Can this dust live? blind nature cries. When Christ descends the saints shall rise Note. A friend furnished the following notice of the amiable and excellent mrs. Nott, which has already been published, though not widely circulated. "Mrs. Nott was rather small of stature. Her complexion was fair, her countenance expressive, and enlivened by an eye uncommonly brilliant, penetrating, and significant. Her genius was sprightly, her mind enriched by reading, and her taste refined by a happy education. In her conversation, she was unassuming; in her manners, artless and unaffected. In youth she was vivacious, and possessed a talent for satire; but a talent completely concealed beneath the veil of discretion, in maturer years. "She was naturally open hearted; seldom disguised either her feelings or her sentiments; but, on the contrary, discovered both with a candour, which, though it sometimes made her enemies, alalways endeared her to her friends. "Her domestick virtues were exemplary. Industry and economy were conspicuous in the care of a rising family, which care had been for years, previous to her death, committed, by her confiding partner, exclusively to herself. Filial respect marked her conduct to her parents; fraternal affection to her brethren and sisters; and conjugal love and maternal tenderness, happily blended in her character, were displayed in a life devoted to the interests of her husband and her offspring. "As a neighbour she was peaceable and obliging; as a friend candid, sincere, and affectionate, beyond measure. Her heart knew no guile; and her bosom, hallowed sanctuary, preserved inviolable its sacred trusts. "As a sufferer under long and repeated sicknesses, her firmness, fortitude, and patience, have seldom been equalled. She submitted to the divine rod with cheerful resignation, and was never once heard, under its chastising stroke, to utter a murmuring word. As a member of the church and as a christian, her conduct was such as becometh godliness, and her example adorned the doctrine of God our Saviour. For more than a year, before her death, her friends had observed that she became less social and more contemplative. This probably resulted from a prevailing persuasion that she was to die in early life, a persuasion founded on the obvious impairs which her constitution had already suffered. At a very early period, after her last illuess, she forewarned her friends of her approaching dissolution. Hopeful symptoms, however, beguiled almost every one but herself; among the most hopeful of which was her wonted cheerfulness, which accompanied her to the end. Notwithstanding this cheerfulness, she almost daily declared to those around her that she should die; often caused the third part of the thirty ninth psalm, as paraphrased by Watts, to be read in ber hearing, and often solicited her partner to mingle his prayers with hers before the throne of mercy, that she might be resigned and prepared for what she was fully persuaded would be the event. While thus imperceptibly wasting away, all her conversation was expressive of resignation, nor did she intimate even to her friends, any solicitude respecting life. "With respect to her actual preparation for death, she always spoke with diffidence. The temper, however, which she manifested, the resignation which she discovered, and above all, the uniform and exclusive dependence, which she appeared to place on Jesus, the sinner's and the sufferer's friend, furnished more hopeful evidence of the reality of her piety, than the most confident assertions or even the most ardent hopes could otherwise have furnished. "On the saturday, of the week preceding her death, and at the time when the family were assembled, she observed, as she had frequently done, that she must soon leave them. Being asked whether, if that should be the case, she were afraid to die; she replied, no, I am not afraid to die. I have not indeed that full assurance I could wish. I am sensible that I am a miserable sinner. I have no merit of my own to plead before God. My only hope is built upon the righteousness of Jesus Christ. I cast myself at his feet. I rely upon his mercy. Will he disappoint me? Will he let me perish? ALBANY, N. Y. As 823. Under this stone lie interred the mortal remains of the rev. JOHN HARDENBERG MEIER, late minister of the reformed Dutch church in the city of Schenectady. He adorned the doctrines of God, his Saviour, displaying uniformly his attachment to them and their influence over him. a man, he was amiable, possessing a peaceable disposition, fond of social intercourse, and desirous of happiness in others. As a minister of the gospel, he was greatly esteemed by all who knew him, being blessed with a sound judgment, devoted to the service of the sanctuary from principle, loving the glorious Redeemer, and desirous of winning souls to his dominion. In the midst of his days, he was called home and left this world looking with faith and patience for the blessed appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. He was born, 19 October, 1774, and died, 11 September, 1806, aged 31 years, 10 months, and 23 days, having been engaged, in the service of Jehovah Jesus, almost eight years, of which he spent better,than three, in Schenectady. Note." In mr. Meier, his family and his friends have lost an affectionate relative and the church of Jesus Christ a worthy and valuable servant. His talents and acquirements, were both of the useful kind and very respectable. Being cautious in his disposition and reserved in his manners, he displayed fewer mental resources in his intercourse with men, than he really possessed. His caution, however, did not sour his temper, nor his reserve unfit him for social enjoyment. The native benevolence of his heart always rendered him a welcome and acceptable companion to his acquaintances. He was esteemed as a preacher; but more especially excellent as a member of the several church judicatories, with which he was connected. In them his loss will be long felt. His views of church govern. ment were correct; his judgment was sound; his passions controlled by his understanding. He was rising in reputation; his sphere of usefulness was enlarging; his prospects of human happiness expanding, when it pleased a holy God, in his adorable providence, to take him to himself. "His education being strictly religious, he had, from his earliest years a deep reverence for divine things; at what period particularly he became a |