manhood? But what things were gain to him, these he counted loss, when, after reading Wilberforce’s “Practical View,” he began to believe in and preach the great doctrines that center in the Cross. “I am not sensible,” he says, “that all the vehemence with which I urged the virtues and the proprieties of social life had the weight of a feather on the hearts of my parishioners. And it was not till I got impressed of the utter alienation of the heart, in all its desires and affections, from God; and