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92 felt, and if he needed any thing, he simply said, 'O, I want more grace in my heart.' "His last hours were passed in a state of unconscious stupor, and at six o'clock in the evening, he expired." About two weeks after the remains of Jacob had been buried, the credulous coloured people of the village circulated reports that his body had been removed from the grave for the purpose of dissection. To silence this conjecture, his grave was opened. His coffin was found undisturbed, and as the shroud was unfolded from his cold remains, he was reposing in the sweet sleep of death, awaiting the resurrection of the just.

I have recently returned from the place of his residence, and from a visit to his grave. I felt that I was standing amid many of the congregation to which, for years, I had proclaimed the gospel of Christ. The oldest, and many of the best of the church were sleeping around me, and yet among them all, there was none who, for ardent piety, for simple faith, for