Died at the residence of his son-in-law, Rev. William H. Sanford, of Boylston, August 29th, of diabetes, Rev. ETHAN SMITH, in the 87th year of his age. Mr. Smith was born in Belchertown, Dec. 19th, 1762, removed to South Hadley when a child, served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution, being stationed at West Point when that post was betrayed by Arnold, was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1790, married a daughter of Rev. David Sanford of Medway in 1793, was ordained at Haverhill, N. H., and successively installed at Hopkinton, N. H., Poultney, Vt., Hebron, N. Y., and Hanover in this State.

The deceased was a man of physical, mental, and moral energy,—the result of constitution, temperament, early education, condition in life, the exigency of the time in which he lived, and that "manifold grace of God" which was his song of rejoicing "in the "house of his pilgrimage."

In doctrine and life, Mr. Smith was a genuine representative of the Puritan stock in the stern and reliable elements and combination of its character. His religious faith was simple, absolute, steadfast, practical, sanctifying, and beneficent. None that knew him doubted its reality, for they saw its power. Though his reading was large and various, the Bible was to him the book of books. He studied it, preached it, lived it, and died repeating its blessed promises, in the full assurance of their truth and of his own interest in them. "Joy and peace in believing," were his last emphatic words. His long religious life showed the promptness, precision, vigilance, zeal, enterprise, and steady courage of the christian soldier. His whole life was diligent. He worked hard from necessity, duty, habit, and choice. He died with his harness on. The Sabbath before his last brief illness, he preached with animation and impressive force. Rust had no chance to gather on his soul. He loved every good work, and, where he could, put his hand to it with all his might. The benevolent enterprises of his time found him no laggard. He was quick to see, and often to foresee and lead on, their dawning day. Popular education, the higher seminaries of secular and sacred learning, the christian sabbath, the circulation of the Bible, the promotion of sabbath-schools, the missionary enterprise (domestic and foreign,) the cause of temperance, and of peace, the wants of the needy, the welfare of seamen, the hardships of the prisoner, the wrongs of the Indian, and the execrable bondage of the slave, were all cared for by him, and no cause of humanity saw in him a Levite passing by the other side. He walked humbly with his God—with a humility that heightened his love, confidence, and joy. Though the constancy and abundance of his labors would shame many a good man, and many a godly minister, his only hope of reward was through the grace of God in Christ Jesus, his Lord and Redeemer.—But he is gone! and the place that has known him will know him no more!—No untimely blast withered his green leaf. After having stood long in the storm and sunshine of the field, Death, the great reaper, has garnered him "fully ripe." They who miss him most, and most mourn his absence, are comforted in the belief of his "fulness of joy" and "pleasures forevermore."

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