86 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



to give up my account. O Heavenly Father, I implore 

 thine aid through the Spirit of truth, should my life be 

 spared another year, to enable me to live more agreeably 

 to the character of a Christian ; more agreeably to thy re- 

 vealed will, and to my own solemn professions ; and wilt 

 Thou assist me this clay to renew my covenant with Thee, 

 and, having renewed it, to keep it inviolate. 



Other proofs remain of the sincerity with which 

 he entered upon the Christian life. Thenceforward, 

 in all his plans, he had a conscious reference to the 

 Divine will and to the realities of the invisible world. 

 No one who peruses this memoir will find reason to 

 doubt that he served God. 



