sermon, you seem to have laboured how to speak in those terms that indeed her supereminent merit called for.

"You make me feel ashamed for the rank you give me in classing me with those excellent creatures Jebb and Priestley; humbled moreover to find myself cut off from that usefulness I earnestly wished to retain till the thread of life itself was cut; happy, meanwhile, if I may but take to myself that consolation. of our christian poet

"They also serve, who only stand and wait."

"I remain, &c. &c.

"T. LINDSEY."

In the summer of the year 1801, Mr. Wood was highly gratified by a tour into the Highlands of Scotland, in company with his friends Mr. and Mrs. Garforth. He visited Edinburgh, went northward to Inverness, crossed to the western shore by that curious chain of lakes which so remarkably intersect the whole country, sailed over to the Isle of Mull, and thence to Staffa, and having visited the most remarkable scenes which in this large range attract the notice of the traveller, he

returned by way of Glasgow into England. There were few events of his life of which he was accustomed to speak with greater pleasure than of this interesting tour. Whatever excursion he made, it furnished him with subjects of pleasing reflection, and of instructive conversation in the interval between that and another; but this supplied him for the remainder of his life with topics delightful to himself, and full of amusement and information to others.

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In the same year he published a Liturgy consisting of five forms for the use of the congregation at Mill-Hill Chapel. This is for the most part compiled from the service of the established church, the Liverpool, Shrewsbury, and other Liturgies before published by the Dissenters, and from an excellent service composed by the Rev. J. Simpson. The compilation is made with great judgment and taste, and the reader, it is presumed, will not be uninterested in perusing the observations which it has drawn forth (from the Rev. C. Wyvill, whose friendship Mr. Wood had the happiness, during many years, to enjoy. In a note

affixed to a letter written to him by Mr. Wood, and published in the 6th volume of the Political Papers, having with the usual neatness and accuracy which mark the short biographical notices interspersed through these volumes, given the leading features of his correspondent's character, he adds: "It is part of the praise also which justly belongs to Mr. Wood, that he stands among the foremost of our Protestant Dissenters who have recommended or adopted a Liturgy, wholly freed from the impure alloy of controversial matter, mixed with the expressions of christian piety and benevolence. On these principles, which are those of Locke, Clarke and Newton, the Liturgy of the Church of England had been before improved by the venerable Lindsey, and his worthy successor Dr. Disney, for the use of their congregation in Essex-street. In their form of social worship the christian will find his peculiarities of opinion neither asserted nor cademned; but if he be humble, benevoler and pious, he will be well satisfied to find there whatever can conduce to the better purpose of an increase of his pious, benevolent and humble disposition. In our excellent Li

turgy, thus freed from controversial matter, there is a noble simplicity, an affecting eloquence, and a venerable air of antiquity, well suited to excite the best emotions of worship; and it will be difficult indeed for any private individual to compose another Liturgy on the same liberal and candid principles, and capable of producing an equal effect on the minds of men accustomed to revere that form of devotion. But Protestant Dissenters, feeling no such prepossession, might probably be lead with less difficulty to adopt a form of devotion which their own pastor had composed with that generality of language which, in social worship, both reason and religion require. And therefore it was a truly laudable effort of zeal and of candour in Mr. Wood that he thus composed, and in his Congregation, that they adopted the respectable Liturgy now used at Mill-Hill Chapel; and there they have exemplified a second time, and under a different form, those principles of gospel worship in the latitude of gospel language, from ich christians never should have departed."Political Papers, vol. vi. p. 67, 68.

The arguments by which the use of printed forms of prayer in social worship is recommended, are certainly numerous and powerful; yet if not contrary to the principles upon which Protestant Dissenters meet together, as may perhaps not unreasonably be suspected, it is so abhorrent from their general feelings and habits, that it cannot be expected soon or widely to prevail amongst them. Let Liturgies be drawn up with ever so much caution, they will unavoidably partake of the nature of a confession of faith, and may be felt as a painful restraint by those who succeed the original composer; and on the other hand, prejudices in the breasts of some of the worshippers, never wholly subdued, may break forth; objections, founded upon better grounds may be felt by others; or even the caprice of some who are by no means what ever to be completely satisfied, may soon render it necessary, in order to preserve the peace and union of a society of Christians, who acknowledge no human authority in their worship of God, to withdraw the most perfect forms that can be composed.

The restoration of Peace in the year 1802,