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 this life on the 10th January, 1841, at the ripe age of 75 years, after serving his Lord and Master, as an elder in the church, for the space of thirty years. He was a man full of zeal for the glory of the Lord's house, and though bending under the weight of years, yet his ardor was not cooled, nor his interest in the church in the least abated. As he lived, so he died: with heaven in his view, the promises of his God to lean upon, and the grace of Christ to sustain, cheer, and lighten up his pathway as he "walked through the dark valley and shadow of death." The church mourned his loss sincerely, for they deeply felt "that a great man had fallen in Israel," when death laid its iron arm upon him, and laid him in the dust. He is gone, but what is loss to the church is gain to him. We believe, from the life he lived, the death he died, that he has entered into that rest that remains for the people of God. Such was the increase of members that joined the church, and the press of business upon the pastor and elders, that it was found necessary, about this time, to seek out a man upon whom some of the growing wants of the church might be apportioned. Such a man was found in the person of Mr. Jessie Turner, then a young man of deep piety, sound judgment, and possessed of a large share of discrimination, qualities necessary to constitute an efficient elder. Such being the views entertained of Mr. Turner, he was elected to the office of a ruling elder, and ordained by Mr. Charles Gardner, on the 19th day of January, 1840. At the time that Mr. Gardner became the pastor of the church, there were about 130 members. It will be borne in mind that the membership was reduced to the stated number on account of the division that took place, and some by removals to other locations, and a few by death, so that my readers need not be