a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in 1818. He experienced conversion in 1829, while a student at Kent's Hill Seminary, Me., and nine years later entered the Maine Conference. He remained steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in the work of the Lord, until his sudden death, Jan. 15, 1865. Few ministers can exhibit a more glorious record, or can point to such a cloud of witnesses for their pastoral fidelity as Mr. Blake. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 119.