of mourning. He shed the light and the lustre of his piety over every scene. Difficult as it is sometimes to deal faithfully with the human conscience, when we come into close contact with men, there is no proof that he ever compromised or kept back a single truth to insure their favour. His single object was to commend himself to God. While he depreciated none of the ordinances of Christ’s house, he was intensely solicitous that no one should ever infer from his teaching, that the due administration