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his promising plans of future usefulness, and quench 

 these hopes in death ? How endured he to leave the 

 home of affection, filled with every earthly hliss ? He 

 resigned them all cheerfully, even exultingly. When 

 informed at Albany, in the latter part of the day, that 

 his case might terminate fatally, he slept that night as 

 soundly as if he had been told he would soon be well 

 again ; and when his wife, thinking he must have mis- 

 understood the decision of the physicians, asked him if 

 he knew what the physicians had said, he replied that 

 he did it was the will of God, and he would do what 

 was best. When again, twenty-four hours before his 

 death, the same faithful friend broke to him the message 

 from his physician, that he had but few hours to live, he 

 said, this is sudden, and begged, as his head felt con- 

 fused, to be left to himself a little while. He closed his 

 eyes, and continued in prayer and meditation for perhaps 

 half an hour, and then opened them, exclaiming, " O 

 glorious immortality: all is peace; " and, from this mo- 

 ment, spake of his departure with all the cheerfulness of 

 one who was about to set out on a pleasant journey. 

 On Sunday morning, the day of his death, contrary to 

 the expectation of the family, who supposed they had 

 taken their last earthly leave of him, he opened his eyes, 

 which beamed with their wonted animation and cheer- 

 fulness, and he spoke to them all again with a kind of 



