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his friends, or his medical attendants, and the smallest acts of kindness, drew forth expressions of gratitude, and he would exclaim, 'It is all of mercy!' The last vigorous remark he made was to one of his attendants, reminding him that the Lord had been gracious in raising him a little after a period of sleepless lethargy; he adopted the usual word, and said, 'It is all of mercy!' He spoke of his ministry, and exclaimed again, 'It is all of mercy!' And all that I can do in my circumstances,' said he, ‘is to repose on the Divine mercy; and it is the nature of that mercy to pity the infirmities and sufferings of its children.' His mind was relieved by that consideration, and on that mercy he relied with calm resignation. At another time, with great feeling, he remarked, 'There is no rest or satisfaction for the soul but in God-my God. I am permitted to call him my God. O God, thou art my God, early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, in a dry and thirsty land where no water is.'

"At another time, in a state of deep feeling, he said, 'When shall my soul leave this tenement of clay, to join in the wide expanse of the skies, and rise to nobler joys and to see God?' In a happy state of mind, he burst forth but a short time before he was deprived of the power of connected speech, and exclaimed, 'We shall see strange sights to-day; not different, however, from what we might realize by faith: but it is not the glitter and glare, not the topaz and diamond; no, it is God I want to see; he is all and in all.' During a few of the last hours of his life, he sunk into a state of lethargy, appearing almost insensible. This rendered him nearly incapable of the use of speech; no conversation could be held with him; but at intervals he seemed to be engaged in devotional exercises." Richard Watson died June 18th, 1833, aged fifty-two.

7. REV. W. DAY

A RELATIVE once said to the late Rev. W. Day, of Bristol, “It is a comfort to you to see your children round you."

"Yes," he answered, with an allusion to the occasional dimness of his vision, "it is. It would be more so if I could see them; but I can only see one now and another then."

"You can, however, see Jesus by the eye of faith."

His countenance kindled with a smile of joy, and, clasping his hands, he exclaimed, "He is my great, my only object. O my God! my portion, my all! Blessed be thy name, thou hast said unto me, 'Thou art mine.'' Then, with much energy, he added, "The Bible is nothing to me the Bible is nothing to me but as it reveals a covenant Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. There I see perfection. When I look at man -when I look at myself, I see nothing but vileness—a rent here, a chasm there. It would drive me to despair. O when, when shall I behold Christ as he is, and cast myself at his feet! He has offered me a pledge of this beyond all that imagination can conceive. I have seen him rising before me in all the majesty of the Godhead. The world has shown me its favours, and has taken them away again. I have enjoyed many tokens of the loving-kindness of God; and I have at other times been stripped of what I most valued. But O, my God, my Redeemer, thou hast never failed me!" Then stretching out his hands to his family around his bed, he cried, "O Lord, shine forth, shine forth in thy glory upon these dear ones! Thou wilt never leave them-thou

wilt never forsake them."

It was an affecting, a sublime scene. It was like a

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patriarch standing on the threshold of heaven, looking back to bless his family, and looking forward, earnestly longing to take his last step.

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8. MR. M'LAREN, OF EDINBURGH.

"That sov'reign Plant, whose scions shoot
With healing virtue, and immortal fruit,—
The Tree of Life, beside the stream that laves
The fields of Paradise with gladdening waves."

WHEN Mr. M'Laren was dying, Mr. Gustart, his associate pastor, paid him a visit, and inquired of him, 'What are you now doing, my brother?" The strong and earnest response of the dying minister was, "I'll· tell you what I am doing, brother; I am gathering together all my prayers, all my sermons, all my good deeds, all my ill deeds; and I am going to throw them all overboard, and swim to glory on the single plank of free grace."

9. DR. HENRY PECKWELL.

"His spirit, with a bound,

Burst its encumb'ring clay;
His tent, at sunrise, on the ground,

A blacken'd ruin lay."-MONTGOMERY.

THE Rev. Dr. Henry Peckwell stepped into a dissecting room and touched one of the dead bodies, forgetting that he had just before accidentally cut his finger. He became diseased, and the doctors who were called in pronounced the accident fatal. At that time, worship was held at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, on a Friday evening. Conscious of his approaching death, the good man ascended the pulpit, and preached in so powerful a strain as to make many of his audience weep.

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the conclusion, he told the audience that it was his farewell sermon,-"not like the ordinary farewell sermons of the world, but more impressive, from the circumstances, than any preached before. My hearers shall long bear it mind, when this frail earth is mouldering in its kindred dust." .The congregation could not conjecture his meaning; but on the following Sabbath an unknown preacher ascended the pulpit and informed them that their pious minister had breathed his last on the preceding evening.

10. BERNARD GILPIN.

BERNARD GILPIN, a man of exalted virtue, and distinguished among his contemporaries by the title of "The Apostle of the North," was descended from a respect-. able family in Westmoreland, and born in the year

1517.

His attachment to the Roman Catholic religion, in which he had been educated, was, for some time, strong and decided. But an honest and ardent desire to discover truth, and unprejudiced study of the Holy Scriptures, and frequent conferences with pious and learned men, produced, at length, a thorough persuasion of the truth of the Protestant reformed religion. This cause he steadily and zealously supported through the whole remaining course of his life.

He at length accepted the rectory of Houghton-lespring. This living was of considerable value; but the duty of it was proportionably laborious. It was so extensive that it contained not fewer than fourteen villages. It had been much neglected; and in it there scarcely remained any traces of true Christianity. Gilpin was grieved to see the ignorance and vice which so greatly prevailed in the places under his care. But

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he did not despair of bringing into order a waste so miserably uncultivated; and, by resolution, diligence, prudence, and perseverance, he finally succeeded in producing an astonishing change, not only in the character and manners of his own parishioners, but of the savage inhabitants in other northern districts. On his arrival among them, the people crowded about him, and listened to his discourses with great attention, perceiving him to be a teacher of a very different kind from those to whom they had hitherto been accustomed; and by his truly pastoral and affectionate treatment of them, he quickly gained their confidence, respect, and attachment.

Gilpin had not been long settled at Houghton before Bishop Tonstal was desirous of still further improving his fortune, by presenting him to a vacant prebend in the Cathedral of Durham. But resolving not to accept it, he told the bishop that, "by his bounty, he had already more wealth than he was afraid he could give a good account of. He begged, therefore, that he might not have an additional charge, but rather that his lordship would bestow this preferment on one by whom it was more wanted." In these perilous times, (the reign of the sanguinary Queen Mary,) his steady, though mild and temperate, adherence to the reformed religion, involved him in many dangers and difficulties, from which he was often happily extricated, under Divine Providence, by the favour of Bishop Tonstal, and by his own judicious conduct. The malice of his enemies was probably increased by his unaffected piety and exemplary life, which formed a striking satire on their negligence and irregularities. They determined, therefore, to remove, if possible, so disagreeable a contrast and so. able a reformer. After many unsuccessful attempts to disgrace and destroy him, their hatred so far prevailed that they procured an order from the merciless Bonner,

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