5 4 4 Shrewsbury... Somersetshire. Sunderland Auxiliary.....119 5 Plaistow Auxiliary Society: Blakeney... Chalfield 29 18 2 Bath, Mrs. Fletcher....... 1000 5 Taunton and Langport.... 59 1 5 0 .224 10 Cheltenham Chapel........ 8 15 Ebley... Frampton-on-Severn Gloucester. Kingswood.. Mitchel Dean........... Newnham......... Painswick.... 500 Toxteth Chapel............. 28 16 Staffordshire. 0 Shelton, Hope Chapel..... 22 13 9 0 Sudbury, Legacy of late Clapham...... ..... 30 0 0 7 Park Road Chapel... 57 9 0 21 10 7 42 2 3 469 16 11 5 4 6 18 6 0 Croydon 7 2 0 Coast Mission..... 1 10 0 Dorking... 61 9 7 22 14 4 Rodborough Ruscombe. Stroud Less exps., 141. 16s. 5d. 309 16 11 Louth.... 1001. in November. North Auxiliary Society: 11 4 6 6 57 17 8 8 Legacy of late Mrs. Maxey 88 11 1. Wandsworth.... 0 Auxiliary Society :59 16 0 Shoreham 6 Alfriston... 11 11 10 Horsham..... Stamford, F. and E. F..... ] 0 Andover, for Nat. Teach. 10 0 0 Wisbech. Alton 01 4 11 10 Barnet.................................................. 50 0 Winchmore Hill.... 10 13 0 Enfield, Rev. J. Stribling 3 8 8511 8 4 12 0 Brighton: Tabernacle 9 38 12 9 Less exps., 77. 18s. 6d...121 12 .......... London Road......... 566 8 5 6 Hanover Chapel...... 13 2 11 5 Oughtibridge........ 12 18 2 3 For Native Schools ......... 22 0 Collections and Donations 98 6 Less exps., 257. 11s. 5d..451 18 4. On account of 1837-1838,105 18 Warwickshire. Auxiliary Society Trowbridge-Tabernacle 40 12 £ s. d. 14 16 1 1 Carmarthenshire Asso. :- Less exps, 19ł. Os. 7d.* 501 3 11 Per Rev. D. Davies....... 156 12 11 2151. previously acknowledged. 23 7 3 ...... Wiltshire. Howden... 9 Market Weighton.......... Newtown. Rev. T. Seavil Swansea, Rev. W. Wood house 4 70 33 10 1 19 5 0 Goole.... 249 17 12 10 Great Ouseburn....... .... 13 10 20 1 40 0 0 Harrogate ..... 16 10 21 8 33 8 6 Knaresborough. 5 9 13 0 85 00 18 12 0 ............ G Per A. Webster, Esq...... 7 11 6 0- Mr. J. Urquhart...... 23 0 0 0 Ladies' and Juv. Society for Africa.... 0 Per Mr. R. G. Milne :0 Aberdeen Juv. Society... 9 Kintore Juvenile Society. 1 2 6 240 21 18 6 Hull and East Riding Aux. Hull....... Beverley....................... 74 9 0 Cottingham South Cave, &c............ Swanland.......... 2301. sent in July. 7 364 18 8 Hull Juvenile Society ..... 42 2 West Riding Auxiliary Barwick-in-Elmer.......... Less exps., 107. 38. 7d. 405 14 North Calvinistic Method- Flintshire. Dumfries Aux. Society... 18 13 2 For South Sea Missions... 41 610 Carnarvonshire..............155 4 11 .......... 0 9 10 6 0 0 9 West India Schools...... 14 56 6 Glenae House, per Major Dalzell Annan-: J. Saunders, Esq., per Rev. W. Ellis........ 50 0 Edinburgh Aux. Society.197 4 6 8 For Native Teacher, J. Society: 2 2 0 Shrewsbury. 5 Brown...... Huddersfield : Flintshire 65 10 1 Elgin........ 6 Inverkeithing... Dundee.... 10 0 0 11 0 0 ....... 13 10 0 27 2 0 55 5 4 Cookstown, for Nat Tea., 4 William Weir. 4 Donegal........ 4 0 0 61 19 1 Tanderagce. 214 6 23 4 7 Misses Irwin, for Mount 11 Irwin School..... 10 0 0 JERSEY. 4 0 2 Cardiganshire............ ..263 14 6 Monmouthshire.......... 7 Jersey Auxiliary Society.. 43 12 Guernsey French Indept. 26 12 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The thanks of the Directors are respectfully presented to the following:-To a few ladies at Stepney, for a box of useful articles for South Africa; to Mrs. Cox, Hackney, for a box of useful articles for Mrs. Drew, Madras; to Mr. James James, Birmingham, for a cask of wood screws, for Rev. James Read; to Mrs. Glyde, Horton-lane Bradford, for two cases of useful articles, for Penang and Chinsurah, value 401. each; to friends at Bedford, for a box of useful articles for Mrs. Porter's school, Vizagapatam; to a friend, to anonymous, to “J. T.," to Mr. W. Partridge, to Mr. R. Child, to Mr. Arnott, to Mrs. Pearce, to a young lady, per Mrs. Smith, Houndsditch, to Mr. Lowe, to a friend, per Rev. A. Douglas, Reading, and to Mr. J. Roworth, for Volumes and Nos. of the Evangelical and other Magazines, &c. William Tyler, Printer, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. FOR JUNE, 1837. MEMOIR OF THE LATE REV. WILLIAM EVANS BISHOP, OF SIDBURY, DEVON. IN few instances are the sovereign but wise appointments of Divine Providence more observable than in the variety which attends the disposal of Christian ministers; and this with regard to the circumstances which determine both the development of their talents, and the sphere of their labours. Thus we sometimes see a good man occupy one almost unvaried locality for the greater part of his life, while another is compelled to remove his tent from scene to scene, in rapid succession. In one instance, perhaps, we find an individual honest and warm-hearted, but possessing no extraordinary abilities, filling, and that with extensive usefulness, a sphere of wide and conspicuous popularity, while, in another, we shall see a mind of rare talents and endowments, fitted, as it should seem, to occupy and adorn a station of the most commanding influence, consigned to comparative seclusion; destined, if not absolutely to "waste its sweetness on the desert air," yet to expend its treasures within a circle quite disproportioned to their affluence and energy. Such reflections will naturally arise to the reader of the following memoir; as they were often expressed by those who had the privilege of a personal acquaintance with him who is its subject. But our duty in this, as in all other appointments, is simply to acquiesce and adore. VOL. XV. William Evans Bishop was born in May, 1758, at Basingstoke, in Hampshire, where his father, the Rev. Thos. Bishop, was, at that time, the pastor of the Independent church assembling in that town. That worthy man, whose father was for many years a member, and, it is believed, a deacon of the church at Bridport, Dorset, had received his education for the ministry at Ottery St. Mary, Devon, under the excellent Mr. John Lavington, being one of four young men who were sent down from London to form the commencement of the Western Academy, subsequently and successively under the tuition of Mr. Rooker, at Bridport, Mr. Reader, at Taunton, Mr. Small, at Axminster, and now of Dr. Payne, at Exeter. The other three students were, Mr. Wilkins, of Weymouth, Mr. Cross, of Trowbridge, and Mr. Punfield, of Wimbourne, who have all, long since, entered their rest. Mr. Thomas Bishop pursued an honourable and useful course in the ministry at Basingstoke, at South Molton, at Frome, and, ultimately, at Westbury, Wilts, where he was the instrument of raising a new evangelical interest, at a period when error was preached in the old dissenting place. The new society at first met in a barn at Westbury Leigh; but after some time, increasing greatly in numbers and resources, they erected a new place of worship for their Y |