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London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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heavily, and very much distressed to know how my poor little one
was to live. Hut as I went over a bridge, that led to my work, I
cast my eye on the right hand side, where lay a very large eel on
the Mud, by the river side, apparently dead : I caught hold of it,
and soon Wand it was only asleep. My little one was very fond of
it, and it richly supplied all her wants that day ; but at night I was
informed the eel was gone. so the next day afforded me the' same
distress as the preceding day had done. When thus going to my
work, cruelly ri fleeting on myself for parting with all my money,
just as I entered the ;ode's gates, I saw a partrid,J, lie dead on the
walk. I took it up, and found it warm ; so 1 carried it home, and
a few days after this, my master told me he had found a path icke
on the garden-walk also, but that it stunk : I told him I had found
one a little before that time. Ile observed, that two males had
hem fighting, and had killed each other, which was very common.
Thit I was enabled to look higher. Carnal mason always traces
every thing from God to second causes, and there leaves them
floating upon uncertaieties ; hut faith tracvs up to their first cause'
*old fixes them there, by which weans God's hand is known, and
himself glorified. I believe, this battle between the plumed war-
riors was proclaimed by the Lord : for if a sparrow falls not to the
ground without God's leave, as the Scriptures declare, I can hardly
think a partridge does."
" During my residence at Ewell," subjoins the preacher, ac I
often begun the week with eighteen or twuity pence, sometime,
'will two shillings, and sometimes with half a crown ; and we have
• lived through the week on that clay, without contracting any debt;
awl I found it impossible, at the week's end, upon the best reef.-
tiun I could make, to tell how we had been supported through the
week. At other times, T Gaye found that my craving appetite had
• lost its keenness, insomnch that I have been able to work hard for
two days together without any food at all. And, sometimes, God
has indulged me with ,uch heavenly views of a glorified state, and
entertaine4 my mind with such sweet contentplations on futuritv,
that my dinner hour has passed away unnoticed ; nor have I once
had a thought about it till lour or five o'clock, or near the time of
• leaving my labour."
[;well deserves our cortsidero!ion on another account. It was at
E•A di Marsh, whither he had come in his low estate*, that the

could be got about the 111411 e% I tome() promiscuously to iii•Se words—
There is a bid here, which Filth ftv• Ip,rley loaves with two fshes ; but
wit a;.e they among so umny? I asked my wife, if •lie had ever ale
barley-bread. She said ' Yes, in Dorset-hire ?' I told her T never had
. eaten it, but the poor Saviour with his Apostles had ; and as (Jo.! 3kr it
necessary to keep us in a state of deep poverty, it ill became us to cam-
Vaiti, or to refu,e the meanest diet, seeing blessed us with an
tostred hope of Ileaveo hereafter ! She snid Slit., was wilhog. if
was. What with working by day mid living upon hath..y, and
cobbling at ni‘ lets, though they kept out of debt and decent in
clothes,• our preacher Incurred a violent homota• in his eyes; and, for
.
some months, wus in thing,cr of losing his sight.
• " When the cart set us down on Ewell Marsh. on the Monday
morning, and I bad paid the hire of it, I had the total sum of ten-
pence-halfpentiv left.—to provide for myself, my wife, and child, till
the ensuing. Saturday nie,ltt ! lion, though I was thus poor, I know
6,,;1 had made me rich in faith ; and these words came tat my mind
with power: Ile nmhiplittt the Iffoare.t aid fishes to feed fire thmrgand
MA, liesidcx women and Children. We went on our knees, and turned
tt e accounts of :hat miracle into a privet.; bt,teching the AlmiAtv to
moolti;,ly what we had, or to send relief another way, as his infinite
• 'wisdom thotiulit Moat proper.
" The next evening lily landlord's danehter and son-in-law crone up
to see their mother, with whom I now lodged and brought sonic
baked meat, which they had just taken out of their oven, for me and
toy wif.• to sup ;don • ith tnem. These poor people knew nothing of
us, rot of our GA. The next day. in the evening, they did the sane ;
mid kept sending victuals or garden-stufr to us all the week long .Some
tin e after this God began to work-oorm the husband, mid then I related
the encino•tance : at the lientin of which, he told me how it was im•
pressed on his mi,nl that I was in want of victuals; when his wife
found fault w.th hint for thinking so, and Vinging it to me, saying,
"I he people are better to pass than we ere.' But he contradicted her,
and insisted on her doing as he desired. It pkastd God (adds Mr.

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Rev. William Huntington first (ailed on his public life.' Ere was,
nevertheless, stiil poor. Pa: tly to remedy this evil, and partly to
obtain something more nourishing than barley, his wife now pro-
posed that .lie should go to gleaning ; but the farmers drove her out
of the fields, and the gleaners came about her, like a shoal of Anall
birds at:ending the funeral of a dead hawk, swearing that parsons'
wives should not glean there.—' What,' said they, wives of the
clergy go a gleaning !' But his dame persevered in her work. " Not-
withstanding their chasing the clergyman's wife front field to field,
she gleaned as nuteli or more than Ruth of old did ; and when har-
vest came on again, went to gleaning as before." Her husband's
" continuing to preach," however, " had alarmed and much of-
fended the whole pariah : therefore they were more fierce in pur-
suing her. On the other hand, some were afraid of going near her
lest they should catch a religious infection ; it being reported
abroad, that there was something of a power that seized upon them,
and held them so fait that they must immediately change their own
religion." So nuieh did thi4 superstitious imagination overpower
vulgar mind:4, at the time, that men were accustomed to go quite
out of their path, whenever they encountered our preacher, rind take
a circle in the field, rather than pass him on the road; as if that
secret something could not seize them (ol,serves Mr. Huntington)
whilst walking on the grass, as well as on the footpath!