time but was only able to express by her looks what passed in her mind. She cast her heaven-beaming eyes on her weeping mother, and took hold of her hand; then turning her eyes on her papa, and giving him her other hand; it is impossible to describe the scene that ensued. Some minutes afterwards, while the following lines were read to her; "Oh if my Lord would come and meet, she raised her hands and her eyes towards heaven, and gave such a look of eagerness and joy, as words could but faintly express. She had been very desirous of saying something to a female attendant, who had waited on her for some days in her last illness; but for want of strength, or want of opportunity, was prevented from so doing; at length, seeing her stand at the foot of her bed, she, after much effort, was enabled to say; "Ask and it shall be given;" "Seek and you shall find.” Within a few minutes of her death, she distinctly articulated the following broken sentences: Rejoice, I am happy; I am supported; I fear no evil; I shall not want; I am supported to the end; Receive my spirit-Come quickly: and one or two more expressions which were not so distinctly heard. After a few struggles, without a groan, about four o'clock in the morning of the 23d March, she slept in Jesus! "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labour and their works do follow them." 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The following Sketch appeared first in the Evangelical Intelligencer, for the year 1807. Having been revised by a near friend of Col. BAYARD, it is inserted in the Christian's Magazine, with a good hope that it will prove both interesting and edifying to the reader. I A SHORT SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF COL. JOHN BAYARD. HAVE often thought," says the celebrated author of the Rambler," that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative, would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use, but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill, but is common to human kind. We are all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure. In the life of him who is the subject of the following sketch, there is indeed nothing so pre-eminent as to claim the notice of the historian, or the grateful memorial of a nation. Yet it may truly be affirmed that in all his conduct, as well public as private, there was such a purity and elevation of principle; such a disinterested ardour and promptitude in promoting the public good, or in contributing to individual happiness, as commanded universal respect and esteem. His biography, therefore, may not only furnish materials for the gratification of his surviving friends, but for the benefit of society at large. But whatever good the tenor of his life may have a tendency to produce, it is the closing scene of it which forms the best comment on the principles he had professed; which, by adding a death-bed testimony to that of a consistent life, shows the inestimable importance of that Gospel which has "brought life and immortality to light," which proves with what a holy composure and triumphant joy, a real believer can behold the near and certain dissolution of his nature-how cheerfully he can part with what he has held most dear on earth, and with what transport rise on the wings of faith, to those "mansions of bliss reserved for the -righteous, where they shall shine like stars in the firmament, for ever and ever." COL. JOHN BAYARD was born on the 11th of August, 1738, on Bohemia manor, in Cecil county, and state of Maryland. His father, whose name was James, was the youngest of three brothers, who were all settled on adjoining farms, and lived with each other on terms of affectionate intimacy. They were all men of piety and worth, and highly respected in |