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most mysterious providence that he should have 
been cut down at the very period when he had the 
immediate prospect of carrying out several wise 
and benevolent plans which were caculated to 
alleviate suffering and extend the benefits of 
medical knowledge over the Colony, and on tlie 
acconiplishment of whicli he had set his heart. 
But He " who doeth all things well," knew what 
was best, and deatii found our friend fully pre- 
pared for the last conflict and the great cliange : — 
prepared not by reference to the useful life he 
had led, but to the foundation on which, as he 
averred, he had resff"! for .30 years and which was 
the mainspring ol lii.-i every holy thought and 
good action through life— the atonement of the 
Son of God. " It is all riglit" was his repeated 
declaration as to spiritual tilings ; and in the 
midst of physical suli'ering, which was occasionally 
severe, such was the composure of his mind that 
throughout his illness he continued to watch his 
own symptoms, which from the first he pronounced 
to be fatal. It was affecting to notice him feeling 
his own pulse and drawing inferences from its 
character almost to the moment when pulsation 
ceased — and when one of the warmest, noblest 
and most generous hearts that beat in human 
breast, gave its last heave and was for ever still. 
All that was mortal of Dr. Elliott died at \ past 
9 yesterdaj', Sunday, 22nd May. 
(From the " Ceylon Exmniner") 
Christopher Elliott. 
One bright career was over. 
Another scarce begun : — 
Death crossed his path of usefulness, 
And left us all one friend the less — 
The tried and valued ONE. 
And though amongst the living. 
They may be others such. 
As true, as noble-hearted. 
As the good man departed : — 
Yet WHO hath done so mucli. 
In striving for our welfare, 
In battling for the right ; 
In works of love, in acts of faith. 
In turning hearts from Sin and Deatii 
To realms of Life and Lighl '; 
Careless of those who wislied him ill, 
(Tlie paltry few alwve him,) 
Hi^ left no work of good undone, 
Outlived the slanders, one by one, 
And forceil his foes to lo\e him. 
And those who scorned or envied him 
For deeds which shamed their own, 
Forgot at last the I'artizan, 
In the generous, frank and honest man. 
And wept that he was gone. 
Siu'h was the man we've lost- - 
The good, the noble-hearted : 
Each tear that tuld our heai I'n regret) 
Was a joy in heaven, wUiu angels met 
To welcome the Departed. 
C, A. L. 
(From the "Ceylon Overland Observer") 
Colombo, 26tU May, 1859. 
W e shall be pardoned if on this occasion we 
refer, at the outset, to the loss the Colony has 
sustained in the death of Dr. C. Elliott, a gentle- 
man who for nearly a quarter of a century took 
an active and useful part in the discussion of 
every question connected with the interests of 
Ceylon and its people. He arrived in 18.S4 in the 
ca[)acity of Colonial Surgeon, and was for some 
six months stationed at Badulla. He then re- 
signed the service, and settled in Colombo, where 
for well nigh twenty-four years he was before the 
public as Editor and Proprietor of the Colombo 
Observer. In June last year he obtained the ap- 
pointment of Principal Civil Medical Officer of 
Ce^'lon, an office for which he was well qualified 
by skill and e.\.periepce in his profession, while 
the confidence with which all classes of the Native 
inhabitants regarded him, opened up to him a 
special and extensive prospect of usefulness. But 
just as he had got settled in his office and was 
about to carry out his plans of usefulness, he way 
attacked by rapid and fatal dysentery, under 
which he sunk at Colombo, on Sunday the 22nd 
instant. He was not quite 50 when he died, but 
he was eminently a man who " lived while he 
lived." Naturally buoyant and conscientiously 
active, he crowded the exertions and the events 
of many ordinary life-times into his own. In the 
strife of politics, of course he must have some- 
times erred, and often failed to command credit 
for the good intentions by which he was always 
actuated. But no earthly consideration could 
induce him to swerve from the avowal of his 
sincere convictions in politics or religion ; and as 
years passed away and prejudices softened down, 
his really excellent qualities of head and heart 
became generally appreciated, and he was admit- 
ted to be a good as well as an able man. The 
j immense attendance at his funeral shewed the 
respect in which his memoi-y was held. A notice 
of his dying hours — which were cheered by un- 
shaken Christian faith — will be found elsewhere. 
j {7'rom the "Examiner," Saturday, June 4, 1859.) 
MEMORIAL OF DR. ELLIOTTS 
SERVICES. 
To THE Editor of the "Examiner." 
Dear Sir, — I have read with cordial feelings 
tlie excellent verses published in one of your late 
periodicals, on the death of Dr. Elliott. In him, 
indeed Ceylon lost one of her most beloved 
benefactors. Now, sir, shall we pass by such a 
lamentable event without doing sonictliiiig to 
perpetuate amongst us the memory of that great 
and beloved man? Surdy not: the nnspeakahl.' 
Value of Dr. Elliott) wagoodmau. ai^l ^^'"^1 l"^' 
