countenance wore its accustomed smile; if he sorrowed, it was not as one without hope, but as one who was persuaded that all things were working together for good to them who love God. This enabled him to resume and prosecute his labours, with very short intervals of suspension, even under the most overwhelming bereavements. His practical language was, "It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good;" or, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord." Counting all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, he continued "stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that his labour would not be in vain in the Lord." It would be easy to point out, and pleasing to dwell upon, many other amiable features of his character-such as his deep humility, his patience of contradiction, his openness to conviction, his readiness to confess an error whenever overpowered in argument-features which will be found well described in the Bishop of Calcutta's sermon. But admiration must have its bounds. By the grace of God he was what he was; and the design of these observations has been, not to eulogize, but merely to show what is the nature and operation of true religion, wherever cultivated, as in the case of the deceased, in simplicity and godly sincerity; and more especially what are those principles on which 66 a minister of religion may venture to found hope of success in his professional labours-not on mere doctrine, however correctly exhibited or ably defended; much less on an arrogant and self-conceited dogmatism-but on a simple, unaffected statement of those vital truths on which good men have ever agreed, enforced in the spirit of that charity which constitutes the soul of every virtue, and the bond of all perfectness; "which"-and the description has rarely been more strikingly exemplified than in the character which has come under our review-" suffereth long, and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly; seeketh not her own; is not easily provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." This "charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part" only, "and we prophecy only in part. When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part" only "shall be done away. Now we see as through a glass darkly; then "-not before, we shall see " face to face. Now we know in part; then shall we know even as we are known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." On a monument in Paddington Church Yard, erected at the expence of à warmly-attached congregation, as a token of the high respect entertained for his memory, is the following inscription. SOUTH SIDE OF MONUMENT. 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