veral following years; and, notwithstanding numerous los ses, chiefly by the frequent removals of the soldiers, many of whom were awakened under Mr. Jones's ministry, the communicants usually were from seventy to eighty persons. Among these were a few officers in his majesty's service, and persons of some respectability in the town, but it was chiefly the poor to whom the Gospel was made powerful unto salvation. The lease which they had procured of the ground on which they built, being for a short term, and their general circumstances having been so low, that they had been able to discharge but a sinall part of the debt contracted on the account, Mr. Jones made an application to the rev. S. Greatheed, and some other religious characters in England, who personally knew him, for assistance to purchase some ground, and to erect a more commodious place of worship. Through the liberality of pious people in London, at Poole, and in various parts of the country, this was accomplished; and an adjoining tenement, containing small apartments for Mr. Jones, and a vestry, was also provided The latter apartment was occupied by him as a school room; the inhabitants, of all religious persuasions, having so high a respect for his character, that they were eager to commit their children to his care. Mr. Jones soon found an assistant necessary, and was so happy as to meet with persons, in succession, well qualified and disposed to second his benevolent exertions. All the children, although many of their parents were Roman Catholics, attended family wor ship daily, learned the Asseinbly's Catechism, which at stated times they repeated before the congregation; and at different periods were publicly examined in branches of common education, greatly to the satisfaction of the princi pal inhabitants, and to the credit of the cause of Christ. When Mr. Jones obtained his dismission from the artillery, it was greatly against the inclination of his military patrons, who considered him as entitled by his past conduct to a lieutenancy of invalids, and engaged themselves to obtain for him that promotion, if he would remain in the service. Esteeming the reproach of Christ a greater honour, he persisted in his desire to withdraw; and with his discharge received the appointment of a very small pension, as usual, in such cases. With this trifling addition to the inadequate support that the congregation could raise for him, in a place where every article of provision, excepting fish, is enor mously mously dear, he subsisted, destitute of almost every conve nience, yet parting with the very necessaries of life to per sons around him, who were more in want than himself. His zeal for the utility of the school induced him not only to remit to the poor the expence of instruction, but to give up what he received from others in order to support the assistant teacher. His situation, when made known to several pious and liberal persons in England, excited their synpathy; so that beside their donations to the buildings, they generously contributed annually toward the comforts of his advancing years, which were doubtless by this help extended to a later period, and rendered more useful than they could otherwise have been. He was also frequently assisted in his efforts to promote the knowledge of Christ, by gifts of religious publications from the Book Society at London, which he diligently distributed, not merely among his ignorant neighbours, but to remote parts of Newfoundland, where the inhabitants were destitute of all other means of instruction, and eagerly sought for this advantage. It was only at Harbour Grace, and in its vicinity on the western side of Conception Bay, that a glimpse of Gospel light was discernible, except at John's, throughout a country nearly as large as Ireland. The fruits of Mr. Coughlan's labours remained in that spot; but the clergymen sent out as his successors, were no better than the greater part of the instruments employed by the Society for propagating the Gospel, and the place built by the inhabitants for public worship, unhappily fell into their hands. The spiritual help which the pious people received, has been partly from the English Methodist connexion, and partly from the vo luntary labours of serious persons in business, who resided in Conception Bay. Some of the Methodist preachers extended their services to different parts of the north-east coast of the Island, where they planted a few societies, but could not continue with any of them long enough to lay a proper foundation for future usefulness. Mr. Jones, though himself a decided Calvinist in sentiment, maintained a friendly and useful intercourse with all who loved their common Lord; visited them when possible, and when visited by them gladly admitted to his house, his communion, and his pulpit, any of his brethren in Christ. At the same time, if there appeared danger that sentiments, which he regarded as erroneous, might take root among his people, he diligently opposed them in an open and candid manner. A member of his church, named George Brace, who kept a fishing boat, and visiting several of the small harbours at some distance from St. John's, was stirred up, seven or eight years since, to attempt instructing and exhorting the poor ignorant inhabitants; and at one of these places, called Portugal Cove, on the east side of Conception Bay, about thirteen miles over land from St. John's, the Lord remarkably blessed his endeavours to the conversion of sinners. This good man's concern for their souls induced him, after enduring the hardships of the fishery night and day through the week, to walk to Portugal Cove and back again every Lord's day, in order to instruct them in the Gospel. Obtaining also access to a place called Torbay, nine miles north of St. John's, he afterwards visited each small congregation in turn ; and Mr. Jones, when he could have opportunity, went to administer the Lord's supper to those who afforded evidence of conversion, the difficulties of travelling along the paths through the woods, greatly impeding their intercourse. The fishing seasons, upon which Brace's support wholly depended, proving for some following years ruinous to most of the persons employed, the liberality of pious individuals, chiefly in London, was again exerted, to raise an annual subscription that might liberate him from the labour and hazard of the fishery, and enable him to apply his whole time to the ministry, and to the gratuitous instruction of the poorest children at St. John's. Mr. Janes, whose compassion had been strongly excited by their wretched state, but whose time and attention were already fully occupied, had the happiness in this manner to see a free school established, which, together with his own, afford the happiest prospect of effectual benefit to the rising generation. Both these institutions have been. hitherto supported with increasing credit and utility. The former part of Mr. Jones's ministry had been exposed to great trials, through the oppression of persons in authority, and the licentiousness of a disorderly rabble. The late excellent Admiral Campbell, and some subsequent governors, extended to Mr. Jones their favour and protection, his well established character having recommended him to general esteem. As the violence of opposition to Mr. Jones's ministry subsided, other trials arose, the severest of which to his feelings was, the declension of some respectable inenibers of his church, whose conduct obliged be et him, after much forbearance and affectionate remonstrance to exclude them from communion. Of late years, growing infirmities, the consequences of his youthful dissipation, his military and local hardships, and his unintermitted labours in the Gospel, gradually affected his ministrations, and brought upon him, in 1799, a paralytic stroke, which interrupted and debilitated his exertions. Toward the end of February, 1800, his disorder rapidly increased, and indicated a speedy dissolution; but he was strong in faith, and seemed earnestly desirous to depart, and to be with Christ. On the last evening of that month several friends visited him, and, at his request, they sung the hymn entitled "Redeeming Love," beginning "Now begin the heav'nly theme, and George Brace spoke in prayer. He, and two other persons, staid all the night; during which, they heard Mr. Jones as if preaching, very distinctly enforce the necessity of faith in Christ, and of good works as the fruit and evidence of faith, reciting, in support of his assertions, as he sometimes did in his lectures, the twelfth article of the Church of England. These were the last words he was heard to utter; and in this sense, a wish he had often expressed, to die preaching was fulfiled. About four o'clock the next morning he expired without emotion, or any change of appearance. He repeatedly enjoined that the least possible expence should be incurred at his burial; and, on this condition, colonel S――, who was peculiarly attached to Mr. Jones, was allowed, at his request, to arrange the funeral proceedings. The resident clergyman, who performs divine service one part of the Lord's day at the meeting house, as the church was rebuilding, preached there on the occasion, March 4, nearly two thousand persons attending. From the latter clause of Job vii. 21. he urged the timely exercise of love to others before they were removed to us; dwelt upon the excellency of Mr. Jones's example, and enforced the truths that had been so solemnly delivered from that place, where he had himself often attended the ministry of the deceased. The order intended for the procession to the grave was somewhat deranged by a severe VOL. III.-No. 55. fall fall of snow. The pall was supported by two colonels in the army, and four principal gentlemen of the town; and the whole company of artillery in the garrison voluntarily attended, being only prevented by his own express desire from shewing military honours to their former comrade. It is probable, that, notwithstanding the various disadvan tages with which Mr. Jones entered upon his ministry, no person ever died more universally respected, or more sincerely regretted. Without the recommendation of learning or eloquence, his addresses from the pulpit were highly instructive and impressive, the subjects of them being usually adopted from the closest attention to the state of his hearers' minds, and their delivery being marked with genuine humility, profound seriousness, and, fervent affection. The preacher often seconded his admonitions with tears, and drew them from the eyes of his audience. If either in his conclusions or his purposes, the accuracy of his judgement might sometimes be questioned, no doubt could at any time reasonably be entertained of his integrity and benevolence. His fear of exposing the Gospel to reproach, by any real or supposed inconsistency in his conduct, bordered indeed upon an extreme. The warmth of his affections laid him open to prejudices, in some instances respecting the characters of individuals; and his deep sense of insufficiency, and the tender concern he felt for the good of souls, subjected him at times to despondency. Without aiming to palliate human infirmity, or to exaggerate amiable quali ties, he might, with eminent propriety, have made use of that appeal which the apostle Paul addresses to the Thessalonians, as to the tenor of his ministry and conduct, 1 Epist. ii. 3-12. JOSS, TORIAL, was born Sept. 29, 1731, at Auck Medden, a small village, on the sea coast, about twenty miles north of Aberdeen, Scotland. By the death of his father, when very young, he sustained a considerable loss: nor was this, in any measure, repaired by the second mar< riage of his mother. Whatever expectations he might have formed, from this new relationship, they were chiefly dis appointed; nor was he likely to improve in his morals, either from the force of example, or the advantages of religious instruction. He was always of a mild disposition, and rather inclined to serious subjects; but these being discouraged |