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pensations, now came to his support, and in- 

 deed in this last extremity of life appeared 

 more bright and eminent. At one time, when 

 he had shewn his physician his wasted and 

 shrivelled legs and thighs, destitute of flesh and 

 all moisture, he said, *' And can these dry 

 bones live." We are told by one who was pre- 

 sent with him during the last days of his life, 

 that he was not only contented and willing to 

 die, but that he breathed with ardency after his 

 release from life, still with the most humble 

 resignation to the will of God. He used to ex- 

 press the sense of his heart in these words of 

 the Psalmist, '' I will bear the indignation of 

 the Lord, because I have sinned against him, 

 I will lay my mouth in the dust." In his 

 greatest extremities and agonies, he was wont 

 to set before him the great example of our Sa- 

 viour ; for he would say, " as a lamb carried 

 to the slaughter he was dumb, and opened not 

 his mouth." Those eminent virtues of humility 

 and patience, of trust and affiance in God, of 

 universal charity and good-will to men, which, 

 by the long practice of his life, had become 

 habitual and familiar to him, displayed them- 

 selves most eminently at this critical season. 

 *' We beheld," it is added, '' the graces of his 

 life triumphing over the decays of nature, and 



