SAM. "Wide is the gate and broad the road!" mind that, -When evening came, I drank till all my limbs were in a flame; JOHN-No God! because his car of vengeance waits? SAM.-I should be glad to think the same as you, JOHN.-You want a contrite heart, an humble mind, "Yet some still doubt?" why, Sam, those doubts begin Either too proud to seek for heav'nly aid, THOS. SUTTON. CONCLUDING ADDRESS. The Editor feels thankful that he has been strengthened to pursue his work to the close of another year. The past year however has been one of peculiar trial and difficulty; and by his own failing health and the inroads of death around, he has been forcibly reminded, that "the night cometh, when no man can work." It is an awful responsibility to have been administering for fourteen years to the religious guidance of so many of his fellow-creatures; and while he never can be sufficiently thankful for the constant tokens of divine favour which have attended his efforts, he would humbly and earnestly pray for the pardon of all that has been wrong and wanting in them. And oh! may the future pages of the Friendly Visitor, whether many or few, be more and more directed and blest by the Spirit of truth. Perilous and troublous times seem indeed to have come upon us: the judgments of God are abroad, on persons; in families; from one end of the nation to the other; throughout the world. The Editor earnestly desires to rise to the occasion; and while he has the sentence of death in himself, and sees on all sides the shaking of the nations, and the failing of men's hearts for fear, he would cry louder than ever in the way of warning, to the merely nominal Christian, the slave of the world and sin; and in the way of comfort and encouragement, to the faithful. They need not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be cast into the depths of the sea. Amidst the failure of all earthly supplies, there is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God. Those streams are infinitely varied in kind and degree: may the Friendly Visitor be but the humblest and the slenderest rill, and the Editor's anxious wish will be gratified. He desires to thank his kind Correspondents for the important assistance they have rendered him; and he begs that in their future communications, they will not fail to bear in mind the peculiar necessities of the times; so that as far as possible, the word in season may be spoken from time to time. Benefit of Bible Societies Calculations shewing the extensive encouragement which of a letter from a friend Extracts from Charles' Life 20, 121 Heads of Familes (To) 44 Heathen Darkness 43 FRIENDLY VISITOR: PUBLISHED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS, DURING THE YEAR 1833. BY THE REV. WM. CARUS WILSON, M. A. RECTOR OF WHITTINGTON ; AND CHAPLAIN TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX. VOL. XV. "Much good may be done this way to considerable numbers at once, in an acceptable manner, at a trifling expense."-ARCHBISHOP SECKER. KIRKBY LONSDALE: PRINTED AND SOLD BY A. FOSTER: Of whom may be had single numbers to make sets complete. SOLD BY L. B. SEELEY AND SONS, FLEET STREET, LONDON; AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. The Profits are devoted to charitable purposes. |