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Feb. 26, 1887.

central window. He sat thus while
the [?] Deum was chanted, and the
choir voiced the thought of those
who looked upon him, while they
uttered the words: "Make them to
be numbered with Thy saints in
glory everlasting."

His health remained good up to a
few days before is death. The last
illnss was short and of compara-
tively little suffering. He took a
severe cold, inducing an attack of
pneumonia, and the end came swift-
ly. In the early dawn of Sexages-
ima Sunday, Feb. 13th, his family
were summoned to his bedside. The
last change had come suddenly, and
the tide of life was rapidly ebbing
away. As he waked ffrom sleep and
knew that the day was breaking, he
fervently uttered his thanksgiving
and last morning prayer: "Thank
God that He has kept me through
the darkness of another night, and
brought me to the light of the morn-
ing!

Keep me, O keep me, King of Kinds,
Under Thine Own almighty wings."

These were among his last words;
weary with the weight of nearly
eighty-nine years, just as the sun
rose on the Lord's Day, he gently
"feel on sleep," as an infant goes to
its innocent slumbers. "Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord, and
blessed are they to whom such good
examples are [?] Dear to