appointed Professor of Sungskrit and Marhatta, and by this means he acquired an intimacy with learned Pundits from all parts of India, through whom, in the course of years, he was enabled to translate the Scriptures into all the principal languages of northern Hindostan. For the students in the College, he had to compile grammars of the languages he taught them; and, after many years, he completed his voluminous Bengalee Dictionary. By means of these and other works he became known throughout the world as an oriental scholar of the first eminence. He was not less celebrated as a man of science. Botany and Natural History he began to study long before he left England; and India opened to him a wide field of observation, which he examined with untiring assiduity from his first arrival until his strength utterly failed him. In these pursuits he was the coadjutor and personal friend of Roxburgh, Buchanan, Hardwick, and Wallich, and the correspondent of several of the first men in Europe, with whom he was continually exchanging botanical treasures.

As a philanthropist Dr. Carey is entitled to a high rank. He sought and gained the prevention of infanticide at Gunga-Saugar. He was amongst the first, if not the first, that engaged in seeking the abolition of suttees, and chiefly through his exertions the Marquis of Wellesley left, to his successors in the

Government of India, a minute, declaring his conviction, that suttees might and ought to be abolished. Had he continued in the Government, he would have abolished them. Dr. Carey also took an active part in attempting the establishment of a Leper Hospital in Calcutta. He was the founder of the Agricultural Society. And indeed scarcely any undertaking for the benefit of the country has been engaged in which he was not either a prime mover, or a zealous promoter.

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It was, however, as a Christian, a Missionary, and a Translator of the sacred Scriptures, that Dr. Carey shone preeminently. Their obligations to him in these respects the people of India have yet, in a great degree, to learn. They will, however, learn them; and future generations will arise to bless his name. All Bengalees at least may thank him for this before his days, the Bengalee language was unknown, and had never been reduced to grammatical rule. Pundits would not write it, and there was scarcely a book in it worth reading. It is now rich, refined, and expressive; and scholarship in it is generally sought, both by natives and foreigners; and to Dr. Carey and the Pundits whom he employed, and whose labours he directed, the change is principally owing.

Dr. Carey was born on the 17th of August, 1761, and died on the 9th of June, 1834, full of years and honour.

DEATH OF THE REV. EDWARD IRVING. ON Monday, Dec. 8th, 1834, the Rev. Edward Irving, of London, departed this life, at Glasgow, where he had formerly exercised his ministry, in connexion with Dr. Chalmers. His health had long been in a declining state; but the immediate cause of his death was inflammation, from which his sufferings during the last two or three days of his life were extreme. He was sensible to the last; and his departing words were, "In life or in death, I am the Lord's; " previous to which he sang the twenty-third psalm in Hebrew, accompanied by his wife's father, the Rev. John Martin.

Mr. Irving was more remarkable for the vigour of his imagination, and the power of his oratory, than the soundness of his judgment. His singular notions concerning the millennium, the revival of miracles, and especially that of the gift of tongues, sink into insignificance when compared with the foul heresy which he strenuously maintained respecting the alleged sinfulness of our Lord's human nature. Opinion, however, is not religion;

If

and perhaps the case of this singular man
is described in St. Paul's account of the
unwise builder, contained in the following
passage of holy writ :-" Other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid, which
is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build
upon this foundation gold, silver, pre-
cious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every
man's work shall be made manifest : for
the day shall declare it, because it shall
be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try
every man's work of what sort it is.
any man's work abide which he hath
built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he
shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire." (1 Cor. iii.
11-15.) As a man of genius, and of a
noble and generous disposition, Mr.
Irving will long be justly admired; but
his peculiar opinions, by which many
persons have been misled, can only be
remembered with regret. None of his
publications are likely to excite a per-
manent interest.

RECENT DEATHS.

Ocr, 4th 1834-At Haverfordwest, of an enlargement of the heart, Mary Anne Jones, in the twenty-seventh year of her age. From an early period of her life she was deeply impressed with religious truths; her memory was retentive; she had great pleasure in the perusal of religious books. When a child, she discovered extraordinary talent, and, laid the foundation of those literary acquirements by which her short career was dunguished In the year 1810, I was stationed in the Whitchurch Circuit, in Salop. During that year an extraordinary revival of religion took Place amongst young people. Mary Anne from that time dated her conversion: and she could say with truth, that God had, for Christ's sake, paroned all her sins, adopted her into his family, and made her an heir of the kingdom. From that time to the day of her death she adorned the Gospel of God her Saviour. In all the Circuits I have since travelled, my daughter was loved and respected. She did indeed hold up my hands in the work of the ministry; and in every place where I resided, she did all in her power to promote the glory of God, and the good of her fellowcreatures. She was a Sunday-school Teacher, a Tract Distributor, a Collector for the Missionary ard Bible Societies; and abounded in every good werk. She frequently remarked, that classmeetings had been a great blessing to her; and would add, with great energy, "I would not give up the privilege of church-fellowship for ten thousand worlds." She had a peculiar veneration for the Sabbath, and a desire that it should be kept holy. There was such solemnity resting on her countenance on that day, that in her presence none could engage in worldly conversation. She would frequently impress on the family, that they should always be in the Spirit on the Lord's day. She possessed the deepest conviction of the importance and efficacy of prayer; and not only prayed herself, but highly valued the prayers of the righteous. Her physician and surgeon were of opinion that the complaint which terminated fatally had been the work of many years. To the last her powerful mind triumphed over the decay of the body; and she said, a few days previous to her death, I know that my Redeemer liveth. I want to feel a glow of heavenly light. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. when this earthly house is dissolved, I have a house not made with hands, eternal in the hea

vens.

I know that

Nothing is worth a thought beneath, But how I may escape the death, That never, never dies." When suffering from extreme exhaustion, she said to her sister, "He knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are but dust." She bore her short but painful illness with exemplary fortitude, and resignation to the will of God; and by his grace triumphed in the assurance of eternal life.

E. J.

Oct. 14th-At South-Normanton, in the Belper Circuit, John Brown, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. From early life he was moral, and his habits were regular. His first convictions of sin, and desire for salvation, were occasioned by the death of his eldest daughter, thirty-four years ago; and though he did not from that time become decidedly pious, yet the impressions made on his mind were never entirely obliterated. About twelve years since he was more effectually wrought upon by the Spirit of God. This was the time of his conversion, the genuineness of which was sufficiently evidenced by the whole tenor of his succeeding life. For some time he had occasionally attended the Methodist chapel; he now joined the society, and continued a steady and consistent member to the day of his death. The public means of grace, as well as his private devotions, were attended by him with undeviating punctuality; and his whole character bore the stamp of uniformity. Not carried about with every wind of doctrine, but knowing in whom he had believed, he held fast the profession of his

faith. His last illness was protracted and painful; but he received adequate comfort and support. His faith, which had overcome the world, was unshaken at the approach of the king of terrors. He never expressed the least fear of death, or doubt of his acceptance with God. While he could rejoice in hope," he also learned to be "patient in tribulation." Thus in a frame of humble submission to the divine will, he waited in perfect serenity the hour of his departure.

J. B.

Oct. 20th. At Cononley, in the Addingham Circuit, Mr. Willlam Harrison, Local Preacher. In his youth he lived unconcerned about his spiritual interess At the age of twenty-two he entered into the army, and on being removed to Haddington, in Scotland, the Lord met him in mercy, convinced him that he was a sinner, and that without a change of heart he would be lost for ever. He began to seck the Lord in earnest prayer, and obtained pardon, and peace with God through Jesus Christ. He then joined himself to the Methodist society. Although he was exposed to wicked companions, in Ireland, and other places, yet, by giving himself to prayer, and the reading of the Scriptures, he obtained grace according to his day. After peace was proclam.ed he returned to his native place, where he began, after many prayers, to preach the Gospel to his fellow-creatures. His gifts were respectable; his manner of preaching was that of a son of consolation; and the people frequently returned much profited by his plain and affectionate sermons. For some time his friends observed in him a growing meetness for heaven. For many years the Preachers found in his residence a friendly home; he loved and respected the Lord's servants; and the doctrines and discipline of the Methodists were dear to his heart. When informed that death was near, he said, "This is not alarming to me; I am ready." A short time before he died, he exclaimed," Glory be to God!

"The promised land from from Pisgah's top, I now exult to see;

My hope is full, O glorious hope,

Of immortality."'

In this happy state of mind he closed his mortal life, in the forty-eighth year of his age. S. L.

Nov. 7th.-At Nantwich, Mr. John Withenshaw, in the hope of the Gospel. This aged disciple had long been a devoted, active, responsible, and useful member of the Wesleyan society in this place. For many years he will be had in affectionate remembrance by several persons in this town and neighbourhood. R. T.

Nov. 23d.-At Sheffield, after a short illness, Mr. Thomas Smith; who bad been a member of the Methodist society in Sheffield for nearly fifty years, and a useful Leader of a class during thirtysix years of that time. His pious, steady, and consistent conduct in every department of civil and religious life, endeared him to his friends, while it secured the confidence and commanded the esteem of all with whom he had any intercourse. He was a man of simple, unassuming manners, but of great decision and firmness of society in Sheffield, Mr. Smith's Class-Leader character. When Alexander Kilham divided the hoped to seduce and lead away his class. Mr. Smith withstood him, and so saved one half of the people. Of these he was appointed the Leader. His class soon increased, and prospered greatly for many years. He saw other attempts made to sow discord among brethren, and to bring Methodism into disrepute; but he used to say, "Methodism is God's work; and it will live and triumph." The present agitation produced in the Connexion by Dr. Warren and his associates, Mr. Smith beheld with marked disapprobation, and prayed that God would endue the Preachers with fortitude, to endure all things rather than sacrifice one tittle of the doctrine or discipline of Methodism to the clamour of discontented and ignorant

JAMES NICHOLS, Printer, 46, Hoxton Square, London.