chapels bearing the honoured name of the Countess of Huntingdon, and a place where God in former years signally blessed the preaching of the everlasting gospel. It was originally erected in the year 1771, and mainly rebuilt in 1804, when it was re-opened by the late Rev. John Brown, of Cheltenham Chapel, and is capable of accommodating upwards of a thousand persons. From that period to the present, although various efforts have been made to liquidate the debt, yet there is still owing, after the sale of property belonging to the chapel, about £1700. The Rev. T. Dodd, the recently appointed minister, has proposed to the Trustees and Congregation that an effort be made to pay off the entire sum, and that the chapel, the chapel-house, and school-rooms, be made over to the Conference of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, thereby releasing the present Trustees from all future respon sibility.

Most cordially has the plan been received, and most liberally have the Trustees and Congregation responded to the appeal. Friends of the Redeemer, Congregations of the Faithful, Ministers of the Connexion, will you kindly sympathize with, and aid us in this good work, in freeing the house of our God, and thus securing it to the Connexion for ever?

The following sums are already promised. .£800 0 0

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Contributions will be gratefully received by the Rev. Thomas Dodd, Worcester, to whom Post Office Orders may be made payable.

[WE trust this spirited and wise effort to give permanent relief and security to one of our most remarkable and useful chapels will fully succeed; and urge all our friends, who can afford it, to prove their christian affection to people who have such powerful claims on the Connexion, by helping those who are so willing to help themselves.

What is recorded in The Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon, Vol. I, page 441, will be read with interest.-ED.]

"From Gloucester Lady Huntingdon, and the clergymen who accompanied her, proceeded to Worcester,

"Where (says her Ladyship) we have full employment in ministering to a people not unwilling to hear the Gospel. The labours of Mr. Glascott, Mr. Venn, and others, have excited a disposition among the inhabitants of this city to attend to the things which belong to their peace. Nearly two hundred persons have been united in religious society, many of whom have given decisive proofs of their conversion to God, and are encouraging rewards of our disenterested labours for our great and gracious Master. To spread the knowledge of His blessed name among those who knew not God, has been my chief desire for many years; and, I think that desire has suffered no diminution, but rather gained strength, since I left Bath; and my daily prayers and exertions are made with a view to an increased ability, to afford my fellow-sinners all the blessings connected with that unspeakably precious Gospel, which is the power of God unto salvation."

"The vigorous and well directed efforts of her Ladyship, and the powerful preaching of Mr. Shirley, and Mr. Rowlands, excited an interest so lively and extensive, that her Ladyship was solicited by a considerable number of persons to erect a chapel for the preaching of that Gospel, which they could not hear within the walls of their parish churches. To this request she readily yielded; and the necessary steps for this purpose were taken without delay."

"Thus I have been called (observes her Ladyship) for the service of the living God. May He deign to bless it, and cause the

cloud of His gracious presence to rest upon it! It is His work; I can only plant: His Holy Spirit will water, and give the increase. I leave all events with Him. Great difficulties and discouragements attend every effort to spread the knowledge of divine truth: but those who labour with me have been taught to feel that it is not by might nor by power; and that nothing short of the vital energy of the Holy Ghost can give success to the preaching of the Gospel."

About the year 1771 a chapel was erected in Birdport Street, partly by a subscription, and the interest of the remaining debt was paid by Lady Huntingdon, until the congregation was enabled to liquidate the whole. This chapel was opened by the Honourable and Rev. Walter Shirley in 1773.

"It will afford you unspeakable pleasure (writes Lady Huntingdon) to hear of the amazing success which hath attended our labours at Worcester. The chapel was crowded, and multitudes went away unable to gain admittance. We had a glorious display of the power and grace of our adorable Emmanuel, and dear Mr. Shirley was enabled to testify of the salvation which is provided for the lost, with great boldness and fidelity. I know not which way to turn, I have so many applications from the people, in various parts of the kingdom, for more labourers. Pray mightily to the Lord to send forth a host of holy, devoted souls, to proclaim the glory of His righteousness and blood to an unbelieving and degenerate world. I feel that if I had a thousand worlds, and a thousand lives, through grace assisting, that dear Lamb of God, my best, my eternal, my only Friend, should have all devoted to His service, and glory. pray for me, that I may be more extensively useful in promoting the extension of His kingdom upon earth, for it is matter of unceasing grief that I have done so little for so good a Master."

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the respected pastor, the Rev. Edward Lake, the Lord 'added to the church,' and the chapel became so thronged by the increasing congregation as to make it necessary to make considerable enlargement. On the completion of these alterations in 1815, the chapel was reopened by the Rev. Rowland Hill."

To the above quotation we may add, that the cause was greatly aided, at its commencement, by the late Sir Richard Hill's preaching in a room; and that no other place in our Connexion, with the exception of Pell Street Chapel, had more of the hearty affection and zealous aid of the late venerable and generous Mr. Thos. Wantner, whose summer visits to this city were a sort of annual mission to its poor inhabitants.-ED.

THE CONFERENCE.

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BEFORE these pages meet the eyes of our friends the Conference will have aasembled, and the College of the Connexion will have held its annual festivity. May both meetings have been such as will prove to the advantage of the cause of Christ in all our institutions. May our ministers, trustees, committees, and friends throughout the country, have been deeply impressed with a sense of our position-a position which the popish tendency of so many of the clergy of the national church renders, if possible, more important than it was at its first commencement. rous places, like Avebury and Monckton, are anxious to adopt our legitimate principles and plans, and to escape the mummery and errors of their parish church, without losing the advantages of a liturgy to which they have been ever accustomed, connected with a style of preaching for which truly evangelical clergymen and brethren have been so long appreciated by plain, experimental worshippers. Without sectarian feeling we seem called to enlarge our sphere of action, and to return to first principles. God forbid that we should be insensible to our mission-" the race," as Lady Ann Erskine used to say,

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To die in Jesus! Oh! the thought
With holy joy my soul is fraught;
To soar away and dwell above,
In regions pure of peace and love;
To quit the varying scenes of earth-
One hour a Goshen, then a dearth,-
For lands where fruits immortal grow,
And living waters ever flow.

To die in Jesus! Who can paint
The joys awaiting each dear saint?
To change the vale of tears, and rise
To blissful mansions in the skies.
The spirit freed from cumb'rous clay,
No more to "groan" in endless day;
Released from sin's oppressive load,
Shall wing its happy flight to God.

To die in Jesus! Is to be

From ev'ry shade of sorrow free;
To realize what that can mean-
"Nor ear hath heard, nor eye hath seen,
Nor can the heart of man conceive,"
The bliss of those who here believe,
Who love their Lord, and faithful prove,
Till death their ransom'd souls remove.

To die in Jesus! Is to close

A pilgrimage of toil and woes;
To pass the billows, gain the shore,
And lose all pain for evermore.

To meet the lov'd ones, mourn'd o'er here,
Translated to that happy sphere;
The sighs and tears all chas'd and gone,
For songs of triumph round the throne.

To die in Jesus! Is to flee
Away from earth, and ever be
A sanctified angelic one,

Adorn'd with an immortal crown.
Expectant of a sinless form,

All pure and lovely-to be worn

When saints shall rise on that glad day,
And meet their Lord in bright array.

To die in Jesus! May that hour
Bear witness to His sov'reign power;
When heart and flesh are failing fast,
Lord, hold me till the conflict's past.
I crave the Spirit's aid to cheer,
The Father's love, as death draws near,
Till upward borne on angel's wings,
I see unveil'd the King of kings.

THE religion of the Lord Jesus Christ consists in something more than names, creeds, forms, confessions, and profession. It does not originate in these, it emanates not from these, neither do these contribute anything towards its vitality, stability, worth, importance, nor success. It is composed of supernatural verities and deathless realities. "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." "The kingdom of God is within you." In Him is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel.

Principle is everything. Man is what his principles constitute him. He is a new creature in Christ, by virtue of the principles which have been deposited in his mind by the Holy Spirit. His principles are to his purity, peace, safety, and usefulness, what the sun is to our world, what the foundation is to the superstructure, what the trunk is to the branches. Blot out the sun, and our world will be darkness; sap the foundation, and the superstructure will fall; uproot the trunk, and the branches will wither and die. Apart from principle, the professor of religion has a name to live while he is dead in law and sin, he has a form of godliness without the power, "the light which is in him is darkness." What are emotion, ebul

lition, sensation and effort apart from principle? Rays severed from the sun, streams from the fountain, the members from the body. "If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me." If a man "abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered." "Without charity I am nothing.'

The difficulty which some persons professing godliness experience, in maintaining a demeanour in accordance with the claims of the Gospel, arises chiefly from the want of religious principle. Deposit principle in man's mind, of the character we have spoken, and you will secure the supremacy of man's affection for God, and ensure the universality of his obedience to Him. "The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead, and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them and rose again." From the infinite fulness of Christ are emitted to him, all needful supplies of grace, to effect his growth in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, and the fruit which he bears evinces to a demonstration that he abides in Christ, and His word abideth in him.

The religion of such a person is indestructible, because his principles are invulnerable. His circumstances may change, his connections and

friends may change, his experience may ebb and flow like the tide-wax and wane like the moon, but His principles are changeless and permanent. They resemble the magnet-you might destroy that, but you cannot destroy its magnetic property. The christian's principles are incorporated in absolute life. "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God;" and while the cause exists, the effect must. "Because I live ye shall live also."

The nature and character of such a person's religion is evident to others by its moral rectitude. In that he makes his outward actions correspond with his internal principles, he evinces what

kind of faith, hope and love he possesses by the obedience that he performs. Test the man's principles by the law and the testimony, as these effects appear in his conduct, and say, shall he progress in the course of obedience? shall he stand in the day of trial? shall he conquer in the field of conflict? shall he inherit the crown that fadeth not away? and if such be the importance of principle, how necessary that we should "examine ourselves whether we be in the faith, and prove ourselves, and know for ourselves how that Jesus Christ is in us except we be reprobates."

Ilfracombe.

B. P.

The following brethren took part in the morning prayer meetings,-Revds. Bird, Gibbs, J. Jones, G. Jones, Pingree, Wake.

The ministers assembled for business at ten o'clock on Tuesday, when the Rev. L. J. Wake engaged in prayer. The Rev. T. E. Thoresby was unanimously chosen as President in the absence of the Rev. J. Owen, and the Rev. S. T. Gibbs was chosen Secretary to the Conference. The Rev. B. S. Hollis was elected President for the next year.

The reports of the London and Western Districts, and the Treasurer's account having been presented, the report of the Executive Committee was read, from which the following extracts are given.

REPORT.

IN reviewing the efforts of the past year, the Committee would gratefully acknowledge the goodness of the Great Head of the Church in permitting them to be instrumental in hastening the day when "The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord;" and, amid many imperfections, would rejoice in the thought that "Not by might, nor by power,