her professions--who have something more to distinguish them than a
sleek appearance or a fluent voice. To this class does the Reverend
Baldwin Brown belong.

Some years back Clayland's Chapel was erected in the Clapham-road. A
dissenting D.D., famed for his eloquence and wit--for his book against
the theatre--for his encounter with Sidney Smith--for the strict
orthodoxy of his reviews in the _Evangelical Magazine_--and for sundry
indiscretions not quite so orthodox, became its minister. The reverend
gentleman failed to gather around him a flock. He preached and none came
to hear him. The pews were unoccupied, and the quarterly returns were
small. He abandoned the chapel, and with dubious fame, and an appearance
somewhat too much that of a _bon vivant_ for the minister of a religion
of self-denial and mortification of the flesh, went down to Warwickshire
to become the pastor of a village congregation, and in time to die.
Clayland's chapel then was placed under the care of the Rev. Baldwin
Brown, then a young man fresh from Highbury College, to which place he
had gone after completing his education at University College, becoming a
graduate of the London University, and having been, I believe, called to
the bar. Mr. Brown is now in the prime of life. He cannot be much above
thirty. He attained his position earlier than ministers generally do.
His father was a man of some standing in the world, as well as in his own
denomination. His uncles were no less distinguished personages than Drs.
Liefchild and Raffles, and last, and not least, he had that easy
confidence in his own powers, which are great, and his attainments, which
are greater, without which you may have the eloquence of Paul, or the
piety of John, and yet no more move the world or the most insignificant
portion of it than a child can arrest a steam engine, or than a lady's
parasol can still a storm.

Mr. Brown's settlement at Clayland's Chapel has been successful. The
cause--to borrow the conventional phrase--has prospered; the chapel has
been filled, and the church has considerably increased. His fame has
grown. He has become a man of note. At Exeter Hall his voice is often
heard. Undoubtedly some of his success is due to the circumstances I
have already mentioned, but undoubtedly the greater part of it is due to
himself alone. It is something for a man to find a position already made
for him. It saves him many a year of herculean and unregarde