to run down his face. In these trying circumstances, he was never heard to utter the least complaint, nor to express the least impatience. He died in the eighty-fifth year of his age. In his principles and conduct through life, he has left a strong and comfortable evidence, that the highest intellectual powers harmonize with religion and virtue; and that there is nothing in Christianity but what will abide the scrutiny of the soundest and most enlarged understanding. 20. DR. JAMES HOPE. DR. JAMES HOPE was a physician in London of large practice. He was eminent as a Christian. Among the maxims which he adopted in the regulation of his professional life were the following:-Never to keep a patient longer than was absolutely necessary-never to receive a fee to which he was not fairly entitled--and always to pray for his patients. He rose rapidly in his profession. The poor equally with the rich had shared his attention. He was actuated by the most devout desire for God's glory, and took every occasion in his intercourse with medical students to maintain the principles of revealed religion against materialism and infidelity. He early became a victim of disease. During his sickness, he removed to Hampstead for change of air; and on the inquiry of Dr. Latham whether he felt quite happy, he said, "Perfectly so. I have always been a sober thinking man, and I could not have imagined the joy I now feel. My only wish is to convey it to the minds of others; but that is impossible." Finding him much weaker, Mrs. Hope said to him, "I think that one week will do great things for you." "Do you think so, indeed?" said he; "very well, be it soon or be it late, so that I go off in such a way as not to frighten you." "I will not," he said on another occasion, "make speeches, but I have two things to say," the first was a kind farewell to his wife; he then added, "the second is soon said-Christ is all in all to me. I have no hope but in him. He is indeed all in all." When that passage was quoted, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me," he said, "They do comfort me-there is no darkness. I see Jordan, and the heavenly Joshua passing over dryshod." His last expressions were the following:"I am going now-I shall soon sleep." "And you will wake again." "Yes; those that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." 66 Remarking on the beauty of the day, Mrs. Hope said, "What a glorious day is dawning upon you, my dearest!" His assent was joyful. There will be no sun and no moon there, for the Lamb will be the light thereof." He murmured-" Christ" -“angels beautiful" -"magnificent"-" delightful." Soon after he said, "I thank God." These were his last connected words. 21. LORD HARRINGTON. JOHN, LORD HARRINGTON possessed excellent natural endowments, and a considerable stock of useful learning; but the great concern of his mind was to become learned in the school of Christ, and to provide for an immortal inheritance. He manifested a principle of real charity in his heart, by his love to all who were truly religious, and by giving the tenth part of his yearly income to charitable uses. At the beginning of his last sickness he strongly ap. prehended that he should not recover, and therefore calmly prepared for death. About two hours before his death he declared that "he still felt the comfort and joys of assured salvation by Christ Jesus." And when the time of his departure was come, he said, "O that joy! O, my God, when shall I be with thee?" Thus he peacefully expired, in the twenty-third year of his age. 22. PETUMBER. "He knows, and knows no more, his Bible true- PETUMBER, a native of India, was the child of idolaters, and was himself an idolater. In advanced life he became acquainted with the Gospel. He embraced the truth, afterward became a preacher of it, and died cheered by the hopes religion imparts. In his last illness, when Mr. Ward was standing by his bedside, the good old man broke out in such moving strains as the following:-"I do not attribute it to my own wisdom, or to my own goodness, that I became a Christian. It is all grace-it is all grace! I have tried all means for the restoration of my health. All are vain: God is my only hope. Life is good-death is good; but to be wholly emancipated is better." His patience was great. He said once or twice, "I am never unhappy that it is so with me: my spirits are always good." He would say, with a moving and childlike simplicity, "He is my God, and I am his child. He never leaves me. He is always present." Alluding to the introduction to several of the Epistles, "Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ," he said several times, "Peace! peace! I now find in my own heart that peace." He entreated his wife to make Christ her refuge, that they might meet again in heaven. Within a few days of his decease he seemed to long, though without any signs of impatience, to depart; and spoke of his removal with as much composure as though he was familiar with the place and company to which he was going. On the morning of his death he called the brethren to come and sing. While they were singing a hymn, the chorus of which runs,— "Eternal salvation through the death of Christ," the tears of joy ran down his dying cheeks; and at that blessed moment his soul departed, leaving a smile upon his countenance, which imparted to it so pleasant an aspect that at first one or two of the missionaries hesitated whether he was dead or not. 23. FERRAO. FERRAO was an East Indian idolater, but becoming a convert to the Gospel, was baptized in 1811. After this he appeared a pious and conscientious Christian, and died happily, in September, 1813. Not long before his departure he was visited by Mr. Leonard, who informed him that death was nearer than he supposed. "On hearing this," Mr. Leonard states, "he fixed his eyes upon me with a mixture of tranquillity and delight, and then, closing them, continued in a state of meditation for some time; after which he said, The Lord is my portion; he now supports my feeble frame, while death is performing its office.' Of himself he said, 'I am indeed the chief of sinners.' I then asked him how he enjoyed so much peace and tranquillity under such a weight of guilt, especially as he might now expect to appear before a sin-hating and a sin-punishing God in a few short moments. He replied, Christ has removed the heavy load; he died that I might live; he bore my sins in his own body upon the accursed tree; and I can now realize his presence in the sweet consolation I experience, and through a sense of his dying love, and his willingness and equal power to save a sinner, vile as I know myself to be.' "I asked him (as I was about to depart) if he felt disturbed at the near approach of death: he looked at me with a smile, and said that death had lost its sting, that he could now meet him with joy. I then asked what he wished I should pray for on his account; whether the Lord would continue him longer upon earth, or take him to himself. He replied, 'The latter. I have been too long from him: I can now see Him as through a glass darkly; but I feel the strongest desire to see him face to face, to be like him, and to enjoy his presence forever.'" 66 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord !” 24. "ME," A BLIND WARRIOR. THE narrative given in "Williams's Missionary Enterprizes in the South Sea Islands," of ME, an old blind warrior, is so interesting an exemplification of the simple power of Christ's truth as to demand insertion. It shows, also, that the energy of the Gospel is the same in all climes, and among all people: "On the first Sabbath after my return I missed old Me, and not receiving the hearty grasp of congratulation from him to which I was accustomed, I inquired of one of the deacons where he was, when he informed me that he was exceedingly ill, and not expected to recover. I determined, therefore, to visit him immediately. On |