such as would" lead a godly life" to be his "servant *."

Thus throughout his short but useful career, godliness and charity might be observed mutually succeeding and aiding each other, with so much constancy and perseverance, that where the duties of the one ceased, there the exercise of the other, began.

Sudden, therefore, and untimely as his departure is to us, to him it could never prove surprising. His "light" was always "burning :" he was in that blessed state of readiness that when his Master came and knocked, he could " open to him immediately." And it is a fact which must ever afford consolation to those who love his memory, that the herald of his Judge found him not" overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world," but labouring in the cause of charity †. Suitable to such a life were the manner and circumstances of his death. It

The reader will find at the end of this discourse a copy of a private meditation and prayer compiled by himself, which is given not so much on account of its originality, as of the evidence it affords of his habitual care for spiritual and eternal things.

+ After having attended divine service on Ash-Wednesday, Mr. Hatch presided at the Committee of the City National Schools, from whence he went home, under an apparently slight indisposition: the following Saturday terminated his existence.

pleased the Lord to carry away his servant, as in a moment, from the discharge of that work in which he delighted, to the enjoyment of its reward. He escaped, by divine mercy, from the pains of a protracted illness. The garment of mortality easily dropt off, and the soul fled to his eternal rest.

"Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the latter end of that man is peace." "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord,they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." May the memorial of that righteous man remain for ever with us! May it stimulate our piety, enlarge our charity, and awaken us to an active, steady, unceasing exercise of every Christian duty; that while we remember how well he lived, and how suddenly he died, we may learn to be "ready also," seeing that "at such an hour as we think not, the Son of Man cometh."

MEDITATION

FOR THE EVENING.

ANOTHER day is closing; how has it been employed? does the reflection of thy thoughts, words, and works, speak peace and consolation to thy mind? or does thy conscience accuse thee of having made no progress in virtue? has thy heart been lifted up to God with sincerity and devotion? or hast thou forgotten the great obligations to him who made thee? think, devoutly think, that thy life is hastening to a close; think that the bed is an emblem of the grave; it should remind thee of the land where all things are forgotten! before thou give thine eyes to sleep, and thine eye-lids to slumber, review the actions of thy life, and examine with the strictest search, whatever thou hast thought, spoken, or done amiss, in the course of this day; and when thou hast done this with honest impartiality, approach with reverence the throne of mercy, and pour forth thy soul before Him who made thee, in the filial language of dependent love, or the more exalted ardour of grateful praise, and say—

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EVENING PRAYER.

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, my only support in this vale of misery, my supreme good, the joy of my heart; I humbly thank thee for all the mercies thou hast this day, and from time to time, bestowed upon me: I bless thee for my creation, preservation, and all the comforts and conveniences of this mortal life; but above all, I adore thy Divine Majesty, for the redemption of the world, by thy Son Jesus Christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory: I bless thee, that while many are suddenly snatched off in the hardness and impenitence of their hearts, I am mercifully spared in this state of trial, that I might repent and be saved; may these thy mercies. be so deeply impressed on my mind, as to bring forth in me the fruit of righteousness, to thy honour and glory.

Pardon, O God, the sins of my whole life, and especially those I have this day committed, in thought, word, or deed: these mercies I implore through the mediation of thy blessed Son, Jesus Christ. Bless, I most humbly beseech thee, the whole race of man, and more especially bless the country to which I belong,-bless our sovereign

lord the king, and all the royal family,-bestow the abundance of thy grace upon the clergy, that they may continue labouring to promote thy religion on earth, remembering the solemn account they must one day render of the flock committed to their care: bless, O Lord, with thy choicest comforts, my relations and friends; give them grace to follow thy commandments in this life, that in the world to come they may have life everlasting. Have pity on all who are afflicted and distressed, and in due time deliver them according to thy great goodness; in particular, O Lord, I beseech thee to have mercy on all such as have forsaken thee, fetch them home, blessed Lord, to thy flock; " pardon and deliver them from all their sins, confirm and strengthen them in all goodness, and bring them to life everlasting."

Pour down thy blessings on all who have despitefully used me, and extinguish every spark of resentment in my breast; give me grace not only to forgive them, and all mine enemies, but a disposition to do them every kind office. These and all other thy blessings, I beg through the mediation of thy blessed Son.

And now, O Lord, I commit myself to thy protection, if it shall be thy will to take me hence before the dawning of another day, O take me to thyself; let my soul be presented without spot