earth, which buried him beneath its ponderous weight. By the exertions of the men he was dug out, and conveyed to the Infirmary, where he lingered in a doubtful state several days, but he eventually left it quite restored, and resumed his situation. He was now engaged at the Victoria Dock, where he continued to labour until Wednesday, the 18th of August last, when he met with an almost instantaneous death, by the breaking of the rod connecting the pile-driving hammer with the steam engine About eight weeks previous to this painful event, he joined the Primitive Methodist Society, under the pastoral care of that zealous, uncompromising teetotaler, and friend of the working man, the Rev. George Lamb, to whom he said, on the occasion of his admission into fellowship, "I have long felt that I needed something else; for, although sober, I wanted to know that my sins were forgiven. This knowledge I now have, and am now spending the happiest days of my life." The blessings of this change were not confined to his person and home. No! he was indeed a city set upon a hill. His leisure hours were spent in improvement, and in attending to temperance and religious meetings, in both of which he rendered essential service. By his exertions and consistency, he was instrumental in the reclamation of the majority of the men under his charge. And when our tea meeting took place in the Mechanics' Institute recently, sixty of his fellow-workmen, all cleanly attired and well behaved, graced the tables at that brilliant assembly. Temperance made him influential in life, and this influence was felt in death; for his funeral was attended by hundreds of real mourners, and a large meeting, addressed by the Temperance Missionary, and others, was held on the spot, at which a grea body of workmen attended, and signed the temperance pledge. WHO IS MY BROTHER? WHAT Christian for his brother See the drunkard! hapless creature, Oh! haste to help our brother; Is the drunkard, then, my brother? No! I spurn him from my presence— Is this the way, O Christian! Thy Bible thou hast read? Is this what thou hast learned of Him Who for our sorrows bled? And what hath made thee differ, Till thou, with clearer vision, In each degraded man ; Then will the drunkard's sorrows Thy sympathy obtain, And gladly wilt thou succour him, And for his sake abstain. Societies may receive 24 Sixpenny Packets of Tracts and Hand Bills in any part of London, by a post-office order for 10s. 6d., or 50 packets for 21s., being sent to Richard Dykes Alexander, Ipswich. All Country Booksellers may obtain Tracts through Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London, J. M. Burton and Co., Stereotypers and Printers, Ipswich. 5. 160. only were many sales and through its use the r blasphemed, and the preaching none effect A large portion of Madras; and in consequence of the among them, the name of Crid drunkard; and when the ide for the most part, meant that converts of the Che Tr Board of Vision once the names me longer rerned from the far worse than ther really convened Cha person "born again he Tr in Christ Je TION. public by his tion, has subdvancement of osed Taxation ers, of course, in the use of ain, and which ectually. The ardent spirits, ure of which a sum which asonableness of is adopted and nsumed in 1849 imperial gallons; 973,333 imperial The duty upon › wholesale cost, ut £8,000,000, a that paid by the several distillers, used three times it would appear s to the people of in 1849, was ,768; Scotland, 7,381,643. The 044,758 imperial 55. Making the f spirit will reach ple for these two locally divided: and others, was held on the spot, at which a great body of workmen attended, and signed the temperance pledge. WHO IS MY BROTHER? WHAT Christian for his brother See the drunkard! hapless creature, Oh! haste to help our brother; Is the drunkard, then, my brother? Is this the way, O Christian! Thy Bible thou hast read? Is this what thou hast learned of Him Who for our sorrows bled? And what hath made thee differ, But his abounding grace? Till thou, with clearer vision, In each degraded man ; Then will the drunkard's sorrows Thy sympathy obtain, And gladly wilt thou succour him, And for his sake abstain. Societies may receive 24 Sixpenny Packets of Tracts and Hand Bills in any part of London, by a post-office order for 10s. 6d., or 50 packets for 21s., being sent to Richard Dykes Alexander, Ipswich. All Country Booksellers may obtain Tracts through Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London, J. M. Burton and Co., Stereotypers and Printers, Ipswich. MISSIONARY FACTS, OR THE DYING TESTIMONY OF A GREAT MAN. ON Tuesday, September 4th, 1849, a meeting of the members of the Christian Temperance Union, was held in Kentish Town. A goodly number of persons took tea, after which the public meeting commenced; when ARCHDEACON JEFFRIES, recently returned from Bombay, presided, and made the following speech:-"He rejoiced, he said, to meet the friends of Temperance in England for the first time. Thirty-one years' experience in India had shown him the bad results of the use of strong drinks. He had had a large number of European soldiers and sailors under his care, and he found that he could do them no good but as he persuaded them to adopt the principle of total abstinence. As to the moderate use of strong drinks, either as a preventive or a remedy, it was altogether in vain. Indeed, to be moderate in the use of strong drink, they found to be impossible. He had found, from the experience of many years, that men could not be moderate, but that they could abstain. Almost all the crimes committed in the army-courts martial-soldiers sentenced to be shot, hung, or transported-proceeded from the use of strong drink. When they obtained liberty for a day, if they had a little money in their pockets, they generally went to some place where strong drinks were sold, and seldom left till they were drunk. Hence he took the position of a teetotaler, which he had sustained for about ten years. He had enjoyed uninterrupted health for thirty-one years, and his health had rather improved than otherwise since he had been a teetotaler. But not only were many soldiers and sailors injured by strong drinks, but through its use the cross of Christ was despised, his name was blasphemed, and the preaching of the blessed truth was rendered of none effect. A large portion of native Christians were spread over Madras; and in consequence of the numerous cases of intemperance among them, the name of Christian was synonymous with that of drunkard; and when the Hindoos called a man a Christian, they, for the most part, meant that he was a drunkard. So among the converts of the Church Missionary Society and of the American Board of Missions, many had fallen through strong drink; for when once the natives broke caste and became Christians, they were no longer restrained from the use of strong drinks, and they became far worse than if they had never embraced Christianity. For one really converted Christian as the fruit of missionary labour-for one person "born again of the Holy Spirit," and made "a new creature in Christ Jesus"-for one such person, the drinking practices of |