most conclusively, that, poor and despised as we are, he thinketh on us, seeing that by him the very fowls of heaven are fed, and the lilies of the field are clad in their more than regal glory. There is one other passage in which our blessed Lord illustrates the doctrine of Providence, which I mention, chiefly, because it may lead us to perceive the connection of that doctrine with prayer. I allude to that admirable form of supplication which he taught his disciples. You will observe, that he presupposes a firm and enlightened belief of God's special providence in the minds of his disciples. We are to enter into our closets, to shut our door, and to pray in secret to our Father, as to one who seeth in secret; and then, what are we to pray for? Why, for our daily bread, and to be led, in the course of providence, into no temptation, but to be delivered from all evil; and what is the argument by which we are to enforce our petitions for such minute and special blessings? It is this, "thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory;" that is, "thine, O heavenly Father, is the dominion over all, and the power in all, and the end of all things; and, therefore, however insignificant I, thy suppliant, may be, and however minute my interests, neither I nor they can be overlooked; to ask of thee, day by day, my daily bread, is not to trouble thee with the minute cares of an insignificant individual, for thy kingdom extendeth over all; and thy power is the source, and thy glory is the result, of thy universal administration." If we maintained this constant sense of God's providential government, we should be more instant in prayer; we should more fervently supplicate him in our seasons of distress, and more fervently adore him for his mercies; for the recognition of his sovereignty infers the duty of prayer to him, of implicit trust in him, and unqualified submission to him. But if the doctrine of a special Providence be consistent with that of prayer, it is no less so with the duty of painstaking in every matter in which we are engaged. It is not possible for us, at present, to enter on the wide field of instances in which the doctrine in question is abused and perverted by the fanatical, the antinomian, and the idle. We may meet with not a few, who seem not to perceive that it is as foolish and presumptuous to deny it altogether, as to expect that God's particular Providence will interpose to save their exertions, or excuse their industry. There are others who not only make the plea of trusting Providence a pretence for deserting the path of duty, but who excuse their own imprudence, by pleading a confidence in the leadings, as they call them, of Providence, which is altogether unwarrantable. They forget that the faculties with which God hath endowed us, form, as it were, a part of his Providence. "Doth not the ploughman cast in the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rye, in their place?" And why?"For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him." "This also cometh from the Lord of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working." But if, on any pretence, these faculties are abused or neglected by us, we may be very sure that God's Providence will be exercised and his administration vindicated, only by our suffering the just punishment of our sin and our folly. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE Formerly of Truro, Cornwall. in the cause of Christ during the last century than the FEW men were more distinguished by their exertions subject of our present sketch. He was, in fact, a perfect model of a parish minister; and, accordingly, it may be interesting to trace the most striking points of his history as a devoted Christian and a faithful pastor. the 16th of December 1714, and was the youngest of Samuel Walker was born in the city of Exeter on and he had the honour of being descended, in the maseven children. His parents were highly respectable, first part of Samuel's early education was received at ternal line, from the celebrated Bishop Hall. The home, but the latter part at the grammar school in Exeter. At eighteen he was sent to Exeter College, Oxford, where he prosecuted his studies with marked success. and took orders in the year 1737. His first curacy He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, was the parish of Dodescomb Leigh, in the vicinity of his native place, which he held only till August 1738, when, at the request of Lord Rolle, he undertook the tuition of his Lordship's youngest brother during a journey through France. While engaged in this foreign tour he paid particular attention to those lighter accomplishments which form, in too many instances, the sum total of the acquisitions made by young men in their Continental travels. After having been thus employed for two years he returned home and went to reside at Lanlivery in Cornwall, as curate to his friend Mr Nicolas Kendall, canon of Exeter, and archdeacon of Toftness. On the death of the Archdeacon in 1740, Mr Walker was presented to the vicarage of his parish, to hold during the minority of a nephew of the patron. During his residence at Lanlivery, he discharged his official duties with the most unwearied assiduity and conscientiousness. "He reproved, exhorted, and watched over his flock, preaching, catechising, and visiting in private; nor could any minister more sincerely deplore evident unfruitfulness in his spiritual vineyard." Yet the full extent of reformation which he was anxious to produce in the parish was of an external nature, affecting merely the outward decency and sobriety of his people. He was still ignorant of the only way by which the natural enmity of the heart to God may be subdued even by a cordial submission to the righteousness of the Redeemer. In the summer of 1746, Mr Walker resigned the vicarage of Lanlivery to the young gentleman for whom he held it, and removed to the curacy of Truro. The change was to him peculiarly agreeable, as affording scope for the exercise of the social qualities, and the display of those refined dispositions and feelings which so remarkably characterized him. Though habitually attentive to the external forms of religion, he acknowledges that his heart was then in the world, and that the desire of human applause was the chief motive | of his parish without asking his advice. He bore all from which he acted. his trials with the truest Christian resignation, and carDuring the first year of his incumbency at Truro, Mrried himself with a dignity and mildness that would Walker attracted considerable notice, both as an eloquent preacher and a well-educated man. He was courted, and flattered, and admired; and all this, for no other reason than the extent and variety of his mere human accomplishments. The peculiar doctrines of the Gospel, he tells us, "he knew notionally, but neither felt nor taught them practically." The hardest of all lessons he had yet to learn, that works must be the evidence, not the price of our justification; and accordingly, when, at an after period of his life, his views of divine truth became clearer and more scriptural, he felt, on looking back upon the time he spent at Lanlivery, that he ought to go sorrowing to the grave, upon a review of six years so passed over." Mr Walker had been at least a year in his curacy at Truro, before he began to suspect that there was the slightest deficiency in his mode of exhibiting divine truth. The individual by whose instrumentality his sentiments and whole tone of thinking underwent a complete change, was Mr Conon, master of the grammar school at Truro, of whom he was accustomed ever after to speak in the highest terms. The circumstance which led to this good man's intimacy with Mr Walker is thus narrated: "Mr Walker received a letter, containing a sum of money which the writer requested him to pay at the custom-house, as justly due to the revenue, for duty on some French wines he had used for his health. He had been unsuccessful in his attempts, in that age of smuggling on the coast, to obtain any on which custom had been paid, but the virtuous conscience of the spiritual Christian remembered his Master's divine command. The letter contained an apology for troubling Mr Walker, but stated that his high character would prevent all suspicion of straightforward honesty in the transaction. Curious to know whether the same happy conscientiousness was manifest in all his doings, Mr Walker sought his acquaintance, and the result was a respect approaching to veneration, for one who exhibited in his daily habits all the true effects of religion on a Christian's heart and actions. The attractions of his conversation and the purity of his life, at length ripened intercourse into intimacy, and the result was the conversion of the minister, through the wise and prudent instrumentality of his pious friend." And the character of Mr Conon is thus depicted:"Mr Conon was one of those rare and devoted Christians, who, in an age of darkness, shone with a lustre little comprehended and greatly opposed; but he was content to be hated without a cause,' and to suffer obloquy and shame for the Lord's sake. 66 Though threatened with the loss of stipend and scholars, a threat afterwards actually carried into effect, he persevered in his course, and, like the glow-worm, shone brightest when the gathering of the dark nightclouds gave warning of an impending tempest. He was persecuted purely for the sake of his Religion, being acknowledged on all hands to be an instructor of youth of extraordinary ability, to whose tuition almost all the gentlemen's sons in the middle and western part of Cornwall had been committed. But he was guilty of the unpardonable crime, in those days, of training up his pupils in the nurture and admonition of the Lord,an error far less venial in the eyes of their ignorant and prejudiced parents, than carelessness of their morals or neglect of discipline. For many years, he walked hand in hand with his pastor and convert, Mr Walker, who never took any step of importance in the management have disarmed the rancour of all enemies, but those who abhor the image of the Saviour wherever they may find it, and whose corrupt nature renders them irreconcileable to spirituality of mind and holiness of life. Speaking of his school, and the treatment he received, he says in a letter, written under the pressure of severe illness, this has shaken my purposes in regard to the school. I am engaged, in honour and conscience, to do all I can for the good of it and the public, and have forgot, and most heartily forgiven, all former bad treatment, and even present unkindness.' The severest blow he ever received was the death of his beloved minister and friend, an event which, coupled with other circumstances in after years, induced him to remove to Padstow, where he undertook the instruction of a select number of pupils. This occupation was his great delight, and be frequently expressed a wish, that, if it pleased God, he might die while employed in his school, and that suddenly. His prayer was heard: one Saturday evening, after endeavouring to prepare the youthful minds of his scholars for the solemnities of the coming Sabbath, he earnestly prayed for a blessing on his labours, when suddenly the stroke of death silenced his voice of supplication, and changed it for that of ceaseless thanksgiving in regions of eternal praise." Such is the brief but interesting history of the man whom Mr Walker frankly acknowledged as his spiritual father in Christ. "He who had long sat in comparative darkness now saw a great light." And himself cheered by the refreshing beams of the Sun of Rightcousness, he, from this time, commenced his career as a zealous and unwearied labourer in the Lord's vine yard. It was no small trial of Mr Walker's faith, however, that the very same place which had witnessed him foremost in the scenes of gaiety and mirthful revelry, was now destined to be the scene of his determined opposition to the maxims and the manners of an ungodly world. He knew that ridicule, reproach, and persecution, would be the necessary results of a change first to lay open to his people the deceitfulness and desso decided. His heart began to fail as he attempted at perate wickedness of the human heart, and he felt as if his tongue refused to utter the freeness and the fulness of redeeming grace. He, however, who had called him to be his servant, stood by in the hour of his extremity, delivering him, by the communications of his grace, from "the fear of man which bringeth a snare." Mr Walker's preaching now changed its character. Bold, fearless, uncompromising statements of Gospel truth were unfolded in every sermon, and the result was, in such circumstances, what might have been anticipated. "Addresses of this description could not fail to excite the feelings of those who heard them, and their first ebullition was in anger against the man who now denounced the very path in which, the immoralities excepted, he had cheerfully accompanied them, and proclaimed that the profane, the lustful, and the formalist, were all marching with the multitude on the same broad road to destruction. Still, the earnestness of the preacher, and the striking alteration of his habits, as well as the tone of his sermons, stirred up the curiosity of the people, who, while they were enraged at the fidelity, were enchained by the eloquence, and trembled at the sternness of their reprover. Even out of the pulpit they feared the presence of their minister; the Sabbath loiterers and profane would retire at his approach, saying, let us go, here comes Walker.' His manner is said to have been commanding and solemn in the extreme; and his life was so truly in unison with In consequence of his devoted attention to his ministerial duties, a general awakening, by the blessing of the Spirit, soon took place among the people. The first convert was a young soldier of licentious habits, who became a consistent follower of Jesus; and it was peculiarly gratifying to Mr Walker, to find that the example of this, his "first and dearest child," as he was wont to term him, was the means of leading others to enquire. At length the enquirers became so numerous, that he was obliged to devote a few evenings in each week to their instruction in private; and such was his anxiety to discharge faithfully this delicate part of his ministerial duty, that he drew up, for his guidance on such occasions, a scheme of private instruction suited to different circumstances. The skill with which Mr Walker accommodated himself to the various cases which presented themselves, was remarkable; and as an instance of his peculiar sagacity and discernment, we may quote the following, which is thus narrated by the biographer :— which afforded an opportunity of speaking on the min- The unwearied assiduity with which Mr Walker fulfilled the duties of his office, endeared him to the Christians in Truro, and such was their affection for him, that it was his earnest wish that he might live and die among them. Soon after he had entered upon the cure, he had been presented by the trustees of his late patron, Mr Kendall, to the vicarage of Talland, and had obtained leave of non-residence from the bishop. Now, however, that he became aware of the deep responsibilities of the mi "One of his visitors, for private instruction, was a young man, who stated that he called to thank him for the benefit he had received from his ministry, and to beg his advice. Mr Walker immediately questioned him as to the knowledge he possessed of his own heart, when the youth expressed in general terms, a conviction that he was an unworthy sinner. Perceiving, by his manner, that he had never duly experienced that conviction, Mr Walker at once entered into an explanation of the sinner's character, with a personal reference to the individual before him. He dwelt upon his in-nisterial office, he readily resigned the emoluments of a gratitude to God, the evil nature of the motives which charge, the duties of which he was unable to perform. had influenced all his actions, the fruitlessness of his This, of course, reduced his income, but the good man was prepared to make any sacrifice to preserve his intelife, the defilement even of his best deeds, and then added, I fear you are secretly displeased with me, be-grity and uprightness. cause I have not commended your good intentions, and flattered your vanity.' No indeed, Sir,' he replied, I feel extremely thankful for this striking proof of your kindness and regard.' "The discerning minister had, however, formed a true judgment of the character before him. The young man acknowledged the next day that he had given a false answer, and that, chagrined by the little account Mr Walker seemed to make of his professions, he had secretly determined to encounter no more the searching questions which exposed his shallowness, and brought low the vain imaginations of his heart. experienced pastor had dealt wisely with him; he was flighty, ostentatious, and injudicious, but afterwards became an exemplary and useful Christian." "He bore with cheerfulness all the inconveniences of his diminished fortune, relinquished his accustomed declined them all. He could not leave his devoted Mr Walker's faithfulness as a pastor, while by many it was duly appreciated, soon drew down upon him the reproaches, and called forth the opposition of the enemies of vital godliness. Foiled in their attempt to injure him with their bishop, they applied to the rector of Truro, and at length extracted from him a promise to The result is curidismiss Mr Walker from his cure. ous and interesting : "When the rector of Truro entered the apartment of his curate, he was received with that elegance and true dignity of manner, which was natural to one who had long been the charm of society, and he became so embarrassed as to be perfectly unable to enter on the subject of his visit. He at length made some remark, 'No de This changes rags into purple garments, sweetens the coarse and homely meal, satisfies that the dwelling be narrow and inconvenient, and makes the heart dance for joy, while beholders regard, some with O ye poor great ones; pity, and some with scorn. poor, because strangers to God, poor, and without quiet, how little cause have ye to boast that ye fare sumptuously! This man hath delicacies which ye cannot relish, a continual feast he hath satisfying his soul, while your very heart is troubled with all the contrivances of art to please, and all the elegances of luxury to indulge you; you cannot feed upon content as he doth, because ye know not God, for it is his privilege, having nothing, to be as if he possessed all things.' As another instance of Mr Walker's singular disinte restedness, we may adduce the following: "There resided in the neighbourhood of Truro, a | catechising his people-exercises which had, at that pe young lady of accomplished manners, beauty, fortune,riod, almost fallen into disuse in England; and his exand piety. Her religion attached her to the ministry ample was soon followed by the other clergymen in that of Mr Walker, while superior education and good sense district of the country. enabled her to appreciate his attainments. There was every reason to believe that she would have readily accepted an offer of his hand, and that their union would have been most happy. A friend, anxious to see him relieved from his humble circumstances, by an alliance with a lady of fortune, piety, and zeal, ventured to advise him seriously to consider whether he ought not to avail himself of such an opportunity. He made no re ply at the time, but a few days afterwards remarked, I cer you spoke to me lately about Miss tainly never saw a woman whom I thought comparable to her, and I believe I should enjoy as much happiness in a union with her, as it is possible to enjoy in this world. I have reason also to think she would not re ject my suit.' Here he paused, and added with great feeling and seriousness still it must never be; what would the world say of me? Would not they imagine that the hope of obtaining such a prize, influenced my profession of religion? It is easy, they would say, to preach self-denial, and heavenly-mindedness; but has not the preacher taken care to get as much of this world's goods as he could possibly obtain?'' Sir,' he again said, with emphasis, it must never be. I can never suffer any temporal happiness or advantage to be a hindrance to my usefulness.' Different opinions may be formed as to the propriety or prudence of Mr Walker's conduct on this occasion, but it exhibits the pious and disinterested conscientiousness of the man, in a very strong point of view. The advancement of his Redeemer's honour was, with him, the grand object, and to this all other considerations were made to bow. Nor was his zeal unattended with success. The pleasure of the Lord evidently prospered in his hands. The number of converts was daily on the increase, and finding himself unable to pay due attention to each individual case, he formed them, at length, in 1754, into a Religious Society, the design of which, he stated, in the "considerations laid before the members at the first meeting," to be threefold:-To glorify God to quicken and confirm themselves in faith and holiness and to render them more useful among the neighbours. The devotional services at the meetings of this society were conducted exclusively by Mr Walker himself, and thus, many of the disadvantages which are too often attendant on fellowship meetings, as usually conducted, were obviated. Besides this general society, Mr Walker instituted, and encouraged among his people, smaller meetings, for mutual converse and prayer. Anxious that the utmost simplicity and purity of intention should be preserved among his converts, he laid down minute regulations for their guidance at these meetings. The exertions of this indefatigable pastor, however, were not limited entirely to his own parish; he endeavoured also to stimulate his brethren around him. With this view, he suggested the formation of a union among the pious clergy of the neighbourhood, for mutual assistance and encouragement in their pastoral duties. This society, which was called the "Parsons' Club," was productive of much good both to the ministers and their people. "As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth the face of a man his friend." And it was so in this instance, for the piety, and zeal, and activity of Mr Walker, diffused a most beneficial influence over all his associates. He himself was assiduous in visiting and In the close of the year 1756, the worthy pastor of Truro found himself introduced into a new field of use. ful labour. A body of soldiers were sent into his parish for winter quarters, and immediately they became the object of his pastoral solicitude. He began by address. ing to them a sermon on the Sabbath afternoon, which went by the name of the "Soldiers' Sermon," but, at first, he had great difficulty in prevailing on them to lis ten to him; for, though conducted to Church by their officers, they used, even then, to turn off at the door. Mr Walker, however, was not disheartened; he set his pious members of the Society to work, and, by their ex. ertions, a few of the soldiers were, at length, persuaded to attend. The numbers gradually increased; and such was the effect of his faithful addresses, that, in three weeks, no less than a hundred of them went to his house, to speak to him, in private, on the concerns of their souls. Many of these, no doubt, returned to their former thoughtlessness and forgetfulness of God. Those, however, and there was a considerable number, who gave evidence of a real change of heart, were formed into a class, which was called the "Soldiers' Society." The effect of Mr Walker's assiduous attention to the spiritual interests of the soldiers, was soon apparent in the change which was perceptible in the outward deportment of the whole regiment. "Mr Walker's exertions in the regiment at first met with great opposition; the captain publicly forbade his men to go to him for private instruction, though no less, at last, than two hundred and fifty of them sought the over-tired' but persevering servant of Christ for that purpose. Those also whom religion had separated from the sinful habits and company of their unawakened comrades, were much derided, but grace enabled them to stand. A great alteration, however, took place; punishments soon diminished, and order prevailed in the regiment, to a degree never before witnessed, and the commander at length discovered the excellent cause of this salutary change. Genuine zeal had now its full triumph and its rich reward; the officers waited on Mr Walker in a body, to acknowledge the good effects of his wise and sedulous exertions, and to thank him for the reformation he had produced in their ranks." Had you,' The scene, when the regiment left the place, after nine weeks' residence, is thus beautifully described. "These interesting men left Truro on the 19th of The parting scene January, after nine weeks' stay. was indescribably affecting. They assembled the last evening in the Society's room, to hear their beloved minister's farewell prayer and exhortation. said Mr Walker to a friend, but seen their countenances, what thankfulness, love, sorrow, and joy, sat upon them; they hoped they might bring forth some fruit; they hoped to meet us again at the right hand of Jesus in his illustrious day. Amen.' It was an hour of mingled distress and comfort; the hearts of some were so full, that they clasped the hand of the beloved instrument of their conversion, and turned away without a word. They began their morning's march praising God for bringing them under the sound of his Gospel; and as they slowly passed along, turned round to catch occasional glimpses of the town as they gradually lost sight of it, exclaiming, God bless Truro.' saw their spiritual leader no more on earth, but were consoled by the hope of a triumphant meeting in the armies of heaven." They Amid his unwearied labours in his own parish, Mr Walker was prevailed upon to extend his sphere of usefulness, by the publication of an admirable course of sermons, which, accordingly, appeared under the title of The Christian. This work has long been held in high esteem among the pious in this country, and has been often republished. It presents a lively portraiture of the Christian character, in a series of discourses, illustrative of the passage," If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature." The unwearied labour and perpetual anxieties to which Mr Walker was subjected, in the conscientious discharge of his ministerial duties, soon began to affect his bodily constitution. In the mysterious arrangements of Providence, his sun went down while it was yet day. On the 27th April 1760, he preached, for the last time, in the pulpit of the Church at Truro. The concluding words of his discourse were peculiarly solemn and affecting. Though quite unconscious that his ministerial labours were now at a close, he spoke, as from the brink of the grave, to his beloved flock. "To be plain, I am grieved at heart for many, very many of you, to think how you will make your appearance before Christ's judgment-seat. You have no works to speak there for your belonging to Christ; I can see none. I see works of various kinds that prove you do not belong to him. If a life of pleasure, idleness, indulgence, drunkenness, pride, covetousness, would recommend you to the favour of the Judge, few would be better received than numbers of you. In the name of God, my friends, when you know this moment in your own consciences, that if, as you have been and are, you should be called to judgment, you would be as surely cast into hell, as if you were already scorching in those dreadful flames, why will you live at such a rate?— Well, we shall be all before the judgment-seat of Christ together. There the controversy, between me, persuading you by the terrors of the Lord, and you deternined to abide in your sins, will be decided. There it will appear whether your blood will be upon your own heads for your obstinate impenitence, or upon mine, for not giving you warning. Christ will certainly either acquit or condemn me on this account; and if I should be acquitted herein, what will become of you? I tremble to think how so many words of mine will be brought up against you on that day. What will you say, what will you answer, how will you excuse yourselves? sirs, if you will not be prevailed upon, you will, with eternal self-reproach, curse the day that you knew me, or heard one word from my mouth. Why, why, will you die with so aggravated a destruction? O think of the judgment; think of it, and you will not be able to hold it out against your own souls. May the Lord incline you to do so; may he cause this word to sink deep into your hearts; may he shew you all your danger; and with an outstretched arm, bring you out of the hands of the devil, and translate you into the glorious kingdom of his dear Son to his own glory, and your unspeakable happiness, in the day of the appearance of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Even so, most mighty God, and most merciful Father, for the same Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Soon after the delivery of the discourse to which we have referred, Mr Walker was seized with a fever, which confined him for several weeks to his room; and when he had, in some measure, recovered, symptoms of pulmonary consumption began to appear. At Bristol hot-wells, to which he repaired in the Autumn, he derived little or no benefit, and after passing two months there, he removed to Kington, in Warwickshire, with the view of spending some time with Mr Talbot, the clergyman of the place. The season, however, set in so unfavourably, that it was thought advisable for him to return to Bristol. Finding that, even yet, he could derive no benefit from the use of the mineral waters, he accepted the invitation of the Earl of Dartmouth, to pay him a visit at Blackheath, in the neighbourhood of London. Here Mr Walker found a Christian welcome, and received the utmost attention during his trying ill"The kindness of his host and hostess was unbounded; the physicians refused to receive any thing from him for their attendance; his flock at Truro were perpetually conveying to him sums of money, cheerfully bestowed on a minister who had impoverished himself for their sakes." ness. In the spring of the year 1761, Mr Walker's illness assumed a more alarming character. A burning fever by day, and distressing perspirations by night, with a cough which deprived him of rest, rendered him, every day, weaker and more languid. Still his confidence in the arrangements of his Heavenly Father, comforted and supported him. "The weakness of my body," he observed, "deprives me of all joyous sensations, but my faith in God's promises, I bless the Lord, is firm and unshaken." Whenever the slightest prospect of recovery presented itself, he instantly thought of his beloved Truro, and looked forward, with fond anticipation, to renewed exertions among an affectionate people. Their best interests dwelt much upon his mind; and often, very often, did he lift up his soul in earnest prayer to God," that they all might be saved." Throughout the whole of his illness, he enjoyed much sweet communion with the Father of his spirit; and, as a necessary consequence, his mind was kept in a state of perfect peace. "To a friend, who shed tears, he said, why do you trouble yourself? I am going to heaven: Christ my Lord died.' When Mr Burnet wept over him, he exclaimed, do you not rejoice with me?' Five days before his death, he caused a letter to be written to Mr Conon, in which he assures him, that with great confusion of thought he had no doubts, great confidence, great submission, no complaining.' To this he added, as to actual views of the joys that are coming, I have none, but a stedfast belief of them in Christ;' but lest he should be supposed to be wanting in satisfactory experience, he proceeded, what I have found in myself for months past, and the present workings of the Spirit, have left me without any doubt of my union with Christ.' "Awaking from a doze, he seized the hand of his nurse, and said, I have been upon the wings of the cherubim, heaven has been in a manner opened to me; I shall be soon there myself, and am only sorry I cannot take you with me.' He also observed to Mr Bur Such was the powerful appeal with which this devoted servant of the Lord terminated his faithful and successful ministry—a ministry which extended its benefits far beyond the immediate sphere of its operations, and the effects of which are felt in Cornwall even at this day.net, that if his strength allowed, he could tell him news Of Mr Walker of Truro, indeed, it may be said, as was once declared of Henry Martyn, "he hath lighted a flame which shall never be extinguished." which would rejoice his heart, I have had,' he said, 'such views of heaven; but I can say no more.' These raptures were, however, qualified by the deepest humility; for when one present rejoiced over his appar |