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psalm to be read to him. On one
cccasion he said, "I have trusted in
the atonement of Christ for more than
sixty years, and while that remains
I am safe." He was a fine example of
what an earnest worker may do as a
lay Home-missionary in the spiritually-
Almost
needy districts of our land.
his last words were, "Come Jesus, and
take me home."
J. P.

September 17th, 1873.-At Woodend, near Walsall, Mrs. Myring, in the ninety-seventh year of her age. From a child she was well disposed towards religion and religious people. She was regularly taken to the parish church, and after her marriage continued to attend its services, but was a stranger to the joys of vital godliness. In the year 1838, she was induced to attend the Methodist preaching in the school-room of Mr. Ellis, of Little Hay, and also in the chapel that was afterwards built on his land. Here, having been led to see her lost condition, and to feel the plague of her own heart, she soon found the peace in believing in Jesus which she had so long sought, but which till now she knew not how

to find. She joined the small Society,

and seldom was she missed from her seat in the chapel till she became too infirm to walk, being then nearly ninety-five years old. She had to endure the scoffs of some of those near to her, but she had made up her mind to win heaven at whatever cost. She was a woman of a meek and quiet spirit. The cause of God in the village lay near her heart; and, so far as she was able, she contributed towards the conversion of the Jews and the Heathen. She outlived most of her children, and when reminded by a friend of her great age, "Yes," she replied, "God has been indeed good to me, and I am waiting His own good time to call me to His home." Her

faith in Jesus was simple yet strong, and when death came she had no fear: she bent to the sickle like "a shock of corn fully ripe for the garner." J. P.

February 2nd.-Ann, the beloved wife of Mr. Joseph Garside, of Selby. For more than forty years she was a devout and earnest member of the Wesleyan-Methodist Society. In early life she promised a dying sister "to meet her in heaven," and, faithful to that vow, she immediately sought and obtained "the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost." Her after-life evidenced the reality of the change; all her powers were devoted to the promotion of God's glory and the weal of others. At the means of grace her attendance was unvarying. Her knowledge of Methodism was intimate, and her love for it intense; many have learnt valuable lessons from her clear views and godly zeal. As a wife she was wise, loving, and trustful, evincing a strong mind and great force of character. She rendered long and efficient service as a collector for missions and a tractdistributor, being ever ready to devote both time and means to the cause of Christ. Her Christian experience was mature and varied. During a long affliction her trust in her Heavenly Father was firm; God's comforts delighted her soul amidst intense mental distress and physical pain. A few weeks before her death she was able to attend her class, when she gave a clear testimony to the power of Divine grace. She also gave her husband the most satisfactory assurances of her reliance upon her Saviour for salvation, and her bright prospect of eternal life and bliss. With her "tribulation, worked patience; patience, experience; and experience, hope." Her end was very sudden, but she was quite safe, for she had "walked with God."

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICHOLS, HOXTON SQUARE.

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WESLEYAN-METHODIST MAGAZINE.

DECEMBER, 1873.

MEMOIR OF MR. FRANCIS TESSEYMAN,

OF MANCHESTER:

BY HIS SON, THE REV. JOHN TESSEYMAN.

"Ir matters little at what hour o' the day

The righteous falls asleep. Death cannot come

To him untimely who is fit to die.

The less of this cold world, the more of heaven:
The briefer life, the earlier immortality."

THE true development of man consists in the knowledge of God, and in an increase of holiness and goodness, of virtue and truth. Mere intellectual culture and mental refinement are of themselves one-sided in their effects, only laying hold of a portion of the human being, while the moral and spiritual part of humanity remains undeveloped and uneducated. The Gospel alone can regenerate the soul. By it alone is a new nature implanted, and a new life inbreathed. And this new creation must maintain itself in constant growth. All life implies progress: to stand still is death. There is a law of development in nature; and by the light of revelation we discover that it extends to the realm of grace. The regenerate man goes on "unto perfection." This is what the subject of this memoir steadily strove to do; he was an ardent believer in, and had a personal experience of, the truth of the Methodist doctrine of entire sanctification. For many years he accounted it his greatest honour to bear witness to its reality, and to preach it to others.

FRANCIS TESSEYMAN was born at Kirkby-Malzeard, a small town seven miles distant from Ripon, on January 11th, 1816. His parents, who were strict adherents of the Establishment, regularly took part in its services, and taught their children to do the same. When their son Francis was about eighteen years of age, not finding at the church the peace he eagerly sought, he began to attend upon the Wesleyan-Methodist ministry. He now heard "the truth as it is in Jesus," laid hold upon Christ by a personal faith, and realized the salvation of his soul: "being justified by faith," he had "peace

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with God," and, freed from the spirit of bondage, could gratefully ery to his Deliverer:—

"My chains fell off, my heart was free,

I rose, went forth, and followed Thee."

Concerning his consciousness of acceptance with God, I have heard him speak in the most positive manner. His religious experience was after the Apostolic description: "we know that we have passed from death unto life." Of the direct witness of the Spirit to his spirit he was as sure as that the natural sun shone in the visible heavens; and I know not that he ever lost his hold of this great privilege of the children of God.

Not long after my father received the blessing of pardon, he began earnestly to seek that of Christian purity. He looked upon entire sanctification as an instantaneous work of the Holy Spirit, to be realized through faith in the same way as justification. He sought long ere he found; and even after he had obtained what his soul desired, it was lost again for a time. Yet he sought once more, and having realized the richer heavenly baptism, constantly urged upon the attention of others that which he himself enjoyed. To be sanctified wholly" was not with him a bare theoretical speculation, but a personal experience; and often was he heard to declare his holy confidence of the possession of the blessing. It was his favourite topic in conversation, and was more agreeable to him than any other.

The works of John Wesley and John Fletcher were his favourite books, especially those parts of them which bear on the doctrine of Christian perfection. The Antinomian errors against which these divines levelled their strong arguments he hated with a "perfect hatred;" and on all controverted points he appealed at once "to the law and to the testimony." His general book-knowledge was respectable; but, like Wesley, he became, comparatively speaking, “a man of one book," and that one the Bible. It was for him, in a great measure, and especially toward the close of his life, the substitute of all other literatures, and all other lores; in short, his whole course and demeanour declared, "Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."

His first Society-ticket bears date 1883; his first plan, for the Bedale Circuit, 1846. As a local preacher he apparently performed a large amount of work; for the Circuit was large, the preaching-places wide apart, and the services numerous. But he was conscientious in the discharge of his duties. It seems much to assert that he never neglected an appointment; but I never heard of an instance of the kind. Often he has been known to say that, on a Sabbath-day, he had preached thrice, and walked twenty miles. Frequently also would he tell of sinners having been converted to God, and believers brought to a higher state of spirit.

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