Banner Cove, on 21st October 1851. A notice on the rock, and bottles below, placed by Captain Gardiner, directed them to Spaniard's Harbour, where they found the Speedwell, and the remains of Williams and Pearce, with books, papers, &c. Captain Smyley could do no more than bury the bodies, when a storm drove him out to sea. Urged by friends in England, H.M.S. Dido, under Captain Moreshead, arrived at Banner Cove, on January 6, 1852, and found the remains of Captain Gardiner and Mr. Maidment, with books and papers, lying in the large cavern, where the wreck of the Pioneer had served as their home. After funeral solemnities, amidst the deepest feeling, Captain Moreshead departed, and broke the heavy tidings to bereaved friends and sympathizing Christians in England. Thus Captain Allen Gardiner finished his course, faithful to the last in the prosecution of his first purpose. Much has been said of the want of consideration in the schemes he followed, and especially in the last mission at Patagonia; but he was a practical man, and reasoned from evidences. His idea of a vessel for the missionaries' home is the only available one; and, since his death, a schooner, called the Allen Gardiner, dedicated to this object of his life, occupied by a missionary party, including his only son, and the Rev. G. P. Despard and his family, is now his floating monument. With better auspices and surer aid, other men have seized the falling standard, and the banner of the cross now waves in the Fuegian breeze. May it please God to bless the labours of his faithful servants, that Patagonia and South America may soon have the light and liberty of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Christian reader! are you doing one thing for Jesus and the salvation of souls? The foregoing sketch reveals unity of purpose never shaken, never diverted, never resting. What M fixed and kept it? It was the love of Christ. It made Allen Gardiner a living and a useful Christian,-such a blessing to his family as to induce his son to follow his footsteps,—such a blessing to the church as to kindle zeal and love in many, --such a blessing to the world as to introduce the gospel of Jesus to the most benighted among men. The mariners of England visit every shore, mingle with people of every clime, and race, and colour. They have a great opportunity of revealing the Christianity that has blessed and raised their country among the nations; they might well act as pioneers of the gospel everywhere. What a testimony for Christ might our ships bear over the world, if officers and crews were men of God! SAILORS! suffer me to address you in the language of earnest entreaty. Are you in a safe course for eternity? Have you found the pole-star, Jesus Christ? Have you the needle true to that pole,-a living faith ever looking to and resting on Jesus? Do you follow the chart, which is the word of God, and consult the heavens by earnest prayer? Do you endeavour to keep your lights and a proper watch? If so, then you shall reach the desired haven, and others shall follow your track, and cast anchor in the same heavenly port. If not, then a fearful shipwreck and foundering will befall your souls. Reef in the foresail, there! Hold the helm fast! There swept the blast. What of the night, watchman, What of the night? "Cloudy,-all quiet, No land yet,-all's right." Be wakeful, be vigilant; Danger may be At an hour when all seemeth Securest to thee. How! gains the leak so fast? Now the ship rights; Hurrah! the harbour's near, Lo! the red lights! Slacken not sail yet, At inlet or island; Straight for the beacon steer, Straight for the high land: Crowd all thy canvass on,Cut through the foam: Christian, cast anchor now, Heaven is thy home! CHAPTER VI. · THOMAS KELLY, THE BOOKSELLER. "A wise son maketh a glad father."-PROVERBS X. 1. Mother, watch the little feet, Climbing o'er the garden wall, Never count the moments lost, Never mind the time it cost; Little feet will go astray, Guide them, mother, when you may. In the year 1786, a youth of fourteen years of age, carrying a small bundle containing his whole wardrobe, and with only a few shillings in his pocket, entered the city of London. His parents were very poor, and unable to afford him a good education. Friends he had none in the mighty Babylon. A humble situation was open to him. During twenty-three weary years his wages, commencing with £10 a-year and his board, never rose beyond £80, and were divided between his parents' necessities and his own. Yet this humble man, a loving son and faithful servant, was Lord Mayor of the greatest city in the world in 1836,-the possessor of a princely fortune, and a liberal benefactor of his country. To explain how these vicissitudes occurred, and to afford an encouraging example to young men in business, the following sketch is written :— THOMAS KELLY was born at Chevening, in the county of Kent, in the year 1772. His parents were then keeping an inn, where they lost the savings of an industrious occupation. Ere a year had passed, however, they retired to an impoverished farm of thirty acres in Chelsham, Surrey. Here, with a large family, bad crops, and a high rent, they struggled to maintain their existence for many years. Thomas was the eldest son; and, after a brief period of instruction at village schools, was, at twelve years of age, taken to assist his father on the farm. The severe toil, the poverty of his parents, led him to aspire to something better than the crook or the plough; and, after much anxiety and several disappointments, he obtained an assistantship in the countinghouse of a London brewery. This he exchanged, on account of the failure of the concern, two or three years afterwards, for the office of a shopman to a bookseller in Paternoster Row. Ten pounds a-year and his board formed his wages for standing behind the counter all day, and sleeping beneath it all night. But these were the commencement of events yet to make the Row so famous. Kelly had remained long enough under a parental roof to profit much from the example and instruction there afforded him. There he received his first impressions both in religion and business. The devout Sabbath-keeping and the contented industry of his father and mother, stamped an influence upon his mind that was never lost. Such a home could not be too often visited; and he availed himself of the blessing by many a walk of thirty miles. The faithful training and affection of his parents were not without reward. His 66 chief ambition" was to increase their comforts. The half of his scanty salary was saved for them; and Mr. Fell informs us that, "when his salary was raised to £80, a sum which it never exceeded, he afforded them still more important assistance, even taking upon himself the entire payment of their rent; and it is here also deserving of special notice, that the heavy expenses by the deaths and interments, at various periods, of his five younger brothers and sisters, |