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and pride might be so mortified in

me, that I might even remember, that

I am naught but a poor, worthless,

unprofitable servant, and Christ

my All!

Lord keep me contrite, low and poor,

Thus shall I praise thee(his) memorie(memory);

Myself thrice blessed I can call,

When I am nought, and thou my all!”

   In Cootehill, our dear Father’s

health quickly declined, and symp-

tons of those complicated diseases

began to show themselves, which

gradually affected almost every vi-

tal part, and mostly disabled him

from duty during the last six years

of his life. Soon after his first serious

attack, we find his experience recorded

thus:”In the beginning of May 1841,

I had a violent attack of influenza

which lasted a long while, and caused

me to notice to rest early in the after-

noon. In the month of July I left

Cootehill for Ballinderry in hopes

that the change of air might be of

Register.