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Sundry Friends; by Mr. Luke Norton, Dunmow, Essex
Rev. Mr. Neave and Friends, Bishopstoke, Hampshire

Collected by a Young Lady at Whitby, vide North Riding List

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*On account of the extent of this List of Contributions, we are obliged to defer the acknowledgment of the numerous presents from the Friends of the Society, for the South Sea Islands, &c, &c. to another month,

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MILLENIAL GLORY.

Rise! Sun of glory, rise, And chase those shades of night, Which now obscure the skies, And hide thy sacred lightO! chase those dismal shades away, And bring the bright Millenial day.

Behold, how heathens dwell
In gloominess profound,
Where sin and death, and hell,
Spread their black horrors round-
Behold, and chase that gloom away,
And shed the bright Millenial day.

Why Saviour, why conceal
Thy beams of grace, and love?
Some of those rays reveal

Which cheer the realms aboveThose rays shall chase the night away, And give the bright, Millenial day.

Yet Jesus, should thy will
Defer that sacred morn!
Hear one petition still,

Nor leave the world forlornJesus, till that resplendent day Shine on our souls with powerful ray.

And we'll reflect that light
Effulgent, and divine,

As midst the gloom of night
The twinkling planets shine-
Pleas'd to emit the feeblest ray,
Till Jesus pours th' expected ray.

Then, as each planet fades Before the glorious SunWe'll vanish with the shades, Our little glimmering, doneSink in obscurity away,

And fade before the rising day.

S. M. B.

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THE

EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE

AND

MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

JUNE 1821.

A BRIEF MEMOIR OF JOHN BROOK, ESQ.

ELIGIOUS biography will always be an object of pleasing attention to all that love God. When properly executed, its design is not so much to praise the dead, as to benefit survivors; especially the friends and relations of the deceased, who may learn more useful lessons in this way, than from the deeds of heroes, the achievements of science, or the rise and fall of nations.

Mr. Brook was born in June 1744, at Flash-house, near Huddersfield, in Yorkshire; where he spent the greatest part of his life, and where it was closed on the 20th of March, 1820, in his 77th year. He appears to have been first "called out of darkness into marvellous light," by the rousing and successful ministry of the Rev. H. Venn, who, being at that time Vicar of Huddersfield,

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racter, and of which his countenance
was no unmeaning index. He was
among the race of worthies, who
first set up the Redeemer's standard
in that part of Yorkshire, which,
though now eminently blessed with
heavenly light, was then covered
with "
gross darkness.”

Many of them have been removed by death, and only a few are left as a remnant of their companions. He was also one of the founders of that dissenting interest, which began immediately after Mr. Venn's remo→ val, and now flourishes under the pastoral care of the Rev. W. Moorhouse, and his respected colleague, Rev. Dr. Boothroyd, where also he was above 40 years a deacon and a pillar in that society.

That Mr. B's attachment to this cause was deeply founded, appears from his uniform zeal for its welfare, and his exceedingly punctual attendance at his own place. He was no wanderer; but was sure to be there before time, except in cases of needful and justifiable necessity, though living at a considerable distance, and generally returning to dinner in the interval between morning and afternoon service; for some years visiting also a Sabbath-school twice, in his way to and from the Chapel.

Seasons and weather made no difference with him, and on weekday-evening lectures, and Church

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