volent in clothing and educating the poor. She died in 1736.

This too was the residence of Mr. John Sheppard, author of Thoughts on Private Devotion, and various other small treatises, evangelical in sentiment and elegant in composition. He was born in 1785, and died in 1879. He was eminent for spirituality, refinement, and faithfulness.

Here was long the home and pastorate of Dr. Samuel Manning, the extremely able, popular, and excellent secretary of the Religious Tract Society, who died in 1881, and whose memory will long remain fresh in the large circle influenced by his ability, diligence, and grace.

Oh! who shall lightly say that Fame Is nothing but an empty name; When memories of the mighty dead To earth-worn pilgrims' wistful eye The brightest rays of cheering shed, That point to immortality!

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. This was the benefice of John Smyth, M.A., a popular preacher at Cambridge, who became a separatist and a leader of the Independents. He was imprisoned for nonconformity in 1592, and fled to Holland. His views were nearly akin to those of the Arminian or General Baptists. died at Amsterdam in 1610. This was also the birthplace of Simon Patrick, the dean of Peterborough, and afterwards bishop, first, of Chichester, then of Ely. He was born in 1626, |

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and died in 1707, after an active life spent in opposing Popery and in supporting the Protestant Church and State. His commentaries on Scripture are characterised by Bickersteth as learned and useful, but deficient in evangelical sentiment.

The present church was built in 1780, and adorned with the steeple of a former church: hence the proverb

Gainsborough, purse-proud people, Built a new church to an old steeple. in 1730, left a library of 750 Nathaniel Robinson, who died volumes for the use of the in

habitants.

truth as a preacher in Manchester, and produced a wide-spread concern for personal religion.

Geddington,

Northampton

shire. The cross here and the one at Waltham are the sole remaining original specimens of the affectionate memorials which Edward I. caused to be erected at every place where the body of his excellent wife rested on the journey from Hartley, in Lincolnshire, to Westminster.

Henry II. held a Parliament here to raise money for a Crusade. Giggleswick, Yorkshire.-Rev. Christopher Shuter, the vicar at the beginning of the seventeenth century, was rich in godly sons : Nathaniel, eminent as a preacher in St. Mildred's, London; Josiah, a popular evangelical minister at St. Mary Woolnoth, in Lombard Street, who died in 1640; Robert, preacher at Lynn; Thomas, minister at Chester; and Timothy, at Exeter. Old Fuller says, "All great, though not equal, lights, set up candlesticks."

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gloss on the Apocalypse," all in English.

Glastonbury, Somersetshire.In the church of St. John the Baptist, there is a good wooden carving of a pelican feeding its young from a self-inflicted wound in its breast. The artist who first devised this affecting symbol of Christ and His Church must have had an appreciation of the nature and value of redemption. Mr. Freeman says of the great Glastonbury Abbey, now so beautiful in its ruins: Legend, as we all know, carries up the first birth of that great house to the earliest days of apostolic Christianity. Later inquirers have cut off some it only a foundation of the sixth ages from its history, and see in century, a church which arose as Damnonian Britons, after the a new spiritual centre for the older sanctuary of Ambresbury had fallen into English hands.

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In either case it is certain that of the first rank in England, Glastonbury was the one church which stood as a memorial of British days, the only one which had lived unscathed through the storm of English conquest, and which received equal reverence from the conquerors and from the conquered."

Whiting, the last abbot, was executed for treason in 1539, on the adjacent Tor hill. The house house of hospitality for pilgrims now the George Inn, was the visiting the shrine of St. Dunstan at the abbey.

Glenfield, Leicestershire.-Here David Taylor, a servant of the Countess of Huntingdon, at Don

Gloucester. In the cathedral the bishops carried St. Anselm on their shoulders when he had reluctantly accepted the primacy. "The Te Deum had commenced as they entered; he fainted in their arms, overcome with emotion, saying, 'It is naught, it is naught that ye do."

During the persecution under Queen Mary, Thomas Drowry, a blind boy, a disciple of good Bishop Hooper, was arraigned before the chancellor, Dr. Williams, and affirmed that he had learned the truth concerning the real presence from the chancellor himself, and at a certain place and time which he mentioned. The chancellor advised the lad to do as he had done, but the latter nobly said that he must needs follow his own conscience. The registrar of the court arose to interfere, and tried to shame the chancellor into mercy, but in vain. The poor boy, and a man named Croker, a bricklayer, were burnt in one fire.

The cathedral library contains the most perfect copy known of Coverdale's Bible ; also some portions of an Anglo-Saxon homily of the tenth century.

The appropriate and interesting monument to the martyred Bishop Hooper, erected on the site of his great suffering, tells the history of this faithful and noble man. He possessed an affectionate disposition, with vigorous faith and strong understanding. After his condemnation at St. Mary Overies, his ride down to Gloucester in custody was like a triumphal procession, so great was the sympathy for him felt and expressed by the mass of the people. A rescue was apprehended on his arrival at the city. There were about seven thousand sorrowing people present at his execution.

Here, at the Bell Inn, was born on December 16, 1714, George Whitefield, who entered Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1732, joined the Wesleys at the end of 1734, and thenceforward, until his death in 1770, is to be tracked throughout the British Isles and American colonies by the effects of his wonderful preaching. Conversions occurred wherever he went, for he spake of Christ and the future state in utterances glowing with the Spirit through the Word. A Whitefield Memorial Church stands here.

This city too was the scene of the life and labours of Robert Raikes, the practical originator of the Sunday School system. He was born in 1735, began his school in 1781, and died on the 5th of April, 1811.

In 1764, a lady who desired that her name should remain unknown, gave £281 to be invested, and the proceeds applied in the maintenance of divine

service in one of the churches on every Sunday morning throughout the year.

Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire. The birthplace of Stephen Marshal, who, under the Commonwealth, was a leader of the Presbyterian party. He was a member of the Assembly of Divines, and became famous as a preacher. He and Dr. Burgess prayed and preached for seven hours at St. Margaret's, Sunday, November 17th, 1640, and on a similar occasion he prayed in a wonderfully pathetic manner for two hours. He died in November, 1655, and honoured with a grave in Westminster Abbey, but his remains were dug up and removed at the Restoration.

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Godstow, Oxfordshire.-On the general suppression of religious houses in 1538, the visitors earnestly interceded that this should be retained, "where there was great strictness of life, and to which most of the young gentlemen of the country were sent to be bred," but the applica

tion was not successful.

Missionary Society, and he also greatly aided the formation of the Religious Tract Society. He died in 1825, leaving the reputation of "a man of Johnsonian character, capacious intellect, unflinching courage, commanding stature, and dignified appearance; he added the reputation of a scholar and a religious philosopher to that of an experienced Christian and a great divine."

Grantham, Lincolnshire.-The Angel Inn, here, is charged with the payment of forty shillings a year, left by Mr. Solomon for a sermon against drunkenness; "I looking," as he quaintly says, upon that sin to be the inlet of almost all others."

Grasmere, Westmoreland.-At the Wyke Cottage, here, lived the Mackereth family, one of whom was the heroine of Wordsworth's

Westmoreland Girl, having res

cued a lamb from the swollen

rushing torrent. In after years she married, and removed to a where she died of consumption at cottage in Broughton in Furness,

the

sorrowing widower and two young age of thirty-seven, leaving a children. Her memory was not

In 1777, a young Independent minister, David Bogue, became pastor here. In 1794, he wrote an address in an evangelical magazine_on_the_subject of missions to the heathen, which was the means of originating the London

Legh Richmond, who had a keen sense and great relish for natural beauty, thus writes of this place : "This morning, as I stood on an eminence, looking down on the exquisitely lovely lake of Grasmere, environed by its amphitheatre of mountains, a momentary shower produced a rainbow: it extended