recover his health-he applied to the study of medicine, at first, rather as an employment than with much hope ever to enter on its practice as a profession. His desire to do something in the world—to be able to feel that he was useful, was very great; and unspeakable was the anguish he sometimes endured in brooding over years and energies wasted by disease. Sometimes, when he saw me at work, he would sit down and weep, with the feeling that he was almost worthless; and all endearments could not comfort him. But God had a blessed design in all this, and, doubtless, the suffering discipline was better for him than would have been the most successful labors.

"He prepared, amidst illness, as his Thesis for examination-a treatise on his own disorder, which, had he been spared to perfect it, as was his intention, would certainly, in every respect, have been worthy of publication. The difficulties he encountered in gaining his profession, and afterwards in overcoming the obstacles thrown in his way in Havana, during a month of tedious effort, Spanish delay, and jealous scrutiny, to obtain the degree necessary to practise in a strange land, together with the patient energy of his perseverance in the midst of those difficulties, were almost inconceivable, and always beneath the pressure of bodily weakness and suffering.

"With a friendly physician he visited patients under the yellow fever, to gain, as soon as possible, a knowledge of that sickness, and endeavored to communicate spiritual comfort when he could aid in no other way. Established, at length, by the providence of

God, in Trinidad, he was beloved by all who knew him, and seemed on the eve of accomplishing, for a little season, the desire of his life, when, by the same All-wise Providence, every hope was blasted, and 'the bark perished even in the haven's mouth.' But no! it has not perished, but is only lost from our sight for a little while-in the keeping of the Redeemer in the light of heaven.

"It was most painful to witness the wearing and repressing power of disease upon his physical system, while, at the same time, the mind, unhindered in its growth, and unwearied in its energies, seemed as if seeking deliverance, or intended for some stronger tabernacle. A few stanzas of poetry, written to him at this period, describe the gradual and stern certainty with which it was felt that disease was fixed upon him, and would never depart, together with the change it had already wrought upon his youthful and elastic frame, repressing, also, as we saw, in a sad degree, the almost indestructible buoyancy of his spirits. Through God's unutterable mercy, a sweet Christian resignation took the place of that buoyancy, and more than supplied its sustaining power; and afterwards, when a residence, and travelling in mild climates, had given his constitution a little opportunity to come up, as it were, with his mind, something of the cheerfulness of childhood seemed returning to him.

"He had great generosity of mind and heart, and a most tender sympathy with others in difficulties. He had been exposed to great trials and perils, both of

soul and body, in some of his journeyings abroad; and an experience as well as knowledge had been given him, which might have fitted him for great usefulness, but it pleased God otherwise. Those who knew him as President of the Medical Temperance Society, in his college, well remember with what active, joyful zeal and earnestness he set himself to animate its movements, to inspire an interest for it in others, and to overcome the prejudices of some who were opposed to it. It is pleasant to mention the great kindness and sympathy of his instructor, Dr. Parker, towards him-a kindness which he remembered with gratitude in a strange land.

"He had no hope of recovery from his disease by a residence in Cuba, but only to have it alleviated, and his life spared a few years, if God would grant him this mercy. Often he expressed the conviction that he could not recover. 'I shall one day perish by the hand of Saul,' he would say, in reference to his malady; but thanks be unto God, he could also say with David, 'Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God!'

"He was buried at sea. But the sea shall give up its dead; and then the enraptured spirit, that in this tabernacle did groan, being burthened-no longer weighed down and fettered by the sickness, and pain, and hard-drawn breath of its imprisoning clay-shall be clothed upon with a body of incorruption, power, and glory, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.

Oh, blessed hope of the resurrection! For thereby 'we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."

Arrayed in glorious grace,

Shall these vile bodies shine;
And every shape and every face
Look heavenly and divine.

"How sweet the assurance that our times are in his hand;' and how consoling the thought to those who have lost dear friends far away, that 'precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints;' and that all the circumstances of such deaths are ordered by him in unutterable love, and for their good. Whether his children shall die at home or abroad, in the midst of strangers or encircled by sympathizing, supplicating friends-whether those who love them shall walk with them, and talk with them, and pray with them down to the river of death, and bid them farewell on its borders, within sight of the celestial city, or whether they shall enter it alone, and yet, not alone where Christ himself is present, and bright commissioned angels are waiting on the soul !"

СНАРТER II.

YOUTHFUL DIARY, RELIGIOUS LIFE AND CONSECRATION,

BEING AN EXEMPLIFICATION OF GRACE IN THE BUD.

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,

And ask them what report they bore to heaven;

And how they might have borne more welcome news;
Their answers form what men EXPERIENCE call.

YOUNG.

WE enter now upon a series of extracts from the private journal, begun by the subject of this memoir, when thirteen years of age. It was intended solely for his own benefit, and his own eye, as a means of self-improvement and self-examination; and the beneficial results to himself upon his style and his character strongly commend the experiment to others of his age. His entries are often little more than a summary of his days, marked by great simplicity and naturalness of expression, though generally in language maturer than his years. He kept another journal for the use of his friends as well as himself, from the time that he left home in pursuit of health. They are both written, like all his papers, in a legible, clear