and repaired still unto him, with a filial confidence, în all their necessities. And when his age had unfitted him for almost all employment, he would sometimes answer when asked how he did: "Alas! my understanding leaves me; my memory fails me; my utterance fails me: but, I thank God, my charity holds out still. I find that rather grow than fail!"

But, beside these more substantial expressions of his charity, he made the odours of that grace yet more fra-. grant unto all that were about him, by that Pitifulness and that Peacefulness, which rendered him yet further amiable.

If any of his neighbourhood were in distress, he was like a brother born for their adversity. He would visit them and comfort them, with a most fraternal sympathy: yea, it is not easy to recount how many days of prayer with fasting he persuaded his neighbours to keep with him, on the behalf of those whose calamities he found himself touched withal. It was an extreme satisfaction to him that his wife had attained to a considerable skill in physic and surgery, which enabled her to dispense many safe, good, and useful medicines to the poor; and hundreds of sick, and weak, and maimed people owed praises to God for the benefit which therein they freely received of her. Her husband would still be casting oil into the flames of that Charity, wherein she was, of her own accord, abundantly forward, thus to be doing of good unto all, and he would urge her to be serviceable to the worst enemies he had in the world.

His charity led him also to Peace. When he heard any Ministers complain, that such and such in their flocks were too difficult for them, the strain of his answer still was-"Brother, compass them!" and, "Brother, learn the meaning of those three little words-Bear: Forbear: Forgive." Nay, his love of Peace sometimes almost made him to sacrifice Right itself. When there was laid before an assembly of Ministers a bundle of papers, which con tained certain matters of contention between some per sons, which our Eliot thought should rather unite, with, an amnesty on all their former quarrels, he, with some imitation of what Constantine did on a similar occasion, hastily threw the papers into the fire before them all, and immediately said " Brethren, wonder not at what I have done: I did it on my knees this morning before I came among you.”

His charity disposed him to continual Benedictions on those that he met withal-He had a heart full of good wishes, and a mouth full of kind blessings, for them. And he often made his expressions very wittily agreeable to the circumstances in which he saw the persons: sometimes, when he came into a family, he would call for all the young people in it, that so he might very distinctly lay his holy hands upon every one of them, and bespeak the mercies of Heaven for them all.

His RESIGNATION to the will of God was very great.Sore afflictions befel him, especially when he was called to follow his hopeful and worthy sons, some of them desirable preachers, to their graves: but he sacrificed them like another Abraham, with such a sacred indifferency as made all the spectators to say, "This could not be done without the fear of God!" Yea, he bore all his trials with an admirable patience; and seemed loth to Have any will of his own, that should not be wholly melted and moulded into the will of his Heavenly Father. When sinking at sea, the boat in which he was having been upset by a larger vessel, and he imagined he had but one breath more to draw in this world, it was, "The will of the Lord be done!”E

He arrived, indeed, at a remarkable HEALTH OF SOUL; and he was kept, in a blessed measure, clear of those distempers which too often disorder the most of "men. By living near to God, and dwelling as under the shadow of the Almighty, he contracted a more exquisite sense of mind than is usual among Christians. If he said of any affair," "I cannot bless it!" it was a worse omen to it than the most inauspicious presages in the world.

Such is the picture of this exalted man, drawn by one who had the advantage of long and intimate converse with him, and exhibited before multitudes who were the most competent judges of its fidelity. It cannot be thought extraordinary, if a man so3 unaffectedly dead to this world and so wholly occupied with the concerns and interests of a better, should be ill qualified to conduct is temporal con cerns. But it pleased God to bless bin, as we have. seen, with a wise and prudent wife. Under her

good management his private affairs were kept in order, while he was dedicating himself wholly to that great work to which he was called. So entirely, indeed, had she eased him of those concerns, that when one day some of his own cattle stood before his door, his wife, to try him, asked him whose they were, she found, as she expected, that he knew nothing of the matter.

In his FAMILY-GOVERNMENT, indeed, he was most exemplary, as his success with his children may sufficiently discover. The wife who was given to him as a blessing from God," he loved, prized, and cherished," says his biographer, “ with a kindness that notably represented the compassion which he thereby taught his church to expect from the Lord Jesus Christ. His whole conversation with her had that sweetness, gravity, and modesty, that every one called them Zacharias and Elizabeth. His family was a little Bethel. Unto daily prayers, his manner was to prefix the reading of the Scrip ture; which being done, he made his young people choose a certain passage in the chapter, and give him some observations of their own upon it: by this method, he did mightily sharpen and improve, as well as try, their understandings; and endeavoured to make them wise unto salvation. He was very strict in their education; and more careful to mend any error in their hearts and lives, than he could have been to cure a blemish in their bodies. No exorbitances or extravagancies could find a room under his roof: nor was his house any other than a School of Piety. One might have there seen a perpetual mixture of a Spartan and a Christian discipline. Whatever decay there might be upon Family. Religion among us, as for our Eliot, we knew him,

that he would command his children and his household after him, that they should keep the way of the Lord."

In our next Number, we shall view Eliot as a Minister; and enter on a narrative of his work, as an Evangelist, among the Indians.

(To be continued.)

Home Proceedings.

REVIVAL OF THE FRENCH SLAVE TRADE.

WE record, with pleasure, that EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR Petitions were presented to Parliament, signed by upward of SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS, invoking the exertion of British Influence for the extermination of the Slave Trade. Most of the great towns and public bodies of the Empire took their honourable station among these petitioners. The British Negociator, supported as he is by the avowed sentiments of the chief of the Allied Sovereigns, and thus most significantly instructed by the moral feeling and conscience of his own country, will strenuously contend, and as we sanguinely hope with success, for the rights of injured Africa.

The Petitions from the Metropolis were signed by about a sixth of the whole number of Petitioners, amounting to upward of 126,000. A brief description of one of these Petitions will give our readers some idea of the exertions of those benevolent and patriotic men who undertook the management of them. The Southwark Petition contained 252

skins of parchment, had 35,127 signatures, mea sured 579 feet in length, and weighed 35 pounds.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

The following important documents, compiled by a zealous friend of the Society, illustrate most strik ingly the extent of its exertions.

Auxiliary and Branch Societies in the United
Kingdom and adjacent Islands.

N. B. There is reason to believe there are several Branch Soci eties of which no account has yet been transmitted to the Parent Institution.

In addition to the above Societies, there are numerous Bible Associations, consisting chiefly of Subscribers of One Penny or Two-pence per week, connected with Aux iliary Societies; which Associations have, in some in stances, produced thrice the amount of the Subscriptions to the Auxiliary within whose district they are comprised.

Bible Societies established in Foreign Parts.

These Societies have been encouraged either by pecuniary aid from the Society, or by its example.

The editions of the Scriptures, printed or now printing by these Societies, in various Languages and Dialects, aided by Donations from the Society, are subjoined.