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England, those good principles with which 
the very name of Pitcairn has been so long 
and so happily associated. 
As their religion has been full of good fruits, 
so it has been of a quiet, sensible, and unosten- 
tatious kind. Inquiry having been made of 
Mr. Nobbs by some persons in the United 
States of America, a few years since, as to any 
instances of sudden and extraordinary conver- 
sion, which might have fallen under his notice, 
he replied, that his experience did not furnish 
any such cases from Pitcairn. In answer to 
the questions put to him, he remarked, in 
reference to the death-bed of Polly Adams, 
which will be found noticed in a subsequent 
page, as well as to some other instances : 
" Had inquiry been made for examples of 
HAPPY DEATHS, I could have replied with 
unmitigated satisfaction ; for I have seen 
many depart this life, not only happy, but 
triumphant. And herein is, I think, the test 
of the Christian character ; for when we see 
a person, who for a number of years has not 
only in word but in deed adorned the doctrine 
of God our Saviour in all things, brought by 
sickness or casualty to the confines of the 
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