have won for him the character ascribed to the evangelist, of a "burning and a shining light." Truly, if the electing love of God and the sovereignty of His most free favour ever found an illustration and a proof, it was the gracious calling and decided conversion to Christ from a state of worldliness, spiritual blindness, and religious formalism-and this by an instrument so weak and improbable-of this now glorified saint of God. From that moment until he finished his career, and fought his last battle in the Christian warfare, he maintained the honoured designation of "a good soldier of Jesus Christ."

Passing over the first few years of his Christian life, we may remark that it was when stationed with H.M. 77th Regiment at Jamaica, West Indies, that the eminently real and practical character of his religion appeared so striking and conspicuous. Evangelical army chaplains were not so numerous in those days as happily they are now. The appointments to high and responsible positions in the Church, both by civil and military authority, were generally types of the existing state of religion-men who reflected the lifeless, cold system of religious formalism so universal at that period. Nor had the subject of Christian Missionseither colonial or foreign-occupied the attention and taken hold upon the sympathies, prayers, and exertions of the Church of Christ as now. Consequently many of our colonial military stations were left almost en

tirely destitute of the gospel, and of the evangelical, spiritual, and earnest visits and instructions of the faithful minister at the bedside of the sick and dying soldier. On arriving at Jamaica, a fine field of Christian effort and usefulness presented itself to the religion and heart of Colonel TATTON, of which he was not. slow to avail himself. In default, therefore, of sufficient ministerial instruction and oversight in the regiment, with a soul glowing with love to His Divine Master, and with sympathy and compassion for the perishing soldier, he gave himself to the work of visiting the men in their quarters, reading and explaining to them the Word of God, lending them gospel tracts, praying with the sick and dying, pointing them to the Lamb of God, and often reading over their graves the service for the burial of the dead. The results of these earnest, evangelical labours will only be manifest in that great day when every lowly effort now made to glorify Christ will appear-then, recognised and rewarded— resplendent far above all earth's greatest, proudest, grandest achievements. The "precious seed" we now sow in tears, broadcast with feeble, trembling hand. over these dreary waters of the curse, shall then appear a golden harvest, sickled by the angel-reapers, and garnered with joy in the paradise of God. Oh, how should this thought prompt and encourage every personal, humble effort to win a soul to Christ! No uncertainty attends our efforts. "They that sow

in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him," (Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6.) Multitudes are perishing around us, and it behoves the Christian laity, not less than the professed minister of the gospel-the pious officer, as the regular chaplain of our army and navy -to imitate the holy, Christ-like example of Colonel TATTON, and of many godly men in the present day, and employ their personal influence, talents, and efforts for the conversion of sinners, the advancement of gospel truth, and the ultimate and destined triumph of the kingdom of Jesus in the world. My reader, why stand you idle? "Go thou and do likewise," and God will bless you, and make you a blessing.

On relinquishing the army, Colonel TATTON took up his residence in Bath. It was in this beautiful city he spent the remainder of his days, and terminated his long and now consecrated life. But although thus relinquishing the active duties of his profession, he had not quitted the army of the living God, nor had forgotten that he was a soldier of Jesus Christ. He fully recognised his obligation, and estimated his privilege of following and serving Jesus, the "Captain of his salvation." He therefore at once united himself with a Christian Church, and gave in his adhesion to a band. of godly laymen-some of whom, like himself, were

retired military officers, and had seen hard and long service abroad-who were united in conducting and promoting various local Christian and benevolent societies. To one, especially, his truly Christ-loving, catholic spirit and warmest sympathies prompted him to unite. We refer to the Bath Branch of the Evangelical Alliance. Of the committee of this interesting society he became an early and active member, punctual in his attendance at its business and devotional meetings, when health permitted, and contributing liberally to this, as to other local societies, of his earthly substance. His loving, lowly, gentle spirit, his deep self-prostration, his gentlemanly and refined address, his tenderness for the feelings, and his charity and sympathy for the wants and sorrows of others, endeared him, beyond many, to the hearts of all in the circle in which he moved. The unfeigned self-abnegation, which was so remarkable a trait of his Christianity, the profound humility of his spirit-never more apparent than when he alluded to the days of his unconversion, the many years that he lived a stranger to Christ and in rebellion against God -imparted a lustre, beauty, and sanctity to his religious character which those who were capable of appreciating it will never cease to admire or forget.

Colonel TATTON had reached the eighty-eighth year of his protracted life, when the time arrived that he should be gathered to his fathers. His beloved partner-the affectionate wife of his youth, the staff

and comfort of his declining years, and now his mourning survivor, after a happy union of nearly sixty-one years could not fail to mark in his deepening holiness, his growing heavenliness of conversation, the brightening gleams of glory which illumined his spirit, the soul's preparation for its celestial flight. And yet the actual probability of his speedy entrance into the world invisible was the last thought of her mind. A separation on earth, after so long and so happy a union, to her conception seemed scarcely to come within the range of possibility. But his Saviour had need of him, and the growing meetness for glory which imparted increased closeness, sanctity, and sweetness to the bond of earth, and which seemed to concentrate upon its close the fond endearment of a whole life, was but the opening of heaven to the loved one, now standing as within its vestibule. On the day previous to his departure, he appeared to have been favoured with peculiar and overwhelming manifestations of the Lord's presence. His habit was to spend four hours of each day in reading, meditation, and prayer. It was in connexion with this sacred employment on the morning of the day which preceded his entrance "into heaven itself" that he was favoured with those prelibations of heaven to which he thus referred. Addressing his beloved wife, he said, “My darling, I have been favoured with such gracious manifestations of the Lord to my soul this morning as I am not able to describe.