These continued three or four days, but he rallied at the close of the week and felt so much better, that it was presumed he was suffering only from a cold, caught on his return from preaching in consequence of a change in the weather. He continued to improve until 5 o'clock p. m. on Monday when he had a return of the attack, which increased, accompanied with great pain, notwithstanding all the art of medicine and the attention of friends, so that he could not rest, neither in nor out of bed. His stomach now rejected all sustenance, and he quietly sunk, on the following day, into the arms of the Lord. "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that I am his servant," was his confiding reply shortly before his death, when asked if he did not fear eternity ; adding from 2 Cor., 5., " For we know, if our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, that we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven."

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The Rcvd Mr Du Bois was at the time of his death, in the Wth year of hli age, and in the 52d of his ministry in New-Yorlt. His funeral sermon wa« preached on the J3th Octob., 1751, by his successor the Rcvd Lambertus de Ronde, who had served the Church in Surinam for four years and a half, and had been calleil to assist the Revd Mr Dubois only some months before the latter's death. This Sernr.on, from which we have gleaned the above particulars, was printed in N. Y. by Hendricus de Foreest, anno 1752, and is to be found in the N. Y. State Library. Ed.