were in bodily or mental distress, and was sometimes the instrument in succesfully pointing dying sinners in their last hours to the only Saviour. As a wife, she was industrious, frugal, orderly, and attentive to the wants of her household: as a mother, she set before her children the purest example, and her prayers for their conversion were unceasing. Although her constitution was by no means strong, she lived to the allotted age of three score years and ten. During her last illness she felt, as she had done in previous painful trials, the all-supporting power of Him whom she had vowed to trust at all times. Through eleven weeks of feebleness her confidence wavered not; nor did her comfort depart. There was no hour when she could not say,

March 15th.-At Gibson Square, Islington, London, Mr. John Trevor Hankey, aged seventy-three. He was a native of Chester. His father, Mr. William Hankey, was well reported of in that city for his steady devotion to works of Christian benevolence, and as the leader of a class he was characterized by "punctuality, affection, and fidelity.” He came to his grave in a full age: "devout men carried him to his burial," and testified by their tears how much they loved him. His son, the subject of this brief notice, fully reaped the spiritual advantage of such ancestry, and always attributed his conversion to the prayers of his godly father. The unfeigned faith that was first in his father was in him also. When quite a young man he came to London and entered the service of the Wesleyan-Methodist BookRoom, where, for fifty years, he was a trusted, faithful, and respected public servant. Those who knew him by close and continuous personal observation testify to his character "in business." The following extract is taken from a notice which appeared in "The Bookseller shortly after his decease :-" His unswervering integrity, untiring industry, and

methodical exactness in the fulfilment of his duties will be long remembered by his numerous friends." What he was "in spirit" we know from the testimony of those who were much with him in the intimacies of home life and of social Christian fellowship. The exact and methodical man of business was also noticeable for his punctual attention to all religious duties. There were no chasms in his daily family worship. He was always glad to go to the house of the Lord. God's "thoughts" were very precious to him in private devotion, and he richly prized the public exposition and application of the Written Word which is the Divine revelation of them. He did not forsake the weekly meeting for mutual exhortation and prayer. But his was a noiseless and unostentatious course; he was a man of few words, and sought by a consistent walk, to be an epistle of Christ that might be known and read. Verbal professions, indeed, were restrained by the very humble views he took of himself. During a great part of his life he was more or less subject to the bordage of inward conflict. Always diffident in the expression of his religious experience, always self-depreciating and claiming the privileges of his sonship timidly, in his latter years, when suffering from physical prostration, he had painful exercises from fears within. His bold faith when he came to die strongly contrasted with the frequent doubt and constant diffidence of his life. In his case, as in many others, at "eventime it was light." His last Sabbaths were glorious antepasts of heaven. To one of the Circuit ministers who said to him, "You have the victory?" he replied with great energy, "Through the blood of the Lamb!" and then, in a strain of exultation that powerfully affected the members of his family who were grouped around his bed, he spent some minutes in praising, witnessing, and blessing. On another occasion his leader said, "Christ is with you in the valley?" he replied, "He is bringing me through! He is bringing me through!" His death was not only victorious it was signally triumphant. The memory of his last hours is a precious and permanent consolation to his widow and children: his words of bright testimony, godly counsel, and affectionate farewell are engraven on their hearts. In hopeful resignation they say, "Thy will be done." J. W.

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March 19th.-At Guy's Hospital, Mr. John Wesley Paul, of the Deptford Cir

cuit, in the thirty-first year of his age. He was blessed with a Methodist parentage, and was led to the house of God by his father, who was for many years a class-leader at Limehouse, and was deeply concerned for the early conversion of his youngest child. His prayers were heard, and his son joined the class of the late Mr. Illingworth. He began to teach in the Sunday-school; and under a sermon by the Rev. H. J. Pope, he obtained a clear sense of pardon through Christ, which he retained to the end of life. At the request of the Rev. W. H. Johuston, the Home-missionary at Plaistow, he began to preach, and to take his share in the effort to evangelize that part of the east of London. On his removal to Deptford he was made a class-leader, the duties of which office he cheerfully performed till disease of a most painful nature laid him quite aside. For several months he was confined to his house, and often suffered from temptation as to the deal. ings of God to him in calling him to suffer so much in the midst of his days. But these, by the power and grace of God, he overcame. At his own request he was taken to Guy's Hospital. When it was found his case was beyond human aid, and when told he could not recover, he said, "Well, I know whom I have believed.'" Among some of his last words were, "He doeth all things well."

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April 25th.-At Hackthorne, in the Market-Rasen Circuit, aged ninety-one, Mr. Thomas Heath. He had been a member of the Wesleyau-Methodist Society for sixty years. During half a century he had preaching in his own house. With great fidelity be filled the office of class-leader for period of thirty years. In the commencement of his career he had to travel a considerable distance to meet in class; but he allowed nothing to hinder him in a diligent attention to his Christian duties. He was a faithful man, and greatly respected in the village where he lived. He was confined to his bed about twelve months, but as the "outward man" failed him, the "inward man" was ripening for glory. Some of his last words were, 'Glory, glory! Jesus, Jesus!"

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May 17th.-At Sort port, Actua Leach, fifth daughter of the late Rev. William Leach. When seven years of age she was powerfully convinced of her need of a Saviour; and fourd peace in believing. Her mind seems afterwards to have been diverted from this source of rest; bot when about fourteen years old. being visited with an affliction which seemed likely to prove fatal, she returned to the Lord with full purpose of heart, and found Him ready to pardon. He continued to be her support during her remaining years of various and great trials; and as death drew near, the Saviour was still found to be her refaze and strength. Although, notwithstanding her sufferings and deprivations. Life was desired by her, she cheerfully said, on the failure of remedies, "It is all right. Ty will be done." She acknowledged the source of her power to be thus resigned, and once said, "It is not my oma patient." Her fortitude was, perhaps, the most remarkable feature in her character; and so uncommon in some of its manifestations, as to render it very capable of being at times misunderstood. Her sufferings during the last three years of her life were very much increased, and more especially in the twelve months preceding her death. Ca a remark being made to her that she was a weary traveller, she replied cheerfully, "Yes, I have long thought, each nicht, 'A day's march nearer home.'" "Abide with me," was a favourite hymn with her She was a devout and regular reader of God's word: a few days before her death, she marked with her name and date, 1 Peter iv. 12, 13: "Beloved, think it not strange," etc. Her natural activity of disposition rendered her actin (which lasted in some of its forms upwards of thirty years) very much more painful to bear: but the Lord seeth not as man seeth; and in faith she was enabled to say, as she now sees clearly, "He bath done all things well." Nearly the lat word she spoke was, "Patience." Azi she was indeed, "an example of suffering affliction, and of patience." Her last hait hour seemed free from pain; and, when she breathed her last, praises to God mingled with the tears of her bereaved friends. E. L.