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he, “ it is good, it is good ; — tlien I shall be saved ! 
Jesus will not send my soul to hell. Ah, ah ! my 
heart is light now : it was dark before, but now it 
is light : fear made my heart dark ; and sin made 
me afraid — afraid of God ; afraid of you ; afraid of 
death; afraid of judgment. Oh, Mr. Yate! since 
I have thought at all, I have always been afraid/’ 
— I repeated this text to him : “ Jesus Christ came 
to deliver them who, through fear of death, were 
all their life-time subject to bondage.” His reply 
was: “ Oh, Mr. Yate! why did not you tell me 
that before ? But you did tell it me: I remember 
it now : you spoke to us in the chapel, one day a 
long time ago, about that. Aye, I remember it 
now: wliy did not I remember it before, and ask 
Jesus Clirist to deliver me?'’ 
He continued in this teachable frame of mind 
to the very last. His only anxiety was, to see his 
wife and child baptized before his death. A day 
was appointed for that purpose ; and he was de- 
sirous, and expected to be able to bear being 
carried to the chapel, to witness the baptism of 
those whom he held most dear on earth. But, 
when the day arrived, he was so weak, so ill, and 
so near to death, that he could not be removed. 
He was only permitted to hear of, and not to see, 
that for which he had so earnestly longed. His 
last hours were peace. He died in a full persua- 
sion that his sins were washed away in the blood 
of Jesus. No cloud seemed to overshadow his 
path to glory ; and no thoughts of this world 
