in the mere indulgence of feeling, and, if saddened and regretful memories rise together with the grateful ones (and we can expect no less), we have no time to waste in idle lamentations, and certainly none to worse than waste in recriminations, emulations, strife and vain glory, but much to redeem, because the days are still evil. We are called to "work, while it is called to-day; for the night cometh," and many of us are sensible of the evening shades closing in ; but let us not slumber, for it is not quite bedtime yet, and a wakeful eventide is often a very precious season, replete with honest enjoyment and productive of solid blessing.

The good men_we enumerate did not all see or walk with us regarding the ordinances of the Lord's House, but, as far as we know, were all more or less fully and clearly noted for preaching the same Gospel of Sovereign Grace through the perfect work of our Lord in definite substitution for the Father's chosen family. Care has been taken, and will be in future papers, as much as possible to ensure accuracy alike regarding facts, dates and judgment. Should, however, any reader detect any error, or can supply any omission, the writer would deem personal communication a favour :

It is pleasant to reach back to the time of the great and good Dr. WILLIAM CAREY, who closed his noble pioneer missionary work in 1834.

CHRISTMAS EVANS, too, was still preaching with wonderful power in Wales, but in the year 1838 was called up from his fifty years of remarkable ministry. JOSEPH IVIMEY, remembered best by his writings and beloved by many, passed away from his pastorate at Eagle Street in 1834.

R. W. OVERBURY, co pastor with him and afterwards his successor for many years, removed to Devonport and died 1868.

JOHN CHIN had been labouring at Walworth since 1807, and so continued until 1839, a man of God and truth, and much blessed by his Master; JAMES UPTON, of Blackfriars (by whom he was baptized), departing five years before him. They were good, solid, old-fashioned ministers.

JAMES UPTON, Jun., was minister at Poplar from 1823 to 1843, and died in 1867. WILLIAM SHENSTON closed his thirty-five years of useful labour at Little Alie Street, in June, 1833; his brother, J. B., was pastor of the Seventh-day Baptists in Finsbury until 1844.

JONATHAN FRANKLIN had served the church in Red Cross Street with fidelity for twenty-six years, departing in a good old age just "fifty years ago."

About the same time, 1833, THOMAS HARDY, of Leicester, closed an honoured and valued ministry.

JAMES SMITH, at Ilford from 1808 to the end of 1833, then removing to Shoreditch, was taken home in 1839. A thoughtful, exact, and earnest minister, much owned of the Lord.

HENRY FOWLER, of Gower Street, closed his lengthened pastorate, much beloved, in 1838.

WILLIAM HOUSE, a clear, faithful preacher, in London from 1822 to 1835; also known as a hymn writer.

JOHN BOWERS, a deep and searching preacher of the Word; toward the close of his life, in 1834, was over the church meeting near Worship Street, Shoreditch. JOHN REES, of Rodborough, left a name to thank God for, dying in January, 1833, in London, where he had laboured the last ten years of his life at Crown Street, Soho.

Dr. W. NEWMAN, of Bow, closed a forty years' faithful ministry in 1835, and the next year the venerable Dr. RIPPON rested from his lengthened labours, having been pastor sixty-three years, of the church from which the "learned and voluminous Dr. Gill" had been removed in 1771.

The same year HUGH MACKENZIE, of St. Ives, Hunts, passed up higher, aged

sixty-four. He was set apart for the ministry by the church under the care of the Rev. Abraham Booth, in 1798.

Good RICHARD DAVIS had closed his pastorate at East Lane, Walworth, in 1832 (a church in which Dr. Rippon took much interest-at which we cannot wonder, remembering that the heavenly poet, Joseph Swain, was the first pastor), and the writer remembers being present, in 1834, at the settlement of JOSEPH HAMBLIN, a truly Bible preacher, whose ministry will always be thought of with thankfulness by him, afterwards removing to Foots Cray and Saxlingham, where he ended his consistent life and ministry, 1867.

GEORGE COMB had been preaching at Soho nearly ten years, and there continued, honoured and beloved, until the commencement of 1841, when, in assured hope, he passed away.

SAMUEL WEBB, who had been at Wattisham, Suffolk, from 1811 to 1814, removed to Langley, Essex, in 1826, where he died in 1844.

DAVID DENHAM, "The Saints' Melodist," was at Margate fifty years ago, but removed to Unicorn Yard in 1834, was seized with apoplexy in the pulpit (at Yeovil) 1848, and, a few days after, the unconsciousness terminated in the sleep of death.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, a thorough Welshman, went out from the church at Blandford Street, in the good JOHN KEEBLE's time, ard preached at Grafton Street thirty-five years with real rough Welsh energy. He died in 1847, aged seventy-three.

JAMES HARRINGTON EVANS had been preaching some sixteen years in London, and had earned a good solid repute for faithfulness and profiting spiritual ministry, which he retained to the end of his life in 1849.

WILLIAM GADSBY we need only name as one of the most godly, laborious servants of the Lord, who had been preaching thirty-five years, and continued eleven more (thirty-nine in all in Manchester).

GEORGE FRANCIS, faithful, plain, and fervent, died in 1848, at fourscore years, half of which he laboured in Snowsfields, Southwark.

JOHN STEVENS, whose praise is in all our churches, had been in London full twenty-one years when our magazine was first issued, in the commencement and progress of which we know he was much interested. He was looked up to as a master in Israel to the time of his death in 1847.

WILLIAM JAMES, of Hartley Row, was in the same year suddenly called up higher. He was at Hadleigh fifty years ago, but left in 1835.

THOMAS POWELL, of Rye Lane, Peckham, maintained a ministry, pure in life and doctrine, from 1819 to 1846; his beloved successor, GEORGE MOYLE, was pastor at Rye Lane nearly thirty years, previously seventeen in Artillery Street, and died honoured and beloved, aged seventy-four, September, 1877.

The BROTHERS HALDANE, JAMES and ROBERT, are names awakening reverent gratitude. The former, fifty-four years minister at Edinburgh, was blessed to his brother, whose word was also greatly honoured. Robert departed this life in 1842, and James in 1851 (aged eighty-two).

WILLIAM JONES, author of "The History of the Wilderness," many years a solid preacher, died in 1846, aged eighty-six.

JAMES HARGREAVES was at Little Wild Street seven years, which he left for Waltham Abbey in 1829, and there remained to his death in 1845.

DANIEL CURTIS, beloved by many of us still surviving, was, fifty years ago, a good deacon of Brother Foreman's church, often preaching in many places, became pastor at Homerton Row in 1837 where he laboured in love and sound doctrine sixteen years.

WILLIAM ALDERSON, taught by Divine grace under the ministry of John Stevens, was a plain, clear, wholesome preacher, in Bermondsey; previously at Cambridge and elsewhere; passed away in 1853.

Poor ROBERT ABBOTT, of Raunds, was found suffocated by a gas escape in his chamber (at Hastings), in 1859, being in his sixtieth year.

WILLIAM COWPER was a godly, spiritual preacher, in Sussex, from 1827 to 1857, and then, after four years' prostration by paralysis, he departed to be with the Christ he had preached.

SAMUEL SQUIRKELL went out from the church at Wattisham to Sutton in 1806, and honourably laboured there nearly forty years.

THOMAS LITTLETON, not much known in and round London, but a diligent and truly experimental preacher in many parts, chiefly in the West of England, for thirty-six years-it is said, without one Sabbath's intermission-dying in 1849.

WILLIAM HENRY COLLYER had opened a preaching station at Foots Cray in 1813, and, in the Baptist chapel afterwards erected there, the writer well remembers hearing his last sermon, remarkable for force and solemnity, from the words in Job xxvi. 14, on May 12th, 1845. September 10th, same year, his lifeless body was found peacefully at rest in his bed.

WILLIAM ALLEN removed from Cambridge to Stepney in 1834, where he died twenty years afterwards: a faithful man, a quaint, terse, truthful preacher, owned of God to the blessing of many.

ROBERT BARNES, of Glemsford, will still be remembered. He commenced his ministry there in 1831, and closed it in 1858, respected and beloved by all who knew him, and they were many.

W. B. BOWES, a stately and solemn man and preacher, coming from Woolwich to Blandford Street in 1834, and thence departing to heaven twenty-three years after.

WILLIAM BIDDER, of Yeovil, &c., remarkable for textual memory, very stringent and determined, devoted to such theology as that of Dr. Goodwin.

EDWARD BLACKSTOCK was another very decided preacher of the Word from 1822 to 1852, in various parts of the country, as well as London.

JAMES CASTLEDEN preached with faithfulness and spiritual feeling for thirtysix years at Hampstead, where, in perfect peace, he departed in 1854.

JOHN GEORGE, thirty-seven years at Shouldham Street, London, where his ministry was made a blessing to many, died peacefully, in a good old age, December, 1846.

JOHN WARBURTON, the beloved pastor at Trowbridge, from 1815 to nearly his happy end in 1857. An aged disciple, a fatherly teacher.

MATTHEW HARVEY became pastor of the church at Horham, 1825, where he continued esteemed and beloved twenty-eight years.

JOHN LUCOMBE, from the church and ministry of John Stevens, closed a long ministry in the City Road, 1851, aged eighty-five.

HENRY HOWELL, of Chelmsford, Rattlesden, and Kenninghall, about twentyeight years, died in 1852.

The name of SAMUEL LANE would not be much known to us, but twenty-one years ago he closed a long and useful life and ministry in Hull.

ARTHUR TRIGGS, well known in Plymouth and London, was called away in 1859 at the age of seventy-two.

THOMAS SHIRLEY, rightly regarded as "a pillar" at Sevenoaks, whose ministry and counsel was much sought for beyond Kent. He lived to the great age of eighty-four, and laboured to the very last, being suddenly called up higher in 1858.

JOHN TIPPETTS had settled at Gravesend in 1828, and remained there, a faithful Puritan preacher, for more than a quarter of a century, until 1856.

WILLIAM SAVORY was called to the pastorate of the church in Bond Street, Brighton, in 1829, and as a minister was rightly named. He rested from his labours, 1854.

JOSEPH SEDGWICK, another good South Coast light, settled at Brighton sixty years ago; there abode thirty years, and then went higher.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS, of Wattisham, Greenwich, Eynsford, and March, died in 1856, well known and highly esteemed. For years he was a frequent contributor to the pages of the Gospel Herald.

GEORGE PRITCHARD, of Keppel Street, died in 1852, aged seventy-nine; formerly at Colchester and Shouldham Street.

WILLIAM ROBERTS was baptized by Mr. Thompson, of Grundisburgh, and for nearly forty years a good useful minister at Dane Hill, Sussex, Newick, and Chelsea (Beds), dying at the age of seventy-three, in 1852.

WILLIAM POPE, ordained at Meopham in 1833, closed a devoted, loving ministry in 1851.

JOHN' STENSON, of Pimlico, a most studious and laborious pastor there for twenty-five years, terminating in 1856, having been engaged for several years previously in various parts of London.

WILLIAM COLLINS, of Malden, died in extreme old age (ninety-two) in 1860. A zealous, laborious, godly minister, whose life was much that of a home missionary in Essex, spreading over fifty years.

JOSEPH WALLIS occupied several positions honourably in London, Suffolk, &c., afterwards at Needingworth, and finally at Bexley Heath, where he closed his long life of eighty-five years in 1866.

Here, for the present, we close our list of departed Gospel worthies, resuming it, if the Lord will, next month.

The Fatherless and the Widow.

The late Mr. R. A. Lawrence, Baptist Minister.

THE fatherless and the widow are frequently referred to in the Bible, as being special objects of God's compassionate providential care. The Jewish code of laws, received by Moses from the mouth of the Lord Himself, enjoins special sympathy and regard for "the fatherless and the widow." In many ways the Word of God indicates His own peculiar and paternal remembrance of such bereaved ones. One of the most touching incidents in the life of Him who, when on earth, went about doing good, is that which relates to a widow of Nain. He had compassion upon her; He spake kind words unto her, and, putting forth His omnipotent power, restored her dead son to life, and with His own hands gave him into his mother's arms; causing those eyes that had been swollen with bitter weeping, now to sparkle with tears of gratitude and unspeakable joy.

Special care for widows is enjoined upon the Christian Church by the Apostle Paul; and the Apostle James gives us to understand that, to "visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction " is a main part of "pure and undefiled religion before God." The exercise of compassion for helpless sufferers and the cultivation of personal purity, are the two points in which he sums up genuine practical religion, but active sympathy is placed first, and that as exhibited in the case of the fatherless and the widow. There has been no lack of opportunity for the practical illustration of this test of true Christianity. The world has never been void of the sorrows and woes of the widow and the orphan since it became populated, and where the Word of God has most influence those sorrows and woes are most compassionated and best alleviated by practical sympathy. It is owing to the influence of Bible reading in this country, that in so many forms and ways orphanage and widowhood are met with sympathy in their woes and supplies for their wants; that so many institutions devoted to the benefit of these bereaved

ones have been formed, and almost in every instance as the fruit of voluntary Christianity-not of State-enforced.

But now and again exceptional cases occur that existing forms of help do not meet. These call for special effort on the part of the Church of Christ, and peculiarly so when the bereaved ones pertain to those who have "laboured in word and doctrine" among His people. To such the Church of God has ever been most prompt in showing kindness, from love to Him who gives "pastors and teachers" to His people, and from an affectionate and grateful remembrance of the departed ones, and their faithful and self-denying labours in the Gospel of Christ. A case of this kind is now appealing to our own churches in particular, and to Christian friends in general, for special sympathy and aid. By this timeour readers must have become pretty well acquainted with the circumstances, the case being that of the widow and eight fatherless children of the late Mr. Richard Aspinall Lawrence, pastor for about fourteen years of the baptized Church of Christ at Lynton Road, Bermondsey. The good man slept in Jesus on Lord's-day, November 26th, 1882, in the prime of life, being aged only forty-two; a severe and protracted illness preceding his death, which was sudden at last, and certified as from "failure of the heart's action." His widow and eight children were left entirely destitute, he having been, it is to be presumed, owing to heavy family expenses, and those of a long illness, unable to leave any provision for them. As a pastor, it should be stated, our departed brother took very little from his flock, preferring that that which was his right as a labourer worthy of his reward, should be devoted to the paying off their chapel debt, an object he had very much at heart. An influential committee has been formed, including most of the leading names in our denomination, to raise a fund to provide for the needs of the bereaved and destitute ones thus cast upon the sympathies of the Lord's almoners, Their appeal has been a month or two before the public, and is being responded to in a liberal, kind, and Christian manner; and will continue to be so, it is earnestly and believingly hoped, until the benevolent wishes of the committee are fully accomplished. (See cover of HERALD for present and preceding two months). R. H.

Expositions, Essays, &c.

WONDROUS THINGS REVEALED.

"Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law."-Ps. exix. 18.

THIS Psalm expresses sweet communion with God. It consists of fervent prayers, in connection with which the promises of God are pleaded; of heartfelt praise for the many mercies which the Psalmist had received at God's hands; and gracious profession is made of his earnest resolve to keep God's commands and obey the teachings of His Word.

It will be seen that the words before

us are an earnest prayer for enlightenment upon the Word of God, so that the blessed truths set forth in that precious volume may enter the heart of him who is about to meditate upon them.

Two heads present themselves in our verse. First, the blessing sought-"Open Thou mine eyes;" and second, the end desired-viz., "that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law."

Firstly, then, the blessing sought. The words have a deeper and more important meaning than merely ex