He was often engaged to preach at different places, and should have gone to Chorley at the time he was taken ill. He was a subscriber to the "Gospel Standard" for more than 20 years. During his short illness, (not a fortnight,) he was tried very much by the enemy of souls; so much so that he said he thought that Satan came to him with a net to catch him, and he drew up his net, "but," he said, "I was not in the net. He knocked me down, but he could not wound me, for I had a helmet of brass on my head." Sometimes he would say he had had to fight some hard battles; and then I heard him pray fervently:…