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man under whose preaching he was first impressed, and ultimately brought to God.

David Jackson had his trials. His excellent wife, with whom he lived happily for thirty-s 7-seven years, his son, who reached twenty-nine years of age, and his other children, who died young, all preceded him to the grave. Nearly all his contemporaries passed away before him. David was not without his peculiarities. There was about him a strongly-marked individuality. Many of his sayings were very original and striking. These, in a large measure, pervaded his last conversations with reference to the final conflict, and his hopes concerning the great future. To a friend whom he visited for the last time a few weeks before he died, he said, on leaving, "Good-bye, and God bless you. I shall soon see the King in His beauty, in His beauty, in His beauty."

The Rev. Richard Martin, who visited him several times during his last affliction, gives the following particulars of three very interesting conversations with him. On the 20th of April, 1870, Mr. Jackson said to him, "There is a glorious provision for my salvation. I have no righteousness of my own, but I have a righteousness, The Lord our righteousness.' 939 He then quoted Isaiah lxiii. 9.

On another occasion, he said, "I have been a Local-preacher since 1820. I have been a rough one; but I have had some gracious times, and I

enjoyed the services while I was able to go."

On the 14th of May, Mr. Martin conversed with David for the last time, when he remarked, "I don't know what I want here now." In answer to the observation, "You are waiting the call of Jesus," he said, "Yes, that is it. I have been a wonderful knock-about man. I shall be in the kingdom soon: then I will shout above a bit."

On the evening of Sunday, May 22nd, it was evident that the closing scene was drawing nigh. To friends who visited him on that evening he said,

"I am going home."

The next morn

ing he repeated this expression to his attendant; and in a few minutes, without a sigh or a groan, "the silver cord " was "loosed," and he was gathered home to God.

His remains were followed to their last resting-place not only by a large number of the members of the Methodist Society, but by many others by whom he had been beloved, and who wished to pay this last mark of respect to the memory of departed worth. At the funeral sermon, which was preached in the Wesleyan-Methodist chapel, St. John Street, to a crowded congregation, by the writer of this sketch, members of different Churches were present. The name of David Jackson is still fresh and fragrant in and around Chester. His "memory" is "blessed."

J. P.

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JANUARY 19th, 1875.-At Hawes, Mrs. Eliza Whaley. Her maiden name was Smith. She was born at Middleham, in November, 1814. For her religious impressions she was largely indebted to the counsels, instructions, prayers, and example of her pious mother: but it was not until the close of the year 1843, when watching by the bedside of her youngest sister,

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whose earthly life was at that time trembling in the balance, that she gave herself fully to the Lord, and happily realised a sense of the forgiveness of her sins.

After her marriage she resided in Hawes, and for some thirty years evinced an earnest desire to do good,-visiting the sick, assiduously labouring in the Sabbath-school, and

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the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." She has left a precious legacy to her surviving friends in the bright example of a consistent Christian life. She "being dead, yet speaketh." J. W. S.

February 21st.-At Pentrefelin, Llangollen, North Wales, Mrs. Elizabeth Scaddon, at the ripe age of eighty years. When a child, she was surrounded by the genial influences of Cornish Methodism, and, while yet in her teens, she accepted Christ as her Saviour, and became a member of the Wesleyan-Methodist Society in the St. Ives Circuit. The profession she then made of devotion to the Lord Jesus was maintained consistently to the day of her death. Her piety shone at home, and its effects are seen in the fact, that all the members of her family are united to that branch of the Church of God to which she was attached. The last twenty-five years of her life were spent at Ramshaw, in the Shotley Bridge Circuit; and, during nearly the whole of this time, her house was the home where the preachers of the Gospel found hearty welcome and loving hospitality.

She was much attached to the means of grace. The class-meeting was not to her an irksome and unwelcome necessity of membership in Methodism, but a channel of spiritual blessing. To the close of her life she prized it most highly; and her greatest regret during her last illness was, that she was unable either to worship God in the sanctuary or to bear testimony for Him in her class. A few months before she died, she went to reside in North Wales; but her health was too much enfeebled to allow her to leave her home while there.

She bore the long illness that preceded her departure with exemplary patience, bowing in Christian submission to the will of her Lord; and when, a few moments before she died, being unable to speak, she was asked by her husband to lift her hand if Jesus was still precious to her, she immediately gave the desired signal, and then passed away to be for ever with the Lord. G.

November 26th.-At Driffield, John Temple, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. He was born on the Yorkshire Wolds, and during his youth was truly converted to God. Soon afterwards he was called to endure persecution "for righteousness' sake," being dismissed from his situation for becoming a Methodist. But he maintained his steadfastness; and, going into the north of Yorkshire, he obtained a place in the service of the late Francis Sowerby, Esq., with whom he removed, about the year 1820, to Beelsby, in Lincolnshire.

For many years he was usefully employed as a Local-preacher in the Grimsby Circuit, and, at a later period of his life, in the Driffield Circuit. He continued to preach as long as he could be lifted into the pulpit. His preaching was simple, loving, earnest; and his life was a model of Christian excellence, and won many, even among those of a higher station than his own, to Christ. As he lived, so he died.

Like Simeon, he long waited for the Redeemer; and, when about to depart, he exclaimed, "Jesus does bless me, Jesus does bless me!" For more than seventy years he was a member of the Wesleyan-Methodist branch of the Church of God, and for more than fifty a Local-preacher. T. D.

January 23rd, 1876.-At Wellington, Somerset, Mr. James Davey. He was born in the year 1813, near Ottery, in the county of Devon; but when a young man he removed to Wellington, and established himself in a business which, for nearly forty years, he conducted with unwearied industry and unwavering integrity. About 1842 he was induced by a useful Local-preacher, Mr. John Thorne, to attend a Methodist chapel, and soon sought and found the favour of God in Christ. From the day of his conversion he became " a good soldier of Jesus Christ," boldly confessing Him as his Lord and Master, faithfully rebuking sin, lovingly entreating, persuading, and encouraging the feeble-minded; and showing himself "zealously affected in " every "good thing." An evidence of the thoroughness of the spiritual change which he experienced may be found in the fact, that he was the first in the town to set his face against Sunday baking, which he persistently did in spite of strenuous opposition, and at the loss, for a time, of considerable custom. His piety was demonstrated, for more than thirty years, by uprightness and the acknowledgment of God in his business, by ardent love for the means of grace, by tender concern for the salvation of others, by hearty co-operation in the work of God, by sincere regard for truth and consistency, by generous sympathy and affection for Christians of all denominations, and by a silent, powerful influence for good which marked his whole converse and conduct. It is no

small tribute to his faithful, godly example to say, that he lived to see all his six children walking with him in "the way of righteousness." To him this was a source of rich and holy satisfaction. He traced in it the abounding mercy of God in Christ: but we may regard it also as an honour put upon his Christian fidelity, his attractive exhibition of the beauty of religion, and his earnest and unceasing efforts to bring up his children in "the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

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About six months before his death he obtained perfect victory over that which had been his chief hindrance in the spiritual life,—a hasty and impulsive temper. He claimed in faith the fulfilment of the promise which assures to the believer the more abundant supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ; while he placed himself afresh, without reserve, on the altar of self-dedication. And God honoured his faith, and consecrated offering. From that time he was a mature Christian; his piety was mellowed; his zeal for Christ intensified; his anxiety for the salvation of his friends and relatives became a passion; he feasted on the "fat things " of the house of God; and his prayers in public were remarkably full of pathos, earnest pleading, and Divine power. In the deeper, richer peace which he enjoyed, and the elevated tone of his piety, as well as in the very radiancy of his countenance, the abounding grace of God was manifested.

Though his end came unexpectedly to those who loved him, he was found ready. With unruffled tranquillity, and with the words, " Dear Saviour!" on his lips, he "ceased at once to work and live." His memory will long be fragrant in the Church which he so much adorned by his humble piety, and the best interests of which he so faithfully sought to promote.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM NICHOLS, 46, HOXTON SQUARE.

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