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At two o'clock next morning, Monday the 6th of April, he breathed his last.

Thus, after having long shone as a star of bright and steady lustre in the firmament of the church, and of the world, it pleased God to command his sudden elevation to a nobler sphere,—there to shine forth with unsullied lustre, ineffable effulgence, and eternal glory! How truly honourable, how desirable, the transition! to be removed immediately, and almost imperceptibly, from the services of the sanctuary on earth, to those of the temple of God in heaven; where no intruding evil shall be permitted again to interrupt his joy or break the universal harmony for ever!

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"Let me die the death of the righteous, and let latter end be like his!".

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FATHERLY ADDRESS;

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LEGACY TO HIS FAMILY.

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FATHERLY ADDRESS.

PREFACE.

A FEW days previous to the close of the past year, the Author, in one of his missionary excursions, found his thoughts particularly arrested. Musing on the circumstance of a new year in its near approach, his mind quickly embraced the subject of the following Address. He soon found enough in the survey of the love of God, to make his meditation sweet. His family were present to his thoughts; and having something like "boldness to enter into the holiest, by the blood of Jesus," he took them with him. The exercise of prayer suggested the thought of a Fatherly Address. He rejoiced over them with great joy; and determined on opening his heart unto them, as he had been pouring it out to God for them. And should it please the "everlasting Father" to honour this

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