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procured to stay with him . She Rep lied , that she would herself stay at home , and wait upon him ; which she did . On the Lord ' s day he "was in great agony of mind . His mother tvas sent for , and some religious friends
visited him * but all was of no avail . That night was a night dreadful beyond conception . The horror which he endured brought on all symp toms of raging madness .. He desired the attendants not to come near him , lest
they should be burnt . He said that « the bed-curtains were in flames , — that he smelt the brimstone , —that devils were come to fetch him , —that there was no hope for him , for that he had sinned against light and conviction , and that he should certainly go to hell . " It was with difficulty he could be kept In bed- An apothecary being sent for , as soon as he entered the house , and
heard his dreadful bowlings , he inquired if he had not been bitten by a mad dog . His appearance likewise seemed to justify such a suspicion , his countenance resembling that of a wild beast more than that of a man . Though he had no feverish heat , yet his pulse beat about 150 in a minute .
To abate the mania , * quantity of blood was taken from him , a blister was applied , his head was shaved , cold water was copiously poured over him , and fox-glove was administered . ? By these means his fiiry was abated , but his mental agony continued , and all the symptoms of madness , which his bodily
strength thus reduced would allow , till the following Thursday . On that day he seemed to have recovered his reason , and to becalm in his mind . In the evening he sent for the apothecary ; and wished to speak with him by himself . The latter , on his coming , desired every one to leave the room , ci
and thus addressed him : C » have you not something © n your mind ? " < c Aye ^* answered he , that is it ! " He then acknowledged that , early in the month of June , he had gone to a fair in the neighbourhood ,
m company with a number of wicked young men ; that the y drank at a public house together till he was in a measure intoxicated , and that from thence they went into other company , where he was criminally connected with a harlot . " I have been a miser-
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able creature , " continued he , ** evaf since ; but during the last three days and three nights 3 I have been in a state of desperation . " He intimated to the apothecary , that he could not bear to tell this story to his minister : But , ** said he , " do you inform him that I shall not die in despair ; for light has
broken in upon me : 1 pave been led to the great Sacrifice for sin , and t now hope in him for salvation . " From this time his mental distress ceased , his countenance became placid , and his conversation , instead of being taken up as before , with fearful exclamations concerning devils and the wrath to come , was now confined to the
dying love of Jesus ! The apothecary was of opinion , that if his strength , had not been so much exhausted , he would now have been in a state of religious transport . His nervous system , however , had received such a shock , that his recovery was dcub'dFori , and it seemed certain , that if he did
recover , he would sink into a state of idiocy . He survived this interview but a few days . When he could talk , he would repeat many of the promises made to returning sinners . By his desire , various hymns were read to him , one in particular , which was sung at his funeral . Fie srtid to his mother , " $ &f dear mother , you do not knoV what conflicts of soul 1 have had . 1 have
lain whole nights without sleep , pleading for my own soul and your * s , and have reflected with grief on nay disobedience to your counsel . ' * At another time he said /* B Jessed Jesus , thou art all my hope !"— -His strength kept declining , and on Monday morning Sept . 29 , at one o ' clock , he calmly breathed his last . "
The 64 th ANNUAL CONFERENCE oftbe Society of METHODISTS , commenced at Liverpool , on " the 27 th of Ju ly . The Rev . J . Barber , was President of the Conference . It appears from the returns that an increase of 849 a Members , has been made to the Society within these
kingdoms ^ in the course of the last year- —a number materiall y exceeding the increase in any former year : thirty preachers have this year been admitted on trial '; upwards of ^ b new Chapels are appointed to be built , and the funds of the Society are in a very flourishing contion .
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Terrors of Calvinism * —Methodists Conference * 499
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 499, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/47/
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