though, so insidiously did his disease mine its way, he himself imagined that he would soon get well, and be able once more to be amid his flock. In the consciousness of mental strength he had difficulty in realizing his physical weakness. The higher life absorbed within it the consciousness of the lower. On the very day of his decease, when his father told him decidedly of the unfavourable opinion of the Edinburgh physician who had been consulted, he said, "Well; if I am dying, I am sorry for you," addressing his father, and mother, and sister, who were at the side of his couch, "but I am happy. I have not a doubt, not the shadow of a doubt; and that should satisfy you." He often expressed himself to the effect, that he was "prepared either to live or to die." "I could live with pleasure," he would say, "a few years longer to work for Jesus; but to die will be gain." About a week before his departure, he wrote to an intimate friend, saying that the journey which he had taken to Edinburgh, for consultation, had "nearly killed him." "But," added he, "the near approach of eternity would be a source of unutterable delight to me." In writing to two beloved members of his church, he said, "Eternity has seemed very near to me, and my Saviour I feel very precious, and I will try to make him so to my flock." To the Rev. A. Nairn, of Thornhill, who was much with him, and to whom he was accustomed to unbosom himself, he said, "Death has no terror for me,"-" The righteousness of Christ is mine," "I could lay my foot on the neck of death at any moment." He had written in January, 1862, to a dear friend, who was dying,-"There is nothing terrible in death, when you regard it in the light of your Saviour's countenance. It is an unspeakable gain to the Christian. There is no boon in this world like it. It is the proudest favour the Dear Father can bestow. It is his own voice calling us to himself."

The voice has come forth toward himself, and he has disappeared from the eyes of his parents and his flock. But he disappeared upwardly, and is, we rest assured, for ever with the Lord. He rests from his labours and from his pains, and his works will follow him. Farewell for a little, dear young brother! Farewell! Thou art faring well.

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II. MRS. JOHN DALGLIESH.

We desire to record in these pages the decease of one who was very dear to us, and to whom the Repository, and the theology of the Repository, were dear,-MRS. DALGLIESH, of Chapelton, Jamaica, wife of the Rev. John Dalgliesh, Missionary there in connection with the London Missionary Society.

It is more than five and twenty years ago since Mrs. Dalgliesh came in spirit to Jesus, accepted him as her Saviour, and gave up to him for his service her heart, her intellect, her will, her body too, and all her varied acquirements and accomplishments,-in short, all that she had and all that she We remember well the reverent wonder of her soul, and the ardour of her love, when she stood for the first time, as with face unveiled, before the cross. There was rapture.

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Not long after her conversion, she had the happiness of becoming acquainted with the Rev. John Dalgliesh, who found in her the utmost eagerness to work for Christ, and the utmost willingness to work for Him abroad. Each saw in the other a true yokefellow. And arrangements were made for the consummation of their union. They were married in Berbice, and continued to labour there for nearly twenty years. Hand in hand, and heart in heart, the two went together in all the self-denying labours of love which the mission field demands, and great was the good accomplished through their joint instrumentality. But at length the health of Mr. Dalgliesh began to succumb under the strain required for accumulated work in New Amsterdam, Lonsdale, &c., and under the weakening influence of a succession of those fevers to which the unhealthy climate of Berbice is so apt to subject the European constitution. He had to return home for a season, to recruit. Mrs Dalgliesh accompanied him; and by and by they removed to the station at Chapelton, in Jamaica.

Hitherto Mrs. Dalgliesh had enjoyed excellent health. But in February, last year, she became subject to a rather alarming illness. She became liable to faintings. They recurred at irregular intervals thenceforward, but left her quite well, in appearance, between the attacks. On April 9th of this year,

she was so well that she attended twice the Mission Chapel. She likewise, on that same day, performed all her duties as superintendent of the female Sunday-school,-putting the classes in order, and teaching one herself. The subject that engaged the classes that day was, the restoration to sight of the two blind men on Christ's returning from Jericho. She had taken much interest, along with her husband, in putting the lessons into shape. They were, in substance, these:-The men asked the right thing,-mercy; from the right person,—

the Son of David; in the right manner,-believingly and earnestly; at the right time, for had they missed that opportunity they would, apparently, never have had another. She entered into these lessons with great zest, so that, as her husband went round among the classes, and came to her, he found her talking with peculiar earnestness, and there was the flush of a too great brightness on her countenance. He said to her, "Take care that you don't exert yourself too much." "O no," was her prompt reply, and she went on with her work. After the public services of the Sabbath were concluded, she sang at home several hymns, and, among the rest, A day's march nearer home. That was her last Sabbath on earth.

On Monday morning she was rather indisposed, and could not attend the early prayer meeting. While her husband was absent conducting it, her eldest son came into her apartment to bid her good bye, before he left for his place of business. She said to her boy: "Good bye; and if we do not meet again on earth, I hope we shall meet in heaven." Little did he think at the time, that the next meeting must be in heaven, if anywhere.

Her husband, on returning from the prayer meeting, had some conversation with her. He referred to her sprained wrist and swollen fingers, for she was suffering somewhat from a recent fall from her horse, as well as from rheumatism; and he said playfully that there seemed to be little wrong last night with her fingers,-"you were making them move so swiftly, in your sleep, as if along the notes of a piano." "Ah," said she, "I must have thought that I had gotten my golden harp." A coming event was casting its shadow before. On the afternoon of that last Monday she visited the dayschool, letting her heart spread out over the various classes. On Tuesday morning her weakness returned, and it deepened in a few hours into unconsciousness, as far as the external world was concerned. She lingered on, however, dead to the world, till the evening of Thursday, when the invisible chariots and horsemen were commissioned to carry her spirit up higher. They paused at her door. And she forsook her body, and ascended, leaving, however, a sweet smile on her countenance. She mounted into the presence of her God. "Great is her gain," exclaims her bereaved husband, "and great is my loss." True, brother, true, on both sides true. But the bright side of the truth is the side on which we like to think. There is a sense, too, in which her great gain is thine for she is thine still; and will be thine for ever and ever. But, best of all, she is Christ's; and Christ is hers and thine.

ANOTHER COMFORTER

ANOTHER HELPER.

So Spake Jesus. "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter (the Helper) will not come":"I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (another Helper), that he may abide with you for ever."

We know who the comforting helper is to whom Jesus refers. It is "the Spirit of truth,"-whose office it is to apply the work of atonement to the souls of men, in order to salvation, sanctification, and final glory. In thus applying the work of atonement he helps most comfortably and delightfully the souls of men.

The Saviour calls him "another Comforter"-"another helper." There are then two comforting Helpers. The Holy Spirit is the second; who is the first?

It is the Saviour himself. It is to him that the same word, in the original Greek, is applied in 1 John ii. 1. It is there translated Advocate." But it really means comforting Helper. When Jesus was on earth he helped most comfortably the sons of men. He came from heaven to be our helper. The Father spake in vision to his Holy One:-I have laid help upon one that is mighty." "God hath holpen the sons of men by raising for them an horn of salvation.' Jesus, that he might be our helper, stooped down to earth. He took our curse upon himself. He" bare our sins in his own body to the tree." "Our iniquities were laid upon him," and he "took away sin by the sacrifice of himself." Large, and full, and gloriously comforting is the help afforded to us by what Jesus did on earth.

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This, however, is not all his help. He consummated his help. He went away to be our helper, and he now carries on his work as our helper at the right hand of the Father. It is thus that we have two helpers. Jesus, in a sublime sense, became our helper by going away; and the Spirit, in a sublime sense, became our helper by coming. Jesus is now our helper in heaven, and the Spirit is our helper on earth. Jesus is our helper at the Father's right hand, and the Spirit is our helper at our own right hand. Both helpers are required by us. Our salvation could not be effected were either the one or the other wanting. We must have Jesus in heaven to help us there; and we must have the Spirit on earth to help us here. We require to have a heaven prepared for us; and we require to be ourselves prepared for heaven. It is not enough that a heaven has been provided for man and opened; he must be fitted to enter it and enjoy it. On the other hand, it would be of no use to prepare us for heaven, were there no heaven prepared for us. Jesus is away preparing

our heaven; and the Spirit is here preparing us for the heaven which Jesus is preparing. Jesus is presenting his own blood before the throne, as the ground of our acceptance with God, and our admittance into heaven. The Spirit applies that same blood to our hearts and consciences, to give us the realisation of the ground of acceptance and admittance, and to sanctify and fit us for the employments and enjoyments of the heavenly glory. We need Jesus in heaven as our Forerunner, and as our Advocate, who in the consciousness that he bore our sins and died for them, and triumphed over them and over the death that is their penalty, can plead the merit of his blood. We need him there as our Saviour, through whom we can honourably be forgiven and sanctified and glorified. We need the Spirit on earth to lead us to God, in order that we may accept of the blessings which Jesus has procured for us. Jesus and the Spirit thus become our co-helpers, each helping in his own sphere and in his own way. And it was in virtue of this necessity for both that Jesus promised the Spirit as "another Comforter." He wishes us to understand that, great and important and essential as the Spirit's help is, he is not the only helper we have. He is only

"another" added to Himself.

Both helpers are not only needed, the help of the one is intimately connected with the help of the other. There is an inseparable link connecting the two kinds of help. The Spirit could not be our helper on earth, were not Jesus our helper in heaven. And the help of Jesus in heaven would be no help, did not the Spirit help on earth. The Spirit came to earth to be our helper here, because Jesus had ascended to heaven to be our helper there. Jesus sent the Spirit to help, in order that his own help in heaven might be effective to salvation. There cannot be a separation of the two helpers and their respective helps. The two helps are indeed but the two sides of one great work, one side having a heavenward and the other an earthward aspect. Both helps, however, spring from the same source,the love of the Father-the Father as representing the Godhead. And thus the help afforded is the help of God. It is the help of our Heavenly Father. It is help in order to lift us up from sin, and death, and hell. It is help bringing us pardon and peace, holiness and heaven. It is help for all men,-for the whole world of sinners. Reader, it is help for you!

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