nile Missionary Meeting, at six o'clock, p.m. Our esteemed superintendent, Mr. J. Deeley, occupied the chair, and after a few interesting and appropriate remarks, introduced to the meeting, as advocates of the cause, Messrs. R. Lewis, J. Harding, S. Sheward, and S. Cartwright. Their addresses were highly satisfactory, and will, I trust, increase our interest in the missionary cause. The children sang several appropriate hymns, and several affecting pieces were also recited by them. The meeting was well attended, and the public collection and children's cards realized £2. E. SANDERS.

HOOLEY HILL.-Dear Sir,— On Sunday afternoon, March 26th, we held our Juvenile Missionary Meeting, when our much esteemed friend, Mr. Thomas Shepherd, presided.

The meeting was addressed by our young friends, W. H. Boardman, J. Mackintosh, J. Summerfield, J. Higginbottom, and J. Kelsall. Two of the scholars recited pieces, showing the superstition and absurdity of Popery.

The speakers seemed to be animated by a true spirit of missionary zeal, and the speeches were truly of that character which could not fail to arouse a real missionary spirit in the minds of the hearers.

A collection was made at the close of the meeting, which amounted to the very handsome sum of £2 6s., being an increase over last year of about five shillings.

With great respect,
Yours truly,
J. BRADDOCK.

BURSLEM CIRCUIT.-On Sunday, April 16th, 1854, we held our Juvenile Missionary Meeting at Dalehall; and a very spirited one it was. Mr. W. Dixon (Wesleyan) presided, and the meeting was addressed by the Revs. W. Pacey, W. N. Hall, Messrs. W. H. Arnold, J. Mellor, E. Corn, and several scholars.

On the Sunday following we held our Juvenile Meeting in Bethel Chapel, Burslem, when Mr. John Dean (Wesleyan) presided. Very interesting addresses were delivered by Rev. W. Pacey, Messrs. J. Watkin, R. Berrington, J. Mellor, and J. Baxter. Several interesting pieces were recited by the scholars. Collections not quite so good as last year.

W.PACEY. SHREWSBURY.-On Sunday, April 30th, 1854, a Juvenile Missionary Meeting was held in our chapel, at Shrewsbury. The Rev. R. Henshaw presided, and gave a suitable address; several pieces were recited by the scholars, and Messrs. H. Williams and R. Marston spoke on the subject of missions in an interesting manner. The cards were not quite so productive as last year, but the collection at the meeting was an improvement, and the respected superintendent stated that the scholars intended raising a sovereign for the Australian mission. While the scholars are contributing their mite to promote the great cause of missions, it is our prayer that some of them may become missionaries themselves, and that all may enjoy the blessings of gospel salvation. R. H. Shrewsbury, May 2, 1854.

urged him to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, that he
might be saved. He did believe,
and stood up, and sang with all
his heart, "I can, I will, I do
believe that Jesus died for me."
He now commenced praying
very sincerely for his two bro-
thers, neither of whom showed
any signs of repentance. All
at once he became a great fa-
vourite with all the young con-
verts, particularly those of the
select classes. After he was
converted, he attended our pray-
er and band meetings, and
prayed in the one and spoke in
the other;
and the old members
blessed God for the work of
grace in him.

One night his brother Josiah
was at one of the prayer meetings,
and there was great wrestling
with God by all that were pre-
sent on his account, but without
any apparent effect. To use his
own words, he said, "I was
about to get up and leave the
meeting, when I heard my little
brother Benjamin praying at the
top of his voice, Lord, con-
vert my brother Josiah; Lord
save my brother Josiah;'
"" he
said, "I could not stand that,
it fetched tears from my eyes
and broke my heart, and he was
the means in the hands of God
of my conversion."

I always loved him as my child, but my love increased ten-fold when he became a child of God; and many times he delighted my heart when he used to go out with me, and talk and sing as we went along. He would break out as follows:

"Happy day, happy day, When Jesus wash'd my sins away, And taught me how to watch and pray;

And bear my cross from day to day."

I could tell that his little heart was in that sweet hymn.

He had been very poorly, and his sister, who lives at Shatisford, came over, and he begged very hard to be allowed to go back with her for a few days. We thought he might be better for the change of air; but it appears that he took cold in going; for that same night he was taken ill, and in two days after we received a letter informing us that he was rather dangerously ill. When I heard it I felt satisfied in my own mind that his illness would be unto death; for I had felt a many times, after he was converted, that the Lord would take him from me.

On the Sunday after, our son-in-law came to inform us that there was but very little hope of his recovery. I was in our Sabbath school when the news was brought to me. My feelings on the occasion cannot be described. Immediately I left, with my wife, to go to see him. When we got there we found him in great pain, but very happy. I felt convinced that his days were numbered. When he saw me he summed up his little strength, and received me with a smile, saying, “How glad I am to see you. I did not think that I should ever see you again in this world. I can die myself, but I could not bear the thought of your dying." I said, "I am afraid you will die." He replied, "I know I shall." I said, "Do you think you shall go to heaven?" He said, "I am sure I shall; Jesus wants me. He then inquired about the school, the young converts, and the select classes.

"Tell," said he, "all my brothers the cross, and his pierced side." His sufferings were very great, and writhing in agony, he said, "Oh, mamma, this is dying; this is dying;" but without a murmur.

and sisters that I pray for them very often, and particularly Joseph. Tell him I shall pray for him as long as I live." We then knelt down, and I prayed with him, and my prayer was that the Lord would bless and sustain him, and he heartily accustomed as he must have joined in the petition, respond

ing "Amen." When I named his brother Joseph (for I went over all their names one by one) he evidently felt that he should never see them again in this world. I repeated to him, "Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly." He said he does. I was now about leaving him, and he said, " Pa, you will follow me to heaven, won't you?" I said, "I will." He said, "I always pray for you." I said, "And I pray for you too;" and he said, I know it."

About four hours before he died, the doctor called for the last time to see him, and,

been to death-bed scenes, he looked with great sympathy on his little patient, and, weeping, said, "Oh you patient, nobleminded little fellow, how sorry I am that I have not been more successful with you;" and gently shaking his little hand, he said, " Farewell." He calmly replied, "Good bye, doctor."

A few minutes before he died he broke out suddenly into the following exclamations: "We are off to glory! they have got hold of me! look, look, behind you!" His sister asked, "What is it? I don't know." He shouted again, "Here they are. I see them."

He then broke out with a line or two in singing so sweetly and delightfully :

"We shall with Jesus reign,
And never, never part again ;"

and,

I embraced, kissed him, and left him, never to see him alive again till the glorious resurrection. From the account I had from his mother, he kept up the same intercourse with heaven, praying very much, more for his friends than for himself. On the following morning he looked smiling at his mother, Then he shouted, "Good bye! and said, "Mamma, the blood of Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God Jesus cleanses from all sin." is here and everywhere! HalShe said, "It does, my dear." lelujah! I want to go hence, He said, "It cleanses me just hence, hence is my heaven." To his brother-in-law he said, "John, John, John, I am going. He is great. He is good."

now."

But to attempt to tell the enth of what he said, would be carrying this memoir much too ar ; and I now come to state

few of his last words. He was asked the night before he lied, if he loved Jesus. He replied, "Yes, I do; and the Lord loves me, and wants me." He also said, "I saw Jesus on

"Come to Jesus, he will save you."

A few more broken words, and two or three gasps, and

"His spirit took its flight

To Zion's height.'

A worthy friend, the superintendent of the Sabbath-school, bears the following testimony to this dear child:

religion and the open profession | our school-hymn book, beginof it by one so young, there was ning,

very

remarkable

I

'Death has been here and borne away,

A scholar from our side;

Just in the morning of his day, As young as we he died.' afterwards read the 42nd chap

something about him. The wisdom (far above his years) which marked much of his conversation and many of his acts-his childlike ter of Genesis, in which we have simplicity-his uniform good the narrative of old Jacob's temper and his habitual cheer- sending his sons into Egypt, to fulness, rendered him an object buy corn of their brother Joseph, of interest and attachment to all whom they had cruelly sold into who knew him. I never heard bondage years before of their any boy speak ill of him, and, return to their father, leaving as for myself, I never met him Simeon behind as a pledge that on the road or elsewhere, with- they would go down again and out cordially exchanging saluta- take their brother Benjamin tions with him. with them, and the old man's "When the Lord was gracious-exclamation, 'Me have ye bely pleased to revive his church reaved of my children : Joseph here, a few months ago, which is not, and Simeon is not, and gracious work was so largely ye will take Benjamin away participated in by the Sabbath also; all these things are against school, the conversion of little me.' It was the most solemn Benjamin was regarded with and deeply affecting time I ever interest. witnessed in the school. I be

"I well recollect the feelings lieve all eyes shed tears, and all with which I entered the Sab-hearts were sad at the recollecbath school for the first time tion of the loss we had sustained. after his death; there were many I never knew a boy more enchildren present then, but I felt deared to his fellow scholars, or there was a vacancy-that there one whose death was so deeply was one absent-and it was lamented by them. obvious, on looking around, that this feeling was common throughout the school. We opened the school by singing the hymn for such occasions, in

"We shall never behold his cheerful countenance in the school again, but all may join him in heaven, and spend with him a happy eternity."

JANE NUTTALL, OF NEWTON ASHTON CIRCUIT.

OUR sister, Jane Nuttall, was born at Rochdale, in the year 1824; her parents are still living, and walking in the ordinances and commandments of the Lord. Owing to the poverty of her parents, she was deprived of that education which it is so desirable all should have; she

often lamented this as she grew up, and spoke of the disadvan tage or loss she had sustained through this unfavourable circumstance, beside having to commence working at an early age. In 1834, the family came to reside at Newton Moor, and Jane was sent to the Methodist