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I O it 4 > i 'i>^ It is not supposed that the reader of the follow- ing pages will meet with any thing that may not be found far better told in the memoirs of Chris- tian worthies, both of ancient and modern times ; but it is hoped that the simple records of the life of one amongst ourselves, who rose from a very humble condition to one of great usefulness, re- spectability, and comfort, may be beneficial to some in our own country. The subject of the following memoir was bora on the 15th of February, tS09, in the parish of Kilscherry, county of Tyrone, Ireland. His mother, who was a pious churchwoman, died whilst he was young, though not till after havings taught him "those things which a Christian ought to know and believe to his soaPs health." On the death of his mother he was taken by his mother's sister, a Mrs. Henderson, who seems to have been a very excellent woman. His elder brother and only sister came to America and settled in New York ; and in the course of a few years they were followed by Mr. Henderson and his family, who brought young Bealty with them.' His father consented to this separation on condi- tion that, in case John did not find himself comforta- ble in America, his son, who remained with him in Ireland, should at the end of a year cross the At- lantic and bring him home again ; but before the year had elapsed the father was laid beside the 290619 mother in the parish church yard. Instead of sail- ing for New York, as the Bealtys had done, Mr. Henderson's family sailed for Qaebec ; and there, three weeks after their arrival, young Beatty lost his ezcelk'nt aunt, Mrs. Henderson. It was then, (as he often said in after life,) that he for the first time fully realized the loss of his mother, — his aunt having so well supplied her place. On Mrs. Henderson's death the family left Quebec, intending to settle in Upper Canada; and young Beatty, then in his thirteenth year^ not wishing to be a burden to Mr. Henderson, who had a large family of his own, hired himself to a farmer near Quebec, who sent him into his fields to weed turnips. Having finished a row, he was so overcome by a sense of his desolate conditioui — a stranger in a strange land; without a relative or friend within hundreds of miles, — that he burst out into tears, and, feeling faint and weary, he lay down between the rows of turnips, and at last cried himself to sleep. On awaking, he thought of a beautiful hymn that had been taught him by his sainted mother or aunt, perhaps whilst standing at her knee ; and knowing how to sing a little he sang it, and felt encouraged. He then set to work again, and whenever he felt during the day overcome by a sense of his lonely condi- tion, he sang his hymn and worked on with re- newed energy. It is as follows : — THE STRANGER. While sinners strive with ceaseless strife To heap up earthly trensure, The Christian strives each day to gain Of grace a fuller measure. On earth the pilgrim hiu no homt| His work is toil and danger ; Bat glory is his constant aim, iMth though far from horae-kis tSod is nigh, ^Pi8r sioiles ,his hope^ .^tiil. raises ^ He is travelling on to worlds on high, Tajointhe saints in primes. Tjlipi^h foes 'un^te, pand he is, fm ipeset.all around with danger,— , 'His guardian guide stills reigns on high, 4-^ He will not leaver the strw^ger. Sometimes a sight his heart disturbs, And in his way he's weary, When sorrows press and strength is wei^ And allaronnd looks dreary. To Jcsuft tibien he turns his.eyes. And views him in a manger, His s^hs are hnsh'd, he's willing then To live on earth a stranger. : Jiike pilgjrhns then, we'll travel .on, Nor mi^mur whe% we si^er ; We'll go the way the prophets went, Although it was mnich tougher. The stonny road will lead, us home. When freed from toil and danger We'll praise our God in ^dl^s song, And there well be no stranger. 'He often ?iid, that from the day he sangr^his . Mymn, and priced his implicil tmst in 6od»:be fliad been bis unwavering friend, watching qifer, gaidingt and helping him; and that whatsoeiYpr he put his band to seemed to prosper. Having received from, the farmer near Quebec, Ms wages for the three rnonths that he lived twith hiim, amounting to six dollars, he mada-l^is way. up. to Lachine, in hopes of reaching Nci^w York, there to join his brother and sister. -At Lachine, where he hired out at three dollars per month, he lived a year; and at the end of that time, hearing that the Hendersons had settled If ffii 6 near Lockport, N. Y., where public works where going on, he proceeded thither. Not being able to 'do heavy work, he engaged with one of tho contractors at the Lockport locks, to carry water to his men whilst they were busy at their work. Here his wages were only $7 per month, and out of that small sum he had to pay iot his board and lodging; yet he worked on cheerfully, though barefooted, and suffering greatly from his feet being cut with the stones Ihat abound there. la 1826, he came to this neighbourhood and ob- tained a similar situation under one of the con- tractors on the Welland canal, of the name of Hathaway. With him he remained a year, and then entered the service of Mr. John Donaldson, now of the Grand River, who at that time had a job on the canal. Afr. Donaldson, being struck with his intelligence, steadiness and attention to anything committed to him, placed him, at the early age of seventeen^ as foreman over a party of men working for him. Here he saved a little money ; and, before he was one and twenty, had become a small contractor on the canal. Having completed his contract, he was recommended by his old employer, Mr. Donaldson, to Mr. Merritt, who was desirous of obtaining a faithful and effi- cient person to fill an office of responsibility on the canal. Mr. Merritt at first had fears that young Beatty was not old enough to fill the situa- tion ; but on Mr. Donaldson's very strong recom- mendation, he gave him the situation on trial ; and thus Mr. Beatty became an official on the Welland canal, and continued so to the day of his death, more than five and twenty years after- ;■/ -^- \ x^ wards. He always spoke in the very highest terms of Mr. Merritt's unwavering kindness ; and said that he had ever been to him a true friend. During that long period he served the Welland Canal Company, and (after the sale of the canal) the government with a zeal and fidelity unsur- passed. His anxiety to discharge faithfully his public duties was often greater than his strengtb» for he was never a very robust man, and brought him to a comparatively speaking early grave. In the fall preceding his death his zeal led him to expose his valuable life far more than prudence dictated ; and often was he engaged up and down the canal, when he ought to have been in his bed* And while he thus served his superiors, those placed under him were treated with all the care and tenderness of children. Many a tear trickled over the rough cheeks of those honest and hard working mei) who had laboured under him for years, when they at last were constrained to feel that they must loose "Johnny Beatty.'* Could prayers have saved him from the attack of death he would not now be lying in the dark and silent tomb : prayers offered up by high and low, by rich and poor, by Protestant and Roman Catholic alike. I never heard an ill word spoken of our departed friend ; and it was well said of him on the day after his death, by one who knew him intimately, when speaking of him to me : " No man ever died between these two lakes so universally regretted." This was high praise ; and yet I think it was no more than what he justly deserved. It is now more than eighteen years since 1 first f 8 became acquainted with Mr. Beatty, and daring that time 1 have noticed a steady growth in every •'thing that was of goMd report. He told his wHe '>t4Hit iie ocHild not recollect the time when he did not love^ God ; imd thatthough **> he had done many thingsmHiich heooght not to have done, and badkft undone many things which he ought to have done'," yet it had' been the end and aim of his whole JIfe ' f&«erve= God . He seems to have grown np from 'his baptismal birth as^* a member of Christy a sors in regard to the discharge of t! eir important duties. And here I think it weli to introduce tt very admirable illustration, which I have met with in the works of that very able living writer and preacher, the Reverend Henry Melville, B.D., of the blessing that may be anticipated by parents and sponsors, who will, in dependence on God's assistance, endeavour to discharge their duties to the children, whom they have dedicated to God's service. Speaking of the absolute necessity for nourishing and cherishing by the use of the ap- pointed means, the life that is begun in baptism, Mr. Mellville says — ^' We believe, in accordance with the doctrine of our church, a doctrine of whose agreement with scripture we are tho- roughly persuaded, that every baptized person has entered, in virtue of his baptism, on a condi* tion so diflferent from his natural, become entitled to such privileges, and endowed with such grace, that he may be described as regenerate, or born again from above. He may fail to be finally advantaged by this adoption into God's visible family. He may not be trained up as a member of that family should be trained ; there may be no attempt at making use of his privileges, none at acquiring or cherishing the dispositions which should characterize God's children, none at con- solidating or perpetuating that membership which was derived to him by his initiation into the church. But this is only saying, that, having been made a child of God, he may fail al last to be an heir of the kingdom, through failing to con- form himself to the known will, and improve the offered mercies of his Father in heaven. Let ui * pause for a moment, and endeavour 1o explain bow it comes to pass that there is so little visible efficacy in the sacrament of baptism. We v^ould Illustrate this from the account of the restoration of the daughter of Jairus ; Christ raised her from the dead by miracle, but immediately commanded that means should be used for sustaining the life thus supernaturally communicated. ' And her life came again, and He straightway commanded to give her nyeat.' By command of the great Physician were children sprinkled with the waters • of baptism, and thus made members of His church and heirs of His kingdom. There was a miracle — thechild of wrath became a child of God, the guilt of original sin was removed, and a right acquired lo all those gracious privileges through which, diligently used, the life may be preserved which is imparted in baptti^m. We believe of ihe^e baptised children, that, had they died ere they were old enough to be morally accountable, they would have been admitted into heaven, and therefore do we also believe that they passed, at baptism, from . death unto life, so that in their case, b#|)tiA>m was instrumental to the recovery of the immortality forfeited in Adam. But when Christ had thus wrought a miracle, wrought it through the ener- gies of the spirit brooding on the waters, He issued the eame command as to JairuM, and de- sired that meat ehauld he given to those whom He had quickened. So long as the children were too young to take care of themselves, this com- mand implied that their parents or guardians were to be diligent in instilling into their minds the principles of righteousness, instructing them "I I n i n < as to the vows which bad been made, and the privileges to which they had been admitted at baptism. So soon as the children had reached riper years, the command implied that they should use, with all earnestness, the appointed means of grace; and especially that they should feed, ' through the receiving of another sacrament, on that body and blood which are the sustenance of . a lost world. And we quite believe, that when- soever Mf command tsyat/A/ii/Zy obeyed^ the life .^communicated in baptism, will be preserved as the infant advances in maturity; but unhappily, in a majority of instances the command is alto- gether disobeyed. Even religious parents are often to blame in this matter, for, not duly mind- ful of the virtues of baptism, they address their children as though they were heathens^ in place of admonishing them as members of Christy to take heed how they let slip the grace they received. ** VVhen, therefore, we are told that notwith- standing the use of the sacrament of baptism, the great mass of men have evidently undergone no renevl^l of nature; and when it is argued from this that there cannot necessarily be any regeneration in baptism, our answer is simply, that God works by means as well as -f- Iracles; the means are to sustain what miracle implants ^ and that, therefore, the same appearance will* be finally presented, if means be neglected, as if a miracle were not wrought.*' — Sermons by Rev. R. H. Mellvill, B D., vol. H., p. 240, 242. I would apologise for this long article from Mr. MellviU's writings, did I not think it well calculated to throw much light on a doc* 13 trine of oar church, and one which has been much conlbanded bj modern dissenters with the terms " conversion" and ** renovation." — Our church teaches most emphatically, (and her ministers cannot too often enforce that solemn teaching,) that " we are saved by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost." Following in the steps of her Divine Head, who tells us, that " except we be born of water and of the spirit, we cannot enter the kingdom of God." She dares not ♦* put asunder what God had joined together"; but whilst she teaches her children, that in holy baptism they are " made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven," she, at the same time and place, teaches them, that it is **by God's help'' alone that they can "be- lieve and do, as their godfathers and godmothers promised for them ;" and that having been " called to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour," they are bound to "pray unto God Sooa after he was confined to the house I spoke to him about making his will. He had made one some years before, but the altered circumstances of his ftiroily, having attained to comparative affiuence, tendered it necessary for him to make another When he had, in accordance with my suggestionsi settled his worldly business, he felt relieved of a heavy burden and was much mere able to give his undivided attention to better things than those of this world. As his spiritual adviser, I had little to do during the last illness of this good man but to help him on to heaven. I often thought that I derived more benefit from my visits to his sick room than I imparted; and this was also the feeling of my excellent friend and brother, the Bev. J. Stannage, who kindly took charge of my sick during a fortnight's absence in January last. He had for years been preparing for the approach of death, and he was found ready, when his last Hickness came upon him. His confidence was Weil placed ; for it was on the rock, Jesus Christ. He felt that, whilst he had no merits of his own, on which he could rely, he could yet trust with unwavering confidence to the rich merits of Christ for the salvation of his soul. 18 I When all hopea of his recovering were aban- doned, I remarked to him one day that his task was not yet finished; that though he had done many a good day's work in his Hie — yet be poald do a better work than perhaps be bad ever yet performed. He expressed some surprise at my remark ; but, when I told him that he might do great good to the numbers, who came to visit bim from all parts, by testifying to them the value of the Gospel — that five words spoken from bis bed of death, would, with God's blessing, be of more worth than a hundred words spoken from the pulpit, he seemed pleased that be could yet do some good, and he promised to act upon my suggestion ; and scores, whom he addressed ia regard to their soul's salvation, can testify how faithfully he discharged this duty. It is to be hoped that they will treasure up in their inmost soul, those words spoken by him from the bottom of a loving heart ; and, when no eye sees them but that of God, let them be encouraged to do, as be exhorted them to do. Let them frequently think of that peaceful, happy, rejoicing christian, addressing them from his bed of death ; and let them resolve that they will repent them of their sins past, close with the gracious offer of accep- tance through the merits of their crucified Re- deemer; enter into a covenant with him never to be broken, and strive for the future to serve God in the Gospel of His de^r Son. Let them faithfully use the means of grace placed within their reach, as he used them ; and, though they shall see him no more on earth, they will see him at God's right hand in the highest heavens. •'f ■ i .K' ■- , ■ 19 ♦ Seldom is it the privilege of tiie ministers of God to meet with a more heavenly minded chris- tian character than was exhibited by our departed friend and brother. I was told by one of my parishioners last winter, that a friend of Mr. Beatty, who does not belong to our communion expressed himself to her as very much struck with this peculiarity in his friend. It was very striking and very lovely. One of his friends speaking to himofhis many afflictions, he replied withabeautl- ful smile, '^ I have no afflictions; they are all mme- ciBS." On one occasion when a person passed on the verandah towards which his bed-room looked he asked his sister-in-law if it was the doctor; on her answering that it was not, he remarked that he had not been in for some days ; bat that '* no earthly physician could do him any good.'' He then continued, *' There is balm in Gilead, a phy- sician there : that is the physician, who has done more for me than any earthly physician ever could." *'He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay ; and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.'' Yes ! repeating the wordn^ with a sweet smile, *^ he has set my feet upon a rock and ordered my goings "! uttering the word rock with great emphasis. Mrs. Beatty says that she was often struck by the re- markable language in which he expressed himself on religious subjects, knowing that his early edu- cation had been very deficient ; that his expres. sions when giving utterance to his feelings on such subjects were far above his ordinary mode of ex- pression, and showed a clearness, force and viva city, xh^j he did not exhibit at other times. I can '!eatt^ of the language, in whteh •^rfthmen^ when they pray exlemporaneon^yi etcAhe their feelings. He remarked that they drew tbto from the iaimita^ Itmgoage of the Pi«yef»> book, wb¥ob they generally used. So I can iro^ 0^4it for the beauty of the language employed by Mr. flieatty, wben speakiftg on religious subjeeta^ only by atlributing it to his great aequatntanee with his Bfbie and his Prayer-book. Being muofa surprised at the uncommon readiness with whioh be quoted scripture, I remarked to btm one day Hot long before he died,-~yoa seem to be well aeqnaiflted with God's word ! •* Yea,** s»td bej h»r(fly able to speak plainly, " I think I kn^w it aH from the begiiining of* — and not being abla td complete his sentence, I said " from the begin* niflg of Genesis?" «« Oh no,»' replied he, **that is too hard for me ; but from the beginning of Bt. Matthew's Gospel to the end of Revelations.** And when using the Prayer-book in his sick room I found him as well acquainted with it, as he was with his Bible. This knowledge was more te^ mavkable, inasmuch as it was obtained in the evenings after being out on the canal all day, and onSnndays. From these inimitable books he drew spiritual food day by day. From these he learned to live, and from these he learned to die. He asked one of his friends one day, *^ if she knew the way to come to God with acceptance ? " and, on being asked what he thought the best, way, he replied, **you should go to the root of the matter: you should go back, as far as your memory will M i^fr^ jdii, arid overhaul all your sins that you can Teeollect, and confess thetn before God ; and ask hinit for Christ's sake 1o forgive you them, and if you thas carry them before God you will succeed/* Speaking to his sister-in-law on one occasion^ in reference to his son and his daughter, whoitt he felt that he should soon be called to leave, he raid, that he had no fears on their account, that h6 firmly believed that the gracious God, who had watched over and taken such care of him all his life long, would care for them, and that theiefore, he could resign them into His handd With imf>ticit confidence. On a Sunday, soon Itft^f he was confined to the house, one of hii fomily noticing that he could eat nothing at breakfast or dinner, prepared a little corn cake, of which be was parlieulariy fond, in hopes of iiidttoing him to take something at tea. Perceiving it, he asked Mrs. Beatty what it was, and whether it bad been baked thai day. On her replying that it was only a little corn oake that bad been pre*- pared for him, as they had seen that he had eateil tiothing^ he replied, that it looked very tempting; bol that he could not relish it; that he had noi to his knowledge ever eaten any bfead baked on the Sabbath day, and that he certainly should not begin to do 60 then. On niy return home, after an absence of a fort- night in January last, attending Missionary meet- ings in the county of Simcoe, i went to see him^ and be warmly expressed his gratitude to A tmighty God for having apared him to see his beloved pas* tor once ii»ofe in the flesh ; and on that occasion he used an expression, which he often repeated I ■I i ¥ rv 32 —that if he " hwl ten thousand worlds in his gift he woald gladly part with them for the unspeaka- ble happiness he was privileged to enjoy on his bed of death." His manner was very remarkable, and will not soon be forgotten by those who were present. He often appeared lifted up above the world, and with a radiant smile upon his counte- nance gave expression of thankfulness to God for the unspeakable gift of His dear Son ; referring especially to him as "Me Rock of ages ;^^ which expression he never repeated without a smile of heartfelt thankfulness. On the Monday before his death I had a long conversation with him ; and on my enumerating the fruits of the spirit to him, as given by St. Paul, in his epistle to the Galatians, and questioning him as to the posses- sion of each, he answered me with a sweet smile ^* Yes, I trust that I have this : love, yes, love to Ood, and love to my fellow creatures too. Joy, yea ; joy in the Holy Ghost : thank God, I rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Peace, ye^; a peace which passeth understanding: such as this world can neither give nor take away ; " and so on. His love for his fellow creatures was strikingly manifest during his whole sickness. His heart appeared to yearn for their salvation ; and any thing which he could do for them, he readily did. I have mentioned how he acted on my suggestion, to speak to those who visited him of the blessings he enjoyed on his bed of death ; and how he urged them to seek the same un- speakable blessing. I must add that in order to do this, for some of hia friends, he sent long dis- tances, sometimes twenty miles, to bring to hit house. I \»f < V )[«»x»»>»fi«*»r" ^ i>»:l On the Sunday before his death I administered to him, his family, and a few friends the blessed sacrament of the Lord's supper; and truly it was to him and others a heavenly feast, a spirit^ ual banquet. He appeared much refreshed there- by; and on my leaving, expressed to me his gratitude for the unspeakable privilege afforded him. I scarcely ever left his sick bed without his expressing thankfulness for my poor services, and he generally offered up a prayer, that God's bless- ing might rest upon me and my ministry. Mrs. Beatty tells me that his habit on communion Sundays was to spend some time in his chamber in private prayer, both before and after the recep- tion of the Holy Communion. A fortnight before his own funeral his friend Mrs. Timms, whom he had known and respected for upwards of thirty years, and who, like him, died a most happy tri- umphant death, was buried. They had walked together to God's house the last time either of them were there alive ; and he was anxious to see her remains pass his house on their way to their last earthly resting place. He accordingly^ was removed from his bed room, and propped up in a bed, so that he could see the funeral pass, perfectly assured that ere long he should follow her and meet her there, where they would be parted no more. He sometimes expressed to me a wish to ** depart and be for ever present with his Lord ;" but on being reminded that he must "wait the Lord's leasure," he would remark with a sweet smile, " Oh yes! He knows best." The last time I saw him alive was on Ash-Wednes-' day, after divine service. Feeling that his end qp^pp m^i^irmmm m WAS Slight I ^uefttioned him at to his fettk ; ond €ound lihal it had noi he«[| sh»kjen iin the leieriBt ; that the great enemy of his «oal had aoi beem permitted to gain a»y advantage ov«r him ; but tha* ho could rely impiiciily and most joylolly on bis beloved *^ Rock." |lia end was iti fuU keep- ing with bis life. As his freiids saw his death ap^ proaohing his children were called in ; and on his son kneeling at his bed side, by his directions, he laid bis band on his head and gav« Mm his pa« teroal blessing. One oif bis friends then offering up a short prayer, be joined earnestly in it ; ai%^ while those present sang Bi«hop Kean's beautiful evening hymu, he united with them in singing the fivst two verses. During the third verse bis voice failed to give expression to b is*^ feelings ; but after it failed his lips still muved, and wheo they too ceased, he turned his eye upwards as to heaven ; and with a beautiful senile on his coun- tenance, slept so sweetly away, that his friends, though watching him fuo»t closely, hardly knew when his spirit took its flight from the body. Thus lived and thus died, on the fifty-seccHid anniversary of his birthday, one, of whom a friend who was present at his death-bed, and who be- longs not lo our communion, said : ^* Jf ever a man died a happy, peaceful, Cbristian death, that man was John Beatty.^* It only remains for me, to express the earnett hope, that those who read this memoir, may bo led to strive, through God's grai^e, to live as he lived, and then most assuredly they may hope to die a« he died. he leiBiBt ; aoi beam lim; but »yl'nl)y on fuU keep- death ap nd on his Qtione, he m his par I) offering 11 it ; aii4 1 singing verse his feelings; ind when ards as to his conn- s friendsi dly knew ioi\y. iiy-seccHMi' n a friend J who be- If ever a leath,that \\e earneat r, may be live as he ly hope to »U