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regained consciousness. Mr Spence was born at FrencUaw near 

 Whitsome, where his father occupied a small farm, and he was 

 in a great measure self-educated. He was pastor over Hound- 

 wood Free Church for thirty-six years. It was chiefly through 

 his instrumentality that a new Free Church was erected at Ees- 

 ton. He was the author of a very beautiful tribute to the memory 

 of the late George Buchan of Kelloe in the " Disruption Wor- 

 thies." Mr Spence's Christian excellence, his earnest but unob- 

 trusive and untiring efforts among his people, and his missionary 

 zeal, joined to a gentle and persuasive manner, made him a 

 general favourite. His death will make a general blank in the 

 locality where he was so much esteemed. He had a fund of curi- 

 ous information, the result of his early experience, about the 

 people of a bypast age, with which he used to enliven his lectures 

 for popular instruction. He expressed very great satisfaction at 

 becoming a member of the Berwickshire Naturalist's Club, when 

 lie was proposed at Eeston in May, 1879. 



