sionally quotes from the Geneva
translation, and sometimes from memory. It is easy to conceive that, in
this transition state of the two versions, he may have been nearly equally
familiar with both, and unable from his recollection at the moment to
distinguish the words of the one from those of the other. We therefore
find, in point of fact, that when trusting to his memory, he quotes a
passage of scripture, he sometimes gives it, partly in the language of the
one, and partly in the language of the other translation. One of the texts
of his first sermon is Rom. xi. 36. The English reading of that text,
according to the Geneva version is, "For of him, and through him, and
_for_ him are all things;" but according to the authorized version, it is,
"For of him, and through him, and _to_ him are all things." Any person,
however, who reads the sermon attentively, will be convinced, that when
the author wrote it, he must have had before him at the time, the Geneva
version, and not the other. " 'All things,' says he(69) are of him, and
_for_ him; but man in a peculiar and proper way. As God in making of man,
was pleased of his goodness to stamp him with a character of his own
image--and in this he puts a difference between man and other creatures,
that he should have more plain and distinct engravings of divine majesty
upon him, which might show the glory of the workman,--so it appears that he
is in a singular way made _for_ God, as his last end. As he is set nearer
God, as the beginning and cause, than other creatures, so he is placed
nearer God as the end. All creatures are made _ultimo_, lastly, _for_ God,
yet they are all made _proxime_, nextly _for_ man."

The sacred scriptures are the Christian teacher's treasury. The knowledge
of these evinced by the young and interesting author, apprizes us that he
had carefully studied them, as his rule of faith and manners. But his
beautiful and appropriate illustrations were not derived from the Bible
alone. The stores of profane history, philosophy, and science, the
apologues and mythology of the ancients, were all made tributary to him.
His scholastic habits evidently gave a tinge to his discourses. When
perusing some of these, we could almost imagine we are listening to the
youthful Regent, while delivering, within the walls of the University of
Glasgow, his dictates to a class of admiring and enthusiastic students. We
are at once reminded of the "Professor of Philosophy," for insta