The particulars of Dr. M.'s lamented decease, were announced in the Canton Gazette, and in an excellent letter from his son,[A] who long worshipped with us here, to the Directors. [Footnote A: An extract from this letter--supplying the melancholy part of this memorial--will be found in our number for March, p. 107.--Ed.] He expired at his residence in the Danish Hong, on the 1st of August, 1834. His remains were followed from thence to the river side by Lord Napier,[B] and all the Europeans, Americans, and Asiatic British subjects in Canton. The corpse was forwarded to Macao, and attended to the grave by about forty European gentlemen, on Tuesday evening, August 5th, and interred in the private Protestant burial ground in that settlement. The service of the church of England was read by the Rev. Mr. Stevens, seaman's chaplain in the port of Canton, who was present at his decease, and affectionately ministered to his comfort in that trying hour. [Footnote B: How singular, that he should so soon follow him to "the house appointed for all living," and earnestly request to be buried near him!] Hear then the voice from _the tomb_: _Be ye also ready!_ His work of faith and labour of love were ended. The day of Jubilee to Africa, was the day of mourning to China! Then its first Protestant Missionary--its first translator of the sacred volume--its devoted apostle--not to say, he who unlocked the treasures of its literature to the western world, was summoned to his glorious rest--his eternal reward! Then he was hailed by the voice of his Saviour: "Well done, good and faithful servant: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord:" while he joined the chorus of the redeemed; "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and thy truth's sake." Only a month before, the venerable Carey, the apostle of India, ascended to his glory; and with what rapture must they have embraced each other, in the presence of their common Lord!--But, if no talents, no zeal, no labours, no usefulness, can elude the sentence of death--should not _we_ then "prepare to meet our God? THE CHRISTIAN ARMOUR. _To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._