FRIENDLY VISITOR: PUBLISHED IN MONTHLY NUMBERS, DURING THE YEAR 1846. BY WILLIAM CARUS WILSON, M. A. RECTOR OF WHITTINGTON, VOL. XXVIII. “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 J. FOSTER. Of whom may be had single numbers to make sets complete. AND BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. Advice to the Labouring Farmer.. 198 " Ah, Massa, you no understand it” Awful Warning to Sabbath-breakers . Choice Gatherings from the Mount of Olives Colliers' Anniversary, and a Pitman's Speech. Distress in Ireland 196 Extract from the Missionary Report from Longkloof, South Africa .. 139 Extracts from Manton's Commentary on Jude 6 45 148 181 Few Words on the Lord's Supper (A) 133 13 58 1 62-78-94-110-126-142-157-174-203 Gold-piece 76 Heb. ii. 3.... 25 113 23 19 102 117-197 106 Kuruman 74 Let your Requests be made known unto God “Love your Enemies' 171 76 97 . . PAGE Meditations for March 48 April.. 64 May 80 June. 96 July 112 August. 128 September 144 October 160 November 176 December 201 Memoir of Old Crook 65 Missionary Legacy 186 Molly Gay. 33—49 Mother's Faith and Love. 43 Parents of Sunday-schools (To) 41 Persecutions at Dingle 14 Poor Cottager's Death 161 Poor may do good 12 Praying Mother 145 Prospects of a Convert 14 Prosperity.. 59 Rainy Sundays 71 Remarkable Conversion of a Sailor 76 Responsibility of Parents 84 Rona Lighthouse.. 92 Sabbath Morning Meditation 69 Sinner's Condition. 11 Spade Husbandry 200 Support in Death 168 Suttee in the Upper Provinces. 108 “Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord”. Temperance.. 63—79—95-111—127—143—158—175 That Time will come 193 “ The Devil helped me' 43 Thomas Murray 129 Thoughts on Faith 163 True Account of a Dying Scene 2 True Happiness 81 Various Members of a Family may be useful 15 Warning to the Young 86 Watermen employed on the River Severn and the Worcester and Bir. mingham Canal 27 Widow's Mite.. 31 Word to the Weary 73 Wreck of the “Great Liverpool 90 POETRY: Hymn 15 | Intended Visit to a Parishioner 93 Consolations 16 | Eternity 108 " It is I, be not afraid” 32 Praise 109 Christian Union 60 | Thoughts on the Sabbath Chimes 124 Where is Rest ? 61 The Wonderful Axe, (from the The Poor Man to the Discon Olney Hymns) 141 tented Rich.. 77 | The End of the World Jacob 77 The Contrast .. Ezekiel vi. 16.. 92 | The Song of Simeon 202 141 150 FRIENDLY VISITOR. No. 328, JANUARY, 1846. Vol. 28. GLAD TIDINGS. Come with me to the garden of Eden. Look back to the hour which succeeded man's apostacy. See the golden chain which bound man to God, and God to man, sundered, apparently forever, and this wretched world, groaning under the weight of human guilt, and its Maker's curse, sinking down, far down into a bottomless abyss of misery and despair. See that awful Being who is a consuming fire, encircling it on every side, and wrapping it, as it were, in an atmosphere of flame. Hear from his lips the tremendous sentence, “ Man has sinned, and man must die." See the king of terrors advancing with gigantic strides to execute the awful sentence, the grave expanding her jaws to receive whatever might fall before his wide wasting scythe, and hell beneath, yawning dreadful to engulf forever its guilty, helpless, despairing victims. Such was the situation of our ruined race after the apostacy. Endeavour, if you can, to realize its horrors. Endeavour to forget, for a moment, that you ever heard of Christ or his Gospel. View yourselves as immortal beings hastening to eternity, with the curse of God's broken law, like a flaming sword pursuing you; death, with his dart dipped in mortal poison, awaiting you; a dark cloud, fraught with the lightnings of divine vengeance rolling over your heads; your feet standing in slippery places, in darkness; and the bottomless pit beneath expecting your fall. Then, when not only all hope, but all possibility of escape seemed taken away, suppose the flaming sword suddenly quenched, the sting of death extracted, the sun of righteousness bursting forth and painting a rainbow on the before threatening cloud, a golden ladder let down from the opening gates of heaven, while a choir of angels, swiftly descending, exclaim, “Behold we bring B |