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clue to God; yet we may be allowed to thank God for sending 
such a servant, to benefit his cause on earth, and express our heart- 
felt regret, that he was so soon removed, for he had not yet com- 
pleted his tiftj-ninth year. 
The cause of his death was an excrescence in the vitals, of the 
nature of a common wen, which, had it gathered in any external 
part, according to the opmion of the surgeons, might have been re- 
moved without much, if any pain. 
May my end, whenever it pleases God to call me hence, be like 
his, as full of peace and assurance of eternal bliss, through the me- 
rits of my Redeemer. 
30th. We were to-day in the latitude of Corvo, one of the Azores, 
but too far to the westward to see it. The wind was rather high, 
and the sea turbulent. I finished reading Goldsmith's history of 
Greece. Both that, and his history of Rome are excellent, lumi- 
nous compendiums. 'i'hey show what the boasted pretensions of 
man are, without the influence of the Spirit of God. Can ttiere be 
any thing more diabolical than th.^ conduct of these people, once 
the most enlightened of mankmd by the powers of human reason. 
December 1st. Advent-Sunday. I read with peculiar delight the 
portions of Scripture appointed in our Church for this day, and 
was in spirit among those, who with heart and voice ang " Hosan- 
na, blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord." In a con- 
versation with the Captain this evening, I was led to express my 
thoughts concerning the present mode of education in tlie world, 
which, in general, rather forbids, than " sutfers little children to 
come to Jesus," though not from the same generous, but mistaken 
views, which made His disciples consider them troublesome. But it 
is said, that if men are to live in the world, and to be a match for 
it, they ought to be made acquainted with its Avays in early youth, 
and not brought up too religiously. 1 sometimes thought, that by 
the care taken to preserve me from the ways, lusts, fashions, and 
ensnaring pleasures of the world, I had missed much; but from 
what I have seen, since it has been in my power, to know more 
