on the 20th, at forty-seven minutes past one in the morning: she presents her fine crescent in the west on the 21st, and sets at a quarter before nine: she sets on the 23d at eight minutes past eleven at night, and on the 26th at a quarter after one in the morning. The Moon enters on her first quarter on the 27th, at half-past five in the morning; and passes the meridian on the 28th at sixteen minutes before eight in the evening. MERCURY is to be seen at the beginning of the month in the evenings he sets on the 2d at twenty minutes past eight. VENUS is a beautiful object in the evenings, and sets about eleven o'clock she is now visible in the daytime. At the end of the month Venus appears a fine crescent through a telescope: she is in conjunction with the Moon on the 22d. MARS is to be seen in the west after sun-set; but only appears small at present, owing to his great distance from the earth on the 25th he is in the neighbourhood of the Moon. JUPITER is invisible. SATURN Souths on the 18th at ten minutes before ten, and on the 24th at twenty-five minutes past nine, at night. This planet is in conjunction with the Moon on the 2d and 30th: his ring is now invisible. The fixed star REGULUS passes the meridian on the 10th at a quarter before nine, and on the 25th an hour earlier. * On the 22d, between six and eight o'clock in the evening, the Moon will eclipse several small stars in Taurus; which will afford amusement to those who have good telescopes. Greenwich, Kent. cease, WILLIAM ROGERSON. JUVENILE OBITUARY. 1. DIED, at Sheerness, January 28th, 1832, Eliza Drummond. She came to Sheerness in early life; and went to the Bethel Sundayschool for nine years, as a scholar, and afterwards became a teacher in the Methodist Sunday-school. Four months previous to her dewhen brought low by affliction, her thoughts were seriously directed to her soul's welfare; yet no vigorous, serious effort was made to lay hold of Jesus Christ, as a present hope set before her in the Gospel. Five weeks before her death a friend thus interrogated her:-"If the Lord should call you soon into the eternal world, would it be well with you?" "O no," she replied: "I am a sinner, unprepared to die! If I die in my present state, I must be lost! Pray for me, that I may enjoy the happiness of God's people." She was exhorted to pray that the Holy Spirit might inspire her with living faith; that she might fearlessly cast her guilty soul on Jesus Christ for pardon and salvation. A week previous to her death, the rupture of a blood-vessel threatened immediate dissolution. Some further respite was given to her. The blood ceased to flow, and she exclaimed, "If I had me to appear before him unprepared!" The following day her fears became gradually diminished, and she uttered a faint hope that her Redeemer liveth. It was suggested to her mind, "that was impossible. Jesus Christ is not your Redeemer." "Pray," she said, "for my complete deliverance; for a full and free pardon through the blood of Jesus Christ. I will not deceive the world, nor my own soul. I will not rest until I know, most assuredly, that I am going to heaven." On Wednesday morning, January 25th, every doubt was dispersed by a believing application to her mind of that suitable portion of God's word contained in Psalm xxxiv. 4, "I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." She doubted no more. To her mother she said, "To patient faith the prize is sure. I am going to heaven. If I had a voice, I could sing, 'Land me safe on Canaan's side,'" &c. On Friday her speech began to fail. She called the family together, and beginning with her mother,—a disciple of the Saviour,she said, "Do not, do not fret. I am going to heaven. You will soon follow me there." Taking her three brothers, one by one, by the hand, she exhorted them to seek salvation. She entreated them not to follow her example, and defer that great work to a dying hour. "For your sister's sake, for God's sake, leave off bad society; attend a place of worship; be good to your mother." To her eldest brother she said, very specially, "Take care of her." She then gave him her Bible, with strong entreaties to make a good use of it; to make it his chief companion. To her aged father she said, "My strength fails. Go to the chapel. I am going to heaven." She then kissed him, and said, "God bless you!" 66 On the night of Friday, January 27th, she fell into a sleep of three hours' duration. Upon awaking, she made signs with a pin, that she wanted a pen. She wrote, "I shall be in glory by one o'clock; but I shall spit blood again:" and added, “ Pray, if the will of God be such, that I may then be gone." A friend prayed. Her last struggle commenced. She died spitting blood, agreeable to her own intimation, at half past ten on Saturday morning, in the twentieth year of her age. "She is gone! and the grave hath received her; She is gone to the Lord who redeem'd her, She is gone! but we will not deplore her; She is gone! and we would not restore her, She is gone where the blessed before her, She is gone where all tongues rejoice o'er her, on the 20th, at forty-seven minutes past one in the morning: she presents her fine crescent in the west on the 21st, and sets at a quarter before nine: she sets on the 23d at eight minutes past eleven at night, and on the 26th at a quarter after one in the morning. The Moon enters on her first quarter on the 27th, at half-past five in the morning; and passes the meridian on the 28th at sixteen minutes before eight in the evening. MERCURY is to be seen at the beginning of the month in the evenings he sets on the 2d at twenty minutes past eight. : VENUS is a beautiful object in the evenings, and sets about eleven o'clock she is now visible in the daytime. At the end of the month Venus appears a fine crescent through a telescope: she is in conjunction with the Moon on the 22d. MARS is to be seen in the west after sun-set; but only appears small at present, owing to his great distance from the earth: on the 25th he is in the neighbourhood of the Moon. JUPITER is invisible. SATURN Souths on the 18th at ten minutes before ten, and on the 24th at twenty-five minutes past nine, at night. This planet is in conjunction with the Moon on the 2d and 30th: his ring is now invisible. The fixed star REGULUS passes the meridian on the 10th at a quarter before nine, and on the 25th an hour earlier. *On the 22d, between six and eight o'clock in the evening, the Moon will eclipse several small stars in Taurus; which will afford amusement to those who have good telescopes. Greenwich, Kent. WILLIAM ROGERSON. JUVENILE OBITUARY. 1. DIED, at Sheerness, January 28th, 1832, Eliza Drummond. She came to Sheerness in early life; and went to the Bethel Sundayschool for nine years, as a scholar, and afterwards became a teacher in the Methodist Sunday-school. Four months previous to her decease, when brought low by affliction, her thoughts were seriously directed to her soul's welfare; yet no vigorous, serious effort was made to lay hold of Jesus Christ, as a present hope set before her in the Gospel. Five weeks before her death a friend thus interrogated her:-"If the Lord should call you soon into the eternal world, would it be well with you?" "O no," she replied: "I am a sinner, unprepared to die! If I die in my present state, I must be lost! Pray for me, that I may enjoy the happiness of God's people." She was exhorted to pray that the Holy Spirit might inspire her with living faith; that she might fearlessly cast her guilty soul on Jesus Christ for pardon and salvation. A week previous to her death, the rupture of a blood-vessel threatened immediate dissolution. Some further respite was given to her. The blood ceased to flow, and she exclaimed, "If I had me to appear before him unprepared!" The following day her fears became gradually diminished, and she uttered a faint hope that her Redeemer liveth. It was suggested to her mind, "that was impossible. Jesus Christ is not your Redeemer." "Pray," she said, "for my complete deliverance; for a full and free pardon through the blood of Jesus Christ. I will not deceive the world, nor my own soul. I will not rest until I know, most assuredly, that I am going to heaven." On Wednesday morning, January 25th, every doubt was dispersed by a believing application to her mind of that suitable portion of God's word contained in Psalm xxxiv. 4, “ I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." She doubted no more. To her mother she said, "To patient faith the prize is sure. I am going to heaven. If I had a voice, I could sing, 'Land me safe on Canaan's side,'" &c. On Friday her speech began to fail. She called the family together, and beginning with her mother,—a disciple of the Saviour,she said, "Do not, do not fret. I am going to heaven. You will soon follow me there." Taking her three brothers, one by one, by the hand, she exhorted them to seek salvation. She entreated them not to follow her example, and defer that great work to a dying hour. "For your sister's sake, for God's sake, leave off bad society; attend a place of worship; be good to your mother." To her eldest brother she said, very specially, "Take care of her." She then gave him her Bible, with strong entreaties to make a good use of it; to make it his chief companion. To her aged father she said, "My strength fails. Go to the chapel. I am going to heaven." She then kissed him, and said, "God bless you!" On the night of Friday, January 27th, she fell into a sleep of three hours' duration. Upon awaking, she made signs with a pin, that she wanted a pen. She wrote, "I shall be in glory by one o'clock; but I shall spit blood again:" and added, " Pray, if the will of God be such, that I may then be gone." A friend prayed. Her last struggle commenced. She died spitting blood, agreeable to her own intimation, at half past ten on Saturday morning, in the twentieth year of her age. "She is gone! and the grave hath received her; She is gone to the Lord who redeem'd her, She is gone! but we will not deplore her; She is gone! and we would not restore her, She is gone where the blessed before her, She is gone where all tongues rejoice o'er her, 2. DIED, January 29th, Sarah Ann Coverley, daughter of Robert and Bridget Coverley, of Asfordley, in the Melton-Mowbray Circuit. She was born April 28th, 1814; and about three years before her death she was convinced, at family worship, of her deplorable condition by nature, and her danger of eternal ruin. She cried to God for mercy; and after wading through deep waters for six weeks, obtained a sense of pardon while engaged in family devotion. Having obtained a consciousness of adoption, she was filled with gladness; and this consciousness of salvation she retained to the period of her decease. She was a lover of the means of grace, both public and private. For the last nineteen months she was confined to her bed. During her heavy affliction she manifested the most Christian resignation, saying "The Lord doeth all things well." She never expressed any grief but twice: once, because she could not attend the love-feast in the chapel; and another time, because her weakness was so great, that she could no longer hold the Bible, to read that word which had so often been a lamp unto her feet, and a light unto her path. She sang, "Weaker than a bruised reed, Help I every moment need." During the winter her affliction was so great, that she could not move a single finger; when she said, "Mother, do you think that I should offend God, if I were to ask for the use of one hand?" Her mother answered, "No, my dear; provided you ask in submission to the will of your heavenly Father." She thought upon the subject till the next day; and then prayed that the Divine Physician would graciously restore her the use of one hand; and her desire was granted. This blessing she continued to enjoy to the close of life. Her conversation was spiritual; and in her sufferings she used to say, "Jesus doeth all things well." "Tis mercy all, immense and free, On the Sunday preceding her death, she wakened herself by singing, "Happy, if with my latest breath, She said, "The I may but gasp his name.' thoughts of death make my heart rejoice. I am ready to depart. Angels beckon me away: and added, "All things are ready." She admonished all her pious relations to persevere in the narrow path; and talked of the felicity which would inspire her soul, when she should have the happiness of receiving them to glory. One of her Christian friends said, "My dear, you will soon be in glory." She answered, "To live is Christ; and to die is gain. Jesus is precious. Blessed Jesus!" and looking towards heaven, she exclaimed, "There is my house and portion fair, |