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JACOB nODGES.
stability and devotion to the cause of his
Master. Indeed, he was regarded by his
pastor and by the whole church, as ar
eminent Christian, daily growing in grace
and seeking to render himself useful in
the humble and limited sphere of his in
fluence.
My successor at Canandaigua, the Rev.
Mr. Thompson, has informed me that in
a recent revival of religion in that place,
Jacob was peculiarly animated and re¬
freshed. " I have often thought," he says,
" that Jacob shared more largely in its
blessings than any of us. Perhaps in this
he was receiving his earthly reward, for
no one could more justly claim to have
been the favoured instrument of that
work, than himself. His mind had been
remarkably exercised for a long time, and
for months his intense anxiety for the
religious state of the people had been
manifest in his prayers and in his whole
conversation. Late in the winter of 1840
we were blessed with the evident mdica-
rions of the presence of the Holy Spirit.