until she quitted this scene of mortal strife to be for ever with the Lord. R. O. June 12th.-At Thealby, in the Barton-on-Humber Circuit, Miss Jane Sewell. She was converted to God at the age of twenty-five, and steadfastly pursued a Christian course to the end of life. She was of a meek and quiet spirit, and made religion a matter of daily concern. Her self-denial for the cause of God, her diligence in attendance at the means of grace, her unostentatious efforts for the good of others, her care for the poor, her sincerity, and especially her deep anxiety for the salvation of her neighbours, together with her untiring zeal in promoting the erection of a chapel in her native village, will long be remembered. Her death was somewhat sudden and unexpected; but she was ready for the summons, and quietly passed away from earth to join the company of the redeemed, in the fifty-sixth year of her age. "The memory of the just is blessed." W. P. June 26th.-At Tipton, Mr. William Stanton, in the seventy-seventh year of his age, after labouring for upwards of fifty years as a leader and local preacher. He was favoured with parents who feared God, and restrained their children from outward evil. At an early period, he had such views of the justice and holiness of God as made him dread sin and its consequences. These views, remaining with him through life, gave gravity to his character, and tenderness to his conscience. After seeking the Lord for some time as a penitent, he received spiritual comfort while the choir in Dudley chapel were singing Vital spark" at the close of a funeral sermon; and the same night was enabled to rest on Christ alone for salvation, and to look up to God as his Father. He soon after became a local preacher, when he made it a rule to rise an hour earlier every morning, that he might improve his mind, and seek a blessing on his spiritual efforts. For thirty years he walked from Tipton to Coseley to lead a class. He was a strict observer of the Sabbath, conscientiously punctual in family worship, and his place at the week-night services was seldom vacant; in a word, “he walked with God," and was a witness for his Master before men. As a result of his consistent life, his employers and neighbours respected him, the Church esteemed him, and his family venerated him. All his children became members of the Wesleyan-Methodist Society; thus he was happy both in his earthly and in his spiritual relations. For some time previous to his death, his bodily affliction was severe, though he was confined to his bed but a short period; in all his weakness and suffering his mind was kept in peace, and he calmly fell asleep in Jesus. R. L. June 30th.-At Winterton, in the Barton-on-Humber Circuit, aged thirty years, William Harrison. About two years ago he united himself with the Wesleyan-Methodists, having been for several years a member of another section of the Christian Church. He loved and greatly enjoyed the means of grace, and was ever willing to engage in service for God's glory and the salvation of souls. As a local preacher, he was acceptable; as a member of the Society, uniformly consistent. His last illness was very short, and his death unexpected. His thoughts, for some time previous, had been drawn to a contemplation of death, the need of preparation for it, and the joyous hope of the Christian in the prospect of dying. What he sought for others he himself fully enjoyed in his last hours. "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICHOLS, HOXTON SQUARE. W. P. DECEMBER, 1872. MEMOIR OF THE REV. JACOB MARRAT: BY HIS BROTHER, THE REV. JABEZ MARRAT. THOUGH the late REV. JACOB MARRAT did not live long enough to spread his labours over a wide surface, or to impress his name deeply on the heart of Methodism, those who knew him, both ministers and laymen, esteemed him as a man of unblemished piety, and as endowed with more than common gifts and capabili ties. By these a sketch of his life will be welcomed; and even those who never heard of him while he lived, will be grateful for this record of a character bearing in its every aspect some mark of the hand of Christ. My brother was born in Lincoln, December 16th, 1885. He was a sickly child, and was often near to death; at times it seemed an impossibility for him to live through another day. Even when in better health he took no part in the noisy sports of childhood, and would sit for hours as if in a quiet dream. His mind was often busied with the unseen, and from his thin, white lips there came inquiries beyond his years. These signs of a drawing to spiritual life were happily encouraged. Memory delights in going back to the time when my mother took her children to the throne of grace and prayed with them, thus teaching them to pray to Him who has said to Christian parents, "The promise is unto you, and to your children." Her cry on their behalf was answered in part before, and fully since, her death. If they who are in glory can look on the course of those whom they have left behind them, it has been her joy to see her daughters at the Master's feet, and three sons ministering the Word of Life, two of whom, at the Spirit's bidding, went "far hence" into the Mission-field. Though there was so much sweetness about my brother's childhood, he needed a renewal in righteousness; and when twelve years old was enabled to give himself to Christ. That the offering was accepted he was assured by a witness which he could not mistake. He began to meet in class, and was placed under the care of one who had peculiar qualifications for his honourable and important office. This leader, Mr. T. Sudbury, was a man in humble life, possessing few advantages arising from scholarship or intellectual force, but remarkable for his spiritual endowments and power in prayer. By the charm of his religious character he drew VOL. XVIII.-FIFTH SERIES. 3 Y together a large class, the members of which often felt impelled to more Christ-like devotion while listening to his homely and loving counsels. It was interesting to hear him relate the persecutions he suffered in the beginning of his spiritual walk. When going along the streets of villages to attend cottage prayer-meetings, he has been so assailed with dirt that the colour of his clothes was scarcely distinguishable. "But," he said, "it came to me as a blessing. I thought, 'What was I, that I should be accounted worthy to suffer for Christ?'" In boyhood my brother found great pleasure in books, and was remarkable for his studiousness. He attended the Wesleyan dayschool, where the only fault found with him was, that in play-time he lingered in the school, still wishing to continue his work. He obtained an accurate knowledge of the facts of Scripture history, and carefully read the New Testament with Mr. Wesley's Notes. Once, while thus employed, and feeling very happy, on his turning from the page to attend to some trivial matter, there seemed immediately a cloud to rest on his mind. The fear of an unpardonable guilt pressed upon him, and the anguish of his soul impaired the health of his body. He was aided by the sympathy and encouragement of friends, and at length, by believing prayer, was freed from the darkness which oppressed him, so that he was again enabled to rejoice in "the sweet influences" of the "bright and morning Star." The ministry of the late Rev. John M'Lean, who was appointed to the Lincoln Circuit in 1852, was instrumental in raising him to a higher level of religious thought and experience. The fine mind of that distinguished preacher-a beautiful pillar in the house of Christ-was soon to be a mournful ruin, but for some months all was well; and such sermons, such pastoral tenderness, could scarcely fail to be a blessing to one stretching forward for a nearer glimpse of the "light inaccessible." On my brother's mind they acted like the dew on opening buds: he began to manifest a fitness for Christian labour, teaching in the Sabbath-school and assisting in cottage prayer-meetings; and so well did he acquit himself in such engagements that he was urged to attempt a preparation for the pulpit. His early sermons were marked by correctness, and by consider able depth of thought, but they merited the better praise of being steeped in Scriptural sentiment and enriched by frequent Scriptural quotations. The people in the villages heard him with much pleasure, and predicted for him a part in the work of the ministry,-a work to which, in fact, he now felt himself moved by the Holy Ghost. Ministers who heard his trial-sermon at the District Meeting, in 1858, speak of it as one of extraordinary power of intellect aud |