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The next morning he appeared, if any thing, to rally a little; and when he opened his eyes upon us, and saw us standing near him, he began to address us again in the same calm and deliberate manner as before. He then said, Infinite wisdom has devised the whole with infinite love; and infinite power enables me... [pausing] [pausing]... to rest upon that power; and all is infinitely good and gracious. All is right and well, and just as it should be! I am in a dear Father's hands! All is secure. When I look to Him I see nothing but faithfulness-and immutabilityand truth; and I have not a doubt or a fear, but the sweetest peace. I cannot have more peace. But if I look another way-to the poor creature-Oh! then there is nothing -nothing-nothing but what is to be abhorred and mourned over. Yes, I say that; and it is true.' Soon after this he fell into a state of great stupor, which continued till after ten o'clock at night; when, suddenly recovering, and being raised up in his bed, he again began, What is before me I know not; whether I shall live or die. But this I know, that all things are ordered and sure. Every thing is ordered with unerring wisdom and unbounded love.' He then addressed one of his dearest friends in the most earnest and affectionate manner, thanking him for all his kindness, and expressing his earnest wishes for his best interests in time and eternity. After this, he mentioned how anxious he had

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always been that his faculties might be preserved to the last, that he might be enabled to prove to all the power of those principles, which he had professed and preached through life, now to sustain in death. He then looked round very seriously upon us and said, You seem all to be anticipating what will not yet take place-I am not yet about to die : I know I am not; I feel that I am not yet ready.' Dear Sir,' I said, and what is wanting ?' He replied in a very slow and serious manner, 'Greater humiliation more simple affiance-and more entire surrender.' I ventured to say, Well, Sir, He will make all perfect. Yes,' he replied, that He will.' After a short

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pause he proceeded, And my body is not yet sufficiently reduced to allow my soul to depart. I know assuredly that I shall not die just yet; you are all disappointing yourselves if you expect that now. My bodily vigour is very great, and I feel that there is yet much to be done, before my soul can depart.' He lived after this for more than three weeks.

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'Nothing could exceed the calmness and dignity both of his spirit and manner. As we were afraid of exhausting him, we all left the There had been present a larger number of persons than usual, arising from a circumstance which it is but right to explain. His nurses, apprehending that he was on the very point of death, had suddenly called me in; and upon my hastening to his side, I was followed by two of his friends who had just arrived, and his three servants. These were all who were present. But not exactly perceiving who were in the room, and not knowing that they were there merely by accident, he soon after sent for me, and in a very serious and affecting manner expressed his deep disapprobation of what he had seen; telling me that we were all wrong,

adding, You want to see what is
called a dying scene.
That I ab-
hor from my inmost soul. I wish
to be alone with my God, and to
lie before Him as a poor, wretch-
ed, hell-deserving sinner-yes, as
a poor hell-deserving sinner; ...
[then, very slowly] but I would
also look to him as my all-forgiv-
ing God-and as my all-sufficient
God-and as my all-atoning God
-and as my covenant-keeping

God. There I would lie before
him as the vilest of the vile, and
the lowest of the low, and the
poorest of the poor. Now this is
what I have to say: I wish to be
alone-don't let people come round
to get up a scene.'

He was evidently very much hurt at the thought of even his friends coming round to disturb the privacy which he always wished for in his dying hour. This was confirmed by almost his first remark to me the next morning. Now I was much hurt,' he said, at the scene last night: a scene ! -a death bed scene I abhor from

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with him, and told him that I had ventured to repeat to the young men some of his remarks, that they might know the power of Christian principles to sustain and gladden in the last hour of weakness. Yes,' said he, it is to the principles I look. It is upon the broad grand principles of the Gospel that 1 repose-it is not upon any particular promise here or there; any little portions of the word, which some people seem to take comfort from; but I wish to look at the grand whole-at the vast scheme of redemption as from Eternity to Eternity. Then, after speaking of his bodily weakness, and the effect it might have on his spiritual feelings, he added, But however that may be, I wish to point out this distinction in my case: that I am not solicitous so much about this feeling or that, or this state or that, as upon keeping before me the grand purposes of Jehovah from Eternity to Eternity. Now I might wish to be able to go out to take a good walk so also in my soul I my inmost soul. No!' he con- might wish to be able to go forth tinued, smiting three times slowly and survey all the glories of heaven, upon his breast, No! I am, I and the blessedness of that place : know, the chief of sinners; and I there might, however, be something hope for nothing but the mercy of in all that to be suspected. But in God through Jesus Christ, to life taking the great revelation of Himeternal: and I shall be, if not the self which God has given us, there greatest monument of God's mercy I rest upon Him, and not upon in heaven, yet the very next to it; myself. I do not depend upon for I know of none greater.' Then feelings and thoughts, which are after a short pause he added, And changing and uncertain, but I am if we are to bring the matter to a kept by Him who changes not.' point, it lies in a nut-shell, and it I quoted the passage, "I am the is here I look, as the chief of Lord, I change not, therefore : sinners, for the mercy of God in sons of Jacob are not consumed." Christ Jesus to life eternal. . "Yes! that is the true view of the [Then, very deliberately] And I matter as it appears to me. For, lie adoring the sovereignty of God after all, what are a man's prayers in choosing such an one-and the and thoughts before Him? It canmercy of God in pardoning such an not depend upon a few poor, broone-and the patience of God in ken, puling words; nor do I debearing with such an one-and the pend upon these. But again I say, faithfulness of God in perfecting I take the glorious and majestic his work and performing all his discoveries which God has made promises to such an one.' to me of Himself, and there I rest.' He then added, smiling as he used

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to do when he would qualify any strong statement, about which he himself had no doubt; I may be wrong in my view-though I think I am not; ... [then, very solemnly and slowly] but, however, this I know, that I am a poor lost and vile sinner; yea! the chief of sinners, and the greatest monument of God's mercy and I know I cannot be wrong here.'

For a day or two after this his whole mind seemed engaged in perfecting a scheme for four sermons upon that passage, Eph. iii. 18, 19:

That you may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God." 'This,' said he, is the grandest subject I can conceive for a course of sermons, and I should think a life well spent, even out of heaven, to write and deliver four sermons upon this subject in a manner worthy of it.' He then dictated, with remarkable precision, the outlines of four sermons upon this text.

'After this he was harassed at times with the most acute pains, all of which he endured with uniform patience and unusual gentleness. Once indeed, when he expressed his surprise that he should be so long in dying, I quoted these texts: "I will wait all my appointed time." "He will make all thy bed in thy sickness." "Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing; and then one of his own expressions, All is ordered in infinite wisdom and unbounded love.' He immediately He immediately replied, in a very affecting and striking way, And that is quite sufficient for me.' His pain after this was so violent at times, that

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we did not venture to obtrude upon him any remarks of our own, and he was hourly becoming too weak to articulate any thing beyond a few short words. The last words I addressed to him were on Friday night, Nov. 11; his hands were extended on the bed, his eyes closed, and his head supported on one side by pillows. I gently took his withered hand in mine, and then solemnly pronounced the benediction: "The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee; the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." and give thee peace." He faintly endeavoured to say Amen,' and after that he spoke no more.'

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On Saturday, Nov. 19, his earthly remains were deposited in the vaults of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, amidst the tears of an overwhelming multitude. The procession attending the corpse occupied three sides of the quadrangle of King's College, and on entering the anti-chapel, passed between the thronging multitudes of his. former congregation. It was calculated that nearly a THOUSAND gownsmen were present; among whom were many individuals occupying high and important situaations in the University; all of whom appeared deeply impressed. On the following day, the mournful event was improved by appropriate sermons, in several places of worship in Cambridge and in various other places; many of these discourses, are already before the public, while the Christian world in general are waiting with no small anxiety for the promised Memoir, from the pen of the Rev. WILLIAM CARUS, his highly esteemed friend and successor in the Church of the HOLY TRINITY, CAMBRIDge.

THE CHRISTIAN'S DUTY AT THE PRESENT CRISIS.

SIR,It appears to be almost universally acknowledged, that our lot is cast in trying and troublous times; the enemies both of Church and of State are determined, powerful, politic, and sanguine of success; while many of the friends of religion if not dispirited, are yet alarmed, apprehensive, and foreboding a tremendous conflict, fearing the approach of times of trial, such as have not been since the beginning of the world, and scenes of confusion, violence, and iniquity, for which no parallel can be found in the records of history.

In such gloomy forebodings I do not participate. I am not insensible to the threatened danger. Such statements as follow cannot be read without exciting painful feelings; but they should be read, in order that those who are zealous for the truth upon the earth, may be roused from their apparent apathy, and stimulated to tions in some degree commensurate with the existing danger.

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The following important intelligence appears in a late number of the Oxford Herald:

That the ranks of the Papal force in this country have increased in strength seems to be unquestionable, if we take the numerations of diligent enquirers, as statements verified with that patience and impartiality, which the nature of the subject required. When in 1767 the Earl of Radnor moved for a return of the Roman Catholics in England and Wales, that return, as made to the House of Lords, gave 67,916 as their numerical strength; a like return was made in 1780-it is referred to by Bishop Porteus in his letter to the Clergy of his Diocese of Chester, and it presents no more than the trifling increase of 1460 in thirteen years, an increase, much below that which might have been

expected from the increase of population during that period. But, can the same thing be alleged as to the spread of Popery in the present day? With respect to numbers, nothing but a Parliamentary return as in 1767 and 1780 can satisfactorily verify the amount of the present increase-it must, however, be considerable, if it be proportionate to the increase of Romish schools and places of worship. We are assured that forty years ago there were but thirty chapels in England and Wales; there are now, or rather there were, in 1835, 421 built, and eleven building, besides monasteries for men, and nunneries for women, and colleges for adults, and schools for children, and 700 priests to conduct the services of the Church of Rome, and a large supply of Jesuits to inculcate her principles and practice.'

While a correspondent in the same paper observes,—

We have lived to see the day when the Treasurers of the Society de propagandâ fide, at Rome, are united with those of the Leopoldine Society of Vienna, to forward the ambitious projects of the Roman See in this country. We have just been informed of the mission of two Popish peers to the court of Rome, to negociate the preliminaries of some measure about to be undertaken in furtherance of its designs. We have this week read an account of a Popish banquet, under the superintendence of the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Spencer, on which occasion, for the first time publicly since the Reformation, the health of his Holiness Pope Gregory was drunk with the most menacing applause, by 100 of his adherents, men of high degree from among the priesthood and laity of the Papal church. But this would be but a very imperfect account of the efforts of the Roman See in

England and Ireland, if I were not to tell of the monasteries and nunneries, the seminaries and colleges, the chapels and churches, with a well organized body of secular and regular clergy, all devoted to the interests of Rome, and at this time actively employed in the work of seducing men (bewildered by the conflicting doctrines of sectarian preachers) into a surrender of all their opinions to the infallible old gentleman in the Vatican.

If this were all, we should have much to apprehend from the unprincipled and no-principled state of religious opinion which so extensively prevails, and from these efforts of Rome to profit in the general scramble for converts. But in addition to these grounds of apprehension, we have Popery among the Lords and in the CommonsPopery in the Privy Council, the Cabinet and the Palace-Popery in the courts and circuits of public justice-in short, in all high places of trust, dignity, emolument and influence, legislative and executive, judicial and magisterial, fiscal and diplomatic-all these departments are laid open to the machinations of Popery, all these streams of official influence are tainted by its corruptions. How very illiberal!' will be the reprobation of some of those very sentimental blunderers, who are daily mistaking the stratagems of perfidy for the evidences of good faith, and who suppose that the open hand of fellowship will be able to ward off the heavy blows alternately directed by Papal fraud and violence against the Church and the Crown, the Constitution and welfare of the empire. But let liberalism do its worst in calling right, wrong-and craft, candour-and deadly hatred, good will-or in devising any other substitutions of falsehoods for truththe day is fast approaching when things will be sure to be called by their proper names, and the Jesuit FEBRUARY, 1839.

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and the Jacobin will hear their designs rightly characterized by the honest indignation of an undeceived people, as knavish and nefarious.'

So lively are the anticipations of success which the Romanists themselves entertain, that despite the provisions of the emancipation bill itself, the Romish Hierarchy have ventured to appear in public procession, clad in gaudy vestments, and with all the pomp and circumstance of their idolatrous paraphernalia, in open day in the town of Leeds; and have proceeded with their titular Bishop in full pon

tificals to the consecration of a Mass House, or what I believe they call a Romish Cathedral, newly erected in that populous place; nor does this audacious proceeding appear to have produced any very deep impression on the minds of spectators, but to have passed away as a matter of, comparatively speaking, small importance.

There are indeed some peculi. arities in the ecclesiastical state of Leeds at this moment, which very possibly have contributed to embolden the minds of the Romanists on the one hand, and to diminish the acuteness of feeling among nominal Protestants on the other; but still the facts of the case remain the same; and those facts are decisive as to the rapid growth of Popish impudence, and assumption in the Metropolis, as it may be called, of the West Riding; and when these circumstances are taken in connexion with certain proceedings in other parts of the kingdom, with the progress of events in Ireland, in Canada, in Prussia, and other Continental states, and with the avowed intention of introducing a system of national education amongst ourselves, entirely unconnected with religion, the result will be a full conviction of impending dangers which may well excite the apprehension of every British Christian

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