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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. errata to pelure, )n a 1 2 3 □ 32X 1 6 SOL / ^ THE LAST JOURNEY : FUNERAL ADDRESS, DELIVERED IN THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL, ST. JAMES STREET, MONTREAL, ON SUNDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1838, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OP THE LATB REV. JOHN BiVRR Y, WJSLEYAN missionary: WITH A SKETCH OF HIS MINISTERIAl. LIFE AND LABOURS: AND AN APPENDIX. BY R. L. LUSHER. Montreal: Prixted by Campbell and Becket. SOLD BY H. C. MACLEOD, NOTRE DAME STREET ; AND W. GREIO, ST. PAUL STREET. 1838. TO THE WESLEYAN METHODIST MINISTERS, STATIONED IN THE 3F2E©'^HS5©I1 ©IF ai©W21IS ©^S^f^JD^, THE FOLLOWING PAGES, WHICH ARE PUBLISHED AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE OF RESPECT, TO THE MEMORY OF AN ESTEEMED BROTHER MISSIONARY, ARE RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE BROTHER AND FELLOW-LABOURER, R. L. LUSHER. a :5 7 -f 3 |i ! ADVERTISEMENT. The publication of the following pages having been requested by friends, as a token of respect to the memory of the excellent Minister to whom they refer: the writer has been induced from similar motives to comply with that request, and thus respectfully to present to the public, the substance, of what was delivered (without any view to publication) to the congregation to whom he is accustomed regularly to minister. It is readily acknowledged that the " Address" has notliing but the solemn truth which it contains, to recommend it to attention : it is hoped, however, that that truth, plainly as it is stated, will suitably affect the hearts of some who heard it, or who may read it, and issue in their eternal welfare. The particulars contained in the subjoined brief account of the life and labours of the late Mr. Barry, have been chiefly furnished by liis afflicted widow. His journal of several years, and other valuable papers, having been unfortunately destroyed at sea ; the principal sources of information concerning him, are tlu recollections of his family and friends : which is the writer's apology for not presenting a more extended account, of so excellent and useful a man. Should any profits arise from the sale of this publiation, it is the particular wish of the widow that they should be devoted to the Missionary fund. Wesleyan Mission House, Montreal, July 29, 1838, m I I FUNERAL ADDRESS. Brethren and Friends, Called as I am to address you this evening on occasion of the lamented death of an esteemed brother Minister, and who was once to you an affectionate and faithful Pastor: I am concerned that, while a public tribute of deserved respect is thus paid to his memory, — I may not only do justice to his character, but be in- strumental in promoting your spiritual edification, and of leading you more seriously and diligently to " prepare to meet your God." Could I, ere I left my study this evening, have communed with the sainted spirit of our departed brother and friend, on the subject and manner of my present address to you ; what may we suppose would have been his counsel and charge ? As an inhabitant of the spiritual and eternal world — and apprehending in the light of eternity, the value of oiu* souls — the importance of salvation, and the mutual and solemn responsibilities of ministers and people ; would he not have said — Go, and preach as for Eternity — Go, and in the ministration of the word be faithful to the people — " shun not to declare unto them all the counsel of God." Go — and remind them that " the time is short," and that the period will soon arrive, when the seven thunders shall utter their voices, and the angel of Jehovah standing upon the sea and upon the earth, shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear by him that liveth for ever and ever that there shall bo time no longer — Go — and cry in the ears of the young and of the old, of the rich and of ^he poor, of the grave and of the gay — " Be ye also ready : for in such an hour Jis ye think not the Son of man cometh." — " Set thiiie house in order : for thou shalt die, and not live" — And finally, he perhaps would have said — 8 • If my humble name and labours bo romembc^rod or mentioned before the congr«'gation, let it be to th«' honour of my Divine Master — to the praise of the gl<»ry of divine grace, and that my family and friends may be constrained to devote themselves afresh to the service and gl(»ry of God. Without recieiving or seeking any such counsel or charge, from any inhabitant of tlie eternal world ; the occasion on which we are assembled, and my responsibility Jis a minister of Clurist, suggest and require that the subject and msinner of my further discourse to you, shoidd be suitable, and solemn — earnest and faitliful. And under these impressi(ms of what is now my duty, let me commend to your serious consideration and individual adoption, the sentiment and words of Job xvi. 22. " When a few years are come, then I shall GO the way whence I SHALL NOT RETURN." From the history of Job, and from his discourses with his three friends we learn, that neither in prosp(!rity nor adversity, in honour nor dishonour, was he forgetful of his frailty and mortality. His estimate of human life is thus recorded — " Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ?" " Man that is bom of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a fl' wer and is cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." While liis own expectations of certain and approaching dissolution are thus ex- pressed — " I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living." And that he regarded his latter end as near, as it was certain ; appears from the passage which I have more particulai-ly recommended to your serious attention, When a few i/ears are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. In pursuing the meditation thus suggested to our minds, we may enquire — First. What way that was, which Job expected to go? The venerable patriarch Job, who for piety and wisdom, wealth and honour, " was the greatest of all the men of the east, had no doubt, during the seventy, or as some suppose, the one hundred and forty years which he hud lived before the time of his calamitous tiial—travelled in different directions, performed many arduous journeys, and visited many countries and places. The manner in which he was enabled to descant upon nature— to call the constelhited stars by their names— and describe the various productions, inhabitants and wcmders of earth aiid seas ; shows that he had ranged abroad amidst the Creator's works, and had brought his knowledge from afar. There was, however, at least one road, which, though a beaten tvmk, and travelled by the previous, successive generations of mankind, remained to be explored bi/ him ; and it is of this mysterious road and Journey that he here speaks ; and which in the language of Scripture is designated— " The way of all the earth." Life Itself is compared to a journey, or " pilgrimage"-.the travel of a day—a short journey from the cradle to the tomb. But it was thus tiiat Joshua spake of his approaching death— <^ Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth." And with similar views of the transition which he should experience, when called to leave the cares and splendours of an earthly throne and kingdom, and to pass through " the valley of the shadow of death"— when " the days of David drew nigh that he should die ; he charged Solomon his son saying, I go the way of all the earth." Tliis way then of all the earth, is the path of death which all must tread, and by which, " man goeth to his hmg home." But what mortal living traveller can describe that way ? who, that has not by dying realized death, can describe that solemn event? Physiologists may speculate in theories of life and death ; and in conclusion say, that death is the separation of the soul and body— the dissolution of the mysterious bond by which these two parts m man, the corporeal and incorporeal are united — or that it is « the total and irrecov. rable cessation of all the functions of a living anunal :" and after all the mystery still remain : •' \Win can take Death's Portrait true ? The Tyrant never sat. Our Sketch all random strokes, conjecture aU ; Close shuts the grave, nor tells one single tele." The road untravelled, is a road unknown— it is by dying only that we may know what death is. Happy the traveller, who, entering upon this last journey of mortality, has the Good Shepherd as his companion and guide ! He need " fear no evil." If life has been to liim a blessing ; death shall not be less so— B 10 for the believer to live is Christ — to die is gain. If the finai liour — the closing scene of this world in the case of tiie dying sinner, be one of darkness, confusion and dismay ! to the humble steadfast Christian, it is a season and a scene, of calm and holy triumpli — " Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for tlu end of that man is peace." It was thus that Job, after all his trials and sufferings, finished his earthly course. " The Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, and so Job died being old and full of days." It is the way to the Grave — " the house appointed for all living" — whether in the caverns of ocean, or the sepuklrres of earth ; where " man lieth down, and riseth not : till the heavens be no more they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." The doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, being less clearly revealed under the Patriarchal anil Mosaic dispensations, than under that of Messiah ; death and le grave sometimes appeared even to good and inspired men of those ages and dispensations, if not under an aspect of terror, yet as shrouded with a gloom, which their faith and hope of a blissful and everlasting future, were not sufficiently vigorous to penetrate or to dispel. How dim was the faith, and how obscure were the prospects of Job when he said — " Wherefore hast thou brought me forth out of the womb ? O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me, I should have been as though I had not been ; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Are not my days few ? Cease then and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death ; a land of darkness as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness." David also enquires — " Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead ? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave ? or thy faithfulness in destruction ? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark ? and thy righteousness in the land of for- getfulness?" While, however, under the clearer and brighter revelations of the Gospel, which hath brought life and immortality to light ; we are enabled to contempLate the grave only {is the peaceful dormitory of the body until the morning of the resurrection ; when all that " sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlast- ing life, and some to shame aiid evpvlagting c-ontorr.pt," and so t,o look beyond it to another world — let us think of the grave, to the finai ing sinner, e steadfast triumph — h. end of trials and lessed the died being I living" — h ; where no more 3p." The T revealed nder that n to good under an r faith and ufficiently , and how efore hast [ given up as though womb to me alone, shall not death ; a of death, " David Shall the declared wonders d of for- brighter imortality B peaceful )n; when everlast- and so t,o grave, to 11 humble our pride. There the loveliest, the proudest, the mightiest of mankind, must, with the meanest and most miserable, " make their bed in the darkness, and say to corruption. Thou art my father : to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." Let us think of the grave, and whatsoever our hand findeth to do, do it with our might ; for there, there is neither work nor device, knowledge nor wisdom, to alter or improve our moral character or state. Let us, as Christian believers, think of the grave with resignation, com- posure, and thankfulness ; for there the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from liis master." If therefore the grave has its glooms and its terrors ; it has also its quietude, repose and security, and in due time shall resound with the clarion of the Archangel—" Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and tlie earth shall cast out the dead." The way of which Job speaks ii: this passage, is also The way to the eternal world. The future state of existence to which man is destined beyond the grave, is called an eternal world, because, while this life is introductory, temporary, and brief; that which is future, is final in its condition, and endless in its duration. But O ! what strange infatiiation in immortal beings ! that a world, so properly their own— so vast — so infinite in its interests and destinies — so near, that it may be reached by a journey, of at most, not more tlian a very " few yeai's"— should be forgotten or disregarded ; Avhile the secular interests of time, and tlie passing and compara- tively trifling events of the present state, are made the all-absorbing subjects of attention, thought and care. How many of us may justly charge ourselves with the folly and inconsistency of neglecting, if not trifling, with eteraity, while professing to believe in our immortality ! Too little, indeed, do any of us think about that spiritual and mysterious world of which we must all so soon become inliabitants. Let us then awake up to a due sense of the real and relative importance of the tilings wliich now are, and of the things which shall be ; and remember, that present possessions and pleasm-es, as it respects this world, belone- onlv to fimp -. nr. if ours be a condition of suffering and sorrow on earth ; that " our light affliclion which is h\\\ for a niomenJ, workeJh for us a far more 12 exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen : for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things wliich are not seen are eternal." " O Eternity ! Eternity !" said a dying profli- gate once to me, " f have nothing now to do but to think of that long — long word, — Eternity !" and shortly afterward expired. In pursuing tliis meditation a little fiu-ther, we may observe that the way of which we speak, is to those who are prepared for it The way to Heaven. Heaven ! The endless and ineffably bliss- ful state and reward of holy, faithful souls. If the grave be the place where on beds of dust, quietly and secm-ely repose the 'jodies of the saints until the morning of the resurrection ? heaver, is the region of peace and blessedness, whore, the spirits of redeemed and sanctified men, immediately upon their dismission from earth, appear, " arrayed in white robes and palms in their hands — where they serve God day and night in his temple — wliere they hunger no more, neither thirst any more — where the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne sliall feed them, and s?- dl lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God sliall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Happy termination of the journey of life ! and of the " valley of the shadow of death I" to realize this state of immortal blessedness. " Here is the patience of the saints : here are they that keep the command- ments of God and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me. Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; Yea, saitlj the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them." But I must also remind you tiiat if unprepared for heaven, it will be found to be — " The way to hell, goiny down to the chambers of death" the place of endless punishment aud perdition. Let no man beguile you witli a doctrine whicli woidd exalt the mercy of Jehovah, at the exjjcnse of his holiness and justice ; and which teaches, that because the love of God is " uucaustMl, unbounded, unchangeable and endless ;" therefore, with whatever measure of disciplinary or corrective punishment sinners may be visited in a future world, their sufferings cannot be everlasting. We do indeed rtjoice in the infinite and adorable love of God nmnifested in the provision which he has made for the recovery and salvation of man in the gift of his " only begotten Son ;" and believe, that he hath no pleasure in the death of a sinner ; but we know who hath said " And 13 lot at the 1 : for the ;h are not ing profli- ik of that cpired. serve that i for it— ibly bliss- the place lies of the he region sanctified " arrayed God day , neither St of the mtains of Happy e shadow " Here is omniand- )ice from which die that they lem." eaven, it tth"- -the exalt the ice ; and bounded, 'asure of I a future hI rejoice [)ro vision 1 the gift pleasure — " And these (the wicked) shall go away into everlasting punishment : but the righteous into life eternal." And if the penal sufferings of sinners in a future world are to be understood as of limited duration, then the duration of the future blessedness of saints must be under- stood as limited also, for tlie same original word describes the continuance of both. Brethren, believe the word of God : there is an everlasting hell: it was not originally prepared for man, but for the devil and his angels, yet to that region of i)erdition and misery shall the enemies of Messiah, whether angels or men be driven, who " have despised the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long suffering, and after their hardness and im- penitent heart Iiave treasured up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to every man according to his works." And may om- faith in the awful truth thus revealed, lead us to watch against those sins, of the evil and danger of which we are faithfully warned, and to seek and secure an abiding interest in the merits and love of that one Saviour and " Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy." Once more. The path of death is the toaij which all must go. Of all the myriads of mankind that have psissed from time to eternity, two mdividuals only have been exempted from death and the grave. Enoch and Elijah, as a reward of tlieir piety, and to demonstrate to mankind juider tliose dispensations the reality of an invisible and heavenly world; were translated that tliey sliould not see death. This, however, is an exemption which even Christ, though he hath the keys of hell and of deatli, did not claim ; he bowed to the stroke of death, and though lie saw not corruption, yet was he laid in the grave. Ami in this way, tluotigh death aii;i the grave, it is ordained that every one of us, and every individual of om- race, should pass from things seen and temporal, to the tilings which are unseen and eternal. This needs no proof — the decree is ^iwie forth " Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" — " Our fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?" However forgetful men n)a y be of their latter end, or negligent in preparing for it — however inconsistent men may act with their convictions and expectations of their final hour on earth — or however scepticism, and a vain and infidel phdosopiiy may question the immateriaHty of the soul, or even deny a future state of being to man, — I must Dii — is through the mercy of God so doflply and indelibly written 14 on every human heart, as to prevent the mad presumption in any of hoping finally to escape from deatli. It is confessed by all that, " there is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit ; neither hath he power in the day of death : and there is no discharge in that war." While we lament that multitudes around us, diverted or distracted by the levities or cares of life, should act so inconsis- tently with the solemn expectation of an approaching eternity ; and while, in the language of jVIoses we are led to pray, " O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!" — let us be found so diligently and faithfully employing and improving the time and opportunities with which we may yet be favoured, that when our final hour shall come, we maybe enabled to say with St. Paul — " I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : lienceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day : and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." Finally, in reference to this eventful journey — it is by a ivay tvhence there is no return. Wv may have traversed continents crossed the seas — and travelled far and wide to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south, and by the way that we went, by the same have we returned ; but this wmj admits of no return. And it is this especially which gives to death so much solemnity and importance, it determines man's eternal and unchangeable character and condition : he can no more return to eartli, or time, or probation — to correct the errors or supj)ly the defects of his character and conduct there. If but one year, one day, one hour spent again in tliis world would be sufficient to set all right for eternity — that short period of time can in no case be recovered or granted — " He that is unjust, let him be unjust still : and he which is filthy let him be filthy still : and he that is righteous let him be righteous still : and he that is holy let him be hcly still." And now, how important is this last journey, whether desired or dreaded— whether pursued by the youiig or the old, the rich or the poor, the saint or the sinner : whether it conducts the traveller to the eternal abodes of blessedness, or misery : so it was felt to be by our dear n us, as Heads of families, in prospect of om- departure to eternity, is, to labour to promote the spiritual welfare of the members of the dotnestic circle, by establish- ing the ordinances, and enforcing the duties of family religion. Let, then, an altar be erected to the worship of God in every house, on which, as families, wp mav nffor ti.« ™«....;«^ «„j ,;„„ sacrifice of prayer and praise. Let the word of God be regularly )!• by sefff ents are of family, I case he object of ness; and ed. Are prospect e, to our fo.' thou J prophet li king of . to, and motion — of mind, ir ever — Stic and cation of 11* death. >n which, ; appears keep his that his of their )w: and 3 any to e mem- 1 to sow 'oducing flections ded and lilies, in note the stablish- religion. n every evening ^gularly 19 and isly read ; let ( members of our households be taught that the daily solemn worship of Almighty God, is a duty of paramount importance, and which no otiier duty must be allowed to supersede ; and like Joshua, let our resolution be,— « As for me and my house we will serve the Lord." Then, and not till then, can it be said with any truth, that our house is in order, or that we are prepared to give an account of our stewardsliip. But if such preparation be necessary with respect to the home which we expect to leave— it is infinitely more important that we should be prepared for the home to which ive expect to go. Would we then escape the hell, and secure the heaven of eternity, to one or other of which the path of death leads ? Much more is required than the name of Christian, or the knowledge, forms and profession of Godliness. A preparation which implies a personal interest in Christ the glorious Saviour, producing inward, practical and universal holiness— is that meetness for Heaven " without which no man shall see th(; Lord." On this subject let us be sure that we are not only doctrinally, but practically right, right in heart and right in life. Of all the alarming discoveries that can ever be made to man, that must surely be one the most fatal and terrific, which discloses to him at the end of his journey, that though he had gained the world, he has lost his soul ; and that instead of entering upon a blissful and glorious immortality, he is launching into a miserable and ruined eternity. O the surprise ! the confusion ! the horror ! of an unholy soul that had vainly hoped for admission to heaven,— to be met at the gate of eternity by infernal spirits, and to be hurried away to a righteous, but fearful doom of " indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish." The disappointment and despair in thus ascertaining its eternal destiny and condition, and finding itself lost for ever; who can describe, or conceive.? How seasonable and admonitory to all, but especially to the formalists in religion— the tlunightless and presumptuous, are the words of the Apostle " Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, tliat shall he also reap. For he that soweth to Ids flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." In bringing these meditations to a close, let me caution you sigainst resting in mere speculations or expectations relative to these future —approaching scenes and events of time and eternity. RatJier let us live and act accordingly— let the solemn work of preparation 20 be regarded as the great and proper business of life, and be imme- diately entered upon ; and M-hatsoever our hand findeth to do, let us do it with our might. Repentance, prayer and taith, are now possible and availing— the guilty may yet be forgiven—the unholy may be purified-the prodigal wanderer may return— Christ may be won— Heaven may be gained— Eternal happiness may be secured, and all the great purposes of man's creation and redemption, be accomplished-all this through the mercy of God is possible " To-day, whUe it is called to-day," but beyond t/m day that possibdity may not exist, as to-morrow we may die, and our doom be eternally fixed in a retributive and unchangepble state of being. If then we really and seriously believe this, let the proof appear in an immediate, earnest and persevering application to those duties and interests which belong to this life, as preparatory to an everlasting future. Finally. Do we know that when a few years are come, then we shall go the way whence we shall not return ? then as Christian beUevers we also know that we shall soon rejoin those beloved relatives, friends and pastors, with whom we once delightfuUy associated on earth, and who are gone to « see the king in his beauty, and to behold the land that is very far off." Thank God, though they cannot return to us, we may go to them— to that region of pleasure and love, where " God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." We may— and if faithftd unto death we shaU realize m heavenly society and blessedness, more than all that oiu; faith and hope, in their brightest visions, and in their most vigorous exercises, have anticipated. Then what are all our sufferings here, If, Lord, thou count us meet With that enraptured host t' appear, And worship at thy feet ! Give joy or grief, give ease or pain, Take life or friends away : I come to find them all again In that eternal day. WkfTpforc, beloved, scciny that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, xdthout spot and blameless. . •21 I be imme- 1 to do, let li, are now the unholy Christ may 8 may be edemption, is possible ■ day that our doom B of being. ' appear in ose duties 'ry to an e, then we Christian e beloved jlightfully is beauty, d, though region of rom their r crying, lings are ill realize faith and xercises, It now remains for me to give you some account of our departed friend and brother, whose death has suggested the solemn subject of the address to which you have listened. (The substance of the following account was then read to the congregation.) diligent neless. The religious history of every good man, and especially of every Christian minister, must, in various degrees, be interesting; from the proofs which it furnishes of the Mercy, Truth, and Faithfulness of God ; and of the renewing and sustaining power of divine grace. This is true of those who are called to serve God, (whether in the ministry or membership of his church,) in stations of life, and in scenes of labour of comparative retirement, and which call not for extraordinary sacrifices and exertions : but it is especially true of those who are called to " labours more abundant," in the discharge of more public and arduous duties in the cause of Cluist ; and more particularly in the missionary enterprises of his church. Such was the active and important sphere of labour assigned to our departed friend, and for which he was eminently qualified : and most sincerely do I regret, that from the paucity of documentary materials left to his family, I am not able to do more ample justice to his character and memory. For the particulars of the sketch which I have been able to furnish, I am chiefly indebted to his afflicted widow : and have added such other notices of his character as a minister, and of his pious and cheerful endurance of a long affliction, especially towards its close, as personal acquaintance, and several deeply interesting conversations with him on Ids prospects for eternity have enabled me to supply. The Rev. John Barry was born at Bandon, County of Cork, Ireland, on the 18th September, 1792. In early life his mind was brought under the gracious influence of the Holy Spii-it ; so that the fear of off'ending God, and the exercise of strict parental authority, restrained him from those immoralities and vices to which youth are too often addicted. His parents were members of the Established Chiu-ch, and intending their son for the ministry of that Church, they placed him at the Rector's Academy ; at that time conducted by the Rev. W. Sullivan. Here, the attention which he gave to his various studies, the society of some of his giddy fellow-students, and the 22 natural and uncommon cheerfulness of his own disposition ; tended to di88.pate those serious thoughts and impressions, whirh he had previously been led to indulge ; m<, that it appears no ksting religious impression was nuule upon his mind, until he reached his seventeenth year. Abont this j.eriod, he heard the Rev. Andrew Taylor (Irish Missionary, now of Brockville. U. C.) preach in the street. While h«te,„„g to the faithful preacher, he became convinced of his fallen and rmned state as a sinner : his convictions were deep and alarming -and the temptations of Satan were various and powerful ; he w^ partu^darly harassed with doubts concerning the cUvinity of Christ on whom he was ir.structed and exhorted to rely for salvation: and for nearly two years he continued in a distressed, and sometimes agonized state of mind. Yet though he walked in bitterness of soul, he never absented himself from class meeting, or any other means of grace which he had the opportunity of attending, but continued to wait upon God in all his appointed ways. At length, after a h.i.g night of sorrow, and almost despairing of mm-cy, he was enabled to cast himself on the Great Atonement. Conscious pardon Mas the immediate result-his mourning was ended, and he - rejoiced with jc^y unspeakable." Happy himself, and desirous of promoting the happiness of others ; he .^^ persuaded to take charge ofa Lss, and being encouraged by the Rev. Samuel Wood, he soon afte^ consented to act as a Local Preacher. I„ this capacity he laboured both m Bandon and Kinsale, with much encouragement and success ; the Lord owned h.s ministry and made him useful to many souls. The encouragement he thus met with, in these early labours in the cause of Cl^ist, with other concurring circumstances, led him to believe that he was called to be entirely engaged in preaching the Gospel; and he accordingly offered himself to the service of the Church and especially to the Foreign Missionary work. He was accepted, aiKl his name appears in the minutes of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of 1816 for Asia. While prepanng, however, for this distant and important sphere of labour, he was seized ^vith a malignant typhus fever, which left him in so debilitated a state, that, fearmg he wodd be physically unfit for the work to which he had offered himself, he reluctantly sent in his resignation. Being classically ecUxcated he engaged in Kinsale in the tuition of youth! taJent , and conduct were such, as not only to promote the credi .nd stability of Methodism, at that time ungenerouslv and vudolv 23 n; tended •h Jie had f religious venteenth lor ( Irish . Wliile his fullen ularmirig ; he was f Christ, ion: and )metimes IS of soul, means of tinned to T a long labled to was the ied with ting the a class, 3n after iboured inccess ; y souls. s in the him to ing the of the ie was isleyau wever, Avith a ^ that, lie had Being ronth ; racter, credit lulolv assailed In the place wIhtc. he now resided, hy an individual « j.o was aiming at its destruction ; but also to comn.and and secure the respect and esteem <.f all classes of society. In this way he .continued for several years to rentier very efficient aid to the Preachers sta- tioned on the ciicuit, and the pleasure of the Lord prospered in his hand. ^ , In the year lH3S, he attended a Missiojiary Meeting at Cork. The late venerabl.. Dr. Clarke was present, and n.niind.Ml him of his former intention and engagement. Tlie Missionary spirit was again powerfully stirred, and having recovered his usual lu-alfh, lu- immediately formed the resolution of(»ffi.ring himself again to tin. Missionary work. He did so, and again his name appears on the Jninntes of 1825, as appointed to Kingston, Jamaica, and as having travelled one year. He had, however, reached that station m early as February in that yt'ar. Aft,.r labouring in that Island f(u- five years, he received an injury which ultinnvtely obliged him to retin-n to Em-ope. f Ie sprained his ancle, but on account of the pressing nature of his duties, he could not give it proper attention and rest. There were at that time but two missionaries in the Kingston circuit, though there were upwards of 4000 members. The Sabbath after his foot was injured, he had to stand, and alone to administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to 1200 persons, his colleague, the Rev. P. Duncan, being at that time ill. This exertion made his foot much worse, and for twelve months after, he was obliged to kneel on one knee while preaching, having a high stool made for the purpose. At last, severe and increasing j)ain, together with the wasting of the leg, led him to fear that amputation would be necessary. This obliged him to return to England. He submitted his case to Sir Astley Cooper, and by that eminent Surgeon was directed to use a wooden leg, and to rest entirely for several months. Fo: t'.is purpose he visited his native place, Bandon ; where he spent twelve months, during which time his foot and general health were greatly improved. When sufficiently recovered, he again embarked for the West Indies to resmne his labours in the Island of Jamaica: and with his family arrived there again in safety. Here he continued engaged in his much loved work of preaching to the negro population and to others, " the unsearchable riches of Christ," until the breaking oiit of the insurrection, when the District Meeting delegatef the last But little everity of fo Jamai- iv region, ' restored ibec 19th iring the tnong his minister and that Every 1) him by 3re more 1 after a ibilitated retiirn, Canada, X'rson in 27 his state, and he concluded to go to Bermuda, and remain there until the navigation of the St. Lawrence should open. At Bermuda he was kindly received by his friends, who did all they could to promote his comfort; but at tlus period he was so reduced by liis complaint that he could not lie down to sleep— they pitied him and wept over him ; but he longed to get home, as he still felt that aU hope of recovery was over. After having spent a month in Bermu- da, he again ventured to undertake a voyage, and sailed for Baltimore. During the voyage his mind wiis painfully exercised by the thought, that should he live to reach that port, he was now going to a strange place, and might die there miknown, and find a stranger's grave. But when the vessel arrived, a gentleman came on board, and recognizing an old friend in Mr. B., took him to his own house and treated him with the greatest kindness. After resting a few days at Baltimore, he set out on his journey for Montreal by the way of New York, and reached his family on the 8th of May, but in so exhausted a state, that it seemed he could not have endm-ed another day's travel. " How he accomplished this voyage and journey home," he observed, " was known only to his Maker ;" adding, " I prayed that I might be permitted to return to (Ue. God has granted my request, and the hope of reaching home stimulated and sustained me. Beside all tliis, the Almighty put it into the hearts of the people wherever I went to be kind and attentive to me. I see his hand in all the kindness I have experienced." Returning home in a confirmed consumption^ he saw that it was the will of God that he should preach no more ; yet still wishing to be useful while he lived, he hoped to be Kble to meet a class in his own house, but even this expectation failed— he took to his bed, and from that time seemed to consider his work on earth finished, and to view death ;us very near. For bun, however, it had no sting ; he could say, *' Whenever it comes I have no uneasiness about it. Death is a conquered enemy tlu-ough the Saviour." He seemed deeply to feel his own uuworthiness, and sometimes thought that he had not been so faithful even in preaching as he ought to have been, but his refuge and the language of his faith then was—" O the Atonement ! The great Atonement !" On one occasion he said, " I never p!a<'ed much dependanee on death-bed repentances, and I am con- vinced they are r.ot to be relied on, for I «,ould not now repent ;" meHiiing that his debility and affliction were too great for him to be 28 able to attend to the work of repentance. For the „n,en.itti„,r attentions of h,s affectionate friends and land Doctor (Campbell) he ™ trnly grateful. With a peaceful smile indicating the serenity of his n,md he ever received them in their visit., and in the same h-anqml and happy frame he bid them fareweU when they retired. His language was, " Lord reward them for their kindness to thy unworthy ser^m." He was deeply concerned for the spiritual we fare of Ins family, and when reminded that in giving advice he talked too much, considering his weakness, his reply was-.' Do let me speak to my children while I can." The concerns of the chnrch rested much on his mind, and he repeatedly enquired if the congregations were good, and if the classes were well attended, and when he heard a good report would say, " Th.at is well, the Lord be praised. But when told of any declension, he would say. That sinks my spu-its, O that the Lord may revive his work!" He suffered much pain at times, which, however, he was assisted to bear with patience. His acquaintance with medical science, enabled him to anticipate and mark the progress of his disorder, with an exactness pamfnl to Ids family and friends. When occasionally a littl reheved and revived, he would s.ay_« I do rot feel glad when i isThT r '] «f "..'^''™'™'"''^" ««"'•"»«.- Missioua" just before his death said, " Tell them, when they put me into the grave rot er Osborne goes down with a smile;.! will ascend with a shout, his countenance brightened, and the tear of joy started from Ins eye laving the same prospect of a glorious resurrection. Being a^ked ,f he felt that he could commit his family and all his emporal concerns into the hands of God, and if in doing so he felt saved from all distressing anxiety about their temporal welfare: he said he had committed himself, his family and his all, into the hands of the Almighty, and ho believed that all wonld be well Three d.ays before death the hiccup came on in a most distressing manner: and when means v-re used to alleviate his sufferit. te surprised it I go ,<,.,hy, g„,„, ;, ,|,^ ^.,| ^^^^^^ ^^^^„ morning of the day on which he died, the Dect„r called, and ohserv: mg the change which had taken place in his Patient, told him how death o be. The uitelhgence seemed to comfort rather .l,„„ „. aiarr,, ium, „„d when his afflicted p,artner began to weep, hesaid,' Weep not, yon ongh, rather ,n rejoice." Through forenoo, iiiu-emitting impbell) he he serenity I the same ley retired. ness to thy e spiritual ^ing advice vas — « Do erns of the lired if the attended ; s well, the vould say, [lis work." assisted to e, enabled r, with an isionally a j-lad when lissionary e into the ill ascend >y started iirrection. nd all his so he felt Ifare: he he hands stressing Pering he II not be On the observ- lim how thought than to he said, •lenoon. 2J) his sufferings were intense on account of suffocation. « O," he exclaimed, "shall I ever breathe again! O pray for patience!" Mrs. B. said, « my dear the conflict will soon be past"—" Yes," he replied, « never to return." He asked her to repeat a verse' of a hymn which he loved often to repeat himself, and which begins - Fixed on this ground will I remain," &c. But she happening to forget a few of the words, he assisted her to proceed with the remaining lines. At the close, his countenance beamed with joy, while with much fervour and emphasis he exclaimed— " Mercy's full power I then shall prove, " Loved with an everlasting love." Through the whole of his afiliction he was graciously preserved from temptation, and though during this last struggle with disease and death, the enemy was permitted for a season to harass his mind, the conflict, though severe, was short. It was Satan's last effort, and peace and confidence soon returned. Mrs. B. remarked, " You are now walking through the dark vaUcy ;" he replied " I am, and what should I now do if the Saviour were not with me?" After a while she enquired, " Is your mind still kept in peace?"— " As comfortable as my sufferings will admit," was his reply. He then repeated — " A mortal paleness on my face, " But glory in my soul." — He then said, " My hands and left foot are dead," and tried to pass his hand over his eyes, to intimate that his sight was going. He next proceeded to take a solemn and final farewell of liis family, addressing his cliiidren each by name, and charging them to obey and comfort their mother, and to seek to become blessings to the church. Towards the closing scene, the violence of his pain abated, and his mind continued serene and clear until exhausted nature finally gave way, and he sweetly fell asleep in the arms of that Saviour in wliom he trusted, and whom it had been his greatest happiness to preach and to exalt. He died on the 21st day of June, 1838, in the forty-sixth year of his age, and the foiu-teenth of his ministry. So true it was of him, that when a few years of life and labour were come, then he went the way whence there is no return. Mr. Barry was a man of deep and consistent, yet cheerful piety— 30 of unbending integrity—and was ever fearless and faithful in the discharge of what he believed to be his duty. He was conscientiously and warmly attached to the doctrines and discipline of Wesleyan Methodism, which he taught, enforced and defended, with great judgment and zeal. He was a man of superior and various ^alents, and was esteemed as an able minister, a faithful pastor, and an affectionate colleague and friend in the different circuits in which he travelled ; and in no one more so than in this, (Montreal.) As Husband and Parent, his memory wiU be cherished by his bereaved famUy, with unabated affection and respect-feeling as they do, that in his death they have sustained a loss wliich alone can be made up by the divine and paternal love and care of Him who is « a father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows»_and who hath said " Leave thy fatherless chUdren, I wUl preserve them alive ; and let thy widows trust in me." While, therefore, in the life and labours—the afflictions and death of our beloved brother thus imperfectly sketched, we mark the frailty of man, and the faithfulness and goodness of God in sustaining Ins servant, and enabling him to " glory in tribulations also,»-let us remember the words of the Apostle to the Hebrews, and to us-- " And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: that ye be not slotlrful, but followers of them who thiough faith and patience inherit the promises. hful in the cientiously Wesleyan vith g^reat us ^dlents, r, and an 1 which he ■eal.) As I bereaved y do, that '' made up ' a father hath said, ; and let md death aark the ustaining " — let us I to us — liligence slotliful, lerit the ^PP ©[1^ No. 1. In the preceding account of Mr. Bai-ry it is briefly stated that he was " conscientiously and ivarmly attached to Wesleyan Methodism," the proof of which is found in the able and successful manner in which he every where taught the doctrines, and the faithful manner in which he administered the discipline of the con- nexion to which he felt it an honor as a Minister to belong. On this subject two or three circumstances deserve to be recorded. Mr. P., formerly a Wesleyan Missionary in Kingston, Jamaica, and once a friend of Mr. Barry, having basely betrayed the trust committed to him by the Committee and Conference to whom he was amenable, and having succeeded by gross misrepresentations in dividing the Society, and alienating some hundreds of the members, at whose head as a separate party he placed himself :— hearing that it was Mr. Barry's intention to visit Jamaica for the benefit of his health, wrote to request his co-operation and support. The letter now lies before me in which the writer says,— « I shall be glad to see you in Jamaica. What you will think and say about my proceedings I cannot divine. I sKould be glad to have you as a friend and partner ; but you are the last man in the world I should wish to have as an opponent or an enemy"~and concludes by saying that if Mr. B. would only join him, it was believed " they would carry the world before them." Although from the tone of this letter it is evident that he had but little hope of inducing Mr. Bany to unite with him in the wretched cause in which he had embarked ;. he basely announced to his adherents and the public, that he was coming to Jamaica for the purpose of lending him his support. ,,.; ^^ov/Rcr «ict iTii. ijaiiy iiinu III ,iumaica ana make hunseli acquainted with Mr. P.'s mischievous proceedings, than, notwithstand- ing his afflicted and weak state, he set himself to disabuse the public Ik? 32 mind in reference to himself and the Conference and Missionary Committee ; and if possible to restore to their pastors and fold, those members who by a system of falsehood and misreprosentation had been drawn away. This he did by an address, replete with affection and force, -r. ike Leaders and Me,nLers, .oho lately seceded frora the Wesleyan Society of Jamaica, particularly of Kingston:' 1 his able address, a copy of which is now before me, and which was published m the " Kingston Chronicle," covered Mr. P. with con- fusion and shame, and induced many who had been mislead to retnrn to the oociety. District Meeting, when about to leave that Island last January shews the high estimation ia which his brethren in that District (the principal scene of" his labours) held his character and talents, and the services he had rendered to them and the cause of Methodism during lus short visit to the Island. District Meeting, Parade Chapel, Kingston, Jan. 22, 1838. TO THE HEV. JOHN BARRY. hav?feltth?r":'~'"\'"*""^ ^'^^™'^'^' in their Annual District Meeting have felt the deepest sympathy with you, because of the painful circumstances which brought you to the Island of Jumaicain quest of what they are truly sorry 11"^ you have not been able to realize Learninvhen the Holy Gho.t, the ^ift of the Father, wa. poured forth on the world. Christ Je.us was ju,tih.d and proved to be the Son of God with power ; and. though previously X'TiTr7"''' " '' ""'■'''^^'"' '''' """'''•"^ *° *>'--" •l-'-ation! when the Holy Ghost eame. " he convinced the world of ri.hteousness"_convi„ced the world that Chri.t wa.s not only an innocent person, hut that he wa. the true MesMah; but was Jesus Christ then recognized as " God over aU, blessed for ever? Are there not, even to this hour, tho.e who deride the Son of God and deny the D.vnnty of hi. person, and trample the blood of the covenant beneath h.'.r feet as an unholy thing? Are there not those who tell us it is as gro.« idolatry to worship Christ as God, as it is to worship any creature ? Is there here a u„.ver.a] recognition of the power, authority, and Divinity of his person and m.-s.on? ^o, nor will there ever be until that day when he shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him. How shall the prerogative of Christ be hen .sert.^ ? How s^,all the Divinity of his person and mission be then exhibited o the world How shall universal conviction be then produced on the minds of the people of Go ^ Why, the power of Chri.t shall be recognized, the Divinity of h.s p..r.,on sl,all be acknowledged by all his people, when they shall receive the inv.tat.on.' Co.ne, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for J^u from the foundation of the world." But shall not this recognition be made also by h.s enemies? Oh, tremendous thought! When their doom shall have been pronounced by the Eternal Judge, the involuntary and reluctant submission of the e,.em.es of J, sus to that sentence which shall consign them to irremediable ru.n and woe, shall be the awful evidence that they shall be compelled to acknow- ledge him God over aU, blessed for ever. " It is impossiUe to know with what degree of astonishment and delight we shall open 0.U- eyes on the Joys that lie before us. Picture now for a moment to vour mag.na .on a man blind and deaf from the first moment of his birth-^like ncapable of perce.v.ng the delightf.a scenery by which he is surrounded, and of en,oy.ng the sweet sounds of music which are so pleasing to the ear of ma; ; col c..ve of such an ndividual, for a moment, placed on some commanding emiJnc rom whjch .t m.ght be possible to have a di..ect a..d comprehensive view of all th" dehgh ftd scenery that surrounds him. We may picture to our imaginations the d.vers.fied scenes of hill and dale-these hills covered with verdure and beauty these vales .,, with grass a..d corn ; variegated flowers of the most plell; and sp end.d hues sweetly waving under the influe..ce of the passing breeze presentmg one of those grateful and most delightful pictures on wl'ch, when Tan time that sounds of the most delightful nature float throi.gh the air and then ,^.ne the ej. .d ears of that man to be opened, and Z r..a2 Z^^ exert ng all the. powers, a..d think what wo..ld be his rapture and what his astonishment A,.d yet, my friends, above what could influLce his mind, ha b^ your wonder and delight; notwithstanding all the deli.htful antieipat W, « t^ZZ ^T""""*^"'^'' '" ^^" "" '-'''■' ^- ^^'^^ become Limm:. cUate ^C^ors and sharers in the true celestial dignity and g,„ry. lost in adoration md when the Christ Jesus ;,'h previously I declaration, — convinced was the true 1, blesiscd for 1 of God and nant beneath t is as gros8 Is there here s person and I come in his of Christ be en exhibited the minds of he Divinity 1 receive the prepared for ion be made shall have submission rremediable to acknow- ht we shall ?nt to your irth^allke led, and of nan; con- eminence, r of all the lations the nd beauty, it pleasant ig breeze, vhen man ; the same and then capable of what his lind, shall sat ions of he imme- adoration 35 and cncompaHwd with the splendours of the Godhead ? (). my friends, audi i« the glory, such the joy which Christ Jesus shiUl by and by reveal to his people 1" The other Sermtm was delivered and printed at Bermuda, on the " Claims and Dnties arising out of Emancipation » Text, Eph. iv. I—" Walk worthy of the vocation wlierewith ye are called." The following are extracts — " The second claim that demands your attention, i, that which the British Government has upon yon. " The Government of Great Britain had l.m. contemplated the freedom of the Slave. It never entertained a doubt coneernin,. the humanity, and, properly speak.ng, the justice of the measure, but wavered as to its policv and expediency It had to contend with prejudices, the most deeply rooted; interests, the most powerful ; and eve.i with iRuoraHce the most unjustifiable. That the slaves had strong claims on the paternal interposition of the Government, admitted no. of the smallest doubt. But slavery, even by the enactments of that Government, was tolerated and legalized, and hence the legitimate claims of the owner; claim.s, wh.ch though denied by the few, were yet admitted by the great bulk of the people. It the Bruish Govern„.ent could have emancipated the slave, without a-n-ievin. the proprietor. Slavery would long since have ceased to exist. But how was the Master to be remunerated ? this was the important question. How were funds to be provided, without which provi-ion the great barrier to freedom would stiU exist ^ Co>«pen-ation was the grand consideration! without it no rational prospect of hberty appeared. But the Nation, the energies of whi.h had b..e„ long bent on the accomphshment of this grand otjeet-this benevolent de.ign.-by it. perseverance. It. petmons. Us remonstrances, and its determinations, declared its wiUingness to bear the burden. Yes, the British Nation spoke-loudly spoke._and 1.; voice was heard wuh.u the walls of both Hou.es of Parliament ; and the Go -ernment long and mtensely desirous to perform this act of National justice, and to wipe away effectually and forever, the foul blot upon the page of Brhi.h L' ,tory responded to that voice,-the wishes of the people were met, and the Ne^ro Slave was free. ® " We may well glory in our Country. We still see a Nation making more than common pretensions to Liberty, permitting this tremendous evil to exi.t • and great as she certainly is, yet by that permission, identifying herself with one of the most .Ihberal and sordid nations of Europe. But Britain, long pre-eminent among the Nat.o„s of the World.-great in power-great in wisdom-and great in arms -has rendered herself yet more glorious by an act, extending to a numerous an oppressed, and a helpless race, the common blessing of our common nature t-inrurv, of whi-h they had been long and cruelly deprived, by the cupidity and "..lust.ce of man. The gift of freedom to the once degraded slave, is the most ^plendjd achievement of Britain, and will Hve iu the reeord. of the Nation, wheu Her political and military triumphs shall have been forgotten." J am !,appy i„ hninar ahl^ to furnish anothrr spooimen of Mr. 36 UarryV talent and d(«,ut.nce, though of the forensic kind. While m Jamaica in 1829, Mr. Barry wa8 called to dcfen.l hin.self in an action mahcon^ly hroufrht ,igai«st him l,y A. H. neumnont, Esq., a Magistrate, f<,r an alleged lihel in having said in a letter, published ui the K,ngst(M, Chroni.le in reference to th.t gentleman, that he " never saw magisterial dignity so sunk." The plaintiff and de- fendant both pleude.1 their own cause. Mr. Beaumont having opened his cause, and the evidence for the prosecution having bcvri gone through, Mr. Barry, without calling any witnesses, inunediatelv commenced his defence. The following are extracts :— May it phase ymr Iloiwurn, (lentletncn nf the Jury, You Iiave just heard the lengthy and elaborate address of th. plaintiff-an address into vvhi.h he h,us thrown whatever talent and enerj^y he possesses ; attempt- .nic to prove the ehar^H against me of having insidted him in the discharge „f his duty as a Magistrate. You have heanl him <-ite a variety of precedents and authorities to prove, what I am willing in a moment to admit, that to libel a Magistrate as such, in the execution of his duty, is not only cognizable, hut pun- .shable by law. It may appear strange to you. gentlemen, that an individual sustannng the character of a Minister of Religion, shoul.l appear in his own proper person to plea.l to an acti.m like the present. But when I consider the frivoll,, nature of the charge, a charge the mere subn.itting of whi.h to a British Jurv is an open insult to their judgment and integrity ; when I consider the character of the plamt,flF, an nnceasiny uvd notoriom Uheller ; when I consider his conduct in Courts of Justice, as calculated to lessen and undermine that respe.-t which ou^ht ever to be cherished in the public mind towards our judicial institutions; when I consider the sovereign contempt with which he appears to treat the Jamaica bar a bar composed of gentlemen whose attainments would render in the plaintiff the bare Idea ot c<,mparison unpardonable arrogance and presumption ; and. above all. when I consider the plaintiffs motive in sending out this action, a desire to come in per- sonal collision with me (for this he has avowed)_yes. gentlemen, he has declared that were T to retain cox.nsel. he w.udd withdraw the action, but, were I to lucad in propria pa-sona, he would follow it up-I say that, under all these circumstances. I should lee degrade,! to have employed counsel to plead to such an a.-tion, insti- tuted by suck a n.an, and tried by a jury of my countrymen, bound bv the solemn obligation of an oath. I am perfectly aware, gentlemen, that were ii not for the public situation I hold in the Wesleyan Society, you would never have been called on to try th.s action. The plaintiff, fully conscious of the prejudice which unfor- tunately exists in this island against some bodies of Dissenters, and jud^in^ no rtoubt, from his own views and principles, that he might pos.ihly find a" juiT, who, under the influence of this prejudice wonl.l f«ol .i: .. i. .. ' 1 *".l"u'<'t, «oum teel disposed to grant him a verdict. makes the trial, and institutes t\\o iircce^-* • ■^ni\ T f >a,.i i -"- l'^'"'^^' f'nn 1 learlcsdy aver, gentlemen, that were I a mere pr.varge of his idents and to libel a , but pun- ndividiial, wn proper ^ frivolous li Jury is laracter of conduct in licl) ougbt ; when I \ca bar, a f the bare all, when le in per- i declared r» plead in nstances, :)n, insti- e solemn it for the ■n called h unfor- i'tniX, no •y, who, verdict, nil, that 1. But '•aii»•• ''<'---'«"> 1- heart .il, ,,,„,aill storod Avifh the snbjfct, xvlii ;".™'™'« «-■-«- refutes the slanders of Mr. Bar iav antf „"""'* P™P'''-" h" the Missionaries. ' ' '""*' •""^""'^ "» ^-iuct of a„7„°f hT 'r '' '1:' "'''">"""">' "f b«"nff testimony ,„ these fact, Wesf Tnrli. Til •*"" especially to be present after all in a 7x etc. : : Lr:; tLtz^'T r '*"- "^-^'^ ioined wifh k; ui I ^.' "" '"^'' gratification, and he Cnt r he"^ ^" f-f. anajoyM had wrought out for tw' '" ^'"^^ '^^'^^^^"^^ ^^^^^ ^^ " God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."~St. Paul. From the cross upon Calvary's summit, See love in a Saviour's blood streaming'; From the cross upon Calvary's summit, See the light of the Go.spel is beaming. ' When the terrors of guilt would confound me To the cross I will lift up my eyes ; When the swellings of Jordan surrlund me By the cros. T shall mount to the skies. J. B. ill FINIS.