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 communion: but they are passed away, and the savour only, sad yet sweet, remains. "Farewell, dear friend, till the morning of an eternal day renew our personal intercourse!" May I meet thee in a better world.

I cannot but connect the closing hours of my beloved friend, with that affecting prayer which he has breathed in the Young Cottager. (Part IV.) He had been describing the useful course and peaceful termination of a little rivulet, which glides through a very lovely glen, by which he was meditating. "May my course be like unto thine, thou little rivulet! Though short be my span of life, yet may I be useful to my fellow-sinners as I travel onwards! Let me be a dispenser of spiritual support and health to many! Like this stream may I prove the poor man's friend by the way, and water the souls that thirst for the river of life, wherever I meet them! And if it pleases thee, O my God,