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There he joined the Octavia, at Aden, on the 11th July. Shortly afterwards he and several other boys ou, who went out with him were struck it down by the excessive heat of the am weather; but according to the

I chaplain's letter to his mother, hip- "the fever seems to have affected ank him more than the rest. He lay day for days in a scarcely conscious mn- state, gradually failing. The surGod, geon did not give up hopes of his life till a day or two before he died. He breathed his last peacefully on Saturday afternoon, the 15th Aug." So his voyage of life was soon over; he suffered but slightly from the where I storms of life, escaping entirelygood way thank God, whom he had for his d it very "Pilot"-that shipwreck which ght, but threatened, and must have befallen tement it him, had he continued to steer his ther thing course in the path of sin. He peace. fully entered the haven of rest at the early age of sixteen, and quietly cast anchor by that shore "where the surges cease to roll." there, free from the sorrows and sins of this life, though it cannot be before, to use his own words to me, "I hope some day, God willing, we shall meet again."

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in the seventeenth century. He applied his polfund

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1600. His great genins was sanctifed by piety,

to the case of God The Act of Uniformity led to
Sist, and be continued to labour, by his pe
for the good of the Church. He died in p
atheng Temple," and other highly esteemed works
-Jo Samaria Fed, 1498. He was an eloquent pra

fly against the abuses of the Papacy. Altho
mga ardent piety, he was marked by an eatlaist
what He was cruelly condemned to
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anwil wrth nuding

-William Paly died, 1818. Paley is well known for a zomer
w of which are useful, and all of them written in very

- Tenerabil, died, 735.-He was
belinging to the early English Church.
2-Bedard Ford, D.D., died, 1808.-He was a
hand weer of the last century.

-Simon Patrick, Bushop of Ely, died, 1707. His theologia
at the time mach esteemed, but his style and spirit are unsuited
for taste of the present time.

Comp of Mord awarded to G. F. W.; Annie G. J.; H. C. T.
El Met-Emma D.; J. W. C.; Emily C. D.; Mary
LC wld have had the prize awarded to him, but that his
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