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74 stability and devotion to the cause of his Master. Indeed, he was regarded by his pastor and by the whole church, as an eminent Christian, daily growing in grace and seeking to render himself useful in the humble and limited sphere of his influence. My successor at Canandaigua, the Rev. Mr. Thompson, has informed me that in a recent revival of religion in that place, Jacob was peculiarly animated and refreshed. "I have often thought," he says, "that Jacob shared more largely in its blessings than any of us. Perhaps in this he was receiving his earthly reward, for no one could more justly claim to have been the favoured instrument of that work, than himself. His mind had been remarkably exercised for a long time, and for months his intense anxiety for the religious state of the people had been manifest in his prayers and in his whole conversation. Late in the winter of 1840 we were blessed with the evident indications of the presence of the Holy Spirit.