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Rh faithful to every trust. Often have I seen him on the morning of the Sabbath, when the family were absent, locking the front door and putting the key in his pocket proceed to church, showing the confidence which was reposed in him by his employers, and his habits of uniform attendance upon the service of the sanctuary. Here he found his greatest pleasure. He could say, with the psalmist, "Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary, and thy law do I love." He was an attentive and an intelligent hearer of the gospel, and found his home and highest delight in the place of prayer.

Every thing now favoured his intelligent growth in grace and in all the virtues of the divine life, and probably at no time did he know mo of the consolations of religion, and walk more consistently as a Christian. To many it has been a matter of surprise, that one so old, so ignorant and with so few associations, should become so uniformly devout, consistent and happy in his religious character. An