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MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM GARTON AND THOMAS LLOYD.

delivered his message he went away, but in a present-exhorting an ancient Friend, to keep little time turned back and called for the earl low in God's fear, and make strait steps, that and said to him, "Because thou hast been he might lay down his grey hairs in peace. kind and loving to the servant of the Lord, He also said he felt the Lord to come in upon the evil shall not be in thy days." The event his spirit, and after praying for his wife and answered the prediction, for the great house children, he said, "O Lord! I pray thee, rein the time of the wars, after the decease of the earl, was destroyed by fire, and visibly became an habitation for the fowls of the air, which built their nests in it.

John Exham died in the ninety-second year of his age, having been a minister sixty years and retained his zeal and integrity to the end.

member the ancients, that they may still hold on their way; and oh my God, if it stand with thy will, visit more and more those who are not of thy fold, and bring them in by thine arm, that they may come to know rest for their souls; and that at the last we may be bound up together in the bundle of life."

love of God is over all; praises, praises to the Lord." He departed the 8th of the seventh month, 1701, in the sixty-sixth year of his age.

THOMAS LLOYD, of Maumore, in Wales, was educated at the university of Cambridge, and after his marriage removed with his family to Pennsylvania; of which province he was deputy governor several years. In the latter part of his life he had a share in the difficulties and exercises occasioned by the mournful defection of George Keith.

To his daughter he said, "dear child, I WILLIAM GARTON, of Ifield, in Sussex, was have known much of the goodness of the an early fruit to God, a faithful believer in his Lord, but not in such a large manner before blessed Truth, and a servant of the church of as now-the very fountain is open, and the Christ-zealous against all unrighteousness, and for the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace among brethren. He was an elder indeed, watching for good over the flock, a sympathizer with the afflicted, and a mourner in the house of mourning: a plain man, more in deed than in words, yet endowed with a good understanding and sound judgment, which was proved in difficult cases. In the time of suffering and persecution he was firm and constant in spirit, preferring the service of Truth and the testimony of it, before all worldly things. He was an example in the church and in his family, a tender parent, and had a just care that his children might be trained up in the fear of the Lord and the knowledge of his blessed Truth; which labour the Lord was pleased to answer to his satisfaction. He often said, the greatest portion he desired of the Lord for his children was, the blessed Truth; and that they might love, fear and serve the Lord, and then he did not fear that they would want any good thing.

On his death bed he said to his friends when near his close, "Friends, I love you all; I am going from you, and I die in unity and love to all faithful Friends. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, which stands not in the wisdom of words, but in the power of God. I have fought, not for contention and strife, but for the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the simplicity of the Gospel; I lay down my head in peace, and desire you may all do so; Friends, farewell all." In a mesTwo days before his death, being visited by sage of love to Friends in England, he says, a Friend, he said, he had always endeavoured" I have lived in unity with them, and desire for the prosperity of the Truth to the best of the Lord to keep them faithful unto the end in his understanding, and that he had nothing of the simplicity of the Gospel." He died in trouble upon him, but blessed God that he had 1694, aged about forty-five years.

an opportunity to give this testimony to those

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