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prosperity, and during that time more than four hundred were added to the church. In 1806 he was removed about four hundred miles, to Dunham and Fletcher circuit, which extended into Lower Canada. He continued there six months, when a change was effected between him and the Rev. N. Gage, and he spent the remainder of the year on Cambridge circuit. He was appointed in 1807, to Lebanon, N. Y.; 1808, Litchfield, Conn.; 1809, Courtlandt, N. Y.; 1810 and 1811, New Rochelle; 1812, Croton. It was in August, of this year, that my dear mother departed this life, in holy triumph, leaving four little children, of whom I was the eldest. Although I was only in my seventh year, I well remember standing by her dying bed, and receiving her last blessing. In 1813, he was appointed to Redding; and 1814 and 1815, Stratford, Conn. In the spring of 1816 he was married again, to Miss Louisa Robinson, of Danbury, Conn., who still survives him. That year and the following, he traveled Chatham circuit; 1818, Rhinebeck; 1819 and 1820, Durham, Conn.; 1821, Jefferson, with the Rev. J. Bangs. This was a year of great spiritual prosperity, several hundred were added to the church; 1822 and 1823, Bern, with D. Lewis; 1824 and 1825, Montgomery; 1826 and 1827, Cambridge; 1828, Petersburgh, 1829 and 1830, Pittstown. At the conference of 1831, his relation was changed to supernumerary, and in 1835 to superannuated, which he continued to sustain till his death. For many years he had been subject to a chronic diarrhoea. This, with other complaints incident to declining years, gradually wore him out; however, he continued to preach, as long as he consistently could. Although his natural and acquired abilities were quite inferior to many of the brethren in the ministry, yet his labors were owned and blessed of the Lord to the conversion and salvation of many souls. He was esteemed

as a good man, and full of faith and the Holy Ghost. His latter years were years of bodily suffering; but I have heard it said, by those who were with him, that he was meek and quiet as a lamb, never complaining or repining in the least. The closing scenes are thus described by my brother: On Wednesday evening preceding his death, he had a struggle, and shook violently, the sweat standing upon him in large drops. They supposed he was then struck with death, but he revived for a short time; when he came to, he said he thought the house was on fire, and that he went up in the flames to heaven, where he was permitted to see the glories of that place, and the faithful who had arrived there. His sky was clear to the last. One of his dying expressions was, 'All is well!' He gradually sunk away, until he slept in death, on Saturday, September 6, 1851."

Such is the faithful but very scanty record, of one who did effective service in the work of the ministry, for an unbroken series of thirty-one years. But the reader may ask, did no interesting and instructive events occur, in the history of all these years, worthy of record? Yes; privations were endured, conflicts passed, deliverances wrought out, and victories achieved. Scenes of thrilling interest in connection with the early struggles of Methodism, and the progress of the work of God, in which father Eames was an actor, must have occurred. But, as in other cases, we have to regret that no earthly pen has recorded them; and the few reminiscences here gathered up from the memories of the living, might soon have been irrecoverably lost. May not the recital of these trials and triumphs of the ambassadors of Christ, form a part of the employment and enjoyment of heaven?

Father Eames is represented, by those who knew him long and intimately, as a fair specimen of the old style of

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Methodist preachers. He was deeply pious, and thoroughly devoted to the one work of saving souls. Having but few of the extraneous advantages of modern days, he spent much time on his knees before God, and in the study of the Word of Life. He knew nothing among the people save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." It is said of one of our modern preachers, whose outer man was any thing but such as would have led a stranger to suspect that he belonged to the fraternity, that he once called on an honest Dutchman, a member of the church, and introduced himself as a Methodist preacher. The good brother, after surveying him from head to foot, in silent but significant wonder and doubt, for a few moments, exclaimed: "Vell, if I shoot cet mine cun to zhoot a Metodish breacher, I vood nefer cock it at you." Not so with father Eames. His dress, equipage, air, countenance, the intonations of his voice, indeed, his tout ensemble bore unequivocal evidence of the fraternity to which he belonged. In all places, and under all circumstances, whether congenial to those around him or otherwise, he exhibited the characteristics of his profession. When, at a prayer meeting held by a sister church, he was called to order for shouting, he took not the slightest notice, but praised God as heartily as though he had been with the brethren of his own communion, at a camp-meeting. He was always active, happy and

useful.

In the early days of his ministry, he often fell, during the meeting, and lay motionless for hours. Our various classes of readers will philosophize on this subject as satisfactorily to themselves, as would be any thing the writer might say. One remark, however, may safely be made, relative to those strange physical effects that were so frequently attendant upon the religious exercises of our people in former times; they were not feigned.

This may be safely inferred, from the fact, that, many to whom they occurred were persons of sterling integrity, utterly incapable of any thing like hypocrisy.

Mr. Eames' preaching, like every thing else about him, was in the old style. It embraced but a very limited range of subjects; these were, however, the most important. Man's original state, the fall, redemption by Jesus Christ, repentance, faith and holiness, were treated of, in almost every sermon. Although there was great sameness in his sermons, yet the heart-felt earnestness, with which they were delivered, gave them a freshness that rendered them interesting, especially to the more pious part of his hearers. His discourses were often searching and pungent, and attended with a divine unction, that made them "the power of God unto salvation." Such was Rev. Henry Eames; his son, Rev. Joseph Eames, now (1853) in the twenty-seventh year of his ministry, is an honorable representative of his pious father.

REV. JAMES F. BURROWS.*

"How beautiful it is for man to die
Upon the walls of Zion! to be called,
Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,

To put his armor off, and rest-in heaven!"

Is there not exquisite pleasure in the recollections of a devoted, self-sacrificing man of God, who, in all the freshness and vigor of youth has fallen on the moral battle-field? Precious to surviving friends is the memory

* For much of this article the writer is indebted to a relative of Mr. Burrows.

of such a Christian with whom they have walked life's pathway and taken sweet counsel. "The memory of the just is blessed." How many, just sitting out upon their ministerial career, are called from the sacred walls of Zion to step into the chariot of fire, and be heralded by angels into the celestial city, "to go no more out." What the attainments of such would have been had they lived, we are not permitted to know.

James F. Burrows possessed many traits of character which seemed to mirror forth a career of distinguished usefulness. He was born Feb. 10, 1826, in the town of Monroe, Saratoga county, N. Y. At an early age he was deprived of the counsels and reproofs of a father. Providence, however, watched over him, and by the direction of an elder brother he went to reside with a gentleman in Mechanicsville, where in 1843 he sought and found the pearl of great price. He now devoted much of his time to study, especially to the perusal of the scriptures. His zealous devotion to the sabbath school and all the means of grace, together with his unblamable and exemplary life, attested the genuineness of the change wrought in him, and evinced his growth in grace. In the fall of 1843, at a camp meeting held at Cambridge, he sought the blessing of "perfect love," and attained that high state of religious experience, which he retained, still growing in grace, until glory in heaven completed what grace on earth had begun. He was enabled to give such unequivocal evidence of the attainments he had made in the divine life as satisfied those who knew him that God had done great things for him. Among others who testify to his worth, Rev. T. Spicer says of him; "I believe brother Burrows enjoyed the blessing of perfect love."

Under the conviction that he was called of God to preach the gospel, he, by his own diligence, frugality

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