Miss Sarah Jane Wortley died at her father's residence in Drayton, November 5, after ten months of lingering illness, induced by a severe cold, caught while nobly aiding in the dead of night to extinguish a fire that raged in a neighbor's dwelling. She was twenty-one years old.

The deceased was one of the few who, forcasting the future, had made all needful preparation for the next as well as the present world. It was her good fortune to attend for two years the Wesleyan Female College in Hamilton, and to the religious influence thrown around her there, the godly companionship and the judicious councils and oversight of its President, the Rev. Samuel D. Rice, she has always felt greatly indebted.

Three years ago, in connection with special services held in Drayton by the Revs. Matthew Swann and Henry Johnson, she publically gave herself to the Lord and united with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Since which time, until prevented by sickness, she has been constant in her attendance upon the Church's ordinances, and indefatigable as a teacher in the Sunday School. During her sickness religion sustained and comforted her. She expressed from the first, and at the last, unshaken confidence in the Saviour and surrounded by her friends, who came with her to the brink of the river, she passed away, trusing and peacefully leaning upon the arm of God.

Her death was improved by the writer, from Heb. xi. 4, to a congregation of over 500 people, who followed here remains to the family burial-ground. She "being dead yet speaketh to many." God grant she may neither have lived nor died in vain.

...Rev. Richard J. Forman

contributed by Janice Buchanan of Elk Grove, CA, USA