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resting on some object which filled
him with a calm and holy joy. Whilst
being settled for the night, he repeatedly
said: "How much! how much to sleep
in Jesus!" One of his children asking
him, whether he meant the sheep of the
body, he only answered with a placid
smile. He'd had, no doubt, a presentiment
that he was about to fall in to that sleep
in Jesus, which with his believing peo-
ple only the spiritual awakening to
endless happiness in his presence _
His last words were: "How much
to be a sheep of Jesus." After this, he
slumbered quietly til towards morn-
ing, where a change apparently coming
over him, his wife and the three of his
children there with him, assembled
around his bed to witness his gentle
and happy departure from this world
of suffering, to that happier one of end-
less felicity and glory. They sung a
verse with breaking voices, of which
he appeared just conscious and
soon after he gently slept away, re-
signing