sights; I see heaven. Yes, the gates are open, let me go. I want no more earth; detain me no longer, let me go! I started once, but I saw demons. I saw the chains of hell and was afraid! But now I see another view. Oh, how beautiful! Oh, wonderful, wonderful views I have! Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Christ, to save such a sinner as I have been! I have been very unfaithful to him, and yet he gives me such sweet visions of glory as these."

Addressing those who stood around his bed, he said in tender accents, "I see you now, and my tongue is unloosed. I see you wiping your eyes. Weep not for me. I am happy. I am sorry for you, brethren, to leave you to toil on alone. Would that you could be with me here. Be faithful, and God will bless you. I have been praying most earnestly for his Mission, and trying to gain evidence that it will not be broken up. I had hoped still to enjoy seasons of prayer and of labour with you, and to have lived to see the salvation of this people."

Starting again, he exclaimed with emphasis, "Yes, God has showed me I knew he would-what he is going to do for Africa. Africa shall be redeemed! Brethren, glorious times are coming! These people will be converted, and all this land shall be the Lord's. These hills back here shall all be holiness unto the Lord! Go on, brethren, be not discouraged, for I see glorious things in reserve for this mission. It will be sustained. Tell christians in American that it will. Oh, why will they not cease wrangling, and wake up, and know the blessedness of engaging in this work? But if God should raise me up, and send me back to America, to tell them the visions I have seen, I fear they would not believe; no, not even if one should rise from the dead."

The boys belonging to the school coming in, arrested his attention, and he raised his voice and cried out, "Oh, banabame, bishambe, bishambe, bishambe, (my children, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!") Then, addressing them in English, he said, "I want you all to become christians, and go and teach your countrymen." "Why do I linger? I am going, I am going; the chords of life are breaking; Oh, the pain-no, the bliss of dying! There is no pain! Blissful, blissful, blissful! Who would have thought that I should have had these glorious views! Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful things I see!" A cup of water was handed to him, and he remarked, "You are very kind. A cup of cold water, given in the name of Christ, shall not lose it reward. I am satisfied; my thirst is quenched with the waters of life. Sweet waters! Beautiful fountains are there!" Naming the different members of the Mission he said: "I love them all. But my brothers and sisters. I fear my brothers are not christians. Oh, that they were here to

see me die! Tell them to prepare for this." "Do go and see Bezia, and tell him I have prayed for him," referring to a poor boy who is condemned for witchcraft, and expects to be tortured to death. "Why do I linger?" It was remarked, "Perhaps to teach us how to die, and to comfort us, by your words of encouragement." He replied, "No; it is because I have been so unfaithful. But I shall soon go. I shall be the first missionary buried at Nengenenge, and I am glad it is so; I hope my ashes will be the seed of a church here. I rejoice that I came to Africa! How wonderful that I should have been permitted to engage in this work, and then be brought to enjoy such visions of glory as these! The bliss of this hour alone, is a recompense for a life of toil and suffering. I am going, I am going, but I have no fears, all is right!"

It was said, "We feel that we can harly spare you. Would you not be willing to remain and labour for these poor heathen, if your Heavenly Father's will?" He replied, "Oh, yes, certainly; go or stay; but surely he would not show me all this glory, and then send me back to earth again? Oh, wonderful, that such a sinner as I have been should be brought to this, and with tongue unloosed, and the bonds of sin broken, see and describe such scenes as these! But I am going. Farewell. Give my love to all the brethren and sisters, and to all christians, and urge them to live for Christ. Remember what I have told you. I am going. My speech on earth is finished."*

Yes, departed brother, we will remember what you hast told us, and hearing in thy dying testimony and its shout of victory the echo of the prophecy and the promise of God, we will "live for Christ," nothing doubting but that He who was in the beginning revealed as He who will come, and who in the fullness of time did come, and who still declares himself to be "Him who is to come," will come, and taking to himself his mighty power, reign King of nations as he is King of saints.

To Abraham, it was said, "In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed;" and to Moses, it was said, "Truly as I live, the whole earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah!" To Isaiah, it was also said,

"A voice crying:

In the wilderness, prepare ye a way for JEHOVAH !
Make straight in the desert, a highway for our GOD!

Every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill shall be made low;
And the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough places plain!
And the glory of JEHOVAH shall be revealed,

And all flesh shall see it together:

For the mouth of JEHOVAH hath spoken.

*See the Parish Visitor, and Missionary Herald.

Oh Thou that tellest glad tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high

mountain!

Oh Thou that tellest glad tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with

strength!

Lift it up!-Be not afraid!

Say unto the cities of Judah, "Behold your GOD!"

Behold the sovereign JEHOVAH shall come with strength!

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:

He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom,
And shall gently lead those that are with young."

"I, JEHOVAH, and no God besides me,

A just GOD, and a Saviour, none beside me :

Look unto ME, and be ye saved,

All the ends of the earth,

For I am God, and none else,

I have sworn by MYSELF: the word is gone out of my mouth in righteous

ness,

And shall not return:

That unto ME every knee shall bow,

Every tongue shall swear.

Of me it shall be said:

'Surely in JEHOVAH is righteousness and strength;'

Unto HIM shall they come, and all who scorn him shall be confounded.
In JEHOVAH shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory."

Through all climes His glory plant!
Through all ages chant!

Sing praise and honour jubilant,

As is and aye hath been!

All worship, all dominion,

To Him who all things holds in one,

The triune God unseen!

APPENDIX.

MISSIONS NO FAILURE.

We append the following very luminous article from the Presbyterian, which wel! deserves preservation and grateful perusal.

"The christian public has recently been surprised by the assertion made by high literary authority, that modern Protestant missions have proved a failure, and that no results have been attained correspondent with the magnitude of the exertions which have been employed. We have more than once advertel to this subject, but it may be well to return to it again. If what these infidels affirm is true, it is certainly important that it should be known, in order that careful inquiry may be made for the causes of so painful and mortifying a fact, and that the proper remedy may be discovered and applied. If it is not so, it is quite as important that the calumny should be disproved and repelled, that the damage and discouragement thence arising may be avoided. A very natural and simple mode of satisfying ourselves upon this point, is to look at the statistics in this case.

"According to the statement drawn up with great care, and with all possible accuracy, by the Rev. J. C. Lowrie, D. D., in his Manual of Missions, there were reported in 1853, by the various Evangelical bodies of the Protestant world, 1369 missionaries, 934 assistants, 2737 native helpers, 180,653 communicants, and 181,792 scholars. These results, let it be borne in mind, belong to the efforts begun in the present century, for the oldest of modern missionary societies scarce numbers sixty years since its organization. Here, then, is a body of 180,653 christians gathered from the pollution of heathenism; so many souls we may hope already saved, not to speak of those who have already died triumphing in the faith of the gospel. Here is, on an average, 132 converts for every missionary in the field. Is that nothing? And this makes no allowance for those who have but recently entered on the work, perhaps scarcely learned the language, and have consequently not begun to labour with efficiency; none for those whose time and attention have necessarily been largely given to the secular concerns of the mission, the erection of buildings, management of presses, &c.; none for the vast amount of preparatory labour which has been accomplished, and will not have to be done again; the reduction of languages to writing; the preparation

of grammars and dictionaries; the numerous translations of the Scriptures and of religious books and tracts; none for the exploration of heathen lands, the ascertaining of their actual condition and wants, and the developing of practical skill in the conduct of missionary enterprises; none for the amount of information which they have been the means of diffusing among the churches, and the enlightened zeal and effort which they have awakened throughout Protestant Christendom on behalf of the heathen world. If this last item alone were all that had yet been accomplished, the extent to which the Church has been in the last half century roused from her slumbers and her apathy in relation to her great commission, would of itself be a full compensation for all the labour and expense thus far incurred. But besides all this, there are the reported conversions already numerically stated.

"In order to get rid of the vagueness of these numbers, let us institute a comparison with the statistics of our own denomination in this country; our familiarity with the latter may aid in giving definiteness to the former. The Old-school Presbyterian Church reported in 1853, (the year from which our missionary statistics were drawn), 2139 ministers, 219,263 communicants. The converted heathen, therefore, form a body five-sixths of the size of our entire Church in this country. The proportion of converts to ministers is larger in the heathen world than it is among us; we have 102 communicants to every minister; they have 132 to every missionary.

"To the converts, add the children now receiving instruction in mission schools, and without taking any note of those who have attended these schools in former years, and are now carrying the fruits of the training there received into the various walks of life, and without including those who, in addition, may be regular or occasional hearers of the preaching of the gospel, we have 362,445 who are all either already christians, or under christian training. And if we take into account the immediate relatives and friends of those thus reached, it is an exceedingly moderate estimate to say that one million of persons in the heathen world are brought under constant, familiar, and influential contact with the religion of the gospel. Add to this fact that 600 more native helpers have been raised up than we can count ministers in our denomination. In view of these facts we may fairly ask. Are these results small? Or, are they a whit less than the Church has reason to expect, considering the brevity of the time, the feebleness of the efforts, the paucity of the labourers, and the slender amount of resources expended?

"But still it may be asked, If it has required half a century to gain 180,000 converts, how long time will it take to spread