privileged to listen to some
eminent preacher and mingle with his brethren, that the sky shone with
a beauty which was divine, and bliss serene abode in his soul.

In one of his seasons of refreshing, when he dedicated himself anew,
he writes: "O my God, I am Thine by a thousand ties, necessary,
voluntary and sacred. Sanctuaries, woods, fields and other places,
have been witnesses of the solemn vows and engagements I am under to
Thee, and when I presumptuously violate them, they will bring in their
evidence against me. O! by thy powerful grace, preserve me thine,
thine forever!" He longed to be like Christ, and yet he could say:
"Some appear to be alternately in raptures, and ready to sink in
unbelief and despondency: filled with joy, or overwhelmed with sorrow.
In general my walk (at least outwardly) has been pretty even. Through
the severest exercises I have yet met with, the Lord has not suffered
me to be greatly moved. I do not remember that anger ever had a place
in my heart for one minute against any one, since I first knew the
Lord. If I felt it rise, I looked to the Lord, and was delivered.
Blessed be his Name for this! By grace I am saved: and grace shall
have the glory. I am never enraptured with joy, nor overpowered with
sorrow: yet neither am I without joys and sorrow. At times I feel
Jesus inexpressibly precious: and at such seasons I long for holiness,
for a full conformity to the divine will."

He was a man of prayer, rising early to be alone with God. Never did
hunter pursue game with greater zest than he in his passion for the
souls of men. His sermons had ever in view the conversion of sinners,
and he often employed his pen in writing to individuals about
salvation. Three of these letters addressed respectively, to Lawyer
Hilton of Cornwallis, Major Crane of Horton, and James Noble Shannon
of Horton, who afterwards removed to Parrsboro where he died, breathe
a spirit of intense solicitude, and remind one of the writings of
Richard Baxter the noble Puritan. In the letters he pleads with these
gentlemen to seek salvation, and with such arguments, persuasive
speech and love, that they were effective in leading them to Christ.

In conversation he was chaste in language and always spiritual. In one
of his letters to his father-in-law, he pleads with him to be
reconciled to God, and after pressing home the truth with fidelity
without rudeness, he concludes; "This is the religion, in the
propagation of wh