CHAPEL OPENED-LITERARY NOTICES.

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To the Editor of the New Evan. Magazine. accomplished. This Christian society was formed by the venerable Puritan divine, Dr. Thomas Godwin, whose place of worship was in Lime-street, in the city of London, afterwards in Artillery-street, and, during the last sixteen years, with their present pastor in Church-street, Mile End New Town. The Chapel contains six hundred free seats.

DEAR SIR,

You will do a service to the reli-
gious public, if you will, in the next num-
ber of your Magazine, caution them against
a female impostor, who has been in the north
of England and Scotland, endeavouring to
excite commiseration, by assuming great
distress on account of her son having en-
listed, &c. She is an elderly woman, ap-
parently of about fifty, and of rather decent
appearance. The falsehoods in which she
has been detected, are most numerous and
palpable, and she is wholly unworthy of
confidence or encouragement.
She has
made a free, but most unwarrantable use
of the names of Dr. Steadman, of Brad-
ford; J. A. Haldane, Esq. of Edinburgh;
and Messrs. Pengilly and Sample, of New-
castle-upon-Tyne.

Your most obedient servant,
GEO. SAMPLE.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, March 11, 1824.

LITERARY NOTICES.

In the Press.

Sketches of Sermons; furnished by their respective Authors. Vol. VII.

A second Edition of Toller's Sermons; with a Memoir of the Author, by ROBERT HALL.

The whole Works of Bishop Reynolds; first collected in 6 vols. 8vo. with a Life, by ALEXANDER CHALMERS, Esq. F.R.S. &c.

The Second Edition, enlarged, of Mr. COTLE'S Strictures on the Plymouth An

tinomians.

CHAPEL OPENED.

On the 26th of October last, the first stone of a spacious building, erected near the Vintners' Alms Houses, Mile End Road, to be called Brunswick Chapel, for the use of the Rev. G. Evans's congregation, was laid by Dr. Collyer, assisted by several other ministers and lay gentlemen. Under the same roof are included rooms for the education of six hundred poor children, belonging to the Sunday Schools, which are also to be occupied on week days by a school on the British system. The building is 92 feet by 46, and 27 from the floor to the ceiling. 8vo. On the same site are erecting six comfortable alms houses, for the poor aged female members of the church, and a house for the residence of the minister. The ground is held for the term of three hundred and fifty years, at 10s. per annum, and was given to the church by the late Michael Panten, Esq. one of the congregation, who also furnished the necessary funds for erecting the school rooms, alms houses, &c. and invested, in trust, the sum of one thousand pounds three per cents. for the use and benefit of the charity schools belonging to the congregation, in which fifty children are clothed and educated; also, one thousand pounds three per cents. for the use and benefit of the Infants' Friend Society, for relieving poor married women in their lying-in; and three hundred pounds new four per cents. for the use and benefit of the Auxiliary Society in aid of Missions. The Chapel will cost about two thousand pounds, which sum must be raised by subscription, as our generous benefactor to the institutions specified made no provision for this object. The congregation have subscribed in a liberal manner, and with the assistance of those friends who wish to see the old churches revived, as well as new ones formed, it is hoped, that this important object will, at no very distant period, be

Just Published,

Sabbaths at Home; or a help to their right Improvement, founded on the 42nd and 43rd Psalms. By HENRY MARSH, of Bungay; 2nd Edition; 8vo.

the Ministry of the Word, by the Rev. Eighteen Short Essays on Prayer, and S. GREEN, of Bluntisham; 8vo.

James Hinton, A.M. Oxford.
A Biographical Portraiture of the Rev.
HOWARD HINTON, M.A. of Reading. 8vo.
By JOHN
Greville Ewing, of Glasgow, on Baptism.
Cox's (Rev. F. A.) Answer to the Rev.

VIII. and last; with Index, and List of
FULLER'S (late Rev. A.) Works. Vol.
Subscribers; Title-pages to all the Vols.

History of Joseph, in Verse. In Six
Dialogues. 12mo.

Richard Baynes's General Catalogue of
Books, in all Languages, for 1824.

MR. ISAIAH BIRT HAS LATELY PUB-
LISHED, A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION
OF HIS PAMPHLET, ENTITLED
"Adult
Baptism, and the Salvation of all who die in
Infancy maintained; in Strictures on a Ser-
mon, entitled, "The Right of Infants to
Baptism, by the Rev. H. F.

BURDER."

MR. JONES's BIBLICAL CYCLOPÆDIA,
Part IV. is published this day.

II. containing the whole of Palestine.
THE MODERN TRAVELLER, Parts I. and
Price 2s. 6d. each, illustrated with Maps

and Plates.

The Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the London Hibernian Society, will be held at the Freemason's Tavern, Lincoln's Inn Fields, on Saturday, May 8th; his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, Patron, in the Chair. The Chair will be taken at twelve o'clock precisely.

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SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF SEVERAL BAPTIST MINISTERS. Written by DR. SAMUEL STENNETT, about Forty Years ago.

WITH Voice untun'd, and countenance severe-
See honest BOOTH amidst the crowd appear;
Averse to all the arts that please and soothe,
Plainly he states, and well defends the truth;
Sincere devotion, mix'd with manly sense,
More than supplies the place of eloquence.
CLARK next appears, with easy air and mien,
His countenance good-natur'd and serene;
Rough in his voice, and all his periods long,
Yet warm his manner, and his reading strong:
To usual forms of preaching unconfin'd,
His subject minds, but leaves his text behind.
Next in review, see humble REYNOLDS come,
Stranger to all the arts that priests assume;
With nose contracted, and fix'd eyes he stands,
Clenching his Bible fast with both his hands,
Steady he stands, nor turns from side to side,
Alike unmoved by passion, or by pride;
His text explains, divides, observes, infers,
And all without the aid of metaphors.

Now ROWLES with even pace comes rambling on,
Skimming the ground that should be trod upon;
But what if he the main idea miss,

So well he talks, he cannot fail to please.
His master ROBINSON he has by heart,
While few suspect he acts another part;

Yet truth demands that ROWLES should have his due,
To do his hearers good, is his grand view.

One character remains to be describ'd
The critic's partial here, you'll say he's brib'd.
Well then, if that's the case, we'll e'en decline
The fond attempt to make a STENNETT shine;
Yet 'tis our wish his faults may not appear,
We'll therefore place our fav'rite in the rear.
But here we'll pause; nor venture to describe,
The various mixtures of the younger tribe;
To point the many virtues they possess,
Might make them vain-so make them less.
Yet since one favour we will ask of you,
"Tis the main thing the critic has in view;
Consider well the portraits we have drawn,
And make the pleasing features all your own;
Copy what's right, and what's amiss correct,
Aim to be good, and you'll command respect.

NEW

EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE,

AND

Theological Review.

MAY, 1824.

LETTER TO A YOUNG MINISTER.
July 14, 1822.

When you settled at you found a numerous, a well instructed, and a thinking congregation. You entered on a large harvest, and soon reaped the produce of the good seed sown by your excellent predecessor, in whose steps you then determined to tread. You devoted yourself to reading and study. You endeavoured to preach the Gospel faithfully to every creature, and to teach those, of whom there were many, who avowed their subjection to the Saviour, to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded. You did not, by dogmatizing, disgust the irreligious and harden the impenitent, but by sound argument

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