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terested course, he was heard saying— &quot;Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.&quot; And the favourite verse he quoted was that hy the Rev. John Gamhold (who died 1771)—

&quot; And when I’m to die,

Receive me, I’ll cry,

For Jesus hath lov’d me, I cannot tell why ;

But this I can find,

We two are so join’d, He’ll not be in glory and leave me behind.&quot;

He died the llth April, 1888, aged eighty-eight.

Rowland Hill was the author of the following prose works :—&quot; An Account of his Journey in Scotland and the North of England, 1800.&quot; &quot;Apology for Sunday Schools, 1801.&quot; This was to meet the remarks of the Bishop of Rochester against Sunday-schools. &quot; Village Dialogues,&quot; first edition, 1802. This was his most popular work ; many editions of it have been sold. It is full of wise sayings and useful religious instruction, and all is presented in a conversational form, and with such rusticity of manner as exactly to adapt it to the readers for whom it is designed. An improved edition was prepared about twenty years after the first. His pamphlet in favour of inoculation appeared in 1806. He also published &quot;Instructions for Children,&quot; and a &quot; Catechism for Children,&quot; and some sermons ; he also published his controversy with Wesley. His &quot; Spiritual Characteristics—A Sale of Curates by Auction,&quot; was published towards the close of his life. He also wrote for the Religious Tract Society the tracts, &quot; The Four Dialogues in Prison,&quot; and &quot; Thomas Steady and John Wild.&quot;

Rowland Hill also wrote a few hymns. One of the sermons preached at the founding of the London Missionary Society, 24th September, 1795, was by Dr. Bogue, who, rejoicing in the union of Christians of different denominations, said in his sermon, &quot; Behold us here assembled with one accord to attend the funeral of