The National Register.
London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

lONA REGISTER.

JULY M.

in my heart." These sentences, which open his Bank of Faith, not
only exhibit the origination of Huntington's religious impressions,
bat also ieular views respecting faith, which, e‘in at this
early 1 e. o 1, specially included temporal Isle sings : 'cy, says he, " as
I had great desire at that time to live in the capa"ity of an errand•
bay with all-slain gentleman in the place, (being very pooey brought
up, and knowing much the want of the common Tr cesraries of liti)
it c-me into my mind, the, if all things were po sibte with God, it
was possible for him to send me to live as a servant hay with Squire
Cook, fie ugh, at the same time, he had a boy who I believed was
n 1 ell approved•of." His idea of faith was eventually :,Ir.ligthened by
his .obtaining tl.e place, contrary to all probability; and thought,
after this event, he " was still pursued with deistical principles
that God took no notice of onr proceedings." yet, upon tic recovery
of his eldest surviving daughter from an almost hopeless state cf
illness, some few years after, in answer to his prayers, he was" if-
fiTtnally convinced that all things were possible with God."
After various menial services, and "having wandered about
some years in this solitary way, set king rest and finding none," al-
though favoured with providential 2tupports, from time to time,. in
the midst of pleasure pursued in order to stifle the sense of therria
Mr. Huntington married; and took ready-fornii-lied /edgings, at
Mortlake, in Surrey. Hese "it so happened,* says Mr. H "t: at
1 tell lame, having received a wrench in my loins, which rendered
me incapable of labour for many days. Daring this time our n.o
ney was ail gone; and we were strangers in the place, having been
in it but about half a year. After I began to recover a little, there
fell a deep snow on the ground, which prevented me working for
many days. Here, Providence suffered us to know what it was to
want. We had one child, about 'five or six months old, which was
our first-born. It happened one morning early, that my wire asked
me for the tinder-box, seemingly in a went fright, (lying out—
' I wonder the poor child has not waked all night.' She then lighted
the candle, and took up the child ; -and behold it was dead, and as
black as a coal ! Here Providence, nevertheless, appeared again;
For, about three or four months before this happened, a gentleman,
in whose gardeni at times had wrought, desired sue to look after
his horse in the country, while he Was in town, for which I was to
have one shilling per week. The vet y day on which the child died,
this gentleman came (Town limn London, and I got my money of
him, for looking atter the horse, which just served to bury the poor
inhint. My lameness, poverty, 'listless of mind, sofkrings of my
wiF., loss of my child, sense of God's wrath, were the most coo.
pleases! distresses I had ever felt. From this time, spiritual eon.
victions began to plough ro sleep in my heart as to make way for the
Word of etc' oal Life; which, at length, brought me experimentally
to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom lie heath sent."
His fire was yet hard. For sonic years before his marriages
all his personal effects, we are informed by him, used to he carried
in his hand, or over his shoulder, in one or two handkerchiefs; arid
even after he Married, for some few years, he used to carry all his
goods upon his shoulders, in a large sack. "My dame anti I," says
Mr. Huntington, recording these things, " now kept house at a
very cheap rate—two shillings and sixpenr-c per week carried us
through tolerably well. We soon saved upwards of twenty shil.
;jogs, with which, on the Saturday night, 1 set eft to Kiogston (lie
now fired at Ewell) (iron Thames, to get sonic of my clothes out of
pawn, leaving money in the hands of my dame to get halt a bivati
of barley. It so happened that the apparel which I went to redeem
came to so much, with the ioterest, that I had not any money left
to bring home. This was agi eat timid to us ; because our poor lit-
tle girl (his eldest living mw), who had been but lately w emit's!, had
nothing to carry her through the week lint bare barley cakes; j and
r though we would cat barley, I could not incluse to see her live on
that only.. On the Monday following, indeed,.l went to work

§ I found that the•small pittance of eleven shillings per week (as
I paid two shAllings end sixpence for a furnished place) would amount
but slowly towards the getting my eiutiteA out of pawn ; whence it came
into my mind to search my bible, to gee if aNy instruction fur WU}