this partly because the latter remarks prove be all doubt that mr hill s in the pulpit were not affected but were quite natural to him in justice to the memory of so excellent a man as the rev hill let me here observe that he never introduced any of his ludicrous illustrations with the view of exciting laughter amongst his audience his was no spirit of levity he felt the deepest reverence for everything sacred as well as for the being himself whom he served in the gospel he was i have reason to believe often utterly unconscious that he was making use of any th� land hill thing ludicrous until the smile he saw playing on the faces of his audience him of the if i am not greatly mistaken those who knew him most intimately were not only the most forward to him of all intention of saying anything in the pulpit which could cause a smile but invariably bore testimony to the fact that nothing was the source of greater grief to him than to find that he had in the course of his sermon made use of any expressions which could have in the slightest degree disturbed the seriousness of mind and gravity of countenance which so peculiarly become the house of god i have been assured by one who heard him for years that on one occasion two of his called at his house for the purpose of him of the of some of his remarks and illustrations and mildly with him on the of introducing anything into his which was calculated to excite a smile on proceeding up stairs to the door of his study they heard the sound of his voice as if engaged in prayer they paused and listened for a few g the rev hill moments when they had the happiness to hear him most bitterly before god on his knees the very habit of saying ludicrous things in the pulpit for which they had come gently to rebuke him the seeming levity of spirit which mr hill displayed in his remarks and illustrations was equally conspicuous in his in the pulpit while the congregation were engaged in singing the hymn or part of the hymn given out immediately before the ent of his sermon his eye constantly wandered from one part of the chapel to the other you would have that that there was not a person present whose he had not carefully this i presume must have been a habit of mr hill s without his being conscious of it himself he had the same in private that he so lai displayed in public the most instance of his domestic which has come to my knowledge is one which i shall presently relate but before doing so let me that i once the rev hill saw a version of the same anecdote in a newspaper though it was one which by no means could afford the reader any adequate idea of the itself in the manner of relating it therefore the anecdote will be new the late rev william for so many years the celebrated of and who invariably to his name the letters s s to indicate not that he was a member of any society or that the letters implied some personal honour but that he was a sinner saved � this mr had a decided aversion to all the ministers in london who did not go to his extreme length in what are called high doctrines towards mr hill his aversion was so strong as to amount to an which he could not repress or conceal it may be that the reason of mr s enmity to mr hill was that the latter was at the time one of the most popular if not the most popular of the london ministers and that consequently the other may have viewed him as a rival or the it may be that he under the ca tions which the minister of chapel was in the practice of giving both himself and his creed be the thing as it may mr hill was so disliked by the preacher that the latter not satisfied with giving vent to his feelings on the subject fix m the pulpit took occasion to make one of the most attacks in one of his books on the character and doctrines of mr hill that ever firom the press the latter reverend gentleman read the abuse heaped upon him so without exhibiting any symptom of irritation at last he tossed the volume down among the ashes below the grate and rang the bell with a violence unheard of before in the house the servant hurried up stairs with a she had not manifested on any previous occasion imagining that some accident or other had befallen her master the same apprehension seized mrs hill and the other persons in the house at the time who heard the of the it is the b� v hill to say that the steps of the inmates were all towards the reverend gentleman s apartment the servant who made her appearance was the only party he addressed on the occasion have you got a fire in the kitchen sally r inquired mr hill yes sir a very good one answered the latter in tremulous accents caused by the she had received weu then take up that book pointing to the volume by his coarse lying beneath the grate take up that book carry it down stairs and throw it into the kitchen fire and see that the last of it be consumed � the servant was so confounded at the of the command that she hesitated a few seconds looking all the while in amazement at the of her master before obeying it don t you hear me sally yes sir out the other then why don t you at once do as you are bid the servant stooped down 