whole time no clergyman, dissenting, or methodist minister or member came near us with one book or tract or word about Christ or religion; but at last I was invalided and went to London, but never, to this day, have I received any pension or reward from the nation for all the hardships I endured in storms or dangers or battle. But, in 1803 it pleased God to bless me; that, like Paul, I was "called by grace," at Reading, on a visit to a shipmate; and in 1804 I was sent to commence the ministry at Plymouth Dock, and after five years' training for mission work, by preaching to seafaring men and families, at Saltash, Plymouth-dock, Dartmouth, Brixham, Penzance, and Newlyn, it pleased God to direct me to commence the first religious naval correspondence mission, in 1809, by preaching on board a vessel in Mount's Bay, and opening Communications with a few converted sailors in nearly seventy ships, for some years, and then beginning the Thames Bethel Mission, in 1817, that has produced, by the blessing of God, all the Sailors' Missions in the kingdom and the world, by divine grace, up to the present time, as I am ready to demonstrate to the church and the world; and like Paul, in his own hired house, preaching as a poor man, at Rome, Acts xxviii. 30 and 31; and writing epistles and works that will live and be useful when I am dead. But, for all these labours of 50 years since I began the work in 1809, and 55 years since I was directed of God to begin my training preparations for the work, at Saltash, Plymouth Dock, and Penzance, I have received no reward from the nation, and am now left with a poor flock, without salary or income, or property; but am clothed and supported entirely by the help of a few triends whom God may be pleased occasionally to send me a mite, as the labourer is worthy of his hire: yet my mind is all at rest and in peace, trusting in the Lord, and looking forward to depart and be with Christ. I see the Queen grants a reward to some useful persons, by consent of Government, and societies and churches provide some help for aged ministers-but not for me; yet my happiness is that God sends me bread to eat and raiment to wear, and gives me strength and grace to go on with the work every day and every evening. Not forgetting to do good and to communicate; and now as a ship frem Copenhagen has been here at Penzance, loaded with corn, I have visited and prayed with the captain, and preached to all on board, in the open air, last Lord's-day; and this ship has brought to my recollection my mercies from God in the Baltic Sea, so that I must now conclude in my daily prayers, O Lord, bless Elsineur and Copenhagen; and, O Lord, bless Hlesingbourgh and Carlscrona; and if the Lord please to provide means to pay the ordinary expences of the journey, with food and clothes and travelling, God knows I have said and do say, Lord, I am most willing and ready, in next May or April, in 1860, to visit Elsineur and Copenhagen, in Denmark, and Helsingbourgh and Carlscrona, in Sweden, to preach and distribute Danish and Swedish tracts, and do good in any way with sailors, and soldiers, and souls, of all the nations bordering the Baltic Sea: asking for no reward but friends and funds to do good and to glorify God-not by the horrors of war, but as a poor humble unworthy servant of Jesus Christ, as the

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Prince of Peace, to promote religion and temperance instruction of all the people of the Baltic regions who believe in Jesus Christ, that they may add to their faith-" virtue temperance, and godliness," as we are all admonished by the word of God.-G. C. S. December 17th, 1859.

BALTIC SAILORS' SOCIETIES AND PROPOSALS FOR 1860

O Lord, bless Elsineur, Copenhagen, and Denmark generally. O Lord, bless Helsingbourgh, Carlscrona, and Sweden generally. O Lord, bless Memel, in Prussia, and the nation in general. For unto all those places I sailed in the year 1801, when in the fleet of Admiral Lord Nelson, engaged at that time in the Baltic expedition, amidst the horrors of war and bloodshed, and where my life was mercifully spared, no doubt through a beloved pious mother's prayers for me, in Boundary Row, Blackfriars Road, when I was unconverted, and mixed up with five hundred men in a man of war, called then a floating hell-where we had no bible, no chaplain, and no religion whatever; our souls being all neglected by our country, and we left to perish, without God and without hope- no one caring for our souls; when on March 12th, 1801, we sailed with a large fleet for the Baltic Sea, to protect "king and country," as was the cry on board; but we never heard of any one in England caring or praying for us in all the fleets, or in all the united kindom of Great Britain and Ireland, when we were sent out with bombs and shells, and fire ships, and thousands of sailors and some marines and soldiers, to prevent invasion; as we heard that Paul the Emperor of Russia, being jealous of our English ships of war searching the ships of Russia, Denmark, and Sweden, to see if there were any thing on board in connection with the nations with whom we were at war, as the Dutch, the French, and the Spaniards, whose ports we were blockading at the Texel, in Holland; Brest and Teulon, in France; and Cadiz and other ports in Spain. Paul the Emperor of Russia, at this time, had prevailed upon Denmark and Sweden, as we heard, with their fleets, to combine with the naval force in Russia, as soon as the ice broke in the Baltic, about March or April, and they would then with one hundred thousand soldiers invade England in the North; and the fleets of France, Holland, and Spain, to invade England in the South, with one hundred thousand soldiers also, and Russia to assist them. This, we understood, was the danger to this kingdom, to all the fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and families of all the present nobles, gentry, merchants, traders, and labourers of this existing genera、 tion of 1859; and to prevent all these dangers I sailed as one in the fleet to be exposed to all the shot and shell of Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, without any person coming to our fleet with bibles, religious tracts, or religious missions. We had vice-tracts and books, and devil missionaries in abundauce, to ruin our souls and fit us for hell, at our naval seaports, but there no man cared for our souls.

Open Air Preaching to Copenhagen Sailors, by Grace.

Lord's-day, December 11th, 1859, five o'clock, p.m. Praise the Lord, O my soul for this day's mercies, We had our prayer meeting

last evening, as usual every Saturday evening, we must close the week with prayer, and sacrifice every thing and every person who would stand in our way-for we must deny ourselves, and give up all family and friends for prayer meetings. Christ is the first and last; and Christ is to us all in all. Then, this morning, after my two blessed hours, from five to seven, with the bible and prayer, we had our prayer meeting in the chapel: for we must "pray always," as the scripture enjoins, not caring for anything in this world that the devil would use to obstruct us. Therefore we had our prayer meeting this morning at seven, and at halfpast ten preached from Ezekiel xvi. 8. This deeply affected my soul. O, yes, when I was taken ill at Reading, in Berkshire, stopped on iny journey to Oxford, and in the heavy affliction and horrors of hell, when the Lord convinced and converted my soul, in March, 1803, when I stopped on the road to see an old shipmate who lived at Reading. Ah, that was the time when the Lord did indeed convert my soul; and now this day, in the afternoon, I have had a most wonderful sailors' mission down to a ship from Copenhagen, at the New Pier, for ballast. 1 went down yesterday to see the captain at the Old Pier and the Quay of this port, but I was told she had discharged her cargo, and was gone to the opposite side of the harbour, I went therefore through the town to see where she lay, and as she was alongside the pier, I determined to preach there close to this ship this afternoon. Therefore I walked down at two o'clock, full of wonder and astonishment indeed at this miracle of mercy from God to me, all through the street till I reached there. I could not but exclaim, My God! what a miracle! Let me consider. In the year 1801, March 2nd, I sailed in a large ship with Nelson's fleet, and was engaged in the battle of Copenhagen, and lived without Christ for years in ships of war; and now, by the blessing and grace of God, I have been down, not with shot to fire at Danes, but with bibles and tracts, to preach and pray for all Denmark and Sweden, that God may bless them abundantly; and it it please the Lord to give ine grace and means to visit these nations next year, not to fight, but to preach and pray in Denmark and Sweden; and be the humble instrument, not of killing Danes and Swedes, but labouring to the conversion of some Danish and Swedish souls, with whom I may sit down in glory, at the marriage supper of the Lamb, with all the redeemed, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. With those blessed prospects, we may now meet on this sabbath evening in the house of God, after I have been down the New Pier giving tracts to ships, and returning to our Mariners' Church praising God for a Copenhagen ship with corn for the people.

"Several soldiers of the North Cork Rifles, after having partaken of some liquor in a tavern in town Monday, were on proceeding to the barracks, seized with all the symptoms of narcotic poisoning. Dr. Weild, of the Fever Hospital, attended the cases, but ere he arrived one of the poor fellows had expired. Two others were in imminent danger, aud are still in a very dangerous state."

Praise the Lord for for all Help of the past Year.

Tuesday, December 20th.-My soul is deeply impressed this morning in remembering the goodness of the Lord to me this year that is now closing. O how wonderful! when nearly all the ministers whom I knew formerly are dead, and that I should be spared this year, at the age of 77, to labour and travel as I have, by the grace of God, in the service of Christ Jesus; for, after all my winter every day engagements, I left Penzance early in April, and devoted a week to most blessed sailor and steamer religious services at Bristol, in ships from the coasts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; and then London religious and temperance labours continually, streets and lanes, chapels, halls, and houses, docks, barracks, and asylums. Then Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Chatham, Sheerness, Portsmouth, Southampton, Plymouth, Stonehouse, Devonport, Brixham, Dartmouth, Totness, Bristol again, as the head of the Bristol Channel, and Bath also. Then South Wales, Cardiff, and Swansea; visiting all the ships that I could reach with Magazines and tracts; and barrack rooms for soldiers and recruits; and publichouses and sea brothel companies, thieves and harlots, and the worst of sinners; and everywhere circulating thousands of religious and temperance tracts and papers, and directing souls to Christ and salvation, without any salary, but just as the Lord might please to send me help; then returning from Plymouth to Saltash Bridge, and Truro, here in Cornwall; and then appointed to take the chair for the temperance meeting at the Guildhall; and returning to Penzance in September; and since then labouring in the work of God for religion and temperance and mission visitations this winter, to St, Just, near the Land's End and the seaports of St. Ives and Hayle, and Falmouth, and Truro again, during a great Christian Temperance service, and ships and Bands of Hope, and distributing tracts at Portleaven, south seaside, among some shipwrecked people; and at Redruth and Copperhouse mining district; and weekly Quay and Pier shipping services, and Newlyn fishers, with sick visitings, and preachings or prayer meetings every evening; and four services every Lord's day; and careful tract distribution to mining districts and market people weekly, as the Lord may please to give grace and strength and now this day considering that the last Lord's-day ought to have sermons about repentance for the sins of the year, and thanksgivings for the mercies of the year 1859; and now looking for. ward to preach on Christmas day three times, but no feasting and drink but a simple plain meal, and to think and talk of Jesus Christ. Then prepare for the watch night, from nine to twelve of the old year, and twelve to one of the new year, with singing, preaching, praying, praising, if the Lord will, as a new creature in Christ, that we may look forward to death and victory and glory, through Christ Jesus, any day or hour the Lord pleases, through 1860 or 1861, or longer if the Lord pleases, and he has more work for a poor sinner dead to the world, crucified with Christ to sin in the old man, that the body of sin may be destroyed, that

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Sin, my worst enemy before, may vex my eyes and ears no more, My inward foes shall all be slain, nor Satan break my peace again,"

Scriptures for the Old Year-and to Begin the New Year.

Sailors and soldiers, and all people who profess religion, we ought to begin the new year of 1860 with two blessed important and glorious scriptures, as-First. A most gracious promise of God, who says, by the prophet, to reformed captives, "I will also save you from all your uncleanness." Ezekiel xxxvi. And it is also added, "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. From all your filthiness will I cleanse you." O what a miracle, sailors, soldiers, and brethren. By the law, it was said, "The priests shall offer the sinoffering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness." Leviticus xiv. But now Christ is our atonement, and by the shedding of his precious blood, he has "opened a fountain for sin and uncleanness," Zech. xiii.; and therefore, now, sailors, "as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness, even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness," Romans vi.; and it is written that "God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness." Thess. iv. Therefore our Second scripture for the new year, every day and every hour, by the grace of God, should be "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Heb. xii. Thus on the new year, sailors and soldiers, the word of God commands "That ye put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to the lusts, and be renewed. That ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." Eph. iv. "She shall be saved if they continue in holiness with sobriety." i Tim. ii. "The Lord make you to increase to the end, that he may stablish your hearts in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Thes, iii. Now, sailors and soldiers, mind, "Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them. I will increase them with men like a flock; as the holy flock of Israel." Ezek. xxxvi. Therefore we must pray always. Now, then, for Bethel prayer meetings, night and day. Sailors, all hands must pray. Soldiers, all the regiments must mount guard against the world, the flesh, and the devil; and we shall all be more than conquerors, by repentance, faith, and prayer, on this new year, through the Lord Jesus Christ; and if we die in 1860, then, thanks be to God who giveth us the victory, through our blessed Saviour, the Captain of our Salvation.

Church of England Mission to the English in Spain, and to English Sailors in Spanish Ports :-Thousands of our Countrymen are resident in Spain as Merchants, Clerks, Engineers, Shipbuilders, Miners, Founders, Navvies, or are Occasional Visitors, as tourists, invalids, masters of vessels, and sailors; and for them no church but the Roman Catholic is to be found, except at Malaga. The object of the Mission is to remedy this evil by sending out, under the sanction of the Bishops of London and Gibraltar, as soon as funds can be obtained, an experienced clergyman, whose instructions will be to visit all the towns and villages, where there are British settlers, to encourage the people to do their duty by the offer of assistance from the church at home, and to organize, if