anticipated but a very few hours I saw him on Monday, and had much conversation with him, though without any suspicion of the nearness of his end. He referred to the lectures which I had been delivering weekly, for some months' past on Christian experience, and said they had been greatly serviceable to him, He told me that he had been led by them to go over the whole ground again, and to examine himself, to use his own language, 'all over anew, from beginning to end, to see whether he was on the sure foundation.
"'Well, Jacob,' I said, 'and what is your conclusion?'
"'I think,' he replied, 'that it is all right, master.'
"'Then you think,' I continued, 'that you are running no risk, if you die now?'
''Not any,' was his prompt reply, Christ is able and faithful.'
"To one who went into his room, the last morning of his life, to ask how he
