dress a very large portion of his sermons to in their state if my conviction be tiiat mr does not the of those who are in an state with that and perseverance and energy which i would deem desirable it is due the rev to him to say that he is not in this respect peculiar among his brethren in the mr is a pleasing preacher there is something very soothing perhaps i should rather say both in his matter and manner he loves to dwell on the privileges of and on the happiness even in this life of walking in the ways of spiritual wisdom and the winning tendency of his matter is greatly aided by his manner using no paper � having none indeed before him unless a few detached notes may be dignified with the name � he on the cushion of the pulpit his hands and fixing his eye on that part of the congregation in the area of the church immediately before him he as it were them in accents of tenderness to listen to the truths which he is his voice is clear and soft it is never raised to a high pitch but he always speaks in sufficiently loud tones to be distinctly audible in all parts of the chapel his countenance wears an expression of mingled cheerfulness and which o l the rev n it is exceedingly pleasing to witness and which is in admirable keeping with the mild and encouraging character of his preaching his dark eye also the of the reverend gentleman s disposition he usually speaks with some quickness but is easily followed and is always understood in the more impressive parts of his discourse his delivery is so deliberate that you would sometimes fancy he was hesitating for a word such is not the fact he only pauses in order to impart an emphasis to what he is saying his manner is exceedingly quiet he scarcely ever puts himself into any other attitude than that i have alluded to or if he do raise himself to a perpendicular position it is only to resume again in a few moments his posture of with his breast on the cushion of the pulpit his arms are rarely pressed into his service when they are so it is but one at a time and it is only raised a few inches from the pulpit when it is kept in almost stationary po � ture for some few moments there is an earnestness or aspect of deep sincerity about mr i th� b� y which answers in a measure as a substitute for physical energy or animation no one who hears him speak for two or three minutes could have the smallest doubt of his personal piety i am not aware that mr has yet appeared before the public in the capacity of author except indeed the publication of dome of his sermons at considerable of time could him to the name of author as however he is yet but a young man not i should think exceeding his year there is every probability that he may yet make himself known beyond the limits of the metropolis through the medium of some published the quality of his matter and the character of his style which is but not will be inferred s the following extract which forms the of a sermon he delivered on the strait gate and narrow way at st s church cannon one sunday morning in may last � it is no subject for pride that we believe ourselves to be of the small number and look around with self that we are not the rev as other men but the man of god has a large and a heart having tasted that the lord is gracious there is nothing which he desires so earnestly or for which he so as that god would extend the knowledge of his truth � that he would make known to others as he has made known to him the riches of christ and so r from rejoicing that he himself possesses a treasure not communicated to his neighbours he will strive continually by every means to make them acquainted with this treasure to bring them also to seek it to obtain it to preserve it and he will hold it for the greatest blessing that god upon him that he is permitted in any sort to help forward the extending of christ s kingdom � the advancing of that border line which light from darkness the dominion of from the empire of satan and his heart will be consoled by the promises scattered up and down in his bible for although the flock of is a small one and though there are few that pass through the strait gate and walk in the rev the narrow way yet there are promises for the latter day glory unto which in seasons of his heart will turn for encouragement and consolation � promises made unto that he shall have the heathen for his possession � promises made unto the church that god s word shall not return unto him void but shall accomplish that which he and shall prosper in the thing he hath sent it � promises to the missionary that the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose and the when his heart is the and when his hopes are the lowest because of when he returns to his home having marked how the streets are filled with men who god and the even of his holy day though he might be utterly in despair and his hopes be all beaten down unto the dust looks again into that blessed volume out of which come the treasures of all consolation and encouragement and he remembers how christ visited his th� rev servant and unfolded to him mighty promises of the latter 