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spicuous: With wit at will, a lively imagination and brilliant 
fancy, yet w-ere these in such subjection to the feelings of 
those he conversed with, that he never tinged the cheek of 
diffidence, or wounded the bosom even of guilt or folly.”—. 
« But distinguished as these qualities made him in life, and 
endeared him to those who knew him well, yet are these cast 
in the shade, when we view him in the character of the 
Christian, professing openly, his faith, his hope and his re** 
signation in all things to the divine will. From the com¬ 
mencement to the end of his illness* he ever gave the fullest 
and the most unequivocal testimony to the gospel doctrines* 
hoping for eternal happiness, only through the mediation of 
Christ’s righteousness.” a From the earliest stage of his 
sickness, he predicted the speedy close of his important life? 
and with the fortitude and calm serenity of a Christian ; and 
during all his conflict, he never uttered a murmur or com¬ 
plaint. On the contrary, he often spoke with cheerful thank¬ 
fulness of the prosperity he had enjoyed in this life and the 
numerous blessings with which Providence had surrounded 
him, and by sometimes repeating the 103d Psalm, he ex¬ 
pressed his gratitude to God for all these mercies.” 
<c From this period also he became much abstracted from 
all temporal cares or occurrences, his previous arrange¬ 
ments making all interest in them unnecessary, his mind 
being now solely engrossed by subjects more suitable to his 
present situation and future views as they respected his sol¬ 
emn change. And on these subjects he was both persua¬ 
sive and eloquent.” 
“ In a conversation with a friend he once observed that he 
had taken great pleasure in the study of ethics and philoso¬ 
phy, but that he now found that the truest philosophy con¬ 
sisted in pardon and peace through a Mediator.”—“ This 
peace he enjoyed through the course of his long illness, and 
so highly did he esteem its heavenly origin, that he described 
it as “ passing all understanding nor would he exchange 
it, he said, for all the health, wealth and honors that time 
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