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 at Canandaigua, paid the following tribute to the memory of this servant of Christ.

"Two weeks ago to-morrow Jacob spent not less than two hours with me in my study. We had much conversation in relation to himself. Among other things, he said, and from the connexion in which he said it, I know that it was not in the spirit of boasting, 'I have how lived ten years in Canandaigua: every body knows black Jacob, at least by sight, and I challenge all, men, women and children, to say, if I have ever injured any body, or done anything inconsistent with my profession, except that I have not been as humble and as much like my blessed Master as I ought to have been: and this I know better than anybody can tell me; and I am ashamed and mourn for it.' This was saying much; more, I fear, than many of us dare say; but we must all confess that it was a safe challenge for Jacob.

"Some things I would particularly say