vulsive struggle, flew to the bed, caught his head upon his shoulder, and called to one of the servants to fetch Mrs. Arnold. She had just left the room to acquaint her son with his father's danger, of which he was still unconscious, when she heard herself called from above. She rushed up stairs, told her son to bring the rest of the children, and with her own hands applied the remedies that were brought, in hope of reviving animation, though herself feeling from the moment that she saw him, that he had already passed away. The sobs and cries of his children, as they entered and saw their father's state, made no impression upon himthe eyes were fixed - there the countenance was unmoved was a heaving of the chest-deep gasps escaped at prolonged intervals and just as the usual medical attendant arrived, and as the old school-house servant, in an agony of grief, rushed with the others into the room, in the hope of seeing his master once more, he breathed his last.

WILLIAM NEVINS.

It was evident that the time of his departure was drawing nigh; when a friend entered his room, he said, "I am near my home. Blessed Saviour! Satan, I think, has tried to disturb me; but I have looked at all the ground of my hope, and I find I am on a rock. Yes, I am going home.”

After this, for many hours he said but little, until after four o'clock in the afternoon, when reviving, he said, "Out of weakness I testify that Jesus and his religion are sufficient. I should like to talk for the sake of you all. I feel weak,

but I feel peace, too. O Jesus, I chose thee, but thou first calledst me. I do not know that I shall be able to say any thing more." In a few minutes his strength seemed to return, and he said, "Oh, there is one that says, 'Fear not, I am with thee: be not dismayed.' In that I confide. O blessed Lord, thou hast said, I will never forsake thee; he does not make me to triumph exactly, but I have every disposition.

"O, to grace how great a debtor,

Daily I'm constrained to be;'

Repeat it, Jesus sought!"" Here his friend repeated,

"Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wandering from the fold of God,

He to rescue me from danger,
Interposed his precious blood."

"That will do," he said; "I mean his precious blood will do. Yes, yes, Jesus is on the other side of Jordan. The Lord's blessed will be done. That blessed heaven! Restlove to all that are absent. I recommend Christ to them; I have no other recommendation but Jesus. He has supported me all along for several weeks, and now see! his grace is sufficient for me. One there is above all others; ' sing it, O sing it; or sing, 'When I can read my title clear! One verse was sung. He became very calm, and at the close he said, "Thank the Lord for all his goodness to me." Here he sank into a slumber. At different times during the night, he said, "O for grace to be patient; when told he was patient, "Yes," said he, "but I would be patient as a lamb." At another time he said, "Precious Saviour, be with me even to the end. Won't it be sweet to fall right into the arms of Jesus?" To another he said, "Let patience have her perfect work, through much tribulation! Through much tribulation!" Rousing up, he said,

"I know not what you are about, but all I am thinking about is my precious Saviour: dear blessed One!" At eight o'clock, on the morning of the 14th, he said, "Come, my soul, thy suit prepare;' go on." The hymn book was brought, and being asked if we should sing or read, he said, "read." The first verse was read:

"Come, my soul, thy suit prepare,
Jesus loves to answer prayer:
He himself has bid thee pray,
Rise and ask without delay."

When finished, he said, "O yes, I ask for patience and help to the end. Go on."

At the end of the second verse,

"With my burden I begin,

Lord! remove this load of sin;
Let thy blood for sinners spilt,

Set my conscience free from guilt;"

He said, "Yes, yes, the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin." At the end of the third verse,

"Lord! I come to thee for rest,

Take possession of my breast,
Here thy sovereign right maintain,

And without a rival reign;"

He said, "Yes, Lord, begin thy reign whenever thou choosest, and continue it for ever." At the close of the fourth verse,

"Show me what I have to do,

Every hour my strength renew;
Let me live a life of faith,

Let me die thy people's death;"

He added, "Lord, thou seest what poor creatures we all are. Bless us all and strengthen us. Dear Saviour, thou givest me some suffering, but nothing compared to what many saints and thyself suffered." About five o'clock, on

Monday, he asked to be raised up, and said, "Death

minutes his spirit was gone. It is confidently believed, that "he fell right into the arms of Jesus," in whom he sleeps until the morning of the resurrection.

WILBUR FISK.

REV. WILBUR FISK, son of Hon. Isaiah Fisk, was born in Brattleborough, Vt., August 31st, 1792. In early youth he exhibited great precocity of mind, a great fondness for books, and an unquenchable desire after knowledge. His parents were eminently devout, and watched with the utmost solicitude the development of his mental and moral powers. "Mrs. Fisk was very assiduous in impressing upon the minds of her children the great principles of Christianity. She took them early and constantly to the church; made it a particular business to read to them the Word of God; required them to learn the catechism, and commit texts, hymns, and prayers to memory. She had the happy art, too, of rendering these things more a pleasure than a burden. According to their capacity, she was almost constantly stimulating them to thought and inquiry by her conversation with them. They regarded it as a day strictly set apart for religious uses, and hence the time not spent in public worship was occupied in family instruction. They neither paid, nor received calls or visits on the Sabbath day. Yet their piety was so mild and cheerful, and their house

hold governed with such uniform consistency, that the Sabbath was far from being a dull or gloomy day."

With such a faithful training, it is not surprising that his mind was early subject to religious impressions. At the age of eleven, his attention was powerfully arrested by the death of his little brother; sincere penitence for sin, and a thorough change of heart and life, obvious to all that knew him, soon followed, and he connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church.

His ardent thirst for knowledge induced his father to send him for a short time to an academy in Peacham, an adjoining town; and afterwards, chiefly by his own exertions in teaching winter schools, &c., he obtained a suitable preparation for college, and entered the Sophomore class of the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1812. In 1813, the buildings of the college, in the fortunes of war, became the barracks of the soldiers of the northern army, during their winter quarters, and instruction was suspended. In the summer of 1814, Mr. Fisk entered Brown University, at Providence, Rhode Island, and continued there, exhibiting marked tokens of superiority and excellent scholarship, until an honorable graduation in 1815.

During the period in which he had been engaged in his studies, his interest in religion had gradually decreased, and was at this time nearly lost.

When he came, therefore, to the choice of a profession, although it had been the earnest desire and prayer of his father, that he might be a minister of the gospel, his own tastes led him in an entirely different direction, and he commenced the study of the law in Lyndon, Vt., then the residence of his parents. Afterwards a very favorable opportunity offering for a private tutorship in the family of Col.

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