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was yet unwilling to believe that it would prove mortal. 

 Until a few days previous to his death, his hopes, and 

 probably the tenor of his thoughts, turned on living ; 

 still when told plainly that it was thought he would soon 

 die, he was not discomposed. " This is sudden," he said, 

 "and is it really so? does the physician think so?" 

 Being answered in the affirmative, he said, " then leave 

 me a little while to myself," — and closing his eyes he 

 seemed to give himself to reflection and prayer, till some 

 half hour had passed — when, turning himself to his wife 

 at his bedside, he exclaimed — " glorious immortality !" 

 and from that moment he manifested no further care for 

 life, or any thing pertaining to it, but with the tenderest 

 affection to all about him, and ardent breathings after 

 heaven, he waited for his departure. 



With two or three reflections I shall conclude. 



1. The Providence of God was remarkably manifested 

 in leading on our departed friend in his distinguished 

 course. Though more than most young men addicted to 

 forethought and system and perseverance ■ — his final 

 course was altogether aside from any original plan or de- 

 sign of his own, or any of his friends. The first design 

 concerning him was his education at college ; when this 

 was abandoned, it was, that he should become a farmer ; 

 and when first he went abroad to qualify himself as a 

 teacher, little did he, or others, suppose that while yet in 



