On the wrapper of our last No. we briefly mentioned the decease of our lamented friend and brother, John Kay, well known to most of our readers, and by many of them highly valued as a writer, at various times for many years, in our pages, under the signature of “J. K., Abingdon." As we enjoyed the pleasure of his acquaintance for more than 25 years, and much esteemed him as a friend and brother in the Lord, and have every reason to believe that not only by the immediate circle of his spiritual friends, but that by many of our readers also who never saw him in the flesh, he was greatly valued for his earnest contention for the “faith once delivered unto the…