by his sympathies and his tender counsel soothe the mind and cause sadness to give place to joy if ever there was one man of whom it could be said with greater truth than of another that he could rejoice with those that rejoiced and weep with those that wept that man was edward his thoughts and sympathies and affections were indeed so much occupied with others that he almost ceased to be about nor were mr living s confined to mere words they were no less strikingly in the actions of his life he was a practical as well as his charitable deeds were countless and they were � with no ni ard hand he relieved as liberally as his means would permit it is no poetic fiction but a sober fact communicated to me by one who knew him well that he often himself suffered the of a thb meal that he might thereby be the better able to assist in feeding the and clothing the naked his heart his house and his hand as has been well observed by one of his were open to all the sons and daughters of want or wretchedness it was enough for him to know that a person was in to immediate relief to the utmost extent of his ability he asked no questions with the view of whether that might not have been brought on by or crime to show how truly charitable be was i may mention that i know a case and i believe it is only one of many in which a poor woman who never saw him before and of whom he knew nothing to him for relief he gave the astonished a sovereign all his acts of charity were by a few words of and impressive counsel often by prayer who shall say in how many instances the souls as well as bodies of poor persons may have been thus through the of mr the incapable himself of even an feeling r less doing an unkind thing to any human being he was exceedingly sensitive to the unjust treatment he received at the hands of others i need not say that his noble but susceptible spirit was particularly pained when he found that those whom he had in the generosity of his mind regarded as his greatest friends turned out his most bitter and foes i remember hearing him about six months before his death make a very touching allusion to the bad treatment he had received from certain quarters oh if those who heaped their upon him with so a hand as to the latter years of his existence had only heard the gentle terms and tender accents in which he spoke of them and their deeds of persecution they must have shrunk into the earth at the contrast between his spirit and theirs i have before said and now repeat it that he was earnest and frequent at a throne of grace on their behalf and that the prayer of his master in reference to the the i to which he was subjected at the hands of his enemies father forgive them t was often offered up by him but i must draw my notice of mr to a close if i were to sum up his character according to my view of it in the possible words i should say � and should say it with a special emphasis � that he was a truly great and good man it were difficult to say whether his moral or intellectual excellence i have rarely known a more remarkable union of the head and the heart than was afforded in his case i shall always regard him as having been one of the of his age it is true that the visionary notions which he adopted indicated a judgment and to a certain extent obscured his intellect but i am convinced that had he been but spared a few years longer he would have seen his error and his extravagant opinions i say this because i happen to know through a private source of information something of the circumstances under which he adopted his the rev more notions on this point however i must from respect to the feelings of parties who are still alive fix m any specific as a speaker mr any man i have ever heard in a pulpit his voice was powerful and some of its were exceedingly musical and he had a perfect command over it i can imagine that the accents of the reverend gentleman s voice are still greeting my ear his admirable contributed much to display his voice to advantage his utterance was singularly well timed while the manifest ease with which he spoke the originality of his matter the beauties of his and his though often vehement gestures in effect to those attributes of his which had more of nature than of art in them with what attention did thousands consisting of all ranks and classes of individuals frequently hang for more than an hour half at a time on the lips of edward i no one that had the gratification of the hearing him in some of his happier moods will ever forget either his eloquence or his person and here i should remark that his personal i was as striking or as much out of the beaten track as his style of preaching i never saw a more handsome man in so r as figure went he was upwards of six feet two in height and formed it is true that he had a marked in if i remember his right eye but his features were otherwise regular while the expression of his countenance had so much benevolence and about it as to any unpleasant feeling which the in his eye would have otherwise produced his complexion was and his hair which was long and of a jet black hue was carefully parted 