“On another, and much higher ground, I would offer my congratulations. Usefulness is the law of the moral universe. This, in relation to the Christian ministry, means the moral renovation, the saving conversion of human souls. Nothing short of this can satisfy the desires of any ‘godly minister of Christ’s gospel,’ and, therefore, all such will estimate the amount of their success by the number of well-sustained instances of conversion, which are the fruit, under God’s blessing, of their ministerial