given me eternal life.  I know the Lord; I shall not perish.  I shall not perish, for I am the Lord’s.”  During the winter he had rallied again, and resumed his labours in his Master’s cause.  Hopes began to be entertained, that he might yet be spared a little longer; but these were suddenly cut off.  About the beginning of February he was seized again, and it was soon apparent that this attack would prove fatal.  His last testimony to the truth was strong and clear, and continued to be borne until the power of language failed.  To the Rev. W. McKitrick, who came to visit him shortly before his departure, he said, in almost the same words the amiable Addison used to Lord Warwick, “You are come to see a Christian, die;” and then added, “Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.  I used to sing that in the Church, when I knew not what it meant; but now I do.”  Not a shadow of a cloud rested upon the valley; it was full of light:  and on the 24th of the month he died, in the full triumph of faith, esteemed and lamented by persons of every shade of opinion.

“This day in former years, I have hailed my dear father’s stay among us; but now, he has left our dark abode to join his friends above; and this day, his death is to be improved by Mr. Hopkins New Street, and Mr. McKitrick, in Albion Street Chapel.  For some weeks I have been under the chastening hand of God.  My patience has been severely tested; but I am thankful, in the moments of severest trial, I have felt confident that not a stroke would be laid upon me more than would conduce to my real good.  Though the waves roll around me, I can venture myself on Jesus.  Here I find firm footing; here is my resting-place; and in the precious atonement of the Redeemer, my soul enjoys sweet repose.—­I have been suffering from sickness, but have had many precious moments while musing upon my bed.  Through mercy, I am again able to sit up, but am very deaf.  This has occasioned a train of reasoning.  I have been led to inquire, whether the Lord in His providence intends to depose me from meeting His people.  But in this, and in every thing else, I would resignedly say, ’Thy will be done.’—­The mercy of the Lord is again repeated.  The deafness, from which I have suffered, is greatly removed.  Bless the Lord, who can not only make the deaf to hear, but the heart to praise.—­My little Anna, after being lent to me for seventeen days, and finding nothing on earth to court her stay, has closed her eyes on time, and opened them upon heaven.  So uncertain is earthly happiness.  Perhaps my heavenly Father, more securely to engage my heart, has kindly resumed the gift; and transplanted to a better soil the flower, whose charms were insensibly stealing my affections.  I anticipated the delightful task of rearing this tender plant to be a future comfort; but Thou, O Lord, art righteous in all Thy ways.  My feelings have been peculiarly acute, but to Thee, O Lord, my heart is known.  Teach me due submission