"thanks be to God, which causeth us always to triumph in Christ;” 2 Cor. ii, 14.—“After a long and blessed season in prayer, I felt, he says, the spirit of adoption drawing me very near to God, and giving me the full assurance of his love. My fervent prayer was, that I might be more deeply and habitually convinced of his unchanging everlasting love, and that my whole soul might be altogether in Christ. I scarcely knew how to express the desires of my heart. I wanted to be all in Christ, and to have Christ for my 'all in all'—to be encircled in his everlasting arms, and to be swallowed up altogether in his fulness. I wish for no created good, or for men to know my experience; but to be one with thee, and live for thee, O God, my Savior and Lord. O

may it be my constant care to live free from the spirit of bondage, at all times, having access to the Father. This I feel should be the state of the Christian: perfect reconciliation with God, and a perfect appropriation of him in all his endearing attributes, according to all that he has promised: it is this that shall bear me safely through the storm." -What is this but the happiness intended by the Psalmist, when he breaks forth in those words of sublimity and rapture: Blessed are the people which know the joyful sound-they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance: in thy name shall they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteous ness shall they be exalted.'—Psalm lxxxix, 15, 16.

At Cork, Mr. Martyn endeavored to procure an admission to a pulpit in the city, as well as to preach to the convicts going out with the fleet to Botany Bay, but was unsuccessful in both these attempts. On board his own ship he regularly read prayers, and preached once every Sabbath, lamenting that the Captain would not permit the performance of more than one service. This

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being the case, his usefulness in the ship depended much, he conceived, upon his private ministration. Scarcely a day therefore passed, without his going between the decks; where, after assembling all who were willing to attend, he read to them some religious book, upon which he commented as he went on. "Some attend fixedly-others are looking another way-some women are employed about their children, attending for a little while, and then heedless: some rising up and going away-others taking their place; and numbers, especially of those who have been upon watch, strewed all along upon the deck fast asleep one or two from the upper decks looking down and listening:" such is the picture he draws of his congregation below.The situation of things above, when he performed his weekly duty on the Sabbath, was not, according to his own statement, more encouraging. There, the opposition of some, and the inattention of others, put his meekness and patience very strongly to the test. "The passengers," as he describes it, "were inattentive-the officers, many of

them, sat drinking; so that he could overhear their noise, and the Captain was with them. His own soul was serious, and undisturbed by the irreverence of the hearers, and he thought he could have poured it out in prayer, without restraint, in defiance of their scornful gaze." "How melancholy and humiliating," he could not help adding, "is this mode of public ordinances on ship-board, compared with the respect and joy with which the multitudes come up to hear my brethren ashore: but this prepares me for preaching amongst the heedless Gentiles."

On the 31st of August, after having been de tained above a fortnight in the Cove of Cork, the fleet, consisting of fifty transports, five men of war, and the Indiaman, put to sea; and now again Mr. Martyn suffered much both in body and mind: he became languid and feverish, and his nights were sleepless-and his mental conflict was extremely severe. "My anguish at times," he says, "was inexpressible, when I awoke from my disturbed dreams, to find myself actually on my way, with a long sea rolling between me and all I held dear in this life."

"To describe the variety of perplexing, heartrending, agonizing thoughts which passed through my mind, and which, united with the weakness and languor of my body, served to depress me into the depths of misery, would be impossible. The bodily suffering would be nothing, did not Satan improve his advantage, in representing the happiness and

ease of the life I had left. However, God did not leave me quite alone, poor and miserable as I was, I was helped to recollect several things in Scripture, which encouraged me to hold on. Such as 'If we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him;' the examples likewise of Moses, Abraham, and St. Paul, of our blessed Lord himself, and of his saints at the present moment. I repeated the farewell discourse of St. Paul, and endeavored to think-how he would act in my situation. I thought of all God's people looking out after me with expectation; following me with their wishes and prayers. I thought of the holy angels, some of whom perhaps were guarding me on my way; and of God, and of Christ, approv ing my course and mission. 'Who will go for me? here am I-send me.' I thought of the millions of precious souls that now and in future ages might be benefited."-By such considerations as these, by prayer by reciting Scripture-by praying over it-by casting himself simply upon Christ-and by looking upon pain and suffering as his daily portion (which thought wonderfully served to tranquillize his mind,) Mr. Martyn was carried through a season of great tribulation, when he might almost have adopted the words of the Psalmist, “Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. Thine indignation lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves;" Psalm lxxxviii, 6, 7. But it is an inspired declaration, that "they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength: they

shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint:" nor was it long before he could affix his seal to the truth of this testimony. "In prayer," he says, soon after this, "I soon launched sweetly into eternity, and found joy unspeakable in thinking of my future rest, and of the boundless love and joy I should ever taste in Christ's beloved presence hereafter. I found no difficulty to stir myself up to the contemplation of heaven-my soul through grace, realized it, and I delighted to dwell by faith in those blissful

Shortly after the fleet had sailed from Ireland, a tremendous storm arose the first that Mr. Martyn had ever witnessed. During a night of general anxiety and consternation, his mind was kept in perfect peace. "He lay, endeavoring to realize his speedy appearance before God in judgment—not indeed without sorrowful convictions of his sinfulness, and supplications for mercy in the name of Jesus, but with a fuli confidence in the willingness of God to receive him, and a desire to depart." But he was chiefly led, "to think of the many poor souls in the ship, and to pray that they might have a longer time for repentance, and that the terrors of that night might be of lasting benefit." In the morning when the vessel was going under bare poles, the sea covered with so thick a mist from the spray and rain, that nothing could be seen but the tops of the nearest waves, which seemed to be running over