From Mr. T. Broadbent, Treasurer of the Auxiliary Society for the Lynn District Walsingham Circuit. Omitted in Sept. List From Mr. Robert Spence, Treasurer of the Auxiliary A Friend, Donation. By Mr. Naylor From Mr. Thomas Gillson, Treasurer of the Auxiliary From Thomas Thompson, Esq. Treasurer of the £. s. d, 1942 105 9 0 120 0 0 From Mr. George Osborn, Treasurer of the Auxiliary Faversham Deal Tenterden From William Mawer and H. Holland, Esqrs. Treasurers of the Auxiliary Society for the Lincoln District Spilsby Circuit Alford ditto From J. Bulmer, Esq. Treasurer of the Auxiliary Society for the London District Joseph Bulmer, Esq. (Subscription) Kentish Town Branch Society Deptford, Circuit, Rotherhithe Branch Society 25 17 8 Westminster City-Road Do. From Benjamin Sadler, Esq. Treasurer of the Auxiliary Society for the Leeds District Knaresborough do. 60 0 0 From Mr. John Bliss, Treasurer of the Auxiliary Society From William Carne, Esq. Treasurer of the Auxiliary Penzance Circuit 65 0 0 25 0 0 16 0 0 14 0 0 Falmouth ditto St. Austle ditto 12 0 0 132 0 0 The Committee present their Thanks for the following acceptable presents to the Society: To Richard Fawcett, Esq. Bradford, for Articles for Missionaries: To Amicus, for a present for the Missionaries: To Mr. Thomas, Seminary, Portland Place, Cheltenham, for a present of books: And to a Friend in the Spalding Circuit, for presents for the children of the Mission Schools. 880 On the Insufficiency of Philosophy to render Mankind Virtuous? AN IRREGULAR ODE. I. Come, Epictetus!* arm my breast No more the wounds of grief to feel, Those with full rage my helpless body tear, II. Where'er I turn, fresh evils meet my eyes, There on the bed of sickness Virtue lies! See baleful Jealousy intrude, Nor let me shrink, when Fancy's eye III. No longer let my fleeting joys depend Nor in the gentle counsels of a friend, But teach me in myself to find But, ah! what means this impious pride, "An eminent Stoic Philosopher} Is it not foul, weak, ignorant, and blind! Oh man! from conscious Virtue's praise Fall'n, fall'n!-what refuge canst thou find! What pitying hand again will raise From naked earth thy grovelling frame! Ah! who will cleanse thy heart from spot of sinful blanie? V. But, see! what sudden glories from the sky And all the gloomy prospect cheer? "Behold the Saviour of the world! behold Ye sons of pride, behold his aspect meek! Humility and Patience sweet, VI. What scenes now meet my wond'ring eyes! By mourning maids attended round, Attracts the Saviour's steps? What heart-felt wound His spotless bosom heaves with tender sighs? save? But, lo! He waves his awful hand! The sleeping clay obeys his dread command. Oh Lazarus, come forth!-"Come forth and see "The dear effects of wond'rous love! "He at whose word the seas and rocks remove, "Thy Friend, thy Lord, thy Maker weeps for thee!" VII. Thy walls, Jerusalem, have seen thy King O lost relentless Sion-Didst thou know Who thus vouchsafes thy courts to tread. What loud Hosannas wouldst thou sing! How eager crown his honour'd head! Nor see, unmov'd, His kind paternal woe! Nor force His tears, His precious blood for the to flow ! VIII. No more repine, my coward soul ! Check not the flow of sweet fraternal love, Printed by T. CORDEUX, 14, City-Road, London. THE METHODIST MAGAZINE, FOR DECEMBER, 1820. BIOGRAPHY. To the Editor of the Methodist Magazine. The following abridgement of the life of that great and good man, Sir MATTHEW HALE, I have thought would be profitable to many of your readers. I am, Sir, yours respectfully, Kingsland, Feb. 11, 1819. D. WATSON. Some Account of the Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England. Matthew Hale was born at Alderley, in Gloucestershire, on the 1st of November, 1609. Great care was taken of his education, and his guardian intended to breed him to be a divine; and being inclined to the way of those then called Puritana, put him to some schools that were taught by them; and in the 17th year of his age, sent him to Magdalene-Hall, in Oxford, where Obadiah Sedgwick was his teacher. He was an extraordinary proficient at school, and for some time at Oxford. But the stage-players coming thither, he was so much corrupted by seeing many plays, that he almost wholly forsook his studies. The corruption of a young man's mind in one particular, generally draws on a great many more. So he, being now taken from his studies, and from that gravity of his deportment, which was formerly eminent in him, far beyond his years, became entangled in many of the vanities incident to youth, but still preserved a great probity of mind. He loved fine clothes, and delighted much in company; and, being of a strong, robust body, he was a great master at all those exercises that required much strength. He also learned to fence, in which he became so expert, that he worsted many of the masters of that art: but as he was exercising himself in them, a circumstance occurred that gave some hopes of better things. VOL. XLIII. DECEMBER, 1820. |