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commencement of a revival of religion in this town, 

 when he was in his sixteenth year ; but it was not till 

 the summer of 1841, that, as he supposed, he truly and 

 heartily yielded himself to God, in the faith of our Lord 

 Jesus Christ. The sudden death of a companion roused 

 him from his indecision to give his mind to eternal 

 things, and by the Holy Spirit, soon resulted in his con- 

 version, and the following autumn, in his public profes- 

 sion of religion, which ever since, at home and abroad, 

 in private and in public life, in his early and later rela- 

 tions, in the even tenor of a consistent, Christian life, for 

 these eleven years, he has maintained and adorned. Con- 

 versant as his studies led him to be with the laws 

 of nature, he did not overlook the God of nature, and in 

 his professional lectures, he was not forgetful of referring 

 his hearers to the manifestations of the Creator, in the 

 works of his hand, which he led them to examine ; and 

 their relations to him as the objects of his beneficence 

 and the accountable subjects of his government. 



When he came to die, his religion did not fail him. 

 Just entering upon a profession to which he was enthusi- 

 astically devoted ; meeting in it with unlookcd for appro- 

 bation and success, and seeing a boundless field of 

 research and discovery opening before him, we do not 

 wonder that he desired to live ; nor that, when he could 

 not but know the dangerous nature of his disease, he 



