their generous and constant benefactor. Many of the children too, I trust, whom he so dehghted to instruct, will remember him to the latest period of their lives. Above all, the people, who looked up to him as their spiritual father, to whom they owed their own souls, will bear him in remembrance. They will never forget " how hohly, justly, and unblameably he behaved himself among them," and how "he exhorted and comforted and charged every one of them, as a father doth his children, that they would walk worthy of God, who hath called them unto his kingdom and glory." Deservedly will his name be reverenced in this place for ages ; for " he was a burning and a shining light ;" and had so uni- formly persisted in well-doing, that he had utterly " put to silence the ignorance of foolish men," and made religion respectable in the eyes of the most ungodly.
Let me proceed then in the next place to say, " Follow his faith." What his faith was, you well know. Christ was the one foundation of all his hopes. He desired " to be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." And as he trusted in no other for his own salvation, so he preached no other amongst you. He had " determined, like St. Paul, to know nothing amongst you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified." Every discourse he preached tended immediately or remotely to glorify Christ amongst you : if he preached the law, it was that, as a schoolmaster, it might lead you to Christ : if he insisted upon obe- dience, it was, that you might ** glorify Christ by your bodies and your spirits which are Christ's." In short, Christ was, as well in his ministrations as in the inspired writings, " the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last." Were he preaching to you at this moment, I am persuaded he would have no other theme ; yea, if to the end of the world he were continued to preach unto you, you would hear of nothing but Christ, the