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OBITUARY.

THE public prints of the present week have furnished some truly affecting details of the sacrifice of a number of our fellow creatures to the injured justice of the country. This is a subject over which humanity is often called to weep; yet our hearts are sometimes gladdened on hearing that the unhappy victims, whom a regard to the public safety obliges the civil magistrate to deprive of life, find mercy at the hands of the great Sovereign of the universe; being rescued as brands from the burning; and privileged to quit the world, even under the most ignominious circumstances, rejoicing in the well-founded hope of eternal life. As it is impossible that any who have themselves tasted the sweets of pardoning mercy should hear of instances of this kind without perceiving in them motives of gratitude to the God of all grace, we deem it our duty to lay before our readers some interesting information of this nature, for the truth of which we can pledge ourselves. Every reflecting mind will, we are sure, excuse the delicacy

the conviction of his own mind, from the very moment of his seizure, that he knew his life was deservedly forfeited to the justice of his country, and he would not aggravate his guilt by denying the charge. No trial therefore took place; but he was remanded to prison there to await his awful fate.

As his connections were well known and respected in the religious world, his unand, we may add, the deep commiseration happy case excited considerable interest, also of many, both for himself and them. Among others, he was visited by Mr. A. the minister of Elim Chapel, who entered into close and serious conversation with him respecting his state, not merely as condemned by the laws of his country, but more especially as a transgressor of the laws of Heaven, and consequently condemned by the holy law of God. He was so happy as to gain his attention, and obtained from him a request that he would repeat his visit. This was done twice aweek for several weeks, and every renewed visit acquired additional interest. He soon gave most satisfactory evidence that the word of the truth of the gospel had entered his mind, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and reached conviction to his heart. The Scripturės became his delight; and the glorious ground of hope which they presented to his view, in the death and resurrection of the divine Saviour, disarmed his guilty fears; infused calmness and serenity into his mind; and made him joyful even under his awful circumstances. He now declared that he could meet the king of terrors without dismay; and even wished the period arrived that was to launch him into eternity, expressing something of a cautious fear lest the delay of his execution, surrounded as he was with vicious company, should in any measure tend to alienate bis mind

from the truth, or darken his views of that sovereign remedy which he found in the gospel for all his woes. But, ah, how inscrutable are the purposes of God, and his ways past finding out! He who had extended mercy to his soul, had gracious designs to accomplish, by his means, towards another of his fellow-prisoners, and till that was brought about, his execution could not take place.

Confined with him in the same prison, was O―d, a young man about five and twenty, under sentence of death for a rape. The parents of the latter, who reside in the suburbs of the metropolis, are in good circumstances, but total strangers to whatever bears the semblance of religion. The father, we believe, has for many years kept a gambling-house, and his son had grown up without knowing any other restraints to his vicious propensities than his own inclination or the dread of punishment. He was, however, not beyond the reach of sovereign grace, and H. was made the happy and honoured instrument of communicating to him the knowledge of the way of salvation.

by christian love. They seemed indeed to have only one wish, and that was to die together! In this, however, they were not gratified. O. was executed on the morning of Wednesday last, and H. on the succeeding morning.

Their separation was a painful strokescarcely less so than death itself: but it was anavoidable. "I have reason," said O. the day before he died," to bless God that ever I came into this prison: till then I never named the name of God but in the way of cursing and blasphemy; and yet such was my ignorance that I then thought myself very good." When his friends came to take leave of him, they were astonished at finding him "rejoicing in hope," a thing which they could neither understand nor account for. He addressed them in a most pointed and solemn manner, warning them of the consequences of sin, and calling their attention to the gospel which alone could make them happy in life, or secure in death, and charging them to attend where it was preached. May they lay these solemn things seasonably to heart! The confidence of neither forsook them, to the very last.

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On the morning of his execution, O. addressed such as were around, and said, It has been for some days past my fervent prayer to God, that I might experience the truth of his promise, As thy day is, so shall thy strength also be,' and I bless his holy name that he has been faithful to his word." When the officers came to lead H. forth to execution, having removed his irons and fixed the rope upon his shoulders, they paused to allow time for any thing he wished to say. He spoke only a few words, the substance of which was," My friends, you see me ill in body, but I am not so in mind-I wish you to know, and I wish Mr. A. to know, that I die happy." (This gentleman had been with him most of the preceding day, and from six to eight o'clock in the morning of his execution, but unable to bear the last scene, declined to accompany him out of his room.) In short, the deportment of both these unhappy men on this awful occasion, exhibited a striking proof of the power of the gospel to support the human mind, in the most desperate circumstances

At the time of his commitment, and indeed long after that, he was one of the most thoughtless of mortals, totally regardless of his soul, and unconcerned about his awful state. But having an opportunity of witnessing some of the interviews between H. and his friends; hearing the former express his confidence in the divine mercy, it arrested his attention; and observing that he drew all his hope and comfort from the Bible, he became encreasingly desirous to be possessed of one, that he might know what it contained which was suited to make a dying sinner happy. He at length ventured to mention his wish to H. who promised to speak to some of his friends when they next came, and to get him one. While in this anxious state, casting his eyes around the room in which he was confined, he observed some old books on a shelf, and eagerly examining them, he was delighted to find among them an old ragged Bible buried in dust. This was a treasure indeed, to him of inestimable value. He read it with fixed attention, and had recourse to H. upon every occasion for instruction. A pleasing change its power to wound and to heal; to kill soon became apparent to Mr. A. and and to make alive; to subdue the stoutothers who visited the prison, and it is hearted and such as are far from righteousdelightful to hear how his views of di- ness, and to give confidence and good hope, vine truth became encreasingly expanded, when flesh and heart fail. Their compo while all the fruits of faith were ap- sure and serenity in the view of death, parent in his whole behaviour-genuine and under the dreadful circumstances in contrition for his sin, humility and meek- which they stood, seemed to strike with ness, with scriptural confidence in the surprise even the sheriff's and officers of divine mercy. Partakers of the same justice, who could not but remark its sinfaith and hope, they now became fellow-gularity. If this very imperfect narrative helpers to each other's joy, and were excite any interest in the mind of the prepared to participate in each other's reader, let him bless the Lord for the sorrows Their acquaintance commencing riches of his grace, and bind the gospel to under circumstances so adverse, quickly his heart. ripened into friendship, and was cemented

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