needless anxiety on his behalf, and his high estimation of his Master’s work as dearer to him than life itself.* In taking a general view of the subject of Ministerial qualification, we might class them under the three divisions of Spiritual character—Spiritual attainments, and Spiritual gifts. I. If the Ministry be a spiritual work, a corresponding spiritual character seems to be required in its administrators. It must be a most flattering delusion to suppose a fitness for the work, where there