administration of the Lord's Supper, and in looking back on of vast eternity are we drawing near, so very near, that now the years that are gone, you have the pleasing recollection, it is opening to our view, and seems to roar within our hearhow acceptable and edifying his ministrations were unto you. ing. Eternity! Oh Eternity! and is this awful eternity, in When he ascended the pulpit, there was a general feeling of a little, to receive us? Well, let us prepare for it by insatisfaction visible on the face of the congregation, and as he stantly betaking ourselves to the Saviour, whom God has proceeded, the satisfaction visibly increased. What I said provided for us perishing immortals. In the Gospel of the of him when living, I may say of him now, when dead,-blessed God, Christ is presented to sinners of mankind, as that he was one of the most useful ministers the generation the object of faith. God, in mercy, has laid his command has produced. upon us to receive Christ, as his gift unto us, to be our This good and amiable man walked through life, still Saviour; and, on our believing in Christ, we shall receive holding on the placid tenor of his way; increasing in know- from him the remission of sins, and life everlasting. Thus, ledge and in piety, in private worth and public usefulness, in believing on the Son of God, we shall be, happily, prebeloved and respected by his congregation, beloved and res-pared for our eternity. All shall be safe. When we die, pected by all who knew him. For twenty-five years of his our dying day will be our birth-day into the world of glory; ministry he was in full activity; and during that period, with where all the friends of God at last shall meet, and meet-no the truth "his lips fed many." When it pleased God to more to part; where mortality is swallowed up of life, and visit him with the affliction which was to terminate his la- the former things have passed away; where, in the beatific bours, he was devoutly submissive to the divine will. The presence of God, and of Christ, our blessedness shall be Lord was very gracious to him in his affliction. It was in-complete, and all will be eternal.

deed of considerable length; but the darkness without was

alleviated by the sunshine within. The Lord lifted up the When Mr. Young was ordained, which was on the 15th light of his countenance upon him, and all was peace. of August, 1798, he commenced his ministry by preaching on Tranquillity of mind he happily enjoyed from the beginning the following Sabbath from Ephes. vi. 19. "And for me to the close of his affliction. About two weeks before his also, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open death, he had something like a little revival; and at that my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gostime, to a friend who came in to see him, he said, "I have pel." And at the close of his ministry, the last sermon he been within sight of the harbour; but I think I am again preached was from Acts, xx. 24. "That I might finish my blown back a little." Upon Sabbath evening, the evening course with joy, and the ministry which I have received from before he died, when his dear friends were standing around the Lord Jesus."

his bed, and sympathizingly inquiring how he was, this was Mr. Shanks, the aged pastor, lived a little more than a his reply, "You see me here making rapid progress to eter-year after the appointment of his successor; and when the nity, and I am marching under the brightest beams, both great and the good man died, on the Sabbath after, our dear from the outward kindness of God, and his inward communi- friend preached from 2 Kings, ii. 12. "And Elisha saw it, cations to my soul." After which he proceeded, with a and he cried, My father, my father! the chariots of Israel, mind quite at ease, to give his pious friends many precious and the horsemen thereof; and he saw him no more:" It directions, among which he said, "Young people are often was a most appropriate text, and it afterwards appeared, that afraid of trouble, but fear not to enter into the dark cloud, for a portion of the spirit of the ascending Elijah had fallen on God will be with you there, and the light of his countenance the young Elisha.

will brighten the deepest shades of affliction." As the night In 1802, Mr. Young was appointed to supply, for some advanced, nature became more and more exhausted. But time, the congregation of Miles's Lane in London. During still he felt his mind tranquil, both under his affliction, and his continuance with them he was held in much estimation, in looking to the close of it. He desired to be with Christ, and soon after a call for translating him to Miles's Lane was and his desire was soon given him. At half-past four on the brought forward; but Mr. Young, when desired to express following morning he was in much weakness, but still in his mind on the subject, was of the judgment that he should perfect recollection; and during the space of a few minutes, be allowed to continue with his congregation in Jedburgh, without pain, his breathing gradually subsided, and he yielded and the Synod was unanimous in appointing his continuance. up his spirit into the arms of his dear Redeemer. Oh During his affliction, the continuance of which was about blessed! supremely blessed are those dead, who have died twelve months, his brother, Mr. Young, surgeon in Edinin the Lord! burgh, occasionally came to see him; and not long before his When the Apostle Paul took his final farewell of the death, when his brother was with him, he said, "In the Church of Ephesus, I remember it is recorded in the Acts, course of my affliction I had been frequently thinking of rethat they all wept sore, and fell upon his neck and kissed signing the charge of my congregation, but it is now some him, sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke-time since I have thought of not doing it, till I shall give it that they should see his face no more. We are placed in a into the hands of the Lord Jesus himself, from whom I resimilar situation. That excellent minister and good man has ceived it." When he looked back on all the way by which taken his departure, and in this world we are to see his face the Lord had led him through the world, he said "He found no more. Under this painful and depressing dispensation, he had reason to bless God, and to be very thankful; and what are we to do? Let us first give thanks to God for hav- were he to travel through life over again, he would not wish ing called him to take part in the Christian ministry, for the to interfere with the will of God in making any alteration; grace bestowed upon him, and for the years he did preserve for the doings of the Lord with him were either in themselves him to be so eminently useful in the service of the Church. agreeable, or his mind was brought to acquiesce in them, and Are we to see him no more? Then let us pray to God that he now found that He had done all things well." He was the spirit of the departed Elijahs may descend on the young remarkable for his tranquillity and resignation during his Elishas, and that he may raise up many such good ministers, affliction. At a time when his illness was more than ordinato be a blessing to the Church, and to the world. Are we rily severe, it was sympathizingly said to him, that he had to see him no more? Then let us be frequently employed got little rest: with great serenity, he replied, "I will get in recollecting the words of truth which we have so often rest-a good rest soon." Upon the Friday preceding the heard from his lips; that, now when dead, to us he may yet Monday morning on which he died, he was able to walk into be speaking. Are we to see his face no more? Let us re- the drawing-room, but from what he said, it appeared that, member, that when good men and good ministers die, what even then, he considered the time of his departure to be near earth loses heaven gains. Our dear friend is gone, in regard at hand. But he looked to it with calmness and serenity of to this world, for ever gone; but it is to occupy a more ele- soul, for he had the peace of God which passeth all undervated station in the kingdom of God. He is gone to the standing, keeping his heart and mind through Jesus Christ. spirits of just men made perfect, with whom he is now serv- The following extract of a letter from a much respected ing God day and night, and made blessed for evermore. friend, is worthy to form the conclusion of the present narra"And I heard a voice from heaven," says John in the Apoca- tive.

them."

lypse, "saying unto me, write, Blessed are the dead which "He said much, during the whole time of his trouble, indidie in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that cative of the happy frame of his mind; indeed, I may say they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow scarce a day passed without some expression that showed his inward comfort, serenity, peace, and even joy. But it was Finally, need we be reminded that the time is near at hand not so much what he said, as the whole tenor of his conduct, when we, too, shall see one another in this world no more? during the days of his trouble, that has shed a lustre over his Need we be admonished, that in a little, death shall for ever character which I am unable fully to describe. Such uniform dissolve our connexion with earth and time? To the ocean resignation, cheerful submission, thankfulness, and content

ment with all the dealings of his heavenly Father, could pro

The following paragraph appeared in the Kelso Mail, on the ceed from nothing but the rich grace of his Saviour, that alone Monday after the funeral. made him what he was. Perhaps you may think the partial- "Died on the 18th instant, the Rev. PETER YOUNG, one of ity of a friend may colour too highly, but I can assure you the ministers of the Secession Church in Jedburgh, in the that no words of mine are adequate to convey to you any idea fiftieth year of his age, and twenty-seventh of his ministry. of the bright exemplification of all the doctrines he loved to Among those who knew him, this, perhaps, is the general teach, that shone forth in his conduct during the period of his feeling,-that of living characters few were to be met with, affliction. in whom was to be found less to censure, and more to com

With regard to the manner of his death I can say little; it mend. He was a man of amiable and conciliatory dispositook place about half past four o'clock on the Monday morn- tions; for piety he was most exemplary; his public services ing; he seemed restless and uneasy for some hours before, were highly acceptable and edifying to all, and in discharging but was quite recollected, and in the full use of his faculties his other ministerial duties he was most assiduous. In him to the very last; he suffered much at times during the whole his congregatien has lost a most valuable and endeared pascourse of his trouble, but at the end there was nothing but tor, and his memory will be long and affectionately cherished peace; his pain seemed all over long before, and without the by a large circle of respectable friends. He bore his lengthsmallest struggle his breath grew more and more gentle, till ened affliction with great tranquillity; and when he died, it he yielded up his spirit into the hands of his Redeemer, in was under much serenity of mind, and almost without suffering. whose presence he now rejoices, with joy unspeakable and “We understand that, as an expression of public respect full of glory." for the deceased, the shops were shut during the funeral."

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