The Rev. John William Gowring, B.A., died at his residence in the Stockwell-road on Tuesday. The late rev. gentleman (who was afflicted with loss of sight) was one of the most faithful ministers of the Church of England of the present century. He was a Cambridge man, and was eleventh wrangler. He was for a long term of years one of the curates of Kennington parish. During the later part of his time he held regular services in the large school-rooms in Bolton-street.

From an age-faded photograph we reproduce in our pages a likeness of the aforetime well-known and affectionately loved blind Clergyman, the Rev. J. W. GOWRING, B.A. The copy which appears as our frontispiece we have for many years treasured in our album as a present from our much-loved brother and former hearer of the Word, Mr. Henry Parker, of London. MR. GOWRING was a Wrangler of Cambridge, a devoted servant of CHRIST, and a loving preacher of the Word of salvation, displaying as an expositor remarkable gifts of perspicacity in his treatment of the holy Word. His early ministry was in association with the late Rev. Richard Hale, in the north, when his powers of vision became seriously affected.

We never remember to have taken up the pen before with the reminder that two of our oldest and most valued friends had just passed away within one day of each other, and that a third has for some time been so ill as for us by every post to expect to hear that he had been called home likewise. How are the ranks of our old friends and supporters thinning, and how the fact forcibly reminds us of the near approach of our own summons! The Lord in mercy grant that it may find us both in a waiting and a willing posture, "looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ."