spicuously manifested themselves. His was a most lovable character, and his memory is still affectionately cherished by his surviving friends who knew his worth and deplored his early death.[1]
The Session of Knox Cluirch adopted the following minute with reference to Mr Kettle's death:—"The Session record the death of Charles Henry Kettle, which took place on the oth inst., at the age of 41 years. He died of gastric fever, leaving a widow and nine children, with whom the Session deeply sympathise. They deplore the loss to his family and this church by his removal from amongst them when just entering on his duties as an elder; but at the same time they rejoice that they can with confidence indulge the hope that what has been our loss has been gain to him, and this hope they ground on his strongly expressed faith in Jesus Christ as his only hope, and on his consistent walk and conversation for many years."
- ↑ The minister sat up with Mr Kettle during his last night on earth. His medical attendant had left special instructions that the patient was to be kept in the horizontal position. About 1 o'clock, a.m., he looked at him, and noticing his eagerness for the removal of the tlannel band over his chest, the minister took his knife and severed it. The dear patient, lifting himself into a sitting posture, threw his arms around his neck, then resumed the recumbent position, and lay quietly till he passed away in the afternoon.—D.M.S.
